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Thank you so much for that kind review. Glad you enjoyed it !

It´s a great record. I recently listened to Bitches Brew again after decades and don´t know anymore, why people then said that it was the total switch from acoustic hard bop to electric rock jazz, because as I hear it it was not. With the added electro piano, Dave Holland still on acoustic bass, all those are still very much in the old Miles tradition. I think the switch to one chord vamps and wah wah pedals was much later, I think it was when I heard Miles....

You also fishin´? I love that hobby since I was a kid. But never went else than alone.....

Glad you have some love for Agharta ! It was the cult disc of my youth and I´ll never have another copy than the one I bought then, shortly after I had seen Miles live with almost the same group, but here Dave Liebman is replaced by Sonny Fortune. The others are the same, but there are other tunes than what I had heard live. Glad there is folks who share my fascinacion for the electric Miles period.......

He really plays nice, but I fear that it´s somehow my fault that I don´t have a sole album of him. Heard about fans that are really crazy about him and have everything he recorded, but something does not "work" for me or "exite" me the way other artists inspire me. Strange for many, but I try to be honest....., It was my first under his own name. I was a big Don Cherry Fan almost as early as I started listening to jazz. And someone had that album and I taped it on casetofon, like we all did. I think that strange guy who really had those then called "avantgarde" or "free jazz" records, also had a super rare "Charles Brackeen" Rhythm X, which I also taped since there was "MY" Don Cherry on it. That guy...... you know, had a big magnetofon, big boxes and speakers, lot of equipment, and other stuff whas not in his one room appartment. He only had an ashtray, a "sac de dormit" (who you say ? Sleepin´sack????) , a caftan and a sombrero, and I was a shy little kid, but I loved to be in that room...... Another album that I love very much. Though I think I have listened more to his first album "Lifetime", but "Spring" is an easier album, it is more "swing" in it, or "schwing" how Alfred Lion said .....

Dușco Goicovici was kind of a hero of our youth back then, His trumpet sound, I mean you have the Miles-sound and love it, and over here you had the Goicovici -Sound, different, but nevertheless there was something familiar. We loved his hard to find albums "After Hours" and "Balcani Jazz" with "Saga Secorama" or how they said it in Iugoslavia. This one must be great too !

Allen Eager ? Don Lamphere ?

Thank you so much !

I don´t have this, but all records of pre bop tenorists with the then "modern" Red Garland Trio are fine. I saw Arnett Cobb once at Jazzland with a 3 horn frontline. The altoist was great and was the almost forgotten Jimmy Ford, who once played with Dameron and Fats at Royal Roost...., only the trumpet player was somehow weak.... I only regret that there is no record of Lester Young with the Red Garland Trio...... sure ! On the tours of the Giants of Jazz around late ´72 or when it was (I missed it I was only 13 and it took me another year to get to jazz concerts) and on videos or airshots you hear the full power of Blakey much better than on the 40´s/50´s records, which was more the way they recorded then..... Monk, so he had a somewhat vacant look and seemed quite passive, played piano better then ever and this together with Volcano Blakey......whoooey

Warm Valley Yeah !

It really is. I think I remember that I have bought it very shortly after Monk´s death. I have it on one of my USB sticks in the car.

That´s interesting because it was the same impression I had. I just grew up with the then so called "Modern Jazz" and in my case it was also only the Miles version that I knew or played. Yes, raising the bridge the 4th, Bemsha Swing is a good example. Another one would be Good Bait.

She has beautiful eyes !!!

A terribel lost ! He was so busy here in Austria most of all at Graz where he taught. He was very often working in my country. The first time I saw him was with Curtis Fuller at Jazzland.

Thank you so much, Jim !

Hello friends, after 2 weeks in my second homecountry România I´m back and in the meantime our album "Waltz for Serena" is on Spotify : Have a look at our website and enjoy the music ! https://bop-explosion.com/

https://bop-explosion.com/ you have the entire album on spotify !

Great foto: Miles looks great here, not with that almost cartoonish styling he had in his last years. A rare occasion to see him without sunglasses in public. The woman on his left (!?) side must be Cicely Tyson....

Good start ! about James Moody : Let me tell you how I first heard Moody on record: You know I was a big fan of 70´s Miles and my first concert I ever went to was the Miles Band with Dave Liebman and later I saw Liebman with several groups of his own and loved his sound. And browsing thru Miles albums I saw the Miles in Paris 1949 and after I heard Moody, who sounds very very "modern" almost late Coltrane-ish in some passages I shoutet out with delight "James Moody------almost like Dave Liebman !!!!" (since at that time "Lieb" was the only sax player I knew.....

Oh, I think I must buy this, it seems to be my ideal music since I like late Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman very very much, they were among the first music that counted for me ! I remember I saw the cover of Alice Contrane´s Universal Consciousness in a record shop in România, and wanted to buy it the following day, and it was already sold, I was so dumb I had not bought it on the day I saw it !!!!! Did Dizzy have a kid ? I never heard of him being a father.... By the way, maybe it´s my fault but I almost never bought acoustic albums of the late 60´s /early 70´s since they somehow depress me: During that time almost all clubs closed, acoustic straight ahead jazz was temporarly dying, so I concentrated on free music and early electric. I think I have one Diz record from the mid sixties with Lalo Schifrin, because my wife bought it for me.....

Very very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I have been a big Sun Ra fan all my live and had loved Marshall Allen´s playing just on my first Sun Ra record "Nothing Is". Have seen Marshall Allen in the late 70´s with Sun Ra live, and later as leader of the Arkestra. Love his alto sound and his strange oboe on "Nothing Is" for example.

I have a late J.J.Johnson record titled "Pinaccle" which was very much discussed and praised when it came out. As much as I remember , J.J. after he had disappeared from the jazz scene where he had been so super active, was the much awaited "Yokohama Concert" which is fantastic, and the "Pinaccle", also fantastic. Is "Vivian" in a similar style, I mean a mixture of straight ahead and jazzrock tunes ?

The best from the Band of the midseventies. The Viena Gig back then was about the first live music I heard. All of them are great. My favourite was Al Foster. Mtume fantastic, a lot of great trumpet by Miles, and the one and only Dave Liebman, I became a big fan of Liebman right from the spot.

I don´t think I have that, since I try not to have too many records of one kind of music or interpret, but I know I must have some of them very long blues tracks with players like Trane, Chambers, Art Taylor with some wonderful block accord solos of Red Garland. I like the way he voices his chords , maybe some here in the forum like other pianists more (Horace, Kenny Drew, Ray Bryant), but those voicings helped me a lot. I have listened very very intensely to them....

I must admit I am not familiar with the music of Ahmad Jamal, I may have read hundreds of times his name, but my first few Davis LP´s or better said maybe a kind of sampler anyway had some tracks with the Trane-Garland combination, maybe the "Walkin" from the middle period with Wayne, Herbie, Ron and Tony and some early electric. So this was my first info and the first music of the old styled Miles Davis I heard. I remember, when I heard somewhere the original version of "Walkin´" I didn´t like it very much, because in my fast youth only the fast versions of the second quinted counted, I thought about the 1954 Walkin as a "lame duck"......dumb yeah, but I was a kid......