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Yeah, they were good. Especially for a young budding musician with low budget. I got all their Mingus albums, the Roach album, and I think the "Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet" with Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry was also on it. Starting with Jazz in early teens I was quickly "hooked" by the stuff that went beyond be- and hardbop, all those incredible Impulse albums of Trane, Pharoah, Ornette, Albert Ayler.....the music I love most. And it had started with hearing Dolphy on the 3-LP America label issue of "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus". Hearing what Dolphy did at a very early age opened my mind and my imagination !

I love it too. I purchased it in 1978 when I first saw Max Roach live. If I remember right, this was the only Max Roach LP they had in the record store then. It was a pleasant surprise for me to have Clifford Jordan on it, he is very strong, as is Eddie Khan on bass. But then, it was on another label, it was the French "America" Label, which had mostly Mingus records from the sixties. Roach when I saw him first, performed with Cecil Bridgewater, Billy Harper and Reggie Workman.

I heard Sue´s Changes live, but it was one year later, and I think Adams and Pullen were replaced by Ricky Ford and first Danny Mixon and I think I had heard Sue´s Changes with Dannie Mixon on piano. During his solo spot he got into a medium tempo stride and the audience loved it. I saw Mingus one year later but I think he had skipped Sue´s Changes from the set list, they played his new opus "Cumbia&Jazz Fusion"..... as far as I can remember after almost 50 years.

I first heard him on Liebman´s Drum Ode, which was a favourite of mine then when it came out and still is.

Another one I like very much. Like the later records of Trane, and like all stuff by Pharoah Sanders I love the music of Alice Coltrane, it moves me.

Oh my God, what great music, and how much I LOVE PHAROAH SANDERS !!!! It seems that he is the artist who touches my soul most since last year, especially since I´m in love. But he has been always one of my favourites, now my foremost favourite. He is the musician, his is the music that moves my heart, I get that feeling of sublime happiness, like when you are in love, and at the same time brings tears of emotion into my eyes. Pharoah Sanders.......I love him. I am so glad I saw him often live when he walked on this planet....... I think we, who got his message, got his blessings........

you are damn right, loud !!!!! I heard that group in 1978 at Kongresshaus in Vienna. That venue doesn´t exist anymore, now there is a BILLA market in it🤢 Anyway, it was really loud and I was sitting near the amps, but it was one of the best live shows I ever heard, I heard Max Roach later too, with Odeon Pope and Calvin Hill, but I liked the quartet with Billy Harper more, and liked Reggie Workman more as a bassist. This is a very fine album. I think some of the albums Bud recorded in the mid fifties were not as good as earlier albums or later albums, but this one is very fine. The Monk tunes like Epistrophy are outa sight, as is Salt Peanuts and a boppish theme on Sweet Georgia Brown. Bud was really in very fine form on it.

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 !