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53 minutes ago, soulpope said:

On a super cold morning ....

That´s where you livin´ now ? Great ! Looks like the "Berg-Doktor" film scenes, almost irreal for us big city cats. But Beautiful ! 

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1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Excellent ....

 

9 hours ago, optatio said:

👍

 

9 hours ago, mikeweil said:

You are right. All those Savoy albums (I think others like the Charlie Parker album) had similar covers and I think I picked up some of them during my "learning years" as a teenie. They all are great and I think that they were the foundation for my understanding of bop. All of ´em, the Dexter sides, the J.J. Johnson, Fats Navarro, Mr. B and the Band, Lester Young. 

The only downer for me with those old studio records was or is, that you don´t hear the drummer recorded properly. 
I understood more of what Bird and Co are doing when I heard live albums like "One Night at Birdland" where you hear Art Blakey really loud, and it makes you to understand the music much better if you hear what the drummer does. 
I mean Savoy had them all, Max Roach, Kenny Clark, Shadow Wilson, Art Blakey and who was there, but you don´t HEAR them. I think someone recommended to me the Black Lion Byas Album "Anthropology" where you hear the band better. 

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10 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Pharoah Sanders “Pharoah” 2 cd box set.

I waited a long time for this to be released and shipped to me. . . and when I finally got it the first disc would not load and play in any of my machines.

I finally got a replacement. Worth waiting for.

 

I love Pharoah Sanders since I was in my early teens. I think the first Sanders I had heard was on a Coltrane album from Village Vanguard, and soon I had my first album "Live at the East" which is one of my oldest LPs. I heard Sanders live on many occasions. 

Is this one an ESP record ? 

10 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

I heard him on so many occasions, each time with Dexter when they did Europe and one thing I want to tell but didn´t tell him: With all due respect for George Cables and I never will say else than Cables is one of the top pianists in his field, it is Kirk Lightsey whose piano solos I liked most , especially on ballads when Dexter played a ballad. Kirk played those ballads really pretty. 
Last week I met him and told him about it, and when I started to see him as working as an own unit. 
It seems that in the later years, from 1983 on Dexter missed a few gigs or sets and that´s when they recorded as a trio. 

14 hours ago, soulpope said:

Not "live" .... nevertheless really good ....

This must have been before I met Art Farmer. He stayed in Vienna when he didn´t tour other continents and we could hear him so many times with the great Fritz Pauer, who was my real mentor. 
I don´t really collect records but one I have and I have it signed by Art with a dedication for me: "To Duke with Love", with the dream rhythm section of Cedar Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins. 

[Grant Green: 1965 St. Louis Post Dispatch interview with father John Green]

I could read only excerpts from it, but had to laugh about "English Boys with long hair" . Maybe his father was referring to the album, where Grant Green plays the Beatles Song "I wanna hold your hand" (one of the tracks that Serena likes, and doesn´t slam the door 😄

Sure many fathers of famous jazz musicians were proud of their sons, but it must have meant suffering also when they learned, that their boys all were hooked. 

How must it have been for Woody Shaw´s father (I had heard he had such a wonderful family) to have his son dead so early, or Bud Powell´s father who refused to talk about anything else about his son than the old days when he was a wonderchild kid. 
Grant Green also died very early, and his records from the late 60´s on didn´t have the musical quality of his mid sixties records......
I must say, that I don´t know anything about Grant Green´s live. He recorded so much, but I don´t even think that as a jazz master of the 60´s he was as popular as other BN artists like Hubbard, Wayne , Hancock, Tony Williams etc. .

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13 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I love Kenny Werner and his music.  But goodness gracious that's a wretched album cover . . . . in so many ways.  I understand documenting the music is the most important thing.  It is. It is. But come on!  You've gotta have some visual standards, don't you?!? . . . I realize that KW may have had nothing to do with the photograph or design.  But whoever did -- Nils Winther or whoever it was -- you can do better!  Kenny Werner and his music deserve better.

