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The "Tune Up" , anyway I later had to purchase all the separate Albums "Dig", "Miles and Horns", Collectors Items, Blue Haze,, Walkin´, Bags Groove , Miles and the Modern Jazz Giants, and of Course all the after 1955 Albums Musings of Miles, Miles with Milt Jackson, the first quintet Album, and the four Prestiges Cookin, Relaxin, Steamin, Workin…… that´s a Must for a fan. The Brown bag twofers was good for a starter as I was then, I remember the "Paul Chamber-John Coltrane" which had some of "Whims of Chambers" and the whole Jazz West "Chambers Music". But one strange Thing About the Brown bag was it was not only BN, it was also other labels from the Coast. I remember one was Wes Montgomery, one was Gil Evans, one was Gerry Mulligan/Lee Konitz, so this was no BN Artists. And yeah: I remember I also purchased "Where is Brooklyn". My favourite was "Complete Communion" but I couldn´t find it so I made a Cassette out of the Album an older fan had. Now it is natural I have all the Don Cherrys on BN (Suite of Improvisers is actually the second), and all the Ornettes (together with Fox Hole , Love Call and New York is Now" it´s Five).

I haven´t heard About Lars Färnlöf, but Talking About alto saxophonists, wasn´t Lee Konitz quite short. I dont remember seeing him on photos with other fellow musicians, but especially in later years he put on a lot of weight and that made him look even shorter.

Same here: My very very first choice was what JEB considered important. It was in the last chapter of the "Jazzbuch". And later I discovered the "Bielefelder Jazzkatalog". But many many records were not available in the record Shops. Especially BN was a mess, most of it was OOP, since BN was in a bad shape then. For example: "Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1 was available if you ordered it from the States (which they did for me), but Vol. II (the one with Glass Enclosure" was OOP). And after I got Ornette Coleman "Golden Circle Vol. II) it took me a year to find somewhere "Vol. I" just for a few examples how difficult it was. And many Prestige Albums were available as Doublealbums, which did not contain the whole sessions. I had a Monk double LP with most of the 1952-54 sessions, and a Miles Davis LP with some of the 1953-54 sessions with a cover photo not at all related to Miles during that first half of the fifties. It was Miles with a kinky Afro in the Boxing gym so I first thought it might be some post 1970 stuff…...

Well, Med Flory I think I remember from Supersax. On those Supersax albums also Warne Marsh was playing. But what´s that Story About Med Flory and Wayne Marsh ? Didn´t they work well together. The Supersax was en vogue for a short time I think, some of the guys around me started to buy it. I also had two or three Albums with them, but after a first "wow" I stopped listening to it, since if I want to hear Birds solos I hear Bird, and since I was trying to understand some of the Secrets of that Music, I thought it´s better to listen to the original, and anyway, nobody can have the Sound and phrasings of Bird. Bird was unique.

It´s interesting how Sonny Rollins´ tenure with BN was quite short. Just one year I think. This Album seems to have been overlooked. It´s a good solid hard bop Album, but I think that from 1956 his Prestige Albums "Tenor Madness" and "Saxophone Collossus" got more Attention. I think, that this BN "Vol. 1" was recorded shortly after Clifford Brown´s and Richie Powell´s death, so Maybe it was quite hard for Rollins and Roach to continue…..

About Sanctuary I remember what Bill Coles wrote in his "Critical Biography About Miles Davis". This was one of my first jazz books and the first Miles bio then in the very early 70´s. You know, like many from the older Generations Bill Coles wrote off the then "New Miles". And from his very conservative Point of view he stated that "Sanctuary" is the only track worth listening to" . The then latest Miles Album "On the Corner" he said is "an Insult on the intellect of the People". Well, I think it was not such a radical Turnaround: Bitches Brew is the Logical next step after "Silent Way" and "Silent Way" is the next logic step after "Filles" so I think there is not such a radical Change. And the Transition from "Bitches" to "Live Evil" , "Corner" to the last pre 1976 bands with more electrified stuff also was something that grew slowly. As much as Miles said he doesn´t look back he still played some swing Rhythm at one Point on "Aghartha", I Always have to laugh at that Point because it seems to me that Miles thinks About Old Alfred Lion as he might say to Miles "But Miles, it must schwing"

That´s Right. I also saw him together with fellow musicians and he seemed to be short. But I never saw a musician who changed as much during the years like Jackie McLean. On early photos like on "Bluesnik" it seems to be another Person, very thin, and on later records he is quite hefty. Sometimes he has curled hair like a light skinned afro american and on other occasions he has straight hair, slicked back, sometimes like on "Old and New Gospels" he Looks almost White with reddish hair like a Scots man. But light skinned as he was, Kenny Drew wrote About him on the liner notes of his first Steeple Chase Album that he "is a black child of Harlem". I would have liked to stand next to Jackie Mac, I would have liked to tell him he is one of my all time favourites.

