Chuck Nessa

Gotta admit I'm kinda "heartened" by that info.

Tape print thru is not necessarily a result of "bad storage". In the '60s tape "sensitivity" outpaced hardware technology and it could lay down the pre-echo instantaneously. This problem was exaggerated by "spacey" music without a regular pulse and was largely solved by the introduction of Dolby and DBX.

When growing up, the neighbors had a watermelon stand on the highway. They had salt shakers on the tables. I am a salt on melon man.

The first (Japanese) version had the drop out as well. I had a copy and the flaw was explained in the notes. I believe later copies repaired it by patching from 2nd generation tapes.

Nope.

I take it this is the band playing the Chicago Jazz Fest. Curious to hear the band. "Back in the day" I brought in the "real" nonet for the fest. Dick Katz, Knepper, etc - those were the days.

It's the gas talking.... Is that anything like barking spiders?

I do believe I've seen a French issue.

No.

This short is included in the dvd portion of BMG's Duke Ellington "Centennial Collection".

Just keep a couple of quarts in the trunk for the trip and check the level every 500 miles or so. Keep the level "between the marks" and you should be fine. "Front and rear seals" could mean a couple of things but if that diagnosis is literally correct, don't spend the money to solve the problem - it could cost more than you paid for the car.

Well, it's 40 minutes later and I'm not in bed so I should respond. In July of '77 Art played in Chicago for a week on his way to NY to record at the Vanguard. It was a week of extreme highs and lows for Art and Laurie. Those of us watching were enthralled by the melodrama of missed "connections" etc. Rodby was on the gig and at the end of the week Art (deeply impressed by Steve's playing) invited him to go to NY for the Vanguard gig. Upon arrival in the "big city" Rodby was informed they "already had a bass player". Maybe Larry remembers more detail.

FWIW, I believe all the Byg sessions released on cds are dubbed from vinyl. The tapes are "lost". Brownie is the expert on this.

To tired right now and going to bed soon but remind me to tell you about Rodby and Art Pepper.

I don't understand what your problem with GA is. Guy Georgia Russell frequently posts positive stuff about cds he "gets for free" and his posts are always positive. I think the question by Akanalog is fair.

Damn Berkeley radicals. Oh, I guess that was before your time. You sounding like Berigan or Wheezie.

Can't imagine how much time I spent on one of the stools at the bar - starting in the late '70s or early '80s.

Have not heard the Fresh Sound issue but do have the original Jazztone lp and love it. The idea is 2 trumpets, 2 tenors, 2 trombones and rhythm. The others are Rex Stewart, Bud Freeman, Coleman Hawkins, Lawrence Brown, JC Higginbotham, Hank Jones, Billy Bauer, Milt Hinton and Gus Johnson. What's not to like?

Now the "perp as victim" defense: Defense attorney insists client was insane at time of alleged crimes Friday, August 11, 2006 By John S. Hausman CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER Lee Michael Sterhan was legally insane -- either unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of his actions, or unable to conform his conduct to the law -- when, with a gun in his belt and a hunting mask over his head, he broke into a terrified woman's bedroom last year, Sterhan's lawyer told jurors Thursday. Attorney Shirley Burgoyne opened her defense case in Sterhan's 14th Circuit Court trial for first-degree home invasion, being a felon in possession of a firearm, resisting and obstructing police and two felony firearm counts. The charges against Sterhan, 23, of 2131 Bourdon stem from Sterhan's actions the morning of July 26, 2005, at Mura's home and afterward, when he refused police orders to surrender and was dropped with an electric stun gun, then subdued, after a two-hour standoff at the home. In a separate case, Sterhan awaits trial on charges of first-degree home invasion and a felony firearm count. That involves Sterhan's alleged break-in to a neighboring state trooper's home earlier that morning, leading to the theft of two handguns and ammunition he carried with him into Mura's home. According to Kristen Mura's testimony earlier, the 24-year-old Whitehall woman was awakened around 11 a.m. by the sound of a someone trying to jimmy her locked bedroom door, followed by Sterhan's entry into the room she shared with her 3-year-old son. She wound up escaping the house with her child, without injury. Hours before, she had thrown Sterhan out of her home at 128 Tulgeywood and called 911 after he damaged furniture and a door in a drunken rage during an argument with his girlfriend, Leah Zegoski, after all three had been drinking together. At that time, Sterhan had told Mura he was going to "gut" her and said, "You're going to die, bitch," Mura told jurors. "He was completely out of control, he was acting crazy," defense attorney Burgoyne told jurors in her opening statement, describing Sterhan's behavior the morning of July 26. "He was out of it." Grand Rapids clinical psychologist Steven Pastyrnak, director of the psychology clinic at DeVos Children's Hospital, told jurors he diagnosed Sterhan as suffering from bipolar disorder -- sometimes called manic-depression -- and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, based on an interview with Sterhan and a written psychological test, conducted in January at Burgoyne's request. Sterhan's 30-year-old sister, Jennifer Menzock, who grew up with the defendant and lived with him fore nine months before his arrest, testified that he had always had "destructive" and "very strange" behavior, seemingly getting worse as he grew older, and punctuated by periods of serious depression that led her to fear suicide. Under cross-examination by Senior Assistant Muskegon County Prosecutor Robert F. Hedges, Menzock acknowledged she never sought to have Sterhan committed for mental treatment or ever filed a police report. Zegoski testified "he didn't know what he was doing, or that it was wrong" the morning of July 26 before Mura threw him out of her home. Under cross-examination, she admitted she initially lied to police to protect Sterhan "because I was scared, but I know that was wrong." ©2006 Muskegon Chronicle

For starters, Randy Weston.

