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  1. 14 hours ago, Simon8 said:

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    Nice album, but I think I have not listened to it for at least 20 years. Somewhere as time went by I found all the BN hard bop albums of the late 50´s sounding very similar and didn´t spin em after my comeback as a musician.....

    But I remember there was another, "Back to the Tracks" which had something like "The Streetsinger" which is a nice tune. 
    I have read somewhere that Alfred Lion was not too enthusiastic about Brooks, not for his musicianship but for non-musical reasons. 

    11 hours ago, HutchFan said:

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    I think I remember Walter Bishop was still alive when I went to all them jazz events here in Europe as a youngster, but I don´t remember I would have ever seen him. I saw other former "Bird-Sidemen" like Art Taylor, Roy Haynes, but never "Bish". 
    Is it possible that his career was more than one time interrupted ? 
    He is really hot with Bird, only a few grooves beyond Bud, sometimes as a sideman even better, but than it seems he was in obscurity.
    He sounds great on a Dizzy Reece album "Soundin´ Off" where he is a highlight and has wonderful chords. 

    But on some Bird Memorial Concerts in the Allstar Formations with McGhee, Stitt, Johnson, Tommy Potter, Kenny Clark he is very disappointing, on them he sounds like a nameless straight-ahead pianists...., in general I like him most with Bird and on that one and only occasion with Dizzy Reece....

  2. On 8/4/2024 at 10:18 PM, jazzbo said:

    Me and my Dad's Dad long time ago. I never really got to know him--he passed away a few years later. By all accounts he was a wonderful man and I know I would love him.

     

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    Very nice. So this was your granddad ? 

    My grandparents had also died when I was about that age. 
     

  3. 3 hours ago, Jim Duckworth said:

    Rollins Plays for Bird - Wikipedia

    I have not spinned it for decades but as I remember it is quite interesting. It does not have Bird Songs, it has standards that Bird played. I think all the players have played and recorded with Bird, like Rollins himself, Kenny Dorham, Max Roach, only the pianist, one who´s name I never had heard of, seems not to have to do with Bird.....

  4. 1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

    Wish I had more sleep, but don’t want to miss these cool hours of the morning for listening.

    Sonny Clark “Cool Struttin’” Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD

     

     

     

    For me one of the most typical hard bop albums, but as people are different I couldn´t listen to this or any music in the morning, it´s in the small hours I would eventually spin stuff like this. 
     

    Art Farmer was less known to me until the mid 70´s when he actually lived in Vienna and I attended as many shows as possible, to learn stuff from the experienced players. But my real great love is Jackie McLean here. 

    And of course, it wouldn´t be me if I wouldn´t say that  this the nicest cover photos of all of them old BN records. 

    34 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

    Jimmy Smith “At Club Baby Grand Vol 2” Blue Note Japan 24 bit by RVG lp facsimile cd

     

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    I think I remember this still have the first guitarist they had. 
    Strange but I sometimes compare that dense stuff of the guitar here with some of the sounds of Prime Time. 
    I am not necessarly an organ fan, but listen sometimes to one of the BN Jimmy Smith albums, but more those like this one or most of all the two volumes of "Date with Jimmy Smith". But I need to hear it only sometimes and the only other organ player I really listen to was of course Larry Young. 

    There were dozens of post Smith organ players on the BN cataloge in the late 50´s 60´, but I don´t listen to it, since my urge to hear organ is pleased by those Jimmy Smith and Larry Young albums. Smith is organ in the Bird tradition, and Young is organ in the Trane tradition.....

  5. Ife was one of the highlights of the very first Miles Davis show I saw when I was 14 or so. It was also featuring Dave Liebman´s wonderful flute solo.

    I remember that show very well and it was later also broadcasted on TV. On that concert schedule was also Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan if I remember right, but I saw or intended to see only Miles, that was the times then, that´s the music you heard, electric Miles and post Coltrane stuff.......

