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One of my first music related dreams was about Ornette Coleman. It was during the period when I had heard enough be - and hardbop and wanted to dig Ornette Coleman´s Music but was reluctant since I was a bit "scared" by the pianoless trio. After some days of thinking "should I buy the record, should I not ?" I had a dream in which I heard a pianoless trio Tenorsax Bass Drums, I still remember it sounded very freaky, with the Tenorist doing post Coltranesque overblowings, Maybe like Pharoah Sanders or somebody like that, the bass and drums delivering a weird but fascinating soundwall. The next day I said, if it´s like what I dreamed it must be outa sight. I purchased the O.C. LP (Empty Foxhole) and was quite astonished how "tame" it is in comparation with what musical dream I had.

Charlie Parker in a quite unusual Setting with musicians who are more associated with the older swing style. Bird could play all kinds of music. But I think it was Norman Granz´s idea to get him in touch more with then "Mainstream" Artists or JATP Settings.

Hard to say, they all are great. But I have a Special love for "A Date with Jimmy Smith Vol. 1 and 2" for the great Encounter with some of the strongest horn Players of that time plus Art Blakey. "Baby Grand - Wilmington" for it´s powerful organ, "Small´s" of Course, The Sermon, if I really want to hear some very very Long track of Jimmy Smith´s groove...….

I´ll also have to purchase this. I´ve Always admired Sam Rivers, I fell in love with his Music as early as I heard his BN "Extensions and Dimensions", and saw his live with his trio in 1980 and much later I was quite astonished to find him in Dizzy´s Group. I wouldn´t have expected Sam Rivers in that bop surroundings.

I saw Terumasa Hino as the featured star in a great Group Dave Liebman had in 1979 (Dave with Terumasa Hino, John Scofield, Ron McLure and Adam Nussbaum)

This one arrived yesterday. It´s hard to find words, I´m just so happy this came out. Overwhelming really ! I´ll never forget the first time I heard Dave Liebman live and purchased "Drum Ode" the next day. One of my all time favourite albums. Here they actually Play live versions of two of the tunes on "Drum Ode" Iguana Ritual is Incredible, so powerful. Check out Richie Beirach´s superb solo piano on "I´m a fool to want you" and especially Coltrane´s "Your Lady". This was also on Drum Ode and while the Studio Version is more lyrical, here it´s some real powerwork. Fantastic that group with Badal Roy on tablas. It´s like a Dream that became true, to have this live set of that great Group. Now the only Thing I´d wish to see put out on record might be some stuff of the 1977 tour of Return to Forever with Dave Liebman participating.

I also really enjoyed that review. Until not too long ago there were very very few informations about the "Lost Quintet". I think the only source of musical document during my youth was half of the Album of "Filles de Kilimanjaro" but it still had Tony Williams on drums. Or "Silent Way" with the members of the lost quintet plus Zawinul and McLaughlin. Maybe it took so much time until this great group was appreciated so we can buy recordings of it right now ? fantastic Album !

Lookout Farm live at Onkel Pö´s Carnegie Hall, feat. Dave Liebman !

And don´t forget Chet Baker with Duke Jordan where they play Duke Jordan´s compositions. "No Problem".

Yes you are Right, it´s really very good recorded and very interesting for the participation of Billy Bauer on guitar. And Bird still was a master torwards the end, I also like the autumn 1954 live set with John Lewis, Pery Heath and Kenny Clarke ("Cool Blues" "My Funny Valentine" and "The Song is You". Very fine Bird indeed.

Over here in Europe he is most appreciated. I think he came here in the 70´s through Gunter Hampel´s Group and played everything from bop to free. My highest admiration for him.

Bird´s last album, if I´m Right. I have 8 LPs Charlie Parker on Verve, all japanese LP´s from the 70´s. But the strange Thing is, they are Vol 1-8, but not chronological.

And Allan Praskin !

My favourite of Henderson´s 60´s Albums.

Right ! Also if we have heard them 100´s of times, you get that special mood when you just "need" most classic stuff like this. In my case right now:

It´s a shame it is OOP, I thought Concorde is quite a modern label, not so obscure to get out of sight. This really should be re-issued in a legit manner.

I also have the Griff/Jaws 1975 stuff. Nice stuff, maybe Jaws is a bit too off the mike, and your beloved Mr. Montoliu , and I also was really Looking Forward hearing him in this surroundigs, is not so well recorded. But what can be heard is that on that last mega Long track "Funky Flutes" he really stretches out, fantastic ! And not to Forget Art Taylor, one of my favourite Drummers.

Wasn´t Carter Jefferson later with Elvin Jones. I think he´s also on the Elvin Jones "At Uncle Poe´s " from About 1981. A fantastic double CD also.....

very interesting !

in the morning as always: Turkish Coffee

me too, his trumpet work on "Cumbia" and "Three or Four Shades" is fantastic !

Yes I noticed this only with the Woody Shaw Albums. I have the first with the Group I saw myself (Steve Turré , Mulgrew Miller, Stafford James and Tony Reedus) and it´s also "Vol. 1"...…. really strange…...

But I Always hesitate to listen to stuff if I´m not sure it´s legit. As for the Giant´s with Blakey on drum (the regular Group) I think the Atlantic double Album is reprezentative, I´ve heard once about a 1972 record done in Switzerland, but never saw or heard it. But the Roy Haynes featuring stuff should have been recorded, indeed, but maybe during those days the organisator George Wein though Blakey is a bigger Name since he led his own Messengers...…., who knows……. If I want to listen to some Kind of this Music , Diz and Sonny Stitt playing vintage bop I listen to this one with Max Roach on drums. I would have liked to hear John Lewis on more tracks than just the two he is on (Blue´n Boogie, All the Things you Are). Not that I don´t love Hank Jones, and I never will say else than that Hank Jones is one of the most Wonderful pianists who ever lived, but I really associate John Lewis very much with the early days of bop, when he was in Dizzy´s Bigband and small Group....

It was done a short time before I saw him live in summer 1979 . We had a great record dealer in Vienna. He knew us, knew who was where, so he told me "you were at the Velden Festival and saw Ron Carter...…. here this his latest stuff". I was blessed I was led to good music having such great occasions to purchase all those fantastic albums and play music myself……. Here he has a stellar quartet…...just Incredible with Joe Henderson, Chick Corea and Tony Williams and the quartet augmented with horns, among them Jon Faddis, Urbie Green, Frank Wess...... And all the tunes a really great, and dig "Motherless Child" just Ron with the horns...……. And Sonny Rollins: Same Thing, was on the Festival schedule, and recorded this fantastic Album just a few weeks before. An Incredible great Encounter with Larry Corryell, who also was on the Festival. Those two Albums reflect the days when all those Living legends played and recorded so you could currently pick up what they did …...