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Happy Birthday, congrats !!!

This is a night where I have a day off, I didn´t have to play so I decided to relax at home, with some good vegan food and great music from two albums that arrived today: First, since I am into those things, I spinned the wonderful "Goin´Home". I love Albert Aylor, I love his spirituality in general, in another manner than Trane or my beloved Pharoah Sanders, but just beautiful and deep. This special mood let me go out for a walk in the small hours. Usually I don´t comment the weather since I´m not so interested in it, but this night was special. Since we have a rare year with some snow here in Viena/Austria, I forget how beautiful the snow is in the night and enjoyed walkin in that silence... I recaptured the music and did my prayers where I thank the Godnesses for watching over me, thank my late wife Serena whose spirit also is watchin over me, and thank the Godnesses for the great love I found with that wonderful young girl I am with.... After that, I did somethin good for me, takin a hot shower, washing my hair thats gettin longer and longer and while let it dry just with room temperatura I spinned the fantastic "Obsession". Well I´m so happy to hear the great Cindy Blackman here, and all those fantastic guys.

Sounds great, I have an album with the same group live at Onkel Pö´s (Germania) Must be nice. From the cover it looks like those legendary Black Lion albums of Americans in Paris, in the 60´s. I have some of them: One Dexter Gordon, one Bud Powell, and one Don Byas if I remember right.

I think I have one from Japan from that time, with Rivers, maybe Tokyo, and it also has a distorted sound at the beginning, I think the tune is "If I were a Bell", something is not okay with the sound for a moment.....

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.