Gheorghe

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.

I also noticed in the late 70´s that he´s almost everywhere. I think I remember best his tenure with Johnny Griffin. That´s the unit I saw on several occasions: "Griffin, Ronnie Matthews, Ray Drummond, Kenny Washington". This was a very Steady unit . And before that I´m sure I saw him on at least 2 occasions. But please help me: I saw Joe Henderson Quartet with Joanne Brackeen in late 1978, and very early in 1979 I saw George Coleman Quartet (with Hilton Ruiz, Billy Higgins), and I don´t know if Ray Drummond was on both occasions, or on one. So I don´t remember if I saw Ray Drummond with Henderson or with Coleman. The Thing I remember is he was so big, the bass fiddle looked so small in his hands...…..

wow, I never saw Lee Konitz that way. I couldn´t say, which album cover looks better. But on yours is also a soprano sax , and anyway Lee plays some fine soprano on that album also. The very first Lee Konitz I ever heard on Radio was Lee solo, I think from the album "Lone-Lee" , a solo version of Cherokee .

It´s really a conincidence, I´m also listening to Ornette Coleman right now.

I must admit I am not familiar with all his work, but as a pianist it´s the same thing, I like him integrated in a group like his Unit. So the things I enjoy most are "Unit Structures" and "Conquistador". That´s collective group work which I love .

Very nice late 70´s issue. I bought it when it was brand new. Very fine arrangements by Sy Johnson. And I like the combination of straight ahead acoustic with some sounds more typical of the 70´s , it was a nice mixture, and the choice of Chick Corea tunes is also fine. Really a treasure.

Yeah, if it get´s too pianistic it´s not really my stuff. Oscar with others is nice. And the few Oscars that just swing in an easy manner like "Night Train" or "We Get Requests".

Very fine the Miles and Brass. I also listened to it recently

Though "Complete Communion" get´s most spinning here, I also love "Suite for Improvisers" and this one: Great with Pharoah Sanders, Henry Grimes and Ed Blackwell.

Listened to it yesterday again. Shortly after this I saw him live, most of the stuff from "Amsterdam". Fantastic !

Oscar Peterson was the first piano Player I heard on record, only because Maybe the schoolmate who had the Album didn´t have others than Oscar Peterson, who was quit en vogue in the 70´s especially by People who otherwise didn´t listen much to jazz. : Oscar Peterson and or Erroll Garner, thats it was. But my start was fine: The two Albums "Night Trane" and "We Get Requests" still get Spinning, since he Plays in a more spare manner on it and doesn´t exagerate the whole stuff. I sold all the other Peterson Albums and kept and Keep to enjoy those two, and for the combination with vocals the "In Tune" with the Singers Unlimited, also a Peterson in a more subdued manner…… nice !

I love the Album and reading a book by Cook About the Blue Note label he also mentioned the shortness of the Album. It´s stated that after the two forerunning Albums (Chicago Calling and Blowin Session) this is outright short. Anyway, Griffin´s contract with BN was only short, just 3 Albums in 2 years and that it was.

First I heard the wonderful ballad album of Trane with Johnny Hartman, and then, thinking about "Village Vanguard Again" (Trane with Pharoah) I decided to spin only Pharoah.

fantastic, a classic.

now I can see it, I remember I saw it once. I think 70´s , in any case after he recorded his last BN album and entered in his difficult semi inactive phase. But i don´t think it was from the 80´s. I saw one photo of Hank Mobley on the 1980 Tete Montoliu album and there he really looks like an old man.

"Ceora" by Lee Morgan, I hadn´t known that tune since I didn´t have the Album "Cornbread", but the trumpetplayer we play with had suggested it for our set list, since than I love to play it, nice changes.

Very fine !

I also saw him with George Coleman, Ray Drummond on bass and smiling Billy Higgins on drums ! It must have been early in 1979. I couldn´t have recognized Hilton Ruiz from that Video. I remember him as a small tiny guy…..

I can´t see the pic on my PC

I´ll never Forget the exitement of all of us when we read that Miles would return to record Studio and tour, and how we waited to be "Man with the Horn" and "We Want..." published. I have listened to Miles live on almost all ocasions he was in town from his comeback until his death, but this first band was the one I like most. It was brandnew then, but even had Moments were it seems they looked back . "Back Seat Betty" reminds me of "Miles runs the Vooodoo down" from Bitches Brew. "My Man´s Gone Now" is great, and "Kix" even has a lot of swing rhythm for long sections. It was said that Miles´ trumpet still didn´t sound properly, but play he does on those sides, much more than on the more celebrated later Shows which I didn´t like that much. "Star People" still was a quite good Album, but with "Decoy" I started to loose interest and if I spinned "You Are Under Arrest" or "Tutu" or "Amandla" more than 3 times in my life, I´d be very surprised…….

Always great to listen to. A great live recording of the "second quintet". Maybe the only Occasion on which Bud played "Satin Doll". Evidently because it´s reported that Ellington produced this album. The choose of the drummer "Kansas" Fields is a bit strange, normally Kenny Clarke was Bud´s drummer in Paris .

Belated Happy Birthday !

very fine the compositions and arrangements by Benny Golson

Nice story about a legendary album.