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oh thanks. Okay, for me the original Bitches Brew sessions is complete enough. Same with On the Corner, I have the original since it came out and enjoy it as a kind of return to my youth but I don´t have the "Complete", same with the Cellar Club Sessions.....I have "Live Evil" and that´s it.

Scary place I would say. That building reminds me of some of those old abandoned fabrics or collectives that were. Such an ugly but fascinating place was visavis de my house on Kuniglberg on the "Gipfel" there was some grass and the old Flak-Caserne....... which the older people just named the "Fabrik" to not talk about the real purpose it had. It was a place the attracted me as a teenager, since so many music came to my mind there, especially during night time.

Pharoah Sanders live at the East was my first Pharoah Sanders LP and sure among my first 10-15 LPs I ever had. Mine must be about 50 years old and looks like that. It´s my favourite, and one of my favourite albums of so called "Free Jazz". And I still am angry at me that I didn´t have the courage in 2013 to go backstage to ask Mr. Sanders to sign it for me. but if there is not mentioned WHO is playing ? ? It looks a bit like the cofer art of "Bitches Brew" but it is not the Bitches Brew. But it might be Miles, isn´t it ?

I rarely listened to strictly straight ahead jazz lately, more some more advanced stuff, but this one is a real beauty. They all play so great stuff, so exiting. Each of them has fantastic solos. But if I had to pick out only one, it´s my favourite Jackie McLean. His sound and his phrasing always was the stuff that appealed most to me, almost since I listen to Jazz. But it is beautiful to hear Griff and Cecil Payne in such a great playing mood. With the exception of Don Sickler, who plays some very fine trumpet, I saw each of those musicians leading their own groups. Ron Carter is great on bass, Roy Haynes just wonderful like always, and the surprise is Duke Jordan. His version of Don´t Blame me is just a beauty, and it get´s a rousing round of applause..... Some of Duke Jordan´s classic intros to some Bird tunes became very popular and it is great to hear it played by the horns for example on "Dewey Square".......

Great posting ! Yes that´s a very good description of Moncur´s ability as a composer. I didn´t know he was a junkie but it´s strange that even after Bird´s death so many musicians in the 60´s who started to play only after Bird was dead, became junkies. I never in live would have thought that Woody Shaw was a junkey. From the way he looked and he was presented by Columbia he seemed to me as the perfect musican who also is a model citizen, highly intelectual, loving husband and father and stuff, and when I saw him the last time in 1987 I couldn´t believe THIS is THE Woody Shaw..... About organ players. Well I must admit that on "Let Em Roll" though the John Patton is the leader, it seems that I played all attention to what Hutcherson and Green do, I think I remember I found the organ solos quite repetive. My acces to organ in jazz or in general is very very limited. I love the very very early Jimmy Smith, the more rough way from his first two albums and the great session with Hank, Morgan, Donaldson, and so on.... /Date with Jimmy Smith. And the only other organ player who thrills me is Larry Young. And how he thrills me, he is fantastic. And believe it or not. In the 70´s one organ player who actually is NOT considered an organ player fascinates me: MILES DAVIS. I loved his interludes on organ in his fantastic band with Liebman, Foster, Mtume which I heard live and loved what Miles does on organ with Lieb soloing on Ife or on Dave´s tune......

Yes, I was aware about this, when I posted my thing. But somehow, if a musician does not play anymore and there is no hope of a comeback, it´s hard for me to think about him. I practically "lived" 5 years with the hope, that Miles would have a comeback, and he had, and I lived with the hope that Monk will perform again, and he did not ...... There was more people who had played with Bud than many imagine. For example there is a very fine set of Bud with Zoot Sims..... I must admit I have not heard the name Gene di Novi yet..... My Shining Hour, what kind of tempo ? I always play it in super up tempo with the Coltrane Changes, I can imagine that Roy Haynes also played it very very fast......

