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If it´s good I´d buy it, but hope it is not only excerpts and odd things that is more interesting for collectors. The earliest Bird I have is the "Early Bird" on Spotlite LP with the Jay McShann Orchestra. Though this is far before the styles of my musical tastes, I love it, since it is very very good, not over commercial swing and they really have a lot of drive and there are already members who played later with Billy Eckstine or with Diz. It is in any case something where I can learn something about voicings (the "Wrap up your troubles in Dreams" is just wonderful from them good chords !!!!!) .

this is probably my favourite Wayne Shorter album. This, and "Schizofrenia". I think this is my favourite Lester Young. Is it the one where he plays most boppish or with bop associated musicians ? Or was it Savoy ? Anyway Lester was so far ahead of his time, he should have been treated better, not in the Norman Granz cliché . I mean there is so much Lester but with stiff drummers like Buddy Rich and so, I think what great record would have been if he had the Red Garland Trio or like that. I think the best Lester I ever heard was on a Musidisc album and on drums was Roy Haynes, that´s a good combination. I think I saw the "Alladin Sessions" as early as the mid seventies as one of those Blue Note LA-Series , those double albums with the hidous paper bag covers. And they were completly misleading, since most of them was recordings that wasn´t even BN, I mean strange they had a Gil Evans, they had the Jazz Crusaders, they had Wes Montgomery but none of that was Blue Note. And the Lester Young "Alladin Sessions" was one of them. Okay, they was an easy way to get some jazz on 2 LPs during a time when most acoustic jazz albums were OOP. Was not easy to find acoustic stuff in my youth.....

I know or knew enough Punkers who also dig jazz. Usually those weird lookin guys and gals have a lot of intelligence and you can talk to ´em easily. And some of the look of their fashion anyway got good fashion style. Most the stuff I wear is black and has a lotta bags and my wife also likes black, short skirts combined with boots. Not always, but often enough. My youngest boy is what might have been the ultimate punker. Now he still has that look, but lives in Spain where he has a little bio farm. He usually listens to metal and punk rock, but as big ears for jazz too. His main hero is Miles, not just the electric Miles, but also very much from the II´nd quinted .

who is this with Duke ? I can´t help but somehow all sportsmen in the world look about the same, this is a proto type. I mean I don´t know nothin about no sports , I ´m to much a loner if I dont perform music, so I don´t have it with things with crowds. But the one who told me that they all look the same or you recognize them from the face was my wife. If she sees a pic of a man or sees him in reality and doesn´t like how he looks like, she just says "look´s like a fotbalist = the word we have for football players......)

I think I have the 2 separate LPs, good idea you remember me about it. Got to get it on USB for maybe playing on longer drives in the night. Always good to have some good music on such activities. I love how that second quintet developed further and further and the music grew naturally from stuff like this to let´s say Filles de Killijanjaro, In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew and all that followed. Wonderful. Had forgotten about that session, but will listen to it eventually.

I love the "Afro Cuban" album. Mostly the side 1 with that great afro cuban tunes with percussion but also to some extent the lesser known side 2 with the swing session. I think it was the tune "La Villa" that I performed on some occasions, it´s a wonderful fast tune, you play it up tempo but it still is lyrical, wonderful chords, just heaven on earth to play that stuff.

To bad he retired, he was one of my real idols from the first time I saw him with Miles in the 70´s. That drive ! And to my surprise I saw later that he also plays acoustic jazz. Well, I saw him with Rollins also. Really. Well I don´t know if many folks other than waiters might know or notice that I am vegetarian. And nobody was angry with me. In Romania, if I got to swim in the "Aqua-Paradise" you know they have that semi-selfservice restaurant, where you get the meal you wish on the (don´t know how you say for "farfurie" or in german "teller" ) and I always tell them mama-like lookin women who work there that I want the "legume asortate" (mixed vegetables) and they look with a bit of mama-like pity at me since those vegetables are considered only as side dish. And at the soup corner they want to give me soup, but there is no vegetarian soup. So again pityful looks. You know, down there it often happens that women around 50 get that mama-like behaviour. Though I am 15 years older I look for them like a youngster, since a real man has a belly , grey hair and eats a lot and drinks wine or beer. But I don´t intend to look like my grandfatha, so maybe the more oldfashioned workman type women don´t really see a "man" in something like me. More a "lost" hippie or so..... But people becoming upset ????? for what you eat????? It´s hard to understand for me. It´s not them their f......bizness, what YOU eat ! Well I don´t have it with spiritually/morally ideas, that´s never was my thing....., I eat vegetables because it keeps me young and handsome and quick and slim and to think clear.

Wouldn´t be a problem for me, if I´d get there and want to hear somebody I admire. I wish I would have been there when the "Heads of State", you know Al Foster, Buster Williams and Gary Bartz were playing together. Al Foster is my favourite drummer. I heard him many times, but only as a sideman (with Miles, with Sonny Rollins). Angry ? I´m eating no meat and very seldom a fish (only carp ! that´s the traditional European fish for meal) , and no I am not angry, I´m the most happy person (with Serena). And Miles ? I had the impression that from 1981-91 (his year of death) he was much more mellow, he smiled to the audience, was more volubil at interviews or even talk shows, so I think the healthy food and no alcool made him a happier person, but what do I know. Sorry to say I never met him in person though I saw him dozens of times in three decades.

Most records I have is those made by musicians I heard perform. I usually bought records the next day after I heard a famous musician..... that´s how I built up my little collection.... Nowadays it is also musicians I heard, mostly fellow musicians, I mean I have them their record, they have my newest album.....

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

Thank you ! That´s what I have to buy.

