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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.

The Paris All Stars is quite fine. Those tunes with Phil Woods and Jackie McLean......I never had heard much about or from Phil Woods though I know he was quite popular, he really sounds fine, very much into be bop, but with some unusual "growls" in it. He is great, but personally I like Jackie McLeans alto sound and his more daring tonality better. Maybe I´m more used to it, because among the a bit older boys when I grew up, Jackie McLean and Eric Dolphy and Prince Lasha, and of course Ornette Coleman were those who were spinned and discussed. Stan Getz is fantastic on "Warm Valley". Such a good version of that wonderful tune I really like. Max Roach is also one of the first idols of mine and "Speak Brother Speak" was one of my first few records. Hank Jones, Percy Heath, great as always. Dizzy, even if some dared to mention he had lost some of his chops in the late 80´s I think he sounds wonderful !!!! A personal remark if possible: I would have liked "Con Alma" more with the rhythmic patterns it was supposed to be played. For someone with pure percussive ears and less understandmand of concerto-like performances this duet sounds quite strange, but very well played. Hank Jones lays down some beautiful chords and Diz sounds angelic, but as I saed, I like more the versions he played 10 years earlier when I heard him first, I need drums for real happiness 😉. Well, that was enough of traditional straight ahead stuff, I had to listen to another great favourite of mine: Naturally as when I became interested in afro american music, the forefront of what we heard was late Trane, post Trane and the beginnings of electric Miles. Bitches Brew, Live Evil and maybe deja On the Corner where just appearing. My personal first loves from the late 60´s into early 70´s were Alice Coltrane, and Pharoah Sanders, my most lasting idol in music. I LOVE the "Universal Consciousness", fantastic drum work by Jack DeJohnette, Rashied Ali. Mrs Coltrane is fantastic on the organ AND on the harp, and can there be something more beautiful than the strings arrangements of Ornette Coleman ? He was a genius !!!!!

One of my favourite records in the last months

Must be wonderful !

oh I love it ! Seems to be very interesting. I had heard Sun Ra in earlier years. Here is from the tour I saw live, but I had been a Sun Ra freak much earlier and still am, though I don´t think I have more then four or five records.

I love it ! And Sonny Sharock is doing a great job here.

oh what a line up ! Dannie is one of my earliest favourites, saw him 3 times with Mingus, later with others Yesterday: Like them both, but the Cliff Jordon-John Gilmore session does not have such a good recording sound like the Griffin album. I don´t know what was wrong with RVG on that day, since Horace Silver´s piano sounds outright tinny. That´s not RVG´s famous piano sound.....

I never saw Duke Jordan, maybe he did not travel Austria or România, my two options. But I don´t have this LP. But if you are hip to Stitt-Ammons I think I had bought something in my youth that was Stitt-Ammons live at Birdland, a broadcast or something, maybe a Bob Rose off the air recording, and it also had Art Blakey, maybe Gene Ramey on bass and for sure Tadd Dameron on piano, I remember this because Tadd has such a fine piano style. It must have been two extended standards. Maybe "The way you look tonight" and another of that kind of songs..... Maybe this is from those huge collection Boris Rose made ? Broadcast and so on. But I am sure that the cover photo of Bud is not from that time. I assume it is from the Raymond Ross shootings from Bud´s last session in his live, for Bernhard Stollman´s ESP label. Those Milestone albums were a gas. They had a leading role when I was at high school. From Ron Carter I only have "Parade" which I love. Is Patrău (I can´t type that "A" with that line above it, I have romanian tastatura) similar. I mean I love "Parade" since it has great players on it......there was a slow waltz on it, that even my mother in law liked !

Nice old stuff. But I must prefer I like more his later work. But.....the drummer here is very very fine. Ayler still sounds a bit like Rollins.

how beautiful !

This reads very interesting, is that record on sale ?

I remember I heard "There is no bizness like showbizness". What a great version !

wow, would not have recognized him. Really weird. But I must admit I never heard him on else occasions than with Blakey. It seems that he didn´t have so much luck after leaving Blakey

I miss him too. The absurd thing is, I live in the same town (Vienna) but don´t know more about him than his postings here. I don´t know his last name, I don´t know in what part of the town he lives, I never saw him personally. Hope he is well. About callin´somebody asshole or say that he sais bullshit.......so what ? If Miles told things he often didn´t mean it like that. I know about cultural differențies but Viena is an amalgam of so many ethnies, like let´s say New York or Miami. So meet all kind of guys and learn each other from culture, food and so on.... I wouldn´t turn my back if somebody here might say I said bullshit. But on the other hand, I am a musician and that´s also a difference. We not so careful. How said Blakey "If you do a mistake, do it LOUD".....

So great !

So great !

thx

The very best of early Bud Powell. I prefer this to all studio dates

thxs