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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.

Impulse made two Albums (later one Album on CD) of "Americans in Europe". Besides the mentioned Don Byas and Bud Powell, who are on that Album, let´s say Indrees Suleiman tp, Lou Bennett organ, Jimmy Gourley g, Bassist Jimmy Woode ! I heard him on several occasions with Johnny Griffin. How About Archie Shepp ? Doesn´t he live in Paris or at least lived a Long time in Paris ? Hank Mobley stayed in Europe in the late 60´s . From the older Generation: Benny Waters.

Really a great Album. I love this and "Lifetime".

At first sight I was quite astonished because I never had associated Dizzy with the Prestige Label. But as you write, those were the French America Label "The Giant" and "The Source". It was from the early 70´s Right?

I think I like most the 1956 trio sides like "The Incredible Jimmy Smith" Vol. 1 + 2, the exiting date at Wilmington Delaware, and from the blowing sessions especially those with Donald Byrd, Lou Donaldson and Hank Mobley and Blakey, Maybe the only time I heard Mobley with organ. And of Course "The Sermon". But I don´t like the later BN Albums as much as those early ones.

An Album that really Always had fascinated me. The MJQ + Lou Donaldson even before they where called "MJQ" and that Incredible Monk Session, the only one from 1948. I think this Monk band had played also at the Royal Roost, but too bad there´s no broadcasts from it. I´m not an audiophile and my Hearing anyway is´nt the best anymore after decades of Music, but is it possible, that this BN Album does not have the good Sound Quality that later BN Albums had ? Maybe they had a bad recording engineer ?

My idea of a fantastic Album. And one of my favourites from 21th Century jazz Albums.

And it was such a natural Thing. At least, speaking about my generation, we were open to all the stuff Miles did. We loved his work from the 50´s and 70´s as much as the electric period .

Too bad I never caught George Duvivier live. He was scheduled on an Woody Herman All-Star small Group in 1985 which I saw live, but when they went on stage they announced that George Duvivier couldn´t perform due to illness, he was replaced by a Young unknown but very fine bass Player. And shortly afterwards we heard George Duvivier had died.

"Heads of State" the two Albums "Search for Peace" and "Four in One".

Great ! This was my first "Electric Miles" Album. When I bought it, it was the latest Miles Davis Album and you could find it in all record stores. Later I also purchased the harder to find "Pangea" from the same date, and finally after years the great "Dark Magus" from a year earlier.

I used to drink more when I was a Young guy. Now, if I Play I don´t drink, but I like to have a beer after a good gig.

I have this CD, but I think with another cover. Wasn´t it recorded in Leverkusen, Germany. And there were stories About it, that Art Blakey initially didn´t want to perform with the guests. At some Point he left the drum Chair and Roy Haynes played. I read an article About that concert then at Jazzpodium, this was before the CD was issued. It was told that at one Point Art Blakey went to the piano and played and sang "For All We Know". this item is not on the CD. At least not on mine.

Since this was the first Ornette Coleman Album I could purchase, it allways will have a Special meaning . It was my first "guide" to so called "free jazz" and anyway it´s easy listenin free jazz since Maybe on Alfred Lions insistence they had to Play also some swing pieces like you see on "Good Old Days" . And for the difference of others I allways found Ornettes violin playing quite good and interesting. I don´t have classical trained ears and a violin for my own happiness must not Sound like Mozart or Beethoven. But here it sounds like the stuff some 20th century classical compositions from Eastern Europe, mostly from Hungary did it, I think Gyorgye Ligeti was his Name.

