Chuck Nessa

I'm sure you know he is a member here. This attack is silly. IMO, vibes can add color not available from other instruments. Just noticed vibes or marimbas were part of about a third of my catalog. Not my choice, but the leader.

Same here. There's some harmonica stuff on the Art Ensemble box Chuck put out and I didn't like it at all. You must be thinking of Roscoe's "sound" on Delmark. I did produce that session but think the harmonica sound last less than 20 seconds. U R a tuff crowd. I like many "mouth-organ"/harmonica performances. Both "Sonny Boys" are high on my list.

Which brands?

Not fair changing the pic!

The open toilet lid and the wet 'n' dry vac give me pause.

I'd like to visit Met Music on the South Side of Chicago in 1966/8 as I did then (without money). They had tons of great stuff in the basement. I'd like to visit the Discount Records store I managed in the early '70a. Many lps from this time went away - and I'd dive into the file cabinet to save the letters from Lester Koenig. I was a good customer.

Art Lange wrote a nice review of Nonaah and an interesting piece on the Mosaic Braxton box at Point of Departure.

Carmel Quinn was a singer on the Godfrey tv show which was watched regularly by millions of our citizens.

Yes. A fine label.

True. The fear that these might have come from an original CD ripped to MP3 and then written to a CD-R is not the case. Why might they do this? It doesn't make sense.

When the oxide flakes of the master of A Love Supreme, the Rapture begins.

Must be the end of days.

That is true - although it remained a very good shop right into the 1990s it was at its best in the earlier years in the first, pre-CD era location. I was always amazed at the way people came from all over Europe and beyond to stock up at Mole. From the way they checked out the LP racks you could also tell that, by and large, they really knew their stuff. During the ED era they started a wholesale operation. After his death it continued for a while but then deteriorated badly. I'm sure I am not the only person/label left holding the bag. I know my friend Bruno at Okka lost a bundle. To some extent this was my fault 'cause I recommended them by my past experience. Martin Davidson tried to make things right and I was (probably) ok, but Bruno bit a big one.

He has a tendency to play really fast on some tunes. Just a warning.

Cost effective cds are in quantities of 1000. Cost effective booklets/tray cards are minimally 2500. Most issues deleted sell below 200 a year. You do the math. None of this takes into consideration the expense of warehousing, etc. That's cost effective, I assume, at the normal price of a CD release. I'm thinking on-demand CDs would be able to get a higher price because they're on demand and therefore purchasers would have considerably higher motivation. Warehousing, obviously, would not be a factor since they wouldn't be warehoused, they'd be printed on demand and shipped at once. BWTFDIK? Read carefully and you will see I was responding to "proper CDs", not CD-Rs.

Sounds like a Richard Alderson recording to me. You are probably right about Himmelstein too.

Cost effective cds are in quantities of 1000. Cost effective booklets/tray cards are minimally 2500. Most issues deleted sell below 200 a year. You do the math. None of this takes into consideration the expense of warehousing, etc.

The thought plickens.

So, I missed my release projection by about 6 months (so far). Worrying over the remastering caused the delay. The release is officially in Feb, but I should have copies available in the last half of Jan. Thanks for your patience.

I believe Ace have him.

So if you can get it for $2.99 including shipping - go for it. Then be prepared for the real deal: Not cheap but worth more.

Not exactly contemporary but I just received 2 new Homeboy Music cd-rs from my friend Roy Morris; Arthur Doyle Trio Nature Boy and Joe Rigby's Praise. Hope to listen this weekend.

Delmark has a dandy cd of the Jacquet Apollos - 23 tracks.

Shouldn't be.