I think I must purchase this though LP is not as simple for me as CD. If I have the quiet moments to listen to music, I prefer not to get up to turn the LP´s . But the music must be fantastic. For listening, I rarely listen to strictly straight ahead these times. Okay, if it is really pushed like VSOP or stuff like that, but the most 50´s records and the straight ahaed 60´s records remain in the shelves....., I mean I like to figure out things now, seldom hear music just to relax......

I think it is from his Autobiography where he wrote, that around the time of the recording of Bitches Brew he had stopped to eat meat and lived very healthy. I remember that also in his last decade he ate mostly salad and fish.

such a wonderful album. Donald Byrd was so great those days, and great choice of tunes.

of course, I have it. How could I forget that, so: Right Now and Speak Brother Speak are around my very favourit records anyway.....

You´l find it. Maybe in Eastern European countries in restaurants there is an overweight of meat on the menu, but I manage to get thru. In România where I am mostly I eat boiled cabbage or other thing, but mainly I prefer to not to go to restaurants, on the market I find all I need, and let´s say tomatoes have taste of tomatoes. Green Onions, Eggfruit, all of it. If there is a restaurant that does not have veghetarian or vegan food, I order salad and sidedishesh with greens of all kind. And I need a lot of white breat. Usually my menu is all kinds of salats without meat, all kinds of greens, and fresh white bread , we have the best bread in România. At chinese restaurants I like buffet and take everything that is not meat or fish..... Why do I not eat meat ? Because when I was on holiday in the Caraibes and all them fat and sloppily dressed folks eat meat meat meat, they even fry fat ham for breakfast, I had to make my way thru with brokkoli, carrot, potatoes, salads and stuff. And I had the impression that meat makes me lazy and tired, look, like Miles said once .....horses eat only green shit and can run like mutha..... So, not eating meat makes me keep slim, look sharp and feel healthy, no full stomach...... There is no ideological or religous credo behind it, I don´t like to get categorizied..... Yust a perfect album. Donald Byrd was so great those days. Wonderful choice of tunes.

Is it a must you have to eat ? And if yes, do they have also vegan food, because if I´d ever go to NY I don´t want to eat Steaks or Barbecue or Cheeseburger, just greens and salad. Let´s say I would try Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas if that is just vegetable, but not for meat. I have the same problems here in Viena sometimes. There is a club they only have sausage or toast (which is with ham or with cheese) and if I play there I always have to order from around the corner from a restaurant where they have vegan.....,

The best Clifford Jordan I ever heard was on Mingus´ album "Right Now" (Life at the Jazzworkshop San Francisco). Maybe due to the fact that Dolphy and Byard had left, he had to carry all the load together with Mingus and Dannie, and I think it was good for him because he masters it and plays his ass of on that little record.....

Though it is some unusual surroundings, it is a classic bop record. The Double Six of Paris vocalize the original arrangements of the Dizzy´s famous Big Band in the 40´s and the solos of the saxophonists like James Moody and others. If you can stand all that "shu bee doo" of the vocal or the nonsense lyrics in french and just listen to the music, the results are very fine. Diz is in excellent form, as is his old companion from the good old bop years, Bud Powell. Some critics used to write off Bud´s later recordings, but who hears his contributions here or from the Dexter album "Our Man in Paris" from the same time, will see that them critics were wrong and may have destroyed many careers with them their dumb writing......

I think I remember now that it was called that way. The one album I knew when I was a teenager "Rhythm X" had that "Dolphy Series" written on it´s cover. I think I had picked it up because though I didn´t know who is Charles Brackeen, I loved Don Cherry with Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell. But Charles Brackeen is also very fine, I think the LP sounds very similar to a lot of Ornette Coleman albums. It was exactly the music I liked, not completly atonal and not completly out of a regular beat, but "modern" as we called it then....

This is sure a pleasure and brings a lot of memories back ! I don´t know much about Strata East, was it Clifford Jordan´s label ? I must admit the only Strata East I had heard when I was a teenager was the "Rhythm-X" , and I must admit that it appealed mostly to my musical tastes especially then as a teenie-kid . I was crazy about Don Cherry !

wow, never saw this. Okay, I´m not a special fan of Stanley Turrentine and Eric Gale, but whewwww, Herbie, Freddie, Ron, Jack DeJohnette.........my "best friends" (not really , but for listening and hearing live) so I think I must look for this or give Serena a "pont" to surprise me on some occasion....... I am lucky I got the best rhythm section in town, but I suffer thousands of death´s if I had to play with bass-drums who are not up to expected standards. So Tete was damn right to fire crap players......

I think this was quite new when I heard Mingus for the first time live. They had "Sue´s Changes" and "Remember Rockefeller at Attika" in the set list, only that Adams and Pullen had been replaced by Ford and Neloms. Jack Walrath was the newest member on that album here. But on the tour I saw Walrath got much more space than here on the record. Is this a later album of Tete ? I never new about why he had died. I think he was with Joe Henderson somewhere in the 80´s but I think he didn´t get really old, he might have died to young. What had happened. When he was here in Viena with Henderson, Joe Henderson and Tete were the only musicians who could play, because the bassist and drummer where so weak it was painful. The rescue came, when Tete whiped the rhythm section to lay out and played only solo, he got the whole rhythm section himself. Usually I´m not a fan of duo playing without bass and drums, but on that occasion I wished it would have been, so inadecvat was the bass-drums.

This is the one with the two compositions "Viena" and "Uagadugu", isn´t it. Very fine music, this might be from the strata East recordings then ? Isn´t it.

She almost looks a bit like Ingrid Jensen, with whom I had played when she lived in Viena.