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This is up on YouTube and it's pretty good. It has a typical "large music hall" audio sound, which is not my favorite live recording venue & with this band, I was somehow expecting more musically.

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 know, off by one year, but would like to see a proper reissue of this record: