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Ah thank you ! As I said, I must have somewhere the individual LPs, I "studied" them during that time I was starting to play. As I remember the most spinning here got the quintet sides with Fats and Sonny since those things "Bouncing with Bud" "Dance of the Infidels" "Wail" and of course "52´nd Street Theme" as set closer still are played and I think at least one of the tunes will be included in one of our next concerts. I remember the less spinning got Vol. 2, somehow it never really reached me. Glass Enclosure might be interesting as a link to classical music, and one tune sounds like a fugue or how you call that. Somehow it´s "in the Mood for a Classic"..... the whole LP..... On Vol. 3 I remember only the Curtis Fuller side, I think we did "Idaho" once with Allan Praskin. Nice blowing vehicle and great stride by Bud. The "Time Waits" was a favourite of Allan. He´d listen to it on headphones travelling to Viena and we´d play "Monopoly" and "John´s Abbey" at the gig. And I think it is the best trio album because it has Philly Joe Jones. The last one I think was not so great, somehow monotony with most tunes in minor and medium swing, and I think they never appeared elsewhere. And very dull brushwork by A.T. he could do much better than that.

What is on sides 4-10 ?

Oh, I knew Nicolae Simion very well since he came to Austria (he changes his surname from the original Romanian "Nicolae" to "Nicolas" ) . We played some gigs together before he settled in Köln. I remember the first time I met him, it was a Jam Session I led at a club named "Tunnel" and didn´t know him. He had his tenor, came up on stage and wow !!!!! He spoke English and I thought he might be from the States, so much tenor he played and so damn good. Soon I would chase other, weaker musicians from stage to have only him with the trio and it was heaven on Earth. Well after someone told me he´s from RO I talked to him in his language and we played some gigs. Only the last time I missed it. It would have been a tribute to Monk and I was scheduled, but didn´t appear, it was "just one of those things.....", man he was pissed off and he was damn right.

I hadn´t known about those multiple album reissues until I got two of them from my wife for x-mas. And good luck, it was nothing I would have already had as individual cd: it was a 2 CD Dizzy set with "Bahia" and "Dizzy´s Party" from the mid 70´s Pablo, and the other was that Mingus "Newport Rebels + the two Candid albums from the early 60´s . About your impressions on Magic Touch: Yes, it´s possible that he hoped to make some money with it. The last few years must have been terrible for Tadd: Bad health, a bad habit, no gigs and no money. I read the bio about Tadd (in fact, there are two of them, but one is more complex) and the last chapter is really depressing.

Fantastic. I have them as individual albums, the first I got was the Mating Call, but it had another cover, one of Tadd on piano in the studio, with a red cover and the title "Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane". The album with Fats is fantastic, that´s the great band from Royal Roost 1948, wonderful. Fontainebleau is wonderful but maybe not as strong as "Mating Call". There was another session for Prestige in 1953 but it filled only a half album, the fanstastic stuff with Clifford Brown, the so called "Atlantic City Band". The last album "Magic Touch" disappointed me. Some remakes of old tunes, but the new compositions are to "smooth", I like the more tricky things like "Hot House", "Good Bait", "Our Delight" and so on. And the disappointment also was that Dameron himself was no longer playing himself. Bill Evans is not really an adequate replacement. Tadd was during the end of his life and to ill to play a piano. It reminds me of Mingus´"Me myself and I" where he couldn´t longer play the bass himself, and the two replacement basses can´t fit into the role Mingus himself had on bass. That´s what I think about the Magic Touch album, same impression....

I don´t know what XR....and all this means, but Miles Davis Quintet 1956 was THE MUSIC, that made me become a jazz fan and later player almost 50 years ago. Then, only "Steamin´" was available with another cover. But it was spinned always. Pocket money was scarce, so for some month this was my only Jazz LP. That´s why I only knew "Miles, Trane, Garland, Paul, Philly J.J." as musicians and they were my heroes , each of them, like let´s say some Pop singer or actor for teenage girls. Well, I had heard one Mingus tune on a "Sampler" and he soon became my next and even stronger hero. Strangely, "Cookin, Relaxin, Workin" were not available then in Europe and it took me years to even know that they exist, until I purchased them. Strange, but the very first Quintet album "Miles" never impressed me the same way like those four. On the other hand, when I got "'The Musings of Miles" it fascinated me and I called it the "Pre Birth of the Quintet" because it already had Garland and Philly J.J. on it.

I must have this, thanks for announcing.

Fritz Pauer was my mentor when I was a highschool kid. His niece was a schoolmate and made the connections. From then on, it was Fritz Pauer who encouraged me and he was the one who let me come up on stage and sit in with fast company when I was 18 years old

ok, thank you, that´s the reason why I had not heard about it. I had his three BN albums from the 1500 series. It´s strange that especially in the fifties some temporary BN-Artists all made 3 albums in a short period, and then switched to other labels: Curtis Fuller Johnny Griffin Clifford Jordan Paul Chambers

Is it possible, that the "Two Bones" was not orginally released, since I knew only about the other three albums. By the way: I got "Bone and Bari" signed by Mr. Fuller himself !!! The Rollins 2 CDs is just wonderful and sure one of the best few live albums in the BN cataloge. Such a wealth of invention and still a major inspiration for jazz study...

