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love the cover. My new girlfried "Miss RA" to whom I dedicated a composition which will be on my next album (out early 2026) and SHE wore that kind of pantyhose on our second date (naturally at a jazz club), on that date in the night of July 1st she also came with me at home to my place and "after it" 🤩😎😄😋, SHE set down at my piano and started to play around with some phrase which became the basis for that special tune !......what more can a musician wish ???????

So GREAT !!!!! I LUVE Billy Holiday. And sure the girl I chose as a singer for my next album we gonna record early this autumn has some of the voice and feeling of Lady Day, I heard that girl sing and I knew something great will happen and it happens. GOOD MORNING HEADACHE here in Europe, it´s morning and it´s quite sour I don´t like that time of the day even if I didn´t sleep the whole nite, too focused on everything that´s happenin.....

So great. I love them. Liebman is one of my all time favourites since I had heard him with Miles in the 70´s. During the world tour he had with Chick Corea in 1978 he had a few days off and played some nights here in Viena with Fritz Pauer Trio and it was some of the most happy nights in my live. I was bursting with enthusiasm to see and hear that genius musician, I love him. That´s me at photo session last month for press and album 😉

Nowadays I rarely listen to "straight ahead jazz" because my moods and spirits go more into other stuff in "so called jazz", mostly in awareness of geniusses like Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and my beloved Sun Ra. Almost all music I have in my head, all the sounds I hear, all the feelings come from that directions, period. But......of course I love some very good albums of boppish sounds and still have to play gigs with straight ahead music. So last night I had "Sphere" on the USB in my car. They so great. I love Charlie Rouse, else than most of you I like him most with Monk, with all due respect to Griffin, Rollins, Trane, Frank Foster or who was with Monk. But Charlie Rouse is my favourite. Same with Ben Riley I love him. I had heard Ben Riley and Kenny Barron AND Buster Williams as sidemen for a Ron Carter Quartet in 1979. So I know and love them all. But to be deeply honest, I loved the one solo Buster Williams played, even more than what Carter played on piccolo bass...... The Sound of Buster Williams on that record is SO GREAT, I can become addict to that bass sound. And Kenny Barron really knocked me out on "Eronel". Never ever anyone played it so beautifully, I just shouted with enthusiasm while drivin, but crazy I am, I never pretended I am a normal person.......

oh thank you. Yeah music is my life and it´s 24 hours the day. okay, the first song is just a warm up on the Woody Shaw tune. Check out from minute 33 and you hear the stuff we gonna do in the studio. Lookin forward to your kind comments.....

Dear friends. I think there are some who know a bit about my musical activities, for those who don´t know: I am an Austrian jazz pianist and composer and currently lead a band of some of the best players on the scene here. We had our debut album last year and meanwhile I continue composing new stuff for our next album, we go to the record studio in 2 months and the new CD/Vinyl will be out early next year. Here I wanna bring you a youtube video of one of our latest concerts. We played a mix of standards, some stuff from the first album and .....what the audience, my fellow musicians and me liked most of all, some taste about what will be on the upcoming record: Please listen: Track list: First tune: Sweet Love of Mine (Woody Shaw) at 9.44: Bebop Airlines (original from 1st album) at 18.31: My Ideal: THIS has symbolic caracter for me since the nice lyrics became truth for me 2 days after that gig. I met that stunning wonderful girl "Miss RA", she has the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun, and of course Sun RA, and what can I wish more. Since then, that ballad is kinda torch song for just us two......... at 26.27: I like New York (how about you?) at 33.25 "Simmering" (THIS will be the title track of our new album) Listen to this, it´s really the stuff I´m focussed on now !!!!!! At 39.18 "Sir Uli" (THIS will be on our upcoming album: my dedication to our bass player. It´s a bass feature, based on the chords of "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams". That´s a more old fashioned tune, but nice..... At 45:00 "Tune for Pharoah"...(THIS will also be on the upcoming album: My whole credo is in that composition, what I feel, what I think, and being very aware of the Master who made me think and feel that way: Pharoah Sanders, my idol ! at 54:00 "Evidence": Everybody has a lotta fun with this, we really romp on it I think...... at 100: Actually the encore: My trumpet player called it, it´s also from the first album from last year the second encore is just a slow "Blue Monk", also called by my trumpet player...... ENJOY IT !

Definitly MY THING. I was mes-mer-ized........... so great. Last night....... Could last FOREVER !!!!!!

I always did like that music !

This one was also my favourite in the 80´s .

