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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...…..

Brings some great memories back. I heard it first on Radio when it was brand new. We had a Wonderful hour of jazz Weekly on Saturday "Jazz Shop" About new records. And this one was something Special when it came out in 1977.

I also like this record very much. But some of the best Zoot Sims I heard on the Prestige Album Tenor Enclave. And if you want to hear some really rare Zoot Sims, I´d recommend the set he did with the Bud Powell Trio in Paris in the early 60´s. You can find it as Bud Powell at the Blue Note Cafe, the label is ESP Disk. Zoot Plays very fine versions of "Takin a Chance of Love", "Groovin High" and "Bud´s Blues"...….. Here: This is the Album cover of the CD where Zoot Sims Plays with Bud !

Same here ! I saw Ella live at Wiesen 1983 and I think the Group was her with Tommy Flanagan, Keter Betts, Joe Pass and Bobby Durham, all of them Pablo Artists , a very very fine concert, but at one Point Ella announced she will do some duo with Joe Pass and I think this was the only part of the set, which bored me a Little. Like in your case he never really grabbed me, I Always listened much to Wes Montgomery (before he made those records with strings), to Kenny Burrell and Grant Green if it´s About acoustic jazz. Larry Coryell and Mike Stern for later developements.

Time flies: When I first listened to this, it was recorded (on Juli 31th 1964) About 10 years ago. Now it´s 55 years ago. I think it´s one of Bud´s best latterday Studio Albums. I like most the Parker associated tunes "Little Willie Leaps" "Moose the Mooche" and "Relaxin at Camerillo". Maybe Bud´s Performances were a bit uneven in his later years. His next Studio Album "The Return of Bud Powell" is still very fine, but it seems he was in lesser form on it. But still very fine….

Oh yes I remember it now, it was multi-coloured. But wait a Minute...… a friend of mine had a Brown paper BN "Dexter" and it also was quite a sampler.

Well it´s natural I also prefer to hear Cedar Walton on acoustic piano. But on the other hand, the things that annoyed fans of Artists from the acoustic era when they started to use Fender Rhodes and Electric bass instead of acoustic piano and double bass , now are something like history. That was the time then. As much as guys from the swing era like Benny Goodman and Roy Eldrige started to "use" some of the bop Elements in the late 40´s, guys like Dizzy in the 1970´s used Electric bass and Electric guitar for their touring bands, so if I look at it now, I got a much more philosophical view About it than I had then. Then I said if I want to hear Electric stuff I hear Miles with all those guys Michael Henderson, Reggie Lucas, Pete Cosey, or Herbie Hancock Headhunters and so on, and if I want to hear Diz I want to hear him with an acoustic Group. Now I really can enjoy stuff like "Diz at Montreux" 1981 with Bags, doing "Olinga"....., anyway tunes like "Olinga" "Manteca" "Tin Tin Deo" "Brother K." you also can Play Electric and it sounds good.

I think I remember this BN reissues shortly before the CD era, I think it was the renewed interest About jazz which lasted for a few years. In the late 70´s early 80s it still was not unpossible to meet guys from the same age who would listen to jazz. About the Brown Bags from BN I still have the Fats Navarro double Album, the Monk double Album, the Paul Chambers John Coltrane, The "Blowing Sessions" (thats the Griffin Album and the Cliff Jordan- John Gilmore), and the Sam Rivers (with Dimensions and Extensions and one unreleast Andrew Hill session). I think they failed with the Herbie Hancock Album, it was only a few tunes from each Album from the whole range of Herbies BN Albums from 62-69. The only "exotic" Thing I have is Wes Montgomery, since I love Wes´ guitar so much. But it seems I´m a bit ignorant About Pacific Jazz, I think I Always was a Kind of east Coaster, don´t ask me why, but my Collection of west coast Recordings is much thinner that those of east coast Recordings...….

From what period is this ? Olinga is Dizzy´s composition , Right ? In 1981 Dizzy performed it with Milt Jackson as a guest Artist at Montreux.

Monk is very very fine on those last Studio sessions. And he played great on the Giants of Jazz from the same period. I Always have admired Monk´s stride piano. And yeah, Darn That Dream is a ballad that really fits to Monk´s style. When I play it, I think I can´t play it without some Monkish chords.. but as on so many cover photos I really doubt this was done during the Studio session. My first Monk LP was the paperbag twofer "Monk Complete Genius" from BN, with all the 1947-1952 sessions, and it had exactly this photo with that funny chinese hat in the inner cover .

