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I also have the Toshiba. Really a wonderful record and probably the only occasion whan Dannie Richmond recorded for Blue Note I love this too

Here a largly unknown Album of Bud . It´s live Recordings and Radio Recordings from 1953 and 1955. As expected , Bud is in top form in 1953, when he still was in full demand of his powers. His Long piano solo on "Big Band Blues" aka "Tiny´s Blues" from Washington is top, also his solo with Dizzy on "Woody´n You". On "Salt Peanuts" unfortunatly the tape runs out after Dizzy´s solo when Bud would start. And the biggest surprise are the 1955 Recordings. 1955 usually is considered an "un year" for Bud, he made the weakest and saddest Recordings for Verve which are painful to hear, at least many of them (I get a kick out of you, Like Someone in Love, The Best Thing For you is me), or at least "Mediocre" (like the title of on better tune). But here he really Plays very fine on a broadcast "Bud´s Bubble" with Oscar Pettiford and Art Blakey, and again an Extended live set also from 1955 with a very fine "Like Someone in Love", so good that we can Forget the painful recording of it for Verve in late 1954.

Agreed ! A few years later Dizzy played a great concert in NY, with an Allstar Bigband, and with a small Group (Dizzy, Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis, a bass Player, and Max Roach). I have the DVD and you can hear and see, how well Max fits in that set of vintage bop (they did HotHouse, and Tin Tin Deo). On the larger part, the Big Band tunes it´s Grady Tate on drums, but that sounds a bit rougher than Max, but that´s only my own Impression. To see Max in Action on that Video set of Music was also a nice experience for my wife, who doesn´t necessarly listen to jazz but said "that´s really a good Drummer"......

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 ?