Gheorghe

Well, would be nice to hear him again with a piano-player. The organ is cool, but I think in the last years he played only with organ players. Is he still active ? At least I saw him live last year. Though we know from the beginning the tunes he would play, it´s always nice to see a LD-show....

If he had been only "lost", it would have been much more than I witnessed. When I saw the band (Thad Jones-Mel Lewis) around 1978, Thad Jones didn´t even have his trumpet. He just "conducted", a big disappointment for me, since I was a young guy, already had heard Thad Jones´ trumpet on records and was lookin forward hearing him with HIS Big Band. Well , after so many years, naturally my musical insight grew, and now I understand what it means to conduct, but then I didn´t understand what´s about music if you don´t play your instrument.... Anyway, even if I was disappointed that Mr. Jones didn´t play the trumpet on that evening, later I noticed there must have been something about his conducting, because after he died and Mel Lewis continued the band for a short time, nothing was happening. Sad, because Mel Lewis was a helluva drummer, but the band without Thad wasn´t the band anymore.

The 1981 live album with John Hicks is really great. Another live album from that period : "Heart is a Melody", with a rare version of Tadd Damerons "On a Misty Night". You mentioned "Love is Everywhere". I also like that very much. The title melody got that peaceful mood that I first found in "Healing Song" from "At The East".

I saw him several times. One special occasion was with Jackie McLean, Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins ! Really a dreamband !

I like that album, it´s really a nice thing. I also like the percussion stuff on it very very much. But I think it´s not as great as Karma or "Live at the East", the latter one was the first Pharoah Sanders album I got, shortly after it was in the stores, and anyway one of my first albums, when I was still a kid.... I still have it, and thought I´d like Mr. Sanders to sign it for me, but I was a bit afraid so I didn´t ask him, especially after I heard that he is not pleased with the stuff he did earlier. ...

The day before I had a gig and played quite a lot of Monk´s tunes. I love to play his tunes.

That´s really strange: I had forgotten about september 28, but nevertheless I listened to some Miles in Europe 1969, without being aware of the date of his death. That´s strange because I hadn´t listened much to Miles recently, and it was the only music I listened to on that day.

Right now I don´t remember the title of the album, but it´s a live recording from about 1962 or later, with Tommy Flanagan, Major Holley and ......don´t remember the drummer, and they do a very good version of "Talk of the Town", I remember Hawk announced the tune as a pretty old ballad that you don´t hear much anymore...... I think the record was made at the Village Vanguard.....

First heard him on "Eastern Rebellion" and liked it very much, and all the stuff that followed. So I really was looking forward when it was announced he will join the Miles Davis Group. But even he couldn´t change the situation, the general boredom of the Miles Shows from around 1984 on. I remember, he really looked bored on stage, playing very little. Anyway, what can you add to "Time after Time" and "Human Nature", if you must play it every evening, year for year......

Yeah, I have it, it´s great latterday Dex, from 1979 with the usual standard-program, starting with "It´s You Or No One", "More than you know", and "Backstairs". And don´t forget the "Hampton-style" jam with Arnett Cobb, Budd Johnson, playing "Flyin´Home". The only disapointment was, that Arnett Cobb didn´t solo on that. The DVD is great. Quite amusing is the belated start of Dexter on "It´s You Or No One", he was late, so the rhythm section started with an almost endless "intro", just that "bang bang bang" how they used to introduce the tune. Dexter is a bit shaky on the start of his solo, off course due to the fact that he "had his cups"......, well anyway, it´s worth purchasing....

Great stuff, really ! Really knocked me out. But I wasn´t that much surprised. Even from 1970 on, sometimes they went straight ahead. Even as far as in 1975, on Agartha and Pangaea, on each of the albums there is a straight ahead section, on the C-side if I remember right. And on the 1981 "The Man with the Horn" (Ursula), and the straight ahead sections on "Kix" from "We Want Miles". On that 1970 stuff, I don´t think it is really "So What", they just walk on in a modal manner in the key of D, they don´t play the channel in E-flat. So it´s not the AABA pattern, they just "go ahead"......

Happy Birthday, dear mspepper, and many many more happy ones. And thank you for your great contributions to keep the memory of your genius husband alive. Best wishes from Vienna, Gheorghe

I also remember that fantastic McCoy Tyner Sextet, I think it was around 1980. He can also be heard on the album "Horizon"

He became better and better and better. I must admit, I didn´t pay very much attention to his playing when he was a member of the Charlie Parker Quintet and - not talking about Bud - , I preferred Al Haig, sometimes John Lewis and Tadd filling in that role, and I wasn´t somehow influenced by Miles´bashing, it was a long time before "his" book came out. But the Duke Jordan from about 1960 on, during the following decades - fantastic !

Yeah great stuff, and I remember a great album Duke Jordan together with Chet Baker, "No Problem" if I remember right.

yeah, great drummers, and I´m the most happy person.....

Well, I´m a bebop lover, but Mr. DeJohnette is so much more than bop. That´s why I love him. The stuff he did with Miles is just incredible, the last BN album of Jackie McLean, the stuff with Charles Lloyd and Keith, and if you listen close, you hear enough in it that will exite you.

Must be great to hear, two giants

such a fantastic drummer, saw him live on several occasions, unforgettable with Pharoah Sanders

@Rooster_Ties: Yes, it´s the "New Steps" album. When I bought them, there where only those two albums "Unity" and "New Steps" in the record store. "Other Voices, Other Blues" might be interesting, but I don´t think I´ll find it. Some years ago, while reminiscing Sun Ra´s performance that I saw live, I purchased a CD from Rome/Italy, done in March 1980 about the same time I saw them in Viena. But I don´t know the label of that record, though I don´t think it was a HORO re-issue. It seems that Sun Ra had a big following in Italy, since he played and recorded quite often there.....

I still have the HORO Vinyl of Sun Ra "Unity" and the quartet album. I like Unity more. But it´s strange that Sun Ra plays only organ on that. Somehow I missed the Max Roach "Loadstar" when it came out.

besides the above mentioned tunes, I especially like "No Smokin´" , a tune that I love to play. Also a great tune is "The Outlaw" from the album "Further Explorations".

Jack McClean? Jackie McLean!

Yeah, that´s it ! I knew it was some stuff on Xandadu, and I also thought about Terry Gibbs. Well I bought all those Xanadu´s a long time ago, the stuff from Minton with Charlie Christian and so on, some other bop stuff, the rare Dizzy Gillespie with Rubberlegs Williams, some Fats Navarro with Earl Coleman, but didn´t pay much attention to that Manor sides, got to listen to them eventually.....

I must admit I´m not very well informed about clarinet players, but is it possible, that he´s on one of those Xanadu albums "Bebop Revisited" ?