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is this from a "Blaskapelle" or "fanfară” în Tirol ? But what instrument is this, this is not a trumpet, it´s held orizontal and not the way you hold a trumpet....,

I have not heard much Ellington playing piano himself, maybe a a bit on "Money Jungle" and maybe he sounds a bit more Monkish, but I´m really a Monk fan as it is about piano. But interesting some of the pianists who play more "arrangers style" like Duke, Basie, Kenton, Dameron made solo albums or so. I´m not sure. I heard a Pablo album Diz with Basie only a quartet..., and also Dameron did albums where he plays mostly solo, I think on that album with Trane, or the one with "The Scene Changes"....

Interesting ! Well I found the tandem of the very metronomic Percy Heath and the more simple swinging approach of Art Taylor more "smooth". But I listen more from the drums chair or the drums-bass action, though I am a piano player. So I must admit I find Philly Joe Jones more challenging, and Oscar Pettiford also more challenging than Percy Heath. But there are also other albums where I found they are too smooth or less interesting: From the "1.st Quintet" before those 4 great albums "Cookin-Relaxin-Workin-Steamin" there was another album, that actually was the first album of the "First Quintet", but I found it outright boring. And I must admit there is one sacrileg too for many jazz fans: For most of all KOB is one of the best classic albums, but not in my case. My start with KOB went wrong. I actually HAD verions of "All Blues" and "So What" from the 2nd Quintet with Hancock and Tony Williams, and was outright disappointed with the more lazy versions on KOB, I missed the pulse of Tony or Philly J.J. and so my discography BETWEEN the 1st and 2nd Quintet is very small or doesn´t get spinning.....

Shape of Jazz to come is a very fine early Coleman Album, it is still swinging and very easy to acces for people who still have to learn to make the transition from tonal and straight ahead to more steps beyond certain bounderies. It´s interesting, that one of the tracks "Lonely Woman" was a favourite of my mother. Born 1921 in Europe it might have been quite unusual for an old women to listen what though now is "old", then was "modern". She had her things she loved and spinned over and over again: Mingus´ "Meditation on Integration" with Dolphy, "Pharoah Sander Healing Song" and Ornette Coleman the "Lonely Woman" or one certain harmolodic theme that was on an Impulse Album and later was with string quartet.....i think "Prime Design Time Design"......

I think I bought it in 1978 and liked it very much, though sometimes it sounds a bit too "smooth" to me. I found the previously album "Musings of Miles" , the one that is the very pre birth of the "First Quintet" with Garland and Philly J.J., but interesting O.Pettiford on bass, much more challenging. Well nothing against Peterson, since may people liked him and bought his records, but I was carried to one concert in 1978 and the fact, that instead of a drummer there was Joe Pass on guitar, was very "strafverschärfend" for a young drum addict jazzman who I was and still aims to be.....😉

great pic. I like pics made from users here much more than if they post pics from other sources. Nice place too. Well, I don´t think I ever rode a bicicletă. Somehow it was not common in big cities in my forming years. At such a place and such a sun I would go down to the water and havin sun bath and goin swimmin .

You know THIS ???? How comes ? Fritz Novotny was a good friend of mine and I remember the year when Pannonian Flower came out, and I heard several tapes of different versions (live) at Fritz´ place. One of the most impressive moments was when the trio performed with Burton Green on piano. And everybody who knows Burton Green knows he is one of Monk´s greatest fans. So there was a musical deal: They performed "Pannonian Flower", and on Burton´s suggestion "Crepuscule with Nellie".

I never saw this, who is playing on it ?

Also loved all his work with Ornette, and I think he also played on some tunes of Coltrane-Cherry. Only sometimes, like on one tune from the Hillcrest live date with Paul Bley, Ornette and Cherry one of his long solos is a bit boring.....

Yesterday I was thinking of meeting some of my fellow musicians and a club owner to discuss some stuff and since there was - as is every night - a live show scheduled I thought to listen to one set. The group of that night was a Laura Dubin Trio. I must admit I hadn´t heard about here before. Well I left after some tunes since I must say sincerly that Laura Dubin does not seem to be my style. She must have a very good classical trained technique, holds the fingers in the classical position and plays some kind of chamber jazz with classical elements in it, and very very much piano, only once there was space for a bass solo, the only time I clapped, and the drums also had more a time keeping role, so it seems it was jazz played for people, who like that kind of jazz, fans of the old Oscar Peterson Trios who seldom listen to else "jazz". So even the audience was more unknown to me, I didn´t see familiar faces. Well, nice try, she was more hosting the whole things, just too much talking between tunes, that had very much rococo-or classic elements. I don´t know her, I wish here a lotta success with what she does, she sure attracts an audience....

I saw the one I mentioned on that link: Stadthalle Vienna november 1973

Ah, muss ich mir auf maps anschaun.

Beautiful ! Does anyone know what has happened to Johnny ? He must have lived many years in Paris with Bud and Buttercup and might have learned fluently French....... Heimat des Bergdoktors ? Der Siegl oder wie er heißt der Schauspieler?

I think I had heard about that label long ago. Is this with a lot of eastern european jazz ?

