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Yes, really hard to believe. And this album was hard to find at least when I became a BN collector. All other albums were already reissued as RVG, but this one was only available on japanese cardboard after a long time.

Great 1962 performace by Bud. And recommanded to those who always say that Bud in the later years had lost much of his tehnical skills. This is top Bud Powell, period. Great selection of bop standards and moving ballads. The two bonus tracks Bud-Griffin duo have already been issued on the Xanadu album "Bud in Paris". And as on the Xanadu LP, also here the recording years is wrong. The two tunes with Griffin in Paudras´ home were not done in 1960, but in 1964. In 1960 Griffin was not in Paris, and Bud had not started to be recorded in Paudras´ home. This was much later.

I love it, so much pre-bop trumpet. This, together with "Trumpet Battle at Minton´s ".

Great performance from 1967. I like very much Albert Heath´s drumming on this, but of course everybody plays great !

I heard Griff in April 1978 just before he returned to the States. This record was done shortly after his return. Then I saw the working quartet with Ronnie Matthews in spring 1980.

I think the 1971 tour band was not very well documentated and it would be interesting to hear some. Older friends have told me in a very enthusiastic manner about Miles Davis´ concert in Vienna in 1971 I think at "Konzerthaus". I was too young then.

It bothers me too. I hate to see cover photos that are from another period of the live of the Artists. It also happens in the opposite manner: You see a cover photo of a later period of the Artists, only to discover that the Music is from an early stage of his Career .

I think I remember some 1977 Earl Coleman was played on our then very popular austrian Saturday night Radio Show "Jazz Shop", moderated by Herwig Wurzer (I call him the Austrian Symphony Sid), and he also commented Earl Coleman´s Deep voice and announced the record this way "Right now something for the ladies to listen to….." Sorry to say I don´t have the late 1977 Earl Coleman stuff, but I also love his stuff from the 40´s very much, especially the sides with Fats Navarro and Don Lanphere……. But I don´t know absolute Nothing about his life. On this cover photo he looks quite dapper, almost like Horace Silver…..

In my opinion the best from VSOP. About 40 years ago it was brandnew and we were listening to it among friends. Still amazing.

Fantastic ! With Chick Corea, and Tony Dumas/Peter Erskine - Richard Davis/Tony Williams alternating. This was in 1978 about the time I saw Joe Henderson live for the first time. I remember I became a big fan of Joe Henderson from the first moment I saw him live on TV (yeah, things like this were possible in the 70´s, it was a San Francisco Concert 1977, the bass player I remember was Ratso Harris, the others was a young guitar player and a young drummer.........). That´s were I remember I heard Henderson´s "Recorda Me" and fell in love with it. I think I played Recorda Me very often on jam sessions here in Vienna.......

Happy birthday, dear Bill !

From the above mentioned 2 Ornette Coleman LPs . "Garden of Soul" is one of the most beautiful compositions I heard. The way how it "flows"...…….it really moves me every time I enjoy listening to it.

A very goog book indeed ! "Leaving".....I don´t have the Album, but I think I have the tune (a Richie Beirach composition, right?) on another record from Paris 1980 featuring Karl Ratzer on guitar (the famous austrian guitarist !) .

Since Larry Coryell was mentioned: Here as a sideman, but very much in demand .

Thanks for the Info. About "Happy Bird" I thought this is the set from Boston with Wardell Gray , an Album with a red cover and a Color photo of Bird. I think the one I have is from Musidisc.

I purchased this in the 70´s, Charles Brackeen was completely unknown to me besides the fact that he once was Joanne Brackeen´s husband. I bought it for Don Cherry , Haden, Blackwell, since I was very much into the Ornette Coleman-Don Cherry thing which was new and exiting for me. I was , and still am astonished how much it is in the spirit of Ornette Coleman. Charles Brackeen even phrases like Ornette, it sounds almost like "Ornette on Tenor". Anyway, a beautiful, relativly obscure thing, worth listening to.

@Dan Gould: thanks for the background info. Now I understand it better, but it´s hard to follow and without your help I wouldn´t have understanded it at all. From Lee Morgan (best known to me, I have almost all his albums) to an to me completely unknown 5th or 6th Beatle is hard stuff for me, harder than to figure out what really radical free jazz artists are doing (and I mastered it, since I don´t listen only to straight ahead, but to Avantgarde also). But this "bridge" from Morgan to one Billy Preston is really hard to cross…….

Yes, Prestige and BN really were Incredible. But the BN Story is much more documentated than the Prestige Story. So many books and films About the famous Two guys runnin the Business of BN, and so little about Bob Weinstock. You even don´t see many photos of Bob Weinstock, but hundreds of Lion and Wolff...... Very often the only thing you read about Prestige is that they didn´t offer time for rehearsal, but with or without rehearsals, so many of the Prestige albums became classics just like BN.

@bertrand : Thanks, I really didn´t know this as a 100% jazz fan, too little info about other kinds of music you know…., so the in General not so well known "Eddie Preston" did say more to me because he played trumpet with Mingus in 1970 and thats´something I know of course. Same with "Billy Preston" as the title of one track on Miles´ electric period. But I couldnt check out what your Billy Preston has to do with Lee Morgan ?

Wasn´t there a quite obscure album titled "Last Recordings as a quartet" , from About 1988 at Rosenheim, Germany ? And it had a strange titled tune on it "Funk in Deep Freeze", whatever that means…. But it must also have had Nico Stilo , Dennis Luxion, Richardo DelFra on it, I think they were among Chet´s favourite Players in the last years. If Chet appeared at all and concerts were not chancelled, I always heard him in top form. As late as late in 1987 I saw him live at "Fritz´s " and even if he looked like a homeless, he played like a Young God…… fantastic, and that´s my last memory of Chet Baker.

The paradox thing is, that I didn´t buy it when it came out ! Then, in the mid 70´s the only Mingus Album I had was "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus" (3 LP´s , feat. Dolphy etc. ). During that time, even if I didn´t want to recognize it in front of the long haired older guys who were into free and funk, my secret love was a walking bass line. And though "Great Concert" first bewildered me because of the "freakish" Dolphy and the many tempo changes, I fell in love with that Album. But I was afraid that a Mingus from 1974 would be even more freakish, I mean with no walking bass line , with no rhythm and no melodies, like radical free jazz. The cover photo didn´t help much: Seeing Mingus bowing in the high Register also made me think that this might not be a "regular swing thing"...….. So it took me at least one or two years to get to listen to this and to my astonishement a Mingus even as late as in 1974 sounded more like regular swing than in 1964. You see, I didn´t care if the soloists went "far out" as Long as the rhyhthm section would swing. Like the "Ornette!" album with Scott La Faro and Ed Blackwell, it´s free jazz with swing rhythm...…. (Alfred Lion "It must s c h w i n g")

I think I have only "The Happy Bird" which is great ! How is Bird at the Apollo ? When was it recorded and who is on. Birdology ?

Didn´t somehow Sun Ra and his Arkestra have something like their own label ?

Biily Preston ? I only knew about I think a trumpet player "Eddie Preston" who maybe was a little bit influenced by hard bop´s Lee Morgan. But wait a minute, wasn´t there a Miles Davis composition titled "Billy Preston" on "Get Up with it" or something from around 1972 ???

As there has been written so much About "The Lost Quintet", this one still has Tony Williams on drums but I think it was the last time he was in the band, being replaced by Jack DeJohnette. This Album has been a favourite of mine since I heard it the first time.