Chuck Nessa

Whatever the series title (like they really need one) all their recent reissues are straight reprints of lps - no alternates or interesting session leftovers. These issues are comparitively inexpensive since they don't need "producers", liner writers and/or vault researchers.

Correct Dan. I should have kept my mouth shut.

At least one of these tracks reissued on a Rosetta lp.

Gene Harris is on this one, right?

Yes, he's responsible for a bunch of good stuff (and a bunch of crap), but he's got enough negatives on his side to set him back to "zero" in my world. Not meant to be a "dis" of Joe, just a corrective message from an old acquaintance.

Jim Dye removed Elvin's head?!!!

Can you find anyone to confirm?

Though he thought he was a decent packager.

So I'm just another floater?

It is really difficult avoiding the "turd in the punchbowl" role. I never "got" JJ. That attitude has saved me some money.

Most of mine are blatant commercial messages. That's the ticket!

Rufus swung, his face at last to the wind, then his neck snapped. I can't forget this line.

Savant/High Note is successor to Muse which was a successor to Cobblestone. All were operated by Joe Fields, former sales manager for Prestige. I first met Joe in the '60s when he arrived in Chicago by bus to flog Prestige. The "Prestige model" (low bread, minimal studio time, cheap manufacturing and good profits) was his guide. Joe told me this back in the early '70s when he wanted to license my stuff and me to produce some sessions.

As I said earlier, I have other shots from this session and Hank looks fine in them. Salt and pepper hair, but that's it. This was just a poor choice for the cd booklet.

LP name, please? "Warne Marsh"!

Geez Connie, can't wait for the nice things you say when I die.

You are joking, right?

I'd love to hear it all, but is there really enough material for a Select? ummm - I was wondering this - it is more like two 80 minute CDs worth, I should think Would not fit on 2 discs but the multi-label licensing is out the door now. Ain't gonna happen outside of Andorra.

After 8 years of Alzheimer's.

I believe he's from the Washington, DC area. Twenty some years ago I heard him there playing with Shirley Horn and Buck Hill.

Same thing that happened to their bb?

This is not much of an issue to tons of folks. Only the "elite" complain about sound.

Wonderful. Thanks.

My apologies to some of the folks ordering from this list - due to the "non-standard" packaging of some Okka discs, the usual "nessa neatness" in mailers does not apply.

From the BN new release page: In 1961, Stan Kenton hired his former alto saxophonist-arranger Lennie Niehaus to prepare a book of standard ballads for his newly expanded Mellophonium orchestra which featured such excellent soloists as trumpeter Marvin Stamm, alto saxophonist Gabe Baltazar, and tenor saxophonist Sam Donohue. Kenton was so impressed with the results that he recorded 12 of Niehaus’s beautiful sonic tapestries in July for this album. He recorded six more in December and only later issued on various Creative World LPs. They are included here as bonus tracks.