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This has been for decades my best friend, my best consolation during dark times. Believe me, I had so much suffering from mid september until now, albeit I did a great recording session and get better musically every day I grow more, but it was just such a bizarre year with such an extreme mixture of tormented soul, suffering, tears, to the highest peaks of enjoyment and love, it made me very very thin but strong on piano. This music, the HEALING SONG is what I needed now that there is hope for a glimpse of "normal life" again, and it is what I needed, I listened closely to each note of this most wonderful music and it let my tears flow, and flow and flow, streams of tears, believe me !

Is this the one, where Jackie McLean plays so fine on a Bossa, something he rarely did ? There was too many Hank Mobley Albums, I love him I love him I love him, but I don´t listen to ALL of his albums. Hank Mobley, especially "Soul Station" and "Workout" are my choices if I once listen to straight ahead jazz, which I don´t do very very often anymore, since I hear other things in my head, more into Free Jazz and jazzrock/funk, late 60´s - early 80´s .....

last night:

somehow I don´t see your pics, only a black stripe with a little symbol in the left, I would like to see what you are posting.

Oh, I love that album, and I love Joe Henderson !

I must say honestly, I dunno. That´s the record company that decides it I think. On Spotify it will be, I´m sure.

Oh yeah, Daniel Richmond

Last night I listened first to Aghartha. It was a cult record then and is a classic now. I have forgotten how good it is, since I had listened more to "Dark Magus" and "Pangheea" during the last years, but this is just wonderful and Miles is in top form, playing much trumpet. I´m crazy about Pharoah Sanders, saw him so many times live from the 70´s on. Actually the first thing I had heard in my early teens was "Healing Song" on "Live at the East" and it opened an universum for me. Pharoah Sanders is one of my very very favourite masters, I love him !

Hello friends, I´m glad I have quite a busy time as a musician. Last weekend I took my band, augmented by a great female singer (Lili Mae) and the great percussionist Andi Steirer to the recording studio for our next album. It was just wonderful to work with those fantastic musicians, and though we had a lot of work (12 tunes in 2 days), we also had a lotta fun and a great time. The singer did 6 tunes with us and she wrote great lyrics to my compositon "Tune for Pharoah". The other vocal tracks are standards like Round Midnight, Moanin´ (with some astonishing scatting by Lili, doing 4´s with the horn players), a very fast version of "I got my love to keep me warm", and one of my favourite ballads (The Nearness of You). Besides "Tune for Pharoah" I had written 6 other originals, one as a feature for my bass player. There will be also some heavy funk stuff, where the drummer and percussionist really did a wonderful job. My visual artist and fotografer Lilia Kirilova made a lot of session fotos. Now I can´t wait to hear the masters. The album will be out early next year as CD as well as double vinyl. Until now, this is a great year for me musically.

oh that´s bad news. I first heard him with Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band. It was shortly before Thad and Mel separated....., and I remember that´s the first time I had heard that great pianist.

Max Roach with Strings ! I heard them live.

yes thats it, I ask the tenor player the way he wants to do it.

Yes you are right, I heard it. It´s good that way, easier to memorize, I mean I don´t like to have sheet on the piano, so you are right, I just keep the form of the song the way I have memorized it and play the solos just in the form. 😀

I love it

Me at a studio for promotion fotos Thats the wonderful Miss RA, my girlfriend, who is not a trained musician but can finger out stuff that really makes sense to me and I picked up some of her stuff. She has such a sense for music, it´s incredible..... Here we checkin out what I rote down from the stuff she played...... I´d say after such a rough start this year it turned out to be the best year I ever had. And this one was done outdoor. Well I lost some pounds that´s true

So great ! I love it so much and it helped me so much....

I just want to ask you musicians about that great tune. Of course I know the form of the song, but is it true that for the solos most musicians omit the last 4 bars ? I have listened to some records, one of it by Clifford Jordan and the Magic Triangle, and one by Bud Powell. Sure I also know the Miles Davis version, but that one is in Eb and I have to play it for someone who want´s it in F. So please, tell me if I´m right and on solos you just play the form, but not the last 4 bars, or am I wrong ?

Last night: Chico Freeman. Time flies, first Time I saw him in 1979 at Velden. He îs great!

That´s a very nice album and I love Clifford Jordan´s playing, it´s so forcefull

I saw him together with Chico Freeman doing a Tribute to McCoy Tyner at Porgy&Bess this spring or early summer.

That´s a very fine album

I love this !!!!!!!

yeah that´s right and it feels so good to help a talented young musician from Hungary. You are a saxophone player, you might like the way he plays, but I think anyway you heard him on our last album and maybe on youtube. You sure must like him ! And now that I get more and more away from straight ahead boppish kinda music he sound so good on my new stuff also, it´s just wonderful to have such a person !

oh, first I want all my band members feel good and he is the youngest and still student at the famous Viennese University MUK, the best place for studying jazz in my country. Many students from all the world come to Viena to study here because it´s so good. He is so good he gets such a lot of calls. I was the first to give him a job. And it´s not for just one tune: He made copies of ALL MY compositions on our last album last year ("Waltz For Serena") and from 3 new tunes we play currently and will be on the album we gonna record on october 4th/5th, plus the three compositions we still hadn´t performed. AND: He transcribes it for C, Eb, and Bb instruments. So that´s quite a JOB and I think 200 Euro this time is okay for me and he was very very glad to hear that I pay him. And last but not least: He comes to my place, we check the tunes together. We did it in the past and I didn´t pay him, but now I think he must get some money.

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