  6. 14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

    Next up, music from fellow forum member @Gheorghe:

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    Bop Explosion - Waltz for Serena (Alessa Records, 2024)

    Anyone who enjoys classic bop groups like The Jazztet or Gigi Gryce & Donald Byrd's Jazz Lab Quintet -- or more contemporary groups like One for All -- might want to give Waltz for Serena a listen.  Every soloists in the band is rock-solid, and the music is bolstered further still by the impressive compositions (including six originals by Gheorghe) and thoughtful arrangements that lend the music (at times) a chamber-like quality.  One should note that when I use the term "chamber-like," it's bebop chamber jazz a la Benny Golson or Gigi Gryce.  Because this music is more reminiscent of The Jazztet than, say, the more classically-oriented chamber jazz of the MJQ.  After all, the band's name is Bop Explosion! 

    Well done, @Gheorghe:) 

     

    Thank you so much for that kind review. Glad you enjoyed it ! 

  7. 16 hours ago, jazzbo said:

    Miles Davis “In a Silent Way” Mobile Fidelity Lab SACD

     

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    It´s a great record. I recently listened to Bitches Brew again after decades and don´t know anymore, why people then said that it was the total switch from acoustic hard bop to electric rock jazz, because as I hear it it was not. 
    With the added electro piano, Dave Holland still on acoustic bass, all those are still very much in the old Miles tradition. I think the switch to one chord vamps and wah wah pedals was much later, I think it was when I heard Miles....

  8. 18 hours ago, jazzbo said:

    Right now, something different. . . .the first spin of the 2023 Blu-Spec CD2 Miles Davis “Agharta,” disc 1

    The system is astonishingly good lately and this disc sounds wonderful.

     

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    Glad you have some love for Agharta !

    It was the cult disc of my youth and I´ll never have another copy than the one I bought then, shortly after I had seen Miles live with almost the same group, but here Dave Liebman is replaced by Sonny Fortune. The others are the same, but there are other tunes than what I had heard live. 

    Glad there is folks who share my fascinacion for the electric Miles period.......

  9. 3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

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    He really plays nice, but I fear that it´s somehow my fault that I don´t have a sole album of him. Heard about fans that are really crazy about him and have everything he recorded, but something does not "work" for me or "exite" me the way other artists inspire me. Strange for many, but I try to be honest.....,

    5 hours ago, dougcrates said:

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    It's always great to revisit this one.

    It was my first under his own name. I was a big Don Cherry Fan almost as early as I started listening to jazz. And someone had that album and I taped it on casetofon, like we all did. I think that strange guy who really had those then called "avantgarde" or "free jazz" records, also had a super rare "Charles Brackeen" Rhythm X, which I also taped since there was "MY" Don Cherry on it. 

    That guy...... you know, had a big magnetofon, big boxes and speakers, lot of equipment, and other stuff whas not in his one room appartment. He only had an ashtray, a "sac de dormit" (who you say ? Sleepin´sack????) , a caftan and a sombrero, and I was a shy little kid, but I loved to be in that room......

    On 7/29/2024 at 4:38 AM, ghost of miles said:

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    Another album that I love very much. Though I think I have listened more to his first album "Lifetime", but "Spring" is an easier album, it is more "swing" in it, or "schwing" how Alfred Lion said .....

  10. 4 hours ago, T.D. said:

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    This is a good one. And the sound is vivid, which is not always the case with Enja releases. Although this is a Japanese reissue.

    Dușco Goicovici was kind of a hero of our youth back then, His trumpet sound, I mean you have the Miles-sound and love it, and over here you had the Goicovici -Sound, different, but nevertheless there was something familiar. 

    We loved his hard to find albums "After Hours" and "Balcani Jazz" with "Saga Secorama" or how they said it in Iugoslavia. 

    This one must be great too ! 

