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Elvin Jones, the Version of the Jazz Machine with Carter Jefferson on saxes. A fantastic more then 2 Hours of Music double CD. They really stretch out on this, the longest track "Doll on the Bridge" lasts more than 30 minutes and is particularly interesting. I saw Elvin Jones a few years earlier with another line up, it was with Pat LaBarbera, with a guitar player but as much as I remember without piano...... I love Elvin Jones......

Thats really sad news. I heard some of his more recent work when he played with that fantastic all star quartet "Heads of State". And of course his earlier work with Jackie McLean.

This is really a nice record. All the classic Prestige albums are treasures.

I also had tried to read it, but then there came a popup that I should "subscribe" so I didn´t go further. But anyway: I think George Coleman got his fans at least beginning from the late 70´s when there was a re-born interest in acoustic jazz again. It was then, that he could form his own Group and go on tour with them: Hilton Ruiz, Ray Drummond, Billy Higgins: This is how I heard him first. Later he had an "octet" but I missed that. The "Hilton Ruiz" Group was great, the most famous Album was "Amsterdam after Dark" . I was very Young when I first saw George Coleman and one of the first things I noticed was what a nice man he is, he smiled to the audience, thanked for applause and announced tunes, something that then in the late 70s was quite out of fashion, as there was no liner notes on albums. I aways had the impression that the guys who had played with Miles, tried to out-do Miles in his manners. Like, when I saw a Video of the "lost quintet" they (Chick Corea and Dave Holland) look even more angry and "cold" than Miles.

Great Diz. And great compositions by Lalo Schifrin. But I think the only tune that "survived" is the first tune "Unicorn", since it became part of the set list when Dizzy toured with his usual quartet formations from the late 70´s and early 80´s (first with Rodney Jones, the legendary Benjamin Franklin Brown and the great Mickey Roker, and later with Ed Cherry, Mike Howell and various drummers) . It´s usually a very charming tune, really catchy, and Diz is great on it as ever.

I thought , or better say I hoped he might live forever. I also got acquainted to him the first time when I listend to the live stuff with Wes Montgomery in Paris, especially "Impressions". And I listened very careful to his fantastic piano stuff on the Freddie Hubbard Recordings for BN, especially "Nights of the Cookers".

wow, though I´m not at all an expert in classical music (and thought that classical Music is in a special thread but now see that it´s Vinyl, any kind of music), but once or twice I heard some Gustav Mahler and it really got something. That´s deep as much as I can express it as a totally jazz only listener (and Player). But it´s got something special and if I have very much time and patience, I might listen to something like that too. Anyway it´s more probable than the 17th, 18th century classical music . I think Mahler is something like the Charles Mingus of classical Music, can you say it like that ?

I was yesterday in the only remaining record shop in Viena (EMI on Kärtnerstraße) together with my wife and while I was Browsing though the records she picked this up and said "is this something for you? it´s written it´s "live". I said well yes this is something I never heard. So she bought it and I´ll get it for Chrismas or my Birthday. It means very much to me and moved me, that my wife, who is not necessarly a jazz Lover, became involved in my brousing through the CDs and I must admit until now I didn´t pay much Attention to drum-less chamber Music, but now I´m really Looking forward to "dig" into this stuff, anyway I got older and have more musical insight to understand also music which until now was not really my "bag".

As some of us like Brew Moore, how about this one? It´s a Miles Davis Group live from Birdland 1950 with an Allstar personnel : Miles, J.J. Johnson, Brew Moore, Tadd Dameron, Curley Russel and Art Blakey. Brew holds his own and plays his relaxed Lester Young inspired Tenor. Anyway he once stated the Lester Young is the foundation of bop, and that he (Moore) noticed that he could Play with all the bop stars without changing his style. And right he was. Another one is the Spotlite Album "Afro Cubop" that has a lot of Howard McGhee-Brew Moore with the Machito Orchestra. Again: Brew holds his own and Plays his Thing with the latin Group.