The "Tune Up" , anyway I later had to purchase all the separate Albums "Dig", "Miles and Horns", Collectors Items, Blue Haze,, Walkin´, Bags Groove , Miles and the Modern Jazz Giants, and of Course all the after 1955 Albums Musings of Miles, Miles with Milt Jackson, the first quintet Album, and the four Prestiges Cookin, Relaxin, Steamin, Workin…… that´s a Must for a fan. The Brown bag twofers was good for a starter as I was then, I remember the "Paul Chamber-John Coltrane" which had some of "Whims of Chambers" and the whole Jazz West "Chambers Music". But one strange Thing About the Brown bag was it was not only BN, it was also other labels from the Coast. I remember one was Wes Montgomery, one was Gil Evans, one was Gerry Mulligan/Lee Konitz, so this was no BN Artists. And yeah: I remember I also purchased "Where is Brooklyn". My favourite was "Complete Communion" but I couldn´t find it so I made a Cassette out of the Album an older fan had. Now it is natural I have all the Don Cherrys on BN (Suite of Improvisers is actually the second), and all the Ornettes (together with Fox Hole , Love Call and New York is Now" it´s Five).

I haven´t heard About Lars Färnlöf, but Talking About alto saxophonists, wasn´t Lee Konitz quite short. I dont remember seeing him on photos with other fellow musicians, but especially in later years he put on a lot of weight and that made him look even shorter.

Same here: My very very first choice was what JEB considered important. It was in the last chapter of the "Jazzbuch". And later I discovered the "Bielefelder Jazzkatalog". But many many records were not available in the record Shops. Especially BN was a mess, most of it was OOP, since BN was in a bad shape then. For example: "Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1 was available if you ordered it from the States (which they did for me), but Vol. II (the one with Glass Enclosure" was OOP). And after I got Ornette Coleman "Golden Circle Vol. II) it took me a year to find somewhere "Vol. I" just for a few examples how difficult it was. And many Prestige Albums were available as Doublealbums, which did not contain the whole sessions. I had a Monk double LP with most of the 1952-54 sessions, and a Miles Davis LP with some of the 1953-54 sessions with a cover photo not at all related to Miles during that first half of the fifties. It was Miles with a kinky Afro in the Boxing gym so I first thought it might be some post 1970 stuff…...

Well, Med Flory I think I remember from Supersax. On those Supersax albums also Warne Marsh was playing. But what´s that Story About Med Flory and Wayne Marsh ? Didn´t they work well together. The Supersax was en vogue for a short time I think, some of the guys around me started to buy it. I also had two or three Albums with them, but after a first "wow" I stopped listening to it, since if I want to hear Birds solos I hear Bird, and since I was trying to understand some of the Secrets of that Music, I thought it´s better to listen to the original, and anyway, nobody can have the Sound and phrasings of Bird. Bird was unique.

It´s interesting how Sonny Rollins´ tenure with BN was quite short. Just one year I think. This Album seems to have been overlooked. It´s a good solid hard bop Album, but I think that from 1956 his Prestige Albums "Tenor Madness" and "Saxophone Collossus" got more Attention. I think, that this BN "Vol. 1" was recorded shortly after Clifford Brown´s and Richie Powell´s death, so Maybe it was quite hard for Rollins and Roach to continue…..

About Sanctuary I remember what Bill Coles wrote in his "Critical Biography About Miles Davis". This was one of my first jazz books and the first Miles bio then in the very early 70´s. You know, like many from the older Generations Bill Coles wrote off the then "New Miles". And from his very conservative Point of view he stated that "Sanctuary" is the only track worth listening to" . The then latest Miles Album "On the Corner" he said is "an Insult on the intellect of the People". Well, I think it was not such a radical Turnaround: Bitches Brew is the Logical next step after "Silent Way" and "Silent Way" is the next logic step after "Filles" so I think there is not such a radical Change. And the Transition from "Bitches" to "Live Evil" , "Corner" to the last pre 1976 bands with more electrified stuff also was something that grew slowly. As much as Miles said he doesn´t look back he still played some swing Rhythm at one Point on "Aghartha", I Always have to laugh at that Point because it seems to me that Miles thinks About Old Alfred Lion as he might say to Miles "But Miles, it must schwing"

That´s Right. I also saw him together with fellow musicians and he seemed to be short. But I never saw a musician who changed as much during the years like Jackie McLean. On early photos like on "Bluesnik" it seems to be another Person, very thin, and on later records he is quite hefty. Sometimes he has curled hair like a light skinned afro american and on other occasions he has straight hair, slicked back, sometimes like on "Old and New Gospels" he Looks almost White with reddish hair like a Scots man. But light skinned as he was, Kenny Drew wrote About him on the liner notes of his first Steeple Chase Album that he "is a black child of Harlem". I would have liked to stand next to Jackie Mac, I would have liked to tell him he is one of my all time favourites.

