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That´s what me had told Allan Praskin with whom I have played very often. He recorded for ESP, is the co-leader of the James Zitro album. I like that album very much.

I am maybe the last one who would buy an Oscar Peterson album or listen to him, but I think I heard that jam, it is very good horn players, and Eddie Lockjaw is outa sight. Diz is in top form as is Clark Terry. Only that it seems that Diz made some compromis to not scare Peterson cause Diz was much more ahead of the time than. He didn´t play the straight ahead bop clichés anymore, had a young modern quartet with Rodney Jones, Benjamin Franklin Brown and Mikey Roker. The sound good but I don´t really like Nils Hennig, he has a too even tone and his solos sound like exercises, and I like if you hear more plucking the strings and musical thrill from a bass player. Nils he got a helluva chops, but somehow goes into a too plain manner like his longtime boss Peterson. Imagine those horn players with someone like Buster Williams and you´d hear the difference. I heard that album but OWN only one Peterson album: Singers Unlimited, maybe because you don´t hear to much of Oscar Peterson 😀 Diz, Jaws, Clark all were hip guys with style, and musical taste and an attitude you have to listen to it and love to listen to it.

I like it much more than let´s say "Page One". Especially Andrew Hill brings it to live. I love Joe Henderson, but especially interesting is that "rhythm section" (I hate that word !) with such tough players, who always have thrilled me.

I have never heard him or seen him but often read his name. Wasn/t he one of the guys who recorded for ESP. Like Guiseppe Logan, I have never seen or heard him, and he was ESP. Anyway, those war interesting musicians on an interesting label. The only thing is, that a still living ESP artist with whom I have performed very often said that they didn´t get paid and it seems that he did not like tha Lawyer who was the boss of it. Okay keep away from Lawyers, there want your money but dont give you money...thats a fact.

I bought them in the first half of the seventies, both Tetragon and Canyon Lady, listen to them on USB stick. Actually, the first Joe Henderson LP I had was Canyon Lady. All Milestones albums, all of them, each artist....they were great and a great part of the top acts on jazz festivals were "Milestone Stars".

Same here, I LOVE it, and .....no influence at all, but a coincidence.....that dramatic effect of the voice, spoken and sung on the title track ....such a thing will be on our upcoming album. And yeah. Though this music might have been recorded almost 60 years ago, people still tend to not understand it. But it´s such a natural thing.....it only needs listening.....it´s beautiful !!!! You really got it, both McLean and Pharoah, exactly hand in gloves with my musical tastes.....😀 Yeah, it´s astonishing....so many people scream over the collaborations with Gil Evans, and here we are some people with big ears, but obviously not prepared for that kind of music...... I love the melody of Concierto de Aranjuez, but not in that setting....Miles is more than okay.....but it would have been great with a small group with guitar. I love "Aranjuez" as a melody really much and even quote from it in my composition "Miss RA´s Choice" since the girl I dedicated it to, was born in Spain, so it´s just a musical "nod" towards the place of her arrival (....hey she claims to be Sun Ra´s spiritual daughter and that´s why she doesn not say "birth country"...but "place of arrival (on earth) 😍)

Interesting comparation....seems that for younger guys or guys with more rhythmic conception and non classical sound conceptions don´t find the Gil Evans Version easy to listen.

This is one of my favourite post 1980 Miles Davis albums and has a special meaning to me: It´s definitly "Night Music"....I have to listen to late in the night, if I have a certain mood, a kind of "state of grace" or a semi trance.....and it´s beautiful, BEAUTIFUL !!! I heard it in late 1987 the first time. I never forget that night. A few hours before, my first son was born, I was there when he was born....and when I finally got back home....this was the first time I heard that great music and never will forget that moment. Yesterday I had a long drive thru the night, not a highway drive, it was just "drum național” thru the country and I had that wonderful feelings, that deep feeling of purest love because I got the most beautiful girl I ever saw..... and again..... that music on the USB in my car. It may be a sacrilege from the point of view of the elder generation, but I prefer this kind of "Spanish Feeling" to "Scetches of Spain", maybe it´s a question of generation, but as great as Miles´ trumpet is and as much I love the theme of Concierto de Aranjuez, nevertheless I never really could get warm with the Gil Evans sound, it sounds a bit to western classical music, to "serious" for my tastes maybe, too little emotion for my restless soul... my fault, no question, but I am more towards sounds like that, and Markus Miller did a great job on it. And Miles.....who says that his playing after his comeback was weaker, he has that great sound, pure genius !

what a great frontline, you are lucky !

thanks !

purchased and enjoyed ! Great ! That´s the kind of acoustic straight ahead I still listen to. That version of "Donna Lee" is incredible. And as I said, Cindy Blackman when she was a jazz only drummer was my favourite of her generation.

