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Must purchase this Version by the Cookers. It´s a Smoke Jazz recording, I guess. From the cover design I think that´s what it is. A Dream Group really, must have that.

Yes I wasn´t Aware of that mid sized band where Lacy played but didn´t solo. But it might have been a Wonderful experience to hear that specific soprano Sound combined with Monks unique piano Sound. And with Lacy as a Monk expert, a Dream Team, too bad it didn´t happen or if it happened it wasn´t recorded. Anyway, decades ago many Monk fans complained there is too Little recorded evidence of Monk with Trane. Now we have that Wonderful BN Album with that whole concert, Wonderful ! And since we know that Pat Patrick from the Sun Ra Arkestra sometimes played for Monk, I think around 1970, this also might have sounded interesting.

You are Right: "Zibeben" isn´t even understandable for younger People in Austria. And as for "G´spritzer" , you too Right, but many many People in Vienna say "Spritzer". If you go to an "Heurigen" and say "einen weißen Spritzer" (einen weißen G´spritzten) it is very common speech and many People say it that way. Another example: we say "Fisolen" and Maybe in Germany you might say "Grüne Bohnen" , again "Fisolen" must be influenced by the romanian word "fasole"

Yeah, the different words for dishes , how you say it and we say it in Vienna is quite legendary. Möhren-Karotten Blumenkohl-Karfiol Schorle - Spritzer Hörnchen-Kipferl but it seems that the word "Kartoffelpüree" for mashed potatoes is more familiar in the eastern parts of Europe. In my second frequently spoken language (rumänisch) we also say "piure de cartofi"

@Big Beat Steve: Yeah "mashed" , I didn´t know exactly, the stuff we call "Kartoffelpüree"

@HutchFan: I also like Disk 1 more than Disk 2. Mostly because the sittin in of Donald Byrd is a painful experience, since Donald Byrd had lost all his chops, he even sounds worse than Miles after is 5 or 6 years Hiatus when he first tried to pick up the trumpet again…... But Sonny and the Group with Tony Williams is superb. One of my favourite versions of "Don´t stop the carneval"

Each of them Looks exactly how he is/was. Marsalis Looks exactly like the guy who studied everything from Sheets and history books, he looks like the guy who even had to learn how to Play the blues, and then telling and lecturing us About what the blues is and telling us that Miles didn´t Play the blues properly ……. Miles seems to be amused that he´s photographed together with Wynton. Maybe Miles once told Wynton that as much trumpet as he Plays he really could go on and do something that´s his own, to become a new voice on trumpet…….

I hate to say it but I never really liked the famous "Sonny Meets Hawk" Album. I don´t know what it is, but IMHO it´s mostly Sonnys fault. I usually love everything Sonny did, from his hard bop roots to the flirt with Avantgarde when he played with Don Cherry etc.. and the more rock-Electric stuff from the 70s , absolutely everything but on this record , Hawk is Great as Ever, but Sonny Maybe tries too much to find a contrast, to me it sounds like if he´s just foolin around…...

Looks nice. The only association I have with Monk About his culinaric tastes was from on of the documentary films where you see Monk in the hotel room, and ordering meal from his bed to an obviously stressed Young Boy from the room Service. Monk want´s to eat liver and they only have chicken liver. Monk asks "you don´t have regular liver?" but then orders chicken liver with smashed potatoes. Not because Monk ordered it, but by coincidence, this is also one of my favourite dishes… chicken liver with smashed potatoes…..

@sidewinder: I´ve also read About Miles drinkin Heineken, but this was many years before (1973 in Vienna) and Maybe "Heineken" was not available then in Austria, so Miles drank what they gave him. Anyway, I think the concert which was on austrian TV, later was produced as DVD. And at one Point you can see Miles drinking from the bottle, and it´s "Brau AG" . But what Counts most was the Music, it was the great band he had with Dave Liebman, and one of the Highlights was Dave on flute on "Ife"......

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". I love this. Una Mas is a tune I love to play myself. We did it a few years ago, usually as the last number of the first set....

