Chuck Nessa

Outstanding! All the best.

Why do any of you care about this?

Horace guards his legacy carefully. After his death other stuff will show up if the majors still have jazz programs.

I can recommend a couple of things I found pleasant - his first Criss Cross date (especially the duets with David Kikoski added as cd bonus material) and a Kenny Barron quartet date also on Criss Cross. Honest player. FWIW, he's a very nice guy.

Berry was a wonderful/important tenor stylist. Everyone should know his music but most of it is in short sideman solos. If you can't deal with that, avoid the set. I had all the music (minus some alternates) already so I couldn't see going for the box, sound improvement notwithstanding. If you can accept the big band limitations of the bulk of the set and want to learn about one of the founding fathers of the tenor, go for it. YMMV.

Art Ensemble of Chicago Fanfare for the Warriors, Atlantic test pressing.

Country fried?

and I got scolded. Lots of crap goin' down.

He already bought the Silver. I still suggest books.

I suggest some books.

And I thought the wonderful clarinetist Alan Hacker had somehow attacked an apple site.

Hope you make it another year.

Why?

When I saw the price I made a deposit but not the kind anyone wants.

Ubu beat me to the punch.

Just hope the Universal engineers didn't download some of this stuff from the Verve site offerings.

No shit! Thanks.

But he's our punk ass bitch.

I always thought of Chewy as a motivational poster.

Yes

I hear a small blip at 1:56 which might be an edit or a tape flaw. I hear it on both the OJC cd and lp but never noticed it before. No biggie in my book.

Your board. Sorry to have been a problem.

Why leave out the first half of the sentence?