Chuck Nessa

Clem, as they used to say, "relax and enjoy it".

Why not post the guitarist's name? Kiyoshi Sugimoto I believe. He plays on a bunch of Japanese dates including at least one by Sonny Stitt.

Johnny made a huge substitute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bad boy.

Claude has entered the "game". Way to go. I'm in love already.

Frog milker!!!! Q is a toad. And I thought Aric was the only one to get species wrong.

Actually, the best way to translate all this stuff is to go from one format to analogue and into the other. It works for me.

Anybody ever tell you you're ass backwards?

Ever the Hermanite!

You don't wanna know the pic I was about to go searchin' for. Lovely is not necessarily a word with "nice" implications for me.

2 shay!

So "Diversion One" does more for you than "Redman 1".

Last ordered from them on Friday. Expected the package today and when I ran a track on the package I discovered UPS had misdirected the package to the other side of the state. Damn! Braxton, Lacy, Alan Shorter and Clifford Thornton don't belong in Livonia!

Wonder why they sent the message today.

FWIW I just received an e-mail from Amazon France giving a Dec 5 release date and offering it for EUR 62.19.

Larry Novak is indeed a "local" unless he moved away in the last few years. Very fine player and nice guy. I did a couple of events with him in the late '70s - early '80s. Glad to hear he's still playing.

I have a lovely Japanese lp version of this.

Or it could be from Milan on November 11th.

That sounds kind of condescending to improvisation. Would the music have greater value if Dewey transcribed it and deposited in the LOC?

Allen, please slow down a bit - damn near every one of you posts is edited within minutes, if not seconds.

Now you are being obtuse. You know how to pm and email others.

Wrong.

If your musical tastes go in this direction and you don't have it - Buy it. It is wonderful.

He's Clyde Hart.

Don't know the details but Miles left Columbia for Warners for the advance money. Miles had a habit of calling Columbia and asking for a $###,### advance on royalties and they sent bunches. At the end of the last contract Miles was into Columbia for something over 2 million. Warner's offered $XXXXXXX to sign. It was a "no brainer" for Miles and also a "no brainer" for Columbia to let him go. Most deals for issuing new material involves the artist or estate. For example my Art Ensemble box entailed a payment to them of $xx,xxx for the unissued material. On the other hand, with an artist like Miles and the bucks they were constantly throwing his way, the company probably has the upper hand but is reluctant to use it.