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Most records I have is those made by musicians I heard perform. I usually bought records the next day after I heard a famous musician..... that´s how I built up my little collection.... Nowadays it is also musicians I heard, mostly fellow musicians, I mean I have them their record, they have my newest album.....

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

Thank you ! That´s what I have to buy.

I think I must purchase this though LP is not as simple for me as CD. If I have the quiet moments to listen to music, I prefer not to get up to turn the LP´s . But the music must be fantastic. For listening, I rarely listen to strictly straight ahead these times. Okay, if it is really pushed like VSOP or stuff like that, but the most 50´s records and the straight ahaed 60´s records remain in the shelves....., I mean I like to figure out things now, seldom hear music just to relax......

I think it is from his Autobiography where he wrote, that around the time of the recording of Bitches Brew he had stopped to eat meat and lived very healthy. I remember that also in his last decade he ate mostly salad and fish.

such a wonderful album. Donald Byrd was so great those days, and great choice of tunes.

of course, I have it. How could I forget that, so: Right Now and Speak Brother Speak are around my very favourit records anyway.....

You´l find it. Maybe in Eastern European countries in restaurants there is an overweight of meat on the menu, but I manage to get thru. In România where I am mostly I eat boiled cabbage or other thing, but mainly I prefer to not to go to restaurants, on the market I find all I need, and let´s say tomatoes have taste of tomatoes. Green Onions, Eggfruit, all of it. If there is a restaurant that does not have veghetarian or vegan food, I order salad and sidedishesh with greens of all kind. And I need a lot of white breat. Usually my menu is all kinds of salats without meat, all kinds of greens, and fresh white bread , we have the best bread in România. At chinese restaurants I like buffet and take everything that is not meat or fish..... Why do I not eat meat ? Because when I was on holiday in the Caraibes and all them fat and sloppily dressed folks eat meat meat meat, they even fry fat ham for breakfast, I had to make my way thru with brokkoli, carrot, potatoes, salads and stuff. And I had the impression that meat makes me lazy and tired, look, like Miles said once .....horses eat only green shit and can run like mutha..... So, not eating meat makes me keep slim, look sharp and feel healthy, no full stomach...... There is no ideological or religous credo behind it, I don´t like to get categorizied..... Yust a perfect album. Donald Byrd was so great those days. Wonderful choice of tunes.

Is it a must you have to eat ? And if yes, do they have also vegan food, because if I´d ever go to NY I don´t want to eat Steaks or Barbecue or Cheeseburger, just greens and salad. Let´s say I would try Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas if that is just vegetable, but not for meat. I have the same problems here in Viena sometimes. There is a club they only have sausage or toast (which is with ham or with cheese) and if I play there I always have to order from around the corner from a restaurant where they have vegan.....,

The best Clifford Jordan I ever heard was on Mingus´ album "Right Now" (Life at the Jazzworkshop San Francisco). Maybe due to the fact that Dolphy and Byard had left, he had to carry all the load together with Mingus and Dannie, and I think it was good for him because he masters it and plays his ass of on that little record.....

Though it is some unusual surroundings, it is a classic bop record. The Double Six of Paris vocalize the original arrangements of the Dizzy´s famous Big Band in the 40´s and the solos of the saxophonists like James Moody and others. If you can stand all that "shu bee doo" of the vocal or the nonsense lyrics in french and just listen to the music, the results are very fine. Diz is in excellent form, as is his old companion from the good old bop years, Bud Powell. Some critics used to write off Bud´s later recordings, but who hears his contributions here or from the Dexter album "Our Man in Paris" from the same time, will see that them critics were wrong and may have destroyed many careers with them their dumb writing......

I think I remember now that it was called that way. The one album I knew when I was a teenager "Rhythm X" had that "Dolphy Series" written on it´s cover. I think I had picked it up because though I didn´t know who is Charles Brackeen, I loved Don Cherry with Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell. But Charles Brackeen is also very fine, I think the LP sounds very similar to a lot of Ornette Coleman albums. It was exactly the music I liked, not completly atonal and not completly out of a regular beat, but "modern" as we called it then....

This is sure a pleasure and brings a lot of memories back ! I don´t know much about Strata East, was it Clifford Jordan´s label ? I must admit the only Strata East I had heard when I was a teenager was the "Rhythm-X" , and I must admit that it appealed mostly to my musical tastes especially then as a teenie-kid . I was crazy about Don Cherry !

wow, never saw this. Okay, I´m not a special fan of Stanley Turrentine and Eric Gale, but whewwww, Herbie, Freddie, Ron, Jack DeJohnette.........my "best friends" (not really , but for listening and hearing live) so I think I must look for this or give Serena a "pont" to surprise me on some occasion....... I am lucky I got the best rhythm section in town, but I suffer thousands of death´s if I had to play with bass-drums who are not up to expected standards. So Tete was damn right to fire crap players......

