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Very good one! Lou Donaldson's "The Scorpion" (actually an alternate take) is better than the issued take. John Patton's "Villiage Lee" (I think its real name is "Lite Hit") is also wild. And the soulfully sentimental "You Want Me To Stop Lovin' You" composed by Walter Davis, Jr.

Love the Reuben Wilson version of "Hold On, I'm Coming" feat a great George Coleman solo ....

Just wanted to second all the [Ahmed] hype, it's truly gorgeous music. It swings and hits you and yet it remains quite experimental in nature. Bought the digital download which is quite reasonably priced (you are getting 5 cds's worth of music in FLAC format so, with a decent DAC, you get the same experience you'd have with the box set; ok, minus the physical pleasure of owning it).

We had spent two years in Ethiopia prior to that, which was a wonderful experience as well. But the three years at Waterford Kamhlaba were perhaps the most important in my life. I was the only American at the school (my siblings were too young to attend) and there were African, English, Indian and Portuguese students from a number of African countries, and the only drawback was that there were only about 12 girls amid 120 or so male students. I had the best education of my life and the best cultural and social experience of my life--it shaped me in important ways.

That must have been adventurous times .... thnx for sharing ....

Miles Davis “ESP” Blu-Spec CD2 2023

There NEVER was apartheid in Swaziland. The impetus of the creation of this school was anti-apartheid--it was originally built in the Republic of South Africa to enroll white and African students together, and was then banned and moved to Swaziland to be rebuilt in 1962. My family arrived the week that Swaziland gained its independence from the UK and we were the first American family to live there--my father was the first Director of their Peace Corps program.

yes ... she has the right things going on

👍 .... btw interesting there was no "Apartheid" @ Swaziland in the late 60's 🤔 ....

Miki Yamanaka “Songs without Lyrics” cd 980×972 270 KB Miki on piano and composer, with Lawrence Leathers(drums), Tivon Pennicott(sax/flute), and Spencer Murphy(bass) 1920×1280 505 KB

Students of Waterford Kamhlaba School, M'Babane, Swaziland (Eswatini) 1968. I'm in there somewhere.

Thanks for your honest comments. I certainly going to listen to the symphony you advised me to listen to. 'Goatman' is a character from a Folklore-story from England (some say United States wich is incorrect i believe, not sure) and refers to the Devil himself. An unexpected guest appears at a desolate old building. Someone drops something, tries to grap it from the ground under the table and sees the guest has no feed but hooves. I believe bad things happen afterwards. The story escalated to all sorts of substories.

Seeed "New Dubby Conquerors" (Downbeat) 2001 ....

Recorded @ RCA Studio New York in September 1985 .... afterthoughts of a fulfilling life ....

Art Tatum "Jewels in the Treasure Box" disc 3

William Gedney "San Francisco" (1967) .... double admiration .... not an album cover but too good not to be shared ....

Recorded @ Casino Zögernitz Wien in January 1990 and March 1992 .... the ensemble`s precision is astounding (again and again) ....

Jean-Jacques Avenel .... what a superb bassplayer .... and underrated for sure ....

BTW - thanks for the kindness, guys. I've definitely missed being here! Having a kid has completely recalibrated so many of my old habits.

That Jackson Chourio homerun ball was annihilated .... wow ....

@ "ep1strOphy" : insightful thoughts, appreciated ....

Superb Phil Stern photography ....

Agreed 😉😇 ....

And the Lord said, let there be FLAYVA. And it was so. Talk about everybody having a good day...and Ben Dixon framing everything! Don't think that this was ever a 45, but if it was, I want it, and a jukebox to put it in. And the scratchier, the better.

I think I have one Green album from about 1969 from the style of clothes and the hairdo on the cover photo, and it sounds like some very early jazz rock. But once again: I´m sure he was not mentioned here in Viena in jazz rock fan circles. We all heard and studied what was around, but as for electric jazz our men were Miles, Herbie, RTF, Tony´s Lifetime and so on. Our listening habits were splitted between late Free Jazz or Post Coltrane and early electric/funk jazz. So I´m sure that a lot of those attempts of BN in the early 70´s to record a lot of electric stuff with all those many instruments, like they also did with Lou Donaldson, was not noticed here. It did not sell here, while all the albums of Miles from Bitches Brew on, and all the Headhunters and RTF stuff and Lifetime stuff sold extremly well.......