 

You are right, the cover photo is catastrofal. Mr. Werner could have sued them for this 😄. I saw him live in 1980 with Archie Shepp Quartet and he was a smart guy. Here he looks like an alcoolic in the last stage, which I´m sure he is not, as much piano as he plays. 

It´s interesting that he also recorded with Mingus on "Something like a Bird" and it´s strange that he plays Fender Rhodes on that, maybe to please the demands from the record company that wantet Mingus do do more fusion (after doin the album with Larry Coryell doin the next album with Stanley Clark etc. ). But in the context of the straight ahead blowin vehicle based on Idaho, the fender sounds a bit eery sometimes compared to Bob Neloms acoustic piano. 
 

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Just now, Quasimado said:

I love it and have it as an LP, but with another cover, big cover photo of Tadd . 

"On a Misty Night" is my favourite track. I heard Pharoah Sanders do it live. 

And I performed it last spring at Porgy´s . 

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

"Traneing In", "Soultrane" and "Settin´ the Pace" are myfavourite Coltrane on Prestige recordings documenting (t)his transitional period .... btw backed by a superb traditional Rhythm Section .....

They all fine allthough I don´t know which is which. But I´m sure I have heard a lot of those tracks, and some very fine Trane also on albums where Garland is the leader, and some blowin session Tenor Conclave. 

But if I had to choose one album from Trane in the 50´s it might be Blue Trane because I love Philly Joe Jones. 

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7 hours ago, bresna said:

I'm kinda bummed that Wallace retired before I got a chance to see him perform live. I don't think he came through Boston many times though.

I think he was very much en vogue in the late 70´s or early 80´s, since they spinned his record with Monk Tunes very often in the joint that was our "musicians´s homebase" during that time. 
I remember some stuff but as LPs usually where spinned there (the defunct "Jazz Spelunke"), I didn´t buy it. I have not heard much about him later but might look for some tracks of Monk Tunes he played....

13 hours ago, BillF said:

I think I have this, or is it a Musidisc I have, or I have the musidisc and the Spotlite or they are two different records. 

Anyway I think on each of them there is the complete "Bands for Bonds" material, I mean Bird, Diz or Fats, Lennie Tristano and so on. 

I think on one is a complete live set with Bird´s band with Red Rodney and Al Haig on Side B, and the other has some private material. 

15 hours ago, soulpope said:

I think there was so many Prestige albums where Coltrane played, as well as a leader as well as a sideman. 
I must have this but for some uncertain reason if I spin a Prestige track of Trane it is always the "Stardust" and the "Good Bait", I don´t know why I have such a preference for those two, maybe because Stardust is one of the best ballads, and Good Bait is also a more extended track of that old bop tune. 

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5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Another recent retrieval from a shop's bargain bin:

Blakey, Diz, Monk, et al - The Giants of Jazz (Atlantic, 2 LPs)

The album cover is tatty (both top seams are blown out), but the vinyl is in NM condition and plays beautifully, especially since I've given the discs a few spins on my RCM.

I've heard this music before via streaming services, but (as usual) it sounds much better coming from my stereo -- both musically speaking and AQ-wise.

 

I didn´t have the LP , but I´m still pissed of that I was not there when they played Viena in 1972. It´s a drag that I became interested in jazz only a few month later and had missed that. 

Two guys who were 4-5 years older saw it, saw Monk while I, one of Monk´s biggest fans, missed it. 
At Vienna Dizzy was missing, he was replaced by Cat Anderson and Clark Terry.  

I had to go to concerts from 1973 on and saw Miles that year, but it still took 2 or 3 years that I could sneak into a jazz club though underage.....

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Somewhere after midnight I had heard Max Roach´s "In the Light" 

I had seen Max Roach live on several ocasions, he is one of my idols. 

This quartet must have been around the 80´s, since I had seen them once with Reggie Workman and Billy Harper, and the next time which was in the 80s they were replaced by Odean Pope and Calvin Hill. 

