Chuck Nessa

Should we call homeland security?

I should add, I was always interested in who came in later - the magazine usually listed the first ten. That year in the "Label of the Year" category my little operation came in 8th.

The first thing I searched for is incorrect/incomplete! I search because it involved my work. In the 1978 Critics Poll there was a 5 way tie for Album of the Year - they were listed alphabetically: Akiyoshi/Tabackin Insights Ornette Coleman Dancing In Your Head Dexter Gordon Homecoming Dexter Gordon Sophisticated Giant Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah The website only shows Insights. I was really proud to do this well against the promo departments of RCA, Columbia and A&M. edit to add: I emailed this post to Frank Alkyer (publisher), and he responded "On the Critics Poll, I just looked that up and ... YIKES! Someone was working too fast. We'll fix it!

She always seemed "over the top" to me.

These kinds of things give be chills. I was at one about 20 years ago. The best thing was seeing my old friend Rob Friedman from Record People.

Ivory flakes do it too.

Best of luck, but...................

Gee, I ought to alert my old compatriot Albert Marx. Oh crap, he's died. Next up for the alert is William Savory. Shit, he's gone too. She must have been a hell of a woman.

Don't know what masterings they will use for the "new reissues" but the Fearless Leader, Interplay and Side Steps sets sound very fine and have interesting booklets.

No complaints of "softness" here. Maybe I just don't know.

Braxton Black Saint/Soul Note set.

Luckily my commute is trekking to the basement. Some day an EMT will have to drag me out of here.

Last century stuff, eh?

Do you mean he's willing to bend?

That stuff happens hundreds of times and we never know what we missed. We also don't know about stuff we didn't waste our time with.

There are times I LOVE spreading sheets! Sometimes I Excel.

Ate eggs with him one morning in a hotel diner. Nice guy.

Crap, I'd hope Jazz Loft lost that money.

Maybe we should have a thread listing recordings from Monterey without airplanes.

Phillip Wilson's.

Other things to worry about.

Z0-KO-MA.

A baby can be heard crying in the background during Quartet No. 2 on Roscoe Mitchell's Old/Quartet.

They were all planned in order.