AllenLowe

same here, but I'd probably be sleeping in my car -

bebop, see my PM, name calling is not my style - Fats is one of my (and Lennie Tristano's) favorites, if I recall correctly, though I am weary of jazz bios which, like the bios I've read lately in the pop/blues fields (Little Walter/Jimmy Reed/Muddy Waters/Jimi Hendrix), never really seem like bios but more like an extended series of badly-edited anecdotes - price also means I'll have to lift it from my local Borders - and it's such a pain getting that little metal tag outta there; might just be easier to shoot the security guard and tell Kleck I'm defending myself -

very sympathetic musical partners, unfortunately never recorded - I always liked the sound of the Nat Cole/Lester Young trio, and Bob had a terrific left hand, we never missed having a bass player - and he was a harmonic genius (there's that word again - Bob probably qualifies, however) -

of course, we all know they named a doll after Chuck -

well, you know what a racist country this is - the Duke quarter is only worth 22 cents - George Washington wouldn't put up with this crap - of course, the Rabbi Schneerson quarter is worth 27 cents -

good question - now I'm not sure -

this is another bone-frying event -

well, I have some pictures of Chuck Nessa in a two piece bathing suit, but nobody gets 'em except Chuck - assuming, of course, that he sends me the $10,000.

just to respond to a prior message, by the time I knew Curley he was long out of the music - he had great time, but was superceded by the new generation of bassists like Ray Brown - I think he just did not have their chops. He drove a cab for many years, developed bursitis, went to live with his daughter in Queens, and than developed emphysema and passed away. One of the nicest people I've ever known, in or out of the biz -

"find the minor celebrities on the board and tell them how much you've learned from them" this is a particularly good idea - I have learned the art of the passive-aggressive from a few here, like Mr. Englewood, above. Try it, Chuck -

these are the questions I shoulda asked Al Haig 30 years ago - though with Al, who knows what he would have said - probably "we found it on the back of a cereal box." or "the janitor at the session came up with it." but I will say, as I write this, that he always indicated to me that Dizzy was the major organizing force whenever he was around, showed Haig how to to comp and voice chords - so if I HAD to guess, I would bet that Bird thought of it (let us say conceptualized it) but Dizzy put it together - but that is just a guess - who wrote the Round Midnight intro? maybe Tadd Dameron put all this together -

the book sounds like a 200 page Wikipedia entry -

how about the intro to Koko? maybe they got 'em out of The Intro Book -

Chris wrote: "A 39 year old article—why are they publishing it, I wonder. " well, I just got a PM that was sent to me in 1972 - .

listen to it on the Billy Berg's recording - a little sloppy, but great chaos! I played it once at a party and 3 people left the room - the only 40 year old music that could still shock and disturb -

ummmmmm.....pizza - well, it's up to Chuck -

Chuck, do you believe in petting on the first date? I mean, if both parties are mature and liberal? what is your cholesterol count? HDLs? when did you first realize that god had forsaken you? at what point in your life did you decide that analog was superior to digital? how many times a week do you eat red meat? (hope this helps)

Chuck, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?

Chuck who?

look, let's not fight over Schaap of all people - I like Phil, have known him for maybe 30 years - he just has some.........issues..................... he may indeed be the Irving Stone of jazz (meaning the novelist).

that settles it, than - Chambers will be the one to write my Authorized Biography.

that's the Smithsonian Orchestra? Sounds more like the South Portland High School Dance Band. not that there's anything wrong with that - hope you enjoyed their rendition of The Theme From Hawaii Five-O

for all his craziness, Bangs was really a very grounded critic - smart and quite rational - and, accustomed as I am to how badly rock critics usually are when dealing with jazz, I was really quite pleasantly surprised with his very intuitive understanding of the music -

hey, Moose, don't give up on Bangs, who is the ONLY rock critic I've ever read who really understands jazz - he wrote good stuff on Miles and Mingus, among others -

Pete Lewis was a regular with Johnny Otis's band, he was also the guitar player on the original Big Mama Thornton version of Hound Dog; he also recorded for King under his own name. Excellent player.