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this might be interesting, I never heard about it. Dave Liebman is one of my earliest heroes in music. Adam Nussbaum I think was his drummer in a band in the late 70´s with the blood young John Scofield and Ron McLure and most of all Terumaso Hino who played a Don Cherry like pocket trumpet. Steve Swallow does not much appear in my discography but what I had heard sounded great. I think I have him only on acoustic, let´s say with Paul Bley, or with Jimmy Giuffree. In any case this might be exactly what I am lookin for.... Is there a tune "Moonglow" on it ? I think I had heard that somewhere. As much as I like Lou Donaldson I find he should have made more records with good contemporanious fellow musicians like Art Taylor, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly or something like that. I never really liked the 3 sounds. It´s fantastic trio that is sure, but too much in that Oscar Peterson way of trios....... Oh , this is one of the strangest records I have. The Descent sounds like Cecil Taylor. I bought that very early I think right when it came out in 1976 and still was not really ready for quality. That´s why I liked mostly the tracks that is trio, because I liked the loud drumming, but now I have heard again to it and the drumming of this Nick Stabulas or what is his name is terrible. I don´t know what Tristano thought about it, but the stuff should have had a better bass player and drummer. The faster track is actually "You stepped out of a dream" . But Tristano never had the patience to play a them clearly. He just starts with 2 or 4 bars of it and than starts to improvise. But jazz is first of all music, not exercises and I fear with all the genious Tristano had, in later years he lost the trace and became only a bitter and unpleasant teacher, too far away from musicianship..... The two tracks solo in Paris in the mid sixties sound good but once again it is not wholly played the ballad which should be "Darn that dream" a tune I love , I really love that tune.....

I saw him several times. I must admit, since my early years when I heard his contributions on a Monk-Session for Blue Note (I think the one with "Carolina Moon", with Max Roach) I didn´t know nothing about him until there appeared an album "Forgotten Man", since that it is what it seemed at that time. We of my generation didn´t know nothing about all his BN recordings, since the only BN reissue, those ugly paper bag design covers of double albums it seems did not have a Lou Donaldson reissue, and it was almost impossible to find individual BN records on the record shops, they seemed to be OOP. So the first time I heard him was in 1985 and since he still was not better known by the young generation, he played in a smaller hall of that huge festival, and worst still, on the same time was Jackie McLean in the middle sized hall, and Pharoah Sanders in the big hall. So I had to skip them, heard the first few tunes of McLean at Hall B, took a stroll to Hall C where Lou Donaldson played (I remember a very fast Cheek to Cheek and "Wee") and first heard his eternal commentary "not recommended to fusion and confusion players". Then I finally caught the second set of Pharoah at Hall A. Later the years I heard him often, first still with the eternal Herman Foster (I would have preferred a more sensible player), and the last time with some nice japoneze girl on organ, but more or less monotonous drumming..... One thing about him, like about Eddy Lockjaw Davis. They seemed to keep the groove they started and were masters in it. They never created something new but it was not necesary for them. You could identify them on a blindfold test within 2 seconds, and went to there concerts or gigs because you liked it and wanted to have some time of just feelin´ good. Not to figure nothin out, just to have a nice time, it was always the occasions where I´d take a chick to the show than other gigs I prefered to hear alone..... I think he was one of the very very few guys who never touched all those drugs but played with all those who very heavy users......, if not drugs then booze. Lou was steady and maybe very near to the end still playing....

This is one of the fewer LD-Records I have listened to more than just one time. I just got rid of the more easy listening things with let´s say the 3 Sounds and a lot of the stuff with organ, other than the "Date with Jimmy Smith" , but this here I like more since it has more name jazz musicians. I can´t listen too much to the Herman Foster block chords.... I think this was one of my first Miles albums, with that fast Milestones and Walkin´ versions, though I liked the stuff of the first quintet, after some listenig this one exited me very very much and made me ready for the next one, Bitches Brew....

Was the gig without Marshall Allen himself ???? I saw this in the collection of the legendary "Jazz Freddy" here in Viena, who played LPs all night long in his club, if there was not live music, or in the afterhours after a live gig. I had played there so many times, and remember some of his records. This one is one of them. I saw Cecil Payne once, but that was around 2000 and he was very old and had to sit and seemed to be blind. But it was a stellar group with Ron Carter in it. They played a Bird-Diz-Monk Memory Concert. I remember Payne´s composition "Flyin Fish". He was one of the first to play bop. I remember his great solos on "Stay on it" with the Diz Big Band. And on alto with J.J. Johnson and Bud Powell...... On the other hand, I am not always super happy with Duke Jordan. To me, he sometimes sounds a bit stiff and edgy. But maybe this is a personal impression. His bop piano doesn not "flow" like Bud´s did, or does not have the humour in it like Monk had......hard to say, he sounds fine on ballads, but maybe he just did not have so much tehnique like Bud or Monk.....

