Chuck Nessa

We have lost a solid member of an historical music family. We were all enriched and we all lose now. Thank you to the Young family from New Orleans.

If you are concentrating, it ain't gonna happen.

email sent. Great prices. Thanks. Now, how about posting about something besides your sales.

Willard has a pony. :lol:

Remind me to not hang out with you.

Spent a very interesting few days with Art and Laurie near the end. Fascinating people. Hope someday to get it all down on paper.

Missed a great Bird connection with that one.

I had wanted to wait until I had the cds, but unless something has gone wrong they will be here by Wednesday or Thursday. Interested parties can order directly from me at Nessa Records, PO Box 394, Whitehall, MI 49461 or via PayPal to info@nessarecords.com . The price is $23 post paid in North America – folks living elsewhere should add $4 to cover the extra postage. Should you be interested in any of my other offerings, including stuff from the Okka Disk catalog, send an email and I will supply lists and prices. Thanks. CN

Holy crap! I thought eleven dollars was good... Yup, I jumped at eleven too.

Why did you wait so long to reissue it? As Hans said - money.

Suzie Q Ike Q Beck Leon "Big Spider" Beck

French gin?!

Just had a large glass of milk to wash down a smore.

Which notes are "not jazz"? I'll tell all my friends to avoid 'em.

Back in the day most of my musician friends thought he was a "cheater" for lowering the bridge. I do know you could not hear his instrument in person without a mike. Often wondered if his bandmates ever heard his playing. Please explain what is so "breathtaking" and what elevates his playing "beyond" whatever. Then tell me what you smokin'.

We talkin' 'bout the guy with his name on all those rubber balls?

Geez!

Dave, what is your problem with Paul's statement and what needs to be explained? If players were influenced by Coltrane, either positively or negatively, it has nothing to do with Coltrane and everything about the influenced.

That's up to them.

Nonaah won Record of the Year award in the Down Beat Critics Poll in 1978. More accurately, 5 recordings tied for the top spot: Akiyoshi/Tabackin Insights, Ornette’s Dancing In Your Head, Dexter’s Homecoming and Sophisticated Giant, and Nonaah. Reviews almost everywhere were more than positive and the recording did very well in the sales dept. The record has a wonderful “underground” reputation today and is one of the recordings for which I am really proud. BUT, a warning follows. This is really tough music. If your primary knowledge of Roscoe’s music is Snurdy McGurdy you may be turned off by the power of these pieces. I have been trying to figure out a way to express this and decided the best way is to post a review written by Rafi Zabor in Musician magazine at the time. Here it is. This is some of the most uncompromising music I have ever heard. On this recording the Art Ensemble’s tallest altoist obsesses himself with repetition and expansion. On one of the several versions of the title tune he plays a festival audience to a standstill with seven or eight minutes of one thorny phrase. There’s something unnerving about it, like a man blowing up the railroads. There is a variety of music and instrumentation on this double set, though half of it is solo saxophone. Beyond mere anger and modernism, this is flesh. The only quibble I have with the review is the word anger. Back in the day there was an automatic reaction to forcefulness as anger.

What Mark said. I think we will be showing up Thursday and will stay for the duration. Do not ignore the afternoon activities. Lots of interesting music on the other stages.

Not what I said. Relax. Not everything I type is about you.

Since the choices have drifted a bit, let me mention Chas Burchell channeling Lester through Warne Marsh. A dollar to any non-Brit familiar with his playing. Note I said familiar.

Not sure why we have a tendency to eat our children. I think all/most interested parties think George is/was the right person to write this book at this time. Sniping at details of language obscures the real product and scares off folks on the edge.