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My wife and me visited the "Albrecht Duerer" Exhibition at the famous Viennes "Albertina" .

Thank you for you great answer, @Shrdlu. Maybe the switch from alto to tenor and soprano was just something about the times we lived in. I think in the 70´s the alto was not so much in fashion. It was mainly tenor and increasingly much soprano, that was the sound that fitted to modal stuff, to fusion etc. And yes, the "striped series" had a lot of the Dial tracks. But then came the "Spotlite" label, also british and IMHO one of the best. They really published some hidden treasures then. A great label. And ha ha , we Boys tried to Imitate the voice of "Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman, you know the guy who talks on "Bird in Lotus Land" and on Billy Eckstine´s "Together" and I think also on "Early Bird"...….

I also noticed that when I saw Dave Liebman made a new Album "On the Corner Live" and I can´t find it as a CD ? That´s strange, because one year earlier I purchased "Chi" also by Liebman, on CD. I have no idea how to purchase that "On the Corner Live!" . I just CAN´T listen otherwise than CD or LP, and by the way, if it´s not available as a CD how can I get Musical presents for Birthday, Father´s day, Chrismas etc...…?

I was a bit astonished that some didn´t know about this book. I also got it as soon as it was published. It´s really very detailed and for example: I didn´t know nothing about Monk´s live in later years, didn´t know why he had stopped playing etc. and the book reveals a lot about Monk´s private live......

Great story and it reflects the times I also lived in. Yeah, those low budget LPs, all those musidisc, and italian "Rare of all Rarest Performances" And there was a british one, I don´t know the Name of the label, it had a Bird image on it with Stripes on it. I remember "Bird is Free" was a cult. That LP with that white bird on it. About the Bird/Bud/Fats, I got this only when it was published as a double LP on CBS. That was a great time when CBS issued so much bop stuff, like also "Summit Meeting at Birdland" and "Bird with Strings" (also live at Birdland), or the Miles-Dameron in Paris 1949. About your telling that you switched to tenor to get away from Bird´s influence: I can understand that. In my case I play piano. At one point I also tried to get rid of my Bud Powell influence but I can´t switch to another Instrument......oh …. I did switch to Electric when some guys founded an Electric-jazz band and invited me to be on it. That´s the only time I didn´t think Bud when I played keys. Or…...if it´s tunes that couldn´t be played in a boppish manner, let´s say "Freedom Jazzdance" or "Afro Blue"....you Play this in a modal manner not built on standard jazz changes. But if it´s a Standard or of Course a bop tune, it´s impossible for me not to sound similar to Bud.

I don´t know what was the reason he was so "omnipresent" in record collections in "middleclass/upper middleclass" households in my hometown. But that´s how I heard "jazz piano" for the first time when still a kid. It took me one more year to know who Miles Davis, who Charles Mingus are. But as I said, Peterson was so omnipresent in some musical houses I thought he might be "the most famous pianist of all times" and when I got my first "Jazz Book" (Joachim Ernst Behrendt) I had expected there might be a "whole chapter about Oscar Peterson" but was astonished that he´s hardly mentioned. But it was the same Thing in other jazz books too "Arrigo Pollilo "Jazz" …….the same Thing. It seems that book writers, critics didn´t really like him. May I have been influenced by those book authors or not, later I got tired of listenig to Oscar Peterson, at least most of the time. I found it more exiting to listen to the "sidemen" pianists on other Albums I had and I had few. I had "Steamin´ from Miles" and learned all the "Red Garland solos" on it. I had "Great Concert of Mingus" and learned all the stuff Jackie Byard Plays, and I had "Miles in Europe" and learned all the stuff Herbie Hancock plays on it. So ironically I became a "sideman piano" listener more than a listener of lead pianos.