Very very fine stuff, but I doubt it sold well when it was issued. I fear Graham Moncur III did not get the recognition he should have earned . He seems to have been a musicians musician, but he was so great, as a composer too. I think I saw him once with a "Paris All Star" collection and was hurted because he got less applause than the others.... (Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson I think ) If I remember, on this record is a tune in such a strange 4/4 rhythm, completly else than the usual swing. After a few seconds I said it sounds exactly like the older folk music in România, especially in Transsilvania" We both my wife and me thought that way...... fantastic records. All more demanding stuff of BN in the 60´s is good. I´m glad that they made records like that, while on the other hand I don´t listen to them hundreds of Jimmy Smith followers organ boogaloo records (maybe the one with Hutch Grant Green and an organ player of all of them after Smith, that was an interesting frontline and a good version of "The Turnaraound".......

I think I have one of those Pepper records, I must have it for very very long time. I think I bought it mostly for the rhythm section because I´m not the biggest fan of Art Pepper. I mean if I like an alto sound sharp like a knife I prefer Jackie McLean I mean nothing against Art Pepper, but I just think Jacie McLean was a better musician. Some of Pepper´s I like, I heard a fast Donna Lee, or Cherokee or his own composition "Take a Wish", but on this here if I am right is a tune that is titled "My friend Stan", and it is just toooo long ! I mean the theme is almost as long as a whole track. you have difficulties to solo on a tune that has already "felt" 600 bars 😃 The Flanagan Trio might be good ! I heard Tommy Flanagan live with George Mraz and Art Taylor and it was one of the very very few horn-less sets of music that I really liked and that really thrilled me !

One of my favourites, I loved everything he did with Bird, Diz, Bud and with Trane and with his own group. Saw him live I think about 2005 or so....., but the others where unknown to me. He must be the last one, who stil lived recently and had played with Bird and with Bud. His recordings with Bird on St. Nick, on Summit Meeting at Birdland (the best) and on "Happy Bird" , all of them live recordings are treat. Especially I like that set at Birdland with Bird and Diz and Bud (those great "genullmen" of modern music ---quote from Symphony Sid) , that´s some of the greatest bop ever. And on recordings with Bud Powell in Quintet and Trio he is much better recorded than others. The best one again are the quintet recordings like those with Bird and Diz or the one with Fats and Rollins, and listen to "Winter Session" from the Birdland recordings and you know why it sounds better than other trio recordings: Because of Roy Haynes!!!!! And on that strange and late discovered "Kavakos Club Washington", same here, listen to Roy playing on "Woodyn You" and "Salt Peanuts"....

such a coincidence. Yesterday I read the chapter about the film in Maxine Gregg-Gordon´s book about Dex. How Freddie Hubbard was flown to Paris without anybody tellin him he´s gonna make a film, and then just play a blues, and oh yeah, also on a fine "Rhythm a Ning". But I think the tracks on this BlueNote album also were on the film, especially As Time Goes Bye, which I missed on the Columbia LP. But Blue Note should have made an album of some of Dexters post film performances as the "Round Midnight All Stars". I saw some on video and it is much better than the short film tracks. He had slowed down but still had something to say.

Really cute the way she has the "Zopferlkranz" . Would look ideal in combination with an Ausseer Dirndl. Der Altbauer im Ausgedingehäuschen ?

this might be interesting, I never heard about it. Dave Liebman is one of my earliest heroes in music. Adam Nussbaum I think was his drummer in a band in the late 70´s with the blood young John Scofield and Ron McLure and most of all Terumaso Hino who played a Don Cherry like pocket trumpet. Steve Swallow does not much appear in my discography but what I had heard sounded great. I think I have him only on acoustic, let´s say with Paul Bley, or with Jimmy Giuffree. In any case this might be exactly what I am lookin for.... Is there a tune "Moonglow" on it ? I think I had heard that somewhere. As much as I like Lou Donaldson I find he should have made more records with good contemporanious fellow musicians like Art Taylor, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly or something like that. I never really liked the 3 sounds. It´s fantastic trio that is sure, but too much in that Oscar Peterson way of trios....... Oh , this is one of the strangest records I have. The Descent sounds like Cecil Taylor. I bought that very early I think right when it came out in 1976 and still was not really ready for quality. That´s why I liked mostly the tracks that is trio, because I liked the loud drumming, but now I have heard again to it and the drumming of this Nick Stabulas or what is his name is terrible. I don´t know what Tristano thought about it, but the stuff should have had a better bass player and drummer. The faster track is actually "You stepped out of a dream" . But Tristano never had the patience to play a them clearly. He just starts with 2 or 4 bars of it and than starts to improvise. But jazz is first of all music, not exercises and I fear with all the genious Tristano had, in later years he lost the trace and became only a bitter and unpleasant teacher, too far away from musicianship..... The two tracks solo in Paris in the mid sixties sound good but once again it is not wholly played the ballad which should be "Darn that dream" a tune I love , I really love that tune.....