The original release was produced for UA by Nat Hentoff. The color cover is on the current cd. Alan Douglas started the UAJ series and reissued the Mingus record and did some fine original recordings as well. After leaving UA Douglas formed FM records and did the Dolphy sessions as well as some pop/folk material. This eventually morphed into the Douglas label and a bunch of interesting stuff including the Wildflowers material. Interesting dude, indeed.

That is the 2nd cover. The original is the basis of the current cd reissue.

Your memory doesn't go back that far.

After 2 more subpoenas and some delays the first trial started on Tuesday (yes, there will be 2 trials on different charges). I think the prosecutors are protecting themselves in case they get a "not guilty" on the first trial. The defense is claiming "insanity" based on fetal alcohol syndrome. I testified yesterday but the paper only dealt with the first witness, the female victim: Victim recounts terrifying morning home invasion Thursday, August 10, 2006 By John S. Hausman CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER Kristen Mura awoke to the sound of someone trying to jimmy open her locked bedroom door. Scared for herself and her 3-year-old son in bed with her, the 24-year-old Whitehall woman then saw the door open and a man enter, a gun in his belt and a hooded camouflage mask over his face. She had additional reason to be frightened, Mura told Muskegon County jurors Wednesday: Just hours before, a drunken male friend -- whom she had just thrown out of her house -- had said "he was going to gut me, and he told me, 'you're going to die, bitch,' " Mura said. That's why she had locked the bedroom door. Now the intruder came to her bed, sat down, took off the mask and revealed he was Lee Michael Sterhan -- the man who had threatened her after she pushed him outside, locked the doors and called police to report his violent tantrum in her house at 128 Tulgeywood. Sterhan, 23, of 2131 Bourdon is on trial in Muskegon's 14th Circuit Court on charges of first-degree home invasion, being a felon in possession of a firearm, resisting and obstructing police and two felony firearm counts. The charges stem from Sterhan's actions the morning of July 26, 2005, at Mura's home and afterward, when he refused police orders to surrender and was dropped with an electric stun gun, then subdued, after a two-hour standoff at the home. In a separate case, Sterhan awaits trial on charges of first-degree home invasion and a felony firearm count. That involves Sterhan's break-in to a neighboring state trooper's home earlier that morning, leading to the theft of two handguns and ammunition. Sterhan's attorney, Shirley Burgoyne, contends her client was legally insane. In his opening statement Wednesday, Senior Assistant Muskegon County Prosecutor Robert F. Hedges disputed that. While conceding that a drunken Sterhan did some things that seemed "crazy," he said the defendant showed he understood the consequences of his actions -- for instance, at one point after the initial ejection from Mura's home, raising his hands when a police officer ordered him to do so, then jumping over a backyard fence to escape. "His brain was functioning," Hedges said. Mura testified the dispute began in the early-morning hours when Sterhan -- whom she had known for years, originally as the friend of her ex-boyfriend -- and his girlfriend were hanging out in Mura's home, all of them drinking. Then, sometime around 3 a.m., a loud argument erupted between Sterhan and his girlfriend, Mura said. Sterhan became violent, flipping over her couch, punching a hole in a door and doing other damage, she said. She finally was able to push him out a breezeway door. That's when Sterhan made the threat, she said. After her call to 911, police searched for Sterhan but lost him after his fence-leap. While at large, he allegedly broke into the trooper's home while the man was at work and stole a .357 Magnum and another handgun. A relative discovered the break-in and called 911 around 9:45 a.m. Whitehall police, suspecting Sterhan might have stolen the guns, then went to the Mura home and telephoned inside. A man answered, saying Mura was sleeping and refusing to put her on the phone. Police from several departments then surrounded the home, prepared for "barricaded gunman" situation. As it turned out, Sterhan had broken in while Mura slept, entering through an unlocked garage door and then a window to her kitchen. At about 11 a.m., she awakened, she testified. Sterhan had broken into her bedroom with a butter knife, and now -- still visibly "upset," she testified -- he wanted to talk about Mura's calling the cops on him earlier. Then he took the .357 Magnum out of his waistband, she testified. "He just held it in his hand. I saw it -- it freaked me out," Mura said. "It scared me, especially since earlier that night, he said what he said." Sterhan didn't assault her or the child, Mura said. At one point he let her use a bathroom across the hall, where -- using a cell phone -- she softly called 911, then returned to the bedroom to protect her son. A few minutes later Sterhan went downstairs from Mura's second-floor bedroom, leaving her and Brandon alone. Again she called 911 and discussed with the dispatcher ways to get her and her boy out of the house safely. Finally, "I just grabbed my son and went downstairs ... The door's right there" at the foot of the stairs. On her way out, she glimpsed Sterhan in her living room with two guns. He did not try to stop her. ©2006 Muskegon Chronicle © 2006 Michigan Live. All Rights Reserved.