Chuck Nessa

WTF!!!

Thanks, especially to Dan. We leave after work tomorrow and spend the night with our daughter Carla (my "art director") in the Detroit area. We will spend the next night in the Anapolis area then move on to Williamburg. I may post tomorrow, but "see ya soon".

Years ago I bought a "domestic" version of Lee Morgan vol 3. When I popped that sucker on I got a stupid "classical" disc of Frank Zappa, in spite of the BN label.

The big problem with these Burns projects is they get "taken as the truth" by millions of "ditto-heads". "Truth" soon become "facts".

It will be sold for the CCR recordings and the films (if included). Buy what you NEED soon.

The baseball series was ripped by all my sports friends.

Wonder if Saul would take my check and hold it for a while.

All the best Pops.

I had both of these on vinyl but my memory is faint. Dan, Strazzeri has had almost 20 lps/cds under his own name. Very interesting player.

Congrats, Dan. Welcome to the money pit. If you want hot water you will have to use the LEFT faucet.

Jack Goodwin, proprietor of http://www.warnemarsh.info/ , reminds me of another possible Marsh release: "Regarding the possible future issues by VSOP - they have a tape owned by Geraldyne Marsh of Warne with Joe Albany, Bob Whitlock and an unknown bassist recorded live at Dana Point, California in October 1957. So far no sign of a release date." Jack also kindly posted my release info in his "news" section.

Bauduc is the guy with his arms crossed, so.........

I thought it might have been personality conflicts. In 1982 I put together a band for the Chicago Jazz Festival that included Warne, Lou Levy and Jimmy Raney. You could feel the draft from Raney. I remember Lou asking Warne about it. They also played at the Jazz Showcase that week and Raney pretty much stayed by himself.

That's exactly what Gerry told me back in 1981. What was the problem?

More thorough info on the supposed Mode date. Ronnie Ball was the leader. Warne, Rolf, Don Overberg, Red Mitchell and Stan Levey complete the band. Late '57 recording date.

Long rumored unissued Mode session with Rolf Ericson.

Anyone have a clue as to why Smith would have made that request? I've pulled my lp of this title, will give it a listen and post my impression of the missing tracks. I have not listened to it in a while. Well I finally listened to the lp. The flute tracks have lots of notes and tons of rapid print-through. My guess is they dumped them because of the time it would take to edit the tapes. There are some "print" problems with the other pieces on the record, but not as complicated. Nothing wrong with the music omitted, but nothing essential either.

I think (hope) DrJ's post came across stronger than he meant. The Carmell box is worth the price for the first (quintet) disc alone and the final disc "seals the deal". You can consider the middle disc as a bonus.

Thanks for mentioning the site - I had not seen it. The updated discography is nice to see. I went to print it out and discovered it was 149 pages! They got my information "more right" than previous listings.

TedR, no offense taken. Thanks for the kind thoughts.

All companies follow the following procedure. They esitmate potential sales and print enough booklets,etc 'cause print discounts are bigger with quantity. So if the limit is 5000, Mosaic prints 5000 books. Then they press enough discs to fill orders and leave "some" on the shelf. They can re-order cds at quantities around 3-500 depending on the deal with the pressing plant. They do not press 5000 at once. This would be suicide.

Welcome to "jazz cd 101".

As an Ellington fan of 40+ years, I can't choose an era. If I had a bright "ignorant" fan in front of me I'd recommend the Decca box.

I guess my mind moves faster than my fingers - unlike some here. Money over music is the way. Savvy collectors make more money than Hank did. Go for it and be happy. Back to the topic at hand - If you want all this music NOW, buy it now. If you can wait, wait. I have had most of this music for close to 40 years and love it, but I do not have the Mosaic box. I forgot to add: I hate lp/cd undertakers. Bunch of creeps living off of others love of music.

Dennis sent me a cdr of this a while back. It has now been released as a "regular" cd by Entropy. I suggest all investigate the Entropy catalog at their site for a bunch of interesting stuff. Support the indies!