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I have always bought books and will always buy books. But nothing philosophical or too deep, just for relaxing. I mean if it is something non musical, I don´t want to have to figure out heavy stuff, that´s it.

This was my very very first Charlie Parker album, a double LP. I didn´t know nothing about Parker until I heard that "Parkeriana" on a Mingus Album featuring Dolphy. I thought, if Parker is so great, he must be the next artist I have to get to know. I love this album still, because it does not have all those alternative tracks, just the masters..... so you can just spin it and hear all the tunes..... It´s interesting that on one side of the album is also a quintet that has Bud Powell playing but I remember that at that time I didn´t notice the piano solos and maybe Bud is also quite subdued and weakly recorded on that. I remember in my first "Parker-Year" I had four Parker albums: This Savoy Mastertakes, than a brown LP called "Jazz Tracks" that has the Carnegie Hall Concert and some of the Dial Session", then two live LPs from CBS: "One Night at Birdland" (where I first heard Bud Powell and never have heard better Bud), and a similar album "Summit Meeting at Birdland".

Quite a strange record indeed. My copy is titled "Bud Powell 1957" . There are some tunes that Bud rarely played. "That Black Old Magic" returned to his set lists one decade later after he had returned to New York, as well as "Though Swell" and "Someone to watch over me". It´s interesting to compare this slightly stride version with the ballad version he did 10 years later on "The Return of Bud Powell", which is my favourite version. I love Pharoah Sanders and have loved his music as early as the 70´s when he put out all those great records for Impulse I think. When I was in my early teens I got his first record "Live at the East". What personnel is on this one ? I think this one is from the same time like "Soul Station" and is another great record. I think Soul Station and this one are my favourite Mobley records.

Andi Steirer "Trance of Noiz" : This is a first class album of Austria´s greatest percussionist Andi Steirer. I am very proud that I got him for my own album "Waltz for Serena". Though he is very very much in demand, I´ll have him also in future on some of our gigs, most possible the larger ones. He is so fantastic and this album is so great. It has also some of Andi´s own compositions like "Hongkong Tavern" "Do Da Doo" as well as stuff with great guitarist Rens Newland , co-compositions between them both, like the title tune "Trance of Noiz". The album also features the wonderful saxophinist Thomas Kugi on soprano and tenor.

Well that´s some of the hottest players around ! Wow!

I think I must listen once to that original album of the tune. My discography of early Mingus is very scarce, I must admit. During my record buying years the "Pithecanthzropus Erectus" was a 1970 recorded album for the French America Label, and it was about the newest Mingus out than. Anyway strange, Until Mingus got his contract at Atlantic, all my Mingus albums was those "America" LP´s. Then of cours each year the new Atlantic album.

Sure I remember him ! Before I got acquainted to jazz, I listened to stuff like Ö3 Hitparade or DiscÖ3, that was kid´s music than. we all listened to such stuff, but it all changed after I heard Miles an Mingus

Thanks Jim for sharing it with us. I remember them so well, they were a huge success and I think I even remember having seen that on TV back then. The moderator is our great TV multi talent the great Peter Rapp, who still is doing very well. Those were the days ! And of course I had heard the LP with Peterson "In Tune". Those TV shows were just wonderful, we had much jazz there. I think it was a wonderful time, I´m a product of that time with all that music around..... Brings a lotta memories back.....

I remember it was out when all them wonderful Miles albums of the 70´s were out (On the Corner, In Concert, Live Evil, and so on and I was expecting a new Miles Davis album, and to my astonishment this was a thing of older stuff from the 60´s, but I was not disappointed at all, since I love Miles from 1948, 58, 68 same like Miles from 1978 or 1988..... Strange, they took the cover photo from a later Bud Powell album (Return of Bud Powll). There was a series of photos hot during that 1964 studio album and I like those photos most from Bud Powell, they are wonderful. But Sure Thing must have been around the early 50´s I think it was broadcasted quite often. The piece as some classical approach with fugue like lines, not exactly my alley, but it´s wonderful, how Mingus does all those bass figures. Okay, I like the piece, but never to the same amount like if he played let´s say "Woodyn You", "Salt Peanuts", I wanna be Happy or all them ballads......

Sure ! I have it ! Great stuff.

The best Murray I ever heard was that fantastic trio , He, Henry Grimes and Hamid Drake, one of the greatest concerts I heard in the 2000´s . Yeah, in the 80´s he was so much around. Here in Austria he almost had a "Meldezettel" and Nickelsdorf Jazz Gallery and many many locals knew him personally. He was such a nice gentleman, not only the great musician he is.

