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Oh I didn´t know that. I have the album but must admit that I have not listened to the old Trane on Prestige for much time. In this troubled year I found more healing force from the very late Trane when Pharoah joined the group and it was with Alice Coltrane. But for small hours, since I have listened to some Miles Prestige albums lately, I will have it on the playing list, that´s the hours where I listen to old straight ahead jazz mostly, when I get in some kind of trance where I don´t know wether I am on or off (no harmful stuff in my case, I don´t use drugs and don´t drink alcool)

I like this one very much. There is so much good bop on it, and Hampton Hawes sounds great on Fender Rhodes. I know many purists don´t like that, but I grew up in that period so I always did love electric as much as acoustic. Why....it´s just music. The version of "Yardbird Suite" is especialy great !

He was great. I think I had heard him many times with Johnny Griffin, but I think also with other musicians, maybe Joe Henderson, anyway I heard him with different groups, but most with Johnny Griffin and everything was about in the late 70´s until early 80´s. He was so big that bass really looked small.

Thank you for sharing it with us. I didn´t know that Billy Strayhorn was so small, he looks like a little child. Billy Holiday is soooo beautiful. Exactly that´s the kind of faces I love. Women who have that look, I look at them and feel familiar. Great pic. I have heard that the only thing RVG was interested in was the sound of recording. He never stated anything about the music itself. Before I knew that I always hoped that some day he will write a book about all those great sessions he did, about the music, the genius musicians who made it etc.......

Great Choice. From the BN albums Bud made, I like most "Time Waits" and the second side of "Bud!" where Curtis Fuller is on it. I don´t like Side A at all. From Vol. I I am fond of the session with Fats and Sonny. I love it. I had purchased it very soon after it was made. I was the "Star" in HighSchool because I had this and the VSOP "Tempest at Colloseum", all the jazz loving class mates came to my place to listen.

Good Idea. I had a lot of work the last nights and in the small hours listened to easy music, like the last days the 4 Prestige Miles Albums Cookin´ Relaxin´Workin´Steamin´, this night towards the morning hours I am sure I will spin what you suggested, that´s the right music for exhausted albeit happy people. I had to suffer so much this year, but my girlfriend is such a great help I´m much better now. oh I love those four ESP disks of Bud at Birdland. For example I like the version of "Tea for Two" much better than the studio record for Verve, and "It could happen to you" much better than on the BN album. And on this album I think "Oblivion" is also much better than the Verve. At least in my opinion.

I must look for this "A Prayer before Dawn".

Again a Favoriten of mine. I hat seen Pharoah live quote often in the Earl 80s in acoustic quartet setting.

Me too, I know that the Egyptian word for king might be Pharaoh. Anyway, when I ordered my Pharoah Sanders T-Shirts (special individual order) the original source, though meant to be Pharoah SANDERS, also had "Pharaoh" on it, but as I had to have Pharoah Sanders T-Shirts made (3 in black, 3 in white) I wear them very often, I told them to write it as Pharoah.

I´m glad you also listen to my hero Pharoah Sanders. You might like my composition "Tune for Pharoah" it will be out on my upcoming album we just recorded and will be out early next year. With vocal....great lyrics by my singer.....

Oh, I feel sorry for you too. In our case, Serena told me years ago, that in case she might die before me, I must promise to take a stage piano to the incinerary services to play "When I fall in Love (I know it will be forever). Last year, after I recorded "Waltz for Serena" which you sure know, she added this also to the wish list. So I played them two tunes before she was incinerated. Thank you so much ! Yeah, much too soon and she looked so beautiful, like a model. Even when she was dead she looked like if she would sleep.

I´m sure I saw him live with a Woody Herman All Star small band (Buddy Tate, Scott Hamilton, Al Cohn I think).

Oh I am so sorry to hear that. Believe me, I know what that means. I had enough personal nightmares this year. At least it made me productive and one of the 7 originals that will be on my next album is titled "Theme from a Nightmare". Believe me. I know those nightmares. The worst of them all was that my wife died so young just a month ago, 47 years old, heart attack, no chance to survive. At least she didn´t suffer. And this was just a heavy blow, but only one of many in this year, sad to say. Hope you better now, sincerly I hope that for you ! -

Oh, what a loss. He was great !

