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I´m not very familiar with this label. We all had "Red Clay". It was THE RECORD....so great ! And I think "First Light" was also from that time. The other two I have is some Chet Baker with Gerry Mulligan. I didn´t have records from the first or the second on that bill, but bought it for that rhythm section with Ron Carter. Ron Carter in a rhythm section and it is "safe" for me. And Harvey Mason I knew from Hancock. Bob James is also great !!!!

I think it is my favourite Bobby Hutcherson record from the old stuff. See, I only saw him a few times, together with Jackie McLean on one occasion, but when I bought some records I think it was this and another, I love this because it has one of my all time favourites Sam Rivers. And the piano is very interesting. I think I love most the tune Catta, is it on this album ? it sure is. The thing I had with that tune is, it was such common ground when I learned jazz, everybody played it. And when I saw this record much much later I thought "wow, didn´t know it was written 10 years ago..... Because I heard it live with the same group......okay it was not George Coleman, it was Wayne Shorter so it was the VSOP I think, but I have seen George Coleman also live when he had made that record "Amsterdam News" or how it was titled.

It´s strange I heard her only one time on record at somebody´s place, voice is great, but I could not understand what she does on piano.

Don Byas is great! I am not sure if he made many albums, I have the Savoy double album, and a Black Lion album "Anthropology". Last night I spinned 2 albums: Freddie Hubbard at Keystone is great, wonderful live stuff. I like very much that great composition "First Light", and that live version of "Red Clay". On the other hand, my very very very favourite generally in music, Pharoah Sanders sometimes played just straight ahead music and was top in that field too: Here he does old stuff like "On A Misty Night". But I like most the title tune "Heart is a Melody" even if it´s borrowed from "The Creator" , and the great "We goin´to Africa".

I have that double LP since it came out. 1978 was a top year for jazz and new records. You say there is no ts/b/dr trio ? Is´t Don´t Stop the Carnival trio ? I have not spinned it for some time, but I´m sure there is no McCoy on that tune.

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 Having listened too the last hours: First of all the live Love Supreme: I love it so much. Everything Coltrane did in the mid sixties. Great Band and Pharoah Sanders is one of my most favourites anyway. I think, great as McCoy Tyner is and he is one of my favourites on piano, it sounds a bit like if there might be a change on the piano chair and it sure was, since Alice Coltrane was the next and with all due respect to McCoy, Alice fits better into that music....., just an opinion or better said a suggestion..... Freddie Hubbard sounds so great here and has such great musicians: I can say from that band I heard each of them separatly: Hubbard of course, Javon Jackson and Benny Green of course both together with Blakey, and the great Tony Reedus with the magic Woody Shaw.... I like especially Hubbards compositions Poiebe´s Samba and First Light. Such a great live record ! I don´t know what impulse drove me to spin some tunes of a strange Bud Powell live recording. I love Bud live very much, like the ones at Birdland from the early years to the late years, and the European concerts with Hawk, with Mingus, and with Blakey..... But I had to stop this after a few tunes. Though I am not an audiophile, never have been, and don´t care much if a piano is a bit out of tune, since I had to play myself hundreds of slightly out of tune pianos in damp cellar clubs as many jazz clubs are. But this piano sounds like if it had stood some decades in a damp room that´s all shambles and has never been touched for at least a decade..... so poor it is. It´s no wonder Bud, as honestly he tries, can´t play completly in his usual good form, he seems to struggle a bit with that poor piano. You can get over this on faster tunes, but on Ballads this reallly becomes a challenge. How good would this have sounded on a well tuned piano, especially because there are some Monk tunes like Off Minor and Epistrophy.....

ok !

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

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.

Sounds great !!!!! Love them all. Sounds like something I might like.

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.

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.

Mingus in Buenos Aires !!!! I had a casette from it, but I think one I had thrown away all casetes and the casetofon.....

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....

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.

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". 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".

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 ????

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 !

When was J.J.´s run with columbia?

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.... 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 ?

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.

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:

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 ?

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 😄