Love it and posted my impressions about her here on Friday....

ordered 😄

Is it only a discography or is also some stories or infos about the musicians and the music etc. ?

I have read that he had also connections to Viena since he had studied classical guitar there. I saw his group Oregon once.....well that was a festival with big names like Herbie Hancock, Blakey, Diz, Jackie McLean (I dug him most of course !) and well.....the Oregon music was not exactly my can, but it had great moments that I dug.

Sounds like something I might like. Oh.....Beaver Harris 😄 Buster Williams 😄 I saw Larry Coryell only once but liked it very much. It was shortly after he had recorded with Sonny Rollins ("Don´t Ask!")

I think I might give it another try. I have it somewhere but I doubt I listened to it more than twice. If I remember, I was a bit disappointed by the sound of Hank´s tenor and had the impression, that his lung problems had started since he sounds if he was very short of breath... But as I said, maybe if I don´t have anything better to do, I´ll give it another try.... oh oh ! this might be something for ME !!!! I am so much into those more spiritual kinds of the music now, late Trane, Pharoah, Albert Ayler and Alice Coltrane I might love it. Seems to be a must for me. And .....Pharoah Sanders is.....maybe my most favourite of all of them....watch out my upcoming album with an original I dedicated to him !

I don´t see the point, Hank Mobley was one of my favourites and sure of a lot of fans and I think there is an increasing interest in his music. Music students get better and better and really dig what was stuff. So I don´t really care if Hank Mobley smoked or not. I practically grew up in jazz joints with all that smoke in cellar clubs, I was underage when I started to go to them joints, and like all of us guys I started to smoke early. Right now I couldn´t imagine to smoke in a club, that´s over, indifferent whether it´s allowed or not, it´s just out of fashion. If you want to smoke, you go out in front of the door during intermission or so, that´s everybody´s own business, but I am glad my clothes and my hair don´t smell smokey anymore.

I remember I saw and heard her in Miles´ band from late 1985. Mike Stern had returned after Scofield left, and I must admit I liked Stern more in Miles´ band than Scofield, maybe for a lot of you that might be a sacrilege but Stern had more the power I enjoyed from Miles guitarists from 1973 on....(Reggie Lucas, Pete Cosey !). Yes, I remember Marilyn Manzur had a special solo spot and maybe also danced a bit. But in general it was not the most memorable Miles Concert: I saw him in the same year in summer and somehow the band, or Miles himself had more power, and as I remember the November 85 concert was the only Miles Concert I ever saw that was not sold out ! Maybe there was a kind of unsureness of Miles where to go next musically, since the deal with Columbia ended and it was before the deal with Warner Brothers.

I love Clifford Jordan ! Okay, first I had heard him only on record. That was actually my second to first jazz album at all when I was a kid "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus" from Paris 1964, and I still did not know any of the musicians with the exception of Mingus and Dolphy, but imediatly liked Clifford Jordan. Later I heard them in Europe with Cedar Walton, it must have been in the mid 70´s, anyway after 73, 73 was my first year of jazz and my first concert was Miles. And soon after that Mingus....so I was "hooked" for ever !

sure, soon !

I got the test pressings of the vinyls last week and it sounds great ! Album will be out in the middle of february, also will be a video on youtube and social media which we did today in the studio of the record company 😄

yeah, the one with Mellow Tone and Undecided I had heard. The one with Eddi "Lockjaw" Davis and Harry Sweets Edison reminds me of the second half of the 70´s when I saw them together live on several occasions. It was great ! Though I was more into more advanced forms of jazz, they swung so hard it was just wonderful, I loved it, loved them !

thats some music I like ! I don´t think I know it. I think once I saw a Pablo record of Benny Carter with "In a Mellow Tone" on it, very fine, but this seems to be another record. Anyway I like those lesser known Pablos, not all that Oscar Peterson stuff of which Norman was so fond of, no....more those he maybe didn´t get the same top billing though they the greatest, like Benny Carter, Like Eddie Lockjaw Davis (I only would have wished Jaw´s album had another pianist....)......