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18 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:
You'd think Miles would've scribed this on "Tones for Joan's Bones" or something, instead of his own reissue with no Chick on it. Give the kid some credit, for fuck's sake.
If I was a collector or was interested in records signed by the artist or I would be on a trip of gathering anything Chick had hold in his hands, I´d buy it. I am aware of the doubts of many of you where the money goes to, but let´s say, I buy some of Chick Coreas records, or Serena bought me some great live stuff with Jean Luc Ponty featured and if the money goes to that religion, let it go there.
Maybe such statements are easier for me to say than for others, since I don´t have no religion at all, I mean I would not say this religion is cool and that religion is uncool. Let ´em believe what they believe in and let them call them their Godnesses how they call ´em.
Maybe it´s easier for me because not being part of groups of that kind I dig them all, they sure have somethin´ to say to them their folks.
My background, I mean before my grandparents they had a religion just because they were christened in it, and when it turned out that because of that certain religion they are cut out of certain professions or society event´s they changed their religions into those who the king or emperor of "their" country was into. Roman Catolic, Reformat, ortodox, any of that, and when they started to dig a certain political direction that would not embrace religions they left it and remained without religion. Sure they didn´t have aversiuni contra religions, since pur and simplu they did not no nothing about it......So in that order of thoughts anything that Chick Corea believed in is cool for me.
About the Prestige Album: I remember the liner notes, how they began: About some fiction that Miles in the mid seventies does a concert with his electric group and after the last note and all the standing ovations he comes back on stage, followed by some old guys like Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Percy Heath, John Lewis and Kenny Clark and they start playing "Tasty Pudding" and so on.
When Miles really did a very similar thing in Paris 1991, first with his group and than with old guys like Jackie McLean and so on playing bop tunes like "Dig" and "Out of the Blue"....this event really happened and imediatly I thought about those liner notes from that old Prestige record.
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On 2/7/2025 at 6:44 AM, felser said:
Quartet with Lester Bowie, Alan Silva, Andrew Cyrille.
Sounds great !!!!! Love them all. Sounds like something I might like.
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45 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:
Yeah, the Ra box is wanted. I have the Shandars, and they’re good.
The Ra stuff would be interesting for me as same as the Mingus Stuff.
The Mingus stuff because THAT´s the band I saw live !
If the Ra stuff is also from that period (late 70´s) it would be of the same interest, since I saw Sun Ra live also during that period.
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who is on that Jimmy Lyons album ?
I heard him only on the Cecil Taylor albums but I am so impressed of his playing there it is incredible. It is the next evolution after Jackie McLean, I mean I could almost say: Bird, Jackie, Lyons if there would have been more exposure to Lyons. Was he too stuck to Taylor ? I read that the first gig Taylor had without Lyons was when Lyons became sick.I don´t like very much if an alto sounds a bit to "sweet". That´s why I like that reed sound that had started with Bird, I would even say I like McLean´s tone even more ! and Lyons fit´s into that categorie.
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Mingus in Buenos Aires !!!!
I had a casette from it, but I think one I had thrown away all casetes and the casetofon.....
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2 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:
Hilarious personalized autograph from Miles.
This is the Prestige Doublealbum of very old Miles from the early 50´s. I remember it left me quite disappointed then as a kid, since it sounded so "old". I had heard Walkin only as the fast version of the 60´s and Miles stuff from the mid seventies, so this was not often spinned.
More than that: The coverfoto had mislead me to think this is actual Miles from the 70´s.
Can´t imagine that it values so much. For 800 de dolari I would also sell it🤩 -
last night:
Wayne Brasel group feat. Jeff Bourdeaux on drums, Uli Langthaler on bass and Thomas Pustelnik on tenor.
This trio unit (Wayne, Jeff, Uli) had a steady gig at the defunct "Jazz Spelunke" in Viena some decades ago.
Great Reunion: The sounded just great. And for me most of all because it is not just a guitar trio, having such a great tenor player on stage.
I enjoyed the music very much.
Maybe Jeff, as great as he is as a drummer should have done less "hosting". There were too long speeches to the audience between tunes, I mean anecdotes and all. That may be nice if you read it, but on stage I would have preferred only music music music and maybe a short announcement of the band at the beginning and a "thank you" at the end....
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I didn´t know there is other releases that Aghartha and Pangheea.
When the stuff was "here and now" as I "lived" it, there was Agharta in all the record shops. We all wore that record out. And my friends, all of them a bit older and those kind of long haird bearded guys of the night whispered something about another record, which is from Japonia and very expensive. This must have been a bit later than the output of Agharta and that mistery record was "Pangheea". We had that insider record shop "Red Octopus". That´s where people like them and my little self where hangin´around. I had to think very hard if I spend my pocked money on the usual rations of beer and cigarettes or on a record. And I didn´t hesitate to invest it on Panghea and to "beg" my beers and cigarettes from those elder "brothers" as I related to them.
But all of that music......it was not new for me since I had heard the same band at Stadthalle here . The only difference was that it was Dave Liebman on it, and I was disappointed that he was not on Agharta. "Liebman" was my man......, I hadn´t never heard of Sonny Fortune until then.
