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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 !

Especially the live "Bopland" stuff, those Allstar Jams with Dexter and Wardell Gray, other soloists are Howard McGhee, Trummy Young, Sonny Criss and Hampton Hawes. Really hot stuff and those friendly tenor battles between Dexter and Wardell are legendary. One strange thing: The version of "Cherokee" is the slowest "Cherokee" I ever heard.

I had the same thoughts.

Yeah, and that great tune "Ife", I always liked that very much, with Dave Liebman on flute. By the way, I´m gonna see Dave Liebman-Richie Beirach next Sunday..... Fantastic, I love it and after so much listening you always discover something "new" in it....

Some late 40´s BN stuff. I know that poor recording sound should not be a point of discussion on this thread, but I always wondered, why the 1948 Monk session (the one with Milt Jackson, John Simmons, Shadow Wilson and on two tracks Kenny Haggood) has such a poor recording sound. Not up to BN standards, and it was recorded in the studio. Otherwise the music on it allways thrilled me. Yes , the second Herd was fantastic. And yeah, Woody as a singer was great. I was lucky to see him twice. The second time in 1985 was not with the Herd, but with an allstar combo and I´ll never forget a fantastic version of "I´ve got the world on a string" as a vocal feature for Woody .

crazy, never saw something like that.

a very good album !

Some late 40´s BN stuff. I know that poor recording sound should not be a point of discussion on this thread, but I always wondered, why the 1948 Monk session (the one with Milt Jackson, John Simmons, Shadow Wilson and on two tracks Kenny Haggood) has such a poor recording sound. Not up to BN standards, and it was recorded in the studio. Otherwise the music on it allways thrilled me.

Great to hear. I´m really glad to read those good news. Speedy recovery !

Sesame Street: A big hit among us boys (our little group of jazz fans then) was the version of the theme, done by the Singers Unlimited with Oscar Peterson.

I understand what you say. And right, I also met people who said "I don´t like that because the sound quality is not good". But......what music !

I always had a special affinity to the 1952 session with Dorham, Lou Donaldson and Max Roach. That incredible "Carolina Moon" ...... and "Skippy" and all the others.....