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I knew that you must love this record, since you like me prefer Bud´s latterday performances All Coltrane albums on Prestige are treasures. And they have really long tracks with extended solos.

One of my favourite albums of McCoy Tyner. The combination with Bobby Hutcherson is ideal, and great tunes !

I have this since it came out in 1977. I remember first time it was quite hard listening for me then, and I was annoyed by the talking of the MC over the music, but soon after that I really appreciated it. Miles is almost as fast as Fats Navarro here, James Moody has some very interesting phrases that sound almost like those typical of the 60´s avantgarde, and it´s a rare occasion to hear Tadd Dameron doing really great solos, and we have the great Kenny Clark. And to mention the very good french bass player Barney Spieler.

I must get that. Didn´t know about it. But I think this was issued by ESP after the real time of that label (60´s ) since I was quite aware of the ESP catalog but don´t think there was this, or Don Cherry. They had other, parial lesser known avantgarde artists and strange enough, some older live material by Bird, Bud, and Billie.......

Oh yes, this is the album. Very interesting !

Hi ! I´d have a question or I´d like to have something confirmed I had heard more than 40 years ago..... that Monty Alexander somehow was "discovered" by Les McCann and that there exists a life-recording where Les McCann is playing on concert and during the concert he introduces Monty Alexander and invites him on stage and Monty Alexander playes a tune. I remember this, because it was presented by our legendary austrian Jazz-DJ Herwig Wurzer and I remember it was very very much discussed in jazz circles, especially that the older McCann sounds more modern than the then blood young Monty Alexander.

Oh that sounds good ! Complete Communion is my favourite Don Cherry, I like it even more than "Suite for Improvisers" or "Where is Brooklyn" which is also superb work. But to have "Complete Communion" live that sounds like dreams might become true !

A genius. I´m glad I saw him live with his own quartet a few years ago. As a drummer he always has fascinated me . I think he could be called a link between Max Roach and Elvin Jones, so to say the next step after Max Roach. When I hear Roy Haynes let´s say with Bird, it´s else than Max. Max played very straight, like a chorus line, and Roy gets more into those polyrhythms. You see, I listen very much to music from the drummers view, cause this is a lot of inspiration for me. And to hear Haynes with Trane, just fantastic, with all due respect and admiration for Elvin.....

I really love this one. A fantastic reunion with those genial musicians Milt Jackson and James Moody, who had been associated with Diz in the 40´s. And the set repertoire is beautiful. Manteca a tune I love, Con Alma with an interesting "new" arrangement and a trendy backbeat. And not to forget the features for Mr. Jackson and Mr. Moody (SKJ and Body and Soul). I´d like to mention also "Brother K." which is underrated but should be considered one of Dizzy´s greatest compositions along with let´s say Con Alma etc. ...... I remember Diz also did play it in Viena the year before. The rhythm section is superb. Ed Cherry has been Dizzys favourite guitar player and he seems to have some Wes Montgomery roots. Saw him on several occasions with Diz, and even after Diz death in a Dizzy Alumni band. Mike Howell is a fantastic fender-bassist, he also has played for a long time with Diz, same with the very fine drummer Georges Hughes. One or two years later I saw Diz with Ed Cherry and Mike Howell, but then he had replaced the drummer with one from his generation, J.C. Heard, a very interesting choice. Dizzy remains one of my favourites. I love his trumpet, his compositions which I play as much as possible.....

When was it recorded ? 70´s ?

Great choice. The first Fats on BN I had when there was those double albums , the BN LA series. But this CD is even greater, since it also has the capitol material.

My favourite Dexter on BN. I think this one has the best tracks.

Yes, right, that´s the album. Beautiful what I heard. I think Herwig played 2 tunes from that album. That´s were I first heard and loved Dusko Goykovich´s beautiful sound. A wonderful trumpet player.

I´ll never forget how it was presented on radio by the legendary Herwig Wurzer (the austrian Symphony Sid). The most fascinating song was Saga Sekorame. Herwig also presented another album of Dusko Goykovich where I remember that he played a fantastic version of "Those are the days" or somehow like that, but I couldn´t find that album or it was OOP and terribly expensive....

