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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.....

Thats also her. Is the big black guy Rufus Reid ?

I heard Farmer´s Market the tune almost each time Farmer was in town, he lived here but most time was touring, but at least 2 times per year he played some nights at Jazzland, and so often "Farmer´s Market" was the first tune of a set.

hey, my youngest son lives in Spain, he has been there for many many years and settled in Northern Spain, it´s a small village called "Alea". Before that he stayed near Barcelona. He also sometimes digs jazz ! Interesting: I think I have a 4 CD box of the Royal Roost performances they are among the best Charlie Parker live with the exception of the two CBS "One Night at Birdland" and "Summit Meeting at Birdland". The Carnegie Hall 1947 is that the record with Diz and Dizzy´s rhythm section, where the other half is the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band ? Chicago 1950 I don´t know but I´m not a Bird completist.....

Oh, as I posted yesterday I heard only once from radio on track of Straight No Chaser and it was said that it is Quincy Jones band. I didn´t even know what instrument he had played, okay, trumpet, but maybe with Clifford Brown and Art Farmer in ONE Band , that is was counted most then in 1953. I had no idea of somethin until he figured on that Miles Davis Montreux, playing the old music what Miles swore he will never do again.....

Jetzt is sie aa scho´ a oide Schacht´l was i xehn hab auf fotos.....

Oh I remember her, she was on one "Tatort" in the 70´s. A fine girl I must admit. I heard that her father was a crazy monster I think I saw pics of him. How comes it such an ugly and crazy guy has such a nice daughta ? Never would have guessed that, Natașa Kinski.......

I must admit the only Quincy Jones I had heard was when Herwig Wurzer , the Austrian Jazz DJ of the 70´s spinned a record of some straight ahead and very fine big band jazz doin "Straight No Chaser". It was very fine and I had it on caseta since I recorded each weekly hour of "Jazz Shop" on casetofon. It was a bit like the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band, anyway at that nivel of playing. But later possiblly zero, since I only listen to jazz jazz jazz. The last time I heard something done by him was on the 1991 concert of Miles Davis doing old music again....

usually I don´t listen with too much pleasure to trio records, I miss the horns, but for THIS one I´d risc it !

Oh, walnuts or how you call them. Well I can´t do harvest since our "nuc" (as we say to that tree) is about three years old, and has only leaves or right now nothing..... I don´t know how many years it will take that we can have a "recoltă” (thank you for teaching me the word "harvest" I wouldn´t have known it it is not written on album covers😄 who´s that nice girl ?

He recorded too much in the un-years. I don´t know what Norman Granz purposed when he recorded such a weak Bud. I have mixed feelings about Norman Granz, he sure did very very much for the wider reputation of jazz, but had not the most musical tastes, he prefererred older styled straight ahead playing drummers like Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa to players like Max Roach or Philly Joe Jones and often booked musicians together who did not fit in. Like this Tommy Turk on a Bird combo record....., But in general all his sessions are at least technically perfect. So I really don´t know why he insisted to spend money on sessions that never should be heard by anyone. But it is not only Verve or Victors that have erratic playing. The first side of the Blue Note that has Curtis Fuller on side B is more than erratic and without much musical sense. I mean he has it all together with Curtis Fuller, but falters on the trio sides. Besides his own unsure and uninspired playing he seems to be so off or drugged he doesn´t even notice when Paul Chambers takes a solo. He pure and simple destroys what Chambers does.....

The strange thing is I think Peter Nero must have been very popular in U.S.A., but maybe not well known in Europe, but a school friend of mine had one of his records, since his uncle was a bar pianist. They had a lot of Erroll Garner and one LP of Peter Nero. Here two albums I listened to yesterday: 1) The Album with Contrane is much more reprezentativ than the one "Monk with Coltrane" that was done in the studio. Here both really spread out. I like Trane´s solos on "In comes Bud", "I Mean You" and "Epistrophy" most, and Monk plays some of his nicest solos and plays beautiful chords, that really make another sound than most pianists chords. Monk´s are so rich and he can make so great and beautiful sounds. 2) No that´s also a marvelous album full of beauty. McLean has such a beautiful sound on all stuff he played, may it be more daring originals, or like here really old tunes. The only jazz standard here seems to be "Stable Mates" and besides the version Coltrane plays, this is my favourite of it. And that tune "Let´s face the music and dance" that really sounds great. It´s a harmonically and melodically really interesting tune !

That´s right , thats how I like it !

Great record of one of my favourite drummers of all times.

I have seen that bassists name on some session Bud recorded in Paris.....don´t remember there was too much material recorded in trio format.....

Apfelstrudel ! The only sweets I like !

Strange, I have never seen this or heard about it. Is it from about the same time (60´s) like the "One Step Beyond" which I have, where it is also Graham Moncur.

I have one of his records, it´s with a lotta ballads and a wonderful sound, I think it has "Gost of a Chance" on it, and it has a very rare Walter Bishop, many many years after he was on the scene with Bird....., I don´t remember the others, but it is a quartet and it´s really fine an album once, that starts with a ballad, rather than with the usual swing tune... With the exception of George Wallington they all are no unknown for me. Elvin Jones chiar a favourite of all of them in my jazz live. Idrees Sulieman who had played with Monk, seemed to live many years in Europe. Bobby Iaspar, is it possible he is from Belgia ? I have heard once that he is great. I think a similar career like Barneny Vilen or so, right ? Some of the older generation European Jazzmusicians I just got to knew when looking at the covers of some Bird or Miles Records done in the late 40´s in Paris. I think there was a lot of names I first had read there. My favourite of a European , France based pianist was Siegfried Kessler, but my mentor and all time favourite here in Viena was Fritz Pauer, when he was alive. There were times I saw him every day..... to meet him, to talk to him, to learn from him....