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Well Woody sounds great on those Monk tunes, he could Play everything, but I think as Long as he could afford to have his own Group he played his own Music and Maybe it was quite frustrating for him the Play as a single and Play what is called "common Knowledge". I saw Woody Shaw twice: The first time with that great Group with Mulgrew Miller and Steve Turré , and then Five years later only him with some locals, but it was hard for me to believe it´s the same musician…...

Really great live Music, and Geri Allen very "Monkish" I remember when I started to dig some so called "Free Jazz" after one year of listening to straight ahead jazz, and I was delighted that this is what I call "easy listening free jazz" since it has a swing Rhythm . It was harder for me to listen to free jazz with no theme and no Rhythm.... it took me some more years to dig it.... I love it, it really swings, and great the tunes where Kenny Burrell sit´s in.

This one is really great !

Another from 1964 Dexter in Radioland. Great !

This one is fantastic, one of Bud´s all time best Albums and a fantastic Team with Sam Jones and Philly Joe Jones. Two of the tunes (John´s Abbey and Monopoly) became Bud´s Standard repertoir.

My opinion is, that this one is the very best from all BN Albums Dexter made. It really some hot stuff.

Oh I love those Dexter in Radioland Albums. When they came out in the late 70´s Maybe early 80´s we all purchased them as soon as they came out. I think "Billie´s Bounce" OR...the bounce of Billie (I think that´s how Dexter announced it) came out a bit later…... The first I had was "Cry Me A River", "Cheese Cake" "King Neptune", "I want more" and so on......

Great ! This could have been recorded About the same period when I was lucky to see Jay McShann live. As much as I remember he was booked with a local Rhythm Section, and at one certain Moment in the last set the female singer Etta Scollo (from Sicilia) sat in for one song…...

always great to listen to.

I like his playing very much, will spin the "Heads of State"

This was the first Ornette Coleman album I purchased . I still like it very much.

One of my favourite Max Roach Albums. So great this live Performance with Clifford Jordan, Mal Waldron and Eddie Khan. I purchased this one in 1978, shortly after I had heard Max Roach live.

Two great sessions: On side one you have Roy Eldridge with Flip Phillips, really great, and I Always said that Roy Eldridge was so much ahead of his time, his Generation. He went as far as playing the strictly boppish "Ornithology" Theme on the Outing of "How High the Moon". And "Flip and Jazz" is really hot stuff. The second side is famous mostly for the participation of the great Fats Navarro, but all the others , Allen Eager, Charlie Ventura, Ralph Burns, Bill Harris, Chubby Jackson and Buddy Rich with his great solo on "Sweet Georgia Brown" are also great. I purchased this "America" LP in 1978 and still like it very much.

sounds like a really exiting program. All those great musicians.

A very interesting album, two sessions, one with Bennie Green and Sonny Rollins, Morpheus is quite a strange sounding tune, and the more easy listening set with the tenor tandem Al Cohn Zoot Sims.

one of my favourites

So relaxed ! And one track with Mingus on piano.....

Oh yes, this was a favourite of mine in my first years of listening to jazz as a Teenager. I was really fascinated by the title tune, one of Trane´s best ballads of the 50´s. And Garland´s solo is also great, and of Course, the great bowed solo by Paul Chambers,

oh this are very good News. 1978 was a very good year for Dexter. He recorded "Manhattan Symphony", Maybe his best Columbia Album , Maybe one of his alltime best Albums and Maybe one of the best acoustic Albums of the year. I´m really Looking Forward for this, it´s a must have.

thats really sad News.

1957 was indeed a very good year for Sonny Rollins. Recently I listened to "Way out West" from that year.

The Album was visible in all the record stores in......what year it might have been…..1977? Well I wouldn´t say it got me into jazz, the Album that first got me into jazz was "Steamin´" and when I first heard Agharta shortly after that, I thought "wow, Incredible, this is the same Artist?". But it helped me to listen to everything, from 40´s bop into the Electric jazz of the 70´s . Most of the guys who helped me to get more and more into jazz were 3,4 5 years older than me and were much into free and Electric, but also had Deep respect for Charlie Parker etc...... I later purchased Panghea and Dark Magus. I like them all.

I love this ! I first had it on the Brown Paperback doublealbum from the BN LA series, it was Griffin´s Blowin Session on the first LP, and the "Blowin In from Chicago on the second LP. The whole double Album was titled "Blowing Sessions". When I listen to the CD, I still use to listen to it together with Griffin´s "A Blowing Session". The Tenor Tandem Jordan-Gilmore is fantastic and the rhyhthm section really Cooks, those are some of the best Players of the period. And the almost forgotten Horace Silver compositon "Everywhere" is Beautiful....

Maybe I should give this another try. I spinned it once but didn´t like it, especially the first tune. The strange Thing is, that I am familiar with a lot of 60´s Avantgarde stuff and listen to Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, but Maybe from Larry Young I expected something else, something more like the Albums he made before for BN. (Unity)

Fitting to Sonny Rollins´ 90th Birthday