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I think it was in the record stores in the late 70´s but sorry to say I didn´t buy it then. I have only "Dancing in your Head" from that period, but not "Body Meta" or "Soapsuds"........ oh yes I have that, it is very fine, but it seems that at the end a radio voice is speakin somethin that doesn´t have nothing to do with Dex. Anyway, I think I loved the group with Kirk Lightsey most ! He is such a great pianist !

I wish you good luck. Being on the other side of the ocean, there is no way we could jam, but I know how important that is for musicians. We have the ideal surroundings here in Viena, since many youngsters study jazz at MUK or JamLab or Vienna Institute of Contemporary Music, and they all come to a certain club where we have jam sessions and I enjoy to check the scene, so you always have a "pool" from where you can pick up musicians.

hey good stuff, just go on !

yeah you right ! I suppose you saw them live at Caravan of Dreams ? My younger son loves their music, he is a punk and says it reminds him of Punk Rock. Well I can associate myself also with that, being a Goth or Dark Punk. I love all kinds of really dense stuff like the Miles when he had Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas, and.......Ornette´s Prime Time. There is not so much type of music like that, or at least not with that energy. If I listen to that, it´s drugs, you can´t stop and you go on and go on and wish it will never stop 🤣

But I must admit I listened only to the second of the two vinyls. I like Prime Time better than the acoustic stuff, I don´t know why, but Prime Time thrills me more.

So great, I love it !

Great ! thanks for sharing. How great was Wynton then, and he looked sharp, really, almost like Woody Shaw. And yeah, there is some stuff of Wayne in Branford´s solo ! I think, Billy Pierce is also very very fine !

I still have it on VHS and recently watched it.

It´s not only because I love that cover photo, it´s music I can hear after a gig, when we come down to relax. Since my sister owns a jazz club, and always want´s music for after show DJ-ing, I check out for her what might sound good and this one will be the choice next week. Last week it was Hank Mobley´s "Soul Station". I think I will organize more small hours stuff for her, like Jimmy Smith "The Sermon", that´s a good one for those occasions, I also think about Grant Green´s "I wanna hold your hand".....that´s good and easy listening stuff for late nighters......

Well yeah, it seems I am very much associated with night life 🤣 About stopping habits.....I don´t drink alcool for example and am vegan, well I smoke one cigarette after having a meal, but don´t think that those 3 cigarettes would not make me a poor man. For example, the New Year´s Eve, we attended a club with some great party music and stayed until 4 in the morning and then one of the guys from the musician community suggested we continue the party at his place and I came home at 8 in the morning. But I don´t drink any alcool, not even the usual glass of champagne midnight, and had three big glasses of water with lemon juice and 2 espresso, so that is not much money. On the other hand, there was a lotta good music, they spinned all those old Coltrane Albums, I think one with "Russion Lullaby" that´s really strong.

Usually I don´t buy straight ahead jazz any more, I mean the old bop stuff I´m thru with that, BUT one exception was Dizzy´s Sonny Side Up" since I saw a Deluxe Edition of it at the only record shop we have left in my neighbourhood, and since someone had said once that it sounds good, I bought it.

Me too 🤣Freedom Jazz Dance and Gingerbread Boy *lol* But I think I can remember I once played in a funk band and they did "Freedom Jazz Dance" in their way. I loved to play with them and loved to play this tune.

Gee that´s a good idea THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING IT !!! My sister has a small jazz club, and always needs some records that is good, when there is not live music. And for late nights those ole hard bop records are good. I recommended to her "Mobley Soul Station", and Jimmy Smith "Sermon" .....so this Kenny Burrell at Five Spot might fit in that club, what´s your opinion ? Interesting, I never saw that record. I think I have only one record from Keystone Korner and it is a Blakey record. I love Monk with Rouse but it´s hard to identify the records I think there was a lot of live records but some I think was bootleg. I don´´t know what label he was under contract, but it´s strange there are Monk records from almost every European Country and all of then in that narrow interval of the 60´s . Same with Mingus. I think there are dozens of records of the same tunes, but one let´s say in Germany, one lets say in Italy or France.....that´s hard to choose any of them

I never did see that thread. Someone mentioned "Willisau" I remember that Festival ! Did this label or any other label record Mingus´ performance in Willisau ? It might have been in the second half of the 70´s, I still didn´t have a driving licence, was maybe 16 years old and some older hippies took me there that´s how I went to see foreign festivals. Now, did that Label Hat Hut record that ? I think it would be a milestone in jazz history

Well, I don´t remember I ever bought "Chrismas music". The funny thing is now my actual girlfriend is a christian.....romanian ortodox, while I believe in polytheism, that means many godnesses and so on, but now she told me to buy a tree and stuff, and imagine I DID, cause she gave me this sweet smile and said "but Gh..., CHRISMAS is for EVERYBODY"..... But I wouldn´t say I BUY Chrismas Music, I started to play the 2 songs I know "Chrismas Song" and "White Chrismas", usually I do "Chrismas Song" in Eb, and "White Chrismas" in Db.....you follow ?