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Must be good. I must admit I didn´t know that label. From the cover pics it must be around the late 70´s . I have some of that period on the Timeless label.

Must be hot ! I remember once at a festival the Timeless Allstars with that personell was scheduled in 1983 but didn´t show up in that formation. Instead it was Jackie McLean, Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins, so I think Bobby and Billy was from the "Timeless" family, but I don´t think McLean was part of it. Anyway, this group also should have been recorded, they were super hot. Harold Land appeared with Dizzy in autumn 1983.

Is it possible that he once was with Ella Fitzgerald on TV, kind of hosted a show with Ella, with music, with interviews etc. ?

Fantastic ! Cant say musically about that genre, but that six string instrument sure looks great.

The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (Paris 1964) has a special meaning to me. It was my first deep listening experience of Mingus and turned me to open up to listen to things beyond the usual be- and hardbop. Dolphy is a great help in that sense, and Jaky Byard I think could play every style from stride to Cecil Taylor like clusters....

And I got mine signed by Dave Liebman ! Long time ago, the occasion was when I heard his band with Terumaso Hino, John Scofield, Ron McLure and Adam Nussbaum and imagine: JOHN SCOFIELD led me to Dave so I could meet him.

Great picture of those genius musicians in action !

Must have this. Especially to compare it to "Drum Ode", which I always have loved so much. And yes, in my case it was the same back then. It was very much due to Liebman that I took more and more interest in the Miles´ band of that time 73/74 and Liebman´s flute on "Ife" was a highlight of the evenings. And to have Liebman in town, he seemed to enjoy playing in Vienna and came quite often to play in our city that time and late 70´s . I remember one occasion he brought an allstar band with Terumaso Hino, John Scofield, Ron Mc Lure and Jeff Ballard and they really blew. Imagine, Scofield still as a sideman. He allready had a name since he played with Cobham/Duke, and recorded with Mingus, but still was not as famous as he got later. And IMAGINE: When I (still a shy young longhaired guy) wanted to "meet Dave Liebman" so he ´d sign "Drum Ode" for me, it was JOHN SCOFIELD who led me to Dave ! INCREDIBLE. This Dave-signed "DrumOde" is a treasure ("Peace ! Dave Liebman"). So I ´m really lookin forward hearing this album. And needless to say great stars, I heard Hamid live with Henry Grimes and David Murray one time....

Great, Mark ! And usually I also remember tunes from concerts decades ago. "Strode Rode" if I remember right, is a tune with a kind of straight ahead in it. I think the 1979 Rollins as many many musicians of his generation did all they could to avoid 4/4 tunes, the nearest thing to straight ahead was the kind of shuffle-swing of "Isn´t She Lovely". The other tunes as much as I remember was more on backbeat rhythms. Anyway on "Road Shows" Vol 4 you hear a live version of the 1979 "Disco Monk". I think as the 80´s started, some of the musicians got back into a little straight ahead swing again, same with Diz, the Diz of 1979 was much funky, disco kind of sets, and then one or two years later he eventually got back to older bop tunes.......

Imagine, Dave Liebman was one of the first musicians I heard in the 70. Since then he fascinates me. This record has a special meaning for me. Dave signed it for me. Wonderful tunes Goli Dance, Loft Dance, and a really fantastic version of Coltrane´s "Your Lady". ....... And topnotch musicians, almost an allstar band of the 70´s

I saw Sonny Rollins live only one time, it was in 1979 and I´ll never forget that event. He had one of his best quartets with Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and my alltime favourit drummer Al Foster. I don´t remember all the tunes they played, but one item was "Isn´t She Lovely" , which he had recorded only 2 years earlier. I think, shortly before the concert I saw, he had recoeded with Larry Coryell, the famous album "Don´t Ask". It was a festival, Coryell was also on schedule, but they didn´t perform together. I´ll never forget those great festivals with all them musicians they wrote books about them, living legends. Imagine, Sonny wasn´t even 50 at that time, really a quite young man.

Wow, didn´t know she also recorded for Debut. If you hear about Debut today, it´s mostly about Mingus´ own dates and a few others like Thad Jones, Paul Bley, Miles Davis Blue Moods. I think Hazel Scott lived in Paris for some time in the early 60´s. I think there is one short take of "Spring is Here" recorded in her appartment, where Bud Powell sit´s in, somehow they both play Spring is Here ...

oh this one ! I remember well when I purchased it in the late 70´s , I think it´s the logic following of "Giants of Jazz" , having Diz and Stitt together in an allstar Group. This is first rate bebop with some of the most outstanding bop tunes. I think each of the men involved during that time did other projects and played more modern music, but for this special event they all came together to dig back into their roots. But bringing all them together must have costed a fortune.

