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must be also great, though this year I clearly prefer the post 1965 stuff of Trane, when Pharoah Sanders joined the band. Dolphy is great and was one of the first musicians that thrilled me.

I should give them a try again. I have them but at some certain point they started to bore me because I started to get bored by the hard bop style and kept only stuff like "Soul Station" on my current playlist. But for some small hours listening when I lay down and close my eyes to relax a bit before falling asleep it might be nice again. A very good bebop record. So many don´t know Miles before the "First Quintet" but he was strong between 1949-1951 doing almost as quick and fast like Diz or Fats, but all his own. Very fine. And he had the best players, Jackie McLean, Sonny Rollins, J.J. Johnson, Art Blakey.....I also like the 1951 Birdland recordings very much. I love it. I love music that is like a prayer, like this one or ascension or Pharoah Sanders "The Creator..." or Alice Coltrane, it really inspires me, though I am a devout polytheist, but very religious in that manner......

So great ! My younger son, who lives in Spain and stays some days with me (I had an important gig and he went to see to show), we listened to this, it´s my favourite from the Prime Time I think. And sometimes it sounds similar to Punk Rock which is cool. I like Ornette´s violin playing on the last track "Compute" very much. It´s so strong the whole album.

oh yeah ! Bravo !

I have this one, nice with Milt Jackson, but in general I listen more to the Mobley around the time of „Soul Station”. I find, the early BN albums are very very similar. Same with Morgan. I think this one is the one with the Benny Golson Arrangements, its nice. Is that the one with a cute waltz on it? I kept only one of the 1950´s Morgan, I think it is called "The Cooker". In rest I have more from the 60´s I think, only that I don´t really listen much to the "Sidewinder", prefer other albums like "Search of a New Land", that´s what I love most.

Is that the album with the first recording of "Enlightment". I have Sun Ra record only from the midsixties on.

It´s indeed a fine record. The first tune seems to be what Alfred Lion then wanted all his artists to do. But if I am honest, my favourite Wayne Shorter on BN would be "All Seeing Eye".

I love him. I was just 14 years old when I admired his artistry when he was in Miles´ band. Oh boy that groove. Mike Henderson, Al Foster, Mtume, greatest of all, such a wealth of rhythmic inspirations for a kid...... never will forget that as long as I live. And yeah, with Pharoah - Love is us All.......oh boy, Pharoah Sanders, also from that period of 1973,74. That´s when I bought my first Pharoah Sanders record and Love is us All is a center piece in my life. I love Pharoah Sanders so much, he is a leading figure for me as a musician and as a human being. On my next album there is a tune I dedicated to him...... About Joe Henderson: I heard him first on TV....I think it was a show from 1977 with Ratso Harris on bass, a guitar player and a drummer I don´t remember who, but from the FIRST MOMENT I knew this is what I like. And just a few months after that TV-experience I finally saw him live. I think he had Hilton Ruiz in his group, maybe Ray Drummond on bass, I don´t remember the drummer. I like Joe Henderson for his power and his approach, I love him very much, though as older I get and in the same time younger (have a very young girl friend) it seems that the spirituality of Pharoah Sanders is what reaches me more in an increasing manner.....

yeah I have heard them. That was a good group. On Steeple Chase I think I have one with a very long version of "Parker´s Mood"....some of the best slow Blues I ever heard. And one that I love is "Ghetto Lullaby". I would not say I have MANY of his records since collecting just is not my thing, I try to get some tastes and see what I can stock in my mind and maybe get some first hand studies.

Well in my religion (politheism) there is no Chrismas, but I like to make people happy and have love and respect for all who believe in something. Tomorrow there is a big familiy meeting at my elder sister´s house with a lotta relatives, brothers and sisters in law and who knows more..... and some kids from my nieces too. I think it´s a how they say..... advent meeting...... Usually the "crazy little brother of his elder sister" is asked to play something on the piano, they had the piano tuned for me they said. So I know it´s time before Chrismas for Christian People, I think I should play some of that stuff. Thought about "Chrismas Song" in Eb. This more in ballad time. Might also give them a taste of "White Chrismas" in medium tempo, in Db that´s a nice key, and play some choruses on it.

Oh I have never heard this. Coltrane sounds great on it !

When I have a night off (here in Europe its "Round About Midnight) and I´m scheduled only for tomorrow night to play.... well then I love to cook. Right now a really hot vegan dish with all them vegetables in it, a lot of hot chili too, garlic, and sure sure sure only vegan, and I love to cook and taste, AND while doing so, I have a portable CD Player in the kitchen, and am in the mood for "On the Corner". I really have to have it LOUD, I LOOOOOVVVE that record ! And that kind of style of Music in general.....it makes me dance, it makes me feel happy and just posted it to my youngest boy who lives in Spain and loves our music.... we often exchange what we listen to Anyway, he will come here next week, I gonna throw a big big party for my Birthday and of course we do partying at a jazz club and play a whole concert, my great band my best friends, makin some happy noizzzzz 😆

Thank you both. Well it was a crazy year. I get much love from people around and made some good music I think or lets say it this way, people tell me that, okay I got a helluva band its them they really cook so you play and things look better.

oh holy ghost oh.... I love both New and Old Gospel and ´Bout Soul !! Gospel....I was close to the late great pioneer of Free Jazz here in Austria, Fritz Novotny, the founder of Reform Art Unit, and he pulled my coat to that record. Bout Soul I got later. Without having had any thoughts about it, now that you mention it, the record I made in october and will be on sale early next year, it also has a track that starts with spoken lyrics, you will like it. I love Bout Soul, and Demon´s Dance. I had heard Jackie McLean many times live. Once even with a true BN reunit, it was him with Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Lewis and Billy Higgins. But I also dug a later group with his son René and with Hotep Galeta, Ronnie Burrage, David Eubanks and Dinizulu, that was some stuff.....

