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I don´t see the point, Hank Mobley was one of my favourites and sure of a lot of fans and I think there is an increasing interest in his music. Music students get better and better and really dig what was stuff. So I don´t really care if Hank Mobley smoked or not. I practically grew up in jazz joints with all that smoke in cellar clubs, I was underage when I started to go to them joints, and like all of us guys I started to smoke early. Right now I couldn´t imagine to smoke in a club, that´s over, indifferent whether it´s allowed or not, it´s just out of fashion. If you want to smoke, you go out in front of the door during intermission or so, that´s everybody´s own business, but I am glad my clothes and my hair don´t smell smokey anymore.

I remember I saw and heard her in Miles´ band from late 1985. Mike Stern had returned after Scofield left, and I must admit I liked Stern more in Miles´ band than Scofield, maybe for a lot of you that might be a sacrilege but Stern had more the power I enjoyed from Miles guitarists from 1973 on....(Reggie Lucas, Pete Cosey !). Yes, I remember Marilyn Manzur had a special solo spot and maybe also danced a bit. But in general it was not the most memorable Miles Concert: I saw him in the same year in summer and somehow the band, or Miles himself had more power, and as I remember the November 85 concert was the only Miles Concert I ever saw that was not sold out ! Maybe there was a kind of unsureness of Miles where to go next musically, since the deal with Columbia ended and it was before the deal with Warner Brothers.

I love Clifford Jordan ! Okay, first I had heard him only on record. That was actually my second to first jazz album at all when I was a kid "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus" from Paris 1964, and I still did not know any of the musicians with the exception of Mingus and Dolphy, but imediatly liked Clifford Jordan. Later I heard them in Europe with Cedar Walton, it must have been in the mid 70´s, anyway after 73, 73 was my first year of jazz and my first concert was Miles. And soon after that Mingus....so I was "hooked" for ever !

sure, soon !

I got the test pressings of the vinyls last week and it sounds great ! Album will be out in the middle of february, also will be a video on youtube and social media which we did today in the studio of the record company 😄

yeah, the one with Mellow Tone and Undecided I had heard. The one with Eddi "Lockjaw" Davis and Harry Sweets Edison reminds me of the second half of the 70´s when I saw them together live on several occasions. It was great ! Though I was more into more advanced forms of jazz, they swung so hard it was just wonderful, I loved it, loved them !

thats some music I like ! I don´t think I know it. I think once I saw a Pablo record of Benny Carter with "In a Mellow Tone" on it, very fine, but this seems to be another record. Anyway I like those lesser known Pablos, not all that Oscar Peterson stuff of which Norman was so fond of, no....more those he maybe didn´t get the same top billing though they the greatest, like Benny Carter, Like Eddie Lockjaw Davis (I only would have wished Jaw´s album had another pianist....)......

Thanks for sharing. It´s soooo great you wish it might never end ! I love them all and though I didn´t hear them in that component as being too young for that, but sure heard each of those men separatly. At the start there is such a long pseudo analysis reading, I just can´t stand that kind of bla bla bla, reads like that corny JEB shit that was around in the 70, as someone who thinks he can explain everything.... No words needed for that music, its just great. And I say KEIKKO, Elvin´s wife was a great musician, I mean I really dig the stuff she composed. This "Childrens Merry Go Round" is outa sight, so great, simple as it is. I always wonder if she was a studied musician or a natural musician, I think the latter..! Maybe I´m wrong but somehow I have the impression that she just does it from her heart and soul, and that´s the most natural thing. As kids might tell the truth and if you let em talk you can learn some lessons just from them... I never treated kids like kids..... my own not, others not.... And back to Keikko she HAS SOMETHING that´s so GREAT !!! With those simple little melodies. And I tell you one thing: If it is true that she does it just out from feeling, not from schooling, I think I am the most lucky man on this planet since the wonderful girl I stay with she also has that quality....never learned to play a piano, never learned to read music, but what she does if she touches them keys is just magic, so simple and nevertheless you can´t imitate it, so great. She has the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun, and......watch out my next record, there´s a tune that´s based on one of her little spontanous ideas, what she figured out on the piano keys. I have played that piano all my life long but I think I LEARN from her more about music than the I had learned all my life 🤣

I love that picture, the guy who did it is a very soulful gentleman. I love to chat with him at the bar after a gig, in the small hours...... That´s on the picture of course is me, together with the great singer from Serbia Lili Maljic, my favourite, and my favourite trumpet player Johannes Probst. This was a gig at famous Viennese Jazz Club "Zwe" where the music happens, where you here some of the hottest stuff. It was just 2 days before I took exactly them to the record studio, the album will be out next month ! You can look forward hearing some fine music !