Usually I don´t wear jazz T-Shirts, I can dress nice for goin on stage very well with not wearing a jazz-shirt , but I have one that I wear sometimes, but not when I play. It is a Sun Ra T-Shirt in black (I mostly wear black) and has that kind of design that fit´s to those black trousers I like, them with a lot of bags on the legs , I usually buy my stuff at those hip stores like "Vagabond" or how you call ´em , and Serena also found some cool black stuff there that looks sexy.... So I like this Sun Ra T-Shirt for the kind of atmosphere it sends.....and I like black shades, so this with black trousers and boots really looks sharp

Nice album, but I think I have not listened to it for at least 20 years. Somewhere as time went by I found all the BN hard bop albums of the late 50´s sounding very similar and didn´t spin em after my comeback as a musician..... But I remember there was another, "Back to the Tracks" which had something like "The Streetsinger" which is a nice tune. I have read somewhere that Alfred Lion was not too enthusiastic about Brooks, not for his musicianship but for non-musical reasons. I think I remember Walter Bishop was still alive when I went to all them jazz events here in Europe as a youngster, but I don´t remember I would have ever seen him. I saw other former "Bird-Sidemen" like Art Taylor, Roy Haynes, but never "Bish". Is it possible that his career was more than one time interrupted ? He is really hot with Bird, only a few grooves beyond Bud, sometimes as a sideman even better, but than it seems he was in obscurity. He sounds great on a Dizzy Reece album "Soundin´ Off" where he is a highlight and has wonderful chords. But on some Bird Memorial Concerts in the Allstar Formations with McGhee, Stitt, Johnson, Tommy Potter, Kenny Clark he is very disappointing, on them he sounds like a nameless straight-ahead pianists...., in general I like him most with Bird and on that one and only occasion with Dizzy Reece....

Very nice. So this was your granddad ? My grandparents had also died when I was about that age.

I have not spinned it for decades but as I remember it is quite interesting. It does not have Bird Songs, it has standards that Bird played. I think all the players have played and recorded with Bird, like Rollins himself, Kenny Dorham, Max Roach, only the pianist, one who´s name I never had heard of, seems not to have to do with Bird.....

For me one of the most typical hard bop albums, but as people are different I couldn´t listen to this or any music in the morning, it´s in the small hours I would eventually spin stuff like this. Art Farmer was less known to me until the mid 70´s when he actually lived in Vienna and I attended as many shows as possible, to learn stuff from the experienced players. But my real great love is Jackie McLean here. And of course, it wouldn´t be me if I wouldn´t say that this the nicest cover photos of all of them old BN records. I think I remember this still have the first guitarist they had. Strange but I sometimes compare that dense stuff of the guitar here with some of the sounds of Prime Time. I am not necessarly an organ fan, but listen sometimes to one of the BN Jimmy Smith albums, but more those like this one or most of all the two volumes of "Date with Jimmy Smith". But I need to hear it only sometimes and the only other organ player I really listen to was of course Larry Young. There were dozens of post Smith organ players on the BN cataloge in the late 50´s 60´, but I don´t listen to it, since my urge to hear organ is pleased by those Jimmy Smith and Larry Young albums. Smith is organ in the Bird tradition, and Young is organ in the Trane tradition.....

Ife was one of the highlights of the very first Miles Davis show I saw when I was 14 or so. It was also featuring Dave Liebman´s wonderful flute solo. I remember that show very well and it was later also broadcasted on TV. On that concert schedule was also Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan if I remember right, but I saw or intended to see only Miles, that was the times then, that´s the music you heard, electric Miles and post Coltrane stuff.......

Thank you so much for that kind review. Glad you enjoyed it !

It´s a great record. I recently listened to Bitches Brew again after decades and don´t know anymore, why people then said that it was the total switch from acoustic hard bop to electric rock jazz, because as I hear it it was not. With the added electro piano, Dave Holland still on acoustic bass, all those are still very much in the old Miles tradition. I think the switch to one chord vamps and wah wah pedals was much later, I think it was when I heard Miles....

You also fishin´? I love that hobby since I was a kid. But never went else than alone.....

Glad you have some love for Agharta ! It was the cult disc of my youth and I´ll never have another copy than the one I bought then, shortly after I had seen Miles live with almost the same group, but here Dave Liebman is replaced by Sonny Fortune. The others are the same, but there are other tunes than what I had heard live. Glad there is folks who share my fascinacion for the electric Miles period.......

He really plays nice, but I fear that it´s somehow my fault that I don´t have a sole album of him. Heard about fans that are really crazy about him and have everything he recorded, but something does not "work" for me or "exite" me the way other artists inspire me. Strange for many, but I try to be honest....., It was my first under his own name. I was a big Don Cherry Fan almost as early as I started listening to jazz. And someone had that album and I taped it on casetofon, like we all did. I think that strange guy who really had those then called "avantgarde" or "free jazz" records, also had a super rare "Charles Brackeen" Rhythm X, which I also taped since there was "MY" Don Cherry on it. That guy...... you know, had a big magnetofon, big boxes and speakers, lot of equipment, and other stuff whas not in his one room appartment. He only had an ashtray, a "sac de dormit" (who you say ? Sleepin´sack????) , a caftan and a sombrero, and I was a shy little kid, but I loved to be in that room...... Another album that I love very much. Though I think I have listened more to his first album "Lifetime", but "Spring" is an easier album, it is more "swing" in it, or "schwing" how Alfred Lion said .....