Chuck Nessa

Never warmed to Katchen. He seemed a bit bland to me. Might have been a blind spot, but one I live with.

Not me. I use him correctly.

BTW, all my friends using Smack use it correctly - no abuse involved.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

As a lame English major, I stand by my post. His problem was a substance. Your abuse might be my sustenance. what the hell does this have to do with my releases?

Sorry to hear of his death. Seems he had a nice time while he was with us.

Jeez. IIRC, he died on the band bus. Abuse indeed and the substance was the tool. Nothing weird involved. Some point you wish to make?

All you Kentonites should check out his solos with Stan. Wonderful.

Coffee has always been good for you. So has beer and whiskey. I'll be depressed when they decide smack is fine, since I've avoided that. Nembutal bad.

I've met several folks who knew Barry and they all said what a sweet guy he was. Some also mentioned his massive record collection. All of those folks said that stuff after lamenting his substance problem. Edit to say (about the collection) Bob Porter told me "He even had some of your records".

"Convolution?" That's the title of Bertrand's imaginary BN debut.

Lazaro, Uncle Skid and I will be there. Anyone else?

No, but I see someone is selling that volume on Amazon for $15.

Schnabel.

I like most of the folks here.

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Considering that the Bolton/Anderza has no real connection to this music, your comment almost makes me wonder if Michael was just looking for a Select project that he could stick these two in, and came up with this one, but I think its great that Michael chose such a set for a Select, given that they usually pick a set of LPs that actually saw release. With only two issued albums, this wouldn't even be a possibility as a Select without knowing that there are 29 worthy but unissued tunes to include. WELL, no need to spend all that money for these two Bolton/Anderza tracks. Uptown is going to issue a Dupree Bolton cd including these two tracks (licensed from EMI). It will be interesting to see which package hits the market first. I think MC might have thrown these on the Select after Uptown "flagged" 'em.

Damn tree hugger.

Agree with most of Larry's post but ask if the Stern/Rose is the old mono. Curious. I like Walter's later stereo recording with Francescatti and much is out of tune. I would also add the Heifitz/Reiner collaboration to the violin concerto sweepstakes. The stereo CBS, Bruno Walter Brahms symphonies are of interest as well.

Or it could have been a producer trying to save some bucks. We (folks "in the business") had a joke back then about all the duo recordings coming out.

I blame Ted Turner. Oh yeah, the olympic bomber too.

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Since everyone is staying away from the orchestral stuff I will jump in here. Klemperer for the symphonies and requiem. Lehmann on DG is an interesting alternative for the requiem. The alts for the symphonies are too many to list - I currently have about 30 Brahms symphonies. Piano concerti - sticking to stereo and sets, Gilels/Jochum and Fleischer/Szell do it for me. Different approaches do it for me too) Did I miss mention of the piano quintet? Good piece. Pick your favorite players. I currently listen to Rubinstein/Guarneri and Jando/Kodaly. All the piano quartets by Rubinstein/Guarneri are dandy too. I friggin' love the trios by Rubinstein/Szeryng/Fournier. This is superior music making. Like Larry, I "slept on" the Rubinstein Brahms stuff but connected about 5 years ago and will check out any Brahms by him. The solo music is not easy to sort out but a really inexpensive, wonderfully played, problematically transferred collection is a 5 disc set on Vox by Walter Klien. Great Brahms playing, but not complete. I think I got the set for about $20. I had been bugging Vox for years to get this out. I see I didn't mention the Alto Rhapsody - wonderful and if you get the Klemperer symphonies you might get a wonderful performance by Christa Ludwig. Done for the moment, thanks for reading.

He was a jazz fan and used to show up regularly backstage at the Chicago Jazz Festival. He seemed like a really nice guy.