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I love him. He lives here in Viena and plays often at my favourite club „ZWE”, I have played with him..... not bad, I have it but must admit I dont listen often to it, somehow.....sounds a bit funny to me. Somehow not as I am used from the BN label. I mean I listen quite often to other BN records, usually in the small ours, maybe still at a club where I had a gig if the DJ spins them, or back at home before trying to catch some sleep. But somehow, with this kind of music it doesnt work for me so well.....

Must look for that. I saw Liebman with Miles around 73 or 74 live. Too bad there is not "Ife" on it, and I am not really interested in older things like All Blues or Boplicity, but I´m sure Lieb brings them to life. He can play anything and it sounds fresh, quick and hip ! haha, that cover photo reminds me of a story my late wife Serena told me: When she was a kid, and she had learned early to walk with heels, she always was "the boss" at the playground. She decided who is allowed to play with her, in her gang, and there was a little boy who wanted to participate, but she shouted at him to leave them alone, than started to hit him, and after his mother told her mother that Serena had hitted him, which she denied, she smashed his toy car with her heels, the next day at the playground. Hard to believe, that this raunchy girl became the Princess, who had inspired me to compose "Waltz for Serena" for her. She will be missed dearly. btw: Rick Margitza is great ! Great to read from a Bud lover ! Yeah, I also have this, I think it is 10 CDs. On the Mythic Sound I really like Bud´s only recorded version of "I Got it Bad". And I also think that on the released Reprise LP "Dear Old Stockholm" never appeared on another record or recorded live performance. Maybe it was inspired by Bud´s sojurns to Stockholm, he played often there. On the other hand, on the Mythic Sound album there are a few "originals" of Bud, that don´t appear elsewhere, but they are not so great, it seems they were penned very very quickly just for purpose, but anyway it seems they were not considered worthy enough to be released. From those 10 Mythic CDs I like most "Burnin´ in USA" "Return to Birdland" and "Award at Birdland" which has the best playing and ......important for me: The best drummers !

That´s a nice record. Thats a superb record. Bud in very great form, a very swift version of "How High The Moon". And maybe the only commercial record of Bud, where he plays "Jordu". He played it very often at Birdland in 1964 even better than this anyway superb performance. Reets and I was rarely performed, and usually at a slower tempo. And I think it´s the only recording of "Satin Doll" by Bud. The superb photo of Bud that you posted is from the great recording session he did for Roulette with a stellar rhythm section of J.C. Moses who was a very fine drummer, and the great John Ore, who had played a lot with Monk. Bravo, good choice ! both among Bud´s best things ! This is a thing I got from my late wife once. Have not listened to it since and had forgotten about it. It is wonderful. I had not looked at the personnel but when I heard the piano solo on "There is no Greater Love" I knew it MUST be Walter Davis.

And how did you feel it. Can you write some lines, a little review, plz ....? Great News: The boss of the record company urged me to do the next album and I signed for renewed contract and we will be in the studios again in early autums so the next album can be out early next year, like it was with "Simmering". Meanwhile I have composed 4 new pieces for the next album, and we allready perform them live, or I perform them also with other guys since I am more in demand than just my own group. Sure is one thing: Lili remains my singer and I give here a very very substantial role in my projects. I also add her as co-autor to the tunes I write where she writes the lyrics. The next album might have more vocal pieces and only 2 instrumentals (a modal waltz COMPOSED BY MY GIRLFRIEND !!!!, and a heavy funk piece with the trumpet leading).

Here in Europe its night now. 03:40, normal time for me. Played a gig, great gig, people love what they hear and see, and you drive back home. Got my headphones now since my sweethearts became tired and needs some sleep. Have this great thing blastering in my weak ears, and you really FEEL IT. I Mean it feels so great and they all so great. This might be „simple stuff” but there is tons to „learn” from it, even for advanced musicians like me. I think I saw Blakey sittin down at a piano somewhere and he also sang ”For All We Know”. Sure, I have the greatest singer in my band I can imagine, just a dream that girl, but you also love stuff like that, no ?

Last night, in the small hours.....I had an extremly happy mood, so happy. Thanking the Godnesses for the Love I found with beautiful Andreea-Irina. Finished a compositon, that will be on my next album, with lyrics and everything. Went into the kitchen and cooked for the following 3 days (love to cook in the night, but what is there what I don´t like to do in the night with the exception of sleeping....😋) And in that superb state of spirits, of course I had to spin the one I love most from all of them, though I had not spinned this for at least 10 or 15 years. So wonderful, You here it and never want it to end 😍

I heard Jaws so often here in Vienna at Jazzland. I have this, but with another cover. It is Jaws with the Tommy Flanagan Trio. I got it signed from Jaws. He asked me for my name and wrote a nice dedication.

