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Me too 🤣Freedom Jazz Dance and Gingerbread Boy *lol* But I think I can remember I once played in a funk band and they did "Freedom Jazz Dance" in their way. I loved to play with them and loved to play this tune.

Gee that´s a good idea THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING IT !!! My sister has a small jazz club, and always needs some records that is good, when there is not live music. And for late nights those ole hard bop records are good. I recommended to her "Mobley Soul Station", and Jimmy Smith "Sermon" .....so this Kenny Burrell at Five Spot might fit in that club, what´s your opinion ? Interesting, I never saw that record. I think I have only one record from Keystone Korner and it is a Blakey record. I love Monk with Rouse but it´s hard to identify the records I think there was a lot of live records but some I think was bootleg. I don´´t know what label he was under contract, but it´s strange there are Monk records from almost every European Country and all of then in that narrow interval of the 60´s . Same with Mingus. I think there are dozens of records of the same tunes, but one let´s say in Germany, one lets say in Italy or France.....that´s hard to choose any of them

I never did see that thread. Someone mentioned "Willisau" I remember that Festival ! Did this label or any other label record Mingus´ performance in Willisau ? It might have been in the second half of the 70´s, I still didn´t have a driving licence, was maybe 16 years old and some older hippies took me there that´s how I went to see foreign festivals. Now, did that Label Hat Hut record that ? I think it would be a milestone in jazz history

Well, I don´t remember I ever bought "Chrismas music". The funny thing is now my actual girlfriend is a christian.....romanian ortodox, while I believe in polytheism, that means many godnesses and so on, but now she told me to buy a tree and stuff, and imagine I DID, cause she gave me this sweet smile and said "but Gh..., CHRISMAS is for EVERYBODY"..... But I wouldn´t say I BUY Chrismas Music, I started to play the 2 songs I know "Chrismas Song" and "White Chrismas", usually I do "Chrismas Song" in Eb, and "White Chrismas" in Db.....you follow ?

I like "Canyon Lady" I think it was the first Joe Henderson album I had.

this sure is good. Cindy Blackman was a great jazz drummer.

Mine to. That´s what I have. But if there is any "Blues for Bud"......Hampton Hawes states in this book that his style is so close to Bud´s and that he is only one or two grooves different than Bud, but I disagree, Hampton Hawes never sounded like Bud, never phrased like Bud, he is a great piano player and I love what he does, but I think I would not do any good for him if I´d say he comes from Bud. I love Bud, but I love any good piano players and Hamton Hawes may have been underrated, maybe because he was not on the East Coast, but he was a very fine piano player.

Thank you so much ! I´m better now 😀

I think after Miles had gone to retire for 5 or 6 years, I began to be increasingly interested in Ornette Coleman´s PrimeTime. Sure I had heard the "Free Jazz" with the Double Quartet at older friends when I was less than 14, and loved it, but like Miles, who played other music than "Nefertiti" or "All Blues" when I heard him, the same was with Ornette Coleman. But it was great, so much rhythm. This album seems to be much later than what I had heard in the 70´s since it sounds much more "polished" but very very fine. And there is one ballad on which Ornette plays some incredible fine trumpet. Up into the highest register, and maybe if Miles would have lived longer and heard that, he would have changed his opinion that Ornette can´t play trumpet. Well, I like his violin playing also very much, but it seems he does not play violin on that record. My younger son loves "Opening at Caravan of Dreams" for it´s "Punk Rock Sound", and me too, I love especially "dark punk" I mean the style, the fashion and sure, the music, so there we have somethin in common...... I´ve never heard the "Loadstar". Can you recommend it. I saw Max Roach around 1978, and have heard it´s around that time it was made, is it a good record ?

Right, I always loved that version and many folks who came to my place asked me to spin it, since I was the only guy then who had it.....

It was a great show, I noticed the great Harry Sokal playing a wonderful version of Naima, and there was a rare appearence of Matthias Ruegg who had founded the Viena Art Orchestra somewhen in the late 70´s ..... some great duo performances, but then it was over for me since a crazy woman slammed a door at my head and I was inconstient and rushed to hospital. Maybe.....they recorded it...... so I could also hear the rest...... it was supposed to be a long night......

great ! I think Raymond Ross made a lot of photos of the only session Bud did for ESP...with Scotty Hold and Rashied Ali and there are photos with all the guys, with Bernard Stollman and even Dizzy Gillespie, thought he had nothing to do with ESP. I also wondered where it might have been recorded..........

