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Update on my composing. Sometimes pleasant surprises happen: I had a rough time the last months in personal live. Had to move down and though busy with my music I eventually was lookin for some nice girl again and the one I date frequently now is really a gas, and some days ago at my place after the more "romantic" side of a date she asked me to play some for her, and then took the piano stool to play herself. Though she said she never had even touched an instrument it made sense what she was doin´, and you know I am a natural musician and you can have studied the whole instrument and don´t play shit, but she just has that native musicality and repeated a phrase over and over again, givin´me that sweet but also very intensive look. I slept over it and the next day I had the stuff for a new tune which we will include on our next album. You don´t need many notes to make great music, the little phrase sounds quick and hip and will be for a kinda "free funk". You know, she had the little piano figure, I heard all the breaks, dissonant chords and bass vamps and the powerful rhythm team of drums and percussion and the two horn players. Got a title for it and never say else than though it´s her merits...... And I did some fotos of her while she tried out my piano, maybe you gonna see them some time.

Saw him together with Eddie Lockjaw Davis live. They seemed to tour together and also made a record I think for Pablo, which was the main label for "Mainstream Jazz" in the 70´s. The gig I saw must have been around the same time.

Yeah I LOVE him.

This was very very popular when I was beginning to listen to Afro-American Music. It was just around, everybody knew it. I still love it !

Wow, superb ! Really, the BEST THING I have heard in Years. So fantastic. I love it !

Pharoah Sanders was and will ever be one of the greatest souls. He was one of the earlíest afro american music I heard when I was in my early teens. And each live event really touched my soul. I love him so much, I dedicated a tune to him, will be on our next album.

Hi Peter ! No problem. But I was born in 1959, so it´s logic that the first Miles I could here was from 1973 on, when I became 14 and to develope my on thougts and my own stuff runnin´. So this was "the good old days" in my case 😉 Good choice that Kenny Burrell album. Sometimes I listen to it in the small hours when I get home. It´s a fine album to relax before taking a rest.....

A Milestone. I love this album, I mean I had the LP and have the CD. Funny, because I started Miles in 1973/74 when I heard him live and was crazy about it, and then I started to listen also to the classic old albums "Filles de Kilimanjaro", "Silent Way" and "Bitches Brew". The good old days.

Nice all star session, it seems that it was a gathering of artists who had played with Bird (Stitt with Howard McGhee, Walter Bishop, Tommy Potter and Klook). Very nice album for the small hours. I always did like Walter Bishop also, but was a bit disappointed by his version of "Satin Doll". It sounds more like a cocktail pianist, not really as the great Bud-influenced Bish, who didn´t copy Bud and had a lot of his own. I like him much more on let´s say his wonderful piano on Dizzy Reece´s "Soundin´Off".

I don´t know who she is but she looks nice, beautiful pantyhose too....

I rote some new compositions, two of them we just perform this summer, they will be on our next album (studio session will be octombrie 4-5). One of ´em will be the title tune of that upcoming release of my band....

Hey, I still am here but was offline for some weeks, you know shit happens....... "just one of those things" or should I say "Just Friends, Lovers no more" (we musicians like to quote songtitles when talkin). Well I don´t know about that 12 tone how it sounds, some guy here in Austria composed the "Schonberg Blues" which is a nice tune, very interesting, sounds a bit like one abstract Ron Carter thing with strange sounds while Ron walks his lines on the bass. So that "Schonberg Blues" was somethin I enjoyed listening to by a fine formation "Free Motion".

We there in central and eastern Europe don´t have exactly the same freshwater fish like you have in US. We have carp, tench, bream, chub and dozens of other cyprinide for floatfishing with bait like boiled potato or corn or worm, maggots, and with have the fish for spinning rod like pike, zander (the European relate of the walley), perch, and wels (siluris glanis), and we have the fly only fish like brown trout, the U.S. imported rainbow trout, char, greyling for the fly-fishing in mountain rivers. What you call "trash fish" here is the more bony cyprinides like roach (rutilus rutilus... not the ugly insect "roach", chub, bream, barbel, and smaller cyprinidae , but "trash fish" is an un-word here in Europe, since every fish, may it be good for the kitchen or not, is just a value fish, because it is a living creature. For those, who want to take a fish at home for cooking, there are very very strict limits of lenght (minimum and maximum), prohibition periods for each species when it is there season for spawning, and day limits and year limits. For example: I could take 20 carps the whole year and 10 fish like pike, walley each year, and in the mountain stream 20 trouts each year. But for example: an average carp has 4-6 pounds and who can eat 20 of them in the course of a year ? And since I´m vegan I don´t take any fish, I unhook them, maybe make a quick foto if it´s an exceptional catch and let him swim again. That´s what is a very common method in UK and EUROPE. There are even waters that have "NO KILL Zones", and as I said, I don´t kill no animal and don´t eat any product that comes from animals (meat, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, nothing of any of that, just greens etc. ).