Here they play standards, but how they play ´em, that´s important. 

I love so much to hear the sound of Max´s drums, his cymbals, it´s great. 

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1 hour ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

 Hey I'm a big Hank fan I thought and his late period stuff is almost always revealing.  Very impressed with the sound of all the instruments but especially of the piano in this!  Great tone.

I got into Moody as early as I had heard the first Diz albums when I was a kid, one of the olders had the Savoy record from the 40´s and another had some from the mid sixties, on both was Moody, and then I heard him on "Miles-Dameron in Paris 1949) which I own. At that time I was astonished how modern he sounded, it almost got to a point where it sounded Coltrane like or post Coltrane like. The only saxophonists I knew then was Dave Liebman and Johnny Griffin whom I had seen live. I was astonished that someone sounded like what I heard doin Liebman almost 3 decades later. 

Then I saw Moody an many Diz concerts, small group or big band in the late 70´s and 80´s until before Diz died. 
So the first time I saw him not as a sideman but a leader was those two occasions in Vienna and in USA , FL. 

I´m not too aware of discographies since I hear what I just pick or catch live, beeing an active musician myself....

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7 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

 

Oh my boy, what a great track, thank´s for posting it. That´s bop at it´s best. 

"Our Delight" is a very nice tune which I have played at least since I had heard it for the first time on Tadd Dameron-Fats Navarro from Birdland 1949. 

Like the original, James Moody also plays it in Ab. 

But I have also heard Big Band versions from Diz and one from Mr. B where they play it in Db, which we also did. Other key, other feeling, that´s it. 

We two (Serena and me) had heard Mr. Moody first in Viena at Jazzland, where Art Farmer was in the audience, he died shortly after that. 

One year later we heard Mr. Moody again at Van Dyke´s in Miami Beach, FL and believe me or not, he  r e c o g n i z e d us, came to our table, greetet us and said "saw you last year in Vienna, Art Farmer was there" and we talked a bit. Such a wonderful musician and Gentleman. 

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26 minutes ago, BillF said:

Yes, Miles did similar things with Benny Carter's "When Lights Are Low".

Right ! That´s a very good example ! And because I am very very familiar with Monk´s work, but don´t know much about Benny Carter´s , I also tapped in that mistake and had played "Lights are Low" only in the Miles manner until my young trumpetplayer, who has all the necessary academic knowledge, told me that Miles bridge is wrong. 

I had known only about wrong changes of Monk tunes, maybe because that was more the repertory of the olders from the "jazz streets" where I learned my stuff 😉

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Monday night at Porgy´s : Kirk Leightsey Quartet......with trombonist Paul Zauner: They played an Abbey Lincoln Song I think the title is "Don´t throw it away" or "keep it if it is your´s", that´s a wonderful slow bossa with wonderful chords. I had never heard it before and obviously it was not on "Captain Kirk´s" playlist, since he had to take out the sheet. It was the soft sound of the trombone, that played the melody. 

Such moments are the best in jazz. You hear musician colleages doin´a song that moves you and you wanna try out your own version of it for the next time......

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19 hours ago, BillF said:

A classic.  I think it was the second Miles album I had when I was a kid. 

But one remarkable thing about it: 

Miles had altered some chords of "Midnight" and most of the dudes now or even since I  had started to play did those "Miles Changes" which always sound a bit wrong to my ears as I had grown up with the original Monk changes. 

Same with "Well You Needn´t". The bridge Miles plays and millions of followers have copied, is wrong. 

Dear Bill, listen to the difference and I´m sure you will recognize it. 

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15 hours ago, soulpope said:

NP .... :

Dusko Goykovich „Swinging Macedonia“ (Philips)             1967 ….

