Gheorghe

We there in central and eastern Europe don´t have exactly the same freshwater fish like you have in US. We have carp, tench, bream, chub and dozens of other cyprinide for floatfishing with bait like boiled potato or corn or worm, maggots, and with have the fish for spinning rod like pike, zander (the European relate of the walley), perch, and wels (siluris glanis), and we have the fly only fish like brown trout, the U.S. imported rainbow trout, char, greyling for the fly-fishing in mountain rivers. What you call "trash fish" here is the more bony cyprinides like roach (rutilus rutilus... not the ugly insect "roach", chub, bream, barbel, and smaller cyprinidae , but "trash fish" is an un-word here in Europe, since every fish, may it be good for the kitchen or not, is just a value fish, because it is a living creature. For those, who want to take a fish at home for cooking, there are very very strict limits of lenght (minimum and maximum), prohibition periods for each species when it is there season for spawning, and day limits and year limits. For example: I could take 20 carps the whole year and 10 fish like pike, walley each year, and in the mountain stream 20 trouts each year. But for example: an average carp has 4-6 pounds and who can eat 20 of them in the course of a year ? And since I´m vegan I don´t take any fish, I unhook them, maybe make a quick foto if it´s an exceptional catch and let him swim again. That´s what is a very common method in UK and EUROPE. There are even waters that have "NO KILL Zones", and as I said, I don´t kill no animal and don´t eat any product that comes from animals (meat, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, nothing of any of that, just greens etc. ).

"Somebody who loves me" gave me this album 3 days ago. Oh man, that brings back memories. I saw the same band twice in 1977, they were fantastic, even better than the year before where they had the same lineup, but another pianist (danny Mixon). Bob Neloms is fenomenal...... such fingering, and all them quotes from other songs (It might as well be springs for 4 bars in "Noddin´ ya head blues" for example). The tunes that I heard on the concerts I attended was "For Harry Carney", "Cumbia and Jazz Fusion" and "Three or Four Shades of the Blues. Now that I hear this, it is as good as what I heard a month or two months later in Spain or Italy. I love that soloist - drums duet sections they are so strong and Danny Richmond does some trapswork as it sounds even like percussion instruments, that´s great !!! Only Mingus has the full solo chorusses and he went from the lowest register up to the high notes of a little violin, it was just incredible, the best bass solos I ever heard, and a reason for me to buy myself a bass fiddle which I mastered and even got calls to fill in as a bass player, though I am a pianist. On Noddin´ Ya Head Blues its Mingus who starts the solo. That´s bass virtuosity on the highest level, oh yeah ! Before that, I had only the 1964 Paris record and it was the same, Mingus if he does a solo, he really talks on the bass, at that was equally brilliant 15 or so years later, though I had the impression that Mingus looked a bit exhausted and had a very hoarse voice. On Cumbia here on that record it´s first Mingus who sings the rap on "Mama´s lil baby likes shortnin´ bread", which is very easy and clear to understand, even for someone like me who learned English by reading liner notes and listening the the announcements of the great US Stars Mingus, Pharoah, Shepp, Sun Ra, all my heroes...... The encore , it is interesting Mingus on piano. He didn´t do that when I saw him some months later. He said "thank you VERY MUCH!" at the end and said "here´s my drummer", which meant that Danny played a drum solo as an encore. But here I hear Mingus for the first time on piano. The tune has something of "Sues Changes" and then a powerful ostinato figure that I have heard but don´t know from which tune it is. It´s very interesting to hear non pianists, I mean saxophonists, drummers, bassists play the piano. They have a different touch but a very very powerful rhythm feeling. I heard Archie Shepp playing a Monk tune on piano, I heard Art Blakey playing also a Monk tune (Thelonious), a vocal piano thing "For All we Know" and then a super swingin "Moten Swing". Blakey was top on piano !!!! I think Chet Baker played, but only with the right hand. Miles Davis did some super keyboard playing. His chords are unique, just fantastic. What he does on organ on "Ife" or was doing on the keyboard in the early 80´´s was unique.... So back to my hero Mingus whom I miss dearly, he was my main inspiration to become a good enough but poorly paid musician, the best job in ya live 😎 So please, enjoy that album ! Gh.

