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Strange ! Must admit, I never saw him live. I remember an interview with him after his comback, where he stated that he had wasted so much time and that he´s lucky to be back. Reading that interview I had the impression, that he might be a nice guy, but it´s not for the first time I heard about his stage behaviour.

The 1948 sessions with Fats and Max (the two tracks of Move) is great, also his nice playing behind Earl Coleman on the other sides of that session. I think, the late 1949 session with "Fats and Bird´s rhythm section" is not so great, but anyway, Lanphere was a great player in the Lester Young school, like Brew Moore, whom I also like very much. I remember one time reading some liner notes on a Miles Davis album, where the author tells us, that he had an informal conversation with Miles during intermission, and Miles was quite articulate, and somehow the author mentioned the town where he came from, and it was the place where Don Lamphere lived. Miles, who sure hadn´t played much with Lanphere, and never was lookin back, said to the man "say hello to Don Lanphere"........

Don´t forget Buster Williams great contribution on Hancock´s first VSOP album, the tunes with the sextet. Buster is great on that.

I remember Horace Parlan as a very nice gentleman. And of course, James Moody.

Buster Williams is sure one of my favourite bassists. I can´t mention exactly now, which albums I like most, cause I like em all, but sure I remember several occasions when I saw him live, one of them was of course his part with the Ron Carter Quartet, I think it was Velden 1979. I still remember that I paid more attention to what Buster was doing, than the leader himself on piccolo bass.With all due respect to Ron. The other thing was a Benny Golson-Curtis Fuller line up, where Buster really grooved. And I love the rhythm team Buster and Al Foster. There´s a great little record on Muse, Cecil Payne "Bird Get´s the Worm", where they are playing,

JSngry: Thank you ! I noticed my mistake after posting. Listened to the album yesterday, and noticed that maybe I had written "Sy Oliver". Of course I mean Sy Johnson. Don´t know how I could make that mistake.

I think I haven´t listened to that LP for years. Good idea to go back listening to it. If I remember right, one of the tunes was "If Dreams Come True". And another big point ! Sy Oliver was the arranger of the stuff. Rite now while I´m posting that......, I think I hear it in my head, the "voicings" you know, I think it was the way Sy Oliver makes the stuff sound.....

I have that LP, it´s very fine music. I think I remember they also played one ore two Chick Corea compositions on it. I remember the liner notes and the statement by Lee when he was invited to do a European Tour with a nonet and he was kinda puzzled and answered: A nonet ? That´s difficult ! How about a quartet and a quintet, or three trios ?

and done ! My wife ordered the book, and I purchased some of the Widow´s Taste albums.....

Anyway, that thread got me back to listen closely to Art Pepper´s records and I´m lookin forward purchasing more material. Also, I´m sure my wife will get that new book for me for some special occasion, so I´m sure I´ll read it.

Anyway, after the Giants of Jazz tour, Monk started to use Paul Jeffrey on tenor. And on a few occasions he used Pat Patrick.

Monk played very much stride on the solo. The stride version of Trinkle Tinkle is fantastic ! Anyway a hard tune, and then even with stride .... It was recorded during the same time when the Giants of Jazz played in London. I also like very much Monk´s playing with the Giants. The latest Monk I heard was 1975 at the Lincoln Center.

Well I wouldn´t say I liked them. but I recognized the sources from where they came. By the way, the most horrible cover I ever saw was on the Electra Musician "Inner Fires".....

I went there quite often during the late 70´s even if I preferred other clubs. But I went there only if some US musician was in town. By the way, you got a pn from me, soulpope !

Great performance "down there" for sure.... so, you saw it ! You lucky, I had other commitments and just made it to catch the last two tunes of Dexter. Too bad I didn´t see Art Pepper. I remember somebody told me that he played a rare "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" or something like that, for the Austrian audience of course. ..

I remember a DB interview with Don Cherry from the late 70´s maybe early 80´s where the interviewer at the end mentioned that Sonny Rollins is in town, playing. Don Cherry jumped up and said "I guess I´m a wanted man" , that´s how the interview ended......