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58 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:
😃 Two years, roughly 59-61?. One official Columbia cd release, otherwise on the mosaic.
I have not so many JJ as leader: I have the one from the 40´s with Bud and Max Roach, on Savoy I think.
And then only the "Yokohama Concert" with Nat Adderly, that´s my favourite album of him, and of course "Pineaccles".
3 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:So happy to grab the RVG.
Wow, reviewing, great stuff you guys are listening too.
Now: Grant Green. I want to hold your hand. (BN Special Box Set)...only way I could get this album in amicable means.
Grant Green "I wanna hold your hand" is one that Serena likes. I even think I got it from her. I like albums with a guitar player if it has also horns. Like here with Hank Mobley, or there is also some with Joe Henderson.
But in general, nowadays I listen more to albums of artists who were my first musical impressions: Pharoah Sanders has a very very big role in it, and Sun Ra. Among my first few records was an early Sanders record and the "Nothing Is" from Sun Ra, both on ESP I supose.
This here is the same band I heard live. I was astonished then that they also played some old tunes like "King Porter Stuff" but I also liked very much the angelic voice of June Tyson. What can I say: "Space is the place".
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13 hours ago, HutchFan said:
with Bob Stewart (tu) and Cecil Brooks III (d)
Excellent!
I love the sound of Arthur Blythe. But I don´t have this. I think that maybe I am afread of a trio with a tuba instead of a bass. Maybe I should listen to it a bit somewhere, because maybe I just didn´t open up for other rhythmsections than bass and drums.
Have you noticed that on this photo Arthur Blythe looks almost identically like Bud Powell ????
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3 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:
1956-61: All collected in this great Mosaic box.
oh so early ? Somehow I had supposed that it might have been in the late 70´s or early 80´s, when more acoustic jazz artists made records for Columbia, especially Dexter Gordon. Since Dex and J.J. is same generation I made the wrong link that it was the same with J.J. (comeback of acoustic jazz).
Thanks for correcting my mistake !
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5 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:
I've always liked J.J.'s run at Columbia. Great stuff.
Super liked growing up listening to mid 70's-early 80's jazz on the radio, one of my favorites.
When was J.J.´s run with columbia?
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14 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:
Yeah, good luck! Forget the nightlight, this dude will keep you up all night. Easy chair McLean is rare, but if you want to try to take it easy with Jackie, Swing, Swang, Swingin' may be his sleepiest, but I'm still on edge; I still want to know every note he plays! With that, have a good night, my friend.
Now: The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1. Japanese Mini LP RVG.
Both volumes, Japanese Mini RVG's
Well "Swing Swang Swingin´" is interesting for the tunes if I remember it right: I think I got the idea to play "Let´s Face the Music and Dance" just from that source. That tune is so strong with the alterations from minor key to major key.
The original version from the 40´s is slower, but it´s always important to know the original source to get your own brand of playing it.The Fats Navarro Blue Not I bought in the mid 70´s when there where those Double LP sets , I had one with Monk, and one with Fats. I remember only that I was pissed of there is always two versions of one and the same song.
Here it´s early evening now, I slowly get things settled....
21 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:Is Kirk still playing? He turns 88 in two weeks, so I would not be shocked to hear he has stopped playing.
How says that Dexter Song (written by Cables who had the piano chair before Ligthsey came in) ? "I told you so" 😄
Kirk Lightsey looks wonderful and plays wonderful and was 2 weeks ago here in town, and in 2024 also. He played mostly Wayne Shorter tunes and I met him after the gig and we talked about 15 minutes about music, what else ?
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5 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Dexter Gordon Quartet 'San Francisco '82" Hi Hat cd
Dexter Gordon on tenor saxophone, Kirk Lightsey on piano, David Eubanks on bass, and Eddie Gladden on drums. Keystone Korner, December 1982
There are so many good live Dexter recordings. This is among them, good sound quality and Dexter is energetic.
Oh yes. Maybe it is a bit short and if I remember right, there is an unacompanied ad lib solo where he quotes some Chrismas Songs. And than there is some radio commercial.
In 1983 I had heard Dexter the last times. Some performances were very fine, others not so.
Kirk Lightsey lives in Paris now and is playing much in Europe. Especially in Austria too. Had a long talk with him after a concert.
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9 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:
I´m not a Bird completists but I think some of the stuff was on a Spotlite Label LP when I was a teenager. You see, then when I had discoveded Bird (after Dolphy!) I wanted to have more Bird LPs.
About the same time I discovered Jackie McLean, who remained my favourite voice on alto since then:
Usually I listend to more demanding stuff of himm but last night I wanted to hear something more easy to listen to, since I was very tired:
This is what I listend to:
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23 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:
Is this real? What's it from.
Very very interesting life of Freda Kahlo really.
I could not read very well the article, but it seems that she is painting and dressed like housewomen those days when they would cook.
