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Enjoying the Nessa CDs I've purchased so much, I ordered Congliptuous, LRG/The Maze/SII Examples, Missing Link and Snurdy McGurdy (this one on back order) along with Jack Benny television series DVD from Importcds.

I'm looking forward to this too. I have very nice memories hearing Ira Sullivan at various clubs and festivals in South Florida. And I only have one cd of his (Bird Lives! On Vee-Jay). Would love to hear more of his trumpet playing.

I was reading the liner notes from the Concord Denny Zeitlin/David Friesen duo release. Interesting quote: "Friesen was playing in Seattle around 1965 or '66 when he heard flutist Jeremy Steig's Flute Fever album on Columbia Records, featuring Zeitlin's recording debut (while still a medical student at John Hopkins!). 'I was blown away by Denny's playing,' Friesen says. "I knew he was someone I'd like to hook up with someday........'

Just saw on Amazon that Flute Fever is available for pre order. It has a beautiful cover.

The first musician that came to mind who you may like is Booker Ervin, especially the prestige dates with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson.

Easy choice. The saxophone quartet version of Nonaah. I was adjusting to the piece during the first part. Then the second section just blew me away with it's contrast to the first while the third had me laughing in amazement. Extraordinary! (Thanks to Chuck for making this available again for listeners like myself who have never heard this before.)

Ordered Nonaah, Old/Quartet Sessions and Before There Was Sound through Amazon.

I sure think so too. I saw him play with a trio (Winard Harper was the drummer IIRC) at the University of Virginia and developed a much greater appreciation for his playing after hearing him in concert. He also took part in a pre concert panel discussion. The next day I ran into him and his wife at the Charlottesville airport. I told him how much I enjoyed his playing and asked if he'd sign my Downbeat critics poll issue that listed him as winner of the piano category. He was a man of few words but was very gracious to me and, though unaware of the poll results, he seemed genuinely pleased that he was voted top pianist that year.

I was looking for Reptet on that list. Has anyone heard from Johnny E recently?

Ha Ha!! Kind of like twinkies here.

Wouldn't It Be Loverly? Loverly?! Loverly?! Hearing it makes my teeth ache. On the other hand I heard Carmen McRae sing Send In the Clowns in a small club and was moved by her interpretation.

That's actually a pretty modern outlook considering that most of us are stuck on music from the 20's through the 70's. B-)

I just took a quick look at an Okka Disk list and am interested in two that are complimentary to the Nessas that I'm beginning to get. Those are Fred Anderson's At The Velvet Lounge and Duets with Steve McCall.

The Battle of Atlanta started a few blocks from where I live, so once a year I awaken to the sounds of cannons. I will say that the Civil War reenactors seem to be folks who love history, not guys who have Confederate flag bumper stickers on their pickup trucks. (Stream-of-consciousness digression warning!) For the most part, I've said little here about being a southerner. It's a strange thing for a thoughtful person. Every day I look at my state and my region and am horrified by what I see. But at the same time, it's in my blood. When I'm away I miss it - the barbecue and greens, the plants, the heaviness of the air, the flat-out weirdness you encounter every day here. My wife has family in Seattle and Bellingham, Washington; on one of our visits, she was indulging in a luxury for her - watching cable TV. (We don't have it.) She was watching the Food Network, or something like that, and they had a feature on a restaurant in Memphis that specializes in fried chicken. The camera panned the dining area, which was filled with folks who were very different from each other, but who all appeared to be manifestly southern. There were weird old guys (like me), African-American matrons, and good old boys with big bellies and bandanas. Sitting there, as far away from the south as I could possibly be in the continental United States, I blurted out, "Those are my people!" I hadn't planned on saying that - it was a reaction from somewhere pretty deep. I hate it here sometimes, but I love it more than that. I think that all Southerners are, in one way or another, haunted by the past in a way that most Americans aren't. Try that last sentence on your wife, Paul. I grew up in northern Ohio, lived in Florida for over 20 years and worked throughout the South for ten years or so. One of my best friends lived in Alabama and I commented on how formal the dress code was at the various businesses we worked with. His response was that southerners still feel a sense of inferiority and resentment toward the north over the civil war and the formal dress was a way of compensating. That surprised me until I realized that we are only two generations separated from the civil war. I heard occasional jokes such as a good northerner was one who visited the south and went back north again, a bad northerner was one who visited and stayed.

If you commented on this in other posts, I missed it but what are the flaws in the other discs?

Enjoyed reading this. Just added LRG/The Maze/SII Examples to my future buy list because of this interview. That photograph from the Maze session is a classic!

Without knowing the half of it I can understand the resentment. Especially now these larger labels putting "complete albums" sets together for cheap has to gnaw at you. But those reissues helped me to gradually open my ears to the likes of Lester Bowie and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. It was their ECMs that I noticed and bought at the time. It's only 40 plus years later that I'm putting my buy list together for your catalog. Time goes by much too quickly and I won't delay any longer.

Same here. And the final two episodes from last season (which I missed) will be shown right before the season premier tonight. Whoa! You also missed being spoiled about the ending of episode eight on the internet for a year? Well if you mean what Hank finds out, I guess I did hear about that. :-)

Same here. And the final two episodes from last season (which I missed) will be shown right before the season premier tonight.

Gene Ammons was just one of the examples of expanding my horizons because of the two fers. Gentle Jug and Organ Combos were two of my favorites and still are. Dare I say they were the Dog's Bollocks!

I completely missed this thread. I pretty much have all of the BN reissue series two fers (except for TBone Walker) and a number of the Prestige and Milestones. These expanded my horizons back in the seventies when most all of them were available as cutouts. I haven't listened to vinyl for years now and was hoping to sell them and replace with the Mosaic Selects (Tyner, Hill, etc) and other CDs put out with the same material. But for sentimental reasons I just can't part with them. They're part of my past and I can clearly recall where I bought them and the thrill of discovery they gave me. Sometimes I think there may be a very fine line between the collecting and hoarding mentality.

This tweet is getting a lot of mileage here: "Detroit may be bankrupt but they own Cleveland."

I know it's kind of pointless to write another post before I've heard these but, after doing a series of searches, I'm also looking forward to hearing John Young on three of these albums. (On my IPad I can't seem to access the emoticons, specifically the excited one).

I will, but I know I'll love the music. In addition your commitment to not just the music but the musicians and their families comes through loud and clear in all the work you do as well as in your posts that I've read for years now. I will share this though. When listening to various sound samples, our two dogs got a little agitated during those from Nonaah so I thought I better pass (for now). :-) Edited to say this was in response to Chuck's last post. Forgot to use the "quote" feature.