Yes, now I remember it. It might have been around 1987. Is it possible that Bill Hardman-Junior Cook also had a booking at "Jazzland" ? .....memories.....yeah !

I think I saw Bill Hardman live in Cehoslovakia in the late 80´s if I´m right. And I remember I even got the opportunity to talk to him. Somehow I mentioned the rare Blakey album "Plays Lerner & Lowe" from 1957 where I first had heard him. And even if Hardman had made so many records, he still remembered that album. It´s possible I saw him before Cehoslovakia, maybe in Viena with Junior Cook......

I think the artwork of the original ESP albums was inspired by those Raymond Ross photographies done during Bud´s last studio session (probably early 1966). Some of those photos are in the booklet of the CD-reissue of Bud´s last album "Ups ´n Downs", with people in the studio (Stollmann, the musicians Rashied Ali and Scott Holt, and even Dizzy who was in the studio.....)

I think it was in 1981 when he played at the Velden Jazz Festival in southern Austria. I´m still mad I couldn´t be there. Would have been the last occasion to see him live.....

I remember the Stuttgart Concert was the first I got. It was on an obscure (maybe Italian label) in the 70´s. Since it was the time when I just had "discovered" the music of Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, I really loved that Rollins-Cherry collaboration. I remember, the same label had another LP "Max Roach-Sonny Rollins" from Graz (misdated as 1963 but correctly 1966). Too bad I didn´t purchase it, only heard it once. Sonny Rollins used Max and Jimie Merrit from the Max Roach group and if I remember well, they played "Love walked in" and "Poinciana". I remember it sounded great. I also remember the one extended Max Roach tune (the group was Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Harold Mabern, Meritt and Max). I also remember how Freddie Hubbard stopped at one moment during his solo feature, saying something "nice" to the audience (jive a..... mutha.....)...

Well I think I remember that Jay & Kai 1954 date and that Mingus is on that date, but it´s not my first choice, as most of the 1954 material. It´s strange, I don´t have difficulties with the more far out sections from later recordings, let´s say I really love them, but the 1954 period.....how can I say it, it´s sounds much more like "western avantgarde" as if Mingus still hadn´t found his way, trying to find something that´s too dificult for the average musician/average listener, but it still wasn´t him.

As I remember the 1953 Birdland stuff, the february session is just incredible. Another highlight are the tracks with Bird and Candido. I think, that even on the last session from september 1953 Bud still had a lot to say, even if he had slowed down a bit. But the live versions of Un Poco Loco are very interesting as a comparation to the 1951 BN date.

It seems that nobody has noticed, that Mingus was born on april 22, so yesterday was his birthday. I´d like to say, that I listened to a couple of his recordings (Black Saint and Sinner Lady, Mingus Ah Um, Three or Four Shades of Blues). It was Mingus´music that opened me up, made me listen to stuff beyond bebop and hardbop, so that I could make the transition to the "New Thing". Strange enough, one Mingus album (Great Concert 1964 Paris) was about one of the first records I heard. Even if I didn´t understand most of it during that time, I kept listening to it over and over again. Dig that, I didn´t even know who Charlie Parker was, so when I heard that "Parkeriana" and read that Parker was something like an idol for Mingus, I decided to get Parkers records. So I might say that Mingus made me look back a n d forwards (back to the roots of bop, of Duke Ellington etc., and the step to 60´s avantgarde....) As long as I live, I´ll always have to thank Mr. Mingus for his immense contributions on music, he´s one of the real giants...

It´s too bad it was to late for Hank. He might have had the same possibilities on Steeplechase, like Dexter had earlier before he returned to the States. Actually, I was really disappointed when I heard Hank´s last studio album for BN, even 10 years earlier. It sounds weak and uninspired. I really love Hank, he´s one of my favourites, I even heard that last tape from 1985 or 1986 at the Angry Squire and tried to enjoy something from that, but it´s hard to listen..... Even Dexter, who at the same time was very sick and had respiratory problems and other ailments, played better on the few dates from the 1985 Movie on, the few occasions when he played a few tunes.....