Chuck Nessa

Yeah, tripe, that's the ticket!

As an answer to the topical title: The dead guy to your left.

And Zip said to Zed? B-)

Get the butterfly nets for Harold Z too. Am I alone out here you radio rangers? Help!

Where the hell is Jack Washington? Duh!

I would have chosen from one of the following unmentioned: Dickie Wells JC Higginbotham Jimmy Harrison These polls are crap. Maybe you should show ID before starting a poll.

Storyville did 2 great trio sessions with Teddy in 1968 and 1980. Find 'em and love 'em. For me, these are the best "late" TW recordings.

I bought that one around 1962.

We gotta get Jim some WORK! Geez! Friggin' Lou Christie.

Larry, after you emailed me about this I looked up the address and ran a map program on the computer. They seem to live 448 yards from our house.

This is an inventory reduction sale, so no backorders. I have from 1 to 10 copies of everything in the following list and will try to update the list as things go away. Single discs are $11 and doubles are $14. These prices include postage in the US. Exports will be charged real postal costs, less the US equivalent. Sorry, still no Paypal but I do take MC/Visa, checks and real money. 12006 Mats Gustafsson “Parrot Fish Eye” w/Jim O’Rourke, Gene Coleman & Michael Zerang 12008 Hamid Drake / Michael Zerang “Ask the Sun” 12010 Mats Gustafsson, Barry Guy & Paul Lovens “Mouth Eating Trees” 12012 Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler & Ken Vandermark “DKV Trio” 12014 Fred Anderson / DKV Trio 12016 Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler “A Meeting in Chicago” 12017 Evan Parker “Chicago Solo” tenor saxophone 12019 Vandermark, Gustafsson, Kessler, Hunt “Blow Horn” 12025 Joe McPhee / Jeb Bishop “The Brass City” 12027 Joe Morris w/ DKV Trio 12028 Evan Parker / Georg Grawe “Unity Variations” 12029 Jeb Bishop Trio w/Kent Kessler & Tim Mulvenna 12033 Evan Parker / Joe McPhee “Chicago Tenor Duets” 12034 LOOS/Armstrong - Sax player Peter van Bergen’s quintet, Loos 12035 AALY Trio/DKV Trio “Double or Nothing” w/Gustafsson, Vandermark, Drake, etc. 12036 Joe McPhee / Hamid Drake “Emancipation Proclamation” 12037 School Days – Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love “Crossing Division” 12038 Kent Kessler “Bull Fiddle” 12039 Jeb Bishop “Afternoons” w/Kent Kessler, Tim Mulveena and Jeff Parker 12040 Ken Vandermark Territory Band-1 “Transatlantic Bridge” 12042 DKV Trio “Trigonometry” recorded “live” in Rochester, NY and Kalamazoo, MI (2 discs) 12043 Brotzmann Chicago Tentet plus Two “Broken English” 12045 Triage “Twenty Minute Cliff” Dave Rempis – alto & tenor, Jason Ajemian – bass, Tim Daisy – drums 12046 Ken Vandermark “Furniture Music” Ken’s new solo recording. 12047 Brotzmann Chicago Tentet “Images” 12048 Brotzmann Chicago Tenter “ Signs” 12049 Atomic/School Days “Nuclear Assembly Hall” (2 discs) 12050 Ken Vandermark Territory Band-2 “Atlas” 12051 FME “Underground” w/ Vandermark, Nate McBride and Paal Nilssen-Love 12052 Triage “American Mythology” Dave Rempis – alto & tenor, Jason Ajemian – bass, Tim Daisy – drums 12053 SONORE “No One Ever Works Alone” w/Gustafsson, Vandermark & Brotzmann 12060 Territory Band – 3 “Map Theory” (2 discs) Your can contact me directly at cnessa@earthlink.net .

gym-e

He also played tenor, soprano and clarinet. I first became aware of him from his charts for the Charlie Johnson band. I remember Roscoe Mitchell speaking fondly of him after meeting him iin Paris.

GRAY-SHUN MON-COOR THE THIRD I always said "Eye-Eye-Eye".

Lon, I'm curious about the titles on the Epic, not on Mosaic, you would not want to be without.

Welcome Michael. Glad you found your way here.

I saw Trane at the Plugged Nickel with the original quartet and with the band with Pharoah, Alice, Jimmy and Ali. I also saw the "quartet" + Archie Shepp at the DownBeat festival. I spoke to him at the Nickel for a whille and on the phone (from the DB office) when I discovered the 2nd version of Ascension. He was in the hospital at the time.

Garth's story reminds me of a collector (ans subsequent label owner) in Chicago named Jim Neumann. Jim owns and operated the BeeHive label with his lovely wife Susan. First Jim was a collector (I met him in 1966) and around 1977 he decided to start a label. He called me for info and when he had his first tapes, invited us to their home for a party to listen to the session tapes. At the time I had around 10,000 jazz lps and another 5000 classical. At Jim's house, during the party I took stock of the huge wall of lps in the living room. Later in the night I discovered the alphabet ended in the middle of the letter E. I asked about the rest and was led to the basement and rows of lps on shelves. He also said the duplicate copies were in storage above the garage AND at his mother's house. I'm sure SheldonM can confirm.

Thanks for the really fine "portrait of the time". It was wonderful. I hope you are really working on a book (or 2). I have one minor quibble. Coltrane WAS a big thing in 1965 - lines down the street at the Plugged Nickel in Chicago, etc. He was at the Nickel 'cause he'd outgrown the South Side clubs.

"We always pronounced it 'Abernathy'". - Ray Goulding to Bob Elliot circa 1970.

Muddying the waters with no real information and a faulty memory, I think the Epic set has a number of T's sideman sides not included in Mosaic. As I recall, the Epic box does not usually have "complete dates" and jumps around a bunch. Though it seemed "comprehensive" in the '60s, now it seems a 3 lp sampler.

The problem resulted when the pressing plants in question used the LaserDisc lacquer compound on cds instead ot the specified sealant. The compound in question slowly reacted to the acid from the paper used in booklets and traycards. This reaction allowed air to leak into the metal layer of the disc and corrode.

Geez, without knowing it my life has been guided by the upchuck principle.

Wasn't it "Engaland" (3 syllables)?

I don't think so. A couple of years back Harvey Pekar called to ask if it was ok to pass my number on to Leon. He was in the process of replacing his lps with cds and wanted to buy direct from me. IIRC, Harvey told me to make sure I got "full price" since Leavitt could afford it. He bought one of each title.