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FANTASTIC!!!

I don´t have this, but I love Woody Shaw and saw him live as often as I could. Fantastic musician ! I heard, this album was quite late in his career but that it is great. Maybe I should purchase it.

Yeah, but he didn´t wear the hearing aids much. I remember a Down Beat interview he did in 1988 and the interviewer wrote "his hearing is not well and he apologies on open conversation and since he perspires a lot, the hearing aids get wet and damaged and need replacement. Well, that´s common among musicians. I have the same thing, 48 years of active playing live music and my hearing is slowly disappearing. I play very loud and listen to music very loud and have to concentrate and listen closely if people want to tell me something: Look at the picture of me at an Art Gallery where they want me to present my upcoming album and the famous writer Leo K. who wants to organize it talks to me about the project and tall as I am I bend down and listen with deepest concentration just to HEAR the stuff he tells me 🤣

I don´t know nothing about a decline. Saw him the last time in 1989 and it was fantastic, and I really could HEAR him. I don´t know that album. I saw Blakey very often from the late 70´s to 1990 with different bands, the first was with Valery Ponomarev, Dave Schnitter and Bobby Watson, I think James Williams and aaah .....a bass player. Later with maybe Donald Harrison and Terenche Blanchard maybe Mulgrew Miller and Lonnie Plaxico, and later maybe with that young white cat on piano Benny Green and other very good young musicians. Maybe that was the last occasion I saw him.

must be also great, though this year I clearly prefer the post 1965 stuff of Trane, when Pharoah Sanders joined the band. Dolphy is great and was one of the first musicians that thrilled me.

I should give them a try again. I have them but at some certain point they started to bore me because I started to get bored by the hard bop style and kept only stuff like "Soul Station" on my current playlist. But for some small hours listening when I lay down and close my eyes to relax a bit before falling asleep it might be nice again. A very good bebop record. So many don´t know Miles before the "First Quintet" but he was strong between 1949-1951 doing almost as quick and fast like Diz or Fats, but all his own. Very fine. And he had the best players, Jackie McLean, Sonny Rollins, J.J. Johnson, Art Blakey.....I also like the 1951 Birdland recordings very much. I love it. I love music that is like a prayer, like this one or ascension or Pharoah Sanders "The Creator..." or Alice Coltrane, it really inspires me, though I am a devout polytheist, but very religious in that manner......

So great ! My younger son, who lives in Spain and stays some days with me (I had an important gig and he went to see to show), we listened to this, it´s my favourite from the Prime Time I think. And sometimes it sounds similar to Punk Rock which is cool. I like Ornette´s violin playing on the last track "Compute" very much. It´s so strong the whole album.

oh yeah ! Bravo !

I have this one, nice with Milt Jackson, but in general I listen more to the Mobley around the time of „Soul Station”. I find, the early BN albums are very very similar. Same with Morgan. I think this one is the one with the Benny Golson Arrangements, its nice. Is that the one with a cute waltz on it? I kept only one of the 1950´s Morgan, I think it is called "The Cooker". In rest I have more from the 60´s I think, only that I don´t really listen much to the "Sidewinder", prefer other albums like "Search of a New Land", that´s what I love most.

Is that the album with the first recording of "Enlightment". I have Sun Ra record only from the midsixties on.

It´s indeed a fine record. The first tune seems to be what Alfred Lion then wanted all his artists to do. But if I am honest, my favourite Wayne Shorter on BN would be "All Seeing Eye".

I love him. I was just 14 years old when I admired his artistry when he was in Miles´ band. Oh boy that groove. Mike Henderson, Al Foster, Mtume, greatest of all, such a wealth of rhythmic inspirations for a kid...... never will forget that as long as I live. And yeah, with Pharoah - Love is us All.......oh boy, Pharoah Sanders, also from that period of 1973,74. That´s when I bought my first Pharoah Sanders record and Love is us All is a center piece in my life. I love Pharoah Sanders so much, he is a leading figure for me as a musician and as a human being. On my next album there is a tune I dedicated to him...... About Joe Henderson: I heard him first on TV....I think it was a show from 1977 with Ratso Harris on bass, a guitar player and a drummer I don´t remember who, but from the FIRST MOMENT I knew this is what I like. And just a few months after that TV-experience I finally saw him live. I think he had Hilton Ruiz in his group, maybe Ray Drummond on bass, I don´t remember the drummer. I like Joe Henderson for his power and his approach, I love him very much, though as older I get and in the same time younger (have a very young girl friend) it seems that the spirituality of Pharoah Sanders is what reaches me more in an increasing manner.....

yeah I have heard them. That was a good group. On Steeple Chase I think I have one with a very long version of "Parker´s Mood"....some of the best slow Blues I ever heard. And one that I love is "Ghetto Lullaby". I would not say I have MANY of his records since collecting just is not my thing, I try to get some tastes and see what I can stock in my mind and maybe get some first hand studies.

