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oh my friend, now I have to laugh: "Herbe comp" .....as a musician, "to comp" means if you play chords for the other soloists in group performance. So first I had thought you mean Herbie´s style of comping for others, as a sideman or if he recorded with horns. The second one is the one I have. if you listen to "I Have a Dream" isn´t the first 8 bars based more than loosly on "Darn That Dream" ?

oh this one must be great. Marion Brown performed also in Vienna, but I can´t remember that date. But i remember on the George Coleman gig, Hilton Ruiz wore a very similar cap. Freddie Waits is a wonderful drummer !

As you say it, "The Prisoner" is wonderful. Only when I got acquainted to Herbe thru "Headhunters" and the old Miles Davis LP from 1963, it was almost impossible to find individual Blue Note albums from the former decades (50´s, 60´s , so my only source of more pre-electric Hancock was the BN double LP with paper bag coloured cover. There were dozens of those, and some had a full albums, others where samplers (I think my Sonny Rollins BN recordings also is such a sampler from individual albums that were not in print anymore. That was the first time I heard that Sonny - Philly J.J. duo of "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" and some tracks of pianoless trio.

okay, thats much much better ! But watch out till you see the cover model on my upcoming album, but of course above all the music you´ll hear. We finished the studio recordings on Sunday , have the foto of the cover model and the foto shooting of us 6 guys done......

😉 mighty fine, maybe the face not necessarly so

oh Hilton Ruiz, such a great pianist and if I remember right, he died too early. With whom might I have seen him live ? George Coleman ? Billy Higgins ?

I don´t know who is Carly Simon, but that´s the best photo in this thread, at least how I think about it.

Head Hunters was my first Hancock album, which is natural because it was that time and I was starting my live long love affair with jazz. I still love to listen to it. It took me some months to realize that Hancock before Headhunters played acoustic jazz. It was the "Miles Davis in Europe 1963" that got me into acoustic Hancock, such a wonderful musician ! And most naturally my next great love, maybe my favourite acoustic band in my youth was "VSOP". I also had the Blue Note LA Double LP with some of the best tracks from the BN period. That´s where I heard Watermelon Man, Blind Man Blind Man, Maiden Voyage and most of all I liked the track "The Prisoner". As a youngster in the 70´s Hancock was one of my main men, and sure he remained it all my live.

Oh I remember him, wasn´t he with Dave Liebman on Lookout Farm and Drum Ode ? They are the only ECM albums I have.

i think I heard some of that Benny Green on BN. I think it was very early Elvin Jones on drums. Benny Green may not be J.J. Johnson or Curtis Fuller, but he is wonderful. I think some of the best Benny Green I ever heard was on that live album he made with Hank Mobley....

One of my best jazz buddies who sorry to say passed away in 2011, though he had the same jazz tastes like me (Bird, Rollins, Trane, Ornette) was also a big big fan of Tom Waits, he and his wife. They even had a Tom Waits song played when they married. I hadn´t ever heard of him and he said I must listen to it it is so great and he borrowed me some CDs and VHS or DVD, but honestly to say I couldn´t get a connection. Strange but true. I tried hard since he was my friend and he was the one who got me into all those greats since he was almost 6 years older than me, but it didn´t work with Tom Waits. I don´t know why, but that´s how it was, don´t have no explanation for it. The Lausanne 1962 is some of the best Bud from all his live, period. Those versions of Anthropology and All God´s Chillun Got Rhythm, so fast, so hip, and fresh. Maybe the only thing is there could have been a better drummer. But it is much better than most of the Steeplechase Material from Golden Circle from the same period, on which it seems that Bud was bored, he mostly plays medium tempo blues for more than 15 minutes and sometimes seems to be on autopilot, but even there are some great moments, but again the rhythm section is not up to Bud´s standards. His ideal drummer in Europe was Kenny Clarke. And sometimes , other than Pierre Michelot or Pettiford when he was alive, there was not many bassists who knew his music......

