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not well known in the country he grew up. At least in jazz circles of people from a bit older generation he is extremly well known. Saw his name mentioned in some anecdotes or facts from the programfolder at the Festival internațional Sibiu then, when I player there. Nicu as we call him already was living in Austria. So people asked me how he is doin. Well you know , club gigs are not well paid so mostly got support from friends. I mean among jazz fans who might not be your friend. He made some fine records here. "Black Sea" I remember, with topnotch players. I just played a few gigs then, but the situation was so desperate that I had to accept also some dumb gigs for weddings and stuff where you must play 90 la 100 easy music, șlagări and stuff..... But I saw him in fine shape when he came back to Viena when he already lived in Germany. Oh, great human being, maiebe I got to rite him a message .......

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.

so nice ! Yeah....., the guy in the audience he stares at them .... haha,.... looks like Stan Getz 🤣

oh what cool cover, never saw this. Dig it so much. What´s that album ?

What a paralel !!!! Same here. My younger kid also heard his first Miles "WE WANT MILES" and dug it so much. Later I let him hear also some old Miles (Miles in the Sky or something like that) and later "Agharta", all of them great. He´s been living for many many many years in Spania but when he come´s by here, he sometimes: "spin some Miles, pops" and we listen....

on friday there was a DJ for some Sfântu´ Valentin that was the moto of the stuff he spinned: Women in music, and on his playlist was a videoclip with her, I don´t know what the title, but some easy song with boogie rhythm which is very popular. But the DJ said he first had "Strange Fruit" on his playlist, but thought it is to heavy for that day. Well I would have preferred "Strange Fruit". Well this was not a jazz joint, so the playlist was also much rock, well the guy was more than ok

The foto looks very interesting, but I think my PC-eyeglasses are to weak for being able to read this, though I was at the oftalmolog yesterday. You can almost imagine how that little guy would have that dream to become a police man one day and I hope he fulfilled that dream. That´s the most beautiful thing that can happen. oh, I really had to think a bit now. First I thought it´s some budhist ritual with a tibetean instrument, and then surprise! This is Sonny Rollins ! What sound he might get out of that unknown instrument? But the woman with the cowboy hat seems to like it. Looks like a tipic musicians place. Fancy, with taste, and not too much ordine, I mean exactly how I like it: Nice old furniture, but not too much stil burghez, I mean not be placed everything in a tipar manner, since it´s a place where music happens and people live music and books. Not a muzeu . BRAVO !

I´m not very familiar with this label. We all had "Red Clay". It was THE RECORD....so great ! And I think "First Light" was also from that time. The other two I have is some Chet Baker with Gerry Mulligan. I didn´t have records from the first or the second on that bill, but bought it for that rhythm section with Ron Carter. Ron Carter in a rhythm section and it is "safe" for me. And Harvey Mason I knew from Hancock. Bob James is also great !!!!

I think it is my favourite Bobby Hutcherson record from the old stuff. See, I only saw him a few times, together with Jackie McLean on one occasion, but when I bought some records I think it was this and another, I love this because it has one of my all time favourites Sam Rivers. And the piano is very interesting. I think I love most the tune Catta, is it on this album ? it sure is. The thing I had with that tune is, it was such common ground when I learned jazz, everybody played it. And when I saw this record much much later I thought "wow, didn´t know it was written 10 years ago..... Because I heard it live with the same group......okay it was not George Coleman, it was Wayne Shorter so it was the VSOP I think, but I have seen George Coleman also live when he had made that record "Amsterdam News" or how it was titled.

It´s strange I heard her only one time on record at somebody´s place, voice is great, but I could not understand what she does on piano.

Don Byas is great! I am not sure if he made many albums, I have the Savoy double album, and a Black Lion album "Anthropology". Last night I spinned 2 albums: Freddie Hubbard at Keystone is great, wonderful live stuff. I like very much that great composition "First Light", and that live version of "Red Clay". On the other hand, my very very very favourite generally in music, Pharoah Sanders sometimes played just straight ahead music and was top in that field too: Here he does old stuff like "On A Misty Night". But I like most the title tune "Heart is a Melody" even if it´s borrowed from "The Creator" , and the great "We goin´to Africa".

I have that double LP since it came out. 1978 was a top year for jazz and new records. You say there is no ts/b/dr trio ? Is´t Don´t Stop the Carnival trio ? I have not spinned it for some time, but I´m sure there is no McCoy on that tune.

Is this the record with Andrew Hill on piano ? I have some of Joe Hendersons old records and dig most of them. But from the old stuff mostly the Henderson-McCoy Tyner live stuff. I saw Henderson live very very often, he was one of my earliest favourites, I mean I heard him after Sanders, Liebman and imediat thought he is of the same categoria Having listened too the last hours: First of all the live Love Supreme: I love it so much. Everything Coltrane did in the mid sixties. Great Band and Pharoah Sanders is one of my most favourites anyway. I think, great as McCoy Tyner is and he is one of my favourites on piano, it sounds a bit like if there might be a change on the piano chair and it sure was, since Alice Coltrane was the next and with all due respect to McCoy, Alice fits better into that music....., just an opinion or better said a suggestion..... Freddie Hubbard sounds so great here and has such great musicians: I can say from that band I heard each of them separatly: Hubbard of course, Javon Jackson and Benny Green of course both together with Blakey, and the great Tony Reedus with the magic Woody Shaw.... I like especially Hubbards compositions Poiebe´s Samba and First Light. Such a great live record ! I don´t know what impulse drove me to spin some tunes of a strange Bud Powell live recording. I love Bud live very much, like the ones at Birdland from the early years to the late years, and the European concerts with Hawk, with Mingus, and with Blakey..... But I had to stop this after a few tunes. Though I am not an audiophile, never have been, and don´t care much if a piano is a bit out of tune, since I had to play myself hundreds of slightly out of tune pianos in damp cellar clubs as many jazz clubs are. But this piano sounds like if it had stood some decades in a damp room that´s all shambles and has never been touched for at least a decade..... so poor it is. It´s no wonder Bud, as honestly he tries, can´t play completly in his usual good form, he seems to struggle a bit with that poor piano. You can get over this on faster tunes, but on Ballads this reallly becomes a challenge. How good would this have sounded on a well tuned piano, especially because there are some Monk tunes like Off Minor and Epistrophy.....