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I´ve listened recently to the long track of "Sonnymoon for two" from 2010 , the only encounter of Rollins and Ornette Coleman, and also noticed, thev Christian McBride really is into that kind of "harmolodic playing", he follows Ornettes trademark modulations as sure as Charlie Haden or David Izenzon did.

This foto ist made in Vienna, Jazzland !

Can´t post the pic now, but I´ve been listenig to Sonny Rollins´ "Roadshows Vol. 1" again. I like very much the quartet performances with Marc Soskin, Jerome Harris and Al Foster. This was a tight working unit and they toured much and I saw them in that formation. Only the last track "Enchanting Evening" seems to lack inspiration and fire. I´ve heard it was the 50´s anniversary of Rollins at Carnegie Hall, but something went wrong that evening. The other newer tracks from 2000-2006 are very fine.

Fantastic ! Woody Shaw at Baker´s Keyboard Lounge in Detroit with Detroiter Roy Brooks, with Gary Allen and Robert Hurst. A must have record.

A typical live set of Pharoah´s great quartet in the early 80´s , the way I heard them , for example at Hollabrunn 1985. Like Archie Shepp, Sanders after the years of new thing avantgarde switched to a more traditional quartet format, playing his thing, but also some ballads and standards. Here, everything is perfect, Trane´s Ole, Dameron´s On a Misty Night, the great "Heart is a Melody" with voices, "Goin´to Africa with the audience chanting along with Pharoah, nice !

My favourite is "Rhythm X" by Charles Brackeen (sax) with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell on the Strata East Label. It´s from the late 60´s. And now again available as part of Cliff Jordan´s Mosaic Box .

This was the first "Jazz" LP I ever heard. I friend of mine had it, but another cover, and I had it on cassette. I think I heard it thousands of times. From that moment a new jazz fan was born.

Sam Rivers ! Such a great, such a fantastic musician. I like this album, which was my first Sam Rivers listening experience. The scores for the horns, the solos, the compositions, the personnel, fantastic !

Great, I´ve also listened to it last week. IMHO the best from the ´70s Steeplechase Gordon albums. All of them are great, but I like this best for the rhythm section, Al Foster is probably my favourite drummer.

Great ! And sure.....that´s the changes Diz used for "Tour de Force". Enjoyed it !

That´s the one with Roy Brooks also featured playing the musical saw ?

For the first time I had heard the title tune on the "Miles Davis Greatest Hits", a sample album that was en vogue in the 70s. I think we were fascinated by the tune but couldnt check out the changes. Later I learned that it´s not far removed from "Little Melonae". The strange thing on those CBS albums is that Miles didn´t compose much. Most of the tunes were written by his sidemen. It´s very interesting to compare versions of their compositions with the BlueNote albums they made under their own leadership. In this case "Little One" from Hancock, also on his own BN album "Maiden Voyage" ...

Oh thanks, didn´t know that. In general I hear from what source the changes are coming, but it seems in this case I havent´ heard the source, or didn´t remember it. But Monk knew all the swing tunes. I think I have Jeepers Creepers on an old Tommy Dorsey record, should listen to it again to compare it with "Tour de Force". At least: If someone might "call" Jeepers Creepers" at least I would know the changes from "Tour de Force".....

That group was fantastic, I think the stuff was on a label "Affinity" . "Impressions fascinated me most of all.

Also one of my favourites. On my CD´s is a short piano solo piece that´s untitled and in the liner notes it´s stated that nobody could find a title to that little piece. I´m not sure, it sounds like if you might know it, but that can be Monk´s style, the way he approaches ballads. But I´m not sure, could it be a little theme from "In the Stage Door Canteen" ?

I love that DVD. Tour de Force is also on the legendary double album from the Giants of Jazz. Monk seemed to be inspired by this nice Dizzy Gillespie Composition with the descending chords. All solos are beautiful on this tune and I love Blakey´s drumwork. The most fascinating thing about Blakey is that you can hear how he plays in different manner for each soloist, he plays another way for a trombone solo than for a saxophone solo and so on. Even after his hearing got very bad he still had that fantastic way to adapt his playing to the instrument that´s soloing.

Inspired by a music discussion yesterday, I´ve listened to those two. Just great. The 2´nd quinted at it´s best.

That´s the Boris Rose typewriting with all the errors. Didn´t know he recorded as far als Joe Henderson/Woody Shaw , thought that his time was late 40´s early fifties. I think I have an obscure Bud Powell LP Queen Disk with material from the spring sessions, and it´s just a piece of paper with typewriting just glued on the album cover.

Maybe because it´s "in between". See, I love the "2nd Quintet" but most of all the live albums,and of course "E.S.P." and "Miles Smiles". But even "Nefertiti" doesn´t exite me in the same manner and so I kind of hopped to "Miles in the Sky", "Filles de Kilimanjaro" and "In a Silent Way" . It´s that way, maybe after some of the "2nd quinted" I was curious what will happen next, with Chick Corea and Dave Holland replacing Herbie and Ron ? with adding electric piano and trying out Fender Bass...... Anyway, in the Viennese Scene of that time "Filles de Kilimanjaro" had a special meaning to me. Viennese folks of my generation many of them loved that music, but didn´t know how to pronounce album titles, especially if it was in French. I ´ll never forget how guys would ask you "hast Du schon die Fil-les de Killi-Mann-Tscharo" ? (and you must add the "L" as the special Viennese "L"

I´ve heard the "So What" on a late 70´s sampler "Miles Davis-Greatest Hits" but it´s a shame I never purchased the whole album. This might be a good idea to purchase it finally. I have almost all Miles Columbia albums, only this one and "Sorcerer" and "Big Fun" are missing. Fantastic, my favourite Art Farmer album with a superb rhythm section (Cedar Walton Trio). I have it on LP (signed by Art Farmer himself with a dedication ) and CD.

A nice collaboration between Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane. and a nice Quintet date by Red Garland.

Indeed !

Never saw him live, but as many I first got to hear him on the 2 1975 Miles Davis albums, and with McCoy Tyner. He´s also on Mingus´ album "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" from 1977. Later he worked with a Libanese Oud player and made some very interesting music with him.

This is the Nonet for the Roulette Label. Great solos, great tunes, and arrangements by one of my favourite arrangers Sy Johnson.

Yes, this was the "Lineatre" series from Italy, I purchased it in 1978. This, and the french Musidisc (see my above posted "Tanganyika Strut" were a very fine and cheap way for a budding jazz lover to purchase as much as possible material . Don´t forget in the 70´s a lot of classic albums were OOP. If I could get some discography or recommendations for albums, at least every 2nd one was OOP, BN was just a fiasco, most of the stuff not to purchase, a welcome exception were the BN LA-Series 2 LP sets. I remember one of my favourites was "Paul Chambers - John Coltrane" with much of the "Whims of Chambers" stuff, the stuff with Kenny Drew from the Westcoast and the three tracks from the Transition-Label.