Chuck Nessa

Up where?

So, we're not talking about corn meal?

This means people from Iowa are only a few weeks behind the times!

Thank God. I thought this was another of those years passing before my eyes things!

I have. If WBEZ's programming was fairly vanilla, WDCB's is even less interesting. Then again, I'm a partisan of the far more cutting edge WNUR show. NUR rules!!!!! And how powerful is their transmitter now? When I lived in Chicago (5000 N - about a mile from the border) I had to drive to Evanston to get the signal. I taped a show for them once and had to ride around in my car to get the friggin' signal.

Thanks for the list. First place I've seen it.

Duh! Most American prizes are "crap". Too market oriented. Sorry, congrats to the Monk family.

Up.................just because.

It was many years ago but I remember liking Memento Mori. I'm feeling guilty right now. Thanks for tweaking my conscience.

He could have done something else.

Thanks Mr Kramden.

NOT Bill Coleman.

The sax player looks a bit like Chris Woods.

All the best.

Just in time for the new cd reissue.

Bailey was a very interesting singer (of her time) with intelligent backgrounds. I think the old Columbia 3 lp set was about ideal for most folks. I'd buy that Legacy reissue in a minute. But I found the Mosaic set too big and too expensive for the music. I'm happy they issued the complete set and happy to not buy it. Berkshire has offered the Andoran reissue of 4 discs at "cut-out" prices and I've resisted that. Sorry Mildred.

CM was a "decent" player at one point, then he took another path to money. That is fine for him. He had a choice of "art/music" or "music/income". He chose one. It worked out for him (for a while) and it might have worked for you. It didn't work for me. DSFDF.

Very superficially.

I've been exploring the Clarence Williams stuff and Cyrus cut thru a lot of "crap". He was really swinging (before most soloists in the '20s) and playing his ass off. He helped create some interesting textures. Got to go to bed now but (if I remember) tomorrow I'll make a couple of listening recommendations.

This guy is amazing. If it hadn't been for Charlie Johnson and (especially) Clarence Williams, we wouldn't know about him. Please check him out and discuss.

I hate it when they remove punctuation marks.

Sonny Rollins in Japan, 9/30/73. The "newest" Rollins I own.

18. Just got it yesterday. Joke.

IIRC, this is the same as the Americans Swinging In Paris disc.