Chuck Nessa

Offer of a check with Ed Michel as his paymaster.

Do you have "street people"?

Just to show how much we enjoy your return: WELCOME

Pat Thomas Thomas Wolfe Wolfman Jack

Amusing pic, no matter how many times I see it.

No wonder you returned!

Welcome back!

Jimmy Johnson Jimmy John's Johns Manville

That happened a long time ago...........

Official July release will be here (for sale) in a couple of weeks: ncd-2 Roscoe Mitchell Congliptious. New 24 bit remastering of material from the Art Ensemble 1967/68 box. All takes from the sessions in question. ncd-17/18 Bobby Bradford with John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. Both lps in a 2 disc package - no extra takes. Includes original notes on the session by Max Harrison and a new note from Bobby Bradford. The next pair (Sept releases available for order earlier) will be a 2 disc version of Lester Bowie's Numbers 1&2 called All the Numbers. This will include all the versions previously issued in the AE box in new 24 bit remasters. This will be ncd-31/32. At the same time we will reissue (Wadada) Leo Smith's Spirit Catcher with an alternate version of The Burning of Stones - this is the piece for muted trumpet and 3 harps. This will be ncd-19. email nessarecords@charter.net for catalog and prices. More than Blue Note is offering.

We all knew that.

I am brain dead. Just read my next posts for confirmation.

TMI! This post may come back to haunt you when looking for employment.

I disagree. Geography/isolation is not relevant. We [at least I) are talking about something else. Location don't matter to the "music".

Fun for me too. Good to get the juices going.

I do not envy Eicher's dilemma.

Looked like goose crap to me.

And there's a fourth different thing (or maybe it would be a special case under Chuck's "growing a living music") -- a la Dallwitz and some others of that generation of Australians, falling in love with an older style or styles and inventing some music that's kind of in the style of but is essentially new, expressive of your own reality, and as rich in purely musical terms as, say, the best of Morton. Sounds damn unlikely, but it happened. May never happen again, not until and if we colonize other planets or galaxies (or vice versa). Now you are talking about developments within "playing within a style". This is not too far removed from the "HIP" classical movement. If you want to be kind, you can call it "neo-something" but it is still a sort of nostalgia thing.

There are thin, but essential lines between growing a living music, playing within a style and grave robbing. These are all very different things.

Mention of the Oliver Brunswick/Vocalion sessions got me thinking about other bands and directions at the time - Henderson, McKinney's, Ellington and Luis Russell for example. I love transition periods like this and all kinds of stuff was happening - just before the "swing craze" started. More "territorial" bands widen the horizon but might muddle the discussion. New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Kansas City (and the entire SW) mixed it up then and this diversity seemed to go away until the '60s when Ornette appeared. YMMV.

Never forget my discussions with Bud Freeman about hearing the band. One afternoon's talk is on tape somewhere in my basement.

good guy.

I'd buy decent transfers of the Wilson sessions without the Billie sides (have those a dozen ways). I have made my own cdrs of the material from my collection but would like a good set.