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I think I also know that album. Isn´t Bemsha Swing and Evidence on it ?  I love those tunes and they are few I kept in my repertory from the bop tunes, maybe the only ones that I kept. During the spring tourings I think I did either Bemsha or Evidence sometimes as the last tune and got so carried away that I jumped up from the piano and did some dance steps.  I think I have it with another cover. this looks much more like a much later foto of Mingus than the time when "Chazz" was recorded. Wasn´t "Chazz" and "Mingus Quintet plus Max Roach" on the French America label, I had both of them, but think as a boy I was a little disappointed since it sounded much more "tame" than the recordings with Dolphy. Almost like an old bop record. But the sections with Max Roach are fine ! Otherwise it is too much hard bop or bebop style than I want to hear from Mingus.

Too beautiful !  How much I love that album. This is my year ! Maybe the best I ever had in live.  I don´t know that special album, but each of them is a personal favourite of mine so it must be good. It just happens that at that important period in my live I rarely purchase or spin so called "straight ahead" albums, though I am sure that those men go far beyond it.  It´s strange: this must have been "centuries" ago but I also saw Jackie McLean live together with Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins, the 4th member of the quartet was no one less than Bobby Hutcherson. I remember it was the best bebop setting I ever had heard. Don´t know how I would think about it today, but sure it is very good music.  Schizophrenia was the first Wayne Shorter album I had. I think it is wonderful. Maybe even my favourite from that early period.  I think I saw the cover foto on another album of Bud Powell. I have not listened to bop music for much time and don´t really want to play that style myself anymore, but I think I remember the very very fine versions of those super old tunes "Deep Night" and "Thou Swell" and "OId Black Magic"  I think they go back to the 20´s. I remember Bud played them very very often so they must have been favourites of him, and I think I hear it in my ears that he plays some astonishing stride piano on it. This must be an early Bud Powell record from the mid fifties, but I think I mostly heard interpretations of those tunes at least 10 years later when Bud had returned to Birdland and seemed to celebrate that event with those old tunes from his youth/childhood.

Again one of those albums that moves me so much it is so overwhelming, so much balsam and nutrition for my soul it almost hurts. I can´t describe it in words, it´s too heavy for words.  Since I purchased it many decades ago it has it´s special place in my collection, but it seems that as years passed, and especially this year is the most emotional year for me ever, so many tears, so many happiness it gets more and more intense.  That´s the kind of music I´m deeply in now. Late Cotrane, Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and very very much Sun Ra. 

But in 1972,list price was $3.99-$4.99, and nobody except a sucker or a desperate person paid list.

Jackie McLean, Lee Morgan and Billy Higgins are all in top form on the fine album!