Thank you for your many replies with really worthful Infos. I apreciate them all ! I´m also pleased to read that I´m not the only one who find´s walkin bass lines on piano boring. About Lennie Tristano. I intended to Mention him, but didn´t. I love all of Lennie´s Combo records, the stuff with Billy Bauer , Lee Konitz and so on, but have difficulties to enjoy those Things he did after he disappeared from public, it sounds dull, even if at some Point there are interesting chords. I think I heard some mid sixties live material of very individual rendidions of ballads like "Darn That Dream" and so on..... Enough About Lennie Tristano. Yes the piano has 88 keys but nobody must Play them all. When I was Young I thought I must Play Play Play , now as I get older I think About the inside of the song. I don´t think About the fact that I Play piano or Play an Instrument, I think About the essence of the song, the chords and what I can do with that. When I had those Occasion to be forced to listen to Walking bass piano Players for some Hours and some Point i did what I usually do when I feel the urge to Play myself: During Intermission I hurried to the piano Player, told him how much I love what he does, and that he has such an Incredible left Hand, and how poor is my own pianoplaying but if he´d be so nice and let me Play a song, not for myself, for my wife. With that "Gimmick" I never was refused and played a tune …… of Course not a Walking bass tune.

Well I´m not the biggest fan of Boogie-woogie, there´s not enough space to open up Things....., but yeah, some old Boogie Maybe really nice. Heard Sun Ra do it with his Archestra at one certain Point and everybody went nuts, but as i said, i don´t like the regular Walking bass played on piano. Especially if the Player does Walking with the left Hand and single lines with the Right Hand.

During my Holiday I spent some nights at a local piano bar and the pianists who worked there seemed to have all the same style. If they played "jazz Standards" , mostly "All the Things You Are", "Night in Tunisia", "Billie´s Bounce" and so on, the kept playing Walking bass lines in the left Hand. I must admit I don´t like how Walking bass sound´s on piano. Let the bass Player do it. Well, i like it on organ, that´s cool, but on piano I find it quite unnerving. I must admit I´m not a typical solo Pianist, I Play in Combos, but if I´m forced to Play only solo, I try to do something else, let´s say chords and punctations in the left Hand, sometimes if it´s fittin in, some stride and so on, but never a Walking bass line. How do you think About pianists who Play Walking bass on the left Hand ?

I think, on Rhythm Changes it quite became a common lick after Byas and Monk did it. I have heard it very often and do it myself on piano if I get bored of playing just the regular Rhythm changes. I remember I heard Don Menza doing it also.

I remember I had this many years ago. Isn´t this the one where Danny sings "If I could see me now" ?

Good idea for a Musical journey. I must admit I don´t have the Babs Gonzales though I alway wanted to hear how sounded those legendary "Three Bips and a Bop" with Tadd Dameron. About Sonny Rollins: My God, time flies: I saw him in Velden 1979, and now this is 40 years ago ! And in 1979 Sonny still was in his late 40´s but looked even younger. The band as I remember was Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Al Foster, a very very fine unit that lasted for quite some time.

This photo is in Horace Silver´s Autobiography "lets get to the Nitty Gritty" . Has the strange tenore-posture something to do with the accident Horace had when he was a Boy, where he hurt his back, something with trying to jump over a Creek …. that´s how he describes it in his book. Did Horace Always have his hair straight?

That´s how they looked. No, "Brown Bag" was not printed on the covers. I think, the official Name was "Blue Note L.A. Series",

I´m not familiar enough with the Music of Arnold Schonberg. I think it´s abstract western music. On the other Hand if I would have asked Warne Marsh a Question About some fellow musicians, I´d ask him About Lennie Tristano, About Bird Maybe or others of his Generation, Maybe even what he thinks About Ornette Coleman or Miles´ stuff after 1970 and so on, but it wouldn´t come to my mind to ask him About Arnord Schonberg...…., but Maybe it was a School of classical Music where they asked it.

My CD of Bitches Brew has one additional track from a year later I think. It´s titled "Feia" or something like that. First I was lookin forward to listen to this "new" track since I thought as much as Miles´music developed from 1969 - 1970/71 it might be something really "catchy" and rhythmical but to my huge disappointment it is a very boring track. Maybe I don´t have the ears or the Patience for it, but for me it sounds like some very slow, very experimental stuff. I´m not so dumb that I would enjoy only Things you can tap your feet to, I have learned to enjoy Free Stuff, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor when I was very very Young, but this track "Feia" or "Feio" just doesn´t say anything to me...…..