Chuck Nessa

Not me. We don't need this shit.

Might have said this before, but Mike Bloomfield and I engaged in regular screaming matches (his version of a discussion) late night in the JRM around '66/68. Never forget the night he claimed the "AACM guys had hoodwinked me and Coltrane's Ascension was bullshit". I then played Ascension and walked him through it. Then he said something like "well, that does have form". He was a trip. Suburban kid run amok.

Looking at all these publicity pics reminds me how many of these folks (in person) acted like real jerks and how Duke was always a gentleman.

Must have been a tiresome and painful birth.

"Lilt and charm" are what I always need from music. I find them in late Beethoven and Cecil Taylor.

I think that's one abstraction too many for my taste. It nails it for me.

One morning in the '70s I woke up and my first thought was to call Mary Tyler Moore and apologize.

Somebodies need to get a room or go away.

If you enjoy that, get the Hal Singer Prestige date for more fine Shavers.

U so fast!

Nice. Just listening to some Joe.

Holy Crap! This thread is over 11,000 hits. What's goin' on?

I bet the reason the cover is larger is because you sent Downbeat a little payola after successfully lobbying the band for the album name. Excuse me--it's called a promotional expense. Nah, that's a pseudonym for blow.

Gotta separate ideas and technique to make the comparo and that is not possible. BTW, Lester had some chops WM could only dream of.

Wynton sounds more like Ruby Braff than Lester.

Hey Chuck, will this be reissued ever? I missed the AEC Box. Later this year. Half the studio work is done at this point. I'll ago back in the (Chicago) studio when the friggin' snow stops.

I thought that was what Mighty Quinn was going to be all about with the Pepper Adams, Don Ellis, etc material? Have they shifted gears? Maybe those reissues were so successful they decided to stop.

I have a garbage can, boots, sweaters, 2 children and an Arthur Doyle record older than you.

Thanks for reminding me. I had it in my head that, when he led his band in the mid-thirties, he used the name Jack Travis. Nat Jones, who was with James Brown in the early sixties, was in that band, I believe. MG Knew him a bit in the late '70s / early '80s. Nice enough fellow but sometimes unbearably full of himself.

The author of An Autobiography of Black Jazz was Dempsey Travis. For this kind of look at music development, you might check out Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis by Ben Looker and A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George Lewis. Both deal with local music collectives in the '60s.

Bruce and Michael sounded like they were whistling past the graveyard.

The Fresh Sound issue seems to clone these two: available inexpensively on Amazon and elsewhere.

Don't think it will happen.

I see the ebay item is gone. Does that mean somebody paid the "buy it now" price or was it withdrawn?