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Dușco Goicovici was kind of a hero of our youth back then, His trumpet sound, I mean you have the Miles-sound and love it, and over here you had the Goicovici -Sound, different, but nevertheless there was something familiar. We loved his hard to find albums "After Hours" and "Balcani Jazz" with "Saga Secorama" or how they said it in Iugoslavia. This one must be great too !

Allen Eager ? Don Lamphere ?

Thank you so much !

I don´t have this, but all records of pre bop tenorists with the then "modern" Red Garland Trio are fine. I saw Arnett Cobb once at Jazzland with a 3 horn frontline. The altoist was great and was the almost forgotten Jimmy Ford, who once played with Dameron and Fats at Royal Roost...., only the trumpet player was somehow weak.... I only regret that there is no record of Lester Young with the Red Garland Trio...... sure ! On the tours of the Giants of Jazz around late ´72 or when it was (I missed it I was only 13 and it took me another year to get to jazz concerts) and on videos or airshots you hear the full power of Blakey much better than on the 40´s/50´s records, which was more the way they recorded then..... Monk, so he had a somewhat vacant look and seemed quite passive, played piano better then ever and this together with Volcano Blakey......whoooey

Warm Valley Yeah !

It really is. I think I remember that I have bought it very shortly after Monk´s death. I have it on one of my USB sticks in the car.

That´s interesting because it was the same impression I had. I just grew up with the then so called "Modern Jazz" and in my case it was also only the Miles version that I knew or played. Yes, raising the bridge the 4th, Bemsha Swing is a good example. Another one would be Good Bait.

She has beautiful eyes !!!

A terribel lost ! He was so busy here in Austria most of all at Graz where he taught. He was very often working in my country. The first time I saw him was with Curtis Fuller at Jazzland.

Thank you so much, Jim !

Hello friends, after 2 weeks in my second homecountry România I´m back and in the meantime our album "Waltz for Serena" is on Spotify : Have a look at our website and enjoy the music ! https://bop-explosion.com/

https://bop-explosion.com/ you have the entire album on spotify !

Great foto: Miles looks great here, not with that almost cartoonish styling he had in his last years. A rare occasion to see him without sunglasses in public. The woman on his left (!?) side must be Cicely Tyson....

Good start ! about James Moody : Let me tell you how I first heard Moody on record: You know I was a big fan of 70´s Miles and my first concert I ever went to was the Miles Band with Dave Liebman and later I saw Liebman with several groups of his own and loved his sound. And browsing thru Miles albums I saw the Miles in Paris 1949 and after I heard Moody, who sounds very very "modern" almost late Coltrane-ish in some passages I shoutet out with delight "James Moody------almost like Dave Liebman !!!!" (since at that time "Lieb" was the only sax player I knew.....

Oh, I think I must buy this, it seems to be my ideal music since I like late Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman very very much, they were among the first music that counted for me ! I remember I saw the cover of Alice Contrane´s Universal Consciousness in a record shop in România, and wanted to buy it the following day, and it was already sold, I was so dumb I had not bought it on the day I saw it !!!!! Did Dizzy have a kid ? I never heard of him being a father.... By the way, maybe it´s my fault but I almost never bought acoustic albums of the late 60´s /early 70´s since they somehow depress me: During that time almost all clubs closed, acoustic straight ahead jazz was temporarly dying, so I concentrated on free music and early electric. I think I have one Diz record from the mid sixties with Lalo Schifrin, because my wife bought it for me.....

Very very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I have been a big Sun Ra fan all my live and had loved Marshall Allen´s playing just on my first Sun Ra record "Nothing Is". Have seen Marshall Allen in the late 70´s with Sun Ra live, and later as leader of the Arkestra. Love his alto sound and his strange oboe on "Nothing Is" for example.

I have a late J.J.Johnson record titled "Pinaccle" which was very much discussed and praised when it came out. As much as I remember , J.J. after he had disappeared from the jazz scene where he had been so super active, was the much awaited "Yokohama Concert" which is fantastic, and the "Pinaccle", also fantastic. Is "Vivian" in a similar style, I mean a mixture of straight ahead and jazzrock tunes ?

