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I remember Mombasa went quite well , I think Lou Blackburn also had a booking at Jazzland in Viena, but I don´t know what they have to do with Hank Mobley, who obviously was at one ore two occasions scheduled for North Sea but didn´t make it. I think the last recorded Mobley was with Tete Montoliu, and there was a you tube of one tune at Angry Squire where he really had difficulties to Play, it was a mircacle that he even tried to do it, sad to listen but I admire him that with that terrible health he even tried to play a gig. Such a tragedy….

This together with "The Incredible Guitar" was my ticket to the Wonderful sounds of Wes Montgomery. I also have the great "Full House" live at Tsubo .

I remember once I read a book written by Ronnie Scott, but I don´t remember the title and think it´s OOP. It has a Cartoon like Picture of Ronnie on the book cover. I remember mostly his stories About visiting stars, how he had difficulties to find a proper piano for Bill Evans, how Stan Tracey had to suffer from the behaviour of mean Artists like Lucky Thompson, something About Coleman Hawkins in his very last and very self destructive year, and so on...…..

I remember how "Donna Lee" played by Jaco Pastorius influenced a lot of bass players here. Mostly Fender bass Players. So guys who first were deeply into rock-jazz/funk got an interest in some be bop too. Both styles are great Music and it´s great how Jaco Pastorius could Play anything and could dig anything. About his collaboration with Joni Mitchell, well it seems Joni Mitchell was not so much on my Focus, Maybe because she could not be called a typical jazz singer, and that makes things very very hard for me. As everybody around here, all of us who bemoaned Mingus´ prematury death after there was Nothing new left from Mingus bought that Joni Mitchell LP "Mingus" since we hoped to hear something Mingus still had composed and had somehow contributed to, at least mentally. This "Mingus" Album also has Jaco Pastorius on it, I think he even arranged one of the tunes, very fine. But Joni Mitchell, she just didn´t have the voice to sing "Mingus" , that´s my opinion, Maybe I´m wrong since many People dig her. It´s just not my Kind of Music, not the voice I "need" to hear…..

Those 5 CDs or LPs are the best to hear really Extended work of Bud Powell in a Nightclub. This, together with "So much Guitar" also for the Riverside label was a 2-fer LP set when I was beginning to listen to jazz. It was my first Wes Montgomery and I liked it from the first note on. I still love it very much .

Well that´s a bit too much.

Very fine Album !

One of my favourite live albums from about my start, I mean the first year when I discovered all that great music of the 40´s. I must admit I bought it mostly for Fats Navarro , but listen also to the great Roy Eldrigde organization, with the wonderful Flip Phillips. And dig how Eldridge on "How High the Moon" in the outing "Ornithology". Roy was so much ahead of his time. He was the natural link from swing to bop, wasn´t he ? And talking about jazz of the forties, that´s what I´m listening to right now. A lot of great music, vintage bop.

A Wonderful thing . And it has a special meaning to me since my wife bought it for me.

A very good choice. I remember about the time when I purchased it too, also during high School I coudn´t read the title Right, I thought it means "Neferetti" and thought that it might be an italian Name and that maybe it´s a movie score done by Miles for some italian film producer. Maybe that was just the times we lived in then, it seems with my suggestions I was influenced by the other album I had "Cumbia and Jazz Fusion" since I had noticed it was done by Mingus as a movie score for an italian film Producer, I think for Elio Petri...... Yes, ESP is a very good Album, but Maybe from the mid 60´s Albums with the great second quintet I like most "Miles Smiles", that really cooks.

A wonderful treasure , purchased in the 70´s when I was just discovering that wonderful music done by Bird, Dizzy, Bud Powell...... The first half of the record is this three great "gennulmen of modern music" (sic: Symphony Sid). When Sid asks Bird what they´ll do first and Bird says "Blue´n Boogie", Symphony Sid makes the odd remark "you say you WILL! Wasn´t it made with Dexter some years ago ?". That was typical jive talk of that period. Great also the one track "Groovin´High" with the Milt Buckner Trio, probably the only time when Bird recorded with an organ trio. And not to forget the nice set from 1953 Bird on plastic alto with John Lewis, Curley Russell and Kenny Clark plus Candido on the last tune "Broadway". A wonderful journey into the past......

