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Wonderful ! I love that record and if I want to hear original bop tunes with a better recording sound than the original Savoy´s or Dial´s , THIS is my first choice. It´s a real Allstar session, I think I like it even more than the "Giants of Jazz". One think I noticed About during that time, when I just had started to listen to jazz: Of Course I knew Dizzy , but it was the first time I saw Sonny Stitt and if you look at them, Dizzy Looks much younger than Sonny, though he is 7 years older. And when I saw them playing, I thought "who is that old man who Plays so Wonderful sax, who Looks like someone who might have been close to Charlie Parker...….? Incredible, but true.

One of my favourite live recordings. Here Kenny Burrell digs into the 40´s, playing Diz associated tunes like Birks Work, Lover Man, Rifftide , Get Happy etc. Blakey, Tina Brooks and Bobby Timmons are also very fine.

Once I saw a very nice YouTube interview from Dan Morgenstern About Charlie Parker. What he said, he already wrote on the most interesting liner notes of the fantastic CBS double LP "One Night at Birdland". IMHO some of the best liner notes I ever saw. Really an Essay about the Birdland days and Bird.

My RVG Copy of Grantstand (Grant Green, the one with Yuseef Lateef and Brother McDuff) has a bad Sound Quality. And yes: "Fickle Sonance" the same. I don´t listen to it with pleasure. Anyway as much as I remember this was made from two different sessions. In General I prefer the Albums that were made in one single session…..

Jay McShann played the piano very well. Of Course he´s best known for his big bands in the 40´s, but I like his small group stuff also. I saw him live once, don´t remember the year but it must have been in the early 1980´s . I remember it very well, because in the second set a very young female blues singer from Sicilia sat in and sang some with Jay McShann and here name is Etta Scollo and she became quite famous after that…..good singer really…...

Yes, I have this also and love it. My first Kenny Burrell listening experience was on the Paul Chambers Album "Whims of Chambers". So it´s natural I wanted to hear also the Albums he made under his own Name. Wonderful tracks, one I like very much is the old "Moten Swing" with Shadow Wilson on drums. They really get that old pre 1940 feeling here, combined with a modern hard bop sound.

The second CD running now. Fantastic those long versions of "What is that Thing Called Love" , "Sonnymoon for Two", "April" etc.

This speaks for itself ! A Milestone in the BN History !

So good ! The Heads of State "Four in One", one of my favourite Albums from the last few years.

Very fine !

Just a perfect record !

One of my favourite Wayne Shorter albums

If I´m sure about one Thing it is that I never have heard about that bass player. Maybe he is not so well known over here

From the cover photo I think this must be a later recording. As much as I know Hampton Hawes died in 1977 at 49 years only. I heard some Hampton Hawes on Electric piano from around 1973 also. I know there are a lot of acoustic purists, but he sounds good on the Electric too. I think, withouth that huge afro he looked better. On photos from the 60´s he really Looks smart. Like on "Green Leaves of the Summer"

Yes: This one, and the "Breaking Point" , and the material from those two Albums played "live" on "Night of the Cookers". Wonderful mid 60´s Freddie Hubbard.

Beautiful. And I´d rate it among the best playing of Joe Henderson as sideman. The others I listened to recently were Hancock´s "Prisoner" and McCoy Tyner´s "The Real McCoy"

Of course I have not heard about this session , but Big Nick Nicholas seems to have been a quite popular figure at Birdland also. Also from 1951 is that famous session of Miles Davis with the Tenor Tandem "Eddie Lockjaw Davis" and "Big Nick Nicholas". The also play "Lady Bird" on that. And the mentioned "Bird with the Herd" I have on LP, I don´t know the label, it was then a quite expensive LP without much liner notes info.

One of my favourite Hancock albums And IMHO one of the best contributions of Joe Henderson as a sideman. Johnny Coles is also great.

for me the greatest release from the last year.

Yes Hotep Idris Galeta ! Very fine Group with a very advanced and open Kind of Music. The only Thing that was annoying that it was a Festival and on 3 stages were 3 Groups I wanted to hear. McLean´s Group on one stage, Lou Donaldson on another and Pharoah Sanders on another. When I think About it now I could miss LD since I saw him again a few months later with the same Group.

I like the cover. That´s the Croydon stuff, isn´t it ?

I didn´t read books about Dylan since that´s not my kind of Music, but I have read enough books about Miles. Among those books Maybe I enjoyed most the book Ian Carr wrote. Others are more focussed on the non Musical Things, like the book his son Gregory wrote, and the book that Lady wrote who was with him in the last years…...

very interesting interview. Didn´t Pharoah Sanders suffer a broken hip or something like that last year. I´m glad to read that he still does gigs.

Great ! The second time I saw Jackie McLean was around 1985 together with René McLean, the piano was Hotep…..don´t know the full Name, on bass was David Eubanks, on drums I don´t remember exactly, could have been Ronnie Burrage ? , and on Percussion was Kemati Dinizulu who later played with Sonny Rollins.