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I remember I saw this in the stores when it came out. Somehow I hesitated to buy it, I think I was not sure wether it had an original BN cataloge number and I thought it might be "a sampler". But now as I see it´s Cecil Payne on it, that ´s interesting. I dont think Cecil Payne made many recording dates for BN.

I must admit I heard more about a sax player Kenny Rogers who plays on one of the earlier Lee Morgan albums. But I think I remember when I was at School, one of the buddys who was more into pop than jazz had an album of singer Kenny Rogers. I must admit I don´t know very much about other music than jazz, but as much as I remember that Kenny Rogers sounded quite good.

A classic ! So many famous tenorsaxophonists did their obligatory Bossa Nova Album in the first half of the 60´s. Also on Blue Note: Charlie Rouse did his only Album "Bossa Nova Bacchanal" which is a lesser known Album......

I already posted the Savoy Double Album "Mr. B. and the Band" with very much bop Arrangements , great ballads and vintage big band bop on "Cool Breeze" and "Oo Bop Sh Bam" and so on. This one is from About the same time and has less bop stuff and is more focussed on the ballads, but very fine . Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan remain my favourite singers of the 40´s .

And maybe the "Milestone Jazzstars" also. It was billed as "Sonny Rollins-McCoy Tyner-Ron Carter" + Al Foster and I think there was no real leader so it´s also McCoy´s Album . Anyway he Plays a solo feature and a fine duo with Ron. It was done in autumn 1978 and came out shortly after it, Maybe late 78, early 79. I remember it was very much advertised and we purchased it as soon as it came out.

I have not listened it for quite some time and today I really am in the mood for this fine record. As all my school and college buddys we had bemoaned Miles´5 year hiatus and I still can feel the exite we were in when there were rumours that Miles had returned into a recording studio and probably would tour again. This is really a fine record. I like it much more than the more famous Warner Brother stuff like "Tutu" since this is still a lot of "jazz" in it. It´s a working band and they really are together and Miles who was rumoured to have lost his chops, really plays some fine trumpet here, and more than we would have expected. And he even played a swing tune "Ursula".......

Really a fine playing list !

okay, that´s right, I had not considered that fact.

well I can´t say now if they gave it 100% or not, but I was a bit amused that everybody "laughed About Lou Donaldson" that he Always played the same tunes, the same set lists, when I saw Miles at least 4 or 5 times in different years and depending on the period of style, the live sets were very very similar. In the mid 70´s it was Always that fast funk tune in Eb with which they startet (Berlin, Montreux, Vienna, on the Albums "Dark Magus" and "Pangaea". And in the early 80´s it was Always first a fast funk tune, then a slow blues in Bb and from the mid 80s on it was Always "Time after Time" and "Human Nature".

A lesser known album of Mingus from 1965 , a year when he did not record as frequently as in 1964. This is the quintet with Charles McPherson, Lonnie Hillyer , Jakie Byard and Dannie Richmond. Great version of "So long Eric", a fantastic ballad medley and the funny "Cocktails for Two".

oh, yeah this is very possible. I just think I found the personnel once , and if I remember right, Ronnie Burrage was on it. It´s interesting that they played "The Seeker" which is not on the Horizon album, but it´s on the "4 Quartets" album done with Bobby Hutcherson in the Beginning of March 1980. And about 3 weeks later it was the tour with the mentioned sextet and maybe they just played it, it seemed to be a brandnew composition then. I remember "The Seeker" as something like a healing song for me, since I had a bad cold at that time and after a few bars there was no cold anymore, I just started to feel really fine ! As I wrote, "The Seeker" was the first tune the sextet played in Vienna March 1980 and it was recorded just before that tour on the famous double CD "4 Quartets". I mean....."Quartet 4 x 4" it´s four LP sides: One with Freddie Hubbard, one with John Abercrombie, one with Bobby Hutcherson, and the last one with Athur Blythe.

Yes, thank you. It could have been Wilby Fletcher. Joe Ford must have been on saxophone.

