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Yes you are right, I heard it. It´s good that way, easier to memorize, I mean I don´t like to have sheet on the piano, so you are right, I just keep the form of the song the way I have memorized it and play the solos just in the form. 😀

I love it

Me at a studio for promotion fotos Thats the wonderful Miss RA, my girlfriend, who is not a trained musician but can finger out stuff that really makes sense to me and I picked up some of her stuff. She has such a sense for music, it´s incredible..... Here we checkin out what I rote down from the stuff she played...... I´d say after such a rough start this year it turned out to be the best year I ever had. And this one was done outdoor. Well I lost some pounds that´s true

So great ! I love it so much and it helped me so much....

I just want to ask you musicians about that great tune. Of course I know the form of the song, but is it true that for the solos most musicians omit the last 4 bars ? I have listened to some records, one of it by Clifford Jordan and the Magic Triangle, and one by Bud Powell. Sure I also know the Miles Davis version, but that one is in Eb and I have to play it for someone who want´s it in F. So please, tell me if I´m right and on solos you just play the form, but not the last 4 bars, or am I wrong ?

Last night: Chico Freeman. Time flies, first Time I saw him in 1979 at Velden. He îs great!

That´s a very nice album and I love Clifford Jordan´s playing, it´s so forcefull

I saw him together with Chico Freeman doing a Tribute to McCoy Tyner at Porgy&Bess this spring or early summer.

That´s a very fine album

I love this !!!!!!!

yeah that´s right and it feels so good to help a talented young musician from Hungary. You are a saxophone player, you might like the way he plays, but I think anyway you heard him on our last album and maybe on youtube. You sure must like him ! And now that I get more and more away from straight ahead boppish kinda music he sound so good on my new stuff also, it´s just wonderful to have such a person !

oh, first I want all my band members feel good and he is the youngest and still student at the famous Viennese University MUK, the best place for studying jazz in my country. Many students from all the world come to Viena to study here because it´s so good. He is so good he gets such a lot of calls. I was the first to give him a job. And it´s not for just one tune: He made copies of ALL MY compositions on our last album last year ("Waltz For Serena") and from 3 new tunes we play currently and will be on the album we gonna record on october 4th/5th, plus the three compositions we still hadn´t performed. AND: He transcribes it for C, Eb, and Bb instruments. So that´s quite a JOB and I think 200 Euro this time is okay for me and he was very very glad to hear that I pay him. And last but not least: He comes to my place, we check the tunes together. We did it in the past and I didn´t pay him, but now I think he must get some money.

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Thats good. I´m also a pianist but never ever do I compose from the keys. I believe that composing is completly diferent from playing. It´s like you say, you hear sounds, some tunes I dream and if I´m lucky I memorize them when I get up. I even think that there is always music in my head, when I get to catch a taste of sleep (I´m a quite sleepless person). Also....women may inspire me, I see a beautiful woman and have a melody goin´in my head. That´s how I rote the title tune on the album last year for my then wife, now ex-wife. And last nite I got a fine idea of a song for my actual love. And dig that: It´s in eb-minor ! Nice tune with a 16 beat feeling in it (kind of slow funk or call it anythin´). It will be on our next album, but not as the title tune, which I already have fixed. the only downer is, I´m not a good notes writer. Most time I get some music student, give him 200, make him happy and got a kid who writes the shit down for me.

I love those three volumes I saw Ricky Ford three times with Mingus I think. I don´t remember I have seen him in another context.

hehe, me dancing 😄

https://youtu.be/vvOTLtTG5G0?si=LENwszXdH5aW2dcX Mihai Traistariu "Cât de frumoasă ești !” (= "How beautiful you are!" That´s my absolute favourite when it´s about non jazz music ! That´s from my country România and it´s the song my love Andreea Irina aka "Miss RA" taught me to sing and to play on piano. I mean, when a girl gives a boy THAT SONG, she loves him.....

comments, reviews, anybody, plz......

A few days ago this one, since "My Ideal" is magic to me, I have explained it otherwhere her in the forum.... I love Earl Coleman´s voice very much. And I wanted to spin a vocal version of the song for my love, because that ballad is our torch song. She always says to me "and now........please play OUR SONG"!!!!! But other than most girls I knew before, she really listens and breathes to the phrases of Sonny Rollins, to jazz in general, or to music in general.

