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I´ve always admired the fantastic guitar of Wes Montgomery. This is the first album I had purchased, really very swinging music.

really great read, thank´s for posting

It is sad circumstances, but Wonderful records, Really a great list !

who´s the lady on the bass , and who is the piano player ?

Really nice !

Excellent 71 minutes of that marvelous group Woody had in the early 80´s with Steve Turré , Mulgrew Miller, Stafford James and Tony Reedus (an excellent drummer by the way)

Yes, that´s the Album I have….. thank you !

I´m not sure if I have this Album, Maybe with another cover, but the one I heard with the Dex-James Moody left me a bit disappointed with Moody´s playing which I elswhere like very much, but it seemed that he was not in top form on that track.....

Very nice !

the last time I saw Mr. Sanders live was around 2014 and he still had a lot to say, even if some of the power was gone. But even then it seemed he had difficulties to walk on stage. I´ve been a longtime fan of his Music, the first LP I had was "Live at the East" with those Voices on "Healing Song"......just Wonderful. I had that old LP with me when I went to the concert, I hoped I can tell Mr. Sanders that it was one of the first Albums I purchased and if he would sign it for me. But Mr. Sanders didn´t look like someone who would meet a fan for a few words of the usual small talk, so I was to shy to try to get the possibility to talk to him…..

"Unity" was my first Sun Ra Album. And the rare quartet Album "Steps Ahead". Unity and Steps had very similar covers….. On Unity Sun Ra Plays mostly the organ, which is rare, usually when I saw them live he mostly played the acoustic piano, plus some small Keyboards....

It was this quartet I saw live when I first heard Dizzy in my teens. Great quartet with Rodney Jones, the legendary Benjamin Franklin Brown on el-b, and the great Mickey Roker on drums. On the second CD Leo Wright is added to the regular quartet. I saw Dizzy some years later again with a quartet consisting of Ed Cherry, Mike Howell and veterane drummer J.C. Heard. The next time it was a Dizzy Allstars quintet with Harold Land, George Cables, Herbie Lewis and Louis Hayes. And the last time was in 1987 a special 70´s birthyday Big Band...... So many memories of great Dizzy performances.

Max Roach quintet on side A and Sonny Rollins trio on side B. This was in Graz in the 60´s. Since there have been releases from ORF tapes for both Jimmy Guiffree trio in Graz 1961 and John Coltrane also in Graz 1961 on HatHut, maybe in future we could get this one on CD. Like the Coltrane material , it was former released on diverse bootleg labels.....

My father bought me this for Chrismas in 1978. This was my second jazz book after the Joachim Ernst Behrend book. I still like it very much. Arrigo Polillo really had a lot to say and he met many great musicians and had a lot of inside infos......

Great, such a wealth of music here. Very fine solos by the leader himself and all musicians involved. No one else than Elvin could have composed "Elvin Jones Blues" and no one else than his wife Keiko could have composed "Doll of the Bridge", and there are very fine ballads with only the piano and guitar soloing , the pianist Fumio Karashima is very fine. And not forget Carter Jefferson, Dwayne Armstrong, Andy McCloud and guitarist Marvis Horne, all of them such great players.

Thanks @Dan Gould for those inside informations, very interesting. I also have a Bob Neloms story for you all: Around 1980 there was a jazz festival in Austria and a 15 years old budding jazz pianist , after the sets went to the piano players to get some advices for his future. First he asked Ronnie Matthews, then the pianist of the Johnny Griffin quartet, and Ronnie told him: "Don´t just play, SAY SOMETHING !" Bob Neloms was the next pianist, I don´t remember in what formation, but after the set the young boy went to meet Bob Neloms and said to him: "Hello, Ronnie Matthews gave me the advice "don´t just play, say something", what else can you tell me ? Bod Neloms said "Well, if you say something, take care WHAT YOU SAY"!

I see more "Sweets" now here. Really nice, I saw him live together with "Jaws" in 1978, really a strong Team.

yeah and as much as I remember, Dannie Mixon was the Pianist, when they did Vienna in September 1976. Very fine !

I have read in Brian Priestly´s biography About Mingus About that drumless Performance early in 1977. That last Mingus Group with Bob Neloms, Ricky Ford and Jack Walrath appears only on the much more over produced Studio Albums "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" and "Cumbia", together with many Studio musicians, but it´s sad to say there were no legit live Recordings of that band. I heard some soundboard tapes from Buenos Aires and from Spain from summer 1977 and they contain live versions of both title tunes of the before mentioned Albums. I also did not know that Bob Neloms had passed away, and I didn´t know he retired early. As much as I remember, Neloms came to Mingus in 1977. Between Don Pullen and Neloms, on piano was Dannie Mixon, another underrated Pianist., He can be heard on "Music for Todo Modo".....

Among the tunes they played in Stuttgart 1972 are "Love Story", "Peanuts Vendor", "Malaga", Intermission Riff, "Artistry in Rhythm" etc. Greetings from the Danube River

Here´s also Big Band live at Stuttgart listening: Stan Kenton the Stuttgart Experience, live 1972. I would not have found this CD, but my wife picked it up for me as a Chrismas present last year. Though I have so many CDs she always manages to find something I still don´t have. Really great live date with an incredible arrangement of "Love Story" and Kenton evergreens like "Peanuts Vendor", "Artistry in Rhythm", "Intermission Riff".....

I´ve read About that mental breakdown and that he changed his stlye into a more repetitive and percussive Play (his Trademark), but one year before he recorded with Max Roach on "Speak Brother Speak" and I Always thought his playing on that is very similar to his later style. Very percussive, and repetitive phrases on his solos…..

A Wonderful set of live Music by that great trio Jimmie Giufree had in 1961. This concert in Graz was great and I´m so happy the ORF tapes could be released . Actually it was my wife who bought me this CD. A great choice.

IMHO the best of Dexter from the Columbia years, and Maybe one of the best acoustic Studio Albums from that year 1978.

oh yes, that long extended slow blues with Garland´s great chord voicings.