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Too bad I never caught George Duvivier live. He was scheduled on an Woody Herman All-Star small Group in 1985 which I saw live, but when they went on stage they announced that George Duvivier couldn´t perform due to illness, he was replaced by a Young unknown but very fine bass Player. And shortly afterwards we heard George Duvivier had died.

"Heads of State" the two Albums "Search for Peace" and "Four in One".

Great ! This was my first "Electric Miles" Album. When I bought it, it was the latest Miles Davis Album and you could find it in all record stores. Later I also purchased the harder to find "Pangea" from the same date, and finally after years the great "Dark Magus" from a year earlier.

I used to drink more when I was a Young guy. Now, if I Play I don´t drink, but I like to have a beer after a good gig.

I have this CD, but I think with another cover. Wasn´t it recorded in Leverkusen, Germany. And there were stories About it, that Art Blakey initially didn´t want to perform with the guests. At some Point he left the drum Chair and Roy Haynes played. I read an article About that concert then at Jazzpodium, this was before the CD was issued. It was told that at one Point Art Blakey went to the piano and played and sang "For All We Know". this item is not on the CD. At least not on mine.

Since this was the first Ornette Coleman Album I could purchase, it allways will have a Special meaning . It was my first "guide" to so called "free jazz" and anyway it´s easy listenin free jazz since Maybe on Alfred Lions insistence they had to Play also some swing pieces like you see on "Good Old Days" . And for the difference of others I allways found Ornettes violin playing quite good and interesting. I don´t have classical trained ears and a violin for my own happiness must not Sound like Mozart or Beethoven. But here it sounds like the stuff some 20th century classical compositions from Eastern Europe, mostly from Hungary did it, I think Gyorgye Ligeti was his Name.

Thank you for your many replies with really worthful Infos. I apreciate them all ! I´m also pleased to read that I´m not the only one who find´s walkin bass lines on piano boring. About Lennie Tristano. I intended to Mention him, but didn´t. I love all of Lennie´s Combo records, the stuff with Billy Bauer , Lee Konitz and so on, but have difficulties to enjoy those Things he did after he disappeared from public, it sounds dull, even if at some Point there are interesting chords. I think I heard some mid sixties live material of very individual rendidions of ballads like "Darn That Dream" and so on..... Enough About Lennie Tristano. Yes the piano has 88 keys but nobody must Play them all. When I was Young I thought I must Play Play Play , now as I get older I think About the inside of the song. I don´t think About the fact that I Play piano or Play an Instrument, I think About the essence of the song, the chords and what I can do with that. When I had those Occasion to be forced to listen to Walking bass piano Players for some Hours and some Point i did what I usually do when I feel the urge to Play myself: During Intermission I hurried to the piano Player, told him how much I love what he does, and that he has such an Incredible left Hand, and how poor is my own pianoplaying but if he´d be so nice and let me Play a song, not for myself, for my wife. With that "Gimmick" I never was refused and played a tune …… of Course not a Walking bass tune.

Well I´m not the biggest fan of Boogie-woogie, there´s not enough space to open up Things....., but yeah, some old Boogie Maybe really nice. Heard Sun Ra do it with his Archestra at one certain Point and everybody went nuts, but as i said, i don´t like the regular Walking bass played on piano. Especially if the Player does Walking with the left Hand and single lines with the Right Hand.

During my Holiday I spent some nights at a local piano bar and the pianists who worked there seemed to have all the same style. If they played "jazz Standards" , mostly "All the Things You Are", "Night in Tunisia", "Billie´s Bounce" and so on, the kept playing Walking bass lines in the left Hand. I must admit I don´t like how Walking bass sound´s on piano. Let the bass Player do it. Well, i like it on organ, that´s cool, but on piano I find it quite unnerving. I must admit I´m not a typical solo Pianist, I Play in Combos, but if I´m forced to Play only solo, I try to do something else, let´s say chords and punctations in the left Hand, sometimes if it´s fittin in, some stride and so on, but never a Walking bass line. How do you think About pianists who Play Walking bass on the left Hand ?

I think, on Rhythm Changes it quite became a common lick after Byas and Monk did it. I have heard it very often and do it myself on piano if I get bored of playing just the regular Rhythm changes. I remember I heard Don Menza doing it also.

I remember I had this many years ago. Isn´t this the one where Danny sings "If I could see me now" ?

Good idea for a Musical journey. I must admit I don´t have the Babs Gonzales though I alway wanted to hear how sounded those legendary "Three Bips and a Bop" with Tadd Dameron. About Sonny Rollins: My God, time flies: I saw him in Velden 1979, and now this is 40 years ago ! And in 1979 Sonny still was in his late 40´s but looked even younger. The band as I remember was Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Al Foster, a very very fine unit that lasted for quite some time.

This photo is in Horace Silver´s Autobiography "lets get to the Nitty Gritty" . Has the strange tenore-posture something to do with the accident Horace had when he was a Boy, where he hurt his back, something with trying to jump over a Creek …. that´s how he describes it in his book. Did Horace Always have his hair straight?

That´s how they looked. No, "Brown Bag" was not printed on the covers. I think, the official Name was "Blue Note L.A. Series",

I´m not familiar enough with the Music of Arnold Schonberg. I think it´s abstract western music. On the other Hand if I would have asked Warne Marsh a Question About some fellow musicians, I´d ask him About Lennie Tristano, About Bird Maybe or others of his Generation, Maybe even what he thinks About Ornette Coleman or Miles´ stuff after 1970 and so on, but it wouldn´t come to my mind to ask him About Arnord Schonberg...…., but Maybe it was a School of classical Music where they asked it.