Interesting, must be a gas....crazy I saw Joe Farrell in 1983 and was disappointed because he was billed together with Chet and Chet could not be found....lost somewhere....so it was "only" Joe with a rhythm section with Joanne Brackeen, I regret that I was disapointed then because Chet was missing. I heard Joe Farrell died quite early ? Pres in Europe was when ? I read somewhere, that Pres did Europe in his very last year on earth..... I think I even have a studio record, I think it has some US-Expatriates on it, could be Klook and others.... Anyway, I love Lester Young, but I often have regrets in context with the drummers they gave him, I think there is just one record with an interesting drummer and this of course is Roy Haynes, but it´s a live broadcast or a bootleg, I don´t remember.... was on one of those many cheap European bootleg labels back in the 70´s ..... Great, fantastic ! I didn´t know that record. But I heard Woody in the late 70´s and even once again in 1985, but then he had an all star combo. I remember, the BigBand I heard 1979 was outa sight, they was one of the highlites of that festival, Sonny Rollins, Elvin Jones I think, and I think the last act on the last of the 3 nights was Woody.....really great I loved it !

Happy Birthday, congrats !!!

This is a night where I have a day off, I didn´t have to play so I decided to relax at home, with some good vegan food and great music from two albums that arrived today: First, since I am into those things, I spinned the wonderful "Goin´Home". I love Albert Aylor, I love his spirituality in general, in another manner than Trane or my beloved Pharoah Sanders, but just beautiful and deep. This special mood let me go out for a walk in the small hours. Usually I don´t comment the weather since I´m not so interested in it, but this night was special. Since we have a rare year with some snow here in Viena/Austria, I forget how beautiful the snow is in the night and enjoyed walkin in that silence... I recaptured the music and did my prayers where I thank the Godnesses for watching over me, thank my late wife Serena whose spirit also is watchin over me, and thank the Godnesses for the great love I found with that wonderful young girl I am with.... After that, I did somethin good for me, takin a hot shower, washing my hair thats gettin longer and longer and while let it dry just with room temperatura I spinned the fantastic "Obsession". Well I´m so happy to hear the great Cindy Blackman here, and all those fantastic guys.

Sounds great, I have an album with the same group live at Onkel Pö´s (Germania) Must be nice. From the cover it looks like those legendary Black Lion albums of Americans in Paris, in the 60´s. I have some of them: One Dexter Gordon, one Bud Powell, and one Don Byas if I remember right.

I think I have one from Japan from that time, with Rivers, maybe Tokyo, and it also has a distorted sound at the beginning, I think the tune is "If I were a Bell", something is not okay with the sound for a moment.....

I think it was in the record stores in the late 70´s but sorry to say I didn´t buy it then. I have only "Dancing in your Head" from that period, but not "Body Meta" or "Soapsuds"........ oh yes I have that, it is very fine, but it seems that at the end a radio voice is speakin somethin that doesn´t have nothing to do with Dex. Anyway, I think I loved the group with Kirk Lightsey most ! He is such a great pianist !

I wish you good luck. Being on the other side of the ocean, there is no way we could jam, but I know how important that is for musicians. We have the ideal surroundings here in Viena, since many youngsters study jazz at MUK or JamLab or Vienna Institute of Contemporary Music, and they all come to a certain club where we have jam sessions and I enjoy to check the scene, so you always have a "pool" from where you can pick up musicians.

hey good stuff, just go on !

yeah you right ! I suppose you saw them live at Caravan of Dreams ? My younger son loves their music, he is a punk and says it reminds him of Punk Rock. Well I can associate myself also with that, being a Goth or Dark Punk. I love all kinds of really dense stuff like the Miles when he had Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas, and.......Ornette´s Prime Time. There is not so much type of music like that, or at least not with that energy. If I listen to that, it´s drugs, you can´t stop and you go on and go on and wish it will never stop 🤣

But I must admit I listened only to the second of the two vinyls. I like Prime Time better than the acoustic stuff, I don´t know why, but Prime Time thrills me more.

So great, I love it !

Great ! thanks for sharing. How great was Wynton then, and he looked sharp, really, almost like Woody Shaw. And yeah, there is some stuff of Wayne in Branford´s solo ! I think, Billy Pierce is also very very fine !

I still have it on VHS and recently watched it.

It´s not only because I love that cover photo, it´s music I can hear after a gig, when we come down to relax. Since my sister owns a jazz club, and always want´s music for after show DJ-ing, I check out for her what might sound good and this one will be the choice next week. Last week it was Hank Mobley´s "Soul Station". I think I will organize more small hours stuff for her, like Jimmy Smith "The Sermon", that´s a good one for those occasions, I also think about Grant Green´s "I wanna hold your hand".....that´s good and easy listening stuff for late nighters......

Well yeah, it seems I am very much associated with night life 🤣 About stopping habits.....I don´t drink alcool for example and am vegan, well I smoke one cigarette after having a meal, but don´t think that those 3 cigarettes would not make me a poor man. For example, the New Year´s Eve, we attended a club with some great party music and stayed until 4 in the morning and then one of the guys from the musician community suggested we continue the party at his place and I came home at 8 in the morning. But I don´t drink any alcool, not even the usual glass of champagne midnight, and had three big glasses of water with lemon juice and 2 espresso, so that is not much money. On the other hand, there was a lotta good music, they spinned all those old Coltrane Albums, I think one with "Russion Lullaby" that´s really strong.

Usually I don´t buy straight ahead jazz any more, I mean the old bop stuff I´m thru with that, BUT one exception was Dizzy´s Sonny Side Up" since I saw a Deluxe Edition of it at the only record shop we have left in my neighbourhood, and since someone had said once that it sounds good, I bought it.