  11. 21 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

    Arnett Cobb With The Red Garland Trio “Blue And Sentimental” OJC cd

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    I don´t have this, but all records of pre bop tenorists with the then "modern" Red Garland Trio are fine. 

    I saw Arnett Cobb once at Jazzland with a 3 horn frontline. The altoist was great and was the almost forgotten Jimmy Ford, who once played with Dameron and Fats at Royal Roost...., only the trumpet player was somehow weak....

     

    I only regret that there is no record of Lester Young with the Red Garland Trio......

    5 minutes ago, soulpope said:

    Thelonious Monk with Art Blakey a perfect combo ....

    sure ! 

    On the tours of the Giants of Jazz around late ´72 or when it was (I missed it I was only 13 and it took me another year to get to jazz concerts) and on videos or airshots you hear the full power of Blakey much better than on the 40´s/50´s records, which was more the way they recorded then.....

    Monk, so he had a somewhat vacant look and seemed quite passive, played piano better then ever and this together with Volcano Blakey......whoooey

  12. 5 hours ago, mhatta said:

    I knew that When Lights Are Low had an original Benny Carter bridge that was different from Miles' performance (and I too love Chet Baker In New York because of the rare Al Haig appearance in the 60s), but I must confess that I had never heard the original bridge before. I listened to it for the first time, and I must confess that it sounds somewhat old-fashioned.

    Speaking of raising the bridge the 4th, so does Bemsha Swing. It seems to be a common feature in many of the songs Miles featured. Maybe because he liked it or because it was easier to play.

    That´s interesting because it was the same impression I had. 
    I just grew up with the then so called "Modern Jazz" and in my case it was also only the Miles version that I knew or played. 
    Yes, raising the bridge the 4th, Bemsha Swing is a good example. Another one would be Good Bait. 

  13. A terribel lost ! 

    He was so busy here in Austria most of all at Graz where he taught. He was very often working in my country. 
    The first time I saw him was with Curtis Fuller at Jazzland. 

  14. On 6/30/2024 at 4:23 AM, rostasi said:

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    Great foto: Miles looks great here, not with that almost cartoonish styling he had in his last years. A rare occasion to see him without sunglasses in public. The woman on his left (!?) side must be Cicely Tyson....

  15. On 6/28/2024 at 7:02 PM, AllenLowe said:

    the first jazz concert that I ever went to, maybe 1969, was in the Sculpture Garden at MOMA. James Moody - it was basically Dizzy's band without Dizzy, with Mike Longo, Candy Finch IIRC.

    Good start ! 
    about James Moody : Let me tell you how I first heard Moody on record: You know I was a big fan of 70´s Miles and my first concert I ever went to was the Miles Band with Dave Liebman and later I saw Liebman with several groups of his own and loved his sound. 
    And browsing thru Miles albums I saw the Miles in Paris 1949 and after I heard Moody, who sounds very very "modern" almost late Coltrane-ish in some passages I shoutet out with delight "James Moody------almost like Dave Liebman !!!!" (since at that time "Lieb" was the only sax player I knew.....

  16. 14 hours ago, Pim said:

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    The Superior Viaduct reissue 

    Oh, I think I must buy this, it seems to be my ideal music since I like late Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman very very much, they were among the first music that counted for me ! 

    I remember I saw the cover of Alice Contrane´s Universal Consciousness in a record shop in România, and wanted to buy it the following day, and it was already sold, I was so dumb I had not bought it on the day I saw it !!!!! 

    6 hours ago, HutchFan said:

    More big band Diz:

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    Did Dizzy have a kid ? I never heard of him being a father....

    By the way, maybe it´s my fault but I almost never bought acoustic albums of the late 60´s /early 70´s since they somehow depress me: During that time almost all clubs closed, acoustic straight ahead jazz was temporarly dying, so I concentrated on free music and early electric. 
    I think I have one Diz record from the mid sixties with Lalo Schifrin, because my wife bought it for me.....

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