I think this is almost my favourite Donald Byrd recordings, it´s my idea of a perfect hard bop album, and both Byrd and McLean are fantastic, and the rhythm section also. And I love the tunes. Donald Byrd made very much albums and I think the ones I like most are this one "Fuego", "Off the Races" and that double album with Pepper Adams I think at Half Note.....

I think I have the Open Door recordings CD, but haven´t listened to it recently. Maybe the reason is the other musicians are cut out. I love everything Bird did, but prefer those life recordings, where you hear the others too. The famous photo of Bird with Monk, Mingus and Haynes I think is also the cover photo of my edition of Ross Russel´s book about Bird. I also have an old book from Robert Reisner "Bird" with many interviews from fellow musicians etc., and it also has a photo of Bird with Monk, but from another occasion. The recorded studio album Bird and Diz also with Monk is another high light in Bird´s discography, the only annyoing thing is the silly liner notes where NG (I think he was it) wrote about Monk "a lesser light in modern jazz, but nevertheless an important one......" Another interesting aspect is, that Mingus and Monk never recorded together. One of Mingus´ sons had thought there is an album "Mingus,Duke, Monk" which might be impossible (Duke,Mingus,Roach of course), and you can read this error in Sue Mingus´ book "Tonight at Noon", where she pointed out that error and stated correctly that Mingus and Monk never recorded together. But Bob Parent´s photo always gave me the impressions that I would have wished to hear what they played......

Yes, too many alternate takes is annoying. I have the japanese CDs of Wardell Gray Vol. I and II (Prestige) and don´t listen anymore to Vol. I because of the dozens of alternate takes.

That´s right. And the stride section on Idaho, Perdido with Griffin also. And last not least Idaho with Curtis Fuller on "Bud!" .

Some strange thing about some BN albums of the 60s is the titles, "Smokestack" I thought is a composition by Johnny Griffin on "Blowing Session", "Compulsion" I thought is a Miles composition on "Collector´s Items" , and "Wahoo" (Duke Pearson) I knew as a Dameron line on Perdido. I haven´t heard that Andrew Hill "Compulsion" but I´m quite sure it is not related to the Miles composition.

I remember when it came out, I think it had been unissued for decades. Anyway, everything that combines Bud with horn players inspires him very much and even that late he could do his best when he had the occasion to record in other units than just "trio". This is top, much better than the a bit dull "Tribute to Thelonious". Other examples of Bud with Horns might be "Hawk in Germany", "Americans in Europe" (also with Byas and Idrees Sulieman !) , "Hot House"(with Johnny Griffin) ...

Even if I have known this recordins for more than 4 decades it´s always nice sometime to give them a spinning. Bird at his peak.

wonderful ! A beautiful thing this album

wonderful musician. Sure as most of you I first heard him on the Miles album "Antibes 1963" and was lucky to see him live early in 1979 with his then working unit with Hilton Ruiz, Ray Drummond and Billy Higgins. This was shortly after he had recorded his fantastic album "Amsterdam at Dark". A remarkable later recording of him is "4 Generations of Miles" with Mike Stern, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb I think from 2002.

Right, I remember much of the past in black and white. One joint you might have liked was a big old coffee house in Viena, called "Schwarzspanier", that was one of those fancy places, where a lot of good jazz was played and young people stayed up until the small hours and discussed the world. The owner I think was an Italo-American, and there was an old foto on the wall of him when he was young, playing bass in a band and the piano player was no one less than Lennie Tristano. But the guy was not very talkative, if you asked him about playing with Tristano, he wouldn´t say much..... But as you say, it was that good old days and that strange mixture of old fancy places and young people fond of jazz......., you could meet them on the street, guys who played and you could check some gigs just meeting some guy on the street......, wonderful

When I listen to this, my dear wife also comes into the room and listens since it does apeal more to her musical tastes than if I listen let´s say to Sun Ra or Eric Dolphy etc...