A great one from the Steeplechase Classics. Most of the CDs are Dexter Gordon and that´s fine, but it´s wonderful to have this extended live set of Brew Moore. And great tunes here, and a great Danish rhythm section.

Two of my favourite Ornette Coleman Albums, I also listened to them recently. I´m not so into string quartets, unused to classical Music, but this piece for strings is very interesting, it Need a Little more close listening than the Kind of Music I´m used to listen to, but it´s fine. but the bass Player on the cover photo might be Larry Riddle. This is obviously from a later date.

My favourite, really an Allstar session.

Always a great listening experience, after so so many years, decades it´s still fascinating

I love this double album. It was around 1977 when it was presented in our then so popular Austrian Jazz Radio Show "Jazz Shop", moderated by the legendary Herwig Wurzer, who was something like an Austrian "Symphony Sid". I bought so many records after they were presented in that Saturday Radio hour of jazz. It´s great music and also a great rhythm section. An great tunes, the classic "Walkin´ and "Worksong" and some really interesting new J.J. compositions. This was around the time when jazz rock was still very much around, but there was a growing interest in acoustic jazz and straight ahead too. 1977 was something like a time of "transition", as I witnessed it. Older masters from the acoustic era, like Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie used Fender bass to get younger audiences, and People who got in touch with jazz "only" via "Return to Forever" "Headhunters", Electric Miles etc. slowly got interested in let´s say Dexter Gordon, and of Course J.J. Johnson. This record is still a Beautiful Memory for me of those great times, when we were Youngsters and eager to study as much as we could About that great Music called jazz.

I´m not really an Oscar Peterson fan, but this album is my favourite and about the only one that gets some spinning occasionally, since I like the tunes he choose for that record, and unlike other albums of Peterson, it is not so "overdone" on the piano. It´s got a lighter touch and it´s more sparse, not like banging all them 88 keys . This is a comfortable trio record and sometimes when I´m tired or exhausted I like to listen to it.

Strange liner notes indeed !

Is it possible that this was the only Tina Brooks album that was issued during his lifetime? As much as I remember the others were issued after his death. I think, "Back to the Tracks" got a cataloge number but was not issued. All his recorded Music is very fine, also all his stuff as a sideman, above all I like very much the Kenny Burrel "Five Spot" where Brooks is especially fine.

The title of the album sounds much more like Sun Ra, but it´s pure Max Roach with Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater, Calvin Hill, and they Play some bop standards like "Straight No Chaser" "Good Bait" (in 3/4 time), Tricotism (bass feature), two ballads (If you could see me now, I remember Clifford), and 2 Max Roach Originals.

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Yeah, that´s it. I have this CD. Very nice done. It was produced by Joachim Ernst Behrend, since he had promised Oscar Pettiford that he will do it, gather as many Americans in Europe as possible. Too bad that Oscar Pettiford had died before it came true.

Two completly different things, but I love to hear one stuff and then go into another direction... One of my favourites of Pharoah Sanders. I heard him first at Hollabrunn near Vienna in 1985 with his quartet

BN wasn´t BN anymore after the early 70´s. Didn´t Duke Pearson become ill of MS and died around 1980 ? I think I remember it was written even in the regular newspapers. I have some of his albums or albums he was involved with, like "Idle Moments" and "Sweet Honey Bee" but in general if it´s about the BN label during the 60´s I don´t listen so much to those more timeless swing/Hardbop albums, but more the the more advanced stuff, what Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams etc. did……,

Chet Baker has been mentioned ? He lived so much in Europe, though I doubt he ever had a Steady home…. he traveled, but his main activity in the late 70´s and 80´s had become Europe.

Besides the above mentioned I had forgotten to Mention Saxophonist Leo Wright. During the 60´s he was member of Dizzys Quintet and later settled in Europe, Germany, after that in Austria where he died.