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At many studio recordings "my main problem" is that I don´t hear the drums work completly. I´d have to get very close to the speaker to hear let´s say the ride cymbal. On live recordings I usually hear the drums how they would sound live.

Thank you for that info. I didn´t know that. I can follow that it is used in ensemble passages, but soloing it really sounds strange. Anyway, the two non typical BN-Artists on recordings, (Mellé and Montrose) somehow sound a bit "funny" to me, it sounds a bit "colder" than I´d say Mobley, Rollins, Trane, Griffin and all the others from the same period 1956 sounded.

Oh I see. What I heard is that he sounds good.

I also have the first VSOP where there was a Concert of all the Hancock groups, starting with VSOP, followed by the sextet with Buster William, Billy Hart, , Maupin, Julian Priester and Eddie Henderson and the funk band with Wah Wah Watson. The studio album V.S.O.P. was a bit of a disappointment to me. The recording quality, the bass is too loud, and somehow it doesn´t have that fire....the tunes not so exiting...

I think I have this somewhere, this might have been very very long ago, it was that short lived label from Bruce Lundvall. As much I can remember it would be some of the best Bud Powell live ever, but something was with the soundquality I mean I´m no audiophile but I think I didn´t hear Mingus´bass and it was too sharp or too much treble, so it was a pain in the ear. But from the playing it was about the best tunes and best solos he played. And above all because it was a dream team with Mingus and Roy Haynes, If I remember right there are some really fast tunes on it like "Salt Peanuts" "Little Willie Leaps" and a fantastic version of "Woody´n You" if it is that record. But I listen very seldom to albums without horns. Massey Hall I know too well to hear something new, but maybe I might make an exception to spin this one at some point, if I can catch something I had missed. It was a favourite of mine when I bought anything that had one or two members of the original Miles quintet, since one LP with the original Miles was my first jazz listening and like maybe Beatles fans might see each member of the band as their idols, in my case it was besides Miles the other players of that first quintet. And I already had dug some of Tadd Dameron´s stuff. This I think is the last real Tadd Dameron album. "In a Misty Night" became something like a "mini hit", a catchy tune, many fellow musicians like it and at least I heard it played live by Pharoah Sanders..... I think I had it on a Double LP of Miles that had "Round Midnight" on the first LP. It´s a good album with a wonderful version of the title tune, I think there is one walking blues on it and one stuff similar to the Flamenco thing on KOB. But in general this was more a transition period for Miles, it took 2 more years to have Tony Williams, my favourite drummer.

Yeah that´s the one I got.

Hello Friends ! I want to introduce you to some of the greatest players here in Austria whom I know personally. The Group "Worry later" (namend after Monk´s composition with the same title) was founded some years ago and each member is a fantastic musician and each of them teach jazz at high level jazz academies here in town, and their students are some of the hottest young players around here. Oliver Kent (p) is my idea of a perfect pianist and a fantastic composer. Daniel Nösig (tp) and Thomas Kugi (ts) .....I can say onestly that I listen to them with the same fascination and pleasure I would listen to let´s say Lee Morgan with Hank Mobley, or let´s say Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter. Uli Langthaler (b) is also a fantastic composer and I love he bass sound soo much , he is my favourite bass player. Dusan Novakov (dr), oh you know how much I love good drummers and it´s just heaven on earth. They all are so wonderful human beings and I enjoy their concerts so much. This album has great compositions, all composed by Oliver Kent and Uli Langthaler. I could write about each composition but listen yourself, the music speaks for itself. And the recording sound is great. There is too many records where you just don´t hear what the drummer plays, because they cut it out and you wouldn´t hear the ride cymbal and stuff. But here it´s the sound I love, and almost like hearing them live . Highly recommended.

Oh yes, than it is the best of all, though it´s hard for me to choose. The "Tempest at Colosseum" is also top and was my favourite until I discovered "Under the Sky". On the other hand, the studio album from the same time as "Under The Sky" is a lame duck for me. By the way: You should also get Sonny Rollins "Under the Sky", it´s incredible !!!! This was my first Art Tatum album in the 70´s, it had another cover but I like it even more than the Verves. The "Begin the Beguine" is outa sight ! Oh yes wonderful, the rhythm section is tops, the album is very fine, though I alsways found that J.R.Monterose has a bit a strange way of phrasing. I´m no collector, but I think I have another one where he plays with Kenny Dorham.

Yes, this was the first VSOP I had. It was brand new then and I was still at high school and we all the guys who listened to jazz or played jazz loved it and shared it. This version of Red Clay is fantastic !

up: Please, anybody ? Any advices ?

I think I read some of his liner notes, but maybe it was mostly adding notes writtten by him about previously unreleased BN tracks. I didn´t know he wrote for ECM, I always had associated him with BN.

Which one is that ? I have some of the VSOP quintet. But it has another cover. I think two of them are from Japan.

Dear Bill ! Have a Happy Birthday and I´m glad to read you . You know so much music !

Looks like those old abstract Verve covers.

Wasn´t Benny Carter very much on those late Pablo albums ? There was one with Diz, but I never heard it, and one I think under his own name with "Mellow Tone" on it. But did he really play alto AND trumpet ? I don´t remember nothing special about that "Mellow Tone" but it swung.

