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I think it´s okay that she stopped her performance. Mingus would have done the same, he also stopped when the conversation became too loud, he even put a mike in front of a couple that spoke too loudly, all those stories. So why not, from Mingus……..to Mutter.

I think I have all or nearly all Soul Note Albums, but it´s really a shame that the band with Billy Harper was recorded only for quite shortlived labels. I say, Max Roach is one of the most important musicians from the generation that created "modern jazz". How many Bird, Bud, Diz, Mingus CD´s are available, and how little of Max Roach´s work is available. I didn´t know Max Roach was difficult to deal with. On stage I always had the impression he was very very articulate, very gentleman-like and very nice to the audience, that´s how I remember him on stage. About the "second" quartet , I mean when Harper and Workman were replaced by Odean Pope and Calvin Hill, well I also enjoyed that but I didn´t like Odean Pope´s Sound so much as I liked Billy Harper. And Maybe Calvin Hill used another bass amp, but his bass sound was not the same like Reggie Workman, it sounded more amplified.

Maybe you also saw them live in September 1978 at the legendary Kongress-Haus. Then, in May 1979 it was the Archie Shepp Quinted with Siegfried Kessler, Bob Cunningham and Clifford Jarvis, so it seems they had some "Denon-Artists" booked, since Shepp also had a batch of records on Denon...….

The Supersax was very much en vogue during my youth. I remember this album with the Bud Powell Transcriptions, a friend of mine had it. I had and still have "Chasin´the Bird", and I think I have "Salt Peanuts" and one japanese album on which is "Koko". But I also like some Super-Sax inspired stuff on Mingus´ last album "Something like a Bird". They really cook on that.

I wouldnt say I´m a big Oscar Peterson fan but I like those recordings, where he´s more a Team player than the super super vituoso. Like let´s say the old Verve´s "We Get Requests" and "Night Train", they are beautifully relaxed little abums. And this one I like very much. I think it was very very much en vogue when it came out, since the Singers Unlimited were very very popular. And it was when I was in high School, all of them hummed that "Sesame Street". But all tunes are great, the then very much en voghe slow bossas like "Gentle Rain", "Shadow of your Smile", and the outstanding "It never entered my mind". I had the record in the 70´s , but somehow later sold it when i thought, it´s not so hip to have Oscar Peterson albums, but later my wife bought me the CD for Chrismas. A Beautiful record !

Being only a jazz fan it´s very hard for me to find associations to not jazz related musicians, but I have read once, that the Drummer from the Stones also knows a lot About jazz and is a jazz fan.....

I´m sure it is. It´s too bad those Denon Albums are so hard to find. I have just one of them, Max Roach in Amsterdam. Is this also from around 1977,78 and has Cecil Bridgewater, Billie Harper and Reggie Workman? And is this the records, were they also Play a stunning Version of Round Midnight. I think, Denon was quite a label for advanced modern jazzmen during that time. I think they also did some Albums with Archie Shepp.

Thank you @Dan Gould

I saw the New Thundering Herd in the summer of 1979, they were great, and sounded quite modern, they also played some 1970´s Chick Corea material. Shortly after this, they were at Monterey and had stars like Diz, Woody Shaw, Stan Getz and Slide Hampton on it. The Version of "Woody´n You" is Incredible ! And the band without the guests also really stretches out, listen to "Countdown", not an easy tune at all even if it´s based on "Tune Up" , and rare for Woody Herman: The Mingus tune "Bettter Git It in Your Your" .

Woody Shaw with the Group I saw live: Steve Turré , Mulgrew Miller, Stafford James and Tony Reedus. Fantastic !

I never heard about the jam session 101 record. From the same day you say ? Who´s on it ? I think "Fresh Sound" was harder to purchase. From the Gold Series, my record dealer "Radio Kratz" always had some of them to sell……., well all this was 40 years ago. Here´s another one, I purchased it especially for the fantastic sides with Fats and Coleman, the Dexter stuff I had already on Spotlite.

This one is a favourite of mine. Wardell Gray with Art Farmer and Hampton Hawes, they really stretch out here, one of the finest live bop sessions.

A Wonderful collection : I never can get enough live versions of "Don´t Stop the Carneval", here´s a very fine one. And what really knocked me out was the 1979 live Version of Disco Monk. Though Rollins got bad reviews for that tune when it appeared on the album "Don´t Ask" from the same year, this one if great, and Mark Soskin is a great piano player and really cooks on this. I heard that tight unit Rollins with Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Al Foster live in the same year.