I think I also know that album. Isn´t Bemsha Swing and Evidence on it ? I love those tunes and they are few I kept in my repertory from the bop tunes, maybe the only ones that I kept. During the spring tourings I think I did either Bemsha or Evidence sometimes as the last tune and got so carried away that I jumped up from the piano and did some dance steps. I think I have it with another cover. this looks much more like a much later foto of Mingus than the time when "Chazz" was recorded. Wasn´t "Chazz" and "Mingus Quintet plus Max Roach" on the French America label, I had both of them, but think as a boy I was a little disappointed since it sounded much more "tame" than the recordings with Dolphy. Almost like an old bop record. But the sections with Max Roach are fine ! Otherwise it is too much hard bop or bebop style than I want to hear from Mingus.

Too beautiful ! How much I love that album. This is my year ! Maybe the best I ever had in live. I don´t know that special album, but each of them is a personal favourite of mine so it must be good. It just happens that at that important period in my live I rarely purchase or spin so called "straight ahead" albums, though I am sure that those men go far beyond it. It´s strange: this must have been "centuries" ago but I also saw Jackie McLean live together with Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins, the 4th member of the quartet was no one less than Bobby Hutcherson. I remember it was the best bebop setting I ever had heard. Don´t know how I would think about it today, but sure it is very good music. Schizophrenia was the first Wayne Shorter album I had. I think it is wonderful. Maybe even my favourite from that early period. I think I saw the cover foto on another album of Bud Powell. I have not listened to bop music for much time and don´t really want to play that style myself anymore, but I think I remember the very very fine versions of those super old tunes "Deep Night" and "Thou Swell" and "OId Black Magic" I think they go back to the 20´s. I remember Bud played them very very often so they must have been favourites of him, and I think I hear it in my ears that he plays some astonishing stride piano on it. This must be an early Bud Powell record from the mid fifties, but I think I mostly heard interpretations of those tunes at least 10 years later when Bud had returned to Birdland and seemed to celebrate that event with those old tunes from his youth/childhood.

Again one of those albums that moves me so much it is so overwhelming, so much balsam and nutrition for my soul it almost hurts. I can´t describe it in words, it´s too heavy for words. Since I purchased it many decades ago it has it´s special place in my collection, but it seems that as years passed, and especially this year is the most emotional year for me ever, so many tears, so many happiness it gets more and more intense. That´s the kind of music I´m deeply in now. Late Cotrane, Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and very very much Sun Ra.

I don´t know what I posted 3 years ago

I also saw her with Lou Donaldson. Great organ player, wonderful lady ! But I would have liked to hear LD at least once again with a setting with p, b, dr. in later years. In the mid 80´s he always had a p.b.dr. quartet, even if Herman Foster´s block chords sometimes where too overwhelming for me.....but it was Mr. Donaldson´s choice and that means he was right, not me 😉

Here my friends some of the new things in my live: I mentioned somewhere about some "Good Morning Headache" (just right now I had spinned the Billie Holiday album with the song !) because a long lasting marriage split up. But then things started to happen: On a gig, I don´t know why, I called "My Ideal" (Will I ever find the girl in my mind......? ya know the lyrics) and 2 days later BAMMMM 🤩 This here was our second date and she set down at my stage keyboard (my new place is smaller and more poorish of course then where I stayed......from high live to low life 😄.... anyway. Her name is the name of the Egyptian GOD OF SUN !!!! I like unusual people !!!! And she just sneaked my "Pharoah Sanders" T-Shirt and started to play, and ya know what, she´s not a piano player but what she figures out makes SENSE and it sounds good to me. Like little bells sounding, just beautiful, and them runs she did and then BANG that bass vamp ! She is the most beautiful girl I ever saw and the tune "Miss RA´s Choice" was written the morning "after" and will be on record ! one more, you see the Pharoah Sanders T-Shirt. By the way, since "RA" is her name, she just took my SUN RA long sleeve and said "That´s mine!" PERIOD ! Got to order another one 😄