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One of my alltime favourites as soon as it came out in the late 70´s on CBS. That was the time, when I discoverd "Bird" due to my first few albums of Miles and Mingus, where Bird as influence and mentor was mentioned. After my first purchase (Savoy Master Takes) this one was my second purchase but at first listening I was kind of shocked and puzzeld by the "terrible sound quality". On this , the treble was so up it had an outright piercing sound. I had to pull up the bass level and completly down the treble and still it sounded "shrill". But after a few starts I noticed the high quality of that exiting live music. It was the first time I heard about Fats and Bud and fell in love with Blakey´s powerful drumming. I can´t listen to this every day, but sometimes I pick it just for the memory of those days when I was thrilled by all that powerful music though badly recorded, and I remember I loved Dan Morgensterns most interesting liner notes so that I could "imagine" how Birdland was in 1950.....

oh this one is great. I bought it once, the next day after I had seen Pharoah live.

Yeah, it´s Wayne Shorter Time. I love to listen to him in early spring, maybe because that was the period when I "discovered" him when I was a teenie, and all that stuff all that great music was still so completely new to me and I just heard some Shorter on a then available Miles Davis Sampler "Greatest Hits" and it had "E.S.P." on it, with Wayne of course. So out of that one tune and since I was so eager to get to know all those who became imediatly my personal "heroes'", I hurried to the next record shop and purchased "Schizophrenia", also a famous Shorter Album, and also with Herbie Hancock on it. About Adams´Apple: I think it was recorded AFTER "The all seeing Eye" and maybe it´s a bit more conventional and easier to listen to than "All Seeing Eye", but that was just the BN philosophy then......

I must admit that I think I wrote a "so so review" once on Amazone. Some found it useful, others not. My main reason, what left me a bit unhappy listening to that CD, was the drummer. And I think I didn´t like the trumpet sound even if it´s Benny B. and I think the whole ensemble playing is much sloppier done than the other two Freddie Redd albums for BN. Of course the "Connection", but above all the second album, I don´t remember the title of it (Shades of Redd????), which is a beauty, especially the first tune "The Thespian" is a composition of a rare beauty...... Don´t misunderstand me, I don´t say "Redd Blues" is not worth listening, but while on other previously unissued or rejected BN Material I didn´t understand the point, why it was previously unissued, here I can understand that it was not first choice material.....

Strange, first time I see a record where I know only the "sidemen", know them very very well , but not the leader........ must admit I never heard about him and I listen and read about jazz since I was a teenager......really strange.....

Indeed ! All Shorter albums for BN are beauties.

This one was the first I heard from Dexters "Prestige Years". Anyway I always have associated "Prestige" more with the 50's with Miles, Monk etc, and not with the 70's. But Dexter recorded a series of albums for that label between 1969 and 73. Not all of them are really exiting, but "Tangerine" is fantastic, and I love that rhythm section with Stanley Clark, he is the young face in that group and listen to his bass lines ! I also like the other record with the same personnel "Ca-Purange" but Tangerine is still the best.

I remember one of the first more "far out" recordings in my jazz collection was his "Live at the East" which also features a vocal group, has a wonderful "Healing Song" with that chantings by a vocal group and that superb tenor sound of Pharoah. I fell in love with that and it stuck. During the late70's, early 80's Pharoah, who like Archie Shepp had been one of the frontmen of "free-jazz" switched back to the regular standard quartet formations with p,b and drums and mixed some of his former repertoir with some older stuff like standard ballads and boppish tunes like let's say Tadd Dameron's "Misty Night"......, that's how I first saw him in 1985, when he was in his prime, about 45 years old. I saw him again in 2013 or 14, and he still had a lot to say and it was a powerful concert, but even then he seemed to have difficulties walking. Too bad I didn't try to ask to meet him I would have liked to ask him to sign me the "Life in the East" and tell him that I purchased it when I was almost a kid and how much I loved his music since that moment.......

Great lineup with Cliff Jordan and Art Farmer......., one of my favourite Horace Silver records, together with "Stylings of Silver" and others

But I always found the cover photo a bit strange. On all other photos Miles looks quite slim, here he looks much heftier than usual. Never knew that Miles had heavy weight stages... he was always in the gym.....

fantastic and it´s great that this way Sam River´s short tenure with Miles was recorded.