Hello Bill ! I have the sessions, but with other Album covers, actually the 1949 dates (with or without Tommy Turk) were on "Jazz Perennial" (I think it was Vol. 7) and the Swedish Schnapps session from 1951 on the LP with that Title (Vol. 8). About the quality of the compositions on the Swedish Schnapps Dates, well I think "Si Si" is a very nice blues line and "Schnapps" is a very nice rhythm changes line. "Si Si" has nice augmented blues changes, as has "Blues for Alice". Maybe "Back Home Blues" and "K C Blues" are not as interesting, at least for the time the record was done. I know those tunes quite well since I had a chance to play with Mr. Allen Praskin in the late 70´s and he loved to play all those rare performed bop tunes. We did "Segment" , we did "Si Si" and I remember "Bloomdido" (from the Bird ´n Diz Album). It was a great experience to hear those old tunes with that fantastic new alto voice, that´s how I felt About it, I was still almost a kid and had a lot to learn, but it was a great honour for me to get the chance to play with such a great musician who really knew that music .

This one has John Blake on violin. He was the big surprise for me in the 1980 band, I had not seen or heard a fiddle much until then, besides gypsy music of course....., and yeah, the little features of Ornette Coleman that are quite funny but ok, But I don´t know who was the drummer then. I know it was McCoy the master, a Saxophone Player , John Blake on violin, Avery Sharpe I think was on bass, but who was the Drummer. I know it was not Al Foster, and I think there was a percussionist also. They played an almost 20 minutes or longer running tune that I later discovered as being titled "The Seeker". I loved and still love that tune so much. It has the essence of McCoy Tyners composing style.

What´s the story behind "I Fall In Love Too Easily" ? I mean, Miles once knew and played hundreds of ballads, he had such a huge repertory of ballads it was incredible. Why did he keep exactly this one ballad in his set list. Anyway, for a man who bragged that "he never looked back" and "always had to move forwards" he didn´t change his set lists very much. Don´t misunderstand me, I like everything he recorded and played but let´s say, during his "Electric period" almost every concert had the same music. And even before, during the famous second quintet almost every recorded concert had quite the same tunes recorded (see "Miles in Europe" "Miles in Tokyo" "Miles in Berlin"...….)

Oh really, today is his Birthday ! Such a great musician. When I was a Youngster, I became Aware of him very quickly due to his tenure with Miles. And as early as 1979 I had the Chance to see him live, with a Quartet Hilton Ruiz, Ray Drummond and Billy Higgins. Mostly material from the fantastic Album "Amsterdam after dark".

That´s what I have ! This is the most enjoyable Version, you can listen to all the master takes in a chronological order. So you really have the most representative Studio work of Charlie Parker from 1944-1948.

Such a great pianist and teacher !

Yes, I also had in mind to post Miles´Birth of the Cool", I have the CD "The Complete Birth of the Cool", that´s the famous Studio records and the broadcasts from Royal Roost. Also very fine the vocal Features with Kenny Haggood

He is fantastic on those classic Hank Mobley Albums like "Soul Station". Wynton Kelly Always was great, fantastic, but I think he never played better than on those Hank Mobley Albums. And sure, with Wes Montgomery, not only Half Note, but "Full House" also. Wes with Griff and the then Miles Davis Rhythm section.

RIP ! During the late 70´s he was among our favourites, thanks Milestone records his then recent Albums were easy to purchase and very much discussed. Super Trios was great and still gets much Spinning here. And that famous Encounter with Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter and Al Foster (Milestone Allstars) . I saw him live excactly 40 years ago in March 1980 with his sextet, the Edition with John Blake on violin, a Saxophone Player...…, they really cooked. The most representative record then was "Horizon", and "4 Quartets"...….. And of Course I love all his BN records and needless to say everything with Trane.

oh that´s really bad News. I saw her in 1989 in Prague. It was some Kind of Festival for Young musicians , I think she won a Price. What I heard, sure sounded good.

I haven´t heard much, but I think he is on two Extended tracks on the Impulse Album "Americans in Europe", and what I heard on that, sure sounds good.

Very interesting thoughts !

Ben Webster in "Quiet Days in Clichy" belongs in that category ?