The best from the Band of the midseventies. The Viena Gig back then was about the first live music I heard. All of them are great. My favourite was Al Foster. Mtume fantastic, a lot of great trumpet by Miles, and the one and only Dave Liebman, I became a big fan of Liebman right from the spot.

I don´t think I have that, since I try not to have too many records of one kind of music or interpret, but I know I must have some of them very long blues tracks with players like Trane, Chambers, Art Taylor with some wonderful block accord solos of Red Garland. I like the way he voices his chords , maybe some here in the forum like other pianists more (Horace, Kenny Drew, Ray Bryant), but those voicings helped me a lot. I have listened very very intensely to them....

I must admit I am not familiar with the music of Ahmad Jamal, I may have read hundreds of times his name, but my first few Davis LP´s or better said maybe a kind of sampler anyway had some tracks with the Trane-Garland combination, maybe the "Walkin" from the middle period with Wayne, Herbie, Ron and Tony and some early electric. So this was my first info and the first music of the old styled Miles Davis I heard. I remember, when I heard somewhere the original version of "Walkin´" I didn´t like it very much, because in my fast youth only the fast versions of the second quinted counted, I thought about the 1954 Walkin as a "lame duck"......dumb yeah, but I was a kid......

Interesting point of view. Horace Silver is on most pre-quintet recordings with Miles, especially important on "Walking". Tommy Flanagan as I think I remember is only on one strage session, when the quintet already existed (with Rollins, I think on Collectors Items) Ray Briant is very very nice on the Miles Davis - Milt Jackson album. Kenny Drew, I hear his very Bud Powell influenced piano on that supa allstar bop sessions at Birdland just at the beginning of the 50´s . Hampton Hawes, maybe he played with Bird and Miles in LA in the mid fourties. I don´t think there is recordings with Barry Harris or Sonny Clark or Hank Jones together with Miles....who knows....

This is great and those records together with Jackie McLeans´s "One Stop Beyond" and "Destination Out" are very similar. Same lineup alto, vibes, trombone.....

Incredible, Peterson here looks so similar to Bud Powell in the mid 60´s it´s astonishing. Look at the series of photos of Bud in that late stage of his career, fat, silly grinnin, the eternal cigarette, really like Peterson here, but another personality probably.....

That´s how I saw him at Jazz Spelunke. It was during his stint with Beaver Harris and I think they had a day off and Joony Booth came in, and he was in company of a middle aged lady from Viena, who kind of spoke for him and translated to him. The question was, if there is a place that night where he can jam with some musicians. I remember he smoked a cigarette that looked like those hand made cigarettes some people smoke (I never was able to roll a cigarette, when I tried they looked like a snake that had eaten a rat. Well I didn´t know anything about weed and as receptive I was for harmful stuff like beer and booze, and have been smoking for 50 years (or even 51,52 if I really started at 13 on school toalet) , but never had the urge to smoke other stuff than tobaco. But back to Joony Booth : He came to Spelunke with that austrian lady who translated and they were not allowed to have live music later than until 10:00 pm because it was a building where other people had their appartments, so it was live only from 07:30 pm until 10:00, otherwise I would have been glad to jam with him.

Is there some live recordings of Eastern Rebellion AFTER the 3 that was with Cliff Jordan, I mean with the saxophonists that played later ? Because it might not be bad to hear one time the stuff with George Coleman and with Bob Berg (I doubt I saw him live with the exception of his stint with Miles). But I mostly need live performances to enjoy music (on live recordings usually you hear the drums better and you must hear everything Billy Higgin´s is doing). Anyway I think the one I have at home with Cliff Jordan was back than when I was browsing thru some LPs and found that one and bought it, because I had known Cliff from "my" Mingus Album, and Higgins from my Ornette Coleman album as well as from my Sonny Rollins album. He was my favourite drummer then !!!!! (I went to see George Coleman Quartet because of Billy Higgins !!!!!)