"Somebody who loves me" gave me this album 3 days ago. Oh man, that brings back memories. I saw the same band twice in 1977, they were fantastic, even better than the year before where they had the same lineup, but another pianist (danny Mixon). Bob Neloms is fenomenal...... such fingering, and all them quotes from other songs (It might as well be springs for 4 bars in "Noddin´ ya head blues" for example). The tunes that I heard on the concerts I attended was "For Harry Carney", "Cumbia and Jazz Fusion" and "Three or Four Shades of the Blues. Now that I hear this, it is as good as what I heard a month or two months later in Spain or Italy. I love that soloist - drums duet sections they are so strong and Danny Richmond does some trapswork as it sounds even like percussion instruments, that´s great !!! Only Mingus has the full solo chorusses and he went from the lowest register up to the high notes of a little violin, it was just incredible, the best bass solos I ever heard, and a reason for me to buy myself a bass fiddle which I mastered and even got calls to fill in as a bass player, though I am a pianist. On Noddin´ Ya Head Blues its Mingus who starts the solo. That´s bass virtuosity on the highest level, oh yeah ! Before that, I had only the 1964 Paris record and it was the same, Mingus if he does a solo, he really talks on the bass, at that was equally brilliant 15 or so years later, though I had the impression that Mingus looked a bit exhausted and had a very hoarse voice. On Cumbia here on that record it´s first Mingus who sings the rap on "Mama´s lil baby likes shortnin´ bread", which is very easy and clear to understand, even for someone like me who learned English by reading liner notes and listening the the announcements of the great US Stars Mingus, Pharoah, Shepp, Sun Ra, all my heroes...... The encore , it is interesting Mingus on piano. He didn´t do that when I saw him some months later. He said "thank you VERY MUCH!" at the end and said "here´s my drummer", which meant that Danny played a drum solo as an encore. But here I hear Mingus for the first time on piano. The tune has something of "Sues Changes" and then a powerful ostinato figure that I have heard but don´t know from which tune it is. It´s very interesting to hear non pianists, I mean saxophonists, drummers, bassists play the piano. They have a different touch but a very very powerful rhythm feeling. I heard Archie Shepp playing a Monk tune on piano, I heard Art Blakey playing also a Monk tune (Thelonious), a vocal piano thing "For All we Know" and then a super swingin "Moten Swing". Blakey was top on piano !!!! I think Chet Baker played, but only with the right hand. Miles Davis did some super keyboard playing. His chords are unique, just fantastic. What he does on organ on "Ife" or was doing on the keyboard in the early 80´´s was unique.... So back to my hero Mingus whom I miss dearly, he was my main inspiration to become a good enough but poorly paid musician, the best job in ya live 😎 So please, enjoy that album ! Gh.

here in Europe the passion of angling is the main point for the fisherman. At least the hardcore fisherman. If it´s a "trash" fish or not, we don´t give them those categories, that kind of separating the so called good delicatesse fish with only few bones and the "trash" fish was long ago. For us, even the extremly bony "Barbel" or the Chub is a good fish for catching since they are hard to be atracted by the bait. Plus, in my case, it´s not only that, I´m a vegan also, so I never kill a fish. Catch and Release is what I do. We have soft large pads for the fish to unhook them before we release him, so he might not get injuries from stones or dirt or so. Or, in case of fly-fishing where you stand in the River and throw the line with the artificial fly, you just release the trout or the char or grayling in the water, you remove the fly with the hook and let em swim again. Of course we make fotos of the fish just for memory of a beautiful day in the nature, it lasts only a few seconds and the fish is free again 🤩 I love such legs and I doubt if I ever had a girlfriend who did NOT have such legs because that´s what I look for 😄