I don´t know who are the All Stars, but when I was in my early teens those Prestige Double albums where the best way to get to know the older music, the acoustic Miles, the still straight ahead stuff or standard ballads blowing Trane, the early Sonny Rollins, they all seemed to record for Prestige. I have heard there were many other recordings artists too, but I think it was those giants who....with the exception of Trane were very active when I was going to high school. Well Trane was dead for maybe 5 years, but his spirit was so strong you could feel him everywhere....... he never had died !

great trio. I heard Kenny Barron also with Ben Riley but it was in Ron Carters Group, they had two basses, Ron and Buster Williams, what a great group ! But I think that was the only time I saw Kenny Barron live. It was in the late 70´s I think.. Great ! Such a great performance. It´s interesting that in the 2000´s Sonny played much more straight ahead than when I had heard him. I think 20,30 years earlier when I would see him, there was not even one straight ahead number left in his repertory, but he was great. I never categorized musicians like I heard so often back than that fans didn´t get beyond "Tenor Madness" or stuff like that..... Same with Miles......I heard them folks shout "All Blues" or "Sketches of Spain" when Miles did what he did in the mid seventies.....same thing, people who don´t move on , can´t follow what an artists want´s do do after he gave it all with old straight ahead stuff......

Shit happens ! Some crazy woman slammed a glass door at my head, I was k.o. for about half an hour and they called the urgence and here this a selfie at hospital, some crazy stuff I went thru .... they were okay and I´m better now, but they had some troubles to get the pills I need for my bipolar disorder, so I went a bit nuts for a short time, but finally calmed down🤣

so great !!!! I love that records so much ! Miles is in top form and plays some incredible things. And listen to Al Foster.......and Mike Henderson, they all my favourites. Well here you have a bit another rhythmic conception than about 1 or 2 years later when I heard Miles, but all the stuff from 1972 - 1975 belongs to the music I like most, I have liked from the time when it was made until now and forever, forever !

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Oh I love this. One of my earliest mentors was the Austrian pioneer of Avantgarde Jazz Fritz Novotny (Reform Art Unit) and he pulled my coat to that record. Now listening: My greatest idol, I love him. I dedicated a special composition to him, album will be out for sale in February 2026...... Pharoah Sanders FOREVER !!!!!!!!!😍

I love that album. the Song of the World is wonderful, the lyrics really fit to me since in the warm season it happens often that after working all night long I spend the early morning at some lake and take a swim and feel about what that song expresses. And the whole album is great. Some boppish stuff, some ”free”, and some with a kind of backbeat. Very very nice !

I didn´t know he made his own album. I love him, it´s more the direction I am into. Like let´s say my beloved Sun Ra, but also in other settings. Like....let´s say I have the ESP album of Henry Grimes, that´s also fine.

I love to listen to it whenever I am in a certain mood and I am quite often since early summer ! 😍 GREAT. Tell you what. This was the FIRST LP I had when I was about 14 years old. It´s the album that made it for me, from that point on Jazz has been my life, at it´s 24 hours a day. Well at the same time I saw Miles live for the first time (late 1973) and though it was another kind of music I love it the same as I love those great old albums. Though I am more into stuff like late Trane, Pharoah, Alice Coltrane, Ornette, Sun Ra, it was just a few days ago that I listened to "Steamin´" in the small hours, after a gig back at home just to "come down" and if possible to catch a few hours of sleep....., well though I know every note of this record I didn´t fall asleep 😄

FANTASTIC!!!

I don´t have this, but I love Woody Shaw and saw him live as often as I could. Fantastic musician ! I heard, this album was quite late in his career but that it is great. Maybe I should purchase it.

Yeah, but he didn´t wear the hearing aids much. I remember a Down Beat interview he did in 1988 and the interviewer wrote "his hearing is not well and he apologies on open conversation and since he perspires a lot, the hearing aids get wet and damaged and need replacement. Well, that´s common among musicians. I have the same thing, 48 years of active playing live music and my hearing is slowly disappearing. I play very loud and listen to music very loud and have to concentrate and listen closely if people want to tell me something: Look at the picture of me at an Art Gallery where they want me to present my upcoming album and the famous writer Leo K. who wants to organize it talks to me about the project and tall as I am I bend down and listen with deepest concentration just to HEAR the stuff he tells me 🤣

I don´t know nothing about a decline. Saw him the last time in 1989 and it was fantastic, and I really could HEAR him. I don´t know that album. I saw Blakey very often from the late 70´s to 1990 with different bands, the first was with Valery Ponomarev, Dave Schnitter and Bobby Watson, I think James Williams and aaah .....a bass player. Later with maybe Donald Harrison and Terenche Blanchard maybe Mulgrew Miller and Lonnie Plaxico, and later maybe with that young white cat on piano Benny Green and other very good young musicians. Maybe that was the last occasion I saw him.