At home just water with squeezed lemon in it. When I get out for dinner or in a club, soda with squeezed lemon. And turkish coffee. I never ever drink alcool, but not because I might have had abuse, it´s just I can´t stand it. And having bipolar disorder it might be harmful, so it´s cool I don´t even like it.

Love it !

Hi dear friends Today, starting at 00:05 CET at austrian radio Ö1 (ORF) in the course of the one hour radio programm after two other acts will be spinned my composition "Simmering" from my new album with the same title, plus our vocal version of "Moanin´", if you wanna hear it. Musically yours Gerhard

Though, as a musician I rarly listen to older stuff nowadays, this night towards the morning hours, which is my most active, most euphoric state of mind and ultimate happiness...... I suddenly had the urge to hear some really rough swing to bop/pre-bop black stuff and remembered I have somewhere the old record of Bird with Jay McShann Big Band. I was in such an exuberant mood, I played it very very very loud and started to dance all kinds of steps, in a total exthase. Not only Side One with Bird, even more maybe the second side, with the announcements by "Earnie Bubbles Whitman". Those versions of "Moten Swing", "Jumpin´ Blues", Winestreet Boogie, and above all "Wrap your troubles in Dreams" , I just flipped around, went nuts, full of happiness and joy. You can´t repeat such moments, other night, other feelings, other music.....

I´m really happy and grateful for all the gifts I get, when I listen to things like this:

I think„in this Korner” was my first Blakey LP, but is that „late”, I mean that was in the seventies, and Im sure Blakey had more 20 years to live. I heard one of Levercusen in Germany that´s fine especially the tracks without old alumni, I mean what the young band plays I like much. But they did cut out the most important and rare thing. I saw it on a film, Blakey talked to Silvia Droste, a very fine looking girl, and I had to laugh because the way he sometimes has difficulties to hear, it´s similar to me. My girl friend if I dont hear she shouts as loud as anyone can, I mean even loud for me😍 But Blakey then plays piano, I didn´t know he plays that good. Plays Monk´s Thelonious such a brillance, and plays Moten Swing really fine. And he plays and sings "For all we know we never meet again" that´s such a beautiful thing. I think that was much later. I saw them very often, all different editions, the one with the Valery Ponomarev and Bobby Watson, the one with Marsalis, the stuff with Donald Harrison Terence Blanchard, Mulgrew Miller, later Geoff Keezer, Benny Green (not the trombone player!) so I think I saw many different Messengers bands. And I always was in the front row, nearest to the drums, to HEAR and FEEL the stuff he hits on the drums 😄

Had the album presentation this night here in Viena. Full House, and much more powerful played than on the record.....fast tracks like "Miss Ra´s Choice" really burned, Miss Lili sang soooo beautiful and is a great stage presence, very dramatically, the spoken words on "Tune for Pharoah". Round Midnight soooooo deep with her voice. Important people in the audience, austrian radio and so on........ Things look good. My one and only love Andreea especially liked "Miss Ra´s Choice", anyway, the key idea is her´s Erratic now, many concerts, also with other surroundings, other music.....

He is one of the greatest here in Europe. I have played with him...... You are right ! Sounds superb. For me it is wonderful, to hear the ride cymbal of Tootie Heath so well. This was the first Dexter Gordon I ever had. Imagine: I came from Free Jazz, Electric Jazz and got to Bird and Bop only after I had read about him in essays about Mingus or Dolphy or Ornette Coleman..... So when I had bought my first Bird, I was eager to listen to the other Masters of Bop, like Diz, Fats, Bud, and be sure, Dexter. He was living in Europe then and it was most easy possible to hear him live. So.....after hearing him the first time, I got this LP in the record shop.....ain´t that a cute story ???? I have a certain weakness for Brew Moore since I had heard his tenor in some of the fastest company of Bop Greats that exists: With Howard McGhee, with Fats, with Miles, with Bird....., and he just kept his very Lester Young influenced style, never changed it, played all them incredible bop tunes at ultra fast tempos with his Lester Young influence. Really nice......even if I must admit I listen much more to more advanced musicians, but got idea to go back and listen to that incredible "Miles Davis - Last Bop-Session, Birdland Juni 30th 1950).... that will be music for the small hours. I can spin my stuff at a very high volume and make "scandal" since I have my own house (not bought....jazz musicians are poor! but left to me after my parents died). My sweethearts of my dreams, Princess Andreea Irina is often touring as a model, like me as a musician, and we can´t be together nonstop, and when we together.....she digs the music, we fell in love when she was in the audience when I played a gig..... !

