Gheorghe

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

cant read the title of the album of Pharoah Sanders.

Never seen this. Who is on it ? I´m a most loyal fan of Pharoah Sanders and this all my live long. I have "Welcome to Love" But really: I´m more into his vintage stuff.....all of it, and all with Trane. I don´t have it, but is this the one with "Conception" ? Damn good !!!!!! And I remember that other than on earlier Verve albums of him you HEAR the drums well. Taylor is great !

Listening to some mega groovin´ stuff in the small hours (Not a Tour de Force from me. Just my usual time of the day, where my mind is really bright.......musician´s live 😄. I listen with headphones because it has to be reallly LOUD, I mean like it is played live, and I am "in heaven". This night I didn´t listen to my usual preferences of insider´s music, I just wanted to enjoy a really really really happy day ! All albums here is with exactly the same personnel I saw them live back then, decades ago, possibly that´s the reason why I picked them up.......

so great !!!!! Incredible !

Dear Pim ! Don´t forget I am a musician ! Dudes rarely collect albums, they play and when they don´t play they hear it in the smaller jazz clubs that really look like "Small´s" in NY ! And you just listen to them on spotify or what ever..... And all the decades before www you also heard it here or there and what you hear once, you get stocked in your mind 😉

Oh, now while you say it: On Sidewinder, on the tunes that are not be bop, he doesn´t fit in. I don´t know the names of the tunes that was, but on one which is a back beat (boogaloo) he plays a solo that is in octaves and from the style it is more like the way Bud sounds on his latin tune "Buster Rides Again" , where Bud plays short rhythm patterns in octaves, sure influenced by Afro Cuban that was so much done in NY in the late 50´s.

wonderful 🤩

Wonderful ! THANK you sooooooooo much 🤩 That´s all my favourites. Pharoah is one of my greatest favourites, I have more than 2 or 3 albums from him and have heard him life so often. Pharoah and Sun Ra are among the greatest things that was given me in all my live ! Mulțumesc frumos ! Gheorghe

I´ll tell you what I DO NOT READ 🤣 Newspapers and news magazines......I am thru with it. Only fashion magazines like Vogue, Madame or stuff like that..... But if you think I don´t really read.......: Literature, good beletristica is part of my live !

I love Alice Coltrane, got two of her CD´s from Serena: Carnegie Hall, and Complete Consciousness. Who is on this one ? I think I might love it too....

So great that stuff.... last night: Just incredible !!!! Woody Shaw was a giant !!!

my trumpet player played with Barry Harris in Olanda I think. Bill Evans, such a great musician, but I must admit it´s not exactly my brand...... If BH yelled "No Bill Evans here" what did he want to get ? Someone who copies Bill Evans or someone to copy BH ? I´ll never know, I never had studied piano with anybody. But my mentor was the late great Fritz Pauer, and what he told me was to be open for all styles. It was thru him that I got my first gigs and after hearing some of them he told me " you sounded good you got tons of talent....BUT....somewhere in the future there will come the moment when you got your own shit".

Thank you so much 😀

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.....