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Sadao Watanabe – Rendezvous ... US 1984 Front Cover Painting by Robert Sutz

Ilona Csáková – Pořád Jsem To Já ... Czech Republic 2018

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Richie Cole was very much in demand in the early 80´s I remember. He was described as 2nd generation bop player or so, but somehow I have the impression that after that he slightly disappeared from the main jazz scene. I once saw him live at a festival, some nice tunes but nothing exceptional, he had a completely unknown rhythm section. But it was somehow unkind for Richie Cole, because one day before Jackie McLean had played on the same stage with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins, and you know Jackie McLean is about all I want to hear on alto, it´s the non plus ultra for me. Leningrad, how much would I like to see it, people who had been there described it as something magic. We had a neighbour lady who went on holiday only to visit the URSS during those years.

I think it is one of the essential Bud Powell albums for all who study his music, mostly for pianists. I heard it at a very early age and knew that if I listen much and learn about that musical conception of bop, I´ll eventually master it. But since the very very first Bud Powell I had heard was a session from the same time with Parker, Fats Navarro, Curley Russell and Art Blakey, I remember I noticed that the Verve session is on the same piano level, but for my tastes it missed that hearing of the drums. I mean you have Max Roach on that and can´t hear him, and you can hear Blakey so well on the Bird-Fats thing...... There was another Verve album with Bud playing solo, and another trio record with strangly Buddy Rich on drums but again you don´t hear him much. Also on Verve I think I have "The Lonely One" which is a very fine album with some vintage bop tunes with some better rhythm section with Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke, and I think there is a very good Art Taylor playing on "Conception", also a tune from a Verve recording. I only find that the liner Notes of this album are quite dumb, it was not written by someone who really KNOWS Bud´s music......

Well I don´t really remember. I started listening to jazz at an early age and it is possible that nothing before did hit me as much as jazz. I remember there was one pop tune that I liked that was shortly before I got to hear jazz like Miles or Mingus or who was alive, and it was somethin´ called "Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree" and I still like it. My piano colleage that great Oliver Kent once performed it and memories came back. I must have been 13 or so and it was the age when you began to look at girlies....,

From what decade was this ? 40´s, 50´s ? Brew Moore had a crew cut. And Al Haig hat something like that in the lowest row right, the "Professional Contour", that´s how Al Haig had it if I look at it. "College Contour" looks a bit like Nazi look in my opinion...... Scary, is that from Cernobîl ?

I remember playing pencil drums to Beatles records when I was 12 or so. That took time, trying to hang on every beat and fill. Now I know that Ringo was the shit, so, work finished. Onward.

Mid-70s, I met a dude who worked at the Dallas Peaches who came up with Sanborn in St. Louis. I got snarky about Sanborn and this guy set me straight, telling me how Sanborn used to shed with Oliver Lake, just working on sound and altissimo. Between Oliver Lake, Hank Crawford, and Stevie Wonder's harmonica playing...there you go. No need for bebop, there's something to do for yourself.

Back in the day we called him Davey and he joined me in St. Louis for this concert. The group was Roscoe, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors and Phillip Wilson.

In my youth time was flying by with music as soundtrack .... there was virtually no time for (e)valuation ....

Tempis fugit ..

oh, that´s bad, I knew he eventually died but didn´t know when, It would have been a chance to see him live and anyway I thought as more the kind of mainstream bassist he would have sounded great with Woody Herman. He is mentioned in a book of contemporanous musicians who remember Bird, I think it is a compilation published by Robert Reisner, nothing musical interesting, but nice to read and there is also o photo of Bird with Duvivier, so they played and maybe recorded together...... I musts admit, when I first read his name as the bassist on "Amazing Bud Powell Vol. II" that he is French, since I thought that "Duvivier" is pronounced in french and since I had heard that Bud lived in France before I got to know his music, I had thought that that´s the reason, Bud in France, logical: French Bass Player "Duvivier". Living with his mother ? Strange, Didn´t he have his own family ?

Roberta had an interesting european tour. She did also a nice album with the Pratt Brothers big band Here is an example from her european tour. Have recorded some of her appearances from radio. 💗 👍 Nice compilation ----> rustic hop *****

Worth the ticket of entry alone for the Rhythm Section aka John Hicks + Fred Hopkins + Idris Muhammad ....

From 2-13 is hardly working with a fully developed adult mind. And pop music is not, mostly, deeply substantial. Nostalgia becomes content. Content itself remains unchanged, and there's only so much there to figure out. The last time I got remotely engaged with Beatles music was with the Mono box, especially on The White Album. Other than that, time flies because I'm just not paying attention because...who cares? It's not like there's any new music in there. If anything, it's annoying as fuck waiting for it to be over. One of the rare exceptions to this personal rule is Pet Sounds. I bought the sessions box but decided not to listen to it because...there goes the discovery. It's pop music. The game is different.

My "door opener" to Nielsen's symphonies was the cycle by Michael Schonwandt/DNRSO , especially Symphony 2 won me over ....

Well that "Ramblin´" is not so bad, but if I want to hear Ornette Coleman with "electric instruments" I rather prefer the original, I mean "Primetime". I love electric jazz but it outa be more the rough thing, like 1970´s Miles and Coleman. I must admit I never really heard much about David Sandborn otherwise than a lotta folks mentioning his name in those 1980´s or 1990´. I think it´s the kind of jazz that people like, who otherwise do not like jazz, people who dig the more polished versions. As what I hear from the saxophone sound, he sure can play, but never ever could it touch me as much as Jackie McLean, or living altoists like Donald Harrison or Vincent Herring to give an example.

Impressive architecture ....

R.I.P ....

I don't know about people like "us", but I started liking his records around the time of Hideaway, some more than others, some more "commercial" than others, but all of them very musical. Always. I always liked him with Gil Evans. He was in over his head, but he knew it and just went ahead, stepped on his dick, did the work, learned the lessons, and came out better for having done so. Always humble about his music, no matter how much success he had with it So if that's who "us" is, I'll take it. Otherwise...

The total is 124km. We did something like 20/25km a day. It’s amazing!