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Fantastic VSOP recording !

That´s really sad news.

That´s a terrible blow ! At least I was lucky to see him live, it was with David Murray and Hamid Drake, a great trio. Here´s a record from this formation.

Such a Wonderful musician ! The Incredible Thing is that just YESTERDAY I was thinking very much About him, I remembered that I saw him on a TV documentary About bop and cool in 1978 and liked very much what he played and what he said in that documentary. My first listening experience was that Incredible solo of "Cherokee" on the Steeplechase Album "Lone-Lee".

My Mingus-mania continues. This one is really a milestone in Mingus´ outstanding career.

Yeah, "Reach Out" is the album.

Yes, I also have a lot of it. They were great in recording "Americans in Europe".

As you say it, there is also another Album of Hank from early 1968 were Woody Plays great. I have forgotten the title, it´s an Album with Hank in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower in the Background I think. And it has also a Pop tune on it, which was popular at that time. I love that Album.

From the original Album "Dexter Gordon Montmatre Collection" I Always found that this Version of "Like Someone in Love" is top. It´s one of my favourite solos of Dexter.

When I was Young, I had a cool boss in the Office I was working and when he heard that I listen to jazz and Play jazz , he told me that he had heard that Kenton Band in 1953 in Vienna, and he mentioned Lee Konitz and Zoot Sims . So this was the same tour. Such a great band !

Two all time great albums with my favourite Charles Mingus involved. Money Jungle......extraordinary, it´s like if they would have re-invented Trio Jazz. And those compositions by Duke. For example, "Little Max"......that´s really COMPOSED FOR MAX ROACH, that´s how it sounds. And of course "Massey Hall". Fantastic !

really sad, much to young to die. I became aware of him in the 70´s , really interesting musician. I think he was presented at the Austrian "Jazz shop" radio show, that´s where I became aware of him first.......

This is far away from "a perfect Mingus album" but with all it´s shortcomings it has really great moments. I listen to the CD version with the additional tracks, but the first time I had it on LP with the painted cover art. From all the great moments of music (Clark at the Dark is fantastic) I like especially the ballads "My Search" based on "I can´t get started" with some great piano by Toshiko and a great Mingus solo, and "Duke´s Choice" .

Such a great musician, many many many more happy birthdays...... But time really flies, when I became acquainted to jazz and jazz-rock, he was a really young man.

Very sad news. I also know him mostly from the Art Blakey records and the Max Roach records. Did he also play in his last years ?

I also love those OJC records. From Tadd Dameron I also have "Mating Call" (the one with John Coltrane), and the 1953 Massey Hall set of Bud Powell with Mingus and Roach is some of Bud´s best playing of all times.

I saw Harold Land in 1983 with Dizzy Gillespie and he was fantastic !

I also love it very much. I think the Red Garland Trio was a Dream Rhythm section for any Artist, I wonder how it would have sounded if they would have had the opportunity to record with Lester Young. I think it would have been something great !

One of my favourite albums by one the artists I admire most.

Really underappreciated. It´s a unique experience to hear Rouse playing Bossa Nova only. But interesting his "Monkish" phrasings. It´s a beautiful album.

Bird´s last album from 1954. The "I love Paris" from december 1954 has a moving quality. As on Bud Powell´s last album. The "Round Midnight" from 1965 also has a moving quality, and there is a rare version of Coltrane´s "Moment´s Notice" on it. As much as I know the only time Bud recorded a Coltrane composition.

Great concert, Dizzy with guest stars James Moody and Milt Jackson ! Also very fine the guitar of Ed Cherry and the outstanding bass solo of Mike Howell on Night in Tunisia. Great to hear some old tunes with new arrangements......

This , I think, is an album of superlatives: - IMHO Dexter´s best album on Columbia (from the span from 1976 - 1981) - Maybe one of the best "acoustic albums" of the late 70´s - - Wonderful cover photo - great liner notes

Interviews for insiders, very interesting, I mentioned this book above since Hampton Hawes is one of the musicians interviewed. Others are Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin, Freddie Hubbard, Leon Thomas , Betty Carter etc. ......

an excellent choice ! I remember I bought this book in the late seventies. Hampton Hawes was really a great piano player and as the book shows, a great story teller also. I´ve also read an interview with Hampton Hawes done by drummer Art Taylor, which was later published in Taylor´s book "Notes and Tones". It´s a very angry and frustrated Hampton Hawes there…...