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I haven´t listend to it for years, but if I remember right, I thought that "Amandla" had a bit more playing of real musicians, than just machines. "Mr. Pastorius" sounded much more like a tune played by musicians, and I think on one track they had flown in an acoustic pianist too (was it Joe Sample ?). Maybe in reality there was also a lot of machines and synthies and drum computers, but it didn´t sound so artificial as was the case with "Tutu".

Yes this is the cover of the LP I purchased in the late 70´s .

When I first purchased the "Town Hall Concert" it was a BN LP with a painted cover of the concert. But I never understood why it was under the BN Label since Mingus never was a BN artist, he only once played bass on a 1954 J.J. Johnson date. Later I picked up the CD with the "Complete Concert" with a very strange cover photo of Mingus with a shaved head. I like mostly the slower numbers, there is something based on the chords of "I can´t get started" and a beautiful thing which I think is called "Love X" or '"Duke´s Choice". Some of it is weird, I think the "Epitaph" has some passsages that reminded me of "Pyticantropus Erectus" ..... On the original LP the last tune "In a Mellow Tone" I think was titled "Finale".....

Oh yes ! This is the Sonny Rollins how he sounded when I heard him first in the late 70´s. Sonny at his top. I heard him with Al Foster, but here it´s Tony Williams, just incredible the great drummers Sonny always had ! This is a great album, the only weaker point is torwards the end when Donald Byrd sit´s in. I mean I was lookin forward to hear Donald Byrd on that sides since he was always a favourite of mine, but here it seems that he was in no playing condition at all and I never heard a weaker trumpet voice, I mean even Ornette sounded better on trumpet......

I´m quite surprised there are not more answers. This is about MILES DAVIS, not about some Mr. Unknown, and really interesting. I never thought Miles would say so much about Buddy Rich......

I heard him in the 80´s . I think he was from the avantgarde-jazz scene from Graz. "The Karlheinz Miklin-Trio'".

I don´t know the artist, but is "Theme of no repeat" the Tadd Dameron compositon wrote for his 1953 Prestige session (The Atlantic City Band)....?

I remember Miles played some tunes from that period during the live shows. "Maze" I think he played on many occasions. I had bought all the Warner Brothers albums when they came out, and went to all the shows when Miles was in town. But 30 years later I must admit it wasn´t something made for me to last forever. I have records that I bought when I was a teenager and still listen to them, and bought frequently new records, but if I spinned the Warner Brothers Albums more than 5 - 10 times after purchasing then, I might be very surprised. Maybe I listened a bit more to "Siesta" for a period since I liked the spanish feeling, Tutu let´s say the theme song has it strong quality, but much of the rest the the album just bored me. I spinned "Dingo" maybe 2 times, and "Doop bop" 1 time.....

I saw Al Cohn only once, and that was in July 1985 with Woody Herman, who then performed with a smaller "All Star Group" . I think it was Woody with Al Cohn, Buddy Tate, Varren Vaché, John Bunch was on piano, the drummer I think was Jake Hanna, and there was a young bass player as a replacement for the scheduled George Duvivier..

My first thought also was Fats Navarro´s composition, based on "Out of Nowhere". A very nice line and I think it comes near to what Fats Navarro said that he just would like to create a perfect melody, his own.....

Same here ! This record was a favourite of mine, when I just began to start to listen to 60´s avantgarde. I think I purchased it just after having purchased my first Ornette album. Great that avantgarde group with Rashied Ali and Pharoah Sanders.

It took me some time to dig Buddy Rich. I was always listening to drummers like Max Roach, Roy Haynes, of course Tony Williams and so on, but after many years I started to hear what Buddy Rich does. I remember when I first heard the record "Bird ´n Diz" where Norman Granz put Bird and Diz and Monk together with Buddy Rich I thought it´s a musical wrong choice, but now if I listen to it, it makes sense to me. And wasn´t it Fats Navarro, who on a live performance shouted out Buddy Rich´s name when Rich starts his drum solo?

Oh really ? Of course I have this record, but didn´t know it was recorded live. Same with Crisis, you don´t hear the audience, that´s why I first had thought it´s studio records. I have both of them on LP, I don´t even know if they ever were reissued on CD.

He sure is. I remember his incredible solo on the Latin part of "Cumbia" how they did it in the quintet version on tour. I think the role of Jack Walrath became more and more important toward the end of the band. He also did great contributions to arrange for Mingus´ last album but I think somebody else got the credits. He knew Mingus´ music from top to bottom and I think when Mingus couldn´t play anymore Walrath helped him to make that album "Me Myself an Eye" , I think he wrote parts of "Three Words of Drums", I once read that Mingus gave Walrath a tape with a Moorish sounding scale and just told him "Pick out some of my notes and make a melody out of it...."

Yes, I remember Jim Galloway at Jazzland, and sure he loved playing with Walter.

Got to have a look at those Schapowalow photos in that book. Right now, all my books are sealed, all my stuff, my Hi Fi everything since I have a huge house renovation, so I´ll look at it when I got everything fixed again. Very interesting remark about the error from the beginner´s perspective ! Exactly the way you said it, that´s how it was. And Right ! It was the times. When I was a beginner, I had two albums "Miles Davis Steamin´" and "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus", and when I mentioned Miles to others, they started talkin about Bitches Brew and Aghartha, but they also were people who didn´t really know too much about jazz, so they told me "what you listen is "THE OLD MILES". And so I thought what Miles played with Trane and Garland and Chambers and Philly J.J. is "old time jazz", and when I really heard "old time jazz" I mean trad, dixie it was not my kind of stuff because I expected to hear 5 guys playin stuff like "Milestones" and "So What" and what I heard as "oldtime" sounded more like the score from an old black white comedy film to me. So, informations were scarce, as a boy it´s harder to get around the right people, but I learned very quickly and 1, 2 years later I was the "jazz expert" on our high school, having the most records, and hangin out in clubs even if I was underaged but tried to look older and it was ok for my parents as long as school was right and without complaints......

