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Thanks for sharing this with us.

Great, I have that too.

I love Wes Montgomery .

Thank you also for sharing the infos about your father. I´m aware of his name since he played on many Dizzy Gillespie Big Band albums during that time.(late 40s)

This one is wonderful.

Great stuff on that list, a lot of things I also have and enjoy.

That´s really a treasure, Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with Leo Wright and Lalo Schifrin 1961 in Germany. This is from the SWR archives. Great tunes: The Mooche, Con Alma, I can´t get started, Kush, and a feature for Leo Wright on flute "Willow Weep for Me".

YEs, I also thought about Mingus the whole day, since it was ianuarie 5th when he died. I remember I was at a club then when the terrible news spread around. Such a big loss, I love Mingus. Now listening:

Such a great concert, just wonderful !

Well, about the same time there were two other significant double albums that were very much recommended among my school colleages: "The Milestone Jazzstars" (Rollins, McCoy Tyner Ron Carter Al Foster), and the McCoy Tyner "Super Trios". On the morning ride to school, one of those guys told me about those two albums and that´s how I purchased them.....

Oh, Ingrid Jensen. Fantastic ! I had the great luck to jam with here once in the early 90´s, together with the great tenor player Nicolas Simion. Ingrid was allready a fan of Bud´s compositions and played "Bouncing with Bud" as I remember.

My favourite of all VSOP albums and a favourite of mine when it came out in 1978. This album was very much discussed among our little jazz gang at high school.

The last from the series of CDs I got for Chrismas. Very fine and swinging session.

Thanks for that great thread. A lot of possiblitities to change impressions, informations, and a lot of inspiration.

Wonderful thing, two albums as a 2 CD set. this is Dizzy at it´s best in the mid 70´s. Some of this stuff was also on live concerts I remember I saw..... It was a Chrismas surprise for me.....

Happy new year, I hope it will be a better one.

Yes, it´s mainly a picture book, but it also has letters, some of them quite reveiling, for example club owners complaining at the Union about Bird´s bizarre behaviour on stage etc., mostly torwards the end of his life. There are also photos of Bird´s last gig with Kenny Dorham, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey from Birdland March 1955 which I never saw elsewhere.....

YEs, Riverside has some great stuff. Now listening to Wes Montgomery Boss Guitar, which I got for Chrismas from my beloved wife.

sure something very good to eat

RIP, he was on of the greatest

You are right, in the pre internet days ordering books was a hassle. I was a regular at a little fancy bookstore and they were very helpful and I think they contacted no one less than Francis Paudras, who was the co-autor of the book , together with Chan Parker. I think, it was around 1980. Then in 1986 came the Francis Paudras book about Bud, written in french. I also was very expensive and I ordered it the same way, via that little fancy bookstore. It is fine now to order all stuff via internet, but it was fine then also, especially those a little old fashioned stores, record stores , book stores, I loved to spend time there....

I love those late 60´s Miles albums in transition from acoustic to slightly electric, here especially the first track "Stuff".....

I have "To Bird with Love". I purchased it shortly after it came out. I think , then it was advertised in "Jazz Podium" and around 1980 if I remember right, my book-dealer helped me to order it. It was quite expensive then, but not as expensive as it is now.

I got this for Chrismas. It´s a shame I didn´t know this record until now. It was recorded about the same time as "Black Saint..." but it has more already known stuff, like the Theme For Lester Young, and Hora Decubitus actually is "E´s flat A´s flat too" from "Blues and Roots" and the first tune II.B.S. actually is "Haitian Fight Song". What a wonderful album, great arrangements, and I X Love is a wonderful ballad that I already knew with another title from "Town Hall Concert". And what a great version of "Mood Indigo", with some of the best bass solo work of Mingus. Anyway, besides his immense role as a composer, Mingus for me is the greatest bassist of his generation. The CD has a bonus track "Freedom" which is much better than the one on "Town Hall". I´m so glad I got this record.....