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Yes, that´s a good explanation.

what strange Setting of the drums, never saw something like this, and it seems there is less cymbals as usually on a drum set.

Great article About Marshall Allen. I saw the Arkestra last year in spring, they were great !

I don´t know why I´m listening frequently to Jimmy Smith since last week. This two albums I like very much, it was the first Jimmy Smith I bought, many others followed.

I tried to order it on Amazon.de, but it seems it is not available .

Yeah, I spinned his stuff with Jimmy Smith recently…. I still saw him live in 2013 or 2014 I think….

Again some Jimmy Smith

This one is great, on side 1 the Max Roach Quintet with Freddie Hubbard cursing at the audience (JAMFs) And the wonderful Rollins with Roach and J. Merit. This should be re-issued on CD, it might be possible since from the tapes made in Graz (my homecountry Austria) were some of them reissued recently like the Giuffree 3 live in Graz and the Coltrane quartet live in Graz.

Two nice albums from the BN 1500 series. Jimmy Smith with Kenny Burrell , Lou Donaldson and Art Blakey, Hank Mobley with Art Farmer and Horace Silver..... timeless "hard bop"

Today I´m in a mood for some fine organ by Jimmy Smith. I decided to go all the way back to his first to BN albums. It´s interesting that on BLP 1512 they still had to work a little to get the right sound for the organ . On BLP 1514 the sound is better. Great tunes, some are really incredible virtuosity like "Lady be Good" (actually the bop line Rifftide), and Dizzy´s "The Champ". Not to forget the groovy medium tempo tunes and the fine ballads..... this inspired me to listen to Jimmy Smith today

On Moving Out there is a very fine version of "More than you Know" with Thelonious Monk. On "Plays for Bird" it´s interesting they don´t do Bird´s compositions (with the exception of the more standard like sounding "My Little Suede Shoes" , it´s mostly standard material from Verve recordings Bird did..... And Kids Know is a very nice waltz.

I think I saw that TV Documentary, and I saw some video of Don Byas fishing, a hobby he shares with me

Yes, in Art Taylor´s Notes and Tones, and a very interesting interview is from 1978 or so with Gudrun Endress for the german magazine Jazz Podium, there was also a book "Jazz Podium" by Gudrun Endress with a lot of interviews.....

I like this idea of listening to records under a certain "Motto", like last week it was early Ornette Coleman stuff, now it´s all of Coltrane´s Prestige records. I did the same, listening this year to all of Tranes Prestige Albums, but somehow I must admit the Albums I listen too mostly is the one with the Long track of "Good Bait" (Soultrane I think), and "Stardust"....., they were my first Coltrane Albums and I think I listened more to them than to other Prestige Albums....

Though I saw Max Roach on several great concerts and have a lot of his Albums , I don´t really know others Things About his Life than his musicianship, that´s all but that´s the most important. But it´s a shame if we think About "Massey Hall" and About all the else Artists involved there are tons of books, books About Bird, About Diz, Bud, Mingus, so someone really should start a solid biography About one of the most important figures of post war jazz......

Thanks for sharing this great Newport Performance with us, just wonderful, I enjoyed it so much.

Those Spotlite LPs were treasures. So much until then unheard Bird. I love this album. Especially the first tracks with the Dizzy Band at Billie Berg´s ......, but also the stuff from the Finale with Miles......who sounds very much influenced by Dizzy on that.....

I like this album, the last official studio album Bud made. It got bad write ups and I think this was not fair to Bud. He still had a lot to say. Well he fluffed a bit the octaves on the first tune "I Know That You Know", but is that a reason to write this album off as a bad record, and even worse, that the tapes better should have been destroyed ???? It remembers me about a special evening decades ago when two ladies took me to the opera. I must admit, I´m not a classically trained person, but I seemed to enjoy the evening, but during intermission those two ladies started to say how weak this singer was because he didn´t hit the high C properly, and how weak was that singer because he did not hit the high G properly. I asked them why the got to the opera if the talk about those musicians, but they laughed it off and said that´s part of the game . Well, a strange game, and this comes to my mind if people accentuate the negative when Bud just fluffs a few ocataves, but man this was a genius..... There´s so much good music on this. "The Best thing for You" is much better than his first recording of it, and "I remember Clifford" is just wonderful, and there is a lot of sharp up tempo on "Just Those Things", much better than on an earlier studio version from 1956......

I saw Archie Shepp live for the first time when "Paris Concert" and "Bird Fire" came out. It was with the great german/french pianist Siegfried Kessler, Clifford Jarvis and maybe Bob Cunningham on bass, but it could also be a japanese bass player, it think that it was, it was again at the no more existent "Kongress Haus" in 1050 Viena, a lot of concerts were there in the late 70´s, I think it´s a Billa Market now.....

Thank you all for your very interesting comments, yeah Max Roach was very important in my developement of a busy jazz listener and observer. I´ll never forget the first time I saw him in 1978 with Cecil Bridgewater, Billy Harper and Reggie Workman at a quite ugly venue, the no more existent "Kongresshaus" in 1050 Viena...., remember a very hot version of "Round Midnight"...... and a lot of more....., Art Farmer was in the house. The day before, Art Farmer performed and Max came in, and was announced......wonderful memories, and Max announced that Art was in the house, when it was Max´ concert the next day.....

Great all-star meeting with Donald Bird, Phil Woods, Bud, Paul Chambers, Art Taylor, and a great choice of tunes.

Me to, but let´s say "Snowflakes and Sunshine" on "Golden Circle Vol 2 " is worth listening. And there was a later LP that I think never made it to CD "Opening at Caravan of Dreams" where he plays some strong violin on the last track "Compute"......

Oh yes, this was the first Ornette Coleman I purchased in 1978, and also my first so called "Free Jazz" record. Now listening to the incredible guitar of Wes Montgomery

I liked Red Garland immediatly when I heard the first Miles Davis quintet things, "Steamin´" was the record then. And then I purchased this one, it was a double LP album and then available in 1978.

Oh yes, this was the first Ornette Coleman I purchased in 1978, and also my first so called "Free Jazz" record. I was delighted to hear the straight ahead thing on "Good Old Days" just to manage to get more easily "ready" for the more far out titles "Sound Gravitation" and "Freeway Express". It´s a bit harder for me to listen to Ornette´s trumpet than to his violin. Miles Davis once stated that he hate´s Ornette´s trumpet but can get along with the violin.