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Great "modern" boppish Lester at the Royals Roost.

Wonderful those two sessions, the ballad session with Victor Feldman, such a great pianist, and with the "second" quintet the first recordings. Great, I love it !

I have the Mastertakes from the Savoy Sessions. I thought About Posting it on the "Late 40´s thread" ….

That´s a very good description of his solos. I don´t have students, but now I know WHY I love his work so much. It seems that he was very much in Action at Birdland in the early 50´s. The Billy Taylor trio is also a Formation that worked at Birdland.

Such a great musician. I like all his stuff, his Arrangements and his great solo trombone. He has Always such a lot of humour in his solos, a lot of quotations from other Songs.

wow, that´s great new in such sad times with so many greats gone. I love him. His Percussion work is such Incredible. I think the first great solo of him I heard on "Summit Meeting at Birdland" with Bird, where he Plays a Long solo on "Broadway". And the tracks Bird, Bud, Mingus, Art Taylor, Candido from Mai 1953 on ESP Disk. And I saw the Video of Dizzy´s Dreamband from 1982 with Candido. He still looked the same, he seems to be Young forever.

In memory of Henry Grimes. That´s the trio I saw live: David Murray, Hamid Drake ! Really powerful , great music !

Yes, Flowers for Albert , a great track, it impressed me very much. I´m glad I have that rare CD. On the live date I saw in the same period, they even played a Monk composition, one of my favourites (Evidence) .

Fantastic VSOP recording !

That´s really sad news.

That´s a terrible blow ! At least I was lucky to see him live, it was with David Murray and Hamid Drake, a great trio. Here´s a record from this formation.

Such a Wonderful musician ! The Incredible Thing is that just YESTERDAY I was thinking very much About him, I remembered that I saw him on a TV documentary About bop and cool in 1978 and liked very much what he played and what he said in that documentary. My first listening experience was that Incredible solo of "Cherokee" on the Steeplechase Album "Lone-Lee".

My Mingus-mania continues. This one is really a milestone in Mingus´ outstanding career.

Yeah, "Reach Out" is the album.

Yes, I also have a lot of it. They were great in recording "Americans in Europe".

As you say it, there is also another Album of Hank from early 1968 were Woody Plays great. I have forgotten the title, it´s an Album with Hank in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower in the Background I think. And it has also a Pop tune on it, which was popular at that time. I love that Album.

From the original Album "Dexter Gordon Montmatre Collection" I Always found that this Version of "Like Someone in Love" is top. It´s one of my favourite solos of Dexter.

When I was Young, I had a cool boss in the Office I was working and when he heard that I listen to jazz and Play jazz , he told me that he had heard that Kenton Band in 1953 in Vienna, and he mentioned Lee Konitz and Zoot Sims . So this was the same tour. Such a great band !

Two all time great albums with my favourite Charles Mingus involved. Money Jungle......extraordinary, it´s like if they would have re-invented Trio Jazz. And those compositions by Duke. For example, "Little Max"......that´s really COMPOSED FOR MAX ROACH, that´s how it sounds. And of course "Massey Hall". Fantastic !

really sad, much to young to die. I became aware of him in the 70´s , really interesting musician. I think he was presented at the Austrian "Jazz shop" radio show, that´s where I became aware of him first.......

This is far away from "a perfect Mingus album" but with all it´s shortcomings it has really great moments. I listen to the CD version with the additional tracks, but the first time I had it on LP with the painted cover art. From all the great moments of music (Clark at the Dark is fantastic) I like especially the ballads "My Search" based on "I can´t get started" with some great piano by Toshiko and a great Mingus solo, and "Duke´s Choice" .

Such a great musician, many many many more happy birthdays...... But time really flies, when I became acquainted to jazz and jazz-rock, he was a really young man.

Very sad news. I also know him mostly from the Art Blakey records and the Max Roach records. Did he also play in his last years ?

I also love those OJC records. From Tadd Dameron I also have "Mating Call" (the one with John Coltrane), and the 1953 Massey Hall set of Bud Powell with Mingus and Roach is some of Bud´s best playing of all times.

I saw Harold Land in 1983 with Dizzy Gillespie and he was fantastic !