Chuck Nessa

Low expectations are delivered.

Nuff said.

Give that man a cigar!

I had heard that. B-)

Yeah, but his goal was to stop it.

Dexter Gordon on Something Different.

Boy, I can't wait for those succas! B-)

Tip for Jazz Kat: Do not ask a question, then insult the results. This is early teen stuff.

Not me!

I think he was a reasonable musician in the right place at the right time (for BN). That's all.

This is one of the recordings giving me "the willies". I'm fine with the arrangements but have an allergy for Cannon.

You won't see anything different 'til he dies and they can go against his wishes.

She seemed to be a very nice, warm person the few times I was around. Fred seemed devoted to her.

You might be thinking of Hugh Schick.

Fred wrote GvE for her.

The two Cecma discs are terrific.

You talkin' 'bout tightly rolled singles?

I've met women like that. B-)

So I have a 38 year head start on Braxton. Get the fuck going.

Wayne was working with a road band. When did he have time to listen to all of Miles' stuff?

Unless the weather goes republican , Ann and I (and daughter Carla) will be there.

Why don't you guys start a Glenn Ferris thread?

Broom soloist Barbutti, in an earlier life, was a record salesman in Chicago. Always admired the doo.

Looks fake but is from the NYT. Makes me feel really smart for not buying that house on the MA coast back in the '70s. On the other hand, I could have sold it for a huge gain in the summer.

I don't have any of those 7" 33s, but I do still have a stack of 45s by Jimmy Smith, Thad Jones, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Clark, Bennie Green, Fred Jackson, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Parlan, Donald Byrd, Horace Silver, Three Sounds, Joe Henderson, Freddie Roach, Eddie Gale (!) and the notorious Lee Morgan Midnight Cowboy/Popi.