About Grant Green´s "The Latin Bit". It´s interesting how they used Grant Green for so many different Projects , like this latin stuff, than the Western stuff and the "Feelin the Spirit", all of them are nice Albums but I think those that will be spinned most time at least in my case will remain "Idle Moments" and "Solid"

Me too "Miles run´s the Voodoo down" for Miles´playing the whole range of the trumpet, from very high to very Deep. But it´s hard for me to pick up one tune. I like all the Long tracks, but don´t really find much that interests me on "McLaughlin", Maybe because you don´t hear Miles. About Sanctuary I have mixed Feelings. When I was a kid and Bitches Brew was still quite "new", I found it "boring" since there was no Rhythm to snap, tap or Dance, I could go "nuts" listenig to "Voodoo" but started to get "tired" when it came to "Sanctuary". Now I can listen to it from another Point of view. It sounds to me more like an Extension of the more Abstract slower tunes the quinted recorded in the second half of the sixties, in the acoustic period. And now when you have the great "Lost quintet" from the CBS Bootleg series, you can hear he Plays it as a Closer on each concert, but I think he combined it with "I fall in Love too easily"

Nice room, and nice old piano. Looks so inviting. Like let´s say, I would like to be in this room and Play some piano, a Little duet with the master…...

I also don´t know About Paul Desmond, since I´m not really familiar with his Music or his Albums, but Jackie McLean was more short and hefty, he looked very Mingus like, lighter colur than Bird or Miles, may bee also some Indian blood . About the heights of Art Pepper. I saw a photo of Dexter together with Art Pepper and there you can see the difference. But to be smaller than Dexter doens´t really mean that someone is small.

When I was a bit younger I was eager to collect as many BN as I could. My Dream was to have the complete 1500 series and Maybe many Things from the 4000 series, but at some Point I gave it up. And now let´s say if you have a dozen or more of Lou Donaldson, Hank Mobley, Jimmy Smith etc, you don´t listen to ALL of them any more. It´s not important to have each Album of them, but at least some essential: I listen from the above mentioned artits for example mostly to "Blues Walk" "Soul Station" and "The Sermon", usually many others remain in the shelves…..

That´s Right ! It must have been a hair wave. And I also had heard About that deal with a japanese Fashion house. Now that you mentioned "Issy Miyake" I remember I once had bought an "Eau ´d Issy" from them. But my wife was not so fond of it so I didn´t re-buy it. Anyway: As more as I think About it, in the later years from 1987 on until his death, it seems to me more and more that Miles made efforts to become a parody of himself, for his playing and his Outfit. But what Counts is his Music. I still heard some strong Moments the last time I saw him in 1989 and anyway during the last weeks I´ve listend to some Miles Albums every day. About Wynton: When he started I still was delighted of what I heard . Shortly after his tenure with Blakey I heard him with VSOP II and with his own Group, the one with Mulgrew Miller etc. …… and I liked it.

From all BN albums Rollins made, THIS ONE is my favourite. And one of the highlights is the Rollins Philly J.J. duo "Surrey with the Fringe on Top". Cliff Craft is my favourite Cliff Jordan from his three CDs he did for BN. I also have the japanes edition Card Board cover, I never saw an else edition and even in the early 2000´s when we still had CD Shops, most BN where RVG-Editions, but this one allways was a more expensive japanese edition. All of Herbies albums for BN are great. Maybe this one is the hardest to listen to, being without horns . Quite a strange thing. I doubt it sold as well as did "Cantaloupe Island" with Hubbard or "Mayden Voyage" with both Hubbard and George Coleman.

Any idea when this photo was done ? Miles with slicked back and straightened hair. I always had remembered Miles with kinky hair. But I think when he made his comeback he always wore a hat, a cap, especially such a funny white and round cap like a hood that looked like a Baker´s cap. And shortly before his death I think he had again that kinky Afro, only that it was a bit too much and made Miles look smaller and his head bigger, and the hair was a bit like the head of a poodle. I think it was a toupee, but too big how it looked. I heard he had expensive stylists and dressers but I don´t know if they really did a good job, the clothes he wore in his last years allways made him look shorter than he really was. Right when he started his comeback, he didn´t have all those stylists around him and still looked "like Miles" not like a parody of Miles. Marsalis must have been very young but he already starts to get heftier, I´ve heard he´s quite well rounded now. Maybe lecturing others about what is jazz and more important what is NOT jazz makes hungry. And if you tell everybody your opinion and dogmas, you don´t have to play so much trumpet.