About Grant Green´s "The Latin Bit". It´s interesting how they used Grant Green for so many different Projects , like this latin stuff, than the Western stuff and the "Feelin the Spirit", all of them are nice Albums but I think those that will be spinned most time at least in my case will remain "Idle Moments" and "Solid"

Me too "Miles run´s the Voodoo down" for Miles´playing the whole range of the trumpet, from very high to very Deep. But it´s hard for me to pick up one tune. I like all the Long tracks, but don´t really find much that interests me on "McLaughlin", Maybe because you don´t hear Miles. About Sanctuary I have mixed Feelings. When I was a kid and Bitches Brew was still quite "new", I found it "boring" since there was no Rhythm to snap, tap or Dance, I could go "nuts" listenig to "Voodoo" but started to get "tired" when it came to "Sanctuary". Now I can listen to it from another Point of view. It sounds to me more like an Extension of the more Abstract slower tunes the quinted recorded in the second half of the sixties, in the acoustic period. And now when you have the great "Lost quintet" from the CBS Bootleg series, you can hear he Plays it as a Closer on each concert, but I think he combined it with "I fall in Love too easily"

Nice room, and nice old piano. Looks so inviting. Like let´s say, I would like to be in this room and Play some piano, a Little duet with the master…...

I also don´t know About Paul Desmond, since I´m not really familiar with his Music or his Albums, but Jackie McLean was more short and hefty, he looked very Mingus like, lighter colur than Bird or Miles, may bee also some Indian blood . About the heights of Art Pepper. I saw a photo of Dexter together with Art Pepper and there you can see the difference. But to be smaller than Dexter doens´t really mean that someone is small.

When I was a bit younger I was eager to collect as many BN as I could. My Dream was to have the complete 1500 series and Maybe many Things from the 4000 series, but at some Point I gave it up. And now let´s say if you have a dozen or more of Lou Donaldson, Hank Mobley, Jimmy Smith etc, you don´t listen to ALL of them any more. It´s not important to have each Album of them, but at least some essential: I listen from the above mentioned artits for example mostly to "Blues Walk" "Soul Station" and "The Sermon", usually many others remain in the shelves…..

That´s Right ! It must have been a hair wave. And I also had heard About that deal with a japanese Fashion house. Now that you mentioned "Issy Miyake" I remember I once had bought an "Eau ´d Issy" from them. But my wife was not so fond of it so I didn´t re-buy it. Anyway: As more as I think About it, in the later years from 1987 on until his death, it seems to me more and more that Miles made efforts to become a parody of himself, for his playing and his Outfit. But what Counts is his Music. I still heard some strong Moments the last time I saw him in 1989 and anyway during the last weeks I´ve listend to some Miles Albums every day. About Wynton: When he started I still was delighted of what I heard . Shortly after his tenure with Blakey I heard him with VSOP II and with his own Group, the one with Mulgrew Miller etc. …… and I liked it.

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". Cliff Craft is my favourite Cliff Jordan from his three CDs he did for BN. I also have the japanes edition Card Board cover, I never saw an else edition and even in the early 2000´s when we still had CD Shops, most BN where RVG-Editions, but this one allways was a more expensive japanese edition. All of Herbies albums for BN are great. Maybe this one is the hardest to listen to, being without horns . Quite a strange thing. I doubt it sold as well as did "Cantaloupe Island" with Hubbard or "Mayden Voyage" with both Hubbard and George Coleman.

Any idea when this photo was done ? Miles with slicked back and straightened hair. I always had remembered Miles with kinky hair. But I think when he made his comeback he always wore a hat, a cap, especially such a funny white and round cap like a hood that looked like a Baker´s cap. And shortly before his death I think he had again that kinky Afro, only that it was a bit too much and made Miles look smaller and his head bigger, and the hair was a bit like the head of a poodle. I think it was a toupee, but too big how it looked. I heard he had expensive stylists and dressers but I don´t know if they really did a good job, the clothes he wore in his last years allways made him look shorter than he really was. Right when he started his comeback, he didn´t have all those stylists around him and still looked "like Miles" not like a parody of Miles. Marsalis must have been very young but he already starts to get heftier, I´ve heard he´s quite well rounded now. Maybe lecturing others about what is jazz and more important what is NOT jazz makes hungry. And if you tell everybody your opinion and dogmas, you don´t have to play so much trumpet.

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"......