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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 ?

Thank you so much ! I also hope they will re-schedule it.

Sorry to say Dave Liebman - Richie Beirach have chancelled their scheduled concert here in Vienna , it would have been the coming Sunday and me and my wife had tickets. Due to the corona virus Mr. Liebman decided not to take the trip to Europe. I really can understand that. But it´s sad news we were looking forward to that concert, since Mr. Liebman was one of my first idols......

I purchased this in the late 70´s as a quite expensive Japan Import. Very fine ! And I like most the two ballads "I Surrender Dear" and "Don´t Blame Me" , those two ballads were also featured on the 1947 broadcast "Bands for Bonds" done by Barry Ulanov.

I have this one.

Hello Bill ! I first saw the Lester Young with another cover (BN double LP LA-Series), and also in the record stores was the Musidisc LP "Royal Roost", very fine live recording and quite bop influenced, fitting for the "House that Bop built" or how they said about Royal Roost.

Yes, those Alladin Sessions were available in the late 70´s as a double LP on Bluenote LA-Series. Another one, which I like very much, was the Musidisc LP live at the Royal Roost 1948, also very much bop influenced. This must be the Lester Young who influenced Brew Moore so much.

Very interesting for me to read your impressions about those early sides with Sadik Hakim on piano. I had exactly the same Impression, that here someone tries to play what he thought that it might be "hip or weird" and might sound "like bop". I know excactly how this happens, since when I first heard "bop" as a teenager, I loved what I heard, but I still didn´t understand WHAT happens. We had a combo of four kids who tried "to play jazz" and the most painful Thing was when we listened back to what we had recorded on tape. Especially for me, I played those stiff collar syncopated strictly chromatic lines since I thought that this is the essence of bop, but it sounded …….. how can I explain it, it didn´t mean nothing, it was just a dull syncopated chromatic line. I mean, maybe Sadik Hakim wanted to be influenced by Monk, but even if Monk played in a more abstractical manner than Bud or Hank Jones or Walter Bishop, he always could tell "a Little Story" in his solos, which I don´t hear when I listen to those Sadik Hakim solos on the Savoy sessions. One guy who sounds similar to this early Sadik Hakim is George Handy on the westcoast session 1946 "Diggin´ Diz" (I think it was called Ross Russel´s Tempo Jazzmen) and that´s the same piano style: Weird and Abstract and very much sounding like european experimental music. Even Al Haig at the beginning ….. he had the technique, but he also sounds very "stiff collard" and edgy on the early 1945 sides. But listen to Al Haig 3 or 4 years later how he Plays!!! He really learned it by listening to Bird and Diz….. The piano of Bud Powell really "changed my life" , I heard those Beautiful Things that you can Play Pretty even if it´s fast tempo and bop. You hear it on those early 1949 sides for BN with Fats and Sonny, all those tunes "Bouncing with Bud" "Dance of the Infidels" "Wail", that it´s fast, it is played with great virtuosity and it still is "pretty". Same with Al Haig on the 1949 Roost Sides with Bird. He gets enough solo space and really sounds pretty.

Great 1949 sessions by Stan Getz at an early stage of his career, a great quartet with Al Haig, Gene Ramey and Roy Haynes. Getz in bop surroundings can also be found on a 1950 Birdland encounter with Miles, J.J. Johnson , Tadd Dameron, Art Blakey.

Here in Vienna also listening the Chet Baker right now ! That superb 1979 club date with long, long tracks, Chet with Phil Markowitz who is very inside the music, the legendary Jean Rassinfosse on bass, and Charlie Rice on drums, which is quite unusual, since I never saw Chet with a drummer. I saw him in 1979 , 1980 (Jazz Spring in Vienna),, a scheduled 1983 encounter with Joe Farrell, where Chet didn´t make it as so often, and the last time at the end of 1987 (even then, so late in his career and with all that erratic live and we being prepared for another chancelled concert, he was punctual, very articulate and played the stars from heaven.

oh great ! I´m glad for you both !

you say after 1968. When was it recorded ? Must be very interesting. !

