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@medjuck: You are Right: Now the best way to listen to it is the Blue Note CD, because it also has a second unreleased set from the first band, and the unreleased "Lady Bird" with the Big Nicholas-Lockjaw Tenor Tandem. But for nostalgic reasons I still spin sometimes the "Red Miles Davis Album". If I want to listen the the whole Music, I listen to the CD. Hey, here´s another one from that series: Miles with Stan Getz from february 1950, also at Birdland, featuring also J.J. Johnson, Tadd Dameron, Gene Ramey and of Course Art Blakey. I don´t know if this set was issued on CD also. Anyway, this is an LP from the same obscure Italian Label "Kings of Jazz" and the title is "Here are Miles Davis and Stan Getz at their rare of all rarest Performances". We called this "The Grey Miles DAvis Album". So, you had to listen to the red and the gray Miles DAvis album

I love this record. I think when I first heard the title tune "E.S.P." it was on a Miles Davis Sampler "Greatest Hits". Then, this was a cheap way to buy some Miles. Later I bought all the Albums of Course. From the first CBS "Round Midnight" until the last "Agharta". I think I like most the Albums from 1963 on, the live stuff and the Studio productions with the second great quintet.

This was a classic when I was at high School. Those Italian LPs were legendary , "Here is Miles Davis at his rare of all rarest Performances" (Kings of Jazz Series). Actually it´s a very boppish Miles from 1951 at Birdland, on Side 1 with J.J.Johnson, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Drew, Tommy Potter and Art Blaker (really an All Star Band), and on Side 2 also an Allstar Band Miles with Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Big Nick Nicholas (on the Album cover wrong: Sonny Rollins), Billie Taylor, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey. The tunes is: "Half Nelson" "Mike´s Blues" (wrong title, the tune is "Down"), "The Squirrel" and "Move". This is Miles playing very high Register and fast. Like Diz or Fats. I think, he is really very strong here and this is first class be bop. The Album...….. then more than 40 years ago we just said "The Red Miles Davis Album"...…. Play that "Red Miles Davis Album" again…..

Looks like Elton John...…

From about what period is it, late 70´s ? I don´t have that but have one from that mini-label "Impro" which is dedicated to Bird "Bird Fire" with his working quartet he had then: German-French pianist Siegfried Kessler, Bob Cunningham and Clifford Jarvis. (Lover Man, Au Privave, Parker´s Mood, Now´s the Time). I saw that group in spring 1979 and it was one of the greatest live concerts I saw. Something I still remember 40 years later.

I love those Steeplechase live albums of Dexter. Recently listened to "I want more" which is great. "Cheese Cake" is also one I love very much. Great record and very interesting since it seems to be the only occasions where Bud played "Stockholm" (a wonderful version) and "Satin Doll" . This is one of the most brilliant trio recordings. And the good thing is it has a drummer one can HEAR. Not like many of his mid 50´s recordings where you don´t hear what the drummer does. Do you also have "Writin´ for Duke" on Mythic Sound, which is from the same session ? (unissued material).

And how about "Wah Wah Watson" ? At least that´s the one I know from the famous Herbie Hancock stuff "V.S.O.P" , the first record they did.Anyway this is a bit more Miles related, especially the first part of the concert where they play the music of the "2´nd classic quintet" with Hubbard replacing Davis. And the only "guitar" Watson I know, the "Wah Wah Watson" is on the more funky stuff from the other part of the concert. I really love that record which celebrated 3 creative periods of Hancock and his fellow musicians...... And I think I saw Wah Wah Watson live when Hancock did a kind of "Headhunters 2" decades later with saxophonist Bill Evans (also a Miles´ man) on tenor......

Well even if they were well known in Europe, I don´t know much about other music than jazz. Yes, the book about Tadd Dameron is Paul Combs book. I also have another larger format book about Tadd Dameron, but it doesn´t have as much informations like Paul Combs´ book.

I remember well when I was younger somebody borrowed me a book written by Ronnie Scott which was very interesting. Great stories About musicians who played there, I think the late Coleman Hawkins, Bill Evans , and many others. A friend of mine was on London during the time Dizzy played at Ronnie Scott I think with a larger Group with Al Gafa on guitar, About the stuff he recorded for his Pablo Album "Bahia"......

