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I remember it was out when all them wonderful Miles albums of the 70´s were out (On the Corner, In Concert, Live Evil, and so on and I was expecting a new Miles Davis album, and to my astonishment this was a thing of older stuff from the 60´s, but I was not disappointed at all, since I love Miles from 1948, 58, 68 same like Miles from 1978 or 1988..... Strange, they took the cover photo from a later Bud Powell album (Return of Bud Powll). There was a series of photos hot during that 1964 studio album and I like those photos most from Bud Powell, they are wonderful. But Sure Thing must have been around the early 50´s I think it was broadcasted quite often. The piece as some classical approach with fugue like lines, not exactly my alley, but it´s wonderful, how Mingus does all those bass figures. Okay, I like the piece, but never to the same amount like if he played let´s say "Woodyn You", "Salt Peanuts", I wanna be Happy or all them ballads......

Sure ! I have it ! Great stuff.

The best Murray I ever heard was that fantastic trio , He, Henry Grimes and Hamid Drake, one of the greatest concerts I heard in the 2000´s . Yeah, in the 80´s he was so much around. Here in Austria he almost had a "Meldezettel" and Nickelsdorf Jazz Gallery and many many locals knew him personally. He was such a nice gentleman, not only the great musician he is.

You are right ! When I saw the schedule I also wondered how this would be. The whole thing was titled "Trumpet Super Night" and had three acts: First set Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintet (featuring Harold Land, George Cables, Herbie Lewis and Louis Hayes.... indeed an Allstar Formation) , then would have been Chet with Joe Farrell but turned out to be without Chet. And the last act was Wynton Marsalis (then still doing good contemporary jazz with that good working group he had then). About Chet: It would have been better if they would have booked him with his trio, he played wonderful concerts here in Viena and in other towns where I heard him, but don´t forget shortly before this chancelled gig happend, he had done that tour in Sweden with Stan Getz, and they couldn´t together, two heavy junkeys in one band, same with Farrell....., Chet was a heavy junkey, but he was a quiet loner, he couldn´t stand tensions and hassles, that´s it.

I have a 4 CD collection of Jaws-Griff that includes that album, and I think also some live versions of Monk´s tunes.

Interesting ! I didn´t know about it, but both were doing Europe a lot in 1983. I saw them separatly. Woody Shaw still had his great quintet with Steve Turré, Mulgrew Miller, Stafford James and Tony Reedus, and the Joe Farrell Quartet I saw also, but it was scheduled to be Chet Baker-Joe Farrell, I think it had Joanne Brackeen on piano....but Chet didn´t appear, so it was only Joe Farrell.

Really a huge loss !

That´s how I saw him in the late 80´s with Headhunters II (Bill Evans on sax, Wah Wah Watson on guitar, Darryl Jones on bass and Ndugu Chandler on drums if I remember rite. Wonderful show. I love everything Herbie did, saw the acoustic bands of the 70´s VSOP, then in the 80´s VSOP II (with the Marsalis Brothers), everything.....

Oh this must have been wonderful. I love everything he does. Dont forget I grew up in the era of the transition from acoustic to electric jazz and so the most natural thing for me was to hear let´s say "Mayden Voyage" or all the stuff with Miles, Shorter and all those heros and on the other hand hear "Head Hunters" . It was the most natural thing. We dug it ALL and I still dig it all. I love him on all instruments, of course acoustic but all the keyboards too. That´s him, that´s music.

Joe Newman was a solid trumpet player and I enjoyed his playing here in Viena, but soon no musician here wanted to play more gigs with him, since he was an asshole on the stand, lecturing experienced local musicains how to play as if they didn´t know how to play. Strange, other very prominent artists like Woody Shaw, Art Farmer, Benny Golson etc. never lectured the musicians on bandstand and it was everything cool, to enjoy the gig on stand..... Buster Williams is one of my very very special favourites, period. Wonderful band here.

Scary ! I mean to be a Monk (otherwise than Thelonious) is beyond my biological understanding😨...I mean a catholic pope he can get out and have some hidden affair, but as a Monk...... heavy stuff really.

There are some great artists on the Montreux Collection. I don´t have it, but at least some individual acts, maybe the Dizzy with Jaws and Griff, or the Dizzy with Milt Jackson and James Moody, those two or three. But it´s interesting there is another album or double album or even two double albums with the title "Montreux Collection" or maybe "Montreux Summit" from 1977 with a who is who of all who played good acoustic as well as electric jazz, so Dexter, Stan Getz, Slide Hampton, Woody Shaw, Maynard Ferguson, performed together with fusion stars like George Duke, Bob James, Billy Cobham and it was a wonderful marriage of acoustic and electric, you sure will love it.

wow this must be great, all of them my favourites......

right !

For me, at least if I would exactly know what´s "spiritual" , Ornette Coleman sure is.

A great band indeed and a wonderful hommage to Bird. I´m not sure if I´m talking about THIS album now, but is it possible, that they mistitled one tune. I have another Bird dedicated album too so I don´t know which is which, but at least at one the first tune is completly mistitled. Is it possible that it´s this album? I thing when I spinned it, I recognized that the first tune is not "Birks Works" but a "Quasimodo" or something like that, anyway a Bird tune on rhythm changes, with great solos by Jackie McLean and Phil Woods. Well, my true love on alto is Jackie McLean.....

Herbholzheimer was great. Loved his Big Band and it was a highlight in the 70´s . I didn´t even know that he was born în București....., such a great bandleader.

I love his sound. Heard him live only twice, with Mingus. Great to see that Kirk Lightsey is on it. He is one of my favourites and I have heard him very often. Even this year, at 87 I think, he sounded beautiful and I had the luck to have a longer conversation with him.

Like the "Newport Rebels" ?

I know only Christian McBride, Stanley Clark and the Kenny Barron Trio, the rest......? But Festivals became bullshit since many years. Here in Viena when there were the last festivals, it was also too many non jazz acts or "big names" of stars who play piano and sing old standards, young college styled kids doin "I get a kick out of you" ...., and pop acts. I know the artists who I heard on festivals in my youth are gone, but why didn´t they make a jazz festival with all them hot stuff players who are the top acts in N.Y. clubs, all them great cats who play at "Smoke´s", at "Small´s" and so on.....? just jazz......

It looks similar to a Blue Note record from that formation, which I like very much. But I was quite astonished it was recorded for BN, since it seemed untypical to me to have a BN record recorded in Germany. Is this another album ? The personnel reads of something extraordinary. I don´t know how many times I have played Fire Waltz, fantastic composition.

Maybe I don´t know or didn´t know the difference between Song Book and Tin Pan Alley Standards. Look, I pick up those tunes that sound interesting for me to play, maybe like almost all jazz musicians. If a tune has good chords and stuff to blow on it, it can be the greatest, even if it was not originally a tune intented by the composer to be a jazz impro vehicle. Take "Lover Come Back to Me", or "The Way You Look Tonight", they were otherwise meant than jazz, but for me as a jazzer to burn on them chord progressions at a brisk tempo is heaven on earth......

Thank you, knowing your musical tastes, I´m quite confident that you will like it. Lookin´ forward to a review from you. Always Gh.

The strange thing is that when I was at the jazz festival Wiesen in 1983 the Timeless All Stars were scheduled and to my astonishment and delightment it was Jackie McLean, Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins. One of the best bands of acoustic jazz I ever heard. So it was "only" Hutch and Higgins from the "All Stars". Of course I heard the others separately, those artists were touring Europe pretty much in that period. Heard Harold Land with Diz the same year in autumn too. I saw also Max Roach very often, he was one of my first idols on drums and on music in general.

Great info, thx man !