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Very good stuff and Coltrane in top form.

John Coltrane Tanganyika Strut. This is a Musidisc LP.

you can read it from Axel´s stories on the site of the club. "Story des Monats".... one of them is about that incident. I liked to read it because I witnessed it myself. And almost everybody who played with that same rhythm section loved it, so it was not their fault, it was just Joe Newman´s attitude.

Yes, Don Byas, and Brew Moore and Lucky Thompson. I remember having read in Ronnie Scott´s book about them as being difficult. But do you also remember Joe Newman at Jazzland , it was quite an embarrassing experience to see him lecturing our really good local sidemen who performed with him. The bass player said he wouldn´t play again with him.

And also from the same period "Miles Davis and Horns". Actually, on the Sonny Rollins album Miles plays piano on one track. It was Miles´ session and he asked Weinstock to give Rollins a date as a leader.

Purchased this one 40 years ago. The first side is the last of three Barry Ulanov "Battle of the Bands" radio shows: Birds, Fats Navarro, John La Porter, Allen Eager, Lennie Tristano, Billie Bauer, Tommy Potter and Buddy Rich, Sarah Vaughan. And the second side is the Charlie Parker at Carnegie Hall Chrismas 1949. Bird´s solo on "Koko" is incredible. This is one of my favourite live sessions of Bird.

Wonderful, and fitting to the 1951 Davis. I often spin this early Rollins and then Miles´"Dig" also featuring Rollins.

I remember trumpetist Joe Newman was famous for that. He seemed to enjoy playing in my hometown Vienna, but after a few occasions no one from the local musician scene wanted to play again with him. He had that attitude to "lecture" the band members on stage about how to play, how not to play etc etc etc. Never understood why. He was a solid trumpet player in the mainstream style, but not more.

Right ! The tracks from February were missing, it was only "Half Nelson", "Mike´s Blues" (that´s how they had mistitled "Down"), and "Move" and "The Squirrel" from september 51 with Eddie Lockjaw Davis.

The Miles Davis 1951 at Birdland is fantastic ! I also have that CD with the complete material. In my youth there as a red LP with most of the material, on an italian Label it was titled "Miles Davis at his rare of all rarest performances" . Red cover. Everybody loved it. They just would ask you "Did you get the "red Miles Davis album" .......?

Great album. This and the second one "Rollin´with Leo", also very good baritone stuff. I think a further album co-starring Dexter Gordon was planned, but never could be realised because of the sudden death of Leo Parker. That would have been a great reprise of the famous Dexter-Leo Parker stuff from the forties for Savoy. But at least they could re-record Dexter with Bud (also former Savoy collaboration) on " Our Man in Paris".

Fine the radio shows with Barry Ulanov commenting the "Battle of the Bands". Originally I had this material on 2 different LP labels. The tracks with Dizzy and Roach were on a Spotlite LP, and the tracks with Fats and Buddy Rich were on a Musidisc Charlie Parker Broadcasts 1947 LP. Lennie Tristano is really great on the broadcasts, but very weak on the 1951 Parker-Tristano duo tracks.

I listened to it last week . Great the two groups, the Swedish All Stars and Art Farmer, and the legendary Atlantic City Band of Tadd Dameron. It´s interesting there´s also a BN album with the same title "Memorial" also featuring two different recording sessions .

This one ! This album has a special meaning to me. It was around 1977 and I was a new born jazz fan. Until then I only had two LP´s (Miles Davis "Steamin´" and Charles Mingus "Mingus Ah Um") A good source of information during that days was a radio programm on Saturday Night called "Jazz Shop". The DC Herwig Wurzer spinned and commented records that were new ore newly reissued on the jazz market and he was a voice in the night like Symphony Sid would have been for those a generation before me. He played the first 2 tunes "Winterset" and the fantastic slow blues "Gotcha Goin and Comin". I think I haven´t spinned that for 4 decades. Almost have forgotten how good it is, everybody, Byrd´s trumpet is fantastic, Frank Foster, Hank Jones, Paul Chambers (my "hero" from the classic Miles Davis quinted, see..... those men Miles Trane, Red, Paul, Philly J.J. was heroes to me like let´s say for the teenie girls would be John Travolta then...). Highly recommended if you find it or have it. Play it !

@paul secor Great ! Really exiting music. I heard the Arkestra only on one occasion in spring 1980, and then it was much more into a mix of some free passages, some Fletcher Henderson arrangements, and some bebop. But I like both directions : The free forms from the 60´s and the more traditional from the late 70´s on.

Great ! But my personal favourit Sun Ra of that time and also on ESP is this one:

Same here: My wife ordered it for me as a birthday present. I also got the message that the shipping will be in mid dezember, that´s about around my birthday, well if not, I hope I´ll have it for Chrismas. Anyway, during the winter holidays you can´t do so much outdoor, good occasion to read some new jazz bio. And Dexter always has been one of my favourites, life and on records.

Must be great !

I´ve almost forgotten how good this is: It´s interesting, there´s also a BN album of Clifford Brown titled "Clifford Brown Memorial". This one is a Prestige output. Two sessions, both from 1953. The Swedish musicians are superb ! It´s the creme de la creme of the then active swedish musicians, Lars Gullin, Arne Domnerus, Bengt Hallberg (it seems that he influenced Ray Bryant), and the combination with Art Farmer, both then in Lionel Hamptons gang I think. And the Dameron session with Philly J.J., one of the best Dameron sessions. The Atlantic City band. And Benny Golson is great on his "Don Byas" styled tenor.

This one. A classic ! But the first Dameron album under his name that I purchased was the other one, the one with John Coltrane "Mating Call". Both are great.

I remember well that record with the trio with Jimmy Rowser and Tootie Heath. My father, who didn´t like jazz, got it from somewhere and actually it was the first "jazz" I heard, when I was only 6 years old. I remember it fascinated me. Much later, already a jazz buff and playing myself I listened to it again and it´s like Art Farmer told Mr. Gulda once: "Get that edge off!" Mr. Gulda sure was one of the greatest classical pianists, but at least at that stage of his jazz playing, it doesn´t swing even if it´s straight ahead. It sounds like a great classical piano player who WANTS to play jazz.

I have the DVD with the whole concert. From about 1969 it became quite hard for Monk to keep a steady rhythm section. Me too I´m unfamiliar with them, but the bass player is very strong, but Paris Wright (the son of the bass player Herman Wright) just hurries up, on some tunes he gets faster and faster, and he has a strange way to hold the sticks. The best tracks are those two where Philly J.J. sits in, that´s were you really hear how drums have to sound, and Monk starts to get much more involved. Charlie Rouse is good as always, but I think it was his last tour with Monk.

Same on Don Cherry about Sonny Rollins. I remember a DB interview with Don Cherry and at the end of the interview Don was told that Sonny Rollins is playing that night. Don Cherry answered "I think I´m a wanted man" and hurried away, probably to jam with Sonny. This must have been around 1980...., much later than the recorded collaboration from ´62-63

My personal "Prestige Festival" is going on: This one was my first Sonny Rollins as a leader , purchased 40 years ago. It´s interesting that my next Rollins album would be the much heavier "Stuttgart 1963" with Don Cherry, no piano, Henry Grimes and Billy Higgins. I still remember I was even more impressed by the Rollins-Cherry connection.

Perhaps my favourite Joe Henderson BN album. The combination with Andrew Hill is great. Such a lot energy on that album.