Chuck Nessa

While in high school I bought Cookin'. That and Soultrane (purchased the same day) were my first Prestige records. I was intrigued by the yellow and black labels.

I read this is supposed to have a bonus track. Too bad there's no tracklisting available yet. Does anyone know anything about this? The 1988, US issue had an alternate of Cool Eyes (3:50) and It Ain't S'Posed To Be Like That (6:21) added to the program.

May 20, 1969 was my 25th birthday. Do many of you remember the context of this stuff? Pretty hard to understand unless you were there. Much harder to criticize it.

If she indeed gave the guy her "last four digits" I'd be very diligent.

We need to remember the huge Fantasy inventory has been moved to a new warehouse and it would be normal to "find" stuff as that inventory diminishes. In addition it is not a given that anyone at Concord knows the product/inventory.

That would be almost 83 minutes.

Well, as Miles once noted, it is really fine wood. By the '70s they stopped sending them out unless requested. Then they turned out to be made of particle board.

And not by Duke - Norman Simmons' version on his album "In private" is one I find a particular knockout. He says in the sleeve note that he always thought pling the tune fast was wrong; he aways imagines a string of camels plodding slowly through the sand. So he plays it slowly, with Lisle Atkinson behind him giving up the "A love supreme" riff. I think that's THE masterpie version of the tune. MG I find this kind of discussion bothering. This implies jazz is a repertoire music, not an improvisational/performance music. The value of a piece like Caravan ultimately rests on the performances resulting and these performances are "apples and oranges". This type of comparison plays into the worst aspects (IMO) of jazz academia as it exists today. Duke, Mingus and Roach made a fine performance based on Caravan, as have many others. This individual performance is what matters, not other performances. Do we downplay Bird's "Out of Nowhere" because some consider Tristano's version superior? Ridiculous! What is the best blues in b flat? Idiotic!

Those were applied at the factory, not the store.

Lon ignores my current favorite from the session - Caravan, where Duke temporarily "gives the slip" to the other guys.

There are two more very fine tunes from Smithville. That rules out (hopefully) a 2 on 1 disc. Just checked and the 2 issues lps won't fit anyway.

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Do they walk on the other side of the street?

Sorry to hear that. I'd hoped you'd live longer.

Please give me the catalog number of that box.

Job for Concord: The McLean sessions are a mess on lp/cd. How about sorting them out and start by giving us a disc of the quartet material with Mal Waldron.

Sorry to hear this. Back in my retail days I met Russ Solomon, the founder and liked him a lot. He changed the face of record sales. He lost control a few years ago but Tower's problems still bother me. I also like their online search features. Hope they can pull it out.

Hot House was Marguerite's invention. After a few years of struggles and stress she registered it as a "not for profit" corp and set up a board of directors so she could get grant money. Now that board has taken control. She's not the easiest person to get along with but she IS Hot House. This is not good.

Absolutely!

You can read about it HERE and on the blog link on that page.

You should have had some popcorn and gone to bed.

Paul got it right except the Flying Dutchman lp was a reissue of an lp first issued on the Contact label. This is desert island stuff. FWIW the Pres items were originally issued under Wells name.

This must have been about my 10th Ellington record. I bought is as a college freshman and loved it right away. Wonderful date - I love it. My first copy was a mono UAJ original, then a stereo United Artists reissue, then a stereo UAJ original, then the first cd. Now I think I'm listening to my 3rd cd edition. Great listening for 40+ years.

Nice observation. Kinda like Monk saying Steve Lacy was "the guy who played WORK right".

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