Very interesting back-ground info ! I have thought he had "lost" Milcho Levieff, but sure....... he played a lot with George Cables. George Cables was a very very fine pianist and composer, his was with Dexter, and by the way, Dexter also was on schedule in Velden 81, then with Kirk Lightsey......

I love a lot of those old afro cuban stuff. Didn´t know about this, I recently had listened to one by Machito and his Crew titled "Blen Blen Blen" .....

I think I heard the name Clarence Gatemouth Brown once in context with some 70´s Mingus. I think it was he who wrote the lyrics to some "Mingus Blues" which was shouted out by George Adams. Mingus ..... I forgot about him, he also got some of the electrics in his music from about 1977 on. I remember he was even scheduled for a tour with Larry Coryell in late 1977 but it had to be chancelled.......

That´s it. Now I can imagine more of it. So....... Johnny "Guitar" Watson is R&B something that seems I haven´t explored. So this is similar to B.B. King ? Since as I said I saw B.B. King once when he was on tour schedule with Miles, without playing together, just one set Miles and one set B.B. King. As about changing styles in the 70´s Miles was not the only one who did it. Maybe he was the most famous one, but others from around his generation (a bit younger, a bit older) also changed their styles in the 70´s : Rollins, and even Diz. When I first saw him in the 70´s he didn´t play with a classic be bop quintet, he had an electric guitar, an electric bass and a more rock oriented drummer. Others like acoustic pianist Hampton Hawes also switched to electric piano. But I think this was natural. It´s fine if musicians from the older generation at some point tried out a newer style and mastered it in their very individual way: Like Roy Eldrigde from the swing era went as far as playing boppish "Ornithology" in 1947 and Benny Goodman did some small group bop on "Stealin´ Appels". Really fine, and maybe it was the same when Diz after 1970 did some tunes with a rock rhythm and mastered it. And don´t forget Ornette Coleman. His 60´s "free jazz" was part of the acoustic tradition and his 70´s Prime Time was an adaption of his "free style" to funk rhythms........really wonderful how all those guys did their stuff........

This was also one of my first Gilberto albums

This one has a special meaning to me since Art Pepper played a festival gig in Austria during that period, and on the playing list was his famous version of "Your´s my heart only". I heard another version of it on the Croydon Concert also 1981. I think those two "widow´s taste" albums are wonderful. I think, on the Austrian gig Pepper had to play with Stan Getz´s rhythm section, I don´t know exactly what had happened that he didn´t have his usual rhythm section. Especially for his version of "There will never be another you". He is great on that, wonderful block chords. He played it again in Paris at BlueNote in 1961 of 62 with Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clark. Both versions are great.

I also didn´t understand the photo of that "boy next door" with a girl....... THIS should be Richard Carpenter, I imagined he looked more "gangster like" after all those stories told about him. I have a Tadd Dameron bio where it seems that Carpenter had quite an important role for Dameron during the last years of his life, which is strange since Dameron practically didn´t do nothing from the early 60´s on (he didn´t even play on his last "album" "Magic Touch" .

Must have that, didn´t know there´s a Dave Liebman bio. He is one of the first jazz artists I admired. I think it was short time after he had left Miles.

I still don´t know what is the connection between Miles and Johnny "Guitar" Watson, who anyway, as I said before is not familiar to me.....

Maybe Johnny Guitar Watson is not exactly in my playing list. I have and know most of the jazz stuff from all those labels BN, Prestige, Impulse, Mileston, Columbia and what it is, all those artists from bop to 70´s electric, but maybe not those who not are exactly "jazz artists" , I know that´s not the right definition for it but maybe you can follow me and check out what I try to say: For example: Once I heard a double concert Miles Davis/B.B.King, I don´t know why the combinated them, but I must admit that the B.B. King stuff after two three tunes was not anymore what I usually listen to. Back to Miles: on that 1986 concert he was in top form, anyway the band sounded much better than the only studio produced "Tutu", and to hear some of the tunes from the Tutu album live was a much more interesting experience than hearing the record. I don´t know what was the reason for combining Miles/B.B.King, I think that package toured U.S. AND Europe.

