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That´s the edition of the band I saw live. Very fine. I had the album but it seems I lost it or had borrowed it to someone and didn´t get it back, I can´t remember what had happened, but I remember the music. As much as I remember, it didn´t reach the same power the live concerts had.

Big fan of him. Got to hear him the very first time on the Black Lion LP "Anthropology" which became a "hit" when all them folks came to my place to listen to records into the small hours. They all loved that record and often asked me to spin it in the course of a night......

Is it possible that I saw him live with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band ? I think HE was the pianist. Jesper Lundgaard was on bass, Dick Oats and Steve Coleman where saxophonists, Pepper Adams on bari I think, so I think I remember Jim McNeely was on piano......, was a very fine night, to hear that legendary band. After Thad Jones had left the band, it was not the same anymore, most of all because they got Bob Brookmeyer to compose and arrange. Nothing against Broockmeyer, he sure has many fans here, but in my case the connections did not happen. It may be my fault, but I didn´t hear anything that thrilled me.... A treasure from my early teenie years. From the first few bars a livelong favourite of mine. I think, Sun Ra, late Trane, Pharoah Sanders and Dolphy where main sources to live that miracle of good music....

Filles was a thing you got to have and to study when I was a kid. There is no way to ignore Filles if you want to follow Miles´transition from simple hardbop to the compexity of things like Bitches Brew as the start for a most creative period until 1975. It was so much en vogue, that album. All those there were becoming top acts on their own. Chick, Herbie, Tony, John McLaughlin and so, they became main influences of the jazz of the 70´s which developement I could follow from the start on. You met guys on the street who would stop you and ask you if you have a copy of "Filles". Some few had purchased the LP. We others might copy it on casetofon. I never will forget that question about the album. Nobody here in my surroundings knew how to pronounce it. They all said😄 "Fill Less deh Killi Mann Djaro"

Wonderful , really fun music. The title tune, a Calypso.....Pharoah sounds almost like Rollins sometimes here. And also the swing tunes When Lights are Low and Moment´s Notice are great. And two really moving duets with Joe Bonner, who is just an incredible good pianist.

You say it ! From the Strata East "Dolphy Series" like another favourite of mine: The "Rhythm X" with Charles Brackeen, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell.

So great, so wonderful, you want to hear to this further and further and think "may it not ever stop". Sonny Sharrock is wonderful here. I love that wonderful angelic riff. Some of the best music I ever heard, on that album. That´s the kind of music made for eternity.

Thank you so much for that great answer that explains everything. And you really have a great musical taste, you listen to wonderful albums ! Last nights, I have listened to some Pharoah Sanders:

I see. Well, in my case it is even possible that the weather, more so the anotimp influences something: It was a beautiful spring night when I first heard one of my first Idols Charles Mingus, so if there is such a night in April I might have Mingus in my head or if I´m off, I´d spin it. And it was a beautiful night in september, still warm, and I heard for the first time Max Roach, so September might be a month I start with thouts about Max Roach. Freezing weather is a challenge for me, since I like those really warm nights, where you can get out and the town doesn´t sleep, all kinds of dudes on the streets, and the gals don´t wear long jeans any more....

This was the first Jazz LP I had owned in the early 1970s but it had another cover. I see on some posts, that you have a deep association between weather and music. So, does the weather influence the music you hear ?

incredible: Each of them personal favourites of mine. At least I can say that I saw each of them live on more than one occasions....

I only had purchased one or two from Denon, I think. 1977/78 was happy times for me as a youngster and budding jazzmusician. I already had saw live some of my idols, like Diz, Mingus and Max, so 3 from the 5 Massey Hall Giants. Each was great.

I that the album with "Dat There", a great tune !!!!! It was on one of those three night stints, where I was booked with an international sax player who called it in the last set of one of those nites, I had never played it but you have it in your ears so you don´t have to have a sheet on piano..... I think, once I heard it in a commercial... is that possible ?

Horo had great albums. Especially Sun Ra. Is this album the "Loadstar" by Max Roach ? I didn´t buy it but I think it must have been done when I first heard Max Roach live, it was the quartet that had Billy Harper, wasn´t it ? Roach, Bridgewater, Harper, Workman. I think that was the best quartet. Later I heard it with Harper and Workman replaced by Odeon Pope and Calvin Hill. Also very good, but Calvin Hill had somehow such a "plastic sound" on the bass, sometimes that sounded a bit ugly. And Odeon Pope, ok, he is interesting, but his sound is a bit strange to me, more like a bassoon than the tenor sound I like most....

okay sorry. I didn´t remember I already posted an answer..... As long as I remember the tunes I play..... the rest...... you know, short time memory is not my thing.

