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Here´s a ´pic of the photo-documents book I have mentioned

Great !

@Big Beat Steve: Thanks for sharing those Wonderful pictures with us ! I Always thought I have a lot of Parker pics, since I have the very rare "Chan Parker-Francis Paudras" book "To Bird with Love", but those photos were completely unknown to me. About Rolf Ericson and his hard Job playing the fast tempos: He really mastered it very well. I remember how this feeling is , since when I was 18 and attended a live Show at some fine club, I asked to "sit in" with some really fast company (or someone joked and said "want to sit in, kid?" ) and oh Boy, they did "Move" at the really fast tempo and I was afraid that I might get lost, but somehow I got thru……. some of my first memories on stage…...

Great, I have this also. Right now, here´s listening to the Johnny Griffin "Blues for Harvey" , also on Steeple Chase. Brings wonderful memories back. Johnny Griffin was the first US musician I heard "live", it was in spring 1978 at the old "Jazz Freddie" in Schottenfeldgasse, 1070 Viena, and he really played with a superb trio , with great austrian piano star Fritz Pauer, with two US expatriates Jimmy Woode on bass and Tony Inzalaco on drums. The next day I bought this album "Blues For Harvey", since they also spinned it down at "Freddy´s". Needless to say I was "a wanted man" among our high school jazz buddies, they came by and we listened together to that groovy blues "That Party Downstairs" and "Soft and Furry".....

..great picture

One interesting thing about Agharta is that they play a different program than the usual set list. On Pangaea it starts with that fast funk riff in Eb like on the 1974 Dark Magus and all the 1973 performances that I have heard from some sources (Vienna, Berlin, Montreux). On Aghartha they start with a medium funk in Bb and they also feature the bossa "Maisha" which is from the studio take from "Get Up with it". And one unexpected thing on Agharta is the straight ahead walking section on side C, I think......

If I remember right, the regular record shops didn´t have it, they only had Agharta, as you said. There were some hard core jazz buffs at that time. i was just a young kid and tried to get as much infos as I could and when some older, weird looking "electric Miles nerds" were tellin me things like "Aghartha....yeah you on the right trip, kid, BUT HAVE YOU LISTENED TO PANGAEA (or Dark Magus) that was a completley unknown land for me. Then I discovered we had a very small and fancy jazz records shop "Red Octopus" and they had all those Japan Imports at high prices. I had to work hard to be good at school to get more pocket money from my dad so I could purchase those two Japan imports. By the way, my "In Concert" 1972 is also a japan import from that time. Needless to say I got some "upgrade" among school buddys , we made parties were they came by to my place to listen together to Pangeaa, it was such a beautiful time....

I have the Spotlite double LP. About my opinion that the Body & Soul is a mess, other opinions ? At least I have the impression that they are not together rhythmically at all. It´s the longest track on the album, the first side with the quintet with Rolf Ericson sounds good, Ericson somehow sounds similar to Red Rodney.....

In my case it´s contrary. Well in the 60´s I was a kid, but from the 70´s on I remember very well almost each concert and who played and sometimes what tunes they played, but if you ask me About those Things from 2000 on, it is harder for me to remember them…..

That´s why I like the "Bird at Savoy" material , and the CBS Albums "A Night at Birdland" "Summit at Birdland" and "Bird with Strings" so much….because they have the whole Thing, all the solos by so fanstastic musicians like Miles, Kenny Dorham, Fats, Al Haig, Bud and so on. And Maybe that´s why I didn´t buy that Dean Benedetti Mosaic set. Sometimes I regret I didn´t buy it since I have not seen it any more on the Mosaic catalog, but Maybe I would have listened to it one time and no more after that. About "Bird in Sweden". I have the Spotlite Double LP, I have not listened to it for a Long time. But @Big Beat Steve mentioned Body and Soul. I remember in the liner notes this is praised as being particularly fine, but as much as I remember it is one of the weakest and lousiest Things, I don´t know which local musicians they picked up, (since those on the other concert tracks Sound really fine), but here on Body and Soul I have the Impression that from the beginning to the end they can´t decide what tempo to Play. Everybody is somewhere else…….at some Point they try double time but it doesn´t help it makes Things worse…….

I also have this, but the Benedetti thing of cutting out the other soloists was done also by others, like Jimmy Knepper on "Bird at St Nick´s "

oh yes, I have the same. I remember I was the first in school who purchased it. All have listened to "Aghartha" and were "imitating" Miles´ wah wah trumpet sound. And after I had purchased Pangeea some insider told me that "Dark Magus" ist the best. I eventually bought Dark Magus also.

I saw him once with his quartet, and of course love all his work as a sideman too.

me to, with the Arkestra with Marshall Allen

Reissue as much as I know was only on a Mosaic Box (CDs)

Great, a wonderful set of music.

well I was the first here on the track who mentioned the Saxophonist Kenny Rodgers ….. but not because I don´t believe, "your" singer and Bassist Kenny Rogders is still alive .

I remember I saw this in the stores when it came out. Somehow I hesitated to buy it, I think I was not sure wether it had an original BN cataloge number and I thought it might be "a sampler". But now as I see it´s Cecil Payne on it, that ´s interesting. I dont think Cecil Payne made many recording dates for BN.

I must admit I heard more about a sax player Kenny Rogers who plays on one of the earlier Lee Morgan albums. But I think I remember when I was at School, one of the buddys who was more into pop than jazz had an album of singer Kenny Rogers. I must admit I don´t know very much about other music than jazz, but as much as I remember that Kenny Rogers sounded quite good.

A classic ! So many famous tenorsaxophonists did their obligatory Bossa Nova Album in the first half of the 60´s. Also on Blue Note: Charlie Rouse did his only Album "Bossa Nova Bacchanal" which is a lesser known Album......

I already posted the Savoy Double Album "Mr. B. and the Band" with very much bop Arrangements , great ballads and vintage big band bop on "Cool Breeze" and "Oo Bop Sh Bam" and so on. This one is from About the same time and has less bop stuff and is more focussed on the ballads, but very fine . Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan remain my favourite singers of the 40´s .

And maybe the "Milestone Jazzstars" also. It was billed as "Sonny Rollins-McCoy Tyner-Ron Carter" + Al Foster and I think there was no real leader so it´s also McCoy´s Album . Anyway he Plays a solo feature and a fine duo with Ron. It was done in autumn 1978 and came out shortly after it, Maybe late 78, early 79. I remember it was very much advertised and we purchased it as soon as it came out.

I have not listened it for quite some time and today I really am in the mood for this fine record. As all my school and college buddys we had bemoaned Miles´5 year hiatus and I still can feel the exite we were in when there were rumours that Miles had returned into a recording studio and probably would tour again. This is really a fine record. I like it much more than the more famous Warner Brother stuff like "Tutu" since this is still a lot of "jazz" in it. It´s a working band and they really are together and Miles who was rumoured to have lost his chops, really plays some fine trumpet here, and more than we would have expected. And he even played a swing tune "Ursula".......

Really a fine playing list !

okay, that´s right, I had not considered that fact.