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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 !

thank you all ! Serena is my wife. When you read the liner notes, when the title tune "Waltz for Serena" is mentioned it is written that "it´s dedicated the stunning cover girl, who happens to be my wife".... And on the backcover , below the track list, where is written "recorded at, , and the logo of the label, and who did the cover art etc, there is also written that she is the cover model. Yeah, the great foto- and design artist Lilia Krilova did a great job. Hope some of you will get a chance to listen to the stuff we recorded. This is fine musicians I have the chance to work with.....

I must have it. I wanted to have it for a long time but have listened only to the track "Fire Waltz" since it is one of the tunes we do on concerts. If the rest is so good..... It´s only the time, I must admit I haven´t had time to listen to a record since the end of february, with the exception of one record made by one of my fellow musicians. If I buy albums, it´s usually from my fellow musicians here in Austria. Times have changed a bit.

is that Alice Coltrane with Trane ?

Looks like a Dreamband, as if it would have been formed for my pleasure ! I see Joe Henderson and Freddie Hubbard, but never have heared about that record. who are the else ?

Great song list ! I have heard sometimes the name George Wallington but never heard him play.

Oh thank you. Interesting that for the first time (with the exception of "4 Generations of Miles") I see there´s also a guitar player. And interesting that both Malone and Bernstein had worked and recorded with Sonny Rollins. Oh, if I´d live in N.Y., I´d see all the shows.....

Hello my friends ! Some of you will remember that I recorded in the great Dukatton.Studio here in Viena at the end of ianurarie 2024. Since last week the result of our wonderful collaboration is on sale. It´s out on the leading Austrian jazz and art label "Alessa Records" and the title of the album is one of the 6 compositions I contributed for it. And I had the great photo artist Lilia Kirilova making the website for us. Now I´m sure that only a few might purchase the album, but as much as I know it will be out also on some of those modern medias I don´t know nuthin´ about, something like spotify or soundcloud or what it is. Anyway I have to thank all those great musicians who worked with me. The core band (Johannes Probst on trumpet, Uli Langthaler on bass, Dusan Novakov on drums have worked with me on many ocasions for the last year, the highly talented young alto player Márton Papp, I just spotted him on a jam session where we old players jam with young budding artists and it was love from first hearing. I look and listen at him and he reminds me so much about my own self when I was at that tender age of 20, 21. And last not least. Our special guest artist is the one and only Andi Steirer, maybe the best and most recorded percussionist here in Austria. At least three artists here lead there own formations and have their own recordings, which I added as links on the homepage. Since the homepage is brand new there still is not much schedule or press on it, but things are gettin´ settled and we already have some important jazz venues not only in Viena but much more in whole Austria where we gonna play. And don´t forget the wonderful fotos the great artists Lilia Kirilova made: The cover foto , the group fotos, the whole design and all. Here my website where you can see the album: www.bop-explosion.com You also see it on the label Alessa Records as ALR 1131. Your forum friend Gh.

Fast company. Will there be a live video as there have been some with Big George at Smalls ?

Hallo Jack, thank you for your worthful input. I had wondered where you have been. Lookin´ forward for further exchanges of thoughts and experiences again like we did before I couldn´t find you again.

Great book I have read it in February-March and it brings memories back to great evenings I witnessed. Strange that even in the 90´s and later there still was so many folks who bemoaned that he doesn´t play like in the 50´s . Really scary, I mean I genius makes and creates music all his live long and people stick to "the 50´s". But one thing I also didn´t understand. All that yoga or zen stuff or how you call it. I don´t know nuthin´ about it, but great if he dug it, but I can´t understand that he states that it has also to do with the American Songbook, what has bein happy or sad or fallin in love or fallin out of love or selling a cottage when dreams didn´t come true, what has this to do with meditation ? Sure, he must know it, he knows everything....

The only ones I know or knew was Tony Williams (anyway a favourite of mine since I was a boy), Sun Ra (same key experience), Joe Henderson (also from first hearing for forever) but don´t know who is a Mo Kofmann, Looes Tubes. It has also been quite a time since I heard Herbie. Well in 1974 or so we all listened to Headhunters, and later I had all them V.S.O.P albums that´s some stuff (Headhunters as well as V.S.O.P) that I stilll can listen to and get a kick out of it..... John Lewis.........it took me until I was in my mid/late forties that I began to dig the MJQ. I was not "prepared" for it when it existed, maybe to much Sun Ra, Pharoah, Ornette, Mingus, electric Miles - fed to enjoy that more quiet chamber jazz.....

Mercury is a forrunner of Verve ? I never was clear about it, it seems it was like that as Bird on some live performances while talking to the MC mentions the "Mercury Label". And those string stuff was on Verve. I remember very well I was at Saturn in Cologna in the late 70´s . Found a lotta stuff I didn´t find in Viena. Japanese pressings of Verve.....well I think I had the Bird on Verve albums, all those "Strings" Cole Porter Songbooks, and South of the Border stuff as I remember, and I think the Bud Powell albums, all those "The Lonely One", "Blues in the Closet" also was japanese pressing......I don´t listen to them anymore, get no thrill out of ´em.