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Got this from my wife for Chrismas ! I must admit I was not so familiar with Kenton´s work and this here is most welcome. So I dug into it. Great band, great arrangements and very fine solos. Huge brass sound, a lot of percussion work .

So great ! I love Dave Liebman and the musicians who play and played with him. May he live more than 100 years. He was one of the first musicians I heard live when I was 18 and could go to night clubs. First Griffin, then Dave Liebman in spring 1978, an overwhelming experience. I´m gonna see "Lieb" with Richie Beirach next year in March ! This here is somehow also a live version of the stuff on "Drum Ode" which I love. Trane´s "Your Lady" is here, "Iguana Ritual" is here......, highly recommended

Dave Liebman "What it is"

I don´t know so many Peterson Albums, but from Looking on the photos: Is this George Mraz on bass ? I have ONE Peterson Album from the MPS period "In Tune" with the Singers Unlimited and it also has George Mraz on bass.

Hey Folks, I got this from my wife for my 60th Birthday on Saturday. So great ! So beautiful ! "CHI" done by Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph and Hamid Drake. It´s like closing circles. The 1974 "Drum Ode", the wonderful classic with much focus on drums and Percussion was a highlight in my budding jazz experiences then, when I was a teenager. I saw Dave live in 1978 for the first time and it was magic. So this most recent album is a wonderful way to continue this beautiful experience , I love it. And by the way: 1978 was the year when I wasn´t underage anymore and could go to all the clubs. Three of the key figures I saw live were "Johnny Griffin" "Dave Liebman" "Art Farmer. And imagine: Decades later even my wife went with me to see Art Farmer, and later Johnny Griffin and next year in March we goin to see Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach, so she can share those memories and live experiences with me.

I think this record was still quite popular when I was Young. There was also a later Version called "New Violin Summit".

very interesting point. I like some of Art Pepper´s work, but of Course he is not the same calibre like Trane. And yes, he "borrowed" a Little stuff from the modal Music, but it was not really his. Like Dexter Gordon when he played "Body and Soul" in the more modal manner Trane did it. He said he had influenced Trane (which is true) and after that got some Things back from Trane, getting influenced by him. But neither Dexter could really understand rhythmically or harmonically what Trane had done.

So great ! The strange thing is, I first heard "Your Lady" on Dave Liebman´s Drum Ode. Only later the original Coltrane version.

Thank you all !

A classic, this and "Mating Call". Anyway, Tadd´s discography is quite thin, so each of his records is most welcome. I also like his piano style. He is often written off for his pianistical efforts, but Play he does, and anyway try to Imitate him and you can´t, he has his unique way of working the keys…...

Will do a Little 60´s Birthday jam session tomorrow

I think after that I got a letter from them telling something like they want to continue but have to make some decisions and have to develope some stragegies for doing that and bla bla bla, anyway it didn´t help. I waited some month to see if I can subscribe it, and nothing happened. Eventually I subscribed for Down Beat, which I enjoyed very much.

I listened to the Album yesterday. I had got it as a Birthday present from my wife. Fantastic. Such a great Music, and it´s really particularly interesting for those among us, who loved and still love "Drum Ode" so much.

Especially for "There will never be another you". No one could play that tune like Bud. He also kept it in his repetoire when he was in Paris. I have the Album with another cover, which was in the 70´s

Thank you all ! Now 60 years old …...

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.