Chuck Nessa

Going back that far, maybe "How much is that doggie in the window" or "Music, Music, Music".

Start with grunts. Wolf used them too. Nothing like seeing Wolf at his home base Silvio's on the West Side. During the racial tensions in the '60s Wolf "talked down" a guy with a knife at our table.

Little Richard's Keep a Knockin' takes me back to an ice cream shop/hang out while I was in high school. Thelonious Monk's Well You Needn't (Riverside version) hit me the same way a bit later. "Coltrane, Coltrane!!"

Winners get 25k. Don't know about other expenses. They did send a video crew from LA (I believe) to Chicago to shoot a segment with Von Freeman to be used at the event.

Bill requested a cover jpeg about 10 days ago.

I will stay quiet.

Is that a guess on my pic? no, it's not James Brown. but i can see how you'd get that Yes it is a guess on your pic. Joey Baron.

JB.

Dennis Irwin?

Skippy took 3 takes but take 2 is the master. Hornin' In took 4 takes. Sixteen took 2 takes. Carolina Moon took 1. Let's Cool One took 1. I'll Follow You took 1.

Monk did not need "challenging" when he was recording for BN, Prestige and Riverside. He probably wouldn't have reacted to "challenging" after that.

After establishing a reputation of some kind, musicians frequently build bands around "reliable" musicians - show up, look clean, don't mess up on the job. I have witnessed this numerous times.

forgot about that one. got it in a drugstore for about 79 cents when I was in high school.

They also did the same to the Muskegon Chronicle, our local paper.

I think Herman Cain was promised that job.

Just finished the Norman Granz bio. Think less of him now and have some unanswered questions. Bummer.

Gushee's opinion may be more thought out than Wynton but doesn't carry any more weight. It is all mind games.

wish I still had that one. and that one.

Nah

Go Cubs.

FWIW, my maternal great-grandmother was an American Indian and my fraternal grandmother was what some people call "black Irish" - she had olive skin and kinky black hair - she was a product of the defeat of the Spanish armada when they had those danged Moors with them. My other ancestors are from Norway, England, Germany and wherever.

Oh, it could matter a lot in simple (or not so simple) human terms if Jackie sounded the way he did and was white, or if he sounded the way he did and got a lot of guff from other black guys about the way he looked, but we know the first isn't so, and I've never heard anything about him getting hassled on the second count. It mattered to me in high school (small farming community in central Iowa). The Prestige records I had at the time used photos that were "one or the other" and he sounded unlike white players I had heard at the time. At that point in my life, when I was trying to figure out 1000 things, this was one. Interesting (in a good way) to have this thread resurrected now.

I mean the era of intelligent packages from best sources is drawing to a close. We had a glut for a time and now things are slowing to a trickle.

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Bechet Blue Notes for $9.57 here.