Thinking about Rollins with McCoy Tyner: I´m not sure if I have any elseSonny Rollins from the 60´s than the pianoless quartet with Don Cherry. It seems that the 60´s with the exception of the "Stuttgart Concert" with Don Cherry and the "Graz Concert" with Max Roach were quite a dead "Sonny Rollins period" for my listening experiences. It´s also possible that when I became interested in the music, speakin about the 60´s Coltrane was so overwhelming that everything musically was "Trane-ish", and this fenomen lasted much into the 70´s after Tranes death. So some of the first post 60´s Rollins I bought was the world famous "Milestone Allstars" WITH McCoy, Ron, and Al. I´m sure many of you guys from the States have seen those giants together, since the album was the result of an US-Tour. Well I love it, how couldn´t I, but as "Massey Hall" or "VSOP" this was gathering of 4 leaders, but sure some of the best moments of the return of the interest in acoustic jazz. I felt it, I lived it, and it was interesting how my buddies, who mostly were into jazzrock thru much part of the earlier 70´s got big fans of the acoustic masters, and considered them "super cool". Guys that almost could have been our daddies (Hubbard, McCoy, Ron) were so super hip they became our idols....

Heard it live just few weeks after it was recorded on "Don´t Ask" . But Rollins and Coryell performed separatly, so it was the Sonny Rollins Quartet with Soskin, Harris, Foster. On one of the Road Shows albums there is a live track of it , I think from Finlanda, same period - festival tour early summer 79.

Jackie McLean always was one of my very very special favourites, I would say I´m almost an addict of HIS alto sound. And I´m so glad I could see him live many times. One of my early mentors (not necessarly for active playing but for gettin´ broader musical knowledge) was Austrian Avantgarde-Jazz Pioneer Fritz Novotny (Reform Art Unit !!!) and when I told him how much I like Jackie McLean he was so glad, took me to his place and borrowed me all that stuff: It was three records: "One Step Beyond", "Let´s Freedom Ring" and "Old and New Gospel" (with Ornette on tp). First I had them on cassette and played them over and over again, and later I bought them. I´m no completist, but those three albums I have !

Would be interesting to read, since I always have liked his many many appearances on Steeplechases, mostly with Dex, but also fantastic with Kenny Dorham and others. I also have a record under his own name where he plays "Giant Steps" and "Theme for Ernie" if I remember right. Once around 1980 he "rescued" a Joe Henderson concert as was told to me. I had a flu and couldn´t be there, but my friends had told me that the rhythm section b and drums just didn´t make fire and it was a drag until Tete took a solo, made a sign to the bassist and drummer to lay out and started really to groove. He went right in with a left hand walking bass, obviously to show them kids how to groove, and he got the most applause for that, the audience went nuts and was so glad that he showed ´em what is stuff..... I have heard, that Tete didn´t live too long, I mean he would be around 90 years now and Hank Jones still performed at that age, as did Marshall Evans and others.... What was the cause of his death ?

Hey I MUST have this. I´m not a big record buyer, but THIS might be a must for me. All those greats, who were my favourites in my teenager years. Lieb is on of my alltime favourites since I had heard him with Miles. Randy Brecker is very fine on trumpet, Joanne Brackeen I could admire as well with Joe Henderson as with Joe Farrell, Buster and Al ....... if I could have that special wish , i´d dream to play with them two , Strange enough, I never got acquainted to Pat Martino and had confounded him with Pat Metheny who came to fame when he made a record with Ornette. well this really is maybe the best for group playing. But still, Tatum is my main inspiration for solo playing though I never do solo voluntary but as I said if them folks cry "more more" which they did when the bassist and the drummer were exhausted and the Clubmanager said to me "do somethin´ " I first think about Tatum, maybe a combination of Tatum and Solo Monk,

I only have Art Tatum with Buddy de Franco on Pablo as "Art Tatum Group Masterpieces", I remember there is the rarely played "Deep Night" , a tune from the late ´20s, it´s a wonderful thing that record, though for studies I listen more to Art Tatum solo, mostly for ballads or slow medium. Sometimes folks want me to play a solo piece and it´s good to study some of Tatum´s voicings and left hand treatment for some good solo piece though I´m a group player. But Tatum is a source of inspiration. wow, I´d like to hear a 15 minutes playing of "I want to Talk about You" . I think the mid 60´s was a point of departure for Trane, he still did play with his original quartet but soon after that he changed the piano chair and drum chair. That wonderful tune "I wanna talk about You".....I have the original version by Billy Eckstine, and Coltranes version from the 50´s but don´t have an idea how he would have played it when he was at the point to switch from modal to free,

I coudln´t say I am a FAN of any label, but I´m sure I have some Archie Shepp from that label, because in the late 70´s I had seen him live , I think it was with the genial Siegfried Kessler, a german who became a parisian, on bass I think there was Bob Cunningham and on drums was Clifford Jarvis, and it was after the free period. Shepp and Sanders went back to classic acoustic quartets with p,b,dr, there were a lot of that stuff in the recordstores, but very expensive. But was not most of Max Roach from that late 70´s also on Denon ?

