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I like the 1953 roost session. Some great ballads and some incredible ”Woody´n You" and "Bean and the Boys". Somehow it is "deeper" for me than the earlier 1947 session.

wonderful !

Great! While some don´t like the album with Hampton Hawes, Bob Cranshaw and Klook (because Hamp plays Fender Rhodes), I like it very much. Also have the Gene Ammons album with the same rhythm section, and Dex and Cannonball sittin in on the last number..... I love all that albums, late Trane, Pharoah, and of course very much Alice. I am very very much into the more spiritual side of our music....

Oh thank you so much. BTW: Since I mentioned my beloved Andreea, who is in charge for some tunes and really is the REASON for this my 3rd album with my formation..... Since you are from Spain, from Barcelona.......she is half Spanish (father Spanish) , half Romanian (and I am full romanian), and the first 10 years of her life she lived in your city, Barcelona. That´s her on that foto 😍 Our story sounds like a Jazz Fairytale....I spotted her in the audience when I played a gig, and thought wow, the most beautiful girl I ever seen. And since her very original and unique way of making the piano sound reminded me of some stuff Sun Ra did, she got the nickname "Miss RA" and my compositon "Miss Ra´s Choice" from our second album is based on a piano figure she played, just exactly when I made that foto...and fitting....the Pharoah Sanders-T-Shirt 😀

Here, this was made about just a month ago. Nicolas, Denise Bozoană (a very fine singer with whom I´ll do some touring), and me. We three in front of the great jazzclub "Jazz Book" în București. I can´t believe it, can´t believe it.........on wendsday will be the funeral......WE HAVE THE SAME AGE ...... R.I.P.

Hi friends, I still CANT BELIEVE it. My good friend, one of the best saxophone players in Europe, and I am sure many of you have heard about him or have his records, died yesterday. He lived in Germany, the town Koln, but was from the same city like me (Brașov, transsilvanian region of România). The last weeks he was here with us in his native country. We talked about music, had dinner together, he even recommanded me a good drummer for a tour I have to make. That was TWO DAYS AGO !! We wrote each other on WhatsApp and he told me that the next day he goes back to Germany. And today, all Romanian radio stations reported it, on FB it is discussed. It´s so sad !

all time favourite ! oh yeah, those two are great. But what I like most is Jackie McLean. I´m just crazy about his sound. Heard it when I was still in my early teens, and ....hooked forever. But they all great. Duke Jordan plays also some beautiful piano. Almost all of them had played and recorded with Bird. And if Bird had lived a bit more, he would have played with Ron. I think there was a project involving him, but then it was all over.....Bird said Good Bye !

Don´t know why I can´t save album covers as downloads to upload them here, but ANYWAY: LAST NIGHT: Cotrane Live in Japan. Thats THE BEST MUSIC I can imagine !!!!!!!!😍 Since some time, I am quite far removed from listening to mainstream or straight ahead. It must be in a spiritual context to have that ultimative feeling of happiness.....

Oh, I have those, but with other cover, just little photos of all the musicians, separate fotos That´s how I liked how Keith played. I can´t get with his later solo concerts, not my kinda stuff.

Same impressions here. And anyway, only few years later, still in the 60´s , Miles really opened his music up and definitly went beyond the boundaries of straight ahead bebop. Listen to stuff like Directions, or some of the stuff on Miles in the Sky, on Filles des Kilijanjaro, and the more atonality of Chick Coreas electric piano. It´s far to believe, that Miles was not ready for Sam. I think, in comparation to Directions and others, just few years later, that Tokyo album sounds like a tame, very conventional hard bop album. I don´t hear anything "far out" on it. But listen: Before I heard stuff like that, I mean in a very early stage of listening to jazz, my main interest was late Trane, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra.....so what do you want to hear, that I find "Tokyo" too freaky from Sam Rivers solos ?????

Now I read a book with the original english title ”The Tenant”, by Freida McFadden. Of course I don´t read books in english, but in my native language Romanian, that´s how I bought it: "Chiriașa” ......that means „the tenant”

Hi ! I can announce you that I take my band again into the studio on october 3th. We´ll do our third album. This time not a double vinyl, just one normal vinyl, and for those who want, also CD, but vinyl sells better among jazz buffs nowadays. The third album of course has the same personnel: my female singer, she did her debut on "Simmering" my last album and since then is a fix member of my band, then of course the two horns, me on piano, bass, drums and percussion, the very best guys I have in my band. This time it will be only originals, no standards ! And from the 6 pieces 4 are vocal, only two is instrumental. The singer wrote all the lyrics to my compositions. Oh, there will also be a very short 7th piece, something that I never did and you don´t hear often on jazz combo records: It´s just voice and piano. What we call in România "o romanță” (a romance), or a serenade .......will be a premiere. I also like to mention, that from the 7 tunes 3 are based on some sponanuous played things by my girlfriend Andreea. She is not a musician and did not play any instrument before she met me, but when she fingers something on the piano, it makes sense, it sounds beautiful and what I can do is just organize it to become an entire piece, get the right chords and score it for the band. Since she is not registered at the Composers Guild, they have to be under my name, but I´ll give her the royalities for those tunes. We just played some of it on gigs in springtime, like a kind of "rehearsal", but professional musicians we don´t need an entire rehearsal, we go in the studio, and one day will be enough for those tunes.

Sounds interesting. I have only one Afro Cubop and that´s on Spotlite. It´s mainly Howard McGhee and Brew Moore with Machito Orchestra, and on Side B there is three tunes with Bird, one is a very very romantic slow rhumba tune titled "Reminiscing at Twilight" that I never heard anywhere else. So....is this other Afro Cubop that I may not have heard ?

This was my first Joe Henderson Record. Too bad that the cover looks like that after decades. My copy ....the same thing. A pity because the cover girl is outright beautiful

This must be great. I love everything that was so called "Free Jazz", not the european free jazz and not the white free jazz, but the classic masters like Ornette, Trane, Pharoah, Ayler, and Shepp and of course Sun Ra. Now listening: Coltrane: Expression