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a wonderful album of mostly ballads.....

Thank you very much for your answer. Yes, I also noticed that kind of loose "crash-bang" aspect to Nick, especially on those tracks from Descent to Maelstroem. I think "Stretch" is the title of the faster tune, that seems to be based on "You Stepped Out of A Dream".....

I head Chet Baker on several occasions from the late 70´s until the very last time in 1987 . I must admit I never really listened much to his stuff from the 50´s and 60´s . I like De Walk´s biography on Baker, and also another book written by a German author about baker. The Name of the author I think is Lothar Lewien. Very good book. The last time I saw Chet was at the end of 1987, that might be only a few months before he died. After all those stories and the occasions when I had a ticked but Chet Baker was missing, I was surprised that on that very very last occasion, though he looked like death, he was very very articulate, was on time for the first set, played beautiful stuff and didn´t disappear during intermissions. He said "we´ll be back in 15 minutes" and that it was, he was back on time and the second set was also beautiful. If I remember right, he had Nicola de Stilo on flute and guitar, that pianist from Belgia he played often with, and Austrian bassist Hans Strasser (very very fine).....

Yeah, that´s a great Pharoah Sanders album Oh yes, this is the "Last Mingus Band". About 1977, when Mingus still was alive and could play, they toured Europe and played live versions of "Three Shades of Blues" and "Cumbia&Jazz Fusion". Very exiting.

Why did Tristano play so much with the quite obscure Sonny Dallas and Nick Stabulas ? Who were they and has someone any idea why Lennie Tristano choose them so often in the 60´s. I have a quite rare album of Tristano "Descent into the Maelstrom" and the last two tracks from 1966 are with those two on bass and drums, I must admit I heard much better drummers

Very fine , a lot of Monk tunes here, and Geri Allen sounds very "monkish".....

a very nice 1972 Stitt album for Muse. I saw Sonny Stitt once in 1980. The concert was okay though it was evident that Sonny had "his cups".

yes, "Spelunke" always payed in cash.

One special thing was that Austro-Pop singer Wilfried came to see Eddy Harris. I had a long conversation with Wilfried at the bar and he stated that he is a big fan of Eddie Harris and has almost all of his records. Life is full of surprises. Those were the days, the house was packed every evening .

Great, those Pablo Group Masterpieces and Solo Masterpieces were fantastic.

Very interesting info since I had no idea how he played for so long time in a small club in Viena. I even had thought they were somehow "stranded" but now with your info I´m sure this was not the case. Yes, small clubs were fine , but let´s say this was 1986. A few years later there were not many clubs left. @soulpope You are from the same town and the same generation like me: Did you also see Eddie Harris at "Jazz Spelunke". Well, I was a regular, that was a place were musicians met each others, sometimes we even checked some gigs from there, and the "Bier von Fass" was good. For me, 1060 Viena was almost the "Jazz Bezirk". On the other side of that small street was "uzzi´s café Einhorn", and a few minutes from there was "Jazz By Freddie". It´s almost like the older US jazz musicians I still witnessed when they said "here we had the "Three Deuces" , here we had "Onyx" , the "Royal Roost" etc etc.......

I saw Eddie Harris for almost 2 weeks almost every night in early 1986 at a small defunct Viennese Jazz Club "Jazz-Spelunke" He was with Ralphe Armstrong on bass and Sherman Ferguson on drums, and he played tenor sax, reed-trumpet and piano, sometimes vocal like the thing he played and sang every night "Eddy Who?". I still wonder how that little one room jazz club, that mostly booked locals and had live music only until 22.00h due to neighbours had the chance to book this giant for such an extended period and I wonder, why they were for so much time in Viena, since I doubt they could make much money there, though the house was packed every night. I now that they recorded for Timeless short time after that gig, maybe the had some time off from schedule, it´s really strange but I remember it very well.

It´s other music than what I listen to usually, but since I always was a big fan of "Drum Ode" this is a really interesting thing, good to close the eyes and listen carefully what happens.....

Yes, Al Foster ! For my taste, things went down from 1985 on, when he replaced Al Foster and went more into commercial stuff an it got more a kind of show, almost a parody of Miles, rather than stuff played in a band like on "We Want Miles"

how about this one ?

If I remember right, Grady Tate was also the drummer on "Dizzy´s Dream-Band" from 1982 or 1983. I have a DVD of that event but my DVDplayer gave up. But I´m quite sure it was Grady Tate on the big band sections, very fine really . On the small band sections it was Max Roach on drums.....

indeed it is, so good !

This one since I witnessed the exitement of Miles´ comeback and here it is still in a really jazz context, without all those synthisizers and the more boring stuff that came later. I really like it, maybe it´s a bit rough but it´s live and it´s still "jazz"

great photo, and yeah that gigantic pencil.....hahaha !

That must have been a great experience. I was too young than, but I´m happy I can listen to the recordings. Now listening to the next step after "Filles de Killimanjaro" "In a Silent Way" is one of my favourite records. By the way, very nice that tender organ sound of Joe Zawinul. The Hero from my hometown Vienna. And sad to say, a few days ago Joe Zawinul´s son Erich died caused by Covid-19. He was a renown DJ and only 54 years old and until then a strong and healthy man.

one of my favourite late 60´s Miles

What a wonderful album and such a great soloist on the bari. This was his last album, he passed away too early

Right now I´m listening to the second disc. "Make a Wish Make a List" is even wilder than on the "Croydon" or "Stuttgart" versions......, and a rare version of "Donna Lee" on this.

Wasn´t Buds last studio recording "Up´s n´Downs" also recorded for ESP, since I think it was done by Stollman. Only, that it was later issued on the Mainstream Label.

Didn´t she appear at Mingus and Friends 1972 ? This would have been after the early 60´s . Actually I don´t now other recordings of her than those two with Mingus on "Stollin´". In the liner notes of "Mingus and Friends" it´s stated that she must have been a baby when she recorded it with Mingus in 1959 since she was still a young woman in 1972. That´s all I know.