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Great, especially "There´s No Business like Showbusiness", really up tempo, long theme, quite hard to play I must admit

When I saw Sonny Rollins in 1979 he had a hat similar to that blue hat on the first picture, but in white. It´s the same white hat he has on the photo of the back cover of the album "Don´t Ask" from the same year.

Here´s also Pharoah Sanders listening right now: "Live at the East" was one of my first LPs at high school. Though this is not the easiest music for a young listener, I dug it, and still dig that great "Healing Song" with those voices. And one of my favourites from the time when Pharoah played more in the traditional manner with a regular quartet is "Heart is a Melody of Time". It´s interesting that both Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders, once pioneers of Free Jazz, got back to more straight ahead stuff during the late 70´s early 80s.

Yes , I also had first the LP with the trio tracks and later got the CD with the Zoot Sims stuff. As I already said, I love most of all those occasions, where Bud could play with another horn player, like here Zoot Sims, like Dexter on "Our Man in Paris", like Hawkins on "Essen Festival", Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter on "Blakey in Paris", Dizzy on "with the Double Six of Paris", Don Byas and Indrees Suliman on "Americans in Paris", same on "Tribute to Cannonball"...... I think Bud got very very inspired if he met some horn players, Also with Curtis Fuller on "Bud!"......

The Mingus stuff

Great. I remember when I first purchased it when I was very young, I didn´t know that "Nefertiti" is the title of the Wayne shorter composition. then, in 1978 I first thought that "Nerfertiti" might be an Italian Name and perhaps some Italian film producer, so when I first saw the cover I thought this is possibly some movie score, like "Lift to the Scaffold" or later "Siesta".

Years ago I bought about all stuff of Bud Powell but I must admit, that I have not listened to it for quite a long time. From the later period of Bud I prefer encounters with other US musicians (like "Hawk in Germany" from Essen with Hawkins, Oscar Pettiford and Kenny Clark) or "Blakey in Paris" with the exceptionell solos of Bud on two of his compositions (Bouncing, and Infidels). And from the 1962 scandinavian tour I prefer the studio album with Nils Henning. From the 3 CD set "Budism" I think the best stuff is on CD 3 which is from a second tour to Scandinavia in September 1962. The whole stuff on "Budism" is very very uneven. There are some great moments like two really fast versions of "The Best Thing for you is me" , but there are also some very weak pieces. There is a really rambling version of "Confirmation". As I said before, as I get older I prefer to listen to his records with fellow musicians from USA, or of course with great European musicians like Pierre Michelot or Nils Henning.....

Some Pahroah Sanders live from 1981. I saw him live later, in 1985 at Hollabrunn Festival. Also a quartet, but other personnel.

The great encounter of two Giants.

As all great tenor saxophonists, Pharoah Sanders is a great ballad player. Here is a wonderful set of standard ballads "Welcome to Love"

Very fine Woody Herman with some great guest artists: Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Shaw, from 1979. I saw the Herd also in summer 1979, they played also some Chick Corea tunes then.

Elvis Jones live

Superb concert of Chet Baker from 1979. That´s the time I saw him live for the first time. IMHO Chet sounded much better during his later career than during the time he was most famous..... I was lucky I saw him often live.

Great !

Again reminiscences from that wonderful Festival Velden 1979. Here Joe Henderson and Ron Carter with recordings done shortly before that festival. What a schedule it was: Joe Henderson quartet, Ron Carter quartet (with Kenny Barron, Buster Williams and Ben Riley), Elvin Jones Jazz Machine, Sonny Rollins quartet, Chet Baker Trio, Woody Herman Thundering Herd......

I never understood why the Cliff Brown Max Roach album is titled "at Basin Street". That sounds like a live recording, but as much as I know, it´s a studio recording. Very fine and with very fine compositions by Bud´s younger brother.

Joanne Brackeen still was not so well known then. It thing, a major step for her was playing with Joe Henderson. I saw her with Joe Henderson in late 1978 and she got a lot of attention and I think shortly after the concert there was an interview with her in "Jazz Podium". Later I saw here with Joe Farell, also very fine. This should have been a Chet Baker-Joe Farell encounter, but Chet was missing.....

Here are three double albums from the late 70s, when there was again more interest in acoustic jazz . Those three albums were very much discussed in my jazz friend circles during the last year of high school. They came out around the same time 1978 and the most beautiful thing was that the musicians could be heard live on all bigger jazz festivals. Though I couldn´t see the Milestone Jazzstars in this formation (they were together only for US tour if i remember right), there was enough "Milestone Jazzstars" at the Velden Jazzfestival summer 1979, when Joe Henderson , Sonny Rollins and Ron Carter were scheduled, each one with his own group.

this photo is great !

Here´s a fine Sonny Rollins album from spring 1979, featuring Larry Coryell as a guest artist. It was recorded few weeks before I saw Sonny Rollins live with the same quartet Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris, Al Foster. Larry Coryell was also scheduled on that festival (Velden 1979), but not together with Rollins. It was just a great time, you purchased albums and could see those artists live, presenting mostly their stuff from their latest albums. "Disco Monk" is also featured on "Road Shows Vol. IV" as a live version with the same group at the same time I saw them...... Great memories of a great time......

Yes right. In spring 1978 the first one, with the sessions from 1949-1951 was purchased by me. The second (Vol. 2) came out in autumn of the same year and has his later Verve recordings from 1954-56.

Sonny Rollins plays for Bird is quite interesting. It´s not trying to copy Bird, but a very individual thing, mostly standards that Bird played , not originals (with the exception of "My Little Suede Shows).

Sunday afternoon here in Vienna. Sunday afternoon Miles

Two great live performances of Miles from the late 50s

This is my LP copy I bought in 1978. I remember I was a bit disappointed since I thought it will be an encounter between Roy Eldridge and Fats Navarro. But not to forget the great side A too with Roy Eldridge playing "Ornothology" in the outing of How High the Moon. And I must laugh now if I think how strange the title "High On An Open Mike" sounded to me. Then I didn´t know what that means , I translated it into "Hoch auf einem offenen Michael".....which is worse than a google translation would be now ... On "Sweet Georgia Brown" I always would have liked to know if it is the voice of Fats Navarro who announces Buddy Rich when Buddy starts his drum solo. It´s reported that Fats Navarro had a high pitched voice and that sounds like if maybe it is Fats announcing Buddy.