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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.....

ok !

Would like to get into a time machine to be there. About the record: I didn´t know there was records about the BL All Stars. But was not Miles and Lester also on that tour ? And BUD ! . I heard some Bud live 1956 from that tour and it sounds fantastic, some of the greatest solo piano (remains an enigma why he didn´t have bass and drummer). 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

If I was a collector or was interested in records signed by the artist or I would be on a trip of gathering anything Chick had hold in his hands, I´d buy it. I am aware of the doubts of many of you where the money goes to, but let´s say, I buy some of Chick Coreas records, or Serena bought me some great live stuff with Jean Luc Ponty featured and if the money goes to that religion, let it go there. Maybe such statements are easier for me to say than for others, since I don´t have no religion at all, I mean I would not say this religion is cool and that religion is uncool. Let ´em believe what they believe in and let them call them their Godnesses how they call ´em. Maybe it´s easier for me because not being part of groups of that kind I dig them all, they sure have somethin´ to say to them their folks. My background, I mean before my grandparents they had a religion just because they were christened in it, and when it turned out that because of that certain religion they are cut out of certain professions or society event´s they changed their religions into those who the king or emperor of "their" country was into. Roman Catolic, Reformat, ortodox, any of that, and when they started to dig a certain political direction that would not embrace religions they left it and remained without religion. Sure they didn´t have aversiuni contra religions, since pur and simplu they did not no nothing about it...... So in that order of thoughts anything that Chick Corea believed in is cool for me. About the Prestige Album: I remember the liner notes, how they began: About some fiction that Miles in the mid seventies does a concert with his electric group and after the last note and all the standing ovations he comes back on stage, followed by some old guys like Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Percy Heath, John Lewis and Kenny Clark and they start playing "Tasty Pudding" and so on. When Miles really did a very similar thing in Paris 1991, first with his group and than with old guys like Jackie McLean and so on playing bop tunes like "Dig" and "Out of the Blue"....this event really happened and imediatly I thought about those liner notes from that old Prestige record.

Sounds great !!!!! Love them all. Sounds like something I might like.

The Ra stuff would be interesting for me as same as the Mingus Stuff. The Mingus stuff because THAT´s the band I saw live ! If the Ra stuff is also from that period (late 70´s) it would be of the same interest, since I saw Sun Ra live also during that period.

who is on that Jimmy Lyons album ? I heard him only on the Cecil Taylor albums but I am so impressed of his playing there it is incredible. It is the next evolution after Jackie McLean, I mean I could almost say: Bird, Jackie, Lyons if there would have been more exposure to Lyons. Was he too stuck to Taylor ? I read that the first gig Taylor had without Lyons was when Lyons became sick. I don´t like very much if an alto sounds a bit to "sweet". That´s why I like that reed sound that had started with Bird, I would even say I like McLean´s tone even more ! and Lyons fit´s into that categorie.

Mingus in Buenos Aires !!!! I had a casette from it, but I think one I had thrown away all casetes and the casetofon.....

This is the Prestige Doublealbum of very old Miles from the early 50´s. I remember it left me quite disappointed then as a kid, since it sounded so "old". I had heard Walkin only as the fast version of the 60´s and Miles stuff from the mid seventies, so this was not often spinned. More than that: The coverfoto had mislead me to think this is actual Miles from the 70´s. Can´t imagine that it values so much. For 800 de dolari I would also sell it🤩

last night: Wayne Brasel group feat. Jeff Bourdeaux on drums, Uli Langthaler on bass and Thomas Pustelnik on tenor. This trio unit (Wayne, Jeff, Uli) had a steady gig at the defunct "Jazz Spelunke" in Viena some decades ago. Great Reunion: The sounded just great. And for me most of all because it is not just a guitar trio, having such a great tenor player on stage. I enjoyed the music very much. Maybe Jeff, as great as he is as a drummer should have done less "hosting". There were too long speeches to the audience between tunes, I mean anecdotes and all. That may be nice if you read it, but on stage I would have preferred only music music music and maybe a short announcement of the band at the beginning and a "thank you" at the end....

I didn´t know there is other releases that Aghartha and Pangheea. When the stuff was "here and now" as I "lived" it, there was Agharta in all the record shops. We all wore that record out. And my friends, all of them a bit older and those kind of long haird bearded guys of the night whispered something about another record, which is from Japonia and very expensive. This must have been a bit later than the output of Agharta and that mistery record was "Pangheea". We had that insider record shop "Red Octopus". That´s where people like them and my little self where hangin´around. I had to think very hard if I spend my pocked money on the usual rations of beer and cigarettes or on a record. And I didn´t hesitate to invest it on Panghea and to "beg" my beers and cigarettes from those elder "brothers" as I related to them. But all of that music......it was not new for me since I had heard the same band at Stadthalle here . The only difference was that it was Dave Liebman on it, and I was disappointed that he was not on Agharta. "Liebman" was my man......, I hadn´t never heard of Sonny Fortune until then.

I have not so many JJ as leader: I have the one from the 40´s with Bud and Max Roach, on Savoy I think. And then only the "Yokohama Concert" with Nat Adderly, that´s my favourite album of him, and of course "Pineaccles". Grant Green "I wanna hold your hand" is one that Serena likes. I even think I got it from her. I like albums with a guitar player if it has also horns. Like here with Hank Mobley, or there is also some with Joe Henderson. But in general, nowadays I listen more to albums of artists who were my first musical impressions: Pharoah Sanders has a very very big role in it, and Sun Ra. Among my first few records was an early Sanders record and the "Nothing Is" from Sun Ra, both on ESP I supose. This here is the same band I heard live. I was astonished then that they also played some old tunes like "King Porter Stuff" but I also liked very much the angelic voice of June Tyson. What can I say: "Space is the place".

I love the sound of Arthur Blythe. But I don´t have this. I think that maybe I am afread of a trio with a tuba instead of a bass. Maybe I should listen to it a bit somewhere, because maybe I just didn´t open up for other rhythmsections than bass and drums. Have you noticed that on this photo Arthur Blythe looks almost identically like Bud Powell ????