here in Europe the passion of angling is the main point for the fisherman. At least the hardcore fisherman. If it´s a "trash" fish or not, we don´t give them those categories, that kind of separating the so called good delicatesse fish with only few bones and the "trash" fish was long ago. For us, even the extremly bony "Barbel" or the Chub is a good fish for catching since they are hard to be atracted by the bait. Plus, in my case, it´s not only that, I´m a vegan also, so I never kill a fish. Catch and Release is what I do. We have soft large pads for the fish to unhook them before we release him, so he might not get injuries from stones or dirt or so. Or, in case of fly-fishing where you stand in the River and throw the line with the artificial fly, you just release the trout or the char or grayling in the water, you remove the fly with the hook and let em swim again. Of course we make fotos of the fish just for memory of a beautiful day in the nature, it lasts only a few seconds and the fish is free again 🤩 I love such legs and I doubt if I ever had a girlfriend who did NOT have such legs because that´s what I look for 😄

This is the American alligator pike isn´t it ???? Since I do fresh water fishing myself, I think I saw such a fish in a forum. I might be scared to death if such a fish attacks my lure. For my part, our "Northern Pike" which exists also in the Stage, the European Walley and the European Catfish (Wels) is enough for tight lines......

Maybe this is some Getz playing Old Black Magic that I heard somewhere, decades ago on a record with Miles, where Getz has a solo spot with "Magic". But as much as I remember after 40, 50 years, he played it straight ahead, which somehow irritated me, since I know the version of it on a Dizzy Gillespie Big Band played "latin" and Bud also played it latin but then straight ahead in the solos ..... I think I have played it only "for fun" at home on piano just for Serena during the nights I am off and she asks me for a "private concert" with some nice "after show party" if you understand me rite 🤩.... but now while you say it I might do it in public to (without after show party hehehe 😜). Maybe , I don´t know, but maybe at home I just play it for her since I play some love-related songs, not the sad songs of lost love like "These Sweet Little things" with the remembrance of lipstick on cigarette tips and stuff.....

no off topic ! I heard an album where Bud plays Old Magic and does even one chorus of fantastic "stride section" on it. But I think it was at least 10 years later. I think it is the best instrumental performance of "Old Black Magic" which I ever heard. He has a fantastic drummer on that, J.C. Moses, one of my favourite avantgarde drummers. I love him, as I love all hip drummers !!!!! I don´t know a weak version of Bud, I am too young to have met Bud, he died when I was just entering school or something and was a kid and unable to get to his performances, but I think all that stupid bullschitt folks throw at him with "drunk" and God knows what...... Someone started to do that bad writings who was NOT A MUSICIAN. I AM A MUSICIAN and don´t even touch alcool cause I can´t smell it as well as I can´t smell or even eat something that comes out of animals, that flesh, those eggs, those milk, butter, cheese......I don´t eat that. And even if I never touch alcool I have times where my playing is sad or at least it sounds sad for me. I can´t understand it, but there is days or hours where I can´t finger nothing, and then the next day I wonder myself what I can hit on the keys. And fellow musicians also tell me that. "oh, tonight you didn´t play shit, you didn´t kill us", and the next night they say to me "gee you really played some shit dis night" and I also feel I played my ass off...... If Bud might have had some weaker performances, maybe it was the same unknown reason that sometimes just happens....... and you don´t know why......