I didn´t know about that thread. Well, a few years ago I met @bichos. He was visiting Vienna and we spent an afternoon together at my place. Very very nice man and he knows so much about the music. He is an absolute expert of Charlie Parker and all the boppers, seems to know everything that was recorded. Great ! But I have not seen him here on the board for some time, hope he´s well !

Thank you @HutchFan ! Well I Always found it very annoying if they used cover photos that were not from the period when the Music was made. Early Music with later photos (I have the old Ornette Coleman with Paul Bley, Don Cherry from 1958 with a photo of Ornette in the 80´s ), or the 1971 Monk Studio Dates with a photo of Monk from 1941, very very annoying.

From the cover photo this might be a later Album (late 70´s early 80´s) but I doubt he made records for Black Lion during that time when he was with CBS. I have only one Black Lion Album by Dexter, and it is from 1967 at Montmatre with Kenny Drew, NHOP and Tootie Heath. I think the tunes are "Like Someone in Love", "Blues Walk", "Body ´n Soul" and "There will never be another you". Maybe, your Album is from the same period (Black Lion was mostly recording Americans in Europe in the mid/late sixties) and did they try to let it look more contemporanous, with a later photo and a title which is related to the 1985 Tavenier film ?

Oh I didn´t know that. Thank you.

I love this too Oh yes, italian LPs were very much on my buying list. I have a lot of those Lineatre Series, and the Kings of Jazz (for example: Here is Miles Davis at his rare of all rarest performances), they were cheap so I could afford them with my weekly pocket money, and great music !

Very nice Donald Byrd record. Witchhunt ! And great with Pepper Adams AND Charlie Rouse !

Yes, that´s it. That´s the source from where I had the Infos.

I´ve heard so much about that most famous Deer Head Inn and read a Phil Woods interview where he tells about that venue. He lived in that town. Dave Liebman in his autobiography also mentions this club. This place really looks wonderful, I never saw a jazz venue like that . Over here, most of them are cellar clubs.

who from my Generation wouldn´t remember those Prestige Two Record Sets, specially prized, which was very welcome for a teenie like I was. We all knew those classic Things "Blue´n Boogie" "Groovin Hight" "Salt Peanuts". That´s from where I learned to Play that Music and I´m still grateful I had the possibility to get in touch with this Wonderful Music through those low prized doublealbums, this and the French laber "Musidisc" , another cheap source of Music. On the other Hand: Those Recordings of Course were not Prestige Studio Dates, it was for example the old "Guild" sessions. Dizzy never was a "Prestige" Artist like so many others (mostly hard boppers) were.

Isn´t Jimmy Cobb married with that fascinating and famous Lady Eleana (former Steinberg) who also sang on Dave Liebman´s "Drum Ode" and who later became even more famous as she told the world very lot About Miles Davis during his "un years" when she took him out of NY, brought him back to Music and can also be seen on a Studio photo with Miles (who had become quite fat during that time) , that misterious 1978 sessios with Larry Coryell, where Miles only played organ ?

oh yes I have this also ! Actually I bought it before I bought "Heart is a Melody" . I think this Album "Live" was advertised in "Jazz Podium" during the time it appeared. That´s how I got to purchase it. And shortly afterwards seeing Pharoah live with his quartet. I remember William Henderson was on piano. But I don´t remember the Bassist and the Drummer (1985 Holabrun Lower Austria)

My favourite Pharoah Sanders Album that was made after the 60´s/early 70´s is this one: It has all: a classic quartet, on one tune vocals added, one tune some happy african chant, and also some boppish stuff (Dameron´s "Misty Night").

A beautiful album , with wonderful ballads, medium tempos, really a perfect quartet date, very fine and relaxed. I got this from my wife about a year ago, a beautiful present .

Agreed. Danny Mixon was a very fine piano player and played the organ too. He was lesser known than let´s say Don Pullen, but his piano work on Mingus´ 1976 tour band (I´m thinking About Mingus at Willisau and Mingus in Vienna) is great and he could play all styles, also very fine stride piano. About Pharoah Sanders I´d also say that 1975 must have been a period of Transition. Not so much is known About this period. We all knew his work on Impulse, with Trane or on his own Albums, above all "Karma", and later in the early 80´s he came back to the Scene, but in a more traditional manner with a classic ts, p, b, dr quartet, like Archie Shepp. Those two free jazz Icons still had much to say, but they also reached a wider audience playing standards too…..