You didn´t know that ??? It is also on the Spotlite LP. "Blues" (JamSession) from Sunday, the last day of the Jazz Week 1949. You have solos by Don Byas, Hot Lips Page, Sidney Bechet, Miles, Bird, and a typical JATP shouting Riff during the end. But if you want to hear another unusual Encounter of Miles with a traditionalist, you must check out one certain Broadcast from 1949 , where you have Miles together with traditional trumpeter Max Kaminsky ! I have it on the 4 CD box Bird at the Royal Roost. By the way, Sidney Bechet is also on that set. If I remember Right, the Miles-Kaminsky encounter happens on Bird´s Blues "Big Foot"...... So Miles, who always bragged that he never "looked back", at least on two occasions performed with pre bop, or even pre swing musicians (Bechet and Kaminsky).

Glad to read those good news. Best wishes for a fast recovery.

I also have the "Sophisticated Giant" LP but somehow it got less spinning on my turntable. The most spinning got "Manhattan Symphony", I think I purchased "Manhattan Symphony" and "Great Encounters" on the same time when I heard Dexter in March 1980, that´s exactly 40 years ago ! We had a Festival "Vienna Jazz Spring" and the schedule was Sam Rivers, Johnny Griffin, Chet Baker, Max Roach, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner and Dexter Gordon. It was 3 days and on each day we went to the record store to buy "what we had heard". My "Horo Records" Sun Ra LPs are from that time, Johnny Griffin´s "Return to Griffin" etc. Chet Baker the CTI records….etc...…

Great !

Yes this is the Spotlite LP I also have. On the CD (Rare Live Recordings) you have on the first CD about the same tracks like on the Spotlite CD, and on the second CD you have a different concert from a different town in France, and you also have the famous "Blues" from the jam session where all musicians participate, who played at the Festival. (Hot Lips Page, Don Byas, Sidney Bechet, Miles, everybody). And that strange Version for "Lady Bird" with the legendary Maurice Moufflard Orchestra plus percussionists, actually a year later from late 1950 (after the "Bird in Sweden" when he was scheduled to Play again in Paris, but disappeard, so it is very strange how he nevertheless made this recording of "Lady Bird". Sound Quality ? Well let´s say it´s okay, like many other non Studio Recordings from the 40´s......

hello everybody, here´s another great thing ! Actually I first had the Spotlite LP "Bird in Paris", but later purchased that CD with more unissued material.

Something I love very much. And I like the combination of the masters from the 50´s with younger musicians from the 70´s, so Bob James dubbing on electric and acoustic piano really does a very good job here, as does John Scofield who was still quite new then. Wonderful choice of tunes, older stuff and some new Mulligan compositions as "Song for an unfinished woman".......

One of the best, if not THE BEST from the "Second Quintet".

I really like the tune. Based on "It could happen to you" . It´s interesting how this tune Expresses completely different moods depending wether you Play it as a slow ballad (It could happen to you) or as a brisk medium tempo (Fried Bananas). It´s strange but the very best Version of Fried Bananas, I mean Maybe one of the best Dex solos I ever heard is not on an LP of his own, but on that huge Montreux Summit (CBS All Stars 1977 ). Besides some grossly overproduced tunes that try to capture everything from straight ahead to funk, there is one Combo feature for Dexter, playing "Fried Bananas" and it really knocked me out..... never heard Dexter play better.

The unorthodox Thing About that Rollins-Coltrane Encounter is, that though Coltrane was 4 or 5 years older, Rollins was considered more established and it´s often written that Rollins "the master" had to show Coltrane some basics. Meanwhile I´m not so sure it was that way. Maybe Rollins was more popular than Trane in 1955/56, but I listen to them two as two of the greatest individualists jazz history had.

Now something special ! The Max Roach Double Quartet (with the string quartet). The first tune is based on "Confirmation" and the string chorusses are something like "supersax" just for strings. They quote several Bird Songs in it. Really nice ! "Sis" has a very lyrical mood, a beautiful thing. "A Little Booker" is ultra fast and a fine feature for Odean Pope. And as an encore we have a little surprise with the string quartet playing a cute ragtime thing. Really very much to enjoy on this album !