Looks like a great bebop gig, groovy joint I suppose, but to have to play so near to the Shithouse.....😜 I mean, you got to head on and blow, but if someone from the audience has done his fiziologic necessities and opens the door and it stinks ? Terrible thing to imagine.

Bird was a big influence of my musical thinking, even if due to my age I didn´t hear music chronologically, that means I would have discovered Bird after I was into the styles of music of the late 60´s early 70´s. The first time I read Bird´s name was when there appeared a super Mingus triple record in Paris 1970 or 71, which had a take "Parkeriana". But listenig to a simple tune like Billies Bounce or more even, Now´s the time so many times one after the other, is just torture for me. I have a Prestige album of Wardell Gray that also has so may tracks.

Remove stickers ? Well I must admit maybe I don´t even observe them. I think my LPs still have their price tickets on them, I never considered an efort in plus when I can listen to the music. Let´s say, such miniature things would not have disturbed me, and by the way, you got to have the time to do this, if I´d have cared.

I have seen Benny Golson very often live. His early compositions are great. Maybe he is not really my idea of a soloist on Saxophone, maybe the sound, maybe his phrasing, but to have a horn player with THAT Rhythmsection, I think I´d listen to it somewhere.

Strange, I know of course each sideman here (ok, Pat Martino only the name, I´m not such a bit guitar fan), but I have never heard the name of the leader. both are favourites of mine. Especially Jackie Mc Lean: This was the first album I heard from him. And I saw almost the same personnel live, with Bobby Hutcherson instead of Walter Davis..... I love all Wayne Shorter albums for Blue Note. I saw him live much later but there was nothing of the energy and driving force from those BlueNote albums. Usually I´m not the conservative guy who looks only back (I would have been the last person to compare "KOB" with "Agharta"), but the Wayne Shorter I had heard 2005 just bored me, incredible....

I don´t have it, but it must be interesting, since the usual set list was almost always the same: Blue´n Boogie, Round Midnight, Night in Tunisia etc. Here there is more Monk compositions and "I Waited for You" was seldom played after the bop era. It´s a beautiful ballad. I think this record is hard to find....

Some good stuff from Viena, Austria. All those musicians are leaders himself and I am grateful that I perform with them or they play in my own band. Trance of Noiz is the wonderful album by Andi Steirer, perc. Humpty Bump from Oliver Kent´s All Star unit Worry Later, wonderful and Oliver is my favourite pianist here. Ray Aichinger´s Boogaloo album I love it just to have a lot of musical fun. Uli Langthaler is one of the most creative bassists around. He is a great composer and bandleader Dusan Novakov is probably the most recorded drummer here in Austria and has played with all greats I can imagine. Monday Night with Kirk Lightsey.... Waltz for Serena by Bop Explosion, my own band gathers Andi Steirer, Uli Langthaler, Dusan Novakov and two great horn players : Johannes Probst had performed with Lee Konitz and Barry Harris, Márton Papp as, is the young guy who had played with all greats here in Austria, he also had performed with James Rotondi while he was teaching in Graz.......

Bud Powell in top form. Here are some of his best solos. Even if he was the greatest, he did not always reach such heights of inspiration like here.

I saw Don Menza at Jazzland at the times where I was in semi retirement due to some "just of those things"...., and he was great. Oliver Kent is a musical friend and I always state that he is my favourite piano player and composer here in Austria. On my homepage there is a pic of him an me getting copies of a jazz book..... Johannes Strasser is one of the really really great bass players in Ausria. He had played with so many greats. Some highlight was a wonderful concert with Chet Baker. Strasser had played some gigs with me when we both were very very young in our earlie twens.....

His real name ist Raimund ! On advertising and billing he is listed as "Ray". Because he calls himself Ray, I once suggested we play "Ray´s Idea" and many folks play it in F or ....Chet Baker recorded it in B flat, but Ray suggested D flat which is my favourite key for that tune. Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie recorded it in Db back in the 40´s.