I think she would have been a very very beautiful woman too if she had done a bit something about here thick eyebrows, I mean make them thinner.I heard she had a relation with Troțchi. It is interesting we didn´t know nothing about him over here. Lenin was omnipresent, Stalin was not mentioned any more.... but Troțchi, they say he was a comunist, but didn´t he leave the URSS before it even started to exist ?
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I have been listening to those two albums for 48 years if I am right. Maybe Agharta first in early 1977, and Pangheea a little later, it was much more expensive.
I was still at high school when it came out and one of the first who had it. During intermissions between classes we tall and tiny long haird kids would act like "Miles" who was our hero , we had those huge sun glasses, would bend down and imitating that whah whah sound of the trumpet, and others would beat percussion patterns on the school tables until the prof for the next lesson our would come in and shout at us to stop 😄 -
Last night I listend to those two:
Both fantastic albums:
I like Ornette Coleman´s arrangements for that string summit. Alice Coltrane on organ has captured much of here late husband´s sound on soprano. One can say she trasponds the music of Trane to the piano and organ, maybe even more than Larry Young who is my favourite organ player. I don´t have many experiences of hearing a harp, but this is very fine, the tunes are great ! That duo Alice with Rashied Ali....wonderful !!!!
"The Creator has a Masterplan" has always been a favourite of mine. It gives me that certain mood, maybe it is what religious people are into. I´ll never know since I don´t have no religion, but sometimes especially in lonely places which I seek to relax I feel there could be Godnesses, waternymphs and spirits..... so something might be there in the nature.......
And this music has it. I love to hear it when I can be alone and don´t have to talk to nobody...., like all that kind of late Trane and post trane music.....jpg.b3b181642916f7e070df949f7ff21fa0.jpg)
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8 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:
My trumpet player performed with Barry Harris in Den Haga, but it must have been later, since he was born in 1980. He had studied with Aack van Royen up there, also performed with Lee Konitz. I out to ask him eventually about those encounters with the giants.....
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12 hours ago, felser said:
That´s the edition of the band I saw live. Very fine.
I had the album but it seems I lost it or had borrowed it to someone and didn´t get it back, I can´t remember what had happened, but I remember the music. As much as I remember, it didn´t reach the same power the live concerts had. -
Big fan of him. Got to hear him the very first time on the Black Lion LP "Anthropology" which became a "hit" when all them folks came to my place to listen to records into the small hours. They all loved that record and often asked me to spin it in the course of a night......
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6 hours ago, HutchFan said:
Is it possible that I saw him live with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band ? I think HE was the pianist. Jesper Lundgaard was on bass, Dick Oats and Steve Coleman where saxophonists, Pepper Adams on bari I think, so I think I remember Jim McNeely was on piano......, was a very fine night, to hear that legendary band.
After Thad Jones had left the band, it was not the same anymore, most of all because they got Bob Brookmeyer to compose and arrange.Nothing against Broockmeyer, he sure has many fans here, but in my case the connections did not happen. It may be my fault, but I didn´t hear anything that thrilled me....
A treasure from my early teenie years. From the first few bars a livelong favourite of mine. I think, Sun Ra, late Trane, Pharoah Sanders and Dolphy where main sources to live that miracle of good music....
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22 hours ago, aparxa said:
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
First listen. Not impressed by Side 1, loved Side 2, will revisit soon.
NP: Getz au Go Go
Lovely!
13 hours ago, JSngry said:Filles is a masterfully unified presentation imo. Even though it's two bands.
One of the relatively few LPs that isn't harmed by going from two sides to one. It's actually enhanced.
And still one of imo best Tony Williams amazements on record.
15 hours ago, colinmce said:Filles is a favorite. Miles in The Sky is the one that never really held together for me.
Filles was a thing you got to have and to study when I was a kid. There is no way to ignore Filles if you want to follow Miles´transition from simple hardbop to the compexity of things like Bitches Brew as the start for a most creative period until 1975.
It was so much en vogue, that album. All those there were becoming top acts on their own. Chick, Herbie, Tony, John McLaughlin and so, they became main influences of the jazz of the 70´s which developement I could follow from the start on.You met guys on the street who would stop you and ask you if you have a copy of "Filles". Some few had purchased the LP. We others might copy it on casetofon.
I never will forget that question about the album. Nobody here in my surroundings knew how to pronounce it.
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Wonderful , really fun music. The title tune, a Calypso.....Pharoah sounds almost like Rollins sometimes here.
And also the swing tunes When Lights are Low and Moment´s Notice are great.
And two really moving duets with Joe Bonner, who is just an incredible good pianist.
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Would like to get into a time machine to be there.
About the record: I didn´t know there was records about the BL All Stars.
But was not Miles and Lester also on that tour ? And BUD ! . I heard some Bud live 1956 from that tour and it sounds fantastic, some of the greatest solo piano (remains an enigma why he didn´t have bass and drummer).
Is this the record with Andrew Hill on piano ?
I have some of Joe Hendersons old records and dig most of them.
But from the old stuff mostly the Henderson-McCoy Tyner live stuff.
I saw Henderson live very very often, he was one of my earliest favourites, I mean I heard him after Sanders, Liebman and imediat thought he is of the same categoria