Chuck Nessa

CTL-E-0548 · Person · 1960–1970

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Chuck Nessa managed Bob Koester's Jazz Record Mart and supervised the 1966 recording sessions for Roscoe Mitchell's 'Sound' on Delmark, acting as producer and liaison between musicians and money.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-020; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

Tape Op Magazine, 'Recording 1960s Avant-Garde Jazz in Chicago'

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