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Oh I remember him well, I saw him live with Lou Donaldson. Heavy chords.

@bichos, where have you been ?

Two albums of the 70´s with Oscar Peterson involved. Eddie Lockjaw Davis is one of my favourites, he is so unique. I saw him live on several occasions. The "In tune" album with the Singers Unlimited sold very well, Many people during that time listened to them, great music, great vocal arrangement and fine contributions by Peterson.

Very fine , and very great drum work by Art Taylor.

I also have the CD with the japanese mini LP cover . REally nice those small Group Recordings with Lou Donaldson, I like most the stuff with Horace Silver. That was Wonderful how they played together, really. Lou was Pretty much in Action as early as 1952, recording with Monk, with Milt Jackson, and under his own Name....

The strange Thing is Miles Looks much heftier here than I have him in mind, I saw Miles Always more as quite a thin and skinny guy…..

Who is Rocky Boyd ??? About Sonny Stitt after Hank Mobley, I think they played in UK, since there is something written about it in a book about Paul Chambers. Sonny Stitt seemed to have been quite a mean guy at that time, from what I have read. Normally I love everything Sonny Stitt did, but not what he did with Miles, it didn´t fit in, and the weakest thing was "So What". Sonny Stitt just didn´t know what to play on that.

Agreed ! I love Hampton Hawes on the Gene Ammons Montreux 1973 Album, very fine rhodes Sound. He really could hold his own on Fender Rhodes and is underrated.

There are so many Mobley Albums for BN from 1956-57 with similar titles "Hank", "Hank Mobley", Hank Mobley quintet, Hank Mobley sextet, that I lost the trace and I must admit though they all fine, I don´t listen very much to them, much more to the early 60´s Mobley Albums. But THIS ONE, from the mentioned period is my favourite, really fine that they added Milt Jackson. I remember , I think that I remember, that Johnny O´Neal was with the Jazz Messengers for a very short time. I think I saw him with Blakey in 1983, is that possible ? I remember a nice piano Sound, nice lines and I think on the ballad Medley he had a solo spot on "summertime", but I can imagine what you mean with "splashy - flashy" especially in surroundings with Bags.....

Very fine collection of early Jaws, typical Savoy sides, with greats like Sadik Hakim, Fats Navarro......

Very fine 1955 recording of Donald Byrd with Frank Foster, Hank Jones, young Paul Chambers only 20 years old, and senior Kenny Clarke.

That´s the trio I saw live in late 77 and early 78 at Jazz Freddy, Schottenfeldgasse , the greatest club that existed. And THIS TRIO together with Johnny Griffin in April 1978, those were the days….. I´ll never Forget how it was when I bought this in spring 1978. I already had some Miles Davis records and loved them, but here I was shocked at first when I heard only that French Radio voice tellin us something about Bach and Mo-zard, and the bad recording Sound. But after the first listening I loved it. Miles never played faster bop trumpet than here. People said he could not Play as high as Dizzy, but here he is very near to Diz and Fats, just a topnotch trumpeter. And James Moody sounds so much ahead of his time, sometimes he sounds almost like some later 60´s avantgardists or screams almost like Dave Liebman did 30 years later. And not Forget the very fine solo piano of Tadd Dameron. The French bass Player is top, he can Play like all the great american bop bassists, and Kenny Clarke is the true master……., the Bop Father...….

I think it is great stuff, to get a Chance to hear all those masters when they did Europe. Actually it seems that Graz in Austria was quite open for then Avantgarde jazz, they had a string of great concerts in the 60´s. Jimmy Giuffree, here John Coltrane, and on an obscure italian LP Max Roach and Sonny Rollins in Graz.

oh yeah, I love Prime Time. I will never forget the exitement I had when I purchased "Dancing in Your Head", that red LP with that strange egg on it. I love everything Ornette Coleman did, and some people where not open for his electric bands, but that was the time, we loved electric Miles, we were open for Ornette Coleman´s Prime Time......

Some classic Afro Cuban. I love this collection, the vocal stuff with the Machito band, and the instrumental features with Howard McGhee and Brew Moore. This was a wonderful thing happening in the late 40´s .

That wonderful 1969 quintet with Wayne, Chick, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. It´s the point were they still had some "old stuff" like Milestones and No Blues, and stuff from Bitches Brew like "Miles Runs the Vodoo down". And reading Ian Carr´s book about Miles I enjoyed the extraordinary story about Dave Holland how it went that he was hired by Miles.

Yeah I have some of them, at least all of the Miles Davis Albums . Miles in Concert from 1972 I like most, but also very much the underrated "Jack Johnson". "Star People" is still some good Music and a band playing, not machines……, at least that´s how it sounds. Weather Report "Sweet Nighter" is good stuff indeed.

I liked very much what played Ricky Ford with Mingus. That last band Walrath Ford Neloms was really something. And Ricky Ford had that heavy sound of Ellington associated tenorsaxophonists......

Though my favourite Impluse! album of Pharoah is "Karma", I like this one also very much. Here it´s more stuff with small percussion instruments. But another one I like very much "At the East" I think never made it to CD.....

Some of my favourite Monk "live". This 2 CD set from the It Club is wonderful.

A great thing ! I love it and I love everything Philly Joe Jones did. Here´s also a fine one from 1968 recorded in U.K.

I could not find a cover or Studio photos from the session, but I have it on "Cronological Fats Navarro": His last Studio session from late 1949 with Don Lanphere, and I think Al Haig on piano. Those tunes "Stop" "Go" Wailin´ Wall" and "Infatuation".

I think I heard a title "Westcoast" Blues on a Wes Montgomery led session, I think the Album´s title is "So much Guitar !" . Is "Westcoast Blues" a blues in B flat in 3/4 time ?

I don´t know what the guys from Prestige had "against pianos" , I mean why did they neglect this wonderful Instrument ? It started with the out of tune piano on Monk´s 1952 sessions, but I think that´s part of the charm of that record. I don´t have records from 1968 from Prestige, Always had thought this was a 50´s label until I bought to my astonishement a Dexter Gordon 1973 Prestige Album Tangerine and also heard the "tinny" Sound of the piano, though Hank Jones is playing….

One of my favourite Dolphy recordings, I love all of it, the funny Jitterbug Waltz, Music Matador, and the duets with bass. A milestone in Dolphy´s career. And so great other musicians here, Woody Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson.....