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Oh this one is really fine, those longer tracks like "Boppin´ a Riff" and so on. This would have been most welcome in the thread "late 40´s " also in this Forum. The Album "Ornette" with Don Cherry, Scott LaFaro and Ed Blackwell was very important for me when I started to listen to so called "Free Jazz". It is "easy listening free jazz" since it has still a "swing Feeling". More advanced Free Jazz with completly non - swing , at that early stage was still to hard for me to understand…..

If I remember right, this was the first Dizzy album I heard as a teenager about lat 76, early 77. Great the tenor tandem Griff and Jaws, Milt Jackson, fine Tommy Flanagan and a lot of Diz...... On the CD there is a bonus track "April".

Really a beauty

My "Gordon-mania" continues ! I was lucky to see Dexter live on several occasions. We were a little group of big Gordon fans and I remember our exitement when the appearance of his next album "Gotham City" was advertised in the news-folders of our favourite record dealer. Finally in spring 1981 the "new album" Gotham City was in the shop, I bought it and went few blocks down to the little hip jazz club "Spelunke" were we were regulars, and they spinned it and we all listened to it. The other record from 1982 is very fine live playing, though the sound quality is not the best. It´s great to hear the live version of "Moment´s Notice" and "Body and Soul".

I heard him with Max Roach. Also Tyrone Brown became a member of Max Roach´s quartet a little later.

this must be very interesting, since most of the live material of Gordon on Steeplechase was made in the summer 1964, and later in the 70´s there was more Studio Recordings (with the exception of the fantastic "Meeting" and "Source" where he plays with Jackie McLean).

Very sad. He was my favourite trumpeter from the Generation of musicians from the (for me) "younger generation" (1960 Born).

it sure is. Especially those Monk ballads "Ruby My Dear" and "Monks Mood" are great and also live versions of those tunes are great. Also "Thelonious" and "Off Minor". There is also a live recording from about the same period at the Cafe Blue Note with the same personnel, and all those tunes together with an outstanding Version of "Round Midnight" . Some fine "Bud Plays Monk" is also on a Mythic Sounds Album (Tribute to Thelonious). Only that he seems to have difficulties to play "Bemsha Swing" , probably a request from the audience……..

Today I´m in a "Dexter´s Mood" and was looking forward to spin this fine record. The wonderful memory here is, that this came out about when I first heard Dexter live and bought it the next day as "his most recent record". Great encounter indeed with Johnny Griffin, whom I had heard the same year shortly before he had his US comeback. Side B is a hit with Eddie Jefferson , and not to forget the nice version of "Ruby My Dear". Dexter in general is not associated much with Monk, but he plays "Ruby" in a very individual manner and makes it sound like a "Gordon Cantata".......

so great !

Very exiting music. For example, this version of "Iguana Ritual" is much wilder than the studio version.

Yes, that Bossa is also my favourite on this Album. And it´s one of the few occasions to hear Jackie McLean playing a bossa. He sounds great on it.

This 2018 recording of Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake is really great. Dave Liebman was one of my first idols, since I saw him live and heard "Drum Ode". Here, decades later it seems at some times that this is some further developement of things that started with "Drum Ode". It´s a fantastic album.

This one is from 1947. Side A is Roy Eldridge with Flips Phillips. I think Roy Eldridge was really very much ahead of his time, since he also plays the bop anathem "Ornitology" in the outing of "How High the Moon". Side B is most memorable for that allstar session featuring Fats Navarro, Buddy Rich, Charlie Ventura and Allen Eager. I never heard Fats´ speaking voice, some say he had a high pitched voice. On "Sweet Georgia Brown" it seems that he is the one who shouts "Buddy Rich" before Buddy´s drum solo.

Some great, rare 1949 broadcasts here.

Wonderful thing. I love everything about it, but especially the Rondo Suite which actually is "Two Bass Hit" from the days with the Dizzy Big Band.

okay, thank you for your kind advice. I´ll think about it.

Every time Fritz Pauer played in a club it was a highlight, he was fantastic. I saw this trio with Jimmy Woode and Tony Inzalaco on several occasions , shortly before or after that record came out, and in April 1978 they played with Johnny Griffin !

I´d like to ask a Question : Though this is strictly "late 40´s" …… could we post also some early 50´s Albums ? I think that Maybe it would not be too much OT, since very much of 1950-53 Recordings of the bop masters still are very very much vintage bop , I think if we discuss ….. let´s say "Diz-Bird at Carnegie 1947" there might be also room for "Diz Bird" 3 or 4 years later and nevertheless it remains a "Bebop-thread"...….

Oh yes, Wes with George Shearing. I still regret that I sold it when I was Young. I had purchased it a few months before, but then I was too much into more Avantgarde stuff like Dolphy and Ornette and so on, that due to lack of Money I sold it . Really sad, since I think the original George Shearing with the Montgomery Brothers is OOP. Then, during that time Maybe I was a "Snob" and it sounded to "polished" to me.....

I didn´t know that Hank Mobley had lung Cancer. I knew he had respiratory Problems as early as 1970 I think, because you can hear it already on "Thinking of Home" that he is short of breath. But if he really had Cancer it seems even more Incredible that he tried a gig just few months before he died, the one with the Duke Jordan Trio.

This is another kind of jazz than what I listen to usually, but indeed very fine chamber jazz , free forms in a very subtile manner. Maybe not for every day listening, but very fine to figure out. The interaction between those three true masters is excellent. But it has also some very hard swingin sections too.

Indeed, though I must admit that I listen rarely to the earlier 1960/61 Hubbard Albums, I listen much more to the more modal Things he did on the 1964/65 Albums like "Blue Spirit" and "Breaking Point". Not that the earlier Albums are not good, they are fantastic, but it´s still the old hard bop Routine and I love Hubbard most for the stuff he developed after that.

My wife bought this wonderful set of music from the Kenton Big Band for me for Chrismas . right now the "Peanuts Vendor", really fine latin stuff on that album. I´m not so familiar with most of Kenton´s work so this X-mas present was most welcome.

as much as I remember he was Pretty involved in the Music in the making of Dexter´s film "Round Midnight". There is a larger Studio band recording "Round Midnight" and I think it´s arranged by Palle Mikkelborg. Palle even has a small acting role here , some Studio talk…... And didn´t he arrange the string Album "More than you know".