Gheorghe

Great 4 CDs of Bird live at his best, right now on Bird´s 100th Birthday

Of course, today on Bird´s 100th birthday: On "St Nick´s there are some of rare played tunes like "Smoke get´s in your Eyes" and "What´s New"

I had a special idea today to celebrate Charlie Parker´s 100th Birthday ! I sat down at the piano and played a set of some of Bird´s compositions and tunes he used to play: This was the set list, the tunes I played and soloed on: Confirmation Moose the Mooche Yardbird Suite Cool Blues Wee Round Midnight Now is the time.

It´s really a very exiting material, I´m glad I have it.

Great Bird with Big Band is on "Bird with the Herd" and on the Washington 1953 Album with the Joe Timer Big Band.

My favourite on this Album is the bossa tune "Boss Bossa" or how it´s titled. And Jackie McLean´s playing is a highlight on this. very nice. Grant Green made a lot of Albums under a Motto. This one with latin tunes, others with spirituals, with western/Country tunes, really a very versatile player who could play anything.

Thats really sad News. I saw him live in 89 or 90 with Günter Lenz, Uli Lenz and I don´t remember who was on drums. It was in the then famous Viennese Club "Opus One".

Very fine early Sonny Rollins and a rare Occasion to hear Miles Davis comping on piano on one track.

Some of this Big Band Arrangements Sound quite Commercial. I have the Verve Album with Temptation etc. and the big band sounds like some movie Soundtrack from the 50´s. Bird, of Course is great as ever.

Great ! As much as I know the only live album of Horace Silver on BN.

Fantastic ! This was the great Mingus Band of the 70´s, with George Adams and Don Pullen (later replaced by Ricky Ford and Bob Neloms). I´ll never Forget how impressed I was by their live versions of "Sue´s Changes". And Don Pullen could play everything from stride piano to free. Like Jakie Byard in the 60´s bands.....

Really great to read about the early days of Sun Ra.

I also love those early MJQ albums

Great !

Well, I can understand what you say, and I must admit that in the last 20 years I don´t think I spinned it more often than 3 times. My favourite Green Album is the previously unissued "Solid" with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones, but as I said, there are days when I have a Special mood, when I had a few bad days and am grateful that Things are ok again, and than I have those Beautiful voicings of "Am I Blue" in my mind. That intro really has a moving Quality. But you are Right, there are hundreds of other Blue Note Albums that are better…..

I saw the notes and my first thought was : DEXTER , especially in his later period, it´s one of his favourite licks…..

What a wonderful relaxed thing after some heavy days , now things start to calm down and this record really does relax me. Even my wife likes this version of "Am I Blue"....

Oh yes, I´m also a big fan of Fats Navarro, and the Tadd Dameron bands, especially the live broadcasts from Royal Roost.

I´ll never Forget the first time I heard him on record. It was his solos on "Whims of Chambers" and how much I like what he Plays. I never saw him live, but have a lot of his records.

Same here ! I also saw here in Joe Henderson´s quartet in Vienna in late 1978. I don´t remember who was on bass and drums, but it was a great concert. Not Long after, or during here tenure with Joe Henderson there was an interview with her in "Jazz Podium". I remember that she may have been slightly influenced by McCoy Tyner.

Horizon is one of my favourite McCoy Tyner Albums. And on some tracks is Ran Blake on violin. I saw this Formation live in march 1980.

This Jackie McLean Album is great. I think it was the last Album he did for BN. I like it more than the shortly before recorded "´Bout Soul". Strange cover art, it Looks more like that eerie and Abstract cover art Miles´ Bitches Brew or even more "Live Evil"...….

The hardest to find for me was Paul Chamber´s "Bass on Top". It was not on RVG and not on Conoisseur and not on the other regular reissues until I finally ordered it from Japan, even there were not many reissues of it, my copy is one of those mini LP cover CDs.

When I saw Shepp live the first time it was the same personnel like on this record, minus the to me unknown trumpet player. But it was the great Siegfried Kessler , german born but french based, on piano, Bob Cunningham, and Clifford Jarvis......such a great concert.....

My wife once said she would have liked to see Dexter Gordon live. She is not necessary a jazz fan but likes some of it sometimes. She went to some concerts with me but I got to know here two years after Dexter died, so she didn´t have the chance to see Dexter.