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The Dizzy Reece album recorded in UK, with Donald Byrd and the great Tubby Hayes. Jackie McLean ........the title tune very nice, based on Star Eyes, it´s not done often, but I have it also on record from The Heads of State with Gary Bartz.....

Well, my wife was not a jazz fan from the start. But she tolerates it and maybe she listened a bit more to it, but maybe it´s just there´s too much jazz in the house. If I don´t listen to some records, I run through some tunes on the piano. But she liked especially Dexter Gordon, and was fascinated by Monk´s approach to the piano, I remember she said "if Monk plays the piano it is like if he re-invented the instrument for himself". And since there is much music playing in the house, she knows many tunes, if let´s say we are in the kitchen cooking and I´d just start to hum a little bop tune like let´s say "Move", "Blue ´n Boogie", "Night in Tunisia" if I stop she would continue and if I say "gee you know the music " she says well what can I do, if you always play that stuff. But if I would play a ballad like let´s say "When I fall in Love" or "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" she will come into the room and listen. And she went with me to some concerts, she saw with me : Archie Shepp, Johnny Griffin, James Moody, Cedar Walton, Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Benny Golson, and this spring she intended to come with me to listen to Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach but due to corona it was chancelled.....

A very fine hardbop album. Dizzy Reece is a very unique trumpet player, and Hank Mobley/Wynton Kelly fans also will be delighted with this album.

What coincidence ! I´m also listening to Big John Patton right now. Now spinning "Let ´em roll". This one has a very interesting line up with Grant Green and Bobby Hutcherson. Really fine, a really happy feeling record. And very interesting the choose of Hank Mobley´s tune "Turnaround".

Again a favourite of mine. Joe Henderson is brilliant here. A very interesting Album.

This one is really great, I think it´s the one that features "There´s No Business like Showbusiness", isn´t it. I have the CD with the same cover. But first, in the 70´s I had a Prestige Double Album with this session on it.

Very fine Curtis Fuller on Timeless, recorded in Roma 1982 with the great Roma Jazz Trio with Danilo Rea on piano, Enzo Pietropaoli on bass and Roberto Gatto on drums. A very fine set of tunes, the album starts with an ultra rapid "Impressions", and also features "Naima". Highly recommended.

I remember Harry Sweets Edison quite well. He usually performed together with Eddie Lockjaw Davis, that´s the Team I saw live on some occasions, really fine ! Though this was in a period when I listened more to more modern , free or modal stuff, it was really nice to spend an evening to here such a good Mainstream jazz, not to figure things out, just to relax and swing.....

Great ! This together with "One Step Beyond". That Group McLean, Moncur, Hutcherson was great. Once I saw Jackie McLean together with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins.

"Happenings" is one of my favourites. I also listend to some Hutch today: "Four Seasons" (Hutch, George Cables, Herbie Lewis, Philly J. Jones , 1983).

What a loss , such a great musician ! I think few People know that he was encouraged by Bud Powell, when he was Young. Both lived in Brooklyn and when Bud made a walk he heard Eddie Gale practicing and started to talk to him, I think this was in 1965. I have read that in Peter Pullman´s kindle book About Bud......

Right now the third disc, the one recorded in Sweden in Autumn 1969. I think this is the best from the album. But one thing is very strange: The Band starts with Chick Corea on the usual electric piano, but soon after that Chick plays on the acoustic piano. He does not solo on the first tune Bitches Brew and then plays exclusivly acoustic piano. It sounds great on acoustic. We will never know what happened, maybe the electric thing had a tehnical defect, who knows more ?

I heard that for the first time on the Brown paper 2 LP Albums and later bought it with this cover art as a CD I think it´s one of the best BN Albums from 1967. I saw Sam Rivers live in spring 1980 with his trio.

Right now the second disc, with the for me a bit hard to understand "Directions", the Spanish Key from the later album Bitches Brew, and strange enough for that period, a swinging "No Blues" and Nefertiti from earlier periods.

The Sam Rivers stuff was great. One disc his great 1967 album and the other a before unissued session with Andrew Hill, wonderful.

I remember I saw this in the 70´s when those double Albums came out. But then I was not ready for it. But the two BN Albums Cecil did are great "Unit Structures" and "Conquistador"...….

It really is. Three founders of bop with the great Pierre Michelot, such a great Album of vintage bop played at it´s best. they all really cook on this Album.

It took me some time to dig the playing of Pianist Phil Markowitz, it´s a very subtile Kind of playing, but it really fits and after some times of Hearing him together with Chet I think it fits. The Dates for Steeple Chase are also Wonderful, "Daybreak" for example, and of Course "No Problem" with Duke Jordan....., Chet really recorded very much during that time. He seemed to enjoy to work in Europe.

The Miles 1969 is really interesting. Such a large range of program, they played some old swing stuff like "NO Blues" or "Milestones" and also the then brand new Bitches Brew stuff like "Miles runs the Voodoo down"...… Only the tune "Directions" never really reached me, somehow it´s too free, but not free in the manner I like it (Ornette Coleman), but in a colder, more intellectual manner…..

This is also one of my favourites. Beautiful Music, really Long tracks

1978 was a very good year for Chet Baker.

Here´s another of great Bud Powell.

This one is my first LP featuring this strange Jitterbug Waltz and the even more strange "Music Matador". And the label "Trip Records" also seems very strange to me.

The first copy of it I had was on a strange and to me quite obscure label called "Trip Records". I remember on Edge of the cover was missing, but it was sealed, very very strange.

Great,I also listend to the Giants recently, the London concert ? Too bad I was too Young then . An older friend of mine saw them in 1972 but unfurtunatly Dizzy was not on it, he was replaced by Cat Anderson and another trumpet Player, anyway the needed 2 trumpet Players to replace Dizzy......