Chuck Nessa

G'bye Al. It was fun.

I wasn't aware / was in the Black vocabulary. How is it pronounced?

Chicago is a large metro area and a small town at the same time. Folks know other folks and interact with them. For example, studio guests at our "Congliptious" sessions included Fontella Bass, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon and Ramsey Lewis. This stuff is complicated and not complicated at the same time.

Not the drummer.

Thanks guys. We had been hoping for reactions like this.

Bad hair. Thank the gods I never tried that look.

agreed.

Not sure but her granddaddy was a fiddler.

Terrific recording - the best of the Premonitions.

Awaiting my copy.

G'bye David.

Has everyone been paid?

That depends on the contracts with artists. Remember them?

Sorry to be late to the game and without much patience to read all the messages. Did anyone mention it's a photo of Jimmy Stewart in the first post?

Less than 40 cents a song and the music publisher gets $.091 of that.

Unfortunately, later Ayler tried to put it back together and failed (giving AA the benefit of the doubt).

Broderick Crawford.

Roscoe met Ayler in Germany while they were in the army.

2 True. Tab Smith is another.

and my favorites are with the Oscar Peterson trio/quartet - and I am not a big OP fan. Wonderful set.

Pete Brown give me hives. Sorry, I just can't appreciate him.

and the poll is about tenor players.

Well, it's a tenor, the vibrato is less than Bechet's, and there's not nearly as much "filigree", but to my ears, you could make it into Bechet w/o a whole lot of effort, just as you can make Little Walter into Hodges int Bechet. Bechet is highly underrated as an influence on everything, I think. I agree about the importance/value of Bechet - for years I have felt Armstrong gets credit due Sidney. No argument about his influence. I just think Prince is worthy.

Something has gone awry with the software. I am almost afraid to post for fear it will be credited to/blamed on someone else.