In general I don´t like to rate albums, since each album is important for it´s one. But in this case I would say, it was the best mainstream-album of 1978, maybe the best Dexter album for CBS and maybe even one of Dexter´s all time best albums. Why? Because it´s done with his own working unit George Cables, Rufus Reis, Eddie Gladden and each of them can be heard soloing. Too many companies had the tendency to grossly overproduce their albums, but this one is just the unit that played live. And as a live set sounds the program, the wonderful versions of Moment´s Notice, As Time Goes By, and Cables´ composition "I told you so": I remember I heard a live version of that tune that run more than 20 de minutes and Dex played soprano and each soloiest played his solo first in bossa, then in swing and then in double tempo swing, I think it was done on July 4th 1978 at Vanguard. What a perfect way to celebrate July 4th !!!!!

My very personal "best" Farmer is "To Duke with Love", of course for the music and the superb company Cedar Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins, and last, but not least, because Mr. Farmer signed it for me with a nice dedication.......

Always a pleasure to hear. I wonder how often Blakey recorded "Moanin´". One version from later years that I spinned very often then was on a 1979 album on I think "Philips Japan" with a very very good James Williams. I think after Bobby Timmons, James Williams really was a true Messenger´s sound pianist......

indeed awesome

Right, a also have this book. And it´s interesting to read what the musicians say about their personal "Three wishes". Some say really beautiful things, some are ugly (Al Haig), and some get lost in too many words, like Lionel Hampton, he just keeps talkin and talkin about how jazz started with cotton pickin´ and all that and you just can´t trace where he want´s to get, and what is his 3 wishes.....

Great Wayne Shorter album. Fantastic tunes, especially "House of Jade" and "Yes and No", and of course the title track. And the best musicians to play with him . I´m very pleased that on BN records you really can hear the drummer, so Elvin Jones really is very very well recorded.

Same impressions here in Austria during that time. And they had some records from a to me quite obscure label "Trip Records". I purchased Dolphy´s "Jitterbug Waltz" I think on such a label, with quite a cheap and ugly cover and almost no infos. And they had bad quality....

I never thought others might have this . I bought it 1979 at a Jazz Festival (Velden) and they had a bus transformed in a kind of "record shop" with the strangest and most obscure records I ever saw. I think the label was a totally obscure one. Never heard of it. The whole thing looked like some bootleg. But the music was great, especially Beaver Harris was one of the greatest, but underrated drummers. I think, this was a kind of transition period for Shepp: Years before he would not play a swing rhythm like he does here I think on "Blues for Donald Duck". But 2 or 3 years later he became even more conservative and played standards just with a regular quartet.

Has been some time since I´ve listened to it the last time. A classic, but easier to listen than other free jazz,because it still has a "swing rhythm". Haden walks the actual in the actual timing, and Scott La Faro in double time. And there are some typical Ornette Coleman typed riffs in it. Other, more advanced free jazz records make everything to avoid the even slightest touch of swing. Ornette from 1969 (Crisis) was more advanced and would´t let Haden just play swing type walking bass. Then, avoiding swing was the devise. I only noticed on that record, that Eric Dolphy, one of my favourites, doesn´t get much place to be heard. I would have liked to hear more of Dolphy with Ornette on this one.....

Great interview with Chet Baker. Well, Chet was really a living legend when I was young. And I´ve heard him often, always loved his sound. This is a very honest interview and really reveals a lot about his difficult live. I couldn´t check what the Hank Mobley article has to do with Chet´s interview, but nevertheless I found it very interesting. I think almost nobody knew anything about Mobley´s last years, even in the biography about his life there is nothing about that period. An I never saw a foto of Hank from later years, I think we all know only photos of him when he was about in his 30´s .

I´ve read once that some years ago there were coffee or tea houses in Japan where they played non stop jazz records and mostly "hard bop" and that "Cool Struttin" was something like a "trademark", you heard it very very often, "Cool Struttin" and Donaldson´s "Blues Walk". This is hard bop at it´s best, and who does not love the cover photo

Indeed ! Yes, I also listened to it last week. Very exiting album.

Really a treasure. Even after the departure of Dolphy and Jakie Byard (Byard at least temporarly) this is highly recommended. Maybe it´s one of Mingus´ thinnest instrumentations, only a quartet, but it has a very very high level of energy. Never heard Cliff Jordan more powerful than on this, and maybe Fables of Faubus (here titled "New Fables") has the most exiting bass solo I ever heard......., and Dannie Richmond is really hot, and not to forget the interesting choice of pianist Jane Getz....... , former Mingus man John Handy sittin in on Fables, doing a very bluesy solo....

Of course ! And for my greatest delight with the participation of Sam Rivers ! But as for Larry´s organ and Elvin Jones´ drumming I prefer even more "Unity" . It´s my first choice of Larry Young.