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Yes with Elvin Jones, this was quite late in Elvin´s life. I remember it. He also played flute ! Like Dave Liebman too (best on Ife).

Yeah but Sonny Fortune I think was AFTER I saw the band, and I think it was only for a relativly short time (Agatha and Pangeea), but he is fine and plays alto. And I like his alto sound, while strange to say I am not so wild about Cannonball when he was with the Miles Davis Sextet. There is a certain sound of the alto that I love most: Vibratoless, "sugar-free" ...... well anyone who has at least some of the strength of McLean is my man. Gary Bartz is wonderful....And Sonny Fortune sounds very very good on those Miles albums, but as I said, I saw Miles only with saxophonists like Liebman, and then it was Bill Evans, and I lost the trace of the others later. I think that Bob Berg, who might be a helluva player, was not ideal for the band, or better said, the band not for Bob..... I was to young to see the Band with Bartz or Grossman. Like many of my generation I got my impressions more from the live performances we attended than from LPs, since they were expensive and scarce, while live shows were much more events for not too much money. Since the only dead ones where some of the founders of bop (Bird, But, Fats), there was a lot of music from bop veterans to electric jazz, so I don´t think I got much knowledge from records.....

I never removed anything. I still have old LP´s with pricestickers having shiling instead of Euro, from the 70´s. But I never considered removing a thing that´s important for me. The music counts, the rest I think I am not even aware of.

That´s a very nice record. My only Ben Webster record.

Well I saw Davis with Liebman. Liebman was after Steve Grossman, so about 2 years, 1973 + 1974 and IMHO he was the best of Miles post-Wayne saxophonists.

Its a wonderful foto. Miles having a very happy day, just enjoying live like we all love to do.

though I don´t have that album from the great iugoslav trumpetist Dușco Goicovici it must be an extraordinar one with them great musicians, I´d say some of the very best. Like a Dream Band ! I had first heard Dușco on an Enia Record titled "After Hours" . The thing with Woody Shaw, I have an album of them playing at Uncle Poe´s in Hamburg, Germania, and it is great. But I was a bit astonished that the most prominent of them all, Woody Shaw did not get top billing, Stafford James remained Woody´s bassist, but I saw him with Tony Reedus on drums, who was also great !

It´s quite nice, but sounds somehow untypical for BN-Records. Maybe it sounds a bit more like what they called "Cool Jazz".

Well I have doubts people from my generations would have other kind of Sonny than that from the late 70´s on. I don´t have any reason to dislike what I heard. The albums that were around were fine and exiting, for example the Milestone Albums like "Don´t stop the Carnaval" with Tony Williams, then the albums with Al Foster on drums Sure I have heard some of those Prestige albums mostly "Tenor Madness" on record, but at the time I was listening most, I liked to stuff he did with Don Cherry, last not least for Billy Higgins. But as I said. Sonny Rollins aged in his late 40´s was the Man we saw live and admired, damn good drummers with him, I remember Jerry Harris on electric bass and maybe Mark Soskin on piano.....

It´s my favourite Curtis Fuller record. In my youth I had the wish to gather at least one record from all those heroes of mine. Let´s say my first jazz was the First Miles Davis Quintet and sure I had records from each of the members, let´s say "Blue Trane", "Whims of Chambers" "Blues for Dracula" and "Garlands of Red" or so, and sure when I heard "Blue Trane" I heard Curtis Fuller and got that "Opener". That´s how I bought records.... Indeed a great event. But somehow I remember that Mingus was not very happy with the results and later said "too many friends". But as an ultimate Mingus Fan in my youth I sure had that double CD. But somehow, from all listening I have the feeling that the Mingus from 1970-1973 still was not the Mingus with all that power, especially on his own bass. Ironically I found the bands from 1975-77 much sharper, especially because Richmond was back, and Mingus was playing more of those exiting solos up into the highest register of the bass. I never will forget his solo on "For Harry Carney" in summer 1977, where he played that pizzicato up into the register of a violin and back to the deep deep notes, the best school to learn to play the bass fiddle....

I have it, but must admit I have not spinned it for quite some time. I had seen Thad Jones with his Bigband with Mel Lewis and I think that´s how he will be remembered by most of all fans. I think I also have a Debut record that is called "The Fabulous Th.J." He was a great trumpet player but maybe got a bit forgotten. Jazz students might listen more to the other BN-Artists who were trumpetists, like Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard or from the generation of Thad Jones maybe to Kenny Dorham or even Fats Navarro.

Did they have the same hair-dresser ? nice legs , not the greatest but they look nice....

Miles Davis Modern Jazz Giants...... so important for me when I was in my first year of listening to jazz, I mean Miles, Bags and Monk, I think I liked most "The Man I Love" and "Bemsha Swing". It seems there are treasures I have never heard about. Oh Boy: MY favourites ! Each of them a special favourite of mine and extremly important for my making of a jazz musician. I saw Joe Henderson the first time on TV 1977 in a group that had Ratzo Harris on bass, that´s what I remember, Chick Corea was for some of my school buddies the universum of it all, they were "Return to Forever Freaks", it was more the peaceful guys of them, I mean I was longhaired too but more one of the bad guys, while the other category of long hairs was the more peaceful ones.... Ron Carter was also a reason for me to learn bass, and Billy Higgins was my favourite drummer for Bop and Free during that time....

Ronnie Mathews was a Monk expert !

Two different albums. I had spinned "Bird Fire" last week. Brings a lotta memories back. I saw Archie Shepp in 1979 (when this album was recorded) in Viena at Congres-Haus. Same personnel: With the stellar ryhthm section Siegfried Kessler, Bob Cunningham and Clifford Jarvis. This here is some super bebop at its best. Four tunes, each one sheer beauty, power and perfection. I like especially "Parker´s Mood" which I seldon had heard being played with so much emotion. One of my favourite post Free Jazz albums of Shepp. There would have been another called "Lookin at Bird" but since that album was only Shepp with NHOP it was out of the deal for me, since I can´t enjoy without drums and just don´t like NHOP´ playing so much when it is solo time..... Yesterday I heard Mobley´s Workout. Especially for "The Best things in Life are Free" since I had heard Austrian Tenor-Star Ray Aichinger do it very fine on Wendesday. The album is very nice, great team with Green, Kelly, Paul, Philly J.J., but if I had to pick out just one of the straight ahead tunes it would be "Uh Huh", that´s music for late hours when I actually listen music. In rest it might be a bit too much straight ahead, there´s no Bossa or Samba, no Ballad, just playn 4/4 tunes.....