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he was one of my favourites among percussionists. The first solo I heard on the track "Broadway" on the Parker LP "Summit Meeting at Birdland". He also was in a Dizzy´s Dreamband from the early 80´s …..

I love this 1966 live album of Sun Ra

A very fine Album. Once I saw Tommy Flanagan live , also with George Mraz on bass, but with Art Taylor on drums…..

I purchased it yesterday. Great Encounter of Dexter with Al Haig. But Maybe not among Dexter´s greatest Albums, but interesting enough for listening...

My Father was an Amateur piano Player but as much as I remember he also had perfect pitch. When I was a very Little kid I would sit under the piano just to dig the sounds. My dad didn´t know many tunes, but he used to Play "Mondschein-Sonate" from Beethoven and I would dig that Deep Sound, sitting under the piano. Then I would jump on his lap and watch the keys . Dad would Show me the keys and say look this is a C, this one is the C sharp, this is the D and so on. So I memorized all that when I was Maybe 3 years, 4 years old and I think thats where I got my perfect pitch. I think I remember my dad was a bit disappointed when I was 14,15 years old and didn´t listen to anything else than jazz, but eventually he noticed that this is serious Music too and Needs a lot of Knowledge of the Instrument. I´ll never Forget when he bought me that jazz book written by the italian author Arrigo Pollilo. It´s still one of my favourite jazz books and every time I have a look at it it reminds me of my Father, whom I miss very much. It´s 23 years since he passed away and it still brings Tears into my eys…...he was the best Person I met…..

There is so many terrible new nowadays, if I´m exhausted and tired , I like to watch stuff with animals and nature…….

Turkish coffee

That Formation Rollins-Merritt-Roach from 1966 is so important. I strongly hope it will be released as a CD.

If I remember Right, the last time I saw Dexter live (it must have been february 1983) he played Dameron´s "Good Bait" and Billy Eckstine´s "Jelly Jelly Jelly". He had not played those tune all the years before on the occasions I saw him live. About Jackie McLean: It seems I saw him on earlier occasions, not in his last Shows. On those earlier occasions everytime he played else stuff. And yes, Benny Golson, Lou Donaldson, Johnny Griffin, I saw them live and can share your opinion. Damn, I missed J.J., and I saw Bobby Hutcherson, but not leading his own band, he was in a band with Jackie McLean, Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins...….

Two of Lou´s earlier BN albums, nothing spectacular, I´d say the best of Lou from the 50´s is "Blues Walk"

Yes , those were the days. SABA later MPS produced a lot of Beautiful stuff then. And Joachim Ernst Berendt was a key figure for me when I was a Young Boy. His "Jazzbook" was the ideal guide for me as a jazz starter to dig into the history of jazz, the musicians, the styles, the bands, the records, everything. Later he would write books that seemed more strange to me, to much exotic Philosophy, but the "Jazzbook" still is an important item in my jazz library….

I thought there is less material available with Leightsey on piano.

update: Yesterday I saw it on Amazon, only one item left, so I ordered it imediatly. Is this stuff a limited Edition since they had only one item ? Now I´m lookin Forward listening to it. Well, 37 minutes and half of the time bass and drum solo is a bit too much. I saw many Dexter Performances and after some time it became a Routine. There were not so many tunes played. On the usual Festival sets Dexter would start with a medium fast number, mostly "It´s You or No One" , than Play a ballad (mostly "As Time Goes By" or "More than you know" with that Long solo piano feature and a fast blues as a Closer (usually "Backstairs" or "Gingerbread Boy") And on that last up tempo tune there would be a sheer endless drum solo . It was a great experience for me then, being Young and being a big fan of Dexter, but now Looking back it was some Kind of Routine. Between 1978 and 1983 Things changed very Little, I must admit. Well, George Cables was replaced by Kirk Leightsey and Rufus Reid by David Eubanks. For those who didn´t like George Cables way to Play ballads I think many of you might like the way Leightsey played the ballads…..

it seems that jazz musicians don´t jump as much on Album covers. With the exception of Harvey Mason all showed here are completly unknown to me.....

Great !

Yes, that´s a good explanation.

what strange Setting of the drums, never saw something like this, and it seems there is less cymbals as usually on a drum set.

Great article About Marshall Allen. I saw the Arkestra last year in spring, they were great !

I don´t know why I´m listening frequently to Jimmy Smith since last week. This two albums I like very much, it was the first Jimmy Smith I bought, many others followed.

I tried to order it on Amazon.de, but it seems it is not available .

Yeah, I spinned his stuff with Jimmy Smith recently…. I still saw him live in 2013 or 2014 I think….

Again some Jimmy Smith

This one is great, on side 1 the Max Roach Quintet with Freddie Hubbard cursing at the audience (JAMFs) And the wonderful Rollins with Roach and J. Merit. This should be re-issued on CD, it might be possible since from the tapes made in Graz (my homecountry Austria) were some of them reissued recently like the Giuffree 3 live in Graz and the Coltrane quartet live in Graz.