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all 10 sets (no accidental duplicates either) arrived this afternoon - Bravo Matt & helpers

Thanks for sharing that. He’s a great tenor player. The country and decade he grew up in might caused the fact he never really became well known. He definitely deserves wider recognition 

cant it be preordered on Amazon ? I must get the Mingus Buenos Aires, since just before we heard Mingus on his huge european tour in that year, one who had lived in Buenos Aires brought me a cassete of part of one of the concerts, just casetofon from the audience..... Of course I don´t have casete or casetofon anymore (must have been 30 and more years ago), it would be nice to hear the hole stuff....

Nicolae Simion (he changed the real name into Nicolas.... didn´t ask him why.  You know: NicoLAE, I spotted him at some joint where I was leading the "house band" for a jam session night and in came that tall guy, and up he came on stage and .......oh boy.......what stuff he played. I felt I might play for ever with that wonderful musician. Never had seen him and was sure he is a great international jazz tenorist who somehow had a day off in that town Viena.  He was so great that one after the other left the stage, so it was reduced to the four musicians who have it at heart and we forgot about all things around. It was like if you are out in the night and meet a person who you know was always there, and you finally find her and there is no end..... I don´t know what tunes we played, but they might last 15 - 20 minutes..... When the stuff finally made a sign that they want to close the joint, someone said to me that this guy .....he doesn´t no his name but that he had heard the guy is from România. So .....same music, same feeling....... and same language.... He was quite surprised when I approached him, see there was not so much Români in Viena back then..... The next years we played here or then a gig, once with the then blood young trumpetist Ingrid Jensen ! Wonderful. Well, later Nicolae concentrated more on finding a combination of jazz and his folclore background, I mean some old folk music from the villages of Transilvania and stuff....... Well, I am a 100 la 100 city guy and muzică populară, if there was any, it was modernized, just for weddings or stuff, but know one I new ever listened voluntary to it....... He became a big name in Germany and played with all greats that exist: Mal Waldron, Tomasz Stanko, Lee Konitz, Archie Shepp and who knows.....

I love the albums I have with Tristano. One is called "A Guiding Light in the 40´s", and one might be with Lee Konitz in a live set.  But I really heard Tristano first on two Parker Broadcasts where he is the pianist and has beautiful trio features.  Only on the album with Lee Konitz I can´t get it in touch with my vibrations, since I can´t feel the overdubs. Others sure can, but I fail to feel that.