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Wonderful, beautiful photo !

I dont know but in the last weeks my very favourite for listening is Ornette Coleman´s Prime Time. So hip, so damn good, I LOVE it !

I saw Terumaso Hino once with Dave Liebman, and Hino had a pocket trumpet like Don Cherry !

Love it !

I bought this one after seeing Max Roach with Cecil Bridgwater, Billy Harper, Reggie Workman. I don´t know about flaws of Max Roach. To me he seemed the ultimate gentleman ! He had something aristocratic, very stily, very educated.....

The Musician I love most from them all 💕

Siegfried Kessler was such a great pianist. I loved his playing from the first moment on. I heard him with Archie Shepp for example. It´s strange that sometimes I read or hear that music lovers even today call that "Avantgarde" or say it´s to heavy stuff for them. For me it isn´t even an "electric album"......well the keyboards, thats all. But it still has so much the old conception of theme-solos-theme and it is not much more advanced than "In a Silent Way". So it´s hard for me to follow those who tell me they find it "weird" or "far out" or who knows what. I had heard Miles in 1973 with Liebman, Reggie Lukas, Pete Cosey, Mike Henderson, Al Foster and Mtume, that was my first Miles, and I must admit when people told me to buy Bitches Brew cause it´s the first "electric album" of Miles, I was almost disapointed first....imagine, Aghartha, Dark Magus, Pangeea still were not even recorded !

There were some good records on that label. I have this, and maybe a few others, I think one of Bird in Washington, Bud Powell in Washington, and Dexter´s "American Classic", Woody Shaws "Master of the Art" Oh yeah I have this, and the Howard McGhee Vol. 1 too. But I must admit I spinned more the first half of the CD, the McGhee. I´m not so much a guitar fan and it´s a bit too focussed on the guitar....don´t misunderstand me, I like Kenny Burell, Grant Green, but they are mostly in settings with horns and with piano, I like that more.

It´s one of my all time favourites. I remember an older friend had it, and it was in the time when the BN was dying, so most of the albums were OOP and there was mostly only those hidous paper bag cover double albums, and only few of them. This album was and is exactly my taste ! When I was still new in jazz I thought that what Cherry does ist automatically "Free Jazz". But this is not a Free Jazz record, it´s mostly straight ahead swing and many themes. I love each of the players, it´s an all star album. I think this and another of Cherry are the only ones of Gato Barbieri that I have. One of my favourite McTyner albums! I think that´s the line up I saw live. Maybe another drummer, I think Ronny Burrage, and a percussion player, it was a sextet with sax, violin, b, dr, perc.

Oh, me too ! I love that record, I love Alice Coltrane and especially those where Pharoah Sanders is playing with her !

Oh yeah I love it. Especially "The Nearness of You". I loved that song since I was a kid and that´s the reason why I included it in my new album. The lyrics of that song are great. Can´t play a ballad in the really heartfelt manner if I wouldn´t know the lyrics....

I love the record. I have heard that it did not sell very well and Miles accused Columbia for weak marketing. But the music is incredible fine ! But I also like the way they played the Jack Johnson stuff years later on Agharta. Especially I like the bass sound on the Agharta album more. Also, in the mid 80´s on Miles´ album "You Are Under Arrest" the bass figure at the beginning is the same like on Jack Johnson.

"What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) – 7:33 "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:13 "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 9:13 "Powell's Prances" (Richie Powell) – 3:28 "Time" (Richie Powell) – 5:03 "The Scene Is Clean" (Tadd Dameron, arr. Dameron) – 6:04 "Gertrude's Bounce" (Richie Powell) – 4:09

I just ordered it 🤣

Oh I have to purchase this one. It seems that this is the one with "Round Midnight" on it ? Because I saw them in 1978 and they played a stunnig wild version of "Round Midnight". Oh, such a nice album ! I have it on those RCA black&white series, from the late 70´s. I remember I had a nice conversation with Bill Hardman when he played in Cehoslovacia and I played with my group, long ago, and during intermission he said he remembers that record very well. We had a nice conversation really.

oh that would be great !

Interesting. I have a Clifford Brown-Max Roach vinyl very old and its also titled Basin Street but seems to be a studio record. It has mostly Richie Powell´s tunes, but also Dameron´s "The Scene is Clean".

at least I can say I saw him live once. Was a great gig, he was together with Dee Dee Bridgewater on stage, it was double billing. So great. And a stellar rhythm section. One of my European favourites was on piano: Siegfried Kessler, he was soooo great always, with Archie Shepp etc. On bass was David Eubanks, it was after his tenure with Dex. He had double booking those days, he played with Jackie McLean and the next day with Jimmy Witherspoon/Dee Bridgewater. I can´t remember who was on drums. Too bad they did not record it. It was incredible !

Yeah, they were good. Especially for a young budding musician with low budget. I got all their Mingus albums, the Roach album, and I think the "Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet" with Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry was also on it. Starting with Jazz in early teens I was quickly "hooked" by the stuff that went beyond be- and hardbop, all those incredible Impulse albums of Trane, Pharoah, Ornette, Albert Ayler.....the music I love most. And it had started with hearing Dolphy on the 3-LP America label issue of "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus". Hearing what Dolphy did at a very early age opened my mind and my imagination !

I love it too. I purchased it in 1978 when I first saw Max Roach live. If I remember right, this was the only Max Roach LP they had in the record store then. It was a pleasant surprise for me to have Clifford Jordan on it, he is very strong, as is Eddie Khan on bass. But then, it was on another label, it was the French "America" Label, which had mostly Mingus records from the sixties. Roach when I saw him first, performed with Cecil Bridgewater, Billy Harper and Reggie Workman.

I heard Sue´s Changes live, but it was one year later, and I think Adams and Pullen were replaced by Ricky Ford and first Danny Mixon and I think I had heard Sue´s Changes with Dannie Mixon on piano. During his solo spot he got into a medium tempo stride and the audience loved it. I saw Mingus one year later but I think he had skipped Sue´s Changes from the set list, they played his new opus "Cumbia&Jazz Fusion"..... as far as I can remember after almost 50 years.

I first heard him on Liebman´s Drum Ode, which was a favourite of mine then when it came out and still is.

Another one I like very much. Like the later records of Trane, and like all stuff by Pharoah Sanders I love the music of Alice Coltrane, it moves me.

Oh my God, what great music, and how much I LOVE PHAROAH SANDERS !!!! It seems that he is the artist who touches my soul most since last year, especially since I´m in love. But he has been always one of my favourites, now my foremost favourite. He is the musician, his is the music that moves my heart, I get that feeling of sublime happiness, like when you are in love, and at the same time brings tears of emotion into my eyes. Pharoah Sanders.......I love him. I am so glad I saw him often live when he walked on this planet....... I think we, who got his message, got his blessings........

you are damn right, loud !!!!! I heard that group in 1978 at Kongresshaus in Vienna. That venue doesn´t exist anymore, now there is a BILLA market in it🤢 Anyway, it was really loud and I was sitting near the amps, but it was one of the best live shows I ever heard, I heard Max Roach later too, with Odeon Pope and Calvin Hill, but I liked the quartet with Billy Harper more, and liked Reggie Workman more as a bassist. This is a very fine album. I think some of the albums Bud recorded in the mid fifties were not as good as earlier albums or later albums, but this one is very fine. The Monk tunes like Epistrophy are outa sight, as is Salt Peanuts and a boppish theme on Sweet Georgia Brown. Bud was really in very fine form on it.