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I´ve heard also recordings from his Village Vanguard 2 sets exactly on his 60´th Birthday. Yes I remember on the spring tour 1980 Rufus Reid and George Cables had left and Kirk Leightsey was the new pianist and I think John Heard, who is a very very good bass player, was kind of a fill in, he didn´t stay long but was very good. Actually I saw the group in March 1980 at TU Vienna and as I remember the first tune was " It´s You Or No One" (he announced it as a "CBS Plagiate") , followed by "Fried Bananas", "More Than You Know" and "Backstairs" (at least that´s what I can remember after 38 years) . One year later I saw him at Velden with allready young Dave Eubanks on bass, I was late and just caught them for Ginger Bread Boy and Body and Soul which I think was the encore. The last time was early 1983 just a few weeks before his 60th birthday and the set was similar to the above mentioned Vangard selections: 1) Secret Love 2) More than you know 3) Good Bait (Dexter didn´t play that often, and if he played it quite slow, as he did 1969 in Amsterdam at the Paradise) 4) Jelly Jelly Jelly (with the Eckstine vocals) into LTD . It´s a shame there´s still not the promised biography about his live. The homepage about him I think it´s just very commercial, pay here, pay there....... Anyway, Dexter was something like a hero of our youth. We spent all our money to get all the Steeple Chase records. We imitated his voice, we memorized his announcements, we made trips with wrecked cars on bad streets all night long just to catch him on a live date.....

Thank you !

Bye Bye Blackbird is great, I have it.

I don´t have FB. What about did KD´s daughter say ?

very strange titles, sounds like that kind of "Third Stream" that sold well then....

Must sound interesting, 4 great trumpet players doing a Dizzy tune, and Diz´ tunes they all great, can´t get enough of it and play most of them. A whole record with such great trumpet players doin´ some really hot bop stuff might be a dream record.

Thanks for posting , Really sounds interesting to me, since I have heard some very very good trio recordings with Keith, among one that was a tribute to Miles. I liked his work with Charles Llyod, very very much the stuff he did with Miles, but the thing he became most popular with, all those solo concerts where everybody was crazy about, that was not really my stuff, I like it with a good bassist and a sharp drummer.......

Great foto. Well I also like "Evidence" a lot and love to play it, but as Monk has said when he was asked which of his songs he likes most "I haven´t rated them". It´s great that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was such a big fan of jazz also. I remember in the book "Notes and Tones" Freddie Hubbard stated that "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had called him...." Really wonderful things that happened then.....

Really very very interesting ! Thanks for posting.

I must say I´m not really familiar with that strange instrument. Don´t remind I would have seen somebody in action with it. I think there was a bassoon added on the studio version of "Cumbia" (Mingus) and.....yeah maybe it fits even if Jimmy Knepper was critic about it. But those are really strange otherworldly sounding instruments to my tastes, this and oboe , sounds a little bit like being played to make a snake get out of a basket on some oriental marketplace......, somehow the beautiful sounds of saxophones, trumpets, trombones made me feeling unconfortable on the more rarely played woodwinds.....

Oh my God, this was one of my favourite albums and still is. It was heaven on earth for me, after I had got acquainted to Clifford Jordan through the 3 LP Mingus at Paris , and another Debut thing of Mingus featuring Max Roach at the Bohemia, that album "Speak Brother Speak" was something like "closing circles" for me as a young boy. Mingus with Dolphy and Jordan, Mingus with Mal Waldron and Roach, and finally Roach with Mal Waldron and Cliff Jordan. I think I purchased "Speak Brother Speak" after I had heard Roach for the first time life. I remember I even took it to school and they played it for the students to let em hear what a drummer can do. Another great Cliff Jordan, maybe almost on the same emotional level like "Speak" is the Mingus album "Right Now!" at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. Only a quarted, the thinnest Mingus lineup I ever heard, but listen what this guys including the girl pianist Jane Getz can do. That´s the most far out Cliff Jordan I ever heard......

Sharel Cassity is tops, heard her playing with some Dizzy Gillespie Alumni feat. John Lee, Ed Cherry etc. Cindy Blackman before he went to Santana, one of the greatest drummers, fantastic what she played with Jackie McLean. Those are my favourite female jazz artists I heard more recently....

I´ve just listend to the last CD from the Cliff Jordon Strata East: The Glassbeads Game. Really great the two different quartets, the one with Stanley Cowell and the one with Cedar Walton. The Cliff-Walton-Sam Jones-Billy Higgins group became the working unit, that would record very much in the following years. In general, that Box has a lot of interesting material, but I liked most the Rhytm X, the Pharoah Sanders with Sonny Sharrock, and of course the Glass Beads Game.