Some of the best Gordon I had ever heard. I remember the year 1981 when we all waited for this album to be released. It´s a great all star album with best straight ahead music.

That´s a great book because it is a brilliant musician (Art Taylor) who had played with almost ALL of THEM, and the answers of the musicians. I think the Rollins Interview was very early after his I don´t know which of all of his comebacks.

If I ever listen to piano solo other than the few Monk-Solo pieces, it is very very possible that I listen to Art Tatum. The only really the only time I heard an Oscar Peterson that sounded good, sounded great, was a solo "When I fall in love" but later I discoverd that it was a copy of what Tatum always knew how to play , same chords, same stuff, so Tatum is THE Master of pre bop piano. Strange enough I never really liked his group performances as much as I like his solo performances. If I ever had to play a solo gig which I hope it will not happen, I can hope only that I find at least a procentage of his great left hand........ I don´t know where, but in my youth I had read something about Charlie Ventura´s "Bop for the People" which featured Jackie and Roy but I never had heard it. I think in Austria, vocal jazz if it was not Ella on tour or something, had a minor role among the jazz buffs. So all the Charlie Ventura I heard was on that session with Fats, Allen Eager, Buddy Rich..... Saturday Night Jazz Session". But this video is nice, not necessarly the music that is not really my alley, but them nice girls who still have faces like girls and have legs.... harder to find now. Is that piano player Dave Brubeck. Not that I´m a fan of his, in contra, but the guy looks exactly like him ....

that´s the sheep blowin´ a fart ?

okay, than I MUST get the Mozaic Set !!!!! I would say a summit of musicians I all saw live, mostly with their own groups so this is almost like heaven on earth, like other summits like "VSOP" from the same times, and much more back in the past the Massey Hall group. Maybe I should purchase this because it reflects all my upbringing as a jazz musican and most of all jazz addict all my live...... Each of them a very special favourit of mine. Much later, in 1983 when I already was playing my self for five years, I saw a "Timeless Allstars" scheduled at a big jazz festival. But it was not Curtis, not Cedar Walton, but no one less than the giant Jackie McLean, also with Hutch, with Herbie Lewis on bass and Billie Higgins and maybe this was not the most demanding music I ever heard (all things I´ve played myself 1000s of times (Blue´n Boogie, What´s New, Salt Peanuts, Star Eyes), it was the most power it could be at that moment, even if I had heard on the set before the Jazz Messengers, and the group after the Timeless Allstars was Dizzy´s great quartet......

That Benny Bailey thing must be very fine. Joe Harris I think was Dizzy´s drummer in the BigBand. Seems that there was a lotta stuff goin´ around in Suedia during that time. I have a rare Tommy Potter album also stars as well as from US as from Suedia like Rolf Ericson who is tops, and greats like Freddie Redd and also Joe Harris on drums. Imagine the unsung hero of thousands of hours of bop playing for Bird and Diz and Bud and so on, when there still were no pickups for the bass fiddle, you had to cut thru the band just having enormous chops.....

I never saw "Bond" since all that stuff with "agents" is "eine Schuhnummer zu groß" for my intellect , I don´t understand them😁 But that face is the typical face of "beautiful people from the 1960"....look at fotos from that decade and they all look the same..... especially white people.... okay, the lady .....from the face and the hair looks like a Romanian TV-Announcer or șlagăr-singer from that "golden era" 😄

Great photo ! Nightmares, as unpleasant they may be, sometimes are sources for composing. I had a nightmare dis year and when I woke up I had that melody in my head, it became one of my new compositions. When I´ll have enough new stuff togehter, we might record our next album.... I must hear that band. Is there only Mozaic collections for sale, or any individual CD too ? To have Liebman and Foster, some of my very very earliest favourits (caught them both with Miles) so it´s natural they became my heroes....

looks like cosmonauts from the 1960´s or those how was that stuff with "Mr Spock" and so on ?

That´s possible. The "Straight No Chaser" by a Quincy Jones band sounded very fine, but I heard that 50 years ago. Somehow, maybe due to his non jazz activities later he became a more forgotten man in the pure jazz circles. At least I don´t remember that fellow musicians, from my or from older generation ever mentioned him. But sure, where the money is, can´t be anyone that super idealist, who prefers to live in a shabby hotel room only to play what he believes in, or make some money and have a villa with swimming pool or stuff.... But I am a "komplette Null" if it is other music than jazz, so I never had no idea what all those Michael Jackson´s and Prince´s sound like. If I MUST listen to somethin else than jazz, I prefer german shnultzes like Heino, Freddy Quinn, Rex Dildo or how they are called, that´s where I really can laugh about and feel fine, lookin at them on TV and hearing what they produce.....

