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Chuck Nessa

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  1. This date was recorded by JazzCraft and was left in the can. When the catalog was sold to Storyville, Knudsen exploited every inch of tape.
  2. There is/should be a difference if the artists have the performance recorded and then sell it to a recording company.
  3. Razor blade, never an Exacto.
  4. Not fair counting bootlegs.
  5. Too bad Contemporary changed the cover photo. I preferred the original.
  6. The older version was corrected at the time.
  7. Lennie Niehaus was the leader, Pepper a soloist.
  8. Yet, no mention of the Columbia River!
  9. Original cover, photo by Terry Martin.
  10. If you like the Mitchell, grab the Grey.
  11. I disagree. It's a smart and politically astute response. Yeah, it's not the first time a politician has twisted the knife just a little after they've got someone down. She's basically playing to the moms of America (of which there seem to be very few here), me thinks, and maybe people who are generally hostile toward the MSM (whatever that is) to begin with. Next week we won't even remember this. There'll be some new skirmish to divert our attention. But the battle is won in small increments. And so it goes .... She lost my vote, nomatter what.
  12. That certainly can't be your "edge"!
  13. Did I miss something, or has Finzi been ignored?
  14. A stupid and self destructive response.
  15. You mean, he was on one side of something, like the one he did with Gator? Or he never finished it and it wasn't released? MG One side of an lp with son Chico. The other side was a Marsalis family band.
  16. Von Freeman made half a record for CBS/Columbia.
  17. Where on earth did you read that?
  18. Not really. They were recorded for Granz who had a marketing deal with Mercury.
  19. "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.
  20. nice
  21. Only a few of us have been talking to them.
  22. 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.
  23. Why oh why would Norway cause all this trouble????? Isn't lutefisk enough to impose on humanity?
  24. I suggest a Sears Silvertone for a laptop.
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