Chuck Nessa

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.

Yeah, that was one of the great ones, wasn't it? My memory's vague, but seems like somebody kept asking Chuck discographical questions and then got peeved when he suggested that they buy a discography. He's so pushy that way. Geez, you'd think the guy was sitting around planning CD releases of some fabulous Bird/Diz concert and had better things to do or something.

This compilation is a messy combination of a Hodges disc originally called "Triple Play" and a Davis disc called "Con Soul & Sax". The Davis date includeds Dickie Thompson/Kenny Burrell on g, Milt Hinton/George Duvivier on b, and Osie Johnson on drums. The Hodges record came from 3 different dates with 3 different trombone players - Brown, Buster Cooper and Benny Powell. Brown plays on tracks 1, 8 and 13.

Alan Bates owns it as far as I know.

After living through some of them at the time and listening to most of them, I say 40% very interesting, 60% specialists only. That may be too generous. Maybe a 4 disc set.

My all time favorite is "WHY IS CHUCK NESSA SUCH A JERK?".

Welcome!

What's breakfast?

Unless you are not a fan of "pre-bop" styles, the Hodges set is the best by far.

If you haven't spent over $10,000 on your sound system, buy the music you want. If you have a +$10,000 system your priority is probably not music. Please explain why people should spend more money to get shitty sound from cds they love. My reason for being involved in the music biz was to spread the joy, not bitch. Hardware salesmen are "something else".

Very good advice from Mr. Gitin - but it is manditory you argue with him. Intellectual pursuits ain't 'sposed to be easy. If they were, we'd all be geniuses.

I used to have a copy. Sold it for "big bucks".

Just like a McGriddle!

I don't think he asked for the easiest to find.

Hey Jim, just in case you do die - all existing contracts are binding - right?

No.

Sugar Bowl, the Bessie, and Mother E are fine recordings - but I'd give (something that looked like) my left nut for a tape of her and Gerald Donovan's nights at the Hungry Eye (Chicago, late '60s - near the Plugged Nickel). They ran an open set. Gene Dinwiddie was the normal sax player, but Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Maurice McIntyre, etc used to sit in regularly. On top of everything, she's a very fine lady.

In true record producer tradition - I want the publishing.

Might be a misdeal. Send $10 and you can have an lp.

Better to buy more music.

The missing numbers are unissued dates. More later. Bob Sunenblick started the label and after a couple of years, took on Mark Feldman (MD, not the fiddler) as a partner. After a few years they "divorced" and Mark started Reservoir. Mark got the dates I mentioned, and unissued dates by Leitch (Red Zone), Joe Puma and Ralph Moore. Bob still has "in the can" unissued dates by Beryl Booker, Dave Schildkraut, Lennie Andrade and Freddie Redd. The Redd and Schildkraut dates are in my hands, and any delay can be laid at my feet

Thanks, I ordered 9.