Chuck Nessa

Hey Chuck. I'm sorry to have caused so much fuss with my post on another board. I didn't know people from here would ever find it I seem to regularly post apologies on this board and others. One of our list members started a thread (on another board) called "Why Is Chuck Nessa such a Jerk". Go for it, and face the consequences.

Hey Geoff, nice post. A belated welcome. Have a great time here.

To answer the original question - no. Not a value judgment, just a life reality. I stopped spending energy on pop musics in the '60s. Because of my job running record stores from the late '60s to the mid '70s, a bunch of info was gained by osmosis, but otherwise I am blissfully free of the "popular world". I am not bright enough to absorb all I would need from tv series, movies, pop music, world music, literature, art, dance, etc. to sound smart. I also needed a huge chunk of time/energy to try earning a living, raise my kids and still need more time for my "long-suffering" wife. In my early twenties I thought I was "hot shit" in many of these fields, but as I entered my late twenties I consciously cut back. I post this to give hope to list members feeling "out of place" in some of the discussions on the board. Just "dabble a bit" to make sure you are not "short changing" yourself. There's a bunch of info available on this board.

In the late '60s and '70s I paid $100+ for a few lps. I still have some, sold some (for up to $1000). This was before the cd era (where anything might be reissued next month). Things be different now.

Go wash your mouth out, you dirty boy!

Are you deserving of the 2nd Orgy? Naw, I cheated. B) Yeah, I just caught that! Like George Washington, I cannot tell a lie and I have wooden teeth. : Who's your dentist? Dr. Seuss I thought maybe Norm Abrams.

Chris, just in case you don't know, the '94 edition omits one track from the "New Tristano" lp. In fact it is my favorite.

I think they were talking about the "contemporary" blues series - many said to be recorded from a table in the club.

It one time or another I've held all the "good sex" records.

I have not heard the RCA set but, IIRC, they accidently used a bunch of alternates instead of the master takes. The RCA material is fantastic, however you get it - alternates and all. BUT you need the master takes. I decided to take the Classics/Neatwork avenue.

They sound like lp dubs to me.

No, but the last cd incarnation omitted some tunes to fit it on one disc.

In some (more than necessary) instances I find this to be Dizzy's "pay back" book. I think he (sometimes) comes across as a bitter guy. I had some business dealings with him at the time and he was a pain in the ass (nomatter the amount of money he was paid). Something was gnawing at him (much of it Bird's reputation). In spite of his public personna, he was not a happy camper.

STILL, no one deals with Sam Levinson or Myron Cohen, for that matter. For a farm kid in Iowa in the '50s, this and Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Fred Allen and Bob & Ray were the humor of america. The current crop of "comedy central" guys don't cut it!

At least you don't have to have yourself "fixed". When I was running a record store in Madison, WI, one of my employees was riding to work and someone who'd just parked, opened their door. Her hand was severely damaged - big surgery. Her bike was fine. I hope you don't have a problem getting the bike fixed.

Hey, it's on the Big Eye Music label and only costs $10.98. Anything good enough for Louis Nelson is good enough for me.

Correct on both counts, Mike. Om, Kulu Se Mama and Selflessness were Trane productions delivered to Impulse before his death.

It is available.

If you are talking about "music publishing rights" this does not hold water. By US law, once a tune has been recorded, any version is possible if statutory rates are paid. The publisher can only control the right to first recording. If your friend meant "artist rights", I do not believe Ellis had enough clout to get a special deal from Columbia at that time.

Impulse would properly view any recordings made during their contract to be theirs for commercial exploitation. Any deal with Alice would have been for expedience.

I too believe a can can be made and already has. B)

Where's my man Sam Levinson (I threw his name into another thread to no reaction)? I grew up listening to him and still chuckle thinking of the guy. The majority of the list don't belong there. This is a cable tv list, not "history".

They would have sold one more (to me) if the Gilmore stuff was restored.

I actually like the "Pan-African" stuff. If you are going to listen to AS ramble on, it might as well be this stuff. I wish the people putting these reissues together had a clue about the task at hand.

My first thought was:"Is this guy asking about a gallon or a box?".