I saw Jim Rotondi here in Viena for the first time with Curtis Fuller ! Great trumpet master. This year he was again in Viena with a "Dameronia" programm, it was an evening dedicated to the music of Tadd.

I have them as individual LP´s from long ago. The Fats Navarro-Sonny Rollins thing is the greatest . I think I remember on Vol III I only liked the stuff with Curtis Fuller, side A is quite weird and unorganized, From the trio recordings if I remember right I liked most the "Time Waits" with Philly Joe Jones !!!!!, and the compositions on it.....

The Shaw Washington frontline might be interesting. I never heard this Tyrone Washington, Horace says in his autobiography "Get to the Nitty Gritty" that he had troubles with Washington because his playing was to far out for his hardbop stuff. But that might be interesting, I like it if horn players get a bit "one step beyond"......, But Washington seemed to have a short career, but if you have Woody ......what could be wrong ?

The Woody Herman 1979 interpretation of "Better Git it in ya soul" is fine. It´s on that Concord album with guest stars Dizzy, Woody Shaw, Stan Getz..... 1979

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I think I bought this once a very very long time ago. Somehow I was not really happy with it. I love "sugar free" saxophon but Peppers sound of "Goodbye" is too piercing. And somehow I have a problem with enjoying some of Pepper´s compositions. There is one "My Friend....(who), on it, but that theme is so terrible long, I think I even lost the trace when first listening to it. I think I remember there is some other tunes of him, that I like more. One is about a rapid train in Japan, one is a back beat tune titled something like "wish list" ....

Erich Kleinschuster. A great personality of jazz back then, and a helluva trombonist. But I also remember when he left the hall during Miles Davis´ concert at Stadthalle here in Viena around the mid 70´s (I think there is a "bootleg" CD from the event, similar program like "Dark Magus") , he and his gang, and talkin negative about Miles (well, that´s a question of taste, ok until here), but one week later he started to try "jazz rock" in the clubs, replacing the bass fiddle with a fenderbass, and the piano with a fender rhodes , first dissin´ Miles and than try "rock" ,

You still around. I think it was years that I read you the last time ?

1985 ? He died a year later and looks quite well here. You wouldn´t expect that one year later he was dead.

I heard somewhere, that he also had played with Miles, is that true ? That´s when I first heard or read his name.

I like his arrangements for Mingus, and his composition "Song for Harry Carney" almost sounds like a Mingus original. I think, Mingus started almost each concert with this tune. The live versions are much more exiting that the studio version. Oh yeah, and recently I heard his arrangements on the "Lee Konitz Nonet" from the 70´s. A very good album.

I always had a cat. Once we had a reddish tiger cat called "Smoti" and he seemed to like the music I heard, especially if I spinned Monk he seemed to like it very much. Or if I got up to play some Monk tune and impro on piano, he would sit on my lap and enjoy it. I never saw something like that. Many years later I got that book from Nica Rothschild de Koenigswarter with all them photos and the famous "3 wishes" of jazz musicians and there are many photos of Monk with cats around him. Well, she had so many cats, I couldn´t handle that, I always had to have only one cat as family member.

This was my times, and this band was Blakey´s ticket back to top listing after some "lean years" that happened after the 1971/72 "Giants of Jazz" world tours . This two albums were advertised in the German Jazz Magazine "Jazz Podium" and then there was "In This Korner" and we all heard that great edition with Ponomarev, Watkins, Schnitter, Williams, Irving....., the messengers where back, like many other acoustic jazz greats. Wonderful memories.

I love it too, but the most interesting Andrew Hill I ever heard was on Bobby Hutchersons album I don´t remember the title, maybe "Dialoque".... ? I would have liked to hear one thing that was on one Sam Rivers double LP from that paperbag-cover albums , it was Sam Rivers´ album and had the session by Rivers , which I later bought as something called "Extensions" or "Dimensions" without piano, with Julian Priester on it, very very fine, but what really impressed me then was the second LP where Andrew Hill was the leader. I had borrowed that double album from a friend and taped it on cassette, but I don´t have those cassettes anymore, which is natural. But I don´t know what Album it was, it must have been from about the same time, 60´s, and I think it had Bud Powell´s former drummer J.C. Moses on drums, a very fine drummer.

I don´t have many Verve Records from the 60´s, I think I have that Wes Montgomery album with Wynton Kelly Trio, live at that Half Note ? I think I saw his signature on the back cover and then thought it is "Cecil Taylor"..... About Impulse I didn´t know that he had founded it. I always had thought it was Bob Thiele. Other then Verve, I have lots of albums from Impulse. About CTI, I love "Red Clay", it´s one of my very favourite albums in general, and one of Hubbards best albums. I might listen to the following Hubbard albums for CTI too, if it´s good stuff. I think I bought that Chet Baker at Carnegie Hall once, with Bob James playing acoustic and electric piano. Maybe in general CTI didn´t have so much that I used to listen to. I heard people loving Bob James, people who otherwise didn´t know other jazz artists....., but he´s cool, he can play...