Chuck Nessa

Now we have come full circle - Charlie Johnson led a big band in Harlem.

I thought this was reissued on CD on Black Lion many years ago. Might you be thinking of Coon Bid'ness?

FYI, it seems mr Moments has shaved and has dark hair.

Geez! Mr Moments has two pics and they look like different people. Which one is really Bright?

I understood that.

No time to write the details but y'all need to understand the economics of this music. Someone should prompt me in the future. I can only say in one example, I paid the artist $3500, spent another $4000 to issue the recording, sold 900 at $3.50 (lps) for a return of $3150 - with no consideration for promos (300), the mailing costs or my time. Then I spent another $4000 to get a cd out there in the "new marketplace", sold another few hundred and I'm the bad guy. Not attempting a defense of ESP but, in some instances, no good deed goes unpunished.

Clem is correct.

Where's LAL? Can we expect our friends from across the Pacific soon?

Have not listened in a while but probably my favorite Byrd BN. Good rhythm section, Jackie Mac near the top of his game and top of game for Rudy too.

Why do all of you refuse to discuss Joe Saye? He seemed to wear very nice jackets in spite of the way he looked.

I bet most picking maple are using pancake.

I think the "imaginary" Hendrix date and the "vaporous" Prez dates would have been disasters. He should have done a Ray Crawford date. If I was a millionaire, I'd have paid for that one.

REAL artists live without restraints.

Most "really strung out junkies" I've met are looking for money. This certainly does not preclude building the customer base. Time for everybody to take heads out of the sand concerning artists admired for their work.

Don't matter to them but it do to their estates.

That's what I was thinking but was too lame to post.

You might try The Bear Comes Home by my old friend Rafi Zabor.

If you do track them down, please post them here.

Eugene McCarthy.

Thanks for the clarification. I was worried for a minute.

Really, really, really hard for me to answer that one. Did Tab listen? How 'bout Rock and Troy and....

Before I get too excited, which one is Ferranti? What happened to the piano? Is it ok? Anyone remember the outcome of the tiger story? You must know that one about the 2 krauts. Las Vegas is a very important community. How many dead tonight, how many just "mauled"

I read on AAJ some months ago that Valerie is the widow of Walter Bishop, Jr. it's not true that i'm walter's widow although i was married to him in the '60s and '70s. he does, however, have a lovely widow who lives in ny. I don't think you are Mr B's widow either.