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I also love it very much. I think the Red Garland Trio was a Dream Rhythm section for any Artist, I wonder how it would have sounded if they would have had the opportunity to record with Lester Young. I think it would have been something great !

One of my favourite albums by one the artists I admire most.

Really underappreciated. It´s a unique experience to hear Rouse playing Bossa Nova only. But interesting his "Monkish" phrasings. It´s a beautiful album.

Bird´s last album from 1954. The "I love Paris" from december 1954 has a moving quality. As on Bud Powell´s last album. The "Round Midnight" from 1965 also has a moving quality, and there is a rare version of Coltrane´s "Moment´s Notice" on it. As much as I know the only time Bud recorded a Coltrane composition.

Great concert, Dizzy with guest stars James Moody and Milt Jackson ! Also very fine the guitar of Ed Cherry and the outstanding bass solo of Mike Howell on Night in Tunisia. Great to hear some old tunes with new arrangements......

This , I think, is an album of superlatives: - IMHO Dexter´s best album on Columbia (from the span from 1976 - 1981) - Maybe one of the best "acoustic albums" of the late 70´s - - Wonderful cover photo - great liner notes

Interviews for insiders, very interesting, I mentioned this book above since Hampton Hawes is one of the musicians interviewed. Others are Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin, Freddie Hubbard, Leon Thomas , Betty Carter etc. ......

an excellent choice ! I remember I bought this book in the late seventies. Hampton Hawes was really a great piano player and as the book shows, a great story teller also. I´ve also read an interview with Hampton Hawes done by drummer Art Taylor, which was later published in Taylor´s book "Notes and Tones". It´s a very angry and frustrated Hampton Hawes there…...

Oh this one is really fine, those longer tracks like "Boppin´ a Riff" and so on. This would have been most welcome in the thread "late 40´s " also in this Forum. The Album "Ornette" with Don Cherry, Scott LaFaro and Ed Blackwell was very important for me when I started to listen to so called "Free Jazz". It is "easy listening free jazz" since it has still a "swing Feeling". More advanced Free Jazz with completly non - swing , at that early stage was still to hard for me to understand…..

If I remember right, this was the first Dizzy album I heard as a teenager about lat 76, early 77. Great the tenor tandem Griff and Jaws, Milt Jackson, fine Tommy Flanagan and a lot of Diz...... On the CD there is a bonus track "April".

Really a beauty

My "Gordon-mania" continues ! I was lucky to see Dexter live on several occasions. We were a little group of big Gordon fans and I remember our exitement when the appearance of his next album "Gotham City" was advertised in the news-folders of our favourite record dealer. Finally in spring 1981 the "new album" Gotham City was in the shop, I bought it and went few blocks down to the little hip jazz club "Spelunke" were we were regulars, and they spinned it and we all listened to it. The other record from 1982 is very fine live playing, though the sound quality is not the best. It´s great to hear the live version of "Moment´s Notice" and "Body and Soul".

I heard him with Max Roach. Also Tyrone Brown became a member of Max Roach´s quartet a little later.

this must be very interesting, since most of the live material of Gordon on Steeplechase was made in the summer 1964, and later in the 70´s there was more Studio Recordings (with the exception of the fantastic "Meeting" and "Source" where he plays with Jackie McLean).

Very sad. He was my favourite trumpeter from the Generation of musicians from the (for me) "younger generation" (1960 Born).

it sure is. Especially those Monk ballads "Ruby My Dear" and "Monks Mood" are great and also live versions of those tunes are great. Also "Thelonious" and "Off Minor". There is also a live recording from about the same period at the Cafe Blue Note with the same personnel, and all those tunes together with an outstanding Version of "Round Midnight" . Some fine "Bud Plays Monk" is also on a Mythic Sounds Album (Tribute to Thelonious). Only that he seems to have difficulties to play "Bemsha Swing" , probably a request from the audience……..

Today I´m in a "Dexter´s Mood" and was looking forward to spin this fine record. The wonderful memory here is, that this came out about when I first heard Dexter live and bought it the next day as "his most recent record". Great encounter indeed with Johnny Griffin, whom I had heard the same year shortly before he had his US comeback. Side B is a hit with Eddie Jefferson , and not to forget the nice version of "Ruby My Dear". Dexter in general is not associated much with Monk, but he plays "Ruby" in a very individual manner and makes it sound like a "Gordon Cantata".......

so great !

Very exiting music. For example, this version of "Iguana Ritual" is much wilder than the studio version.

Yes, that Bossa is also my favourite on this Album. And it´s one of the few occasions to hear Jackie McLean playing a bossa. He sounds great on it.

This 2018 recording of Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake is really great. Dave Liebman was one of my first idols, since I saw him live and heard "Drum Ode". Here, decades later it seems at some times that this is some further developement of things that started with "Drum Ode". It´s a fantastic album.

This one is from 1947. Side A is Roy Eldridge with Flips Phillips. I think Roy Eldridge was really very much ahead of his time, since he also plays the bop anathem "Ornitology" in the outing of "How High the Moon". Side B is most memorable for that allstar session featuring Fats Navarro, Buddy Rich, Charlie Ventura and Allen Eager. I never heard Fats´ speaking voice, some say he had a high pitched voice. On "Sweet Georgia Brown" it seems that he is the one who shouts "Buddy Rich" before Buddy´s drum solo.

Some great, rare 1949 broadcasts here.

Wonderful thing. I love everything about it, but especially the Rondo Suite which actually is "Two Bass Hit" from the days with the Dizzy Big Band.

okay, thank you for your kind advice. I´ll think about it.