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hi Greg, you also might like to read the great Tadd Dameron bio. Since they had such a close collaboration and played 39 weeks at the Royal Roost in 1948 and before that at the Onyx I think, it´s really a very fine Team. I think Tadd really got inspired to write for Fats, many of his tunes really are Fats´ favourites, like "Eb Bop", "Symphonette" , "Jahbeero" , "Tadd Walk", and so on......

One interesting Thing that I´d like to write About Ron Carter is that he often Plays the Contra-C, and first I thought he uses a 5 string bass (like Chubby Jackson did), but later I saw he had some kit on the neck of the bass which sure is a Contra-C Extension. You can see it on photos of Ron playing the bass. He didn´t use it when he was with Miles but used it in the 70´s when I saw and heard him live. Very very interesting and the Deep C sounds good .

It´s interesting how Hampton Hawes in his Autobiography states how much he has been influenced by Bud Powell, but I think Hampton Hawes definitly has his OWN STYLE. This must be great !

One Thing I really "learned" from Fats Navarro is the way he goes from the second A section of a song into the Bridge, so that´s this transitions from the A-Part into the Bridge were he really Plays. Before I noticed this, I was not pleased with my own playing, too many "holes" between the sections of the song structure, so when I started to Play more , Fats´ style helped me to make it Sound more "Pretty", not so stiff collared. I noticed the same Thing when I listened to Al Haig. When he first played on 52nd streed in 45, he still sounded "stiff", but listen to how he Plays a few years later, I think Fats was an influence for lot of musicians who Play other Instruments...... yes you are Right. But what helped me a lot was that I allready knew Fats Music and could "hum" quite a few of his solos . There´s Always a lot of Melody in them, they are sheer Beauty, and so they are easy to remember, at least for me, and so when i read the Analysis I already knew the tune, the solo.....

This is one of the greatests jazz bios I´ve read. Really good with all the tunes and Analysis of Fats´ solos, and much About his live that I didn´t know. I love everything Fats did, he is a true master, his solos are so great, so perfect, he never played a bad note…..

Incredible. I didn´t know Tina Brooks still played that late in his live. I thought after the BN Albums in the early 60s he stopped since there was no other recording evidence. I wonder how he might have sounded…...

I´ll Play his 1979 Album "Parade" which I love very much. It´s an Allstar quartet with and augmented mini big band...... I saw Ron Carter twice: Once with his quartet in 1979, and the second time with VSOP II in 1983.

Those America label discs, much of it Mingus associated as this Thad Jones Debut stuff !

Great latterday Messengers, I saw this lineup in 1988 in Vienna at Metropole.....

Thank you !

Oh I still am mad I didn´t purchase this when it was on the America Label. Most of those albums were Mingus associated, I have those with Mingus as a leader and others like "the fabulous Thad Jones" but I think it might be hard to find this one right now.

Great encounter between Fats Navarro, Kenny Dorham, Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell. That´s the great 1946 session with the long tracks. And on each side there are also 2 tunes of Fats with Dameron, and fine vocal on "Gone with the Wind" and "That someone must be you" (with singer Kay Penton). "Webb City" is vintage bop. I think later in his career, Art Blakey and the Messengers performed it once......

Yes, Bobby Watson was the musical director. I unfortunately didn´t see the group with David Schnitter whom I like very much, when I saw them, Schnitter was replaced by Billy Pierce, also very fine, and on bass, Dennis Irwin was replaced by Charles Fambrough who was former with McCoy Tyner.

I only saw him with Charles Llyod, the great quartet with Michel Petrucciani and Palle Danielsson and Sun Ship Theus. I loved his drumming and I love really strong drummers, give the drums some......

Oh my God, much too young, I think he was born in 1948, so this is too early to die. His "Alto Madness" really was something strong going in the early 80s. I saw him at Wiesen in 1983 with a very fine rhythm section but forgot the names of the players. The piano player was very very articulate, it was a guy with a beard, I wonder if somebody can tell me what his touring band in 1983 was. And nice guy really, very nice towards the audience. He even had "composed" a tune just for us, for the "Wiesen Festival" , titled of course "Wiesen", it was a fast samba.

This is my favourite late 70´s Messengers record, I really loved that group with Valery Ponomarev, Dave Schnitter, Bobby Watson, James Williams , Dennis Irwing, and especially that fast version of "The Song is You" and the James Williams originals......

This was my first listening encounter Cliff Jordan and the Magic Triangle (Walton, Jones, Higgins). Vol. 1 - 3. I still listen very much to it. One funny thing is Cliff Jordan sometimes sounds quite rough, on "Old Devil Moon" it seems that he just had to "learn" the tune on stage. But there is really some freakish beauty in what he does. And my favourite track is the medium tempo "I Should Care" and the fast "St. Thomas" with a great Billy Higgins solo. Only that Cedar Walton was not happy with the quality of the piano. But play he does on this ! Great as ever.

Very fine set from Northsea 1979. Dexter with Kirk Leightsey, Rufus Reid and Eddie Gladden. I saw then in march 1980, with John Heard on bass instead of Rufus.

I remember best s**t from 40+ years ago, since then I was 18+ years old and everything was so brand new and fascinating and by the way, I get older and remember very well stuff from the past and it becomes harder with later periods since there was so much other Things to do and the live concerts from my youth were something like "unique Events"...….

Great memories and fantastic concerts you have seen. I would have liked to speak to Jackie McLean. The greatest Thing I ever saw with him was Jackie McLean-Bobby Hutcherson-Herbie Lewis-Billy Higgins. I saw Cedar Walton I think in 2002 in Vienna with trio. The Bassist must have been David Williams but I don´t remember who was the Drummer. It was a great concert, it was just in my Living quarter, a few blocks from my place we have a club called "Reigen" and they had a string of concerts with great stars, Always went there with my wife: We saw Archie Shepp, we saw Johnny Griffin, and of course Cedar Walton.

That slow blues, I could listen for Hours to it. So great the way Garland Plays it with his Special chord voicings.

I live this

Right now the Dial Sessions done in NY in late 47, the classic quintet and on one session augmented with J.J. Johnson.

But I´d prefere to hear it on record.

Happy Birthday ! That Woody Shaw Group was great, I saw them live in early 1983 shortly before Steve Turré left the group.