Chuck Nessa

I disagree-- unless you make large BMG orders, yourmusic is generaly cheaper. Guy ← Me too. I had been a BMG customer for about 10 years and dumped them.

The "Smith/Kowald/Sommer" group made 2 lps for FMP - Touch the Earth (1979) and Break the Shells (1981). IIRC, FMP has issued a cd called Break the Shells combining the 2 lps BUT omitting the "title tune" (Break the Shells) of about 18 minutes. Whatever, this is great stuff and I recommend getting the available material.

Geez, I remember the days when the answer would have been a song title. Later it became an lp side, then a cd. Now it's a friggin' box set. Does anyone listen to single cuts anymore?

Yeah--only Nessa Records promos allowed. ← Hey look, this topic has been up for 8+ hours and no one payed attention. I brought it back up. I'm an "old time merchandiser". Where's the finger symbol?

What a wonderful (Freudian) typo.

Spam.

The original:

Is this some dutch female I don't know?

Don't know what the hell happened but I spent a great deal of time researching my correction to this post and now it is gone. Here is a short summation. In the '70s BN issued a 2 lp set called Back From The Gig under Ervin's name. It included the "soon to be released" material (Ervin, Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Jan Arnett and Billy Higgins) AND a Horace Parlan date reissued on cd as Happy Frame of Mind with Ervin, Johnny Coles, Grant Green, Butch Warren and Higgins.

Left out of the first session listed disco is Zonky. IIRC, From Hackensack to Englewood Cliffs included the first session plus 2 previously unissued tracks from a couple of weeks later.

I heard they are all mastered from cassettes in Cuscuna's private collection.

Infriggin'deed.

That was reissued on Black Lion - much later stuff. I think Chris Albertson produced it.

Never warmed to the Savoy stuff and Trumpet At Tempo (Dials +) is a fine disc that benefits Tony Williams, a true jazz benefactor. All the others were probably dubbed from this cd.

He sold the same transfers over and over.

Nobody talking 'bout the Albert system anymore?

Musta been the bad eye.

We talking about record company execs and many customers here. Makes sense to me. There are more than a couple of universes out there.

See my edit.

The Ammons in question was issued as an lp in 1967 but is a reissue of 78S. You will kick yourself and curse Verve when you go to their site and examine the contents of an Ammons disc called Young Jug. It contains 8 of the 10 tunes you downloaded plus 12 more. I can't believe they did this.

No.

No bone problem there.

All the best.

Have not seen Vail's book but another shot from this date was on the liner of the Jazzland record.