I had not known that it is so old. I had heard parts of it when Austrian Symphony Sid (Herwig Wurzer-"Jazzshop") had spinned it and somehow had forgotten about it, though I had taped it on casetofon as all the "Wurzer-Stuff". There was also another Dușco Goicovici record titled "After Hours". Eventually I will have to get them somehow......

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On 12/28/2023 at 8:40 AM, EKE BBB said:

Currently delving into the East Broadway loft days chapter (1966).

Right now I start the chapter about his time in Chicago from 54´to 55´. A period that I didn´t know about. 

It´s great to read some inside info about his recording sessions with Miles, with Monk and the Modern Jazz Quartet from the early fifties. But I had not known that his drug addiction was so severe, what I read seems even worse than what I had read about Bird. Terrible. 
But not my really interest. I enjoyed the musical part of the story and am lookin´ foward to read about his further 50´s albums, those like "Collossus" and the BN period......
Some of my older friends back then had the "Way Out West" but somehow that hadn´t touched me really.......

[Kirk Lightsey at Porgy&Bess, Vienna]

16 hours ago, Mark Stryker said:

KIrk Lightsey -- #JazzFromDetroit

Got to get that book ! 

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14 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Freddie Hubbard “Red Clay” CTI/King Records Japan cd, RVG remaster

It always was a favourite of mine. I had had the old LP of course and it´s one of the very few albums I did re-buy. Mine is also a reissue from Japonia, since almost all stuff on the back cover is written in Japonese letters, 
But that´s not what interests me, since my only interest is the music itselfs and this is what I might call just a "perfect record". 
It think all kids of my generation where fascinated of the title tune. And I like also many live versions of it. 

[Kirk Lightsey at Porgy&Bess, Vienna]

Yesterday I saw that concert "Music for Wayne", Mr. Lightsey with Paul Zauner tb, Wolfram Derschmidt (b) and my favourite drummer Dusan Novakov. 
There was also a very very fine alto saxophonist, but his name was not advertised so maybe he was a last minute add for unknown reasons. 

A part of the repertory was songs written by Wayne or dedicated to him. I remember "Fee - Fo-Fum" which Lightey had recorded in 1983, then the wonderful "Infant Eyes" and McCoy Tyners "Contemplation", but there was also other songs and some blues in Bb. 

One of the finest moments towards the end was the drum solo by the wonderful drummer Dusan Novakov 

After the concert I met Mr. Lightsey to talk with him, just a wonderful gentleman, and I had the LP from 1983 with me (the one on which Chet Baker is sittin in for two tunes), which also has some Wayne Shorter songs (among them "Fee-Fo-Fum" ). and got it signed. 

It was a wonderful evening I enjoyed very much. 

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12 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

 

A seriously hard swinging session that I highly recommend.

I saw Curtis Fuller some years ago live at Jazzland, on trumpet was Jim Rotondi.

Got the CD "Bone and Bari" signed by Curtis Fuller. He was such a nice gentleman ! 

 

7 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Clifford Brown Max Roach Quintet “Daahoud” Mainstream/Mobile Fidelity cd

Alternate takes from two EmArcy albums by the Quintet.

"Daahoud" is one of my favourite tunes to perform. You can really stretch out on those changes ! 

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On 12/28/2023 at 7:15 PM, Pim said:

 

That Freddie Hubbard album. @HutchFan posted it and said that it would be exactly what I like to hear, as he was right when he pulled my coat to the Keyston Bop albums which I´ve enjoyed the last few days. 

Though I seldom buy records , maybe I tell Serena about it hopin to get it on some occasion 😉

 

The Basra album is a great one, I must listen to it again. 

About Desmond I can´t say much since I don´t have his records....

16 hours ago, Pim said:

 

Bird ´n  Diz ! 

Though it has the great Monk on it, I might say that from all Bird´n Diz encounters on record this one is the weakest. The tunes were not well prepared, it seems they just were quickly set in the studio. Diz plays mostly muted here (somewhere I had read that he had had an accident earlier and his chops were a bit down )

Monk is great, but there would have been better surroundings to present them three their music. 
But I must admit that first I had the Bird´n Diz at Carnegie Hall, the Summit Meeting at Birdland, the Massey Hall concert, the old Guild records , each of them were more exiting that this one. 

