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A classic, and I bought it also 1978 (those "That´s Jazz" series was easy to purchase and a good way to start a collection for a youngster like me ) when I was heavily into all that "New Stuff", discovering the music of Ornette Coleman and other avantgarde pioneers. This one is particularly intersting, since Trane has worked with other free jazz musicians like Pharoah Sanders, but this one with Don is especially welcome. The even play some Ornette compositions, so Ornette was omnipresent then. And "Bemsha Swing" was a favourite of Don Cherry.

Great, I love that record, and it´s a really nice photo of Chet, maybe one of the few moments in his life when he looks happy and relaxed. Those sandals, I saw him wearing sandals even when it was cold outside. The last time I saw him live (and it was a fantastic evening, he was on time and very articulate and in top form) was late 1987, and I was astonished that he wore those sandals without socks, maybe trumpet playing keeps feet warm

a wonderful record. I think, Chet played "No Problem" quite often, also after that collaboration with Duke Jordan. All his Steeplechase records are treasures. Next spinning would be the lovely "Daybreak".

oh sorry, wrong thread. Thought I was on the "what spinning now".......

oh, one of my favourite Mingus albums. I got this one in april 1978 and still spin it very often. I remember how we all hummed those great tunes. Pepper Adams I think on "Moanin´" (which has nothing to do we Bobby Timmons´ Messengers tune with the same title), the fun of "Jelly Roll", and above all "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting". Fantastic band with Booker Erwin, Handy, Parlan, Knepper, and above all my favourite Danny Richmond. And Mingus plays some astonishing bass solos on this. I think when spinning Minugs, two get most spinning: "Great Concert" and "Blues & Roots" ........, but I have a whole batch of Mingus albums...... Mingus was my hero of the youth, though I never could meet him, he was my mental "teacher". Through him I learned that there was Bird, through him I could make "the step beyond" to free forms, to Ornette and Cecil Taylor and so on.......

I purchase this around 1981 when it came with a whole batch of new records to my record dealer who knew me well (those were the great times, to buy LPs at your record dealer, where you met other fans, listend to records, discussed the music and spent at least an hour). On this, Ron McClure has replaced Paul Chambers. He is also a very good bass player, I could admire his skill´s when he played with a fantastic group with Dave Liebman. I like this live date with the extended tunes, Jimmy Cobb has some great moments. George Coleman always has been a favourite of mine.

But at least here in Vienna he had that kind of reputation......, you know he was always booked as a single with a local rhythm section but he always had that kind of lecturing the band on stage, much to the embarresment of the solid guys who played with him who had played with a lot of others too. I say, you can check them out on rehearsal and tell them how you want a certain tune, but not on stage ! I don´t know what he wanted, everything sounded fine, but I think you don´t necesarly have to lecture musicians for playing "Bye Bye Blackbird". I´d say he has a fine sound and was really a 100% trumpet player.

What a great record ! Three Giants together ! Fantastic . Really an allstar summit. And the 1954 session I think is the only one that Mingus did for BN as a sideman. One of the most important bop sessions of 1946, this and "Dexter Rides Again".......

This must be interesting. I saw Joe Newman on several occasions, and Eddie Chamblee once. Hamp one time in 1983.

A very nice record and some of the tunes from "My Fair Lady", "Paint my wagon" and so on cannot be heard often by a jazz combo. Great line of the 57 edition of the Messengers with Griff and Bill Hardman. I bought this RCA "Black and White" Series in spring 1978 and still have it in good shape. A beautiful thing. Once I met Bill Hardman and told him that the first time I heard his trumpet was on this "Messengers play Lerner and Lowe" and he said "yeah, I remember that date" .

I´ve seen Benny Golson, Art Farmer, Art Blakey, Johnny Griffin, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie

I remember Paul Zauner very well, since it seems that in the late 80´s he was settled in Vienna and we jammed together on the one or other occasion......., and it is true he is a genial jazz impressario and could get the best US avantgarde musicians..... Yes, I think it was my third Mingus album, after the 3 LP set "The Great Concert" and "Blues and Roots". But when I ordered it (during those days you were lucky if the albums from the Jazz Cataloge were not OOP) I had expected a more advanced thing, I mean the Mingus Quintet PLUS Max Roach, that means TWO DRUMMERS together, like let´s say Billy Higgins and Ed Blackwell on Ornette´s "Free Jazz", and was quite astonished when I listend to it with very conventional standards "Foggy Day", "April" "Lady Bird" with only a slight touch of what might the Mingus of the next 10 or 20 years. The only track of completly free jazz (even more advanced than Mingus with Dolphy) is "Drums" which is super free jazz, where you definitly cannot hum a melody or tap your feet..... But usually I listen to it together with it´s twin album "Chazz", sometimes also called "At Bohemia" which also features one Roach title "Percussion Discussion".

Since a few days "Redd´s Blues" was posted, where I must admit and wrote, that it´s not quite a favourite of mine (mostly due to the drummer ), this one is top. Here the superb front line McLean Brooks get´s great support from the great Louis Hayes, and the compositions are beautiful. It´s just mention "The Thespian" which is sheer beauty and let´s me think about green hills and horses (actually Freddie Redd once stated he´d wish to have a farm with horses), and the wonderful "Just a Ballad for my Baby" and "Swift" ultra fast, but the theme almost sounding like a broadway dance show, and not to forget Freddy Redd´s piano style, very individual, really .

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 !!!!!