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Thats good. I´m also a pianist but never ever do I compose from the keys. I believe that composing is completly diferent from playing. It´s like you say, you hear sounds, some tunes I dream and if I´m lucky I memorize them when I get up. I even think that there is always music in my head, when I get to catch a taste of sleep (I´m a quite sleepless person). Also....women may inspire me, I see a beautiful woman and have a melody goin´in my head. That´s how I rote the title tune on the album last year for my then wife, now ex-wife. And last nite I got a fine idea of a song for my actual love. And dig that: It´s in eb-minor ! Nice tune with a 16 beat feeling in it (kind of slow funk or call it anythin´). It will be on our next album, but not as the title tune, which I already have fixed. the only downer is, I´m not a good notes writer. Most time I get some music student, give him 200, make him happy and got a kid who writes the shit down for me.

I love those three volumes I saw Ricky Ford three times with Mingus I think. I don´t remember I have seen him in another context.

hehe, me dancing 😄

https://youtu.be/vvOTLtTG5G0?si=LENwszXdH5aW2dcX Mihai Traistariu "Cât de frumoasă ești !” (= "How beautiful you are!" That´s my absolute favourite when it´s about non jazz music ! That´s from my country România and it´s the song my love Andreea Irina aka "Miss RA" taught me to sing and to play on piano. I mean, when a girl gives a boy THAT SONG, she loves him.....

comments, reviews, anybody, plz......

A few days ago this one, since "My Ideal" is magic to me, I have explained it otherwhere her in the forum.... I love Earl Coleman´s voice very much. And I wanted to spin a vocal version of the song for my love, because that ballad is our torch song. She always says to me "and now........please play OUR SONG"!!!!! But other than most girls I knew before, she really listens and breathes to the phrases of Sonny Rollins, to jazz in general, or to music in general.

I think I also know that album. Isn´t Bemsha Swing and Evidence on it ? I love those tunes and they are few I kept in my repertory from the bop tunes, maybe the only ones that I kept. During the spring tourings I think I did either Bemsha or Evidence sometimes as the last tune and got so carried away that I jumped up from the piano and did some dance steps. I think I have it with another cover. this looks much more like a much later foto of Mingus than the time when "Chazz" was recorded. Wasn´t "Chazz" and "Mingus Quintet plus Max Roach" on the French America label, I had both of them, but think as a boy I was a little disappointed since it sounded much more "tame" than the recordings with Dolphy. Almost like an old bop record. But the sections with Max Roach are fine ! Otherwise it is too much hard bop or bebop style than I want to hear from Mingus.

Too beautiful ! How much I love that album. This is my year ! Maybe the best I ever had in live. I don´t know that special album, but each of them is a personal favourite of mine so it must be good. It just happens that at that important period in my live I rarely purchase or spin so called "straight ahead" albums, though I am sure that those men go far beyond it. It´s strange: this must have been "centuries" ago but I also saw Jackie McLean live together with Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins, the 4th member of the quartet was no one less than Bobby Hutcherson. I remember it was the best bebop setting I ever had heard. Don´t know how I would think about it today, but sure it is very good music. Schizophrenia was the first Wayne Shorter album I had. I think it is wonderful. Maybe even my favourite from that early period. I think I saw the cover foto on another album of Bud Powell. I have not listened to bop music for much time and don´t really want to play that style myself anymore, but I think I remember the very very fine versions of those super old tunes "Deep Night" and "Thou Swell" and "OId Black Magic" I think they go back to the 20´s. I remember Bud played them very very often so they must have been favourites of him, and I think I hear it in my ears that he plays some astonishing stride piano on it. This must be an early Bud Powell record from the mid fifties, but I think I mostly heard interpretations of those tunes at least 10 years later when Bud had returned to Birdland and seemed to celebrate that event with those old tunes from his youth/childhood.

Again one of those albums that moves me so much it is so overwhelming, so much balsam and nutrition for my soul it almost hurts. I can´t describe it in words, it´s too heavy for words. Since I purchased it many decades ago it has it´s special place in my collection, but it seems that as years passed, and especially this year is the most emotional year for me ever, so many tears, so many happiness it gets more and more intense. That´s the kind of music I´m deeply in now. Late Cotrane, Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and very very much Sun Ra.

I don´t know what I posted 3 years ago

I also saw her with Lou Donaldson. Great organ player, wonderful lady ! But I would have liked to hear LD at least once again with a setting with p, b, dr. in later years. In the mid 80´s he always had a p.b.dr. quartet, even if Herman Foster´s block chords sometimes where too overwhelming for me.....but it was Mr. Donaldson´s choice and that means he was right, not me 😉

Here my friends some of the new things in my live: I mentioned somewhere about some "Good Morning Headache" (just right now I had spinned the Billie Holiday album with the song !) because a long lasting marriage split up. But then things started to happen: On a gig, I don´t know why, I called "My Ideal" (Will I ever find the girl in my mind......? ya know the lyrics) and 2 days later BAMMMM 🤩 This here was our second date and she set down at my stage keyboard (my new place is smaller and more poorish of course then where I stayed......from high live to low life 😄.... anyway. Her name is the name of the Egyptian GOD OF SUN !!!! I like unusual people !!!! And she just sneaked my "Pharoah Sanders" T-Shirt and started to play, and ya know what, she´s not a piano player but what she figures out makes SENSE and it sounds good to me. Like little bells sounding, just beautiful, and them runs she did and then BANG that bass vamp ! She is the most beautiful girl I ever saw and the tune "Miss RA´s Choice" was written the morning "after" and will be on record ! one more, you see the Pharoah Sanders T-Shirt. By the way, since "RA" is her name, she just took my SUN RA long sleeve and said "That´s mine!" PERIOD ! Got to order another one 😄

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