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Great Thing, and as much as I know (I´m a bit too Young), it was this Group that brought a lot of People to jazz in the late 60´s. Many People got in touch with jazz via Charles Lloyd. Needless to say this was one of the very very best and most important Combos during that time...….

Quite interesting was the tune "Send in the Clowns", when Van Morrison sat in with the Chet Baker Group, I think at Ronnie Scott´s . And since I don´t know much other Music than jazz, this was the first time I became Aware of him. That "Send in the Clowns" with Chat Baker sounded good, of course......

Hi ! I don´t know if this fits in here in the "discography corner" , but let´s try: I remember in the late 70´s (summer 1978) , on Austrian TV (ORF 2) we had a television series about the story of jazz and when it came about "bop" and "cool" there was a video with Dizzy telling about the essence of be bop and then he said something like "let´s show you how it sounds" and then he played a very fast version of "Wee" together with Sonny Stitt, I don´t remember the others, but I noticed he had a Fender bass Player, not an acoustic bass. I think Sonny Stitt had the first solo. Does someone know when this short Video was done and if it still exists? As I said it´s Diz with Sonny Stitt, and an electric bass player. It must have been around the mid/late 70´s. Anyway, this was a great television film. Dexter and Mingus spoke, Lee Konitz spoke and played, Stan Getz the same, and there was a Video clip of Stan Kenton with a Young bearded Drummer who maybe was Peter Erskine...…..

Inspired by the album cover, another Affinity Thing: The Wynton Kelly Trio with George Coleman. Recorded About 1968/69. Ron McLure had replaced Paul Chambers. I remember Ron McLure very well as a very very fine bass Player: I heard him a fantastic group Dave Liebman had around 1980: Ron McLure was on bass, Terumaso Hino was on trumpet, John Scofield was on guitar. It was young John Scofield who helped me to "meet Dave Liebman". John Scofield was fantastic but still not as well known as he was a few years later. I had been Aware of him since he had recorded with Mingus (then recently). 3 Years later I hear that he joined the Miles Davis Group. I thought "Incredible", THE JOHN SCOFIELD, the guy who led my way to "meet Dave Liebman"

This was one of my first Messengers Albums, I later purchased the CD also. It was a highlight of our "jazz gang" at highschool, a lot of Youngsters came to my place and we would listen to it. Everybody dug "Moanin´" . And this edition of the Messengers was one of my favourites: Valery Ponomarev tp, Bobby Watson as, Dave Schnitter ts, James Williams p, Irving on bass. But when I saw them for the first time, Billy Pierce had replaced David Schnitter and I think on bass was Charles Fambrough, former with McCoy Tyner if I remember right. The only shortcoming on this album is that it´s too short, Maybe 35 minutes only……..

I have heard about that question why the bandmembers had "good old English names", embarrassing indeed ! Well, anyway, 1968 must have been a rough year. I´m too young, in 1968 I was 9 years old. I saw Roach twice , in 1978 and 1980. On the second occasion, Roach made the stage announcements in German language, much to the surprise of the audience.

Nice live stuff of Griffin/Davis. But this one is not so well recorded. "Jaws" sounds much more subdued, and he does not play on "In Walked Bud" . The Sound quality is not the best. The piano (and it´s the great Tete Montoliu) is very underrecorded…….while Nils Henning´s bass is too loud. I heard other CDs from that great "Uncle Poe´s " series, but on this the recording qualitiy really is not the best.....

I never understood why they didn´t show anything else than his hands playing on the Bird/Diz Video. I mean he played a fine solo on Hot House and why was he the only musician not showed to the public ? They showed that silly jumping bass player, the to me unknown drummer who didn´t really fit to Bird/Diz/Hyman, but not Dick Hyman. Was this some "Crow Jim" stuff goin on then ?

I must get into the stuff he did with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow.

I think it´s okay that she stopped her performance. Mingus would have done the same, he also stopped when the conversation became too loud, he even put a mike in front of a couple that spoke too loudly, all those stories. So why not, from Mingus……..to Mutter.

I think I have all or nearly all Soul Note Albums, but it´s really a shame that the band with Billy Harper was recorded only for quite shortlived labels. I say, Max Roach is one of the most important musicians from the generation that created "modern jazz". How many Bird, Bud, Diz, Mingus CD´s are available, and how little of Max Roach´s work is available. I didn´t know Max Roach was difficult to deal with. On stage I always had the impression he was very very articulate, very gentleman-like and very nice to the audience, that´s how I remember him on stage. About the "second" quartet , I mean when Harper and Workman were replaced by Odean Pope and Calvin Hill, well I also enjoyed that but I didn´t like Odean Pope´s Sound so much as I liked Billy Harper. And Maybe Calvin Hill used another bass amp, but his bass sound was not the same like Reggie Workman, it sounded more amplified.