I have been listening recently. I listen to music mostly in the small hours and listened to both CDs. Really strong ! I think, I still had got that as a present from my late wife Serena......

never imagined to see a pic where someone else than Dex looks juiced 😂

One of my favourite Jackie McLeans. Maybe even the first I ever heard when I was in my early teens. So strong. I never liked "easy listening music", always was a quite serious and thinking kid, and did not "buy" stuff that was "just fun"....😂

This is one of the best of Birds later recordings ! Now listening: June Tyson ! I love her voice, I love the lyrics and Sun Ra was one of my favourites from the very beginning, when I started to listen to afro american music ! Sun Ra, Ornette, late Trane, Pharoah Sanders, electric Miles, and ....Mingus.....those where my favourites in my early teens. I saw the Arkestra with June Tyson of course and was deeply moved by her angelic voice, the "Space Songs and Chants", wonderful. And as a generation thing: Sure I got acquainted first to the kind of music that was played then in the early 70´s, and it was the Arkestra, where I first heard some old jazz too, those Fletcher Henderson things. I had never heard about that before and loved it, I believed it´s a special "Space Jump", had no idea that this was the jazz of earlier decades of the century.... Same with Mingus....heard the pianists do some stride sections at one point and heard that kind of old thing for the first time.

I must admit, until a few years it was the same here. I tried to avoid gigs with singers, but now I love it, it´s a great art to really get into the songs, to play the verses of songs, learn the lyrics, and I am very pleased that my great singer Lili Maljic performed my compositon "Tune for Pharoah" with such a great dedication. Meanwhile, though Lili is my favourite singer, I work also with other singers, since we all in my formation have our own comittments in other musical surroundings, of course. As soon as the album was released, it was already history for me since I already signed for the next album and we´ll be in the recording studios again in autumn. I composed a new ballad and Lili works on the lyrics for it, because that´s the purpose of ballads.... Anyway, even here in the Forum I got help from @JSngry years ago, when I had to play a gig with a singer and asked in the Musician Forum for some advices. Where is @JSngry ? I would love to read a feedback from him on that latest record of mine, especially because it has a great female singer !

I never had heard about it. The personnel sounds great. All of them favourites of mine. oh my Godnesses, that´s outa sight ! Soooo great ! I MUST purchase this. And never heard Hank Mobley so hip, so modern, it´s so much power on it, with that stellar rhythm section, and it´s cool to hear Cedar Walton playing Fender piano here, that´s really music I dig !

Love it, have it as an LP with another cover, in red with a large cover photo of Tadd. Love the music. Pharoah Sanders liked the tune "On a Misty Night". The A-sections are based on "September in the Rain". Oh, I never had heard about it, have Berlin, Tokyo, and what else.... but no Paris other than a Paris Festival 1949🤣

Thank you so much. But "proud" ? Most of the time I already think about what I we might do next. Time flies, you gotta go further and further, not to stand still. With the singer, well I didn´t want to make only instrumental records, and by the way, a stunning young lady singing with passion..... well I get older. Played all them ballads once without really knowing about the lyrics. As "older" I get, as more I want to get INSIDE the song. ( "older" from my birthdate, not from my mental and physical condition 😄 ) Anyway, it was a nice thing and ......pround.....well I think it´s a better and more personal statement than the album before "Waltz for Serena", which was more like a straight anhead album. Just today I had to do another little promotion clip at the label´s studio and signed for more collaboration..... And I think every musician will tell you that after recording something he thinks what he could have done better......

@HutchFan, thank you so much ! Yeah, exactly the tunes you like are also my favourites, because they are my style, and I am so proud of "Miss Ra" (Andreea Irina), who gave me that inspiration. It was magic. Here a foto I shot exactly in the moment after she played that piano run, I asked her "Gee, that was great, what was that" and she laughed as you see in the photo and said "I dunno" 😄 She wears one of my Pharoah Sanders T Shirts 🙂

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