Chuck Nessa

yup.

Not shipped in numerical order.

Why the suites? Why not the whole deal?

If you are willing to have "intelligent fun" please find the Scherzo recordings made by Shura Cherkassky for Tudor. These are "crazy" my favorite Chopin recordings of all time. Music "interpretation" of the highest order in my book. Otherwise, I suggest the RCA Rubinstein stuff as some sort of benchmark. Concerning "original instrument" recordings, these guys have had only a few years with this repertoire but the "inauthentic" folks had decades to digest. You take your choice.

Well, go ahead.

Check out "New Orleans", he's in "Pop"s" band.

Time trial? Nancarrow, no doubt.

You'll never get a loan.

Isn't the correct word "indited"?

I might have told this before but in 1968 when I was pressing Roscoe's "Congliptious" at the Chess plant (Midwest Record Pressing) I took a tour of the plant and the manager told me "We're used to this stuff, look at this. He handed me a fresh pressing of "Strange Strings", hot off the Chess presses.

Wednesday night TV dinners? I hear there's a good pizza joint in Whitehall! Yes there is. "bout time we spent some money there Skid. I lied. I am confining myself to taco soup tonight after a large lunch.

I'll let you know after I peel the foil back.

First time I noticed him on record was Harold Land's "the Fox". First time I heard him in person was with McCoy Tyner, Byard Lancaster and Eric Gravatt. The Tyner gig was in a Madison, WI bar around 1970. The band was taking no prisoners and Cecil Taylor was dancing all over the place! Bunches of history lost with that man.

That shot looks like a '40s movie still. Pan to the left to see Louis Armstrong and Eli Thompson.

Who's the young fella on the left side of the second photo? Not sure but he has an awful lot of hair.

Last time I saw John was a couple of years back (with Uncle Skid) and he seemed very feeble but played like Young John Young. Last I heard from friends was not encouraging.

Now John Young and Eddie de Haas.

Here's Paul Serrano from that date.

Some of Ann's shots from one of the sessions with Eddie.

I forgot they went to NY after the Chicago concert. I remember Roscoe made the trip in his burgundy Lexus 400. He was going to drive straight through. FWIW, I have 12 track tapes of the two shows in Chicago as well as a dress rehearsal. The concerts were videotaped too.

Actual music confuses many fans.

Curious if you were at the 3 original recording sessions, the Public Theater performance of L-R-G later that year or at the recreation in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art a few years back?

OTOH, some would dread this.

He's on a bunch of (west coast) Art Pepper discs.