Great ! Monk with Lacy ! I would have liked to hear how that sounded. There are dozens of very very similar Monk recordings from the 60´s , they all fine but at least after very much listening they become a routine. I would have liked to hear how Monk sounds with a soprano sax, and above all with a more advanced jazzman as was Lacy. I knew about Lacy´s love for Monks tunes, but didn´t know he actually had played with Monk. A recording of this would be an exceptional thing. About the beer Monk drinks. I remember when I was a boy, let´s say around 1973 I also had to look what beer Miles Davis drank on his gig here in Vienna. When the concert was filmed on TV I saw it was the then existent austrian brand "Brau AG" and be sure I soon must try a "Brau AG" even if my favourite brand was "Gösser". But as a Miles freak, we all were Miles freaks, Miles was the leader, if he drank Brau AG, we had to follow..........

Great really ! Never saw such a huge collection. Is the small bass fiddle in the front a piccolo bass ? Kind of that Ron Carter played sometimes.....?

One of my all time favourites: Miles in Europe, 1963 I really like this. I´m not a fan of all those solo Performances, but this one I like. Otherwise, I like what Keith did with Miles in 1971.

Ok, thank you, so it´s in 9/8, next time I listen to it on my Max Roach LP "Live in Amsterdam" I will listen carefully. I also have it from Radio record when Roach played it in Vienna 1980, but then it was with Odean Pope like I had mentioned.

I thought it is Charlie Haden painted. I remember this Album, it was around in the late 70´s. The only strange Thing in this combination is Hampton Hawes, he doesn´t necessarly fit into that Group of free jazz pioneers. But the idea to Play Duos with his former emplyoees was very interesting. Wasn´t "Soapsuds" also a Ornette - Haden duo ? I don´t have it. I don´t know who Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs are.

@BillF : I also purchased this once. It seems to be a previously unreleased BN session. I remember the nice first tune, something with a title like "Funny Pilgrim Farm" or something like that. And it seems to be the last time Paul Chambers was in the Studio. Somehow he doesn´t Sound as fine as he sounded years before. But I think I like other Morgan Albums from that period more: Cornbread and The Rump-Roller.

I think I remember they tried to book him again in the early 80s but same Story, he did not make it. I think the only gig Hank Mobley made in his last years was at the Angry Squire, with Duke Jordan.

I saw Joe Farrell once in 1983 in a quartet with Joanne Brackeen on piano. Great evening. Even if Chet Baker was scheduled to Play with Joe Farrell but as on so many occasions was not able to make the gig.

I think this one was my first LP of the Messengers. It was the RCA "Black and White" Series. Really nice with Bill Hardman and Johnny Griffin, and the way how they played stuff like "I could have danced all that night" , otherwise rarely played by jazzmusicians…...

I remember when I first saw him with Dex I liked him from the first moment on, wonderful pianist. I had expected George Cables and was astonished there was a guy with a bald head I never saw and never heard and who Plays so beautifully. About Chet Baker: They played again together in 1983 for the Dutch Timeless label. It´s a record mostly of the Rhythm section of Dexter (without Dex), and Chet sit´s in on two tunes: A great Version of "Ray´s Idea", and "I Should Care". Besides being Dexters Rhythm section they started to work as an own unit: Kirk Lightsey, David Eubanks, and Eddie Gladden.

@Captain Howdy: Thank you so much for your answer !

I´ll never Forget how I purchased this: It was the day after I first had seen live the Max Roach Quartet and the next day I hurried to my record dealer (Radio Kratz, Mariahilferstrasse) and asked if they have some Max Roach and Mr. Kratz gave me this one. Though it´s done some 15 years earlier then my first live concert of Max Roach, I was quite astonished to hear very similar Things in his drumming, mostly on his Extended drum solo on "Speak Brother Speak" which is a Variation of "the drum also waltzes". Great tune also "Variation" . And since I was a really Mingus man, I had all the Mingus stuff on that "America" label, I was pleased to see that Cliff Jordan and Mal Waldron also were Mingus Alumni. Not to Mention Max Roach who had recorded with Mingus not only on Massey Hall, but also on the Bohemia stuff "Mingus Quintet plus Max Roach"...….

Thank you ! Well never heard there exists a 10/4. I like that composition and the way the Max Roach Quartet Plays it, but I tried to Count it and couldn´t. First I thought it´s 7/4, then I thought it´s 9/4. Such weird measures are apt to throw me......

Now wait a Minute, Just for someone who is not so much Insider to understand all the Postings: I´d like to know a) Kenny Burrel is still around ? b) is he really ill or is this a fake announcement ? c) if he is really ill, was it really his wife who asked for donations ?