I saw him several times. I must admit, since my early years when I heard his contributions on a Monk-Session for Blue Note (I think the one with "Carolina Moon", with Max Roach) I didn´t know nothing about him until there appeared an album "Forgotten Man", since that it is what it seemed at that time. We of my generation didn´t know nothing about all his BN recordings, since the only BN reissue, those ugly paper bag design covers of double albums it seems did not have a Lou Donaldson reissue, and it was almost impossible to find individual BN records on the record shops, they seemed to be OOP. So the first time I heard him was in 1985 and since he still was not better known by the young generation, he played in a smaller hall of that huge festival, and worst still, on the same time was Jackie McLean in the middle sized hall, and Pharoah Sanders in the big hall. So I had to skip them, heard the first few tunes of McLean at Hall B, took a stroll to Hall C where Lou Donaldson played (I remember a very fast Cheek to Cheek and "Wee") and first heard his eternal commentary "not recommended to fusion and confusion players". Then I finally caught the second set of Pharoah at Hall A. Later the years I heard him often, first still with the eternal Herman Foster (I would have preferred a more sensible player), and the last time with some nice japoneze girl on organ, but more or less monotonous drumming..... One thing about him, like about Eddy Lockjaw Davis. They seemed to keep the groove they started and were masters in it. They never created something new but it was not necesary for them. You could identify them on a blindfold test within 2 seconds, and went to there concerts or gigs because you liked it and wanted to have some time of just feelin´ good. Not to figure nothin out, just to have a nice time, it was always the occasions where I´d take a chick to the show than other gigs I prefered to hear alone..... I think he was one of the very very few guys who never touched all those drugs but played with all those who very heavy users......, if not drugs then booze. Lou was steady and maybe very near to the end still playing....

This is one of the fewer LD-Records I have listened to more than just one time. I just got rid of the more easy listening things with let´s say the 3 Sounds and a lot of the stuff with organ, other than the "Date with Jimmy Smith" , but this here I like more since it has more name jazz musicians. I can´t listen too much to the Herman Foster block chords.... I think this was one of my first Miles albums, with that fast Milestones and Walkin´ versions, though I liked the stuff of the first quintet, after some listenig this one exited me very very much and made me ready for the next one, Bitches Brew....

Was the gig without Marshall Allen himself ???? I saw this in the collection of the legendary "Jazz Freddy" here in Viena, who played LPs all night long in his club, if there was not live music, or in the afterhours after a live gig. I had played there so many times, and remember some of his records. This one is one of them. I saw Cecil Payne once, but that was around 2000 and he was very old and had to sit and seemed to be blind. But it was a stellar group with Ron Carter in it. They played a Bird-Diz-Monk Memory Concert. I remember Payne´s composition "Flyin Fish". He was one of the first to play bop. I remember his great solos on "Stay on it" with the Diz Big Band. And on alto with J.J. Johnson and Bud Powell...... On the other hand, I am not always super happy with Duke Jordan. To me, he sometimes sounds a bit stiff and edgy. But maybe this is a personal impression. His bop piano doesn not "flow" like Bud´s did, or does not have the humour in it like Monk had......hard to say, he sounds fine on ballads, but maybe he just did not have so much tehnique like Bud or Monk.....

Some of the best Gordon I had ever heard. I remember the year 1981 when we all waited for this album to be released. It´s a great all star album with best straight ahead music.

That´s a great book because it is a brilliant musician (Art Taylor) who had played with almost ALL of THEM, and the answers of the musicians. I think the Rollins Interview was very early after his I don´t know which of all of his comebacks.

