Chuck Nessa

"Cheryl" and "Underdog" are by a quartet whose personnel is given as Gil Evans (arranger/piano), Jimmy Knepper (trombone), "probably" Bob Cranshaw (bass) and "probably" Charlie Persip (drums). The recording date is given as c.1963-64. My good friend, Brian Priestley (name dropping again!) says this in his learned sleeve note: "The existence of two Gil Evans quartet pieces comes as something of a surprise. Jimmy Knepper, who played with Gil's working band of 1960, is recognizably the trombonist and, since the names of Cranshaw and Persip have been added to the collective personnel, there seems no reason to doubt that it is they on bass and drums. However, the track which was code-named 'Isabel' is actually a song by Al Cohn called 'The Underdog' (with words by Dave Frishberg, the composer of 'I'm Hip' and 'Peel Me a Grape') although Cohn's original instrumental version went under the name 'Ah Moore'. And, finally, what was issued in the States as 'Blues in Orbit' is not 'Blues in Orbit' but Charlie Parker's amazingly inventive line 'Cheryl'. It's fascinating to think of this as a reduction of a full orchestral Gil Evans arrangement, and indeed the bass-part after the opening theme and before the out-chorus makes it hard not to think in these terms. Is it taking guesswork too far to imagine this as a sketch for the album Gil was to have made for Verve featuring Bill Evans, but which was never recorded?" Thanks. Sounds tasty, do you know if these tunes are available in some other form, a part the twofer? The second record was originally issued in the US as Verve V6-8883. The quartet pieces with trombone have not been reissued at Gil's request. Most common personnel listing has Tony Studd, Paul Chambers and Clifford Jarvis. The lp version of Spoonful was shortened by about 5 minutes.

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Only a few of us have been talking to them.

Careful, Chuck. Don't you have a Dell desktop, too? Have one each of the Dells. My unit has been a trooper but Ann's laptop is spitting blood. About a month ago I booted and got a bluescreen declaring "major malfunction" and about 4 pages of info I could not print (or commit to memory). At the end of the screen it said to reboot and if the same screen came back, say goodbye. The reboot worked but all processes take about 10 times longer now.

Why oh why would Norway cause all this trouble????? Isn't lutefisk enough to impose on humanity?

I suggest a Sears Silvertone for a laptop.

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Anthony was born in 1945.

My queue has been restored.

welcome

that was quick.

A "lounge" in a University of Chicago building.

Pierre seems to be surrendering, as he should have in the '70s.

don't know. he made 2 bn lps and a bunch of SteepleChase dates.

Very interesting, not amazing.

Japanese reissue of a "post mortem" release on Riverside.

just a pit stop. not banned.

sorry. am i banned?

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Ethan Iverson wrote a nice Ware piece for Down Beat a while back. To check out a couple of nice pics of WW, check out the Bad Plus blog here. I was at that gig.

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The real answer is "when the money arrived".

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