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Count Basie “Fancy Pants” Pablo cd The last album Basie made with the big band. So elegant!

Fläsket Brinner Featuring Bo Hansson – Live At Pistolteatern 1972 ... Sweden 2023

Bud Powell with some nice melodies! There are more Items on Verve! Verve MV 2533 (Japan 1975/01) - Bud Powell " Jazz Giant - rec. 1949 & 1950

Various – Folies Bergère 1902 - 1942 ... France 1995

Interesting reading ....

Well, I don't ask questions for something that takes seconds for me to discover myself. That's just me. . . I'll generally answer them, but that may change.

Back cover of Marion Brown in Sommerhausen. Calig CAL 30 605 Stereo [1969] On view the venue Torturmtheater, painted by Luigi Malipiero, theater director

Excellent Cover Photography ....

Know him via a Maurice McIntyre platter on Delmark from the late 60's .... any further infos available on him .... ?

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hah, Allan hasn´t changed much ! I have played with him for decades and I think if I only would have met him in 1976 and the second time right now, I still would have recognized him: Now he´s 75 and still looks ultra hip, still long hair and so, and so great playin´. The 3 gigs I had with him about 3 weeks ago, it was heaven on earth, especially the 3rd day. My own compositon "Blues for Allan" ( Alessa Records, ALR 1131) is dedicated to his very personal style of playing, I´d recommend it to all who love Allan.

Sure, but if I would reduce the stuff to wiki search there would not remain anything for me to discuss the music. And no wiki and no discogs can replace my personal history in jazz, where I didn´t read about Ricky Ford but saw him with my biggest idol, or my first idol in Jazz, no one less than Mr. Charles Mingus himself, and really study Ricky´s input in the band. So I might say sorry that I asked instead of having a look on wiki, but that´s me..... Interesting question: Maybe he was more a "Musician´s musician" and this can be very very important, because it´s the horn players who must feel comfortable with a pianist. If I would have been a trumpet player or a saxophone player during that time, I sure would have preferred to have Ray Bryant on piano to a so called "star pianist". He is very nice, has a nice touch and wonderful chords and he can support a player. I´m no record collector so I don´t have records of him under his own name, but my first hearing experience was on "Miles Davis with Milt Jackson and Jackie McLean", a nice little album from the 50´s or so. Ray is compin´so great and his little piano solos are treasures. Years later I saw him live with a good local band formed by vibes, guitar, bass, drums and perc ("Together" was the name of that band), and it was wonderful. So again, I don´t have wiki experiences about him, but have listened a bit to what he did and what I saw him doin.....

Who took that photo?

Nope.

I mean, it's not a lost classic, but it is certainly a pleasant record. I bought the LP a few months years ago, cheap and on a whim with low expectations and was very pleasantly surprised. Also, recorded in 1977 and released in 1978, it was one of the last releases by the "unbroken" Blue Note label name. I think that Carmen McRae had moved on by then, so maybe she owed them some tracks or something. Bobby had just moved on. Earl Klugh had graduated to the parent UA label, so Blue Note was already running on fumes. And yet it's not a bad record at all and if there is more Hutch & McRae in the can from that gig, let's have a look! Somebody?

On CD shelving. They fit. And I store the Big Boxes on LP shelving. They fit. So, no difference between Selects & Big Boxes in terms of where you can store them. They all go on the shelves.

I'd totally forgotten that Chris McGregor played on one track (Poor Boy) from Nick Drake's "Bryter Layter" LP. Re-read it recently in Morton Jack's new ND biography "The Life". The piano work throughout the track is prominent & funky. This is one of the rare occasions where Nick played electric guitar (he borrowed Simon Nichols Gibson L-7C archtop) "Immediately before Nick arrived for the session Joe had been working with Chris McGregor, who was still smoking dope in the control room. He stuck around and, says Joe, 'jumped up spontaneously', playing an immaculate piano part in one take".

Where do you put your Selects and other CD's?

Was reissued on CD in 2013 in Japan for about five minutes, as usual for those Japanese reissues.

Mchaka Uba

Oh, now I see. Thanks!

Earlier Andrew Barker, Kyle Motl & John Dikeman 2 strong sets really catching fire during the 2nd set

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