My CD of Bitches Brew has one additional track from a year later I think. It´s titled "Feia" or something like that. First I was lookin forward to listen to this "new" track since I thought as much as Miles´music developed from 1969 - 1970/71 it might be something really "catchy" and rhythmical but to my huge disappointment it is a very boring track. Maybe I don´t have the ears or the Patience for it, but for me it sounds like some very slow, very experimental stuff. I´m not so dumb that I would enjoy only Things you can tap your feet to, I have learned to enjoy Free Stuff, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor when I was very very Young, but this track "Feia" or "Feio" just doesn´t say anything to me...…..

Brings some great memories back. I heard it first on Radio when it was brand new. We had a Wonderful hour of jazz Weekly on Saturday "Jazz Shop" About new records. And this one was something Special when it came out in 1977.

I also like this record very much. But some of the best Zoot Sims I heard on the Prestige Album Tenor Enclave. And if you want to hear some really rare Zoot Sims, I´d recommend the set he did with the Bud Powell Trio in Paris in the early 60´s. You can find it as Bud Powell at the Blue Note Cafe, the label is ESP Disk. Zoot Plays very fine versions of "Takin a Chance of Love", "Groovin High" and "Bud´s Blues"...….. Here: This is the Album cover of the CD where Zoot Sims Plays with Bud !

Same here ! I saw Ella live at Wiesen 1983 and I think the Group was her with Tommy Flanagan, Keter Betts, Joe Pass and Bobby Durham, all of them Pablo Artists , a very very fine concert, but at one Point Ella announced she will do some duo with Joe Pass and I think this was the only part of the set, which bored me a Little. Like in your case he never really grabbed me, I Always listened much to Wes Montgomery (before he made those records with strings), to Kenny Burrell and Grant Green if it´s About acoustic jazz. Larry Coryell and Mike Stern for later developements.

Time flies: When I first listened to this, it was recorded (on Juli 31th 1964) About 10 years ago. Now it´s 55 years ago. I think it´s one of Bud´s best latterday Studio Albums. I like most the Parker associated tunes "Little Willie Leaps" "Moose the Mooche" and "Relaxin at Camerillo". Maybe Bud´s Performances were a bit uneven in his later years. His next Studio Album "The Return of Bud Powell" is still very fine, but it seems he was in lesser form on it. But still very fine….

Oh yes I remember it now, it was multi-coloured. But wait a Minute...… a friend of mine had a Brown paper BN "Dexter" and it also was quite a sampler.

Well it´s natural I also prefer to hear Cedar Walton on acoustic piano. But on the other hand, the things that annoyed fans of Artists from the acoustic era when they started to use Fender Rhodes and Electric bass instead of acoustic piano and double bass , now are something like history. That was the time then. As much as guys from the swing era like Benny Goodman and Roy Eldrige started to "use" some of the bop Elements in the late 40´s, guys like Dizzy in the 1970´s used Electric bass and Electric guitar for their touring bands, so if I look at it now, I got a much more philosophical view About it than I had then. Then I said if I want to hear Electric stuff I hear Miles with all those guys Michael Henderson, Reggie Lucas, Pete Cosey, or Herbie Hancock Headhunters and so on, and if I want to hear Diz I want to hear him with an acoustic Group. Now I really can enjoy stuff like "Diz at Montreux" 1981 with Bags, doing "Olinga"....., anyway tunes like "Olinga" "Manteca" "Tin Tin Deo" "Brother K." you also can Play Electric and it sounds good.

I think I remember this BN reissues shortly before the CD era, I think it was the renewed interest About jazz which lasted for a few years. In the late 70´s early 80s it still was not unpossible to meet guys from the same age who would listen to jazz. About the Brown Bags from BN I still have the Fats Navarro double Album, the Monk double Album, the Paul Chambers John Coltrane, The "Blowing Sessions" (thats the Griffin Album and the Cliff Jordan- John Gilmore), and the Sam Rivers (with Dimensions and Extensions and one unreleast Andrew Hill session). I think they failed with the Herbie Hancock Album, it was only a few tunes from each Album from the whole range of Herbies BN Albums from 62-69. The only "exotic" Thing I have is Wes Montgomery, since I love Wes´ guitar so much. But it seems I´m a bit ignorant About Pacific Jazz, I think I Always was a Kind of east Coaster, don´t ask me why, but my Collection of west coast Recordings is much thinner that those of east coast Recordings...….

From what period is this ? Olinga is Dizzy´s composition , Right ? In 1981 Dizzy performed it with Milt Jackson as a guest Artist at Montreux.

Monk is very very fine on those last Studio sessions. And he played great on the Giants of Jazz from the same period. I Always have admired Monk´s stride piano. And yeah, Darn That Dream is a ballad that really fits to Monk´s style. When I play it, I think I can´t play it without some Monkish chords.. but as on so many cover photos I really doubt this was done during the Studio session. My first Monk LP was the paperbag twofer "Monk Complete Genius" from BN, with all the 1947-1952 sessions, and it had exactly this photo with that funny chinese hat in the inner cover .