Chuck Nessa

Kelly's predated my arrival in Chicago. The London House was at Michigan and Wacker - last I knew it was a Burger King but that may have changed. Last act I saw there was Getz. The Nickel was on Wells St, across from the Dr Scholl's factory. IIRC it became a dog grooming place. Last music I heard there (fall of '68) was Miles with Wayne, Chick, Holland and Tony. Other folks I heard there included Coltrane (3? times), Wes, Jimmy Smith, Horace and Monk. Maybe more will come to me later. I'm sure Larry Kart can correct some of my info and give the word on Kelly's.

Geez, the last time I was at "the Gate" was in the early '80s to hear Alan Toussaint with guests Dr John and Fathead.

Nice haul!

Frances Faye's brother Marty Faye was a popular disc jockey and television host in Chicago. I met him a few times and knew his daughter much better - wish I could remember her name.

I still like your fries.

I don't have the new reissue but do have an earlier incarnation coupled with the Poulanc Concerto for Organ, Strings and Tympani with the same forces. In fact, I have a duplicate I'll bring to Billy's on Thursday if I can remember it.

For some silly reason I've always referred to this record as "In Tents With Porpoises". This thread inspired me to play said Dixon date.

You mean nobody will see my posts?

Sorry to get "serious" but I think Roscoe Mitchell's "Sound" kills the funny stuff.

Sadly most of the Kocsis Philips discs are gone or I would have leaned heavily on them for recommendations. I missed vol 6 and recently ordered vol 7 from Berkshire. I have an allergy to Kremer's tone - I want to "love" him but find it difficult to "like" him. Beyond the "historical" recommendations the Pauk discs suffice for me. Your earlier touting of the Vegh quartets is right on but hard to find and relatively expensive. Both Takacs and Keller are in the "Vegh mode" - not the "streamlined 20th century" style created by Julliard and finished by Emerson. In fact Sandor Vegh wrote the first page in the Keller notes. Since we are speaking of Sandor(s) and hinting at "great performances", no Bartok fan should ignore the inexpensive VoxBox by Gyorgy Sandor of the 3 piano concertos, Rhapsody for Piano and Orch, Scherzo for Piano and Orch and Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion. AND for my alltime favorite violin concerto another VoxBox of concerto performance by Ivry Gitlis. This early '50s recording of the Bartok is a desert island performance for me.

From Bruyninckx: Lew McCreary (tb) Dave Dyson (b) replace Robinson, Vinnegar, Bud Shank (fl-1) added and Modesto Duran out Los Angeles, January 8, 1964 Aram Pacific Jazz PJ80, CDP7.93414-2 Caprichos (1) - , - , A-100 Eric - , - , B-100 Note : Entire session on Mosaic MD5-198 (CD). Pacific Jazz PJ80 = ST80. Pacific Jazz A-100/B-100 is a 45 -33 RPM edited single with studio chatter and section rehearsals. The master tape of these rehearsal sequences are lost.

If you go to the first post in this thread you will get a bunch of information.

I might take delivery tomorrow, certainly early next week. Then I need to pack/ship orders to the distributors and they need to do the same to stores/web vendors. That's what I know.

They issued a couple of single lps in the early days but think it is highly unlikely now.

1. Introductions 1:43 2. BeBop 6:53 3. A Night In Tunisia 7:30 4. Groovin' High 6:59 5. Salt Peanuts 7:14 6. Hot House 8:05 7. 52nd St. Theme 1:56 The timings are a bit deceptive cause of tune introductions.

Looks great Jim. For some reason I keep clicking on "My Assistant" by mistake.

So you wanna decorate your "burn"? Got the original vinyl spinning at 33 1/2 at the moment, old buddy. I have zero burns, other than copies from my collection that I make for the car. Just curious how Water's quality translates to CD. I guess THAT answered my question.

I think this is a VERY unfortunate response.

So you wanna decorate your "burn"?

What Maren said - as usual.

You are your own worst enema! B-)

Chuck, I read a rumor that this set was remastered from LPs rather than the tapes. (Of course I believe everything I read on the Internet.) Do the CDs sound OK to you? The last half of disc 4 and all of disc 5 are dubbed from lps. I think they sound fine. I had this material since the late '60s and was happy to have the material on cd at last.

You have received some great recommendations. I want to suggest a couple possible substitutions. If you can't locate the Keller Quartets, the Takacs Quartet is dandy. The Anda/Fricsay piano concertos are very fine (I've had them since the early '70s) but I think the first concerto is taken too slowly (for my taste). I suggest the Kocsis/Fischer disc on Philips. The Naxos violin concerto disc is 8.554321. The violin sonata disc mentioned has a "companion disc" of the 2 Rhapsodies for Violin and Piano along with the Piano Quintet - Naxos 8.550886. A fine budget set of the solo piano music by Gyory Sandor is available on Vox. You should be able to find this 5 disc set for less than $20. Exploring the rest of the orchestral music, you will need The Miraculous Mandarin, The Wooden Prince and Dance Suite. All of these are available in a wonderful series conducted by Ivan Fischer on Philips. If you can find it, in 1991 Columbia/Sony issued a disc of Bartok playing selections from Mikrokosmos and the premier of Contrasts with Benny Goodman and Joseph Szigeti.

'Twas the beginning of the end for Dextah in my book. In retrospect, yeah, that's indeed what it was. But who knew that at the time? Then, it seemed like a helluva good album from a giant who was finally getting the "royal treatment" from both his label and his country. Marketing, yes, but there was definitely a sense of justice about the whole thing, or so it seemed to me then. Of course, now, it might be easier for me to say that Dexter might have been better served in the long run by staying in Europe and not becoming a "star". But that's the 20/20-ness of hindsight, as well as a little better appreciation of the axiom that whom the gods would destroy, they would first make famous. Well, I was "bummed" at the time - no hindsight involved. Just some experience watching these things. Way too much "blow" in the biz at the time and too many "execs" looking the other way.

Which Columbia Armstrong transfers are you talking about. I dumped the JSP box for sound reasons. There are other transfers "out there" that beat the JSPs as well. The early Columbias sucked.