I think this was quite new when I heard Mingus for the first time live. They had "Sue´s Changes" and "Remember Rockefeller at Attika" in the set list, only that Adams and Pullen had been replaced by Ford and Neloms. Jack Walrath was the newest member on that album here. But on the tour I saw Walrath got much more space than here on the record. Is this a later album of Tete ? I never new about why he had died. I think he was with Joe Henderson somewhere in the 80´s but I think he didn´t get really old, he might have died to young. What had happened. When he was here in Viena with Henderson, Joe Henderson and Tete were the only musicians who could play, because the bassist and drummer where so weak it was painful. The rescue came, when Tete whiped the rhythm section to lay out and played only solo, he got the whole rhythm section himself. Usually I´m not a fan of duo playing without bass and drums, but on that occasion I wished it would have been, so inadecvat was the bass-drums.

This is the one with the two compositions "Viena" and "Uagadugu", isn´t it. Very fine music, this might be from the strata East recordings then ? Isn´t it.

She almost looks a bit like Ingrid Jensen, with whom I had played when she lived in Viena.

is this from a "Blaskapelle" or "fanfară” în Tirol ? But what instrument is this, this is not a trumpet, it´s held orizontal and not the way you hold a trumpet....,

I have not heard much Ellington playing piano himself, maybe a a bit on "Money Jungle" and maybe he sounds a bit more Monkish, but I´m really a Monk fan as it is about piano. But interesting some of the pianists who play more "arrangers style" like Duke, Basie, Kenton, Dameron made solo albums or so. I´m not sure. I heard a Pablo album Diz with Basie only a quartet..., and also Dameron did albums where he plays mostly solo, I think on that album with Trane, or the one with "The Scene Changes"....

Interesting ! Well I found the tandem of the very metronomic Percy Heath and the more simple swinging approach of Art Taylor more "smooth". But I listen more from the drums chair or the drums-bass action, though I am a piano player. So I must admit I find Philly Joe Jones more challenging, and Oscar Pettiford also more challenging than Percy Heath. But there are also other albums where I found they are too smooth or less interesting: From the "1.st Quintet" before those 4 great albums "Cookin-Relaxin-Workin-Steamin" there was another album, that actually was the first album of the "First Quintet", but I found it outright boring. And I must admit there is one sacrileg too for many jazz fans: For most of all KOB is one of the best classic albums, but not in my case. My start with KOB went wrong. I actually HAD verions of "All Blues" and "So What" from the 2nd Quintet with Hancock and Tony Williams, and was outright disappointed with the more lazy versions on KOB, I missed the pulse of Tony or Philly J.J. and so my discography BETWEEN the 1st and 2nd Quintet is very small or doesn´t get spinning.....

Shape of Jazz to come is a very fine early Coleman Album, it is still swinging and very easy to acces for people who still have to learn to make the transition from tonal and straight ahead to more steps beyond certain bounderies. It´s interesting, that one of the tracks "Lonely Woman" was a favourite of my mother. Born 1921 in Europe it might have been quite unusual for an old women to listen what though now is "old", then was "modern". She had her things she loved and spinned over and over again: Mingus´ "Meditation on Integration" with Dolphy, "Pharoah Sander Healing Song" and Ornette Coleman the "Lonely Woman" or one certain harmolodic theme that was on an Impulse Album and later was with string quartet.....i think "Prime Design Time Design"......

I think I bought it in 1978 and liked it very much, though sometimes it sounds a bit too "smooth" to me. I found the previously album "Musings of Miles" , the one that is the very pre birth of the "First Quintet" with Garland and Philly J.J., but interesting O.Pettiford on bass, much more challenging. Well nothing against Peterson, since may people liked him and bought his records, but I was carried to one concert in 1978 and the fact, that instead of a drummer there was Joe Pass on guitar, was very "strafverschärfend" for a young drum addict jazzman who I was and still aims to be.....😉

great pic. I like pics made from users here much more than if they post pics from other sources. Nice place too. Well, I don´t think I ever rode a bicicletă. Somehow it was not common in big cities in my forming years. At such a place and such a sun I would go down to the water and havin sun bath and goin swimmin .

You know THIS ???? How comes ? Fritz Novotny was a good friend of mine and I remember the year when Pannonian Flower came out, and I heard several tapes of different versions (live) at Fritz´ place. One of the most impressive moments was when the trio performed with Burton Green on piano. And everybody who knows Burton Green knows he is one of Monk´s greatest fans. So there was a musical deal: They performed "Pannonian Flower", and on Burton´s suggestion "Crepuscule with Nellie".

I never saw this, who is playing on it ?