Well in my religion (politheism) there is no Chrismas, but I like to make people happy and have love and respect for all who believe in something. Tomorrow there is a big familiy meeting at my elder sister´s house with a lotta relatives, brothers and sisters in law and who knows more..... and some kids from my nieces too. I think it´s a how they say..... advent meeting...... Usually the "crazy little brother of his elder sister" is asked to play something on the piano, they had the piano tuned for me they said. So I know it´s time before Chrismas for Christian People, I think I should play some of that stuff. Thought about "Chrismas Song" in Eb. This more in ballad time. Might also give them a taste of "White Chrismas" in medium tempo, in Db that´s a nice key, and play some choruses on it.

Oh I have never heard this. Coltrane sounds great on it !

When I have a night off (here in Europe its "Round About Midnight) and I´m scheduled only for tomorrow night to play.... well then I love to cook. Right now a really hot vegan dish with all them vegetables in it, a lot of hot chili too, garlic, and sure sure sure only vegan, and I love to cook and taste, AND while doing so, I have a portable CD Player in the kitchen, and am in the mood for "On the Corner". I really have to have it LOUD, I LOOOOOVVVE that record ! And that kind of style of Music in general.....it makes me dance, it makes me feel happy and just posted it to my youngest boy who lives in Spain and loves our music.... we often exchange what we listen to Anyway, he will come here next week, I gonna throw a big big party for my Birthday and of course we do partying at a jazz club and play a whole concert, my great band my best friends, makin some happy noizzzzz 😆

Thank you both. Well it was a crazy year. I get much love from people around and made some good music I think or lets say it this way, people tell me that, okay I got a helluva band its them they really cook so you play and things look better.

oh holy ghost oh.... I love both New and Old Gospel and ´Bout Soul !! Gospel....I was close to the late great pioneer of Free Jazz here in Austria, Fritz Novotny, the founder of Reform Art Unit, and he pulled my coat to that record. Bout Soul I got later. Without having had any thoughts about it, now that you mention it, the record I made in october and will be on sale early next year, it also has a track that starts with spoken lyrics, you will like it. I love Bout Soul, and Demon´s Dance. I had heard Jackie McLean many times live. Once even with a true BN reunit, it was him with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins. But I also dug a later group with his son René and with Hotep Galeta, Ronnie Burrage, David Eubanks and Dinizulu, that was some stuff.....

Thanks man ! Yeah, the music helps.

Oh, when was that made ?

@Big Beat Steve: I don´t remember, do you know how much has happened this year, first my wife left me, then she died, I made a new record, I found a new love, I got diagnosis with bipolar disorder, I played a lotta gigs and had a lot of tears and a lot of happiness..... so, how could I remember what I posted or noticed before all those things happened 🤣

A good one ! I heard Pharoah Sanders play "On a Misty Night", such a nice tune !

wow, I didn´t know about this ! I LOVE Don Byas !!!!!!!

thank you, @Referentzhunterthank you to you too. Well I have not heard her music. I spotted the eyebrows, you know I have two passions: Music, and Beauty/Styling/Fashion, music my profession, the other stuff my "hobby" or my "necessity as a man" cause I scream over women who are beautifully styled and I also spend a lot money on clothes and cosmetica *oops*. Last night listening to Pharoah Sanders, my alltime favourite, my personal hero, and a guide to me to become a better human being. All my love to that man and his music ! "Harvest Time" soooooo beautiful, things like those let me fight with tears, anyway, complicate year, lotta emotions....... oh interesting. There must be telepathy because I also have not listened to Mingus for much time, he was very often listened by me in the past, and I had seen him live 3 times, but now I am more into stuff like more spiritual music like late Trane, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and so on. But as you say it, yesterday I had listened to a Mingus album, I think an Impulse album, but not "Black Saint". I did not purchase the "Cornell" stuff, since I have too much from that 1964 band already, I have the Townhall, I have the 3 LP "Great Concert of Charles Mingus" and so that was enough for my tastes..... But I am sure it is as interesting as the others I already have.

who is the lady ? I like her eyebrows, that´s perfect form, that´s how I have mine also styled.....