I think one little book from that time that I have is "Siegfried Borris - Modern Jazz". I think I bought it in the 70´s when I thought "modern" might be what started with Mingus and Dolphy, what did Ornette and Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor......, and was surprised that the "modern style" the book is about, is 50´s mainstream stuff, the MJQ, Stan Kenton ......, so it might have been "Modern Jazz" from a historical point of view....

I wouldn´t say I´m the biggest fan of Oscar Peterson like others might be (I got to know people who didn´t listen to anything else but Oscar Peterson ) , but yes.... the stuff Mr. .... that long long name something with Brunner-Schwer from the Black Forest really did a good job recording this master in a very private and personal manner. I don´t remember all of them, one was "Action", one was "Tristeza", another I think was a solo album "Exclusivly for my Friends" and strange enough the only one I kept even if most O.P. fans might not like it that much, is "In Tune" since I was curious how it works with the vocal group, and this was something like a hit this "Sesamy Street" everybody in my school knew and hummed that......

I must admit I don´t have this. Of course I have seen the cover many many times, and though I never heard how Tyrone Washington plays the participation of greats like Woody Shaw, "Spee", and a fantastic rhythm section , all of them among my favourites makes me want to listen to it. Don´t know how the cymbal work by Chambers sounds here, but on all other records I have with him and I have many, that´s exactly what I love. About "those falsetto notes"...... well...... have you read Horace Silver´s autobiography "Get to the Gritty Nitty" , Horace is such a kind person and always speaks in a very kind manner about all fellow musicians, but he has no kind words for Tyrone Washington and that his trips into avantgarde did not fit into the bands conception. Now I really might give this album a chance, since....though my first love is be- and hardbop, I have listened to and admired a lot of 60´s avantgarde too, love Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, so maybe I wouldn´t be too surprised if I´d hear some falsetto screams if it makes sense to me.....

But also in later years Dexter still could look really sharp, like the cover photos on "Manhattan Symphony", "Gotham City" and "American Classic".

RIP Walter Grossrubatscher. Most of you might not have heard of him, maybe if you came by to a Viennese Jazz Club like the famous Jazzland and listened to some great international stars it might have been very possible that Walter was on drums. He played with Woody Shaw, with Junior Mance, with Ray Bryant, that´s what I remember best. The gig with Woody was around 1987. All those masters loved Walter´s drumming, they only had difficulties to pronounce his long name which sounds very unfamiliar to Americans. Only Woody Shaw, in whatever shaky condition he was in 1987, as he announced the musicians involved he memorized and pronounced "Walter Großrubatscher" without any difficulties. We all will miss Walter, he left us too early, I think he was about 63 years old only......

Thank you @felser, so there´s no need to purchase it since I have the DVD. But it´s still a shame there is so little recorded evidence of that Band. I don´t rate Mingus´ bands, but if I´d like to say the band with Dolphy and Jaky Byard was an important one and was considered worth to be recorded all around the world and if you want to listen to some of it you find dozens of records , but very little from that "second great band". By the way: I stated earlier that the next band after Adams and Pullen had left was the one with Ricky Ford and Bob Neloms. I was wrong. On the piano chair Don Pullen was followed by Danny Mixon, who stayed during the European Tour 1976. After that, for the European Tour 1977 Mixon was replaced by Neloms.

About the photo with Nat King Cole. Maybe I´m not too familiar with Nat King Cole I know more about Sahib Shihab, Budd Johnson than I should about Nat King Cole, but he must be a voice ladies love to listen to, my wife loves his album with latin tunes. But: Since I´m not so familiar with him, at the first look I had thought it´s a photo of Miles in Paris 1949, because the way Nat King Cole sits, is dressed and has his hair slicked back looks exactly like the young Miles who fell in love with Juiliette Greco then in Paris 1949. @Big Beat Steve : No, the book I threw away was not "Jazz Optisch" by Behrend. Not that I might agree with everything Behrend said, but I never would have threwn away a book written by him. The book with photos I threw away was something else, it was not a hard cover, so it must have been a cheaper edition, it HAD borrowed an article from Behrend, the one he wrote about "Free Jazz". The first part was photos, then was some explications what is jazz, what instruments has which combo, it left me the impression as if it was for schools, and something was written about jazz musicians going to a kid school and kids clappin their hands to the rhythms, ......anyway the book fell apart, it would have needed miles of "Tixo" or "Tesa" to glue the pages back......

Yeah I think I had a German Jazz Book from around 1968, that had many many photos in it, not only US Artists, but many many German artists who later became very famous too, so maybe some of the photographs were done by her. To bad I don´t know the title of the book anymore, but it fell apart, and since it didn´t have very much to read I had to throw it away when I moved.

I haven´t heard about her, but I did read Jazz Podium in the 70´s and early 80´s . But what I can see is really great photos, she could be almost as well known as Wolff from BN.