Thats also her. Is the big black guy Rufus Reid ?

I heard Farmer´s Market the tune almost each time Farmer was in town, he lived here but most time was touring, but at least 2 times per year he played some nights at Jazzland, and so often "Farmer´s Market" was the first tune of a set.

hey, my youngest son lives in Spain, he has been there for many many years and settled in Northern Spain, it´s a small village called "Alea". Before that he stayed near Barcelona. He also sometimes digs jazz ! Interesting: I think I have a 4 CD box of the Royal Roost performances they are among the best Charlie Parker live with the exception of the two CBS "One Night at Birdland" and "Summit Meeting at Birdland". The Carnegie Hall 1947 is that the record with Diz and Dizzy´s rhythm section, where the other half is the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band ? Chicago 1950 I don´t know but I´m not a Bird completist.....

Oh, as I posted yesterday I heard only once from radio on track of Straight No Chaser and it was said that it is Quincy Jones band. I didn´t even know what instrument he had played, okay, trumpet, but maybe with Clifford Brown and Art Farmer in ONE Band , that is was counted most then in 1953. I had no idea of somethin until he figured on that Miles Davis Montreux, playing the old music what Miles swore he will never do again.....

Jetzt is sie aa scho´ a oide Schacht´l was i xehn hab auf fotos.....

Oh I remember her, she was on one "Tatort" in the 70´s. A fine girl I must admit. I heard that her father was a crazy monster I think I saw pics of him. How comes it such an ugly and crazy guy has such a nice daughta ? Never would have guessed that, Natașa Kinski.......

I must admit the only Quincy Jones I had heard was when Herwig Wurzer , the Austrian Jazz DJ of the 70´s spinned a record of some straight ahead and very fine big band jazz doin "Straight No Chaser". It was very fine and I had it on caseta since I recorded each weekly hour of "Jazz Shop" on casetofon. It was a bit like the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band, anyway at that nivel of playing. But later possiblly zero, since I only listen to jazz jazz jazz. The last time I heard something done by him was on the 1991 concert of Miles Davis doing old music again....

usually I don´t listen with too much pleasure to trio records, I miss the horns, but for THIS one I´d risc it !

Oh, walnuts or how you call them. Well I can´t do harvest since our "nuc" (as we say to that tree) is about three years old, and has only leaves or right now nothing..... I don´t know how many years it will take that we can have a "recoltă” (thank you for teaching me the word "harvest" I wouldn´t have known it it is not written on album covers😄 who´s that nice girl ?

He recorded too much in the un-years. I don´t know what Norman Granz purposed when he recorded such a weak Bud. I have mixed feelings about Norman Granz, he sure did very very much for the wider reputation of jazz, but had not the most musical tastes, he prefererred older styled straight ahead playing drummers like Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa to players like Max Roach or Philly Joe Jones and often booked musicians together who did not fit in. Like this Tommy Turk on a Bird combo record....., But in general all his sessions are at least technically perfect. So I really don´t know why he insisted to spend money on sessions that never should be heard by anyone. But it is not only Verve or Victors that have erratic playing. The first side of the Blue Note that has Curtis Fuller on side B is more than erratic and without much musical sense. I mean he has it all together with Curtis Fuller, but falters on the trio sides. Besides his own unsure and uninspired playing he seems to be so off or drugged he doesn´t even notice when Paul Chambers takes a solo. He pure and simple destroys what Chambers does.....

The strange thing is I think Peter Nero must have been very popular in U.S.A., but maybe not well known in Europe, but a school friend of mine had one of his records, since his uncle was a bar pianist. They had a lot of Erroll Garner and one LP of Peter Nero. Here two albums I listened to yesterday: 1) The Album with Contrane is much more reprezentativ than the one "Monk with Coltrane" that was done in the studio. Here both really spread out. I like Trane´s solos on "In comes Bud", "I Mean You" and "Epistrophy" most, and Monk plays some of his nicest solos and plays beautiful chords, that really make another sound than most pianists chords. Monk´s are so rich and he can make so great and beautiful sounds. 2) No that´s also a marvelous album full of beauty. McLean has such a beautiful sound on all stuff he played, may it be more daring originals, or like here really old tunes. The only jazz standard here seems to be "Stable Mates" and besides the version Coltrane plays, this is my favourite of it. And that tune "Let´s face the music and dance" that really sounds great. It´s a harmonically and melodically really interesting tune !