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Easy Living is one of the great Sonny Rollins albums of the 70´s. When I saw Rollins live in 1979, he played "Isn´t She Lovely" from that recent album. That was a great band with Marc Soskin, Jerome Harris and Al Foster......

Yes, I have read that thread. I just thought about maybe some time I´ll buy that book, or put it on a wish list for some occasion.

Sittin in must be interesting. Maybe I´ll purchase it too.

Dizzy was such a great musician. I saw him at least 3 times live over here in Europe.

In the Dizzy bio "To Be or not to Bop" your father says a lot interesting things about Dizzy, how he got to know him and how he became a member of the big band.

Time for some latin stuff from Dizzy from the mid 70s

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Great, I have that too.

I love Wes Montgomery .

Thank you also for sharing the infos about your father. I´m aware of his name since he played on many Dizzy Gillespie Big Band albums during that time.(late 40s)

This one is wonderful.

Great stuff on that list, a lot of things I also have and enjoy.

That´s really a treasure, Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with Leo Wright and Lalo Schifrin 1961 in Germany. This is from the SWR archives. Great tunes: The Mooche, Con Alma, I can´t get started, Kush, and a feature for Leo Wright on flute "Willow Weep for Me".

YEs, I also thought about Mingus the whole day, since it was ianuarie 5th when he died. I remember I was at a club then when the terrible news spread around. Such a big loss, I love Mingus. Now listening:

Such a great concert, just wonderful !

Well, about the same time there were two other significant double albums that were very much recommended among my school colleages: "The Milestone Jazzstars" (Rollins, McCoy Tyner Ron Carter Al Foster), and the McCoy Tyner "Super Trios". On the morning ride to school, one of those guys told me about those two albums and that´s how I purchased them.....

Oh, Ingrid Jensen. Fantastic ! I had the great luck to jam with here once in the early 90´s, together with the great tenor player Nicolas Simion. Ingrid was allready a fan of Bud´s compositions and played "Bouncing with Bud" as I remember.

My favourite of all VSOP albums and a favourite of mine when it came out in 1978. This album was very much discussed among our little jazz gang at high school.

The last from the series of CDs I got for Chrismas. Very fine and swinging session.

Thanks for that great thread. A lot of possiblitities to change impressions, informations, and a lot of inspiration.

Wonderful thing, two albums as a 2 CD set. this is Dizzy at it´s best in the mid 70´s. Some of this stuff was also on live concerts I remember I saw..... It was a Chrismas surprise for me.....

Happy new year, I hope it will be a better one.

Yes, it´s mainly a picture book, but it also has letters, some of them quite reveiling, for example club owners complaining at the Union about Bird´s bizarre behaviour on stage etc., mostly torwards the end of his life. There are also photos of Bird´s last gig with Kenny Dorham, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey from Birdland March 1955 which I never saw elsewhere.....

YEs, Riverside has some great stuff. Now listening to Wes Montgomery Boss Guitar, which I got for Chrismas from my beloved wife.