If I ever listen to piano solo other than the few Monk-Solo pieces, it is very very possible that I listen to Art Tatum. The only really the only time I heard an Oscar Peterson that sounded good, sounded great, was a solo "When I fall in love" but later I discoverd that it was a copy of what Tatum always knew how to play , same chords, same stuff, so Tatum is THE Master of pre bop piano. Strange enough I never really liked his group performances as much as I like his solo performances. If I ever had to play a solo gig which I hope it will not happen, I can hope only that I find at least a procentage of his great left hand........ I don´t know where, but in my youth I had read something about Charlie Ventura´s "Bop for the People" which featured Jackie and Roy but I never had heard it. I think in Austria, vocal jazz if it was not Ella on tour or something, had a minor role among the jazz buffs. So all the Charlie Ventura I heard was on that session with Fats, Allen Eager, Buddy Rich..... Saturday Night Jazz Session". But this video is nice, not necessarly the music that is not really my alley, but them nice girls who still have faces like girls and have legs.... harder to find now. Is that piano player Dave Brubeck. Not that I´m a fan of his, in contra, but the guy looks exactly like him ....

that´s the sheep blowin´ a fart ?

okay, than I MUST get the Mozaic Set !!!!! I would say a summit of musicians I all saw live, mostly with their own groups so this is almost like heaven on earth, like other summits like "VSOP" from the same times, and much more back in the past the Massey Hall group. Maybe I should purchase this because it reflects all my upbringing as a jazz musican and most of all jazz addict all my live...... Each of them a very special favourit of mine. Much later, in 1983 when I already was playing my self for five years, I saw a "Timeless Allstars" scheduled at a big jazz festival. But it was not Curtis, not Cedar Walton, but no one less than the giant Jackie McLean, also with Hutch, with Herbie Lewis on bass and Billie Higgins and maybe this was not the most demanding music I ever heard (all things I´ve played myself 1000s of times (Blue´n Boogie, What´s New, Salt Peanuts, Star Eyes), it was the most power it could be at that moment, even if I had heard on the set before the Jazz Messengers, and the group after the Timeless Allstars was Dizzy´s great quartet......

That Benny Bailey thing must be very fine. Joe Harris I think was Dizzy´s drummer in the BigBand. Seems that there was a lotta stuff goin´ around in Suedia during that time. I have a rare Tommy Potter album also stars as well as from US as from Suedia like Rolf Ericson who is tops, and greats like Freddie Redd and also Joe Harris on drums. Imagine the unsung hero of thousands of hours of bop playing for Bird and Diz and Bud and so on, when there still were no pickups for the bass fiddle, you had to cut thru the band just having enormous chops.....

I never saw "Bond" since all that stuff with "agents" is "eine Schuhnummer zu groß" for my intellect , I don´t understand them😁 But that face is the typical face of "beautiful people from the 1960"....look at fotos from that decade and they all look the same..... especially white people.... okay, the lady .....from the face and the hair looks like a Romanian TV-Announcer or șlagăr-singer from that "golden era" 😄

Great photo ! Nightmares, as unpleasant they may be, sometimes are sources for composing. I had a nightmare dis year and when I woke up I had that melody in my head, it became one of my new compositions. When I´ll have enough new stuff togehter, we might record our next album.... I must hear that band. Is there only Mozaic collections for sale, or any individual CD too ? To have Liebman and Foster, some of my very very earliest favourits (caught them both with Miles) so it´s natural they became my heroes....

looks like cosmonauts from the 1960´s or those how was that stuff with "Mr Spock" and so on ?

That´s possible. The "Straight No Chaser" by a Quincy Jones band sounded very fine, but I heard that 50 years ago. Somehow, maybe due to his non jazz activities later he became a more forgotten man in the pure jazz circles. At least I don´t remember that fellow musicians, from my or from older generation ever mentioned him. But sure, where the money is, can´t be anyone that super idealist, who prefers to live in a shabby hotel room only to play what he believes in, or make some money and have a villa with swimming pool or stuff.... But I am a "komplette Null" if it is other music than jazz, so I never had no idea what all those Michael Jackson´s and Prince´s sound like. If I MUST listen to somethin else than jazz, I prefer german shnultzes like Heino, Freddy Quinn, Rex Dildo or how they are called, that´s where I really can laugh about and feel fine, lookin at them on TV and hearing what they produce.....