Again an "Island record". One of the best, if I could keep only one Wayne Shorter BN I´d keep this one. @Big Beat Steve.: Yes it was Bellaphone Import. The "Steaming" was as a single LP with another cover photo than the original Steamin, and others were twofers (right, Prestige 24000 series. I had one of it with a cover photo of Miles in the 70´s at the boxing gym, which has nothing to do with the content, since the content was most of the pre 55 Miles, which I later purchased as "Dig", "Miles and Horns" "Blue Haze" "Walkin" "Bag´s Groove" and "Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants...... (I hope I didn´t forgether any). One record that always was particular interesting for me was "Musings of Miles" since it points out torward the first classic quintet, with Garland and Philly J.J. on it.... Also a record for the Island.....

The 4 Prestiges "Cookin´, Relaxin´, Workin´ and Steamin´ always have been favourites of mine, they would be records for the "Island". Somehow I find the first Prestige record of the 1.st Quintet, simply called "Miles" not so exiting like those four records. "Steamin´" was one of the very first "jazz records" I had, I think the other records were available only on expensive japanese LP pressings.

they are wonderful ! When I was younger I had difficulties to tell from the record who of them is soloing, but later I learned to figure out how Zoot Sims phrases and how Al Cohn. It´s fascinating how long there collaboration went on. First I got aware of them on "Miles and Horns", than on that "Tenor Conclave". Too bad I never caught Zoot Sims "live" but I saw Al Cohn once with Woody Herman in a rare "All Star Small Group", a wonderful experience.....

I didn´t know the expression "jerk" in this context (being a hobby fisherman I know a "Jerk Bait" is some big bait for some big pike and so on), but I deduced from the track that it´s about rude behaviour torwards the audience or fellow musicians. In this context I remember the trumpet player Joe Newman. During the late 70´s early 80´s he came quite often to "Jazzland" in Vienna as a solo artist, working with very very fine local musicians but the way how he "lectured" them on stage was just sad shit. You don´t have to "lecture" good musicians only because they are "locals" how to play "Bye Bye Blackbird". They did a good job, but with that shitty behaviour after some time nobody in my town wanted to play anymore with him. Maybe he was not aware of it. Joe Newman is a very fine mainstream trumpet player but maybe he is not the greatest of them all. We had artists with bigger names like let´s say Woody Shaw and I didn´t hear no complaints about the locals who played with him. Another guy I would like to mention was Sonny Stitt. Once he came in town to play with some of the best European musicians around, on piano we had the great Fritz Pauer and on bass was Alarad Pege, the great hungarian bass solist and bass professor. And Sonny Stitt just did really bullshit on stage, "lecturing" them how to play and this was stupid, because with all my deepest respect for Sonny Stitt and I never will say else than that he was one of the great virtuosos on alto and tenor, but if someone can play and Fritz Pauer and Alardar Pege and the drummer who was very fine really play, it´s easy to play a set with Sonny Stitt, his music is not so "far out" that you might have to figure out strange things........ Things got even worse after the concert. It was announced that Sonny might visit the club "Jazz Freddy" and would jam with tenorists Harry Sokal and Roman Schwaller and the same rhythm section, but Mr. Stitt started to show the piano player on stage "how to play piano" and so this was a really embarrasing experience in Spring 1980.

Milestone was a fantastic label ! They really did something for acoustic musicians when others didn´t record them. And all those albums they made, they sounded so modern, so hip and quick. I think Joe Henderson did some of his best work for Milestone, he never sounded better. Even the more overproduced studio thing "Canyon Lady" doesn´t sound like cheap studio crap, it is a fine album and captures much of Henderson´s virtuosity. All those Milestone Artists made some of their very best stuff during those years, Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, and of course Joe Henderson. I think they also were scheduled for festivals as part of the "Milestone Family", because how otherwise I could explain that in 1979 in Velden we had so many "Milestone Artists" (Rollins, Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, they all were scheduled)........

2 month ago I bought a DVD from one of the Arkestra Members, they sold them for the audience during intermission. Right now I have to fix my place and a lot of my stuff is sealed, and the DVD-player anyway has some defect, so I´ll have to buy a new one, but I hope that "Space Video" I bought will be the film "Joyful Noise". I don´t know, the written stuff on that tiny DVD explains something about "director´s cut", so it might be a longer version.....