Pharoah Sanders is my very very very favourite in music. Maybe.....Sanders, Sun Ra, Monk that´s what´s really my favourites if I had to choose three......

ok, war etwas grob überzeichnet, aber ich neige zu exzentrischen Formulierungen, weil ich selber eher nicht grad sehr straight bin 😄 Aber was soll´s: Okay, schöne Frauen, schicke Klamotten, Styling, shoppen, das interessiert mich AUSSER MUSIK. Sonst.......da fällt mir echt nix ein. Ich les keine Zeitungen, schau keine Nachrichten, echt. Technik interessiert mich nicht, ich kann nicht mal nen Nagel einschlagen, also Fazit: Musik und Mädels......

Well I understand you. Oh, that coat, how much would I like to have such a coat.

Billie Holiday.....I fell in love with her voice when I was a kid and it has remained that way. I think very very much about vocal jazz now and also if I play with the non vocal band let´s say some ballad most of those I choose are things Billie Holiday sang. I´d say: Listening to how she does a song´, listening to the way she pronounces the lyrics and you have tons of help to get into the song, in the very very inside of it. WONDERFUL

oh what a great list. Timeless was my favourite label because those artists were my favourites.

anectdotes.....once I almost got into a battle when we had a one nighter in some goddamn town with a pick up personnel of mixed nationality (one US-Girl on trumpet, one italian guy on bass and a bit vocal, and three romanian guys if you include me (as beeing a "terrible" mixture of jewish, romanian and hungarian blood). They had hotel rooms booked for us to stay over nite after gig and while the girl was in the dress room, we went to the bar to discuss WHO will be the one who will be with the girl in the same room..... I pretended that I must be the one, while the italian guy shouted that of course he will sleep with her, and my other compatrioți also yelled as loud as they could. The whole situation became quite grotesc and curse words where yelled. Both italians and romanias can be very very irascible and what a wealth of dictionary of ugly words we have in those latin-based languages. When words was not enough, it was damn near that fists and who knows what all have in their pockets will be used. At that moment, the manager of the event came into the room and said with a grin on his face: „Hey guys, calm down, the lady just booked a separate room for her.......

Man, I didn´t know he looks so similar to Lester Young 😮

I have not listened to records for a long time, but hear them in my head. Today, while waiting for the Trolley I spinned "Fast Track" from the 80´s Miles Davis live album, the one with Mike Stern. You C, I got my hifi-equipment just inside me 😎

I don´t have the book and must even admit that it was many moons I didn´t even read a newspaper or any other news. But if it is focused on his career as a jazz musician, it would be great for me, because I never was very interested in other stuff than music.

Update on my composing. Sometimes pleasant surprises happen: I had a rough time the last months in personal live. Had to move down and though busy with my music I eventually was lookin for some nice girl again and the one I date frequently now is really a gas, and some days ago at my place after the more "romantic" side of a date she asked me to play some for her, and then took the piano stool to play herself. Though she said she never had even touched an instrument it made sense what she was doin´, and you know I am a natural musician and you can have studied the whole instrument and don´t play shit, but she just has that native musicality and repeated a phrase over and over again, givin´me that sweet but also very intensive look. I slept over it and the next day I had the stuff for a new tune which we will include on our next album. You don´t need many notes to make great music, the little phrase sounds quick and hip and will be for a kinda "free funk". You know, she had the little piano figure, I heard all the breaks, dissonant chords and bass vamps and the powerful rhythm team of drums and percussion and the two horn players. Got a title for it and never say else than though it´s her merits...... And I did some fotos of her while she tried out my piano, maybe you gonna see them some time.

Saw him together with Eddie Lockjaw Davis live. They seemed to tour together and also made a record I think for Pablo, which was the main label for "Mainstream Jazz" in the 70´s. The gig I saw must have been around the same time.

Yeah I LOVE him.

This was very very popular when I was beginning to listen to Afro-American Music. It was just around, everybody knew it. I still love it !

Wow, superb ! Really, the BEST THING I have heard in Years. So fantastic. I love it !

Pharoah Sanders was and will ever be one of the greatest souls. He was one of the earlíest afro american music I heard when I was in my early teens. And each live event really touched my soul. I love him so much, I dedicated a tune to him, will be on our next album.

Hi Peter ! No problem. But I was born in 1959, so it´s logic that the first Miles I could here was from 1973 on, when I became 14 and to develope my on thougts and my own stuff runnin´. So this was "the good old days" in my case 😉 Good choice that Kenny Burrell album. Sometimes I listen to it in the small hours when I get home. It´s a fine album to relax before taking a rest.....