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Great latterday Messengers, I saw this lineup in 1988 in Vienna at Metropole.....

Thank you !

Oh I still am mad I didn´t purchase this when it was on the America Label. Most of those albums were Mingus associated, I have those with Mingus as a leader and others like "the fabulous Thad Jones" but I think it might be hard to find this one right now.

Great encounter between Fats Navarro, Kenny Dorham, Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell. That´s the great 1946 session with the long tracks. And on each side there are also 2 tunes of Fats with Dameron, and fine vocal on "Gone with the Wind" and "That someone must be you" (with singer Kay Penton). "Webb City" is vintage bop. I think later in his career, Art Blakey and the Messengers performed it once......

Yes, Bobby Watson was the musical director. I unfortunately didn´t see the group with David Schnitter whom I like very much, when I saw them, Schnitter was replaced by Billy Pierce, also very fine, and on bass, Dennis Irwin was replaced by Charles Fambrough who was former with McCoy Tyner.

I only saw him with Charles Llyod, the great quartet with Michel Petrucciani and Palle Danielsson and Sun Ship Theus. I loved his drumming and I love really strong drummers, give the drums some......

Oh my God, much too young, I think he was born in 1948, so this is too early to die. His "Alto Madness" really was something strong going in the early 80s. I saw him at Wiesen in 1983 with a very fine rhythm section but forgot the names of the players. The piano player was very very articulate, it was a guy with a beard, I wonder if somebody can tell me what his touring band in 1983 was. And nice guy really, very nice towards the audience. He even had "composed" a tune just for us, for the "Wiesen Festival" , titled of course "Wiesen", it was a fast samba.

This is my favourite late 70´s Messengers record, I really loved that group with Valery Ponomarev, Dave Schnitter, Bobby Watson, James Williams , Dennis Irwing, and especially that fast version of "The Song is You" and the James Williams originals......

This was my first listening encounter Cliff Jordan and the Magic Triangle (Walton, Jones, Higgins). Vol. 1 - 3. I still listen very much to it. One funny thing is Cliff Jordan sometimes sounds quite rough, on "Old Devil Moon" it seems that he just had to "learn" the tune on stage. But there is really some freakish beauty in what he does. And my favourite track is the medium tempo "I Should Care" and the fast "St. Thomas" with a great Billy Higgins solo. Only that Cedar Walton was not happy with the quality of the piano. But play he does on this ! Great as ever.

Very fine set from Northsea 1979. Dexter with Kirk Leightsey, Rufus Reid and Eddie Gladden. I saw then in march 1980, with John Heard on bass instead of Rufus.

I remember best s**t from 40+ years ago, since then I was 18+ years old and everything was so brand new and fascinating and by the way, I get older and remember very well stuff from the past and it becomes harder with later periods since there was so much other Things to do and the live concerts from my youth were something like "unique Events"...….

Great memories and fantastic concerts you have seen. I would have liked to speak to Jackie McLean. The greatest Thing I ever saw with him was Jackie McLean-Bobby Hutcherson-Herbie Lewis-Billy Higgins. I saw Cedar Walton I think in 2002 in Vienna with trio. The Bassist must have been David Williams but I don´t remember who was the Drummer. It was a great concert, it was just in my Living quarter, a few blocks from my place we have a club called "Reigen" and they had a string of concerts with great stars, Always went there with my wife: We saw Archie Shepp, we saw Johnny Griffin, and of course Cedar Walton.

That slow blues, I could listen for Hours to it. So great the way Garland Plays it with his Special chord voicings.

I live this

Right now the Dial Sessions done in NY in late 47, the classic quintet and on one session augmented with J.J. Johnson.

But I´d prefere to hear it on record.

Happy Birthday ! That Woody Shaw Group was great, I saw them live in early 1983 shortly before Steve Turré left the group.

Great "modern" boppish Lester at the Royals Roost.

Wonderful those two sessions, the ballad session with Victor Feldman, such a great pianist, and with the "second" quintet the first recordings. Great, I love it !

I have the Mastertakes from the Savoy Sessions. I thought About Posting it on the "Late 40´s thread" ….

That´s a very good description of his solos. I don´t have students, but now I know WHY I love his work so much. It seems that he was very much in Action at Birdland in the early 50´s. The Billy Taylor trio is also a Formation that worked at Birdland.

Such a great musician. I like all his stuff, his Arrangements and his great solo trombone. He has Always such a lot of humour in his solos, a lot of quotations from other Songs.

wow, that´s great new in such sad times with so many greats gone. I love him. His Percussion work is such Incredible. I think the first great solo of him I heard on "Summit Meeting at Birdland" with Bird, where he Plays a Long solo on "Broadway". And the tracks Bird, Bud, Mingus, Art Taylor, Candido from Mai 1953 on ESP Disk. And I saw the Video of Dizzy´s Dreamband from 1982 with Candido. He still looked the same, he seems to be Young forever.

In memory of Henry Grimes. That´s the trio I saw live: David Murray, Hamid Drake ! Really powerful , great music !

Yes, Flowers for Albert , a great track, it impressed me very much. I´m glad I have that rare CD. On the live date I saw in the same period, they even played a Monk composition, one of my favourites (Evidence) .