Chuck Nessa

As an old fart, I'm with David on this one. 'cept I never saw "Pops" live. I did see him on TV tons of times, but never in the same room. I also missed Ayler. I be one lucky MF!

If you can use 'em, don't dis em.

You can't expect "major labels" to make new music you care for. The best you can hope is they make enough money to "justify" reissues of older recordings you want. I think this is a good move for us.

All are.

If you like this, Storyville did 2 trio dates with TW, which they turned into 3 lps/cds. Great late TW. I wish they would recombine the material into 2 discs, but this is great jazz piano.

Randy Weston Mosaic Select - see other thread for my comments. After this all I could think of was Duke's Far East Suite. Bluebird of Delhi is playing now.

John Anderson recorded with Mingus in 1946. The results are in the Uptown Mingus project. I remember playing the sides for Buddy Collette (over the phone) to identify the players, and he said Anderson was the soloist on Make Believe

Just started playing this set yesterday - lets you know how far I am behind in my listening - and am very pleased with the transfers. Little Niles sounds much better than my old mono original and no Jubilee lp ever sounded as good as the transfer for Piano-A-La-Mode. The unissued session is a worthy addition, indeed! I have not done an a/b comparo on the third disc but it sounds fine. Highlife has always been my favorite large ensemble Weston. Something about Budd's soprano in this context is very appealing. This lp inspired me to put together a Weston/Griffin/Blakey/Gillespie night at the Chicago Jazz Fest. Naturally I hired Melba as arranger and made sure Budd Johnson was there. One small niggle - in the photos from the Highlife session Budd Johnson is correctly identified on page 13, but the guy identified as Budd on page is someone else. I am 99% sure that's Butter Jackson.

I don't know of a cd version of Coleman Classics (I kept my lp), but the America lp was reissued as Musidisc 500542.

Not currently available. The America disc was reissued on cd, the IAI lp was withdrawn after legal stuff by Ornette. The America catalog (part of the French Musidisc operation) is now owned by Universal, and I don't think they will be interested in issueing a number of titles with "questionable" pedigrees.

I think Yanow/AMG, etc take an unfair hit from fans. The site is usually reliable and Yanow is a very good "generalist". This is not a "fan site", but an attempt at a critical evaluation of works. We will always have disagreements. Remember, Scott/Tom/others are rating Patton, etc against Armstrong, Bird, etc. This is tough for any writer.

Disc one of the MCA/Decca/Universal Early Ellington set would do it for me too...same reasons as mentioned before- all that came after would be remembered. But it don't get much better than this.

El Cajon.

Fresh Sounds went to some lengths to hide the fact they produce the Definitive/Jazz Factory discs, but distributors send checks to the same address. FS felt bold enough to list these records on their website for a while. I see they are now gone from the FS site, but they don't fool anyone inside the business.

G5- is that a Mac with a new special sauce? Nobody fucks with Windows 95 anymore, so I'm smug and ok too.

It is mandatory reading for Marsh fans with a couple of warnings (no pun intended). The price is steep, and some details (and I do mean details) are wrong. I only know this from interviews I gave, and how they were reflected in the text. I think the errors result from "longhand notes" instead of tape recordings. This is a more reliable portrait of Warne than "Out of Nowhere" which has outright inventions "covered" by the "novel inspired by" disclaimer. This author has Warne saying/thinking things not possible. He may be a great fan, but not a reliable historian.

Pity the poor Reds fans

A horrible thought poped to mind - could this be Aric?

If we restrict it to classical music (or include one of those too) I would choose the 1950s recording (for Vox) of Mahler's first symphony. This led me into the world of Jascha Horenstein - another passion. Do you dig my sentence construction?

No question, Lester Bowie's "Numbers 1 & 2". This was the first record on my label, and I remember incredible details of this date and EVERYTHING leading up to it (Oliver, Armstrong, Ellington, Bird, Monk, Trane, Cecil, Albert, etc). It would also remind me of all coming after.

"Just In Time" and the alternate of "Fine L'il Lass" are indeed on the early cd of Comin' Your Way.

Seriously - transfer your "perplexed new daddy" role to big industry. "Fuck 'em, I can't deal with this" - (right?). Who am the enemy? We always be them.

As I understand it, in 2006 twenty percent of cars in California will have to run on used diapers. Can the rest of the US be far behind.

Back in the old days Cuscuna put me on the King promo list so every couple of months I got a "care package" of Japanese BN lps. Those were the days.

You MUST mean Nebraska.