Maybe you also saw them live in September 1978 at the legendary Kongress-Haus. Then, in May 1979 it was the Archie Shepp Quinted with Siegfried Kessler, Bob Cunningham and Clifford Jarvis, so it seems they had some "Denon-Artists" booked, since Shepp also had a batch of records on Denon...….

The Supersax was very much en vogue during my youth. I remember this album with the Bud Powell Transcriptions, a friend of mine had it. I had and still have "Chasin´the Bird", and I think I have "Salt Peanuts" and one japanese album on which is "Koko". But I also like some Super-Sax inspired stuff on Mingus´ last album "Something like a Bird". They really cook on that.

I wouldnt say I´m a big Oscar Peterson fan but I like those recordings, where he´s more a Team player than the super super vituoso. Like let´s say the old Verve´s "We Get Requests" and "Night Train", they are beautifully relaxed little abums. And this one I like very much. I think it was very very much en vogue when it came out, since the Singers Unlimited were very very popular. And it was when I was in high School, all of them hummed that "Sesame Street". But all tunes are great, the then very much en voghe slow bossas like "Gentle Rain", "Shadow of your Smile", and the outstanding "It never entered my mind". I had the record in the 70´s , but somehow later sold it when i thought, it´s not so hip to have Oscar Peterson albums, but later my wife bought me the CD for Chrismas. A Beautiful record !

Being only a jazz fan it´s very hard for me to find associations to not jazz related musicians, but I have read once, that the Drummer from the Stones also knows a lot About jazz and is a jazz fan.....

I´m sure it is. It´s too bad those Denon Albums are so hard to find. I have just one of them, Max Roach in Amsterdam. Is this also from around 1977,78 and has Cecil Bridgewater, Billie Harper and Reggie Workman? And is this the records, were they also Play a stunning Version of Round Midnight. I think, Denon was quite a label for advanced modern jazzmen during that time. I think they also did some Albums with Archie Shepp.

Thank you @Dan Gould

I saw the New Thundering Herd in the summer of 1979, they were great, and sounded quite modern, they also played some 1970´s Chick Corea material. Shortly after this, they were at Monterey and had stars like Diz, Woody Shaw, Stan Getz and Slide Hampton on it. The Version of "Woody´n You" is Incredible ! And the band without the guests also really stretches out, listen to "Countdown", not an easy tune at all even if it´s based on "Tune Up" , and rare for Woody Herman: The Mingus tune "Bettter Git It in Your Your" .

Woody Shaw with the Group I saw live: Steve Turré , Mulgrew Miller, Stafford James and Tony Reedus. Fantastic !

I never heard about the jam session 101 record. From the same day you say ? Who´s on it ? I think "Fresh Sound" was harder to purchase. From the Gold Series, my record dealer "Radio Kratz" always had some of them to sell……., well all this was 40 years ago. Here´s another one, I purchased it especially for the fantastic sides with Fats and Coleman, the Dexter stuff I had already on Spotlite.

This one is a favourite of mine. Wardell Gray with Art Farmer and Hampton Hawes, they really stretch out here, one of the finest live bop sessions.

A Wonderful collection : I never can get enough live versions of "Don´t Stop the Carneval", here´s a very fine one. And what really knocked me out was the 1979 live Version of Disco Monk. Though Rollins got bad reviews for that tune when it appeared on the album "Don´t Ask" from the same year, this one if great, and Mark Soskin is a great piano player and really cooks on this. I heard that tight unit Rollins with Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Al Foster live in the same year.

I have it on LP from 1978 and I got it signed by Mr. Art Farmer !!!! And a few years ago I also bought it on CD, so I must not always spin the LP.

One of my favourites, and Monk did play Ellington on another later Occasion in Berlin 1969 (70´s Birthday of Ellington was the motto and Monk played Incredible Stride piano for example on Caravan). It´s even told that at one Moment in his career Monk took over the piano bench of the Ellington Orchestra and described it as "an interesting experience"...…..

One of my all time favourites. I had heard Art Farmer for the first time at the end of the summer 1978 in Vienna. Max Roach came by just to say hello, the next day Max Roach was playing in town and Art Farmer came by and Max Roach announced that Art Farmer is in the house…….. those were the days. I think, this 1975 recording with the fantastic Cedar Walton Trio was brand new then in 1978. I purchased it just to have some album which is close to the way he plays now. It became one of my all time favourites, a Beautiful thing !