I admire all people who can memorize lyrics of songs. I sometimes try to find lyrics to songs on google, but often it´s just the lyrics written and you don´t know how they insert it into the song, and sometimes the most part of the lyrics is the verse of the song. And many of us know the verse only on tunes, where it is usually played as an intro . On the other hand, I noticed that in any language I know, it´s hard to understand words if they are sung. And me and my wife can´t memorize even the simplest children songs, we might start with the first three words of the song if it start´s with the title of the song and than it turns into "hm hm hm" or in my case into some stupid scat with shou bah bee shou bah bop😄 Last year we had that nice little winter tree in the living room and when we stood in front of it, we said spontaniously "at that point it is supposed to sing some "colinde" (Weihnachtslieder) and we started "Stille Nacht Helige Nacht" and after that four words the lyrics turned into "hmmmm hm hmm, hmmm hm hmm" 😲 I can memorize all that music just from hearing it just one time, but a few words of lyrics and I´m lost.....

really a wealth of treasures. It will take some time for me to see them all. The gig at "inntöne" in Upper Austria I think was just a few days after I saw him for the last time at "Porgy and Bess". He still was strong, but seemed to have difficulties to walk, whatever it was. The last appearance in public is very moving. But who is the slim guy who also plays tenor, he´s okay but what does that flower on his head mean ?

Yeah that could be the transcription. Okay in my own case, if it is more musicians termenology, I would dig it because I play, but I think to remember that one was more about society or sociology and that is not really what I read.

Maybe also "The Milestone Allstars" Rollins-Tyner-Carter-Foster. I have only the record, but they toured the States in the late 70´s. And again Rollins with George Duke, Stanley Clark and Al Foster live in Japan, and there is also a live album and a studio album.

I have it on CD, but it doesn´t have the typical BN cover, somehow I picked it up at a little record store in a subway station, just by browsing thru the few jazz records. But I know much better McLean albums. From the "traditional side" maybe "Swing Swang Swining", but then above all "Let´s Freedom Ring", "One Step Beyond", "New and Old Gospel" and one more with Woody Shaw on it, it´s titled something like "Devil Dance" or "Dance of Death" with a strange woman face on the cover, but fantastic music. "Sharp Stuff". Well this is sure a question of taste. It´s what I love so much about Jackie McLean, his sound. He seems to be the alto sound I love to hear.

I must try to get the book since I had only the Kindle Book when it appeared. I had to buy a Kindle equipment exclusivly to read this book, but I have to read a paper book, I don´t feel well reading it like I read it. I must try to get the paper version if there still is any. As much as I remember, well I had to cut out some of it, mostly the psychiatric raports and so, since I´m a musician, not a medic . And I would have liked more about his music than about all the funky side of his life. I have some Bud books: 1) The Francis Paudras "La Danse Des Infidéles" in french: Paudras mostly stresses the fact that he is the only one who understood Bud and rescued him and all that Buttercup-bashing. In my eyes, he just exagerated the importance of his relation with Bud, and was too naive to see the reality, especially about Bud´s return to the State. 2) Alan Shipton "The Glass Enclosure", well it has some reviews of some records. 3) Carl Smith "All Recordings", which is quite interesting, though I´m not a real collector who must have everything. 4) Guthrey Ramsey "Black Genius", I can´t say much about it´s a bit too hard reading for me to understand..., don´t forget I learned English from reading liner notes and from talkin about music with musicians....

The best super band I ever saw was: Jackie McLean Bobby Hutcherson Herbie Lewis Billy Higgins. That´s something where you say that dreams came true.

I must say, that my critical comments are also self critical, because that´s how I sounded when I had my first gigs at the age from 18-21 years. I listened to the tapes back and was not satisfied, I found it has that "edge" in it, it does´t sound like that fantastic lines Bird or Bud would produce. I played let´s say "Bouncing with Bud" with a name saxophonist plus bass and drums, a great honour to be on stage with him, and after some gigs he told me: I generally like your playing, you got good ideas but you should work a little more on the phrasing. "Bouncin´with Bud".....I mean you know what "Bouncin´ " means ? And he was damn right.....

I listened to them on one of my USB sticks I have in the car. The Art Pepper album is very fine, I think I got it as soon as it came out. Especially that they have such a great rhythm section helps very much and Art Pepper seems to be inspired. There is only one strange thing: His long solo intro to "Over the Rainbow". Somehow it´s strange with that pentatonic lines, not really fitting to the mood of the song if you ask me, and maybe it would be better as a solo cadenza at the end of the song, not at the start. The Jazz Messengers "Lerner & Lowe" is very fine, some of the tunes are rarely played in jazz context. The musician that exites me most is of course Johnny Griffin. Sam Dockery seems to be Bud Powell influenced, but wait a minute......it´s more Elmo Hope thing in it. Bill Hardman is a very nice and articulate player, very easy to regocnize , but maybe after much listening I miss some more dramatic effect in his trumpet playing. It just "flows" with not many tensions as leaving space here or there or gettin different sound or phrasing approach into it. Thats only my impression after very very intense listening.

Yeah, it´s a shame I didn´t meet personally the two Vienese members, but maybe they´ll come to a gig so I´d meet them. So if you get there , we can go to one of the jazzclubs where there is live music.....