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Well I understand you. Oh, that coat, how much would I like to have such a coat.

Billie Holiday.....I fell in love with her voice when I was a kid and it has remained that way. I think very very much about vocal jazz now and also if I play with the non vocal band let´s say some ballad most of those I choose are things Billie Holiday sang. I´d say: Listening to how she does a song´, listening to the way she pronounces the lyrics and you have tons of help to get into the song, in the very very inside of it. WONDERFUL

oh what a great list. Timeless was my favourite label because those artists were my favourites.

anectdotes.....once I almost got into a battle when we had a one nighter in some goddamn town with a pick up personnel of mixed nationality (one US-Girl on trumpet, one italian guy on bass and a bit vocal, and three romanian guys if you include me (as beeing a "terrible" mixture of jewish, romanian and hungarian blood). They had hotel rooms booked for us to stay over nite after gig and while the girl was in the dress room, we went to the bar to discuss WHO will be the one who will be with the girl in the same room..... I pretended that I must be the one, while the italian guy shouted that of course he will sleep with her, and my other compatrioți also yelled as loud as they could. The whole situation became quite grotesc and curse words where yelled. Both italians and romanias can be very very irascible and what a wealth of dictionary of ugly words we have in those latin-based languages. When words was not enough, it was damn near that fists and who knows what all have in their pockets will be used. At that moment, the manager of the event came into the room and said with a grin on his face: „Hey guys, calm down, the lady just booked a separate room for her.......

Man, I didn´t know he looks so similar to Lester Young 😮

I have not listened to records for a long time, but hear them in my head. Today, while waiting for the Trolley I spinned "Fast Track" from the 80´s Miles Davis live album, the one with Mike Stern. You C, I got my hifi-equipment just inside me 😎

I don´t have the book and must even admit that it was many moons I didn´t even read a newspaper or any other news. But if it is focused on his career as a jazz musician, it would be great for me, because I never was very interested in other stuff than music.

Update on my composing. Sometimes pleasant surprises happen: I had a rough time the last months in personal live. Had to move down and though busy with my music I eventually was lookin for some nice girl again and the one I date frequently now is really a gas, and some days ago at my place after the more "romantic" side of a date she asked me to play some for her, and then took the piano stool to play herself. Though she said she never had even touched an instrument it made sense what she was doin´, and you know I am a natural musician and you can have studied the whole instrument and don´t play shit, but she just has that native musicality and repeated a phrase over and over again, givin´me that sweet but also very intensive look. I slept over it and the next day I had the stuff for a new tune which we will include on our next album. You don´t need many notes to make great music, the little phrase sounds quick and hip and will be for a kinda "free funk". You know, she had the little piano figure, I heard all the breaks, dissonant chords and bass vamps and the powerful rhythm team of drums and percussion and the two horn players. Got a title for it and never say else than though it´s her merits...... And I did some fotos of her while she tried out my piano, maybe you gonna see them some time.

Saw him together with Eddie Lockjaw Davis live. They seemed to tour together and also made a record I think for Pablo, which was the main label for "Mainstream Jazz" in the 70´s. The gig I saw must have been around the same time.

Yeah I LOVE him.

This was very very popular when I was beginning to listen to Afro-American Music. It was just around, everybody knew it. I still love it !

Wow, superb ! Really, the BEST THING I have heard in Years. So fantastic. I love it !

Pharoah Sanders was and will ever be one of the greatest souls. He was one of the earlíest afro american music I heard when I was in my early teens. And each live event really touched my soul. I love him so much, I dedicated a tune to him, will be on our next album.

Hi Peter ! No problem. But I was born in 1959, so it´s logic that the first Miles I could here was from 1973 on, when I became 14 and to develope my on thougts and my own stuff runnin´. So this was "the good old days" in my case 😉 Good choice that Kenny Burrell album. Sometimes I listen to it in the small hours when I get home. It´s a fine album to relax before taking a rest.....

A Milestone. I love this album, I mean I had the LP and have the CD. Funny, because I started Miles in 1973/74 when I heard him live and was crazy about it, and then I started to listen also to the classic old albums "Filles de Kilimanjaro", "Silent Way" and "Bitches Brew". The good old days.