Peter Friedman

Sorry, my mistake. Just deleted that post and will place it on the correct thread.

Yes Stanley Cowell is a high quality piano player. He has a good CD out on the Venus label as follows. Stanley Cowell Trio - Dancers In Love withTaurus Mateen,bass & Nasheet Waits, drums

I would personally select Tom Harrell before To Charles Tolliver.

Charles McPherson and Mickey Roker would be good choices in my view. Charles Lloyd would definitely not be on my list.

Sam Dockery played on a number of recordings with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1950's and then faded from view.

Red Holloway recorded with Horace on one of his later sessions. Was it on the Columbia label?

I didn't realize that Billy Mitchell was playing with Horace in 1957. Most biographies say he was in Miami until 1958. Not sure where you came up with Billy Mitchell in my post? Look again and you will see that I wrote BLUE mitchell.

In 1957 I was in the US Army and had just finished my basic training at Ft. Riley, KS. Had a leave and took the train heading back home to Detroit. Needed to change trains in Chicago. Was with 2 friends who both liked jazz, one of whom lived in Chicago. By chance we discovered that The Horace Silver Quintet with Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook was playing at the Sutherland Lounge on the south side. We decided to go and hear Horace. it was a fantastic evening of music, and may have been the only time I heard Horace Silver live.

Probably was this tour: http://www.amazon.com/Norman-Granz-Presents-Philharmonic-September/dp/B0042A3SA8 I have the single LP, issued in the '80s under Bob Porter's aegis, from this tour called "The Trumpet Battle." It was a high-quality JATP ensemble, with Roy, Shavers, Benny Carter, a quite alert Lester Young, Flip Phillips, and the usual OP-led rhythm section with Buddy Rich. Roy and Shavers are on fire. It suspect it may have been a year or two later. Don't recall Billie Holiday at that concert. Do recall a tenor battle between Illinois Jacquet and Flip Philips, a ballad medley that the audience did not want, bringing Norman Granz out to give the audience hell. Also a drum battle between Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, with Buddy the clear winner.

It was probably the Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia LP's on Blue Note that first focused my attention on the playing of Horace Silver back when they were first released. That strong blues based hard driving approach to the instrument grabbed me deep down. From that point on, I made it my business to get every recording that had Horace as either leader or sideman. His playing, his groups, and his compositions have had a major impact on my musical education. I am currently away from home on vacation, so can't pull out some of Silver's recordings. but once I return home I certainly intend to rectify that situation.

Way back in the early to mid-1950's I went to a JATP concert in Detroit. One set featured a trumpet battle between Roy Eldridge and Charlie Shavers. Though this was when I was just in the early stages of becoming a jazz fan, my preference , by a slight margin was for Roy. Shavers demonstrated a lot of technical skill and played very well, but Roy had the special jazz feeling that moved him into the winners circle for me.

Though not a piano trio session, Sonny Stitt recorded an album (a quartet) with Sadik Hakim on piano. It is on Progressive and was reissued on CD. My opinion of that one is similar to my viewpoint regarding Sadik's trio date on Steeplechase.

A great jazz musician. Hearing his trumpet at it's best can raise goosebumps on the back of your neck. Though I have to disagree with Milestones post on Roy's vocals. I love them. He recorded a vocal album on Pablo after he was told by his doctors not to play the trumpet any more. It is a session that never fails to bring a wide smile to my face.

My opinion is exactly the same as Ubu. Am away from home on vacation so can 't play my copy, but my recollection is just as he said, "good not great".

Yes, a definite winner in my book. Not sure if I remember correctly, but seem to recall some less than enthusiastic reviews when it was first released. Most of Dexter's recordings are loose swinging sessions. "Sophisticated Giant" allows us to hear him in a rather different setting. I have very much enjoyed Slide Hampton's arrangements in a broad variety of big bands and smaller groups.

"Bag's Opus" has long been a session I dug a lot. This thread gives me a good reason to pull the CD off the shelf and listen to it again.

I believe that Will Davis is the pianist on the very good Kenny Burrell album on Prestige titled "Soul Call".

It was John Maher who was the pianist with Coltrane on the Roulette session. Another rather obscure pianist is Billy Gardner.I always enjoyed his playing with Charlie Rouse on his recording on Epic.

Frank Patchen played with an early version of Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars.

Both Morgan and Pepper played frequently with pianist George Cables.

I recall seeing him play one evening about 17 or 18 years ago. The piano player was Steve Kuhn with whom Morgan had never played before. Frank was extremely complimentary to Kuhn,telling the audience that Steve was a great player and it was a treat to play with him. Morgan played very well that evening. Personally I like Frank's recordings on Contemporary, Telarc and Antilles. His last group of recordings on High Note seemed to me to lack something and were just so so

Back To The Land by the Lester Young Trio

Funny to me that it was Fred Hersch putting down Corea and Oscar. My opinions on Corea are mixed as they are on Hersch. Most recordings by both Hersch and Corea are not to my taste, though there are a small number with each of them that I do like. The playing of both Fred and Chick has in general become less and less interesting to me over the years. Some of their early work is what I prefer by them. It may be "politically correct" in some circles to be negative and even hostile toward the playing of Oscar Peterson. But for me, his playing is most enjoyable. I am pleased to say that I have a large number of CDs by Oscar. He would not be one of my very favorite jazz piano players, but his playing has given me a great amount of pleasure over many many decades.

Contrary to Mike, I consider Buster's playing on the various recordings by Sphere to be marvelous. One of my very favorite sessions by Buster is on the session titled - We Three - on DIW with Stanley Cowell and Freddie Waits. Williams also does an excellent job on Charles McPherson - McPherson's Mood on Prestige, and on Bobby Hutcherson - In The Vanguard on Landmark. Buster Williams plays on a very large number of other recordings in my collection, and it would be difficult to find one where he did not play very well.

I had the Al Belleto Lps at one time. They didn't do much for me and I disposed of them many decades go. I also had the Patti Bown LP and my reqction was the same, and I had no difficulty also disposing of it.