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Just "Round about Midnight" I was listening to this fine gathering around Jackie McLean. 

All of them are "Bird Songs" and what really knocked me out was "Shaw Nuff" with that dialog between Griffin and McLean. Cecil Payne is also very fine on his solos in that set. 
At one point, he´s even quoting from his own composition "Ninnie Melina". 
The ballad "Don´t Blame Me" done by Duke Jordan is also very very nice. He was always an enigma to me. Somehow, like Tadd Dameron he didn´t have the most dangerous tehnique but has a very individual style, evidently with no influences from other players. 
His trademark remain his intro´s to some of Bird´s tunes on the original recordings, they became standard intros. 

Ron Carter has some exceptional solos here. But he plays completly else than his usual style. Much more traditional boppish with a more old fashioned sound than his usual bass sound. 

Maybe the only thing that keeps me from listening very often to records like this is, that all tunes are straight walking swing, there is not much variation, no latin for example. It´s just very straight 4/4, some a bit faster, some a bit slower......

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I have to thank @HutchFan. 

On this thread he had posted those two, some months ago and when I asked him about it he stated "it´s exactly what YOU will like". 

And damn right he is. 

That´s the kind of music I listen to with most pleasure and exitement. 
The three from the frontline each of them my very favourites, the rhythm section superb, Billy Childs such a great piano and keyboard player, I first heard his stuff on that J.J.Johnson-Nat Adderly album from Japonia from the late 70´s. He was so young and such a gas. And bass and drums in the best matter you can imagine, the way that they can be heard. 

The music still some swing rhythm, but in the manner I like it. Creating tension and space as well. 

My all time favourite Hubbard tune from as early as I was maybe 13,14 "Red Clay". I like the original record and all those super powerful live versions, like with V.S.O.P. 

I listened to it the last two days somewhere after midnight. Between the equipment and Serena where 2 rooms with closed doors, so I could really listen to it LOUD to hear everything like it would have sounded from stage......

[Les McCann "Never A Dull Moment! - Live from Coast to Coast (1966-1967)]

I think Les McCann - who is a master - belonged to another "stream" than the one I grew up with (the BN, Prestige, Impulse artists) but the radio DJ of the weekly "Jazz-Shop" seemed to like him very much, when I still didn´t know many names in jazz. 
I remember he spinned some earlier stuff of McCann, where he plays a regular trio, or maybe with a horn, and on one of them - as that Radio DJ (Herwig Wurzer) explained us - he did welcome Monty Alexander on stage. I never had heard of them, but Herwig said that Monty is blood young but plays a more conservative style than Les McCann and from what I heard, I can confirm that. 
Nor Monty Alexander would have been on my "screen" but he sounded more like something similar to Oscar Peterson. I must say I liked more, what Herwig spinned of LesMcCann. 
And a few days later, how could it be else, I bought the omnipresent "Montreux 1969" . It was not exactly, what I ususally listen to (´69 was more a years of transition as I felt it, Miles slowly goin electric, Pharoah keepin the Trane spirit, Ornette Coleman playin´again with Charlie Haden,  so "Compared to What" was somehow an exception in my small collection.....but fine of course......

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1 hour ago, EKE BBB said:

followed by

I don´t know what the first album is, but "Our Man in Jazz" I must have heard at someone´s place. It seems to be the foundation for that fantastic European Tour that formation did afterwards, with Cherry, Grimes and Higgins. It´s interesting that all those three were linked to avantgarde jazz , but Sonny didn´t make the "step beyond" and kept playing standards in swing rhythm, but a bit more "open" than with a piano player. 
So I think Sonny had "flirted" a bit with avantgarde rooted players, but other than Trane he didn´t go into free jazz.