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I like this Album, it´s somehow a bit a mistery Album, sounds strange and else than everything I usually heard from Dolphy. The strangest Thing on it is the "Music Matador"....

I have not listened much to Bud Powell for some time, but today I was in the mood for this outstanding record. Bud must have been very inspirated here since he plays more than 18 minutes on Swedish Pastry. I remember Clifford is really deep and I Hear Music is full of flashy runs, this is a later stage of Bud´s career but he is great as ever.

Such a great allstar performance.

I was too Young then, but older guys told me later enthusiastically About that concert, so I´m Looking Forward to hear it. I already have the Vienna 1973 concert.

Today I was in the mood for that wonderful solo LP of Lee Konitz. Two extended versions of Bird associated songs. Really fine how Mr. Konitz works it out.

Really an exiting Thing. This was a great Group, one of my favourites from the 70´s

Art Farmer´s "To Duke with Love" might be one of my favourite acoustic Albums of the 70´s. I purchased it shortly after it came out and since Art Farmer was a regular Performing Artist in Vienna, I got it signed by him. That Album, signed by Art Farmer with a dedication for me is really a treasure…..

Such a fantastic Pianist. I must admit I saw him only once, as a member of the Ron Carter Quartet in summer 1979.

Oh I remember him well, I saw him live with Lou Donaldson. Heavy chords.

@bichos, where have you been ?

Two albums of the 70´s with Oscar Peterson involved. Eddie Lockjaw Davis is one of my favourites, he is so unique. I saw him live on several occasions. The "In tune" album with the Singers Unlimited sold very well, Many people during that time listened to them, great music, great vocal arrangement and fine contributions by Peterson.

Very fine , and very great drum work by Art Taylor.

I also have the CD with the japanese mini LP cover . REally nice those small Group Recordings with Lou Donaldson, I like most the stuff with Horace Silver. That was Wonderful how they played together, really. Lou was Pretty much in Action as early as 1952, recording with Monk, with Milt Jackson, and under his own Name....

The strange Thing is Miles Looks much heftier here than I have him in mind, I saw Miles Always more as quite a thin and skinny guy…..

Who is Rocky Boyd ??? About Sonny Stitt after Hank Mobley, I think they played in UK, since there is something written about it in a book about Paul Chambers. Sonny Stitt seemed to have been quite a mean guy at that time, from what I have read. Normally I love everything Sonny Stitt did, but not what he did with Miles, it didn´t fit in, and the weakest thing was "So What". Sonny Stitt just didn´t know what to play on that.

Agreed ! I love Hampton Hawes on the Gene Ammons Montreux 1973 Album, very fine rhodes Sound. He really could hold his own on Fender Rhodes and is underrated.

There are so many Mobley Albums for BN from 1956-57 with similar titles "Hank", "Hank Mobley", Hank Mobley quintet, Hank Mobley sextet, that I lost the trace and I must admit though they all fine, I don´t listen very much to them, much more to the early 60´s Mobley Albums. But THIS ONE, from the mentioned period is my favourite, really fine that they added Milt Jackson. I remember , I think that I remember, that Johnny O´Neal was with the Jazz Messengers for a very short time. I think I saw him with Blakey in 1983, is that possible ? I remember a nice piano Sound, nice lines and I think on the ballad Medley he had a solo spot on "summertime", but I can imagine what you mean with "splashy - flashy" especially in surroundings with Bags.....

Very fine collection of early Jaws, typical Savoy sides, with greats like Sadik Hakim, Fats Navarro......

Very fine 1955 recording of Donald Byrd with Frank Foster, Hank Jones, young Paul Chambers only 20 years old, and senior Kenny Clarke.

That´s the trio I saw live in late 77 and early 78 at Jazz Freddy, Schottenfeldgasse , the greatest club that existed. And THIS TRIO together with Johnny Griffin in April 1978, those were the days….. I´ll never Forget how it was when I bought this in spring 1978. I already had some Miles Davis records and loved them, but here I was shocked at first when I heard only that French Radio voice tellin us something about Bach and Mo-zard, and the bad recording Sound. But after the first listening I loved it. Miles never played faster bop trumpet than here. People said he could not Play as high as Dizzy, but here he is very near to Diz and Fats, just a topnotch trumpeter. And James Moody sounds so much ahead of his time, sometimes he sounds almost like some later 60´s avantgardists or screams almost like Dave Liebman did 30 years later. And not Forget the very fine solo piano of Tadd Dameron. The French bass Player is top, he can Play like all the great american bop bassists, and Kenny Clarke is the true master……., the Bop Father...….

I think it is great stuff, to get a Chance to hear all those masters when they did Europe. Actually it seems that Graz in Austria was quite open for then Avantgarde jazz, they had a string of great concerts in the 60´s. Jimmy Giuffree, here John Coltrane, and on an obscure italian LP Max Roach and Sonny Rollins in Graz.

oh yeah, I love Prime Time. I will never forget the exitement I had when I purchased "Dancing in Your Head", that red LP with that strange egg on it. I love everything Ornette Coleman did, and some people where not open for his electric bands, but that was the time, we loved electric Miles, we were open for Ornette Coleman´s Prime Time......

Some classic Afro Cuban. I love this collection, the vocal stuff with the Machito band, and the instrumental features with Howard McGhee and Brew Moore. This was a wonderful thing happening in the late 40´s .

That wonderful 1969 quintet with Wayne, Chick, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. It´s the point were they still had some "old stuff" like Milestones and No Blues, and stuff from Bitches Brew like "Miles Runs the Vodoo down". And reading Ian Carr´s book about Miles I enjoyed the extraordinary story about Dave Holland how it went that he was hired by Miles.

Yeah I have some of them, at least all of the Miles Davis Albums . Miles in Concert from 1972 I like most, but also very much the underrated "Jack Johnson". "Star People" is still some good Music and a band playing, not machines……, at least that´s how it sounds. Weather Report "Sweet Nighter" is good stuff indeed.