I think I remember Chico Freeman played with that setting, or at least with Don Moye and some others at Velden 1979. But I must admit I was quite a newbie then and the main purpuse was to see Sonny Rollins etc. , I had dug a lot of Ornette and Don Cherry but somehow was not prepared for Chico Freeman.......

Thank you Brownie , so this must have been in the 70´s . Bill: no, I didn´t see Monk in 1961 because then I was 2 years old. Even in 1972 when the Giants of Jazz played in Vienna, I was too young to be interested in jazz. That came 2 years later, so I missed the only occasion to see Monk live.

But that cover photograh looks like from a later period than the time where he played with Rouse, Ore and Dunlop which might have been in the early 60´s , not ? Looks like Monk in the early 70´s . Who is the bass player in the background.

Yes I´m also listening to the vocal tracks and like them very much. Very rich in melody and arrangements, great thing. On the Spotlite they had omitted the vocals, with the exception of one rare vocal track by Harry Belafonte with (as is written on the cover) "probably the Machito Orchestra. Anyway I like this much more as the Verve Tracks No Noise and Mango or how they are titled.

I love that Machito with Graţiela so much . The tracks with Howard McGhee and Brew Moore are also on one of those legendary Spotlite LPs. My God, Spotlite was the best label for treasures like that. It could have gone on forever...... Howard McGhee is so fast on that "Indianola", he almost could beat Diz and Fats. Brew is classic. I´ve always been impressed by his playing a very Lestorian tenor, with a lot of Boppers like Bird, Bud, Miles, Fats, J.J., Machito, just everybody...... "Cubop City" is the longest track as I remember and at one point I think Maggie and Mario Bauza a sharing the solos..... And I love the vocal numbers, that´s classic Cuban Music , I´ve been to Cuba.

I think on the Hank Mobley BN album "Workout" there is a coca cola bottle on the floor of the studio.

thank you. So this might be worth to purchase. I remember, that all we kids were a bit confused by the track "April" , because on the album there was some wrong informations (something very usual during that time) . We had thought it´s the same date and Bird might have asked Mingus to sit in. I must admit we all were mostly interested in Mingus, who indeed does fantastic things on that track. Bird an Mingus. We had heard a trumped on the theme, but he sounded weak. Might be interesting also to hear Bird as late as 1954. The few things that remain from that unhappy year for Bird, "Bird plays Cole Porter" sounds a bit shaky, and some three tracks from september 1954 with the MJQ without Milt sound nice but it seem´s to be an exhausted and tired Bird. I think I have one else from early 54 on a BN with some good Bird but not with the best rhythm section.....

Is "I Remember April" on it ? Because it seems that LP "The Happy Bird" that I have from about the mid 70´s has 1 track with Twardzick and Mingus and I think a trumpet player with a thin sound playing only the theme. The other tracks are Bird with Wardell Gray , Roy Haynes, Teddy Kotick and Walter Bishop. I remember the track "April" has a very beautiful and relaxed sounding Bird, and a very very underrecorded piano. The record says "Boston 51" but as I said I have the impression the "April" track is from another date.

I know about a Bird in Boston recording featuring Dick Twardzik which was very much around in my youth, it was a Musidisc thing "The Happy Bird" and has 4 tracks, two of them with Dick Twardzik and Charles Mingus on bass among others, one track I remember is "April". The other tunes was a "Happy Bird Blues", a very fine "Scrapple from the Apple" and "Lullaby in Rhythm" mistitled "I may be wrong", both also featuring Wardell Gray in top form. I also have that Electra Musician Bird in Washington with orchestra, but it has nothing to do with the Bird in Boston.

Recently I listened to the two CD of an entire club date in Hamburg 1979 at Uncle Poe´s Carnegie Hall. That´s Chet in top form, with a great trio, Phil Markowitz is wonderful, the legendary Jean Louise Rassinfosse on bass, he played very much with Chet, and as a rare occasion also a drummer. I never had heard Chet with a drummer, the few times in Vienna and other Festival places in Austria it was always with piano bass, or piano guitar flute bass, anyway Chet has a great timing, he really has the time in his blood, he can play fast and slow tempos and never hurries up or drops time. As much as I love and need a drummer for my musical tastes, I never missed them on Chet´s music.

yes, that´s the box !

Johnny Griffin "Blues for Harvey" . That´s a Steeplechase album from 1973 live at Montmatre. Really a cooker. With Kenny Drew, Mads Vinding and Ed Thigpen.