Thanks man ! Yeah, the music helps.

Oh, when was that made ?

@Big Beat Steve: I don´t remember, do you know how much has happened this year, first my wife left me, then she died, I made a new record, I found a new love, I got diagnosis with bipolar disorder, I played a lotta gigs and had a lot of tears and a lot of happiness..... so, how could I remember what I posted or noticed before all those things happened 🤣

A good one ! I heard Pharoah Sanders play "On a Misty Night", such a nice tune !

wow, I didn´t know about this ! I LOVE Don Byas !!!!!!!

thank you, @Referentzhunterthank you to you too. Well I have not heard her music. I spotted the eyebrows, you know I have two passions: Music, and Beauty/Styling/Fashion, music my profession, the other stuff my "hobby" or my "necessity as a man" cause I scream over women who are beautifully styled and I also spend a lot money on clothes and cosmetica *oops*. Last night listening to Pharoah Sanders, my alltime favourite, my personal hero, and a guide to me to become a better human being. All my love to that man and his music ! "Harvest Time" soooooo beautiful, things like those let me fight with tears, anyway, complicate year, lotta emotions....... oh interesting. There must be telepathy because I also have not listened to Mingus for much time, he was very often listened by me in the past, and I had seen him live 3 times, but now I am more into stuff like more spiritual music like late Trane, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and so on. But as you say it, yesterday I had listened to a Mingus album, I think an Impulse album, but not "Black Saint". I did not purchase the "Cornell" stuff, since I have too much from that 1964 band already, I have the Townhall, I have the 3 LP "Great Concert of Charles Mingus" and so that was enough for my tastes..... But I am sure it is as interesting as the others I already have.

who is the lady ? I like her eyebrows, that´s perfect form, that´s how I have mine also styled.....

I also have this but have not listened to it lately. It seemed to me that´s a sampler of some remainders, I have heard that some of the stuff was on a sampler album titled "The Jazz Scene", at least that´s what an older musician (Allan Praskin) told me. The 1949 combo sessions, well somehow they sound half hearted. It´s the same group that shortly afterwards went to Paris for the first time (with Dorham, Haig, Potter and Roach), and what they played there is exiting. On the studio date nobody knows what was the reason to add Tommy Turk. Tommy Turk was a great technician on the trombone, but in general I miss the "message". The session with the vocals is fun, I like it "In The Still of the Night" and so on...... Since "My Ideal" is the "torch song" of me and the wonderful young Andreea Irina, who is my love since I noticed her when I had a gig in town and for coincidence we did "My Ideal" as a ballad feature, and SHE was in the audience, I spotted her, the most beautiful girl I ever seen, and you know the lyrics...."or will a pass her by and never even know that she´s my ideal"..... and after the first set I went straight to her and said "you see, I didn´t pass by, I recognize you, you are my ideal" and that it was. When I spinned this for her, sure he loved the voice of Earl Coleman, but she really soaked up Sonny Rollins´ solo. So deep that girl, so much music, I mean stunning beauty, youth, and in combination with outstanding musicality. My Ideal remains our torch song..... is the Tadd Dameron thing the live sessions in the Roost ? I have it, it´s great. But I also have an old Musidisc LP which has two features of Kenny Haggood doin´ "Pennies from Heaven" very slow, and "The Kitchenette Across the Hall" which I never could find as a standard, it has nice lyrics about a guy who falls in love with a girl that lives in the "Kitchenette Across the Hall". Maybe the tune and the lyrics is Tadd Dameron ? I think I have the double LP "Tadd Dameron Band 1948" on the Milestone label, which is strange, since Milestone for me was a label of the 70´s with artists like Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, former Blue Note Artists.....

I like all kinds of modern art, that´s why I love to visit art galleries and by the way, you meet important persons. Here with Leo K., a good writer about culture, arts and music, it´s me bending down just to listen in deep concentration what he says me about me presenting my upcoming album in that location, we two brainstorming, me listening hard since.....you know hearing after decades of live music is a challenge 🤣 At the same art gallery, with famous writer Leo K., I was a bit scared I have just a spent look on this, but dig....it sometimes takes days until I find some sleep..... but the mind was bright ! Landed a place to prezent my new album and also landed a gig at another place, you just close circles where you can....

I have listened to this also recently I don´t know this one, but I have one that´s called Solo Monk, the one with "Dinah" on it. I like to play "Dinah" too sometimes just for my own fun and the audience´s fun if I start a set or do a last encore without the other boys..... Anyway, about Monk: Just a few days ago I had a control visit for my bipolar disorder and the psych doc said I might slow down and I told him if I have that "trips" that go for some days with no sleep, it´s where I create music" and when he didn´t understand it, I told him to check everything he can find about Monk, maybe he will understand what I´m talkin bout and why I don´t want to "slow down" !

Oh thank you ! I really like it ! Your touch reminds me a bit of Wynton Kelly . Really nice ! And I´m glad there is someone posting music here. It´s a drag that there didn´t happen anything in the last years.