I have it on LP from 1978 and I got it signed by Mr. Art Farmer !!!! And a few years ago I also bought it on CD, so I must not always spin the LP.

One of my favourites, and Monk did play Ellington on another later Occasion in Berlin 1969 (70´s Birthday of Ellington was the motto and Monk played Incredible Stride piano for example on Caravan). It´s even told that at one Moment in his career Monk took over the piano bench of the Ellington Orchestra and described it as "an interesting experience"...…..

One of my all time favourites. I had heard Art Farmer for the first time at the end of the summer 1978 in Vienna. Max Roach came by just to say hello, the next day Max Roach was playing in town and Art Farmer came by and Max Roach announced that Art Farmer is in the house…….. those were the days. I think, this 1975 recording with the fantastic Cedar Walton Trio was brand new then in 1978. I purchased it just to have some album which is close to the way he plays now. It became one of my all time favourites, a Beautiful thing !

And again Diz. A great encounter ! I think this was one of the first collaborations between Mr. Sandoval and Mr. Gillespie. Of Course I saw Mr. Sandoval also on later occasions, when Diz in later years often featured great fellow trumpetists when it became to hard for him to carry the load alone. Of course, the younger trumpet players had better chops then Dizzy past 60, but if you listen close, it´s pure Diz and he keeps the bop flame. I like to listen to every aspect of his music, Diz forever. And of Course, also a great latterday Studio date by Dexter, another favourite of mine.

Diz with his fantastic touring band from that period. With the really fast Rodney Jones g, the legendary Benjamin Franklin Brown on el- b and the great Mickey Roker on dr . A typical live set where they really stretch out. I like especially the live Version of "Unicorn" from the then recent album "Free Ride", "Brother K." and of course the great "Night in Tunisia" with Leo Wright as special guest. During that time, Dizzy toured quite much with his working quartet, I later heard them with Ed Cherry, Mike Howell and veteran groover J.C. Heard and they were great.

very interesting article

Elvin Jones, the Version of the Jazz Machine with Carter Jefferson on saxes. A fantastic more then 2 Hours of Music double CD. They really stretch out on this, the longest track "Doll on the Bridge" lasts more than 30 minutes and is particularly interesting. I saw Elvin Jones a few years earlier with another line up, it was with Pat LaBarbera, with a guitar player but as much as I remember without piano...... I love Elvin Jones......

Thats really sad news. I heard some of his more recent work when he played with that fantastic all star quartet "Heads of State". And of course his earlier work with Jackie McLean.

This is really a nice record. All the classic Prestige albums are treasures.

I also had tried to read it, but then there came a popup that I should "subscribe" so I didn´t go further. But anyway: I think George Coleman got his fans at least beginning from the late 70´s when there was a re-born interest in acoustic jazz again. It was then, that he could form his own Group and go on tour with them: Hilton Ruiz, Ray Drummond, Billy Higgins: This is how I heard him first. Later he had an "octet" but I missed that. The "Hilton Ruiz" Group was great, the most famous Album was "Amsterdam after Dark" . I was very Young when I first saw George Coleman and one of the first things I noticed was what a nice man he is, he smiled to the audience, thanked for applause and announced tunes, something that then in the late 70s was quite out of fashion, as there was no liner notes on albums. I aways had the impression that the guys who had played with Miles, tried to out-do Miles in his manners. Like, when I saw a Video of the "lost quintet" they (Chick Corea and Dave Holland) look even more angry and "cold" than Miles.

Great Diz. And great compositions by Lalo Schifrin. But I think the only tune that "survived" is the first tune "Unicorn", since it became part of the set list when Dizzy toured with his usual quartet formations from the late 70´s and early 80´s (first with Rodney Jones, the legendary Benjamin Franklin Brown and the great Mickey Roker, and later with Ed Cherry, Mike Howell and various drummers) . It´s usually a very charming tune, really catchy, and Diz is great on it as ever.

I thought , or better say I hoped he might live forever. I also got acquainted to him the first time when I listend to the live stuff with Wes Montgomery in Paris, especially "Impressions". And I listened very careful to his fantastic piano stuff on the Freddie Hubbard Recordings for BN, especially "Nights of the Cookers".