Thank you very much, Brad ! I think they have wonderful cover photos, also the photos from the inside sleeve, and nice liner notes. Right now I listen to the second CD "Four in One", with David Williams replacing Buster Williams. David Williams also wrote a nice little waltz for that album "Keep the Master in Mind" , maybe he´s referring to Cedar Walton. Gary Bartz is one of the most versatile musicians around, he has done everything from bop to avantgarde, world music , but here he shows that he never forgot his bop roots. Somehow like Jackie McLean, but he could not be confused with Jackie McLean, he has a softer sound and more subtile phrasing.

Fantastic ! I think I got to listen to Dolphy from Mingus, and the Berlin Concerts was my first Dolphy album under his own name. I think when I first heard Dolphy he seemed to me a free jazz player but he is not and never was. His lines are the next step after Charlie Parker, I think.

Heads of State-Search for Peace: Gary Bartz-Larry Willis-Buster Williams-Al Foster, really an allstar group. Can´t post the cover. Anyone ? I also have the second output "Four in One" . Too bad there is only those two records, a third might be welcome. They are so great.

One of my favourites. Great compositions by Andrew Hill. And some of the greatest musicians from that period. To have Sam Rivers in the group is fantastic. My favourite tune is "Catta".

Is this the legendary 1973 Trio with Hamp on Fender, Bob Cranshaw and Kenny Clark ? I heard there is a trio recording of Montreux of them, they played as their own unit and accopanied Dex and Jug.

I´ve listened to it recently, together with another one from about the same period "Breaking Point". I´d recommand for further listening especially "The Night of the Cookers" Vol. II, since they have the live versions of "Breaking Point" and "Jodo"

I have not listened to those (VOL 1-5) for many years. I enjoy it now, especially like others here I like much of Bud´s later playing. The very early stuff, especially the early Verves tend to be too much high register runs. The latterday performances have astute quotes from other songs, the playing is a bit more laid back, and it´s not such a speed race like earlier achievements. The drummer is okay, the bass is a bit reluctant. When Bud stops for him to do a bass solo, he just keeps walking on, not soloing. On my CD, it starts with 2 before unussued tracks , a very fast "Swedish Pastry" and a nice "There will Never be another You". But no reference to it in the liner notes. IMHO this is Bud in very good form and a very pleasant listening experience. one of my all time favourites

I this London 1971 ? The stuff with Mc.Kibbon and Blakey ? Sure that´s good stuff , the last Monk in studio I think. But a most annoying thing is cover photos of artists from other periods. I think this might be a young Monk douring the time he played at Minton´s , far away from the time he would travel the world, play in London. I noticed this very often, also vice versa: Early recordings of an artists, but the cover photo the aged artist.....

A classic and a must have for all bop fans. Fantastic choice of classic ballads and the superb baritone voice of Mr. B, and the band featuring Fats, Kenny, Miles, Dex, Ammons, Blakey etc. also cooks on bop classics like "Cool Breeze" and "Oo bop Sh bam" etc. .....

Such a great musician, composer ! Saw him on several occasions, most of them at Jazzland in Vienna where it seems he enjoyed to perform mostly during the late 90´s early 2000´s ......

Same with me, have most of the 1964 "Dexter in Radioland" albums, the 3 "Swiss Nights", and the last one "Bitin´the Apple" but also think that I can´t have everything.

Very interesting thoughts and a lot of truth in it. In my case I think that maybe the first "jazz" I may have heard through radio may have been some old styled Dixieland and it didn´t appeal to my tastes , and somehow I heard Miles Davis´ "Milestones" on a sampler that was titled "The Story of Jazz". and something happened and I had to say to myself, if this is also "jazz" I must get more of it, and so I bought Miles´ "Steaming" and that´s how it started. And reading that Bird was Miles´ first idol and so on I had to dig back to Bird and Bop and it appealed the same way to me as the midfifties "hardbop", and paying attention to Trane´s solos it became searching after Trane´s stuff into the 60, and from Trane to Ornette, and then (it was the mid 70´s ). Somehow everything from Midforties Bop to late 60´s "New Thing" seemed to appeal to me, and it is much harder for me to dig more into the past. I heard, that japanese fans have Similar tastes. They collect everything starting from bop to hardbop to post bop and so on and there seems to be a lesser audience for earlier styles.