Chuck Nessa

Steve's original question seems to have been lost in the flurry of posts. This was not meant as a "time machine" question. Steve seems to have ignored the results as well. I hope he returns.

Granz didn't stop recording jam sessions for Verve, he just started giving the sessions names like Sittin' In, Jazz Giants of '58, Tour de Force, etc.

Get the Bobo Stensen box.

hey, Meester Mooster, if you need any Okka Disks I'm your big supplier daddy.

Don't think anyone has mentioned the 2 (Japanese) Why Not dates, Air Song and Air Raid. These are well recorded, beautifully played dates. India Navigation reissued them in the US. I'm more than "happy" Threadgill renamed the band after Steve McCall was ousted. It was a different band. BTW, I'm with Sangrey about all of Threadgill's music. For me he's one of a number of guys (in Chicago) in the '60s & '70s creating their own "musical world". Roscoe, Braxton, Henry and Leo Smith all created something really personal and they all continue. We have Muhal to thank for the "atmosphere" and more for these creations.

Is is getting hot in here?

FWIW the former GM of Charly, Joop Visser, now runs the Proper operation.

We had Globe Unity at the Chicago Jazz Festival in the early '80s. Bill Smith said the audience reaction was "just like Berlin"!

That's good news! Maybe he'll be impressed enough to reissue Nonaah for me! Put me on that list also Chuck! Yeah, that's next. Then maybe Saga of the Outlaws.

Happy, happy.

How many of you Classics collectors are buying the Neatwork companion cds? I have about a dozen of them so far.

Do not overlook the Billy Banks/Jack Bland Rhythmakers sessions. Wonderful Red and Pee Wee too.

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What a bunch of crap. Smiley is nice, Wild Honey was nice, etc. Time to grow beyond this stuff. I hope Brian finds peace. Albert is dead.

Some how, I knew that would interest you.

Creative Improvisers Orchestra "The Sky Cries the Blues" with Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Bobby Naughton, Marty Erlich, Joe Fonda, Gerry Hemingway, etc. This is a 16 piece orchestra playing 2 pieces by Smith and one each by Naughton and Hemingway.

Estates and claims on them can be a mess. Sometimes you just need to move ahead if something is to happen. After negotiations with the estates of Bird, Chet, Mingus, etc I'm a bit "dazed" by the idea of "the right thing". At one point, while trying to pay "somebody", I ran into a situation where the family lawyer said "The estate is closed and distributed - new activity presents problems for all of us." This was resolved by a check for $1000 to the family - don't know the lawyer's cut. Under circumstances like this, labels have some latitude. Dean Blackwood seems to be an OK guy, enjoy the music.

"Their man" CN was sitting at the corner of the bar, 5 feet from the band and directly under the closest drain from the storm off the lake. Great (and memorable) night. Never been to the club before, but the folks were dandy and the band was a blast. Pleased to meet and talk to Arno after years of "knowing about him". A wonderful evening all 'round.

RCA began regularly recording their symphonic dates in stereo in the first quarter of 1954.

Let this thread die.

It may take a while for Jim to learn all the correct changes.

The Ayler was a reissue of "My Name Is Albert Ayler". The America Bley/Coleman was on a Musidisc cd - I have a copy. The record Ornette successfully stopped was the one Bley issued on IAI titled "Coleman Classics - volume 1". There are 2 Mal Waldron dates and I think at least the one with the Lacy band is a candidate. You can scratch the Corea record - it is just another incarnation of the Sonny Lester "out takes and alternates".

Tennis, anyone? I'm sitting here with my legs tightly crossed.

Back "in the day" before cassettes or even before home tape recorders were common, the "acetate" was the format for musicians to check what they had recorded. There were tons of them. Things had progressed by the mid 70s to the point I sent 7 1/2 IPS tapes to artists. I remember Warne Marsh telling me a story about the Becker/Fagen produced Apogee session. At the end of the date, cassettes were given to the artists and they looked at them and said something like "what do we do with these?". Becker and/or Fagen got on the phone and ordered Nakamichis for each band member. Of course this was added to the project budget by the record company.