Referring to the Diz on Spotlite, yes you can hear Monk, but he does not get much space. He´s audible on Round Midnight and on "Our Delight". I like that Spotlite double CD very much. But it´s early Diz Big Band. It took another year to incorporate the latin Thing, with Chano Pozo. Here it´s straight ahead swing mostly. Milt Jackson is also great on the ballads. Right now this one is Spinning. I heard this Edition of the Messengers live at the Metropole, but Studio Recordings of the Messengers don´t Always live up the the live atmosphere.

Another thing I got from my wife for Chrismas ! Wonderful free-spirit music. Jimmy Giuffree with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow. They even go "bluesy" on "Cry, Want"...... , wonderful, really deep !

Got this from my wife for Chrismas ! I must admit I was not so familiar with Kenton´s work and this here is most welcome. So I dug into it. Great band, great arrangements and very fine solos. Huge brass sound, a lot of percussion work .

So great ! I love Dave Liebman and the musicians who play and played with him. May he live more than 100 years. He was one of the first musicians I heard live when I was 18 and could go to night clubs. First Griffin, then Dave Liebman in spring 1978, an overwhelming experience. I´m gonna see "Lieb" with Richie Beirach next year in March ! This here is somehow also a live version of the stuff on "Drum Ode" which I love. Trane´s "Your Lady" is here, "Iguana Ritual" is here......, highly recommended

Dave Liebman "What it is"

I don´t know so many Peterson Albums, but from Looking on the photos: Is this George Mraz on bass ? I have ONE Peterson Album from the MPS period "In Tune" with the Singers Unlimited and it also has George Mraz on bass.

Hey Folks, I got this from my wife for my 60th Birthday on Saturday. So great ! So beautiful ! "CHI" done by Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake. It´s like closing circles. The 1974 "Drum Ode", the wonderful classic with much focus on drums and Percussion was a highlight in my budding jazz experiences then, when I was a teenager. I saw Dave live in 1978 for the first time and it was magic. So this most recent album is a wonderful way to continue this beautiful experience , I love it. And by the way: 1978 was the year when I wasn´t underage anymore and could go to all the clubs. Three of the key figures I saw live were "Johnny Griffin" "Dave Liebman" "Art Farmer. And imagine: Decades later even my wife went with me to see Art Farmer, and later Johnny Griffin and next year in March we goin to see Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach, so she can share those memories and live experiences with me.

I think this record was still quite popular when I was Young. There was also a later Version called "New Violin Summit".

very interesting point. I like some of Art Pepper´s work, but of Course he is not the same calibre like Trane. And yes, he "borrowed" a Little stuff from the modal Music, but it was not really his. Like Dexter Gordon when he played "Body and Soul" in the more modal manner Trane did it. He said he had influenced Trane (which is true) and after that got some Things back from Trane, getting influenced by him. But neither Dexter could really understand rhythmically or harmonically what Trane had done.

So great ! The strange thing is, I first heard "Your Lady" on Dave Liebman´s Drum Ode. Only later the original Coltrane version.

Thank you all !

A classic, this and "Mating Call". Anyway, Tadd´s discography is quite thin, so each of his records is most welcome. I also like his piano style. He is often written off for his pianistical efforts, but Play he does, and anyway try to Imitate him and you can´t, he has his unique way of working the keys…...

Will do a Little 60´s Birthday jam session tomorrow

I think after that I got a letter from them telling something like they want to continue but have to make some decisions and have to develope some stragegies for doing that and bla bla bla, anyway it didn´t help. I waited some month to see if I can subscribe it, and nothing happened. Eventually I subscribed for Down Beat, which I enjoyed very much.

I listened to the Album yesterday. I had got it as a Birthday present from my wife. Fantastic. Such a great Music, and it´s really particularly interesting for those among us, who loved and still love "Drum Ode" so much.

Especially for "There will never be another you". No one could play that tune like Bud. He also kept it in his repetoire when he was in Paris. I have the Album with another cover, which was in the 70´s

Thank you all ! Now 60 years old …...

Hello Jim, a very happy Birthday to you !

Yes, that´s it ! And this is also interesting. Early Tristano from 1946/47 with 2 different bassists, and Billy Bauer on guitar.