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Oh yes, this was a favourite of mine in my first years of listening to jazz as a Teenager. I was really fascinated by the title tune, one of Trane´s best ballads of the 50´s. And Garland´s solo is also great, and of Course, the great bowed solo by Paul Chambers,

oh this are very good News. 1978 was a very good year for Dexter. He recorded "Manhattan Symphony", Maybe his best Columbia Album , Maybe one of his alltime best Albums and Maybe one of the best acoustic Albums of the year. I´m really Looking Forward for this, it´s a must have.

thats really sad News.

1957 was indeed a very good year for Sonny Rollins. Recently I listened to "Way out West" from that year.

The Album was visible in all the record stores in......what year it might have been…..1977? Well I wouldn´t say it got me into jazz, the Album that first got me into jazz was "Steamin´" and when I first heard Agharta shortly after that, I thought "wow, Incredible, this is the same Artist?". But it helped me to listen to everything, from 40´s bop into the Electric jazz of the 70´s . Most of the guys who helped me to get more and more into jazz were 3,4 5 years older than me and were much into free and Electric, but also had Deep respect for Charlie Parker etc...... I later purchased Panghea and Dark Magus. I like them all.

I love this ! I first had it on the Brown Paperback doublealbum from the BN LA series, it was Griffin´s Blowin Session on the first LP, and the "Blowin In from Chicago on the second LP. The whole double Album was titled "Blowing Sessions". When I listen to the CD, I still use to listen to it together with Griffin´s "A Blowing Session". The Tenor Tandem Jordan-Gilmore is fantastic and the rhyhthm section really Cooks, those are some of the best Players of the period. And the almost forgotten Horace Silver compositon "Everywhere" is Beautiful....

Maybe I should give this another try. I spinned it once but didn´t like it, especially the first tune. The strange Thing is, that I am familiar with a lot of 60´s Avantgarde stuff and listen to Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, but Maybe from Larry Young I expected something else, something more like the Albums he made before for BN. (Unity)

Fitting to Sonny Rollins´ 90th Birthday

This one is really great. I love it.

Incredible, Happy Birthday to one of my all time favourites since I listen to jazz.

Very nice, and those two McGhee Albums Vol.1 and 2 are a must have for all BN fans who dig the Fats-McGhee collaboration "Double Talk".....

What a wealth of music was there in the 60´s at Blue Note recording studios. Here´s two of my favourites. The one with McCoy Tyner is fantastic, with a dream team with Bobby Hutcherson and a fantastic rhythm section. And "Speak No Evil" speaks for itself.

One of my favourite Joe Henderson Albums.

really sad News.

Nature Boy was a Chrismas present from my wife. I love that Album, but I love everything Jackie McLean did. Saw him live twice: In 1983 with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins, playing a set of Bebop Standards, and a more advanced set of Music in 1985 with his band with his son Rene, Hotep Galeta on piano, David Eubanks (former with Dex) on bass, the Drummer if I remember Right was Ronnie Burrage, is that possible? and the percussionist was Kemati Dinizulu (later with Sonny Rollins). So, considering the fact that he was not easy to book if I read all those stories About his wife Dolly, I think I was quite lucky I saw him twice.

a Wonderful Album, and Hank Mobley also is great on it, Incredible what they do on the Beatles´ song I want to hold your hand

Yes, I agree with you

This is a great documentary film About the live of Bud. I saw it when it came out, About 1999 I think, on swiss TV. It´s a rare Occasion to see three women who were important in Bud´s live: Frances Barnes, Celia and Margareta Johnson.

Thanks, thats really great, the choice of the tunes, the commentaries, everything.

I have several live Recordings of Miles in the period from 1948-51 and Miles really played some fast bop trumpet on all those. If you listen to the 1949 Paris Recordings with Tadd Dameron , Miles is so fast and Plays in the high Register, and if you listen to the Metronome All Stars were you have Diz, Fats and Miles, they Sound very similar….

And here´s the twin album of "At St. Nick´s". Great live set of Bird at his peak, with the vintage quintet Miles, Duke Jordan, Tommy Potter, Max Roach. 1948. "Charlie Parker again" ...... my wife asked when I announced that I´ll spin this one....

There are so many Recordings of Lou Donaldson with organ, but this one I think is the best. And a highlight on it is the Version of "Love walked in"......

Great Play list and great commentaries !

The Miles Davis session from June 30, 1950 has the same recording Sound as the "Night at Birdland", so I Always thought that June 30 is the correct date. The bass and the drums (Curley Roussel and Art Blakey) Sound the same.

one of my favourite Jackie McLean albums. Once I saw Jackie McLean with Bobby Hutcherson and Billy Higgins live. Herbie Lewis was on bass......