Update: Still not thinkin about a hearing aid. My hearing never was really good, at least 20% were missing since I was born, and sure it is worse now, but no problems with hearing music. But I must admit I prefer live recordings to studio recordings, if it is older records, since then they didn´t know how to record a drum set. Modern studio recordings are better and one of my best musical friends made a studio record and it sounds great. But thinking about Blakey´s hearing problems some of it I can understand, most of all that you have to "feel" the music in your body. Maybe that´s why I always sit as near to the drums as possible, when I go out to listen to fellow musicians. If I don´t only hear it but feel it too, it´s pure happyness.

The first tune (I have a Dream) is partially based on "Darn That Dream" isn´t it ? Joe Henderson plays his ass of on "Prisoner". I´m not sure but I think to remember it was told that the record companies missed the occasion to record the Monk-Trane collaboration. I think I have one that has Monk on a toy car or somethin and it has Trane AND Hawk ! And then I think there was a live recording from a tape that Coltranes wife Naima made. I must have that somewhere, or USB, I think I heard it in the car. And that Carnegie Hall stuff I think it has better sound quality. But I didn´t know of other Monk-Trane recordings.

That´s the album with "No Smokin´" on it, isn´t it ? Boy do I love to play that tune, you just get more and more inspired chorus after chorus and folks love it. I´m not so much a conoisseur of the Woody Herman history but I see there is "Keen and Peachy" on it. That´s based on "Fine and Dandy" and I love the changes, it´s a fine number for really up tempo. Yesterday somehow it came over me to take a run on that. I was sittin´ at the piano to run through the originals we´ll record this week and after 15 minutes I got tired of my own originals and just to let my fingers do some fast action I played "Fine and Dandy" with solos for maybe 10 minutes....really fast, would be nice to romp on that on our next gigs. Valse Hot !!!!! I don´t remember if someone brought that up during the last years (after me comin back on the scene ) , really a good idea for a set filler. I rote a pretty waltz myself, but this one is even more pretty, gotcha do that with the boys..... Scott Hamilton is okay, saw him with Woody Herman, they had three great tenorists: Al Cohn, Buddy Tate, and Scott ! And don´t forget: Nice lady here on the cover, that´s how I like them dressed up..... A strange little album indeed. Maybe the only combination of Bird and Sonny, and a rare occasion of Sonny with Miles after he had founded the First Quintet. Right now I´m readin the book about Sonny and see that he played on many occasions with Miles AFTER the first quintet, at Bohemia. Too bad there is no records of it, as much as I like Trane, Rollins with Miles might be an interesting contrast.

Red Clay was was a favourite of mine 50 years ago and has been since then. But is this another record, I have thought on Red Clay is Lennie White on drums and Herbie Hancock on piano, if I remember right. The Group Billy Childs, Joe Henderson and Hutch was later, right ? Just got "Keystone Bop" the two CDs this Chrismas and it´s fantastic. So, is this another album I don´t have ?

A wonderful live record and a great thing is the sittin in of Kenny Burrell on some tracks.

Great record. My copy is still from the French America Label, which had many Mingus albums. I remember at first hearing I was a bit disappointed because I had hoped that it´s two drummers, I mean Willie Jones plus Max Roach. But soon I liked it very much. Nevertheless, from my then point of view, where I had started my life long Mingus love affair with the 3 LP set also from America label, the "Great Concert" with Dolphy, which is much more daring, and hearing the band on stage which sounded much "wilder" to me than this album, this was much more tame, but solid straight ahead jazz....., I also have the twin album "Chazz", also from Bohemia.....

I have the Roost material on CD but I think it has another cover and more stuff, I think the first tracks still have Miles Davis on tp, and later it was Kenny Dorham. I like very much those live sessions where you hear all the soloists, not "only" the Bird solos. And those Symphony Sid announcements , when we few jazz fanatics at high school heard those records, each of us had wished to get into a time machine to be there "diggin´ the gonest sounds of those wonderful guys and have a lot of musical fun until four in the morning......." . Sure, what counted most was the music, but still "half kids" we just did our own little play imitating that radio voice and that "ladies and genullmen" . It wen´t that way : "Let´s play Symphony Sid".