Chuck Nessa

And your choice of weapons?

Where's the beer opener. Guess I will opt for the the Exabyte transfer since I can't locate the RVG master right now.

I suggest starting with "Kenton Showcase". It is from the '53/54 era and has arrangements by Russo and Holman. This is a good example with some fine soloists. Then, if interested, move forwards and backwards - one step at a time.

Please don't tell me you are still stuck with Detroit iron?

Stick it in your ear.

WHATEVER! This is a fine disc.

So now we have a silly girl.

Wow, that's not nearly as bad as I thought... And all the time I thought it was a typo of "puller" as in "pud puller".

What a bunch of silly boys. The real cookie is the trefoil (aka shortbread). They melt in the mouth with a nice butter/sugar flavor. At Thanksgiving we bought 6 boxes from our step-grand-daughter (is that a word?) and left them in Buffalo. Damn!

Alvin Fielder is a great guy, musician and pharmacist. What more could you want?

I didn't get around to emailing Ira until about an hour ago. When I hear back I'll post the results.

This stuff was originally on Pacific Jazz.

My apology to Mike Weil - my first edition of the book reads as Mike says. In my haste I was befuddled by a page turn. I think John L's "on the other hand" interpretation is the most likely.

Geez!! This is all news to me. Please post a review after playing it.

Bill, thanks for the mini report. More in the morning? Joe, don't get me started.

I don't get it. Someone pisses on your leg and then says "I will do something else next time" and we say "good going"! What am I missing?

I am "a plain-jane snivelling LURKER".

I think you know "where the sun don't shine". Take your head out, and put this post there. Let Deep defend himself and start a new thread.

I used to have the original lp, but sent it to Japan for "big bucks" about 10 years ago. It is fine, but unless you have 5000 jazz cds, you don't "need" it.

I will copy and paste this to Ira.

How many jazz bbs give you this kind of service?

This was posted on Jazz Corner. I received this second hand earlier today. I do not know it's source but I do trust who sent it to me: I'm sad to report that pianist Gil Coggins passed at noon today in New York. Gil had been in the hospital with complications from an automobile accident earlier this year. Many of your know Gilly as pianist with Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Jackie McClean. He had an uncanny sense of the beautiful in his playing, and his trademark behind-the-beat phrasing was the perfect ballad complement. We heard too little of him. Always Know, Steve Schwartz Jazz From Studio 4 Friday, 7p-12a WGBH, 89.7FM, Boston www.wgbh.org

From what I've heard, I will take Sangrey and Chuck Burdelik over all named so far.

Not sure how much better the Monk can sound since the original masters and the subsequent lp masters are long gone.

I just spoke to Ira Gitler on the phone and asked him about the "missing instrument". He denied saying this and asked me to tell him where he said it and I got the book out. Best I can find is "..., but with one horn there is no chance for the texture of the usual Dameron ensemble to come through........" Did I miss a page, or do you have another edition of the book?