Chuck Nessa

40:46 including introductions.

Let's hear it for the man from Baton Rouge! B-)

Eric, I had an original blue label Prestige of the Taylor 2fer and it somehow got trashed. I bought a Fantasy repressing and had the same problem you mentioned. Get the 2 Taylors. I do not have a good recollection of the Rouse. I just listened to the K2 Dolphy at the Five Spot vol 1. It sounds fine but I'm really bummed by the cover repro. Why don't they get these things right? The colors are wrong and the photo repro sucks. Maybe we should have a thread about bad covers.

This was issued in Japan about 2 years before Gus issued it here and I have a beautiful Japanese pressing. A very nice date.

My Sun Ra recordings keep Paul Quinichette from touching Boyd Raeburn.

All the best Phil.

And a toast for the morning!

Haven't played it in years. Didn't leave much of an impression then but I'll give it another go.

Sorry, "my version" of this reality reflects poorly on a couple of living folks and I don't want to stir that nest.

Nothing as bad as Val's story but I did have an experience with Diz (over two days) that made listening to his music impossible for a couple of years. Also, one time in the lobby of the Blackstone Hotel (in Chicago) Cab Calloway dropped trow to show a few of us the scar in his butt from a Dizzy knife attack.

The cd version of Ralph Moore's Round Trip contains a version of Sleigh Ride.

I don't think Mike knew much beyond what he absorbed from the typical (for the time) college/Chicago scene. By this I mean he knew the names and basic styles but was not deeply into any of it. An interesting bit of the flavor of mid '60s musical Chicago (from a white kid perspective) can be gleaned from a series of pieces by Nick Gravenites (Nick the Greek) available HERE. Nick is a bit over the top but you get the idea. Also note, Lester Bowie is not on the recording of "Whole Lotta Soul" mentioned, but Roscoe, Julian Priester and Steve McCall are. I do have one of the surviving pressings. This was recorded before Lester moved to Chicago. I think Nick remembers Lester from the Summer '68 trip by the Art Ensemble when they crashed at his place outside San Francisco. BTW, Baby Face Willette is mentioned briefly in Nick's "journal".

Up for the final day. Thanks to all participants.

GREAT! Now I'll understand them.

Damn, I knew I should have ordered 12. I sat down with a long list and ordered "in stock" items 'til I hit the $100 limit for free shipping. Turned out to be 5 regular OJCs and 6 Limited Editions.

Don produced the Gibbs for Muse but it was not issued by them. Don got the tapes as part of the split.

Unfortunately (right B-) ) I ordered 11 OJCs from AllDirect last night. Talk about buyer remorse!

Not from the same sessions. Atlas was recorded feb 2001 and Map Theory is from Sept 2002.

The strong Hines influence is correct. As I said, he joined Andy Kirk's band in '43, so that makes him old enough.

All thoughts of presents for self died today with our refrigerator.

Onyx was a "murky" partnership between Schlitten and Joe Fields. Don also produced new sessions for Muse and the labels were marketed in tandem. After Joe and Don "divorced" the Onyx tapes and some unissued Muse sessions were tied up in a prolonged legal squabble. This was sorted out a few years back and Don put out an unissued Terry Gibbs lp before he stopped operations. Joe has issued some on the Onyx material on High Note. My favorite sessions on Xanadu are the Al Cohn, Jimmy Raney and Sonny Criss dates.

Mike Bloomfield? My old screaming match partner? In '66/67 when I worked at the Jazz Record Mart, Mike occasionally hung out late at night. He never spoke quietly or held back his opinions. He loved to argue and kept saying he couldn't believe I'd fallen for the "AACM bullshit" and was actually recording it. He kept screaming it was "formless garbage only a stupid white man would buy". He said Ascension was more "formless bullshit" until one night I pushed him to a chair and made him LISTEN. I miss the guy. He was fun.

Yes, John is on both of my Freeman cds. I also used him on my Eddie Johnson record - not on cd yet, but still available on vinyl.

Notice I said CBBB - I was not commenting on your list.

It was Sid Frey. Elmo sold the same tunes over and over to different companies- sometimes with new titles and sometimes not. Considering that I find it hard to see Frey as the bad guy.