I think I have seen that album somewhere but never had heard it. Must google it on youtube eventually to hear what you talkin´´´bout. But really hip, man. I spinned Mingus, you spin him too. I have to thank him as long as I live. I would not have become a musician if he had not been on this planet. Mingus, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders have been the most important reasons for me to get the urge to play as a kid. Monk is also a spirtual best friend of mine, but unfortunatly I didn´t hear him when he was in Viena for the last time. It was just the year before I heard Miles in Viena, and if I was only some days shy of my 14th birthday when I heard Miles, I wound have been 13 when Monk was in Town, and I fear I would not have got in the joint.... Great. I LOVE Ornette not only on as, but on violin too. My nephew is a famous actor and also very much into pantomia, and I saw him doing a pantomia show with an actress where they perform a "love affair" between a viola and a violin and as the strummed the strings of them two fiddles I liked it so much. See, they never had touched a fiddle before that and it sounded GREAT ! They had asked me to meet them on the after show party, which is easy since I´m a musician and so a "trusted person" also in appointments with other forms of arts and told him it sounded almost as good as Ornette and the next day my nephew called me and said: Ghee you was damn right. I is fantastic on violin. So thank you for posting this !

It´s April, it´s spring and it´s the month when I "fell in love" with the music of Mr. Charles Mingus......I don´t know what year it was, but it might have been before 1976 when I had the first of three or four occasions to see him live.

It got bad writeups, but I love it very much. One of my favourite tunes is "Duke´s Choice". At least, last night was magic with that album spinning.....

I think , I fear I don´t know about Louis Prima. Maybe he is not well known in Europe. "That Old Black Magic" is a song I play often !

I know this Donald Byrd album also. One interesting aspect is, that I never got into Donald Byrd´s electric stuff. The first name musician I heard and saw live was Miles Davis when I was 14, it was the band with Dave Liebman, Reggie Lucas, Pete Cosey, Mtume, Mike Henderson and my favourite Al Foster. I think that music impressed me so much that it spoiled me on other main artists of electric jazz, okay, Hancock, Chick Corea, Larry Corryell, Zawinul, that´s all. But......Miles with that wah wah trumpet and that incredible group, he was my man. But I had heard Donald Byrd only from radio. We here in Austria had a Saturday Night Jazz programm and the DJ was somehow an Austrian version of Symphony Sid Torin, he was THE voice of the night that came into your home. And that´s I think I remember how I started to buy two or three Donald Byrd records. Lex Humphries: Yeah, he was a super fine drummer.

thank you ! You might laugh about me, but that Donald Byrd live album from the HalfNote maybe is the one I still listen to sometimes. I got to know about bebop thru Charles Mingus when I had listened to his tune dedicated to Charlie Parker. And maybe when I started to buy some of Bird and Diz and acoustic musicians after those two, I think I liked that Half Note set. I have not listened to it for ages.

hey yeah, you are my man ! Same tastes. I have that album and some others by Pharoah Sanders whom I saw live many times. Trane ! I love especially the stuff he made in the last 5 years of his live. now listening: Some read them stupid reviews of "New Grass" but I can say you, when I was just in my early teens (about 1973,74), this was, what the more mature guys, all of us longhaired and freaks listened to. Mr. Ayler sounds so phantastic, he is incredible ! Coltrane live at Birdland I got many years after I had fell in love with the song "Your Lady" done by another idol of mine: Dave Liebman. That tune written by Trane. I love the playing of Trane and Elvin Jones here.

"New Dawn", the title track of the album with the same name: Marshall Allen (as) feat. Nene Cherry (voc). Just wonderful !

Same here, but somehow once when I had a period of non playing, I bought too many CDs and I think you listen to them once but forget them. What I listen sometimes if the Donald Byrd, also with Pepper Adams live at the Half Note. Must be good stuff. As a kid of the generation of musicians like Sun Ra, and other leading musicians of the 60´s /70´s I had never heard about Fletcher Henderson until I saw Sun Ra live, including some Fletcher Henderson tunes I I like it very much. So lately I think I have listened to some of the original versions on youtube.