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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 …...

Anyway, Be-Bop means not to stand still, to move the stuff further and further. Listen to the sets Bird did with Roy Haynes. That´s just Incredible and ahead of the time.

Great drumming, no question, I was lucky I saw Roy Haynes live. But here it´s not very representative for the Giants of Jazz, it seems to be a drum suite with the horns fillin in here and there. Is there more material of the whole set, with the mentioned tunes ?

One of my favourite BN live recordings. This is a fantastic set of music and also the tracks with Kenny Burrell sittin´in are superb. Right now, this here, also Round Midnight. Actually this was one of the first LPs I bought from my own pocket money.

Really a treasure from the last year, one of the great discoveries: Dizzy with Milt Jackson, James Moody, Hank Jones, Ray Brown and Philly Joe Jones, a really great set of live Music.

Kai Winding around the time I saw him life. This was done 1977 and I saw him life in September 1978. Such a great trombonist. Here this is a top Album. All tunes are great, I´d like to Mention the fantastic "Epistrophy" and "Surrey with the Fringe on Top". And of Course this. IMHO almost as good as the "Giants of Jazz".

I have Tom Perchard, "Lee Morgan" His Live and his music and culture"

indeed a fantastic playlist !

Yes. About the same lay out had this one, I think it was the first from that series that I purchased.

Those Verve double Albums with the paintings were great. That was in the late 70´s.

Dexter´s last Album for Columbia. Great Encounter with George Benson.

If I could keep only one of my Mobley Albums (and I have lot of them), I´d keep this one. It´s the best and the most representative Album he did, as I feel.

The title tune was the first jazz that appealed to me. I was a kid. Until then I had thought "jazz" is just something like Dixieland and it didn´t Appeal to me since it gave me the Impression of old comedy films or Donald Duck&CO. Then someone had a "Sampler" and when I heard the only "modern" tune on it "Milestones" I thought "wow" if that´s "jazz" it´s the greatest. And that´s how it was. Miles.....and Mingus were my heroes…..

Introducing Kenny Burrell is really a very very fine album.

Right now Turkish Coffee.

from me too: Happy Birthday !

Another great of McCoy Tyner from the Milestone Years. This CD was originalle a double LP, each side another quartet: with Freddie Hubbard, John Abercrombie, Bobby Hutcherson, Arthur Blythe. Hot stuff !

The piano was there, my Father was playing a Little bit, and one of my first memories when I was a kid was playing more or less self taught from ear. My Father encouraged me, playing stuff and asking me if I can "reproduce" it, and I did. My Father also taught me perfect pitch, he would tell me to turn around, than hit a key and ask me what key it is, and I did this also. So later, when Folks asked me from where I know to Play the piano I might say I don´t know really how it started, it just went that way. Reading Music was a harder challenge, it took me a lot of effort and I´m still a lousy Reader. Usually I get the chord progressions if I don´t know the tune, and that might be enough….

Both BN Albums of Leo Parker are very fine, but I think this one is even better than the first session. I´ve read somewhere that Alfred Lion planned a Dexter-Leo Parker Encounter but it never happened, because Leo Parker died too early.

This was very much discussed among my friends at high School, those who also listened to acoustic jazz. The Milestone label was very much en vogue in those years, and Orrin Keepnews was a genial Producer. The way how he planned McCoys Albums, the different approaches from Trio to larger formations , and the 4 different quartets on each side of a double LP, that was something.

Horace Parlan with Isla Eckinger and Dannie Richmond. About the same time 1983 I saw Horace Parlan live, also with Isla Eckinger, but another drummer. This is a great record. Dig Mingus´ Duke Ellington´s Sound of Love"

Wow, I never saw this ? Mingus with Don Pullen, is this from the mid 70´s , the strong group with George Adams he had then ?

George Coleman, Mike Stern, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb

must admit I never heard the name.