You are right ! When I saw the schedule I also wondered how this would be. The whole thing was titled "Trumpet Super Night" and had three acts: First set Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintet (featuring Harold Land, George Cables, Herbie Lewis and Louis Hayes.... indeed an Allstar Formation) , then would have been Chet with Joe Farrell but turned out to be without Chet. And the last act was Wynton Marsalis (then still doing good contemporary jazz with that good working group he had then). About Chet: It would have been better if they would have booked him with his trio, he played wonderful concerts here in Viena and in other towns where I heard him, but don´t forget shortly before this chancelled gig happend, he had done that tour in Sweden with Stan Getz, and they couldn´t together, two heavy junkeys in one band, same with Farrell....., Chet was a heavy junkey, but he was a quiet loner, he couldn´t stand tensions and hassles, that´s it.

I have a 4 CD collection of Jaws-Griff that includes that album, and I think also some live versions of Monk´s tunes.

Interesting ! I didn´t know about it, but both were doing Europe a lot in 1983. I saw them separatly. Woody Shaw still had his great quintet with Steve Turré, Mulgrew Miller, Stafford James and Tony Reedus, and the Joe Farrell Quartet I saw also, but it was scheduled to be Chet Baker-Joe Farrell, I think it had Joanne Brackeen on piano....but Chet didn´t appear, so it was only Joe Farrell.

Really a huge loss !

That´s how I saw him in the late 80´s with Headhunters II (Bill Evans on sax, Wah Wah Watson on guitar, Darryl Jones on bass and Ndugu Chandler on drums if I remember rite. Wonderful show. I love everything Herbie did, saw the acoustic bands of the 70´s VSOP, then in the 80´s VSOP II (with the Marsalis Brothers), everything.....

Oh this must have been wonderful. I love everything he does. Dont forget I grew up in the era of the transition from acoustic to electric jazz and so the most natural thing for me was to hear let´s say "Mayden Voyage" or all the stuff with Miles, Shorter and all those heros and on the other hand hear "Head Hunters" . It was the most natural thing. We dug it ALL and I still dig it all. I love him on all instruments, of course acoustic but all the keyboards too. That´s him, that´s music.

Joe Newman was a solid trumpet player and I enjoyed his playing here in Viena, but soon no musician here wanted to play more gigs with him, since he was an asshole on the stand, lecturing experienced local musicains how to play as if they didn´t know how to play. Strange, other very prominent artists like Woody Shaw, Art Farmer, Benny Golson etc. never lectured the musicians on bandstand and it was everything cool, to enjoy the gig on stand..... Buster Williams is one of my very very special favourites, period. Wonderful band here.

Scary ! I mean to be a Monk (otherwise than Thelonious) is beyond my biological understanding😨...I mean a catholic pope he can get out and have some hidden affair, but as a Monk...... heavy stuff really.

There are some great artists on the Montreux Collection. I don´t have it, but at least some individual acts, maybe the Dizzy with Jaws and Griff, or the Dizzy with Milt Jackson and James Moody, those two or three. But it´s interesting there is another album or double album or even two double albums with the title "Montreux Collection" or maybe "Montreux Summit" from 1977 with a who is who of all who played good acoustic as well as electric jazz, so Dexter, Stan Getz, Slide Hampton, Woody Shaw, Maynard Ferguson, performed together with fusion stars like George Duke, Bob James, Billy Cobham and it was a wonderful marriage of acoustic and electric, you sure will love it.

wow this must be great, all of them my favourites......

right !

For me, at least if I would exactly know what´s "spiritual" , Ornette Coleman sure is.

A great band indeed and a wonderful hommage to Bird. I´m not sure if I´m talking about THIS album now, but is it possible, that they mistitled one tune. I have another Bird dedicated album too so I don´t know which is which, but at least at one the first tune is completly mistitled. Is it possible that it´s this album? I thing when I spinned it, I recognized that the first tune is not "Birks Works" but a "Quasimodo" or something like that, anyway a Bird tune on rhythm changes, with great solos by Jackie McLean and Phil Woods. Well, my true love on alto is Jackie McLean.....

Herbholzheimer was great. Loved his Big Band and it was a highlight in the 70´s . I didn´t even know that he was born în București....., such a great bandleader.