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Is Chuck Nessa on vacation?

Reiner, Could you point out some examples? Thanks, Bertrand.

Adding my birthday wishes to one of the greatest musicians this world has ever produced. It's been about 25 years since I first discovered his music, and I can't describe how my life has been enriched by it. Bertrand.

It's awful. Stay away from this dreck.

Bonnie, Good to hear from you. I'm not a huge RTF fan, I admit, but I did see Lennie White in NYC last week at a Lee Morgan tribute. His playing was great. I will send you a PM with Ted's number. He definitely wants to get in touch again! Take care, Bertrand.

He started playing with Butch Warren on Fridays a few months ago. His daughter had shown him this thread, so he knew what this was all about. Bertrand.

I tracked down Ted Efantis, so now I need to find out how to get his contact info out to Bonnie. If only we had an e-mail and/or a website. Bertrand.

He's in DC this week-end. I haven't heard any of his music. Is he worth checking out? I don't know the personnel - it might just be a local rhythm section. Thanks, Bertrand.

Upping this thread after attending the great tribute on Saturday which included a lot of the material from this package. The original vinyl had four tracks, one on each side: The Beehive, Nommo, Absolutions and Neophelia. What order were they in? Thanks, Bertrand.

This was a fabulous concert. I highly recommend it if you can make it out tonight. Good to see George Cables looking healthy. The material was from the Lighthouse sessions (Blue Note and Fresh Sound) and the Last Session. Bertrand.

Guess it takes one to know one. Larry, Jim, why is this bigoted jerk still posting? You can only have one poet per family. Bertrand.

Hot Ptah, Who wrote the article that you reproduced? Anyone, Is Coltrane the only musician who was able to sneak out tapes from Van Gelder's studio? When a booklet says the tapes are lost, it sometimes means they are in the hands of a private individual. More often than not, the writer knows the identity of the person who has the tapes. Bertrand.

The Clark composition that appears on the Jackie McLean Quintet session ('Blues In A Jiff') is actually the same tune as 'Marbles' from Lawrence Marable's Tenor Man session. Bertrand.

I plan to be there on the 16th. I'm really looking forward to it. Bertrand.

Freshly posted on 7/31/08: Footage of the Tony Williams Lifetime from Paris in 1971 with Larry Young! This is not the Montreux gig which has been circulating for a while but another gig certainly from the same tour. Larry is not wearing his Lawrence of Arabia attire. I did not know this existed. If only we knew for sure there was a first-generation copy of each gig, the two put together could make a wonderful jazz icons release. Bertrand.

Teasing brings up a good point. If for no other reason than preservation, there things should be hunted down and transferred to CD since we know how fragile they are. Of course, there's the whole argument about how long CDs will last... In any case, it's definitely more than the 10 years some alarmists will say. From Roswell Rudd's notes, I'm afraid Herbie Nichols' copies of the acetates were worn out quickly. Who knows if there are copies floating around Dan, did you transfer your Three Sounds acetate to CD? Bertrand.

I've been puzzled about this for years, and was reminded again while looking at Noal Cohen's Gigi Gryce page. An acetate of Gryce performing a piece called 'Dancing The Gigi' was sold on eBay in 2004. The Herbie Nichols Mosaic booklet mentions two acetates, featuring four songs that Nichols did not record otherwise: 'Crackup', 'I Worship Delilah', 'The Happenings' and 'Change Of Season' (the last two tunes have been recorded by others). I remember hearing that an acetate also existed of another piece. What are acetates exactly? Are these essentially demos? What machine can these be played on? When did they stop making these? Most importantly, how can we find out what's out there? Obviously, these things belong in discographies, but it's hard to know of their existence until someone stumbles upon them - it's not like recordings for record labels for which there are usually lists (e.g. the Blue Note session logs that Alfred Lion found shortly before his death). Another interesting aspect is that they often seem to contain otherwise unrecorded tunes. I wonder if some of the unrecorded pieces I have found at the Library of Congress over the years might be found on acetates, although I suspect that acetates were not common during the era I am focusing on (late fifties to early seventies). I hope many of you have more information on this. Bertrand.

I meant 'nice' in the sense where he is paying homage to his uncle, although no one watching knows this of course. Bertrand.

Kevin Eubanks frequently plays Ray Bryant's 'Cubano Chant' on the Tonight Show. How nice of him to do that, especially since Ray is his uncle. Bertrand.

Would Universal lose money under Chuck's proposal? At least they could put it on iTunes like they've done with other rarities. Bertrand.

I used to wonder if the 'other woman' was Humphrey, but that theory was dismissed a while ago. I saw the name a year or so ago, I believe it was Judy Johnson. She was going to be interviewed for a documentary that I heard is now on hold. I thought Jeff McMillan's book was going to be out in late June, but now it seems to have been postponed until August. Bertrand.

Ghost, Sorry you missed him. He's there on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. He plays Tuesdays at another place down the street called Tryst - haven't been there yet. Bertrand.

You can still see a glimpse of him on most nights with the Tonight Show band. Bertrand.

Valerie, Thanks for checking with Wayne - that's awesome! Vienne is definitely tempting - I will see how the logistics pan out. It depends on whether I can go back to Paris right after. Bertrand.

I tried again a few months ago, I even spoke at length to someone who really looked like he could put me in contact with the right people and then, again, the trail went cold. Bertrand.