Thank you so much ! Well, Pharoah Sanders´s music is my best friend, it has been since my early teens. My consolation if I am depressed, my companion for most sublime happiness. Anyway, I have gone thru many things, but this year has been a roller coaster of emotions from deepest desparation and sadness, and moments of ultimate happiness, where I felt on top of the world. Today I´m much better than yesterday. Pharoah shares this happiness with me, as I have spinned this wonderful record. And I want to state: This year, among my creative outburst due to all those extreme feelings, one of my new originals is titled "Tune for Pharoah" and will be on the album that will be out early next year. We recorded that tune and other tunes with a great singer, Miss Lili Mae, who had made her own record with the late, great Jim Rotondi. The masters sound great. This was 2 days of happiness in the studio and on gigs, really. But you go out of the studio, and you finished a gig, and the demons come back.....that´s life......

This has been for decades my best friend, my best consolation during dark times. Believe me, I had so much suffering from mid september until now, albeit I did a great recording session and get better musically every day I grow more, but it was just such a bizarre year with such an extreme mixture of tormented soul, suffering, tears, to the highest peaks of enjoyment and love, it made me very very thin but strong on piano. This music, the HEALING SONG is what I needed now that there is hope for a glimpse of "normal life" again, and it is what I needed, I listened closely to each note of this most wonderful music and it let my tears flow, and flow and flow, streams of tears, believe me !

Is this the one, where Jackie McLean plays so fine on a Bossa, something he rarely did ? There was too many Hank Mobley Albums, I love him I love him I love him, but I don´t listen to ALL of his albums. Hank Mobley, especially "Soul Station" and "Workout" are my choices if I once listen to straight ahead jazz, which I don´t do very very often anymore, since I hear other things in my head, more into Free Jazz and jazzrock/funk, late 60´s - early 80´s .....

last night:

somehow I don´t see your pics, only a black stripe with a little symbol in the left, I would like to see what you are posting.

Oh, I love that album, and I love Joe Henderson !

I must say honestly, I dunno. That´s the record company that decides it I think. On Spotify it will be, I´m sure.

Oh yeah, Daniel Richmond

Last night I listened first to Aghartha. It was a cult record then and is a classic now. I have forgotten how good it is, since I had listened more to "Dark Magus" and "Pangheea" during the last years, but this is just wonderful and Miles is in top form, playing much trumpet. I´m crazy about Pharoah Sanders, saw him so many times live from the 70´s on. Actually the first thing I had heard in my early teens was "Healing Song" on "Live at the East" and it opened an universum for me. Pharoah Sanders is one of my very very favourite masters, I love him !

Hello friends, I´m glad I have quite a busy time as a musician. Last weekend I took my band, augmented by a great female singer (Lili Mae) and the great percussionist Andi Steirer to the recording studio for our next album. It was just wonderful to work with those fantastic musicians, and though we had a lot of work (12 tunes in 2 days), we also had a lotta fun and a great time. The singer did 6 tunes with us and she wrote great lyrics to my compositon "Tune for Pharoah". The other vocal tracks are standards like Round Midnight, Moanin´ (with some astonishing scatting by Lili, doing 4´s with the horn players), a very fast version of "I got my love to keep me warm", and one of my favourite ballads (The Nearness of You). Besides "Tune for Pharoah" I had written 6 other originals, one as a feature for my bass player. There will be also some heavy funk stuff, where the drummer and percussionist really did a wonderful job. My visual artist and fotografer Lilia Kirilova made a lot of session fotos. Now I can´t wait to hear the masters. The album will be out early next year as CD as well as double vinyl. Until now, this is a great year for me musically.

oh that´s bad news. I first heard him with Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band. It was shortly before Thad and Mel separated....., and I remember that´s the first time I had heard that great pianist.