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When was J.J.´s run with columbia?

Well "Swing Swang Swingin´" is interesting for the tunes if I remember it right: I think I got the idea to play "Let´s Face the Music and Dance" just from that source. That tune is so strong with the alterations from minor key to major key. The original version from the 40´s is slower, but it´s always important to know the original source to get your own brand of playing it. The Fats Navarro Blue Not I bought in the mid 70´s when there where those Double LP sets , I had one with Monk, and one with Fats. I remember only that I was pissed of there is always two versions of one and the same song. Here it´s early evening now, I slowly get things settled.... How says that Dexter Song (written by Cables who had the piano chair before Ligthsey came in) ? "I told you so" 😄 Kirk Lightsey looks wonderful and plays wonderful and was 2 weeks ago here in town, and in 2024 also. He played mostly Wayne Shorter tunes and I met him after the gig and we talked about 15 minutes about music, what else ?

Oh yes. Maybe it is a bit short and if I remember right, there is an unacompanied ad lib solo where he quotes some Chrismas Songs. And than there is some radio commercial. In 1983 I had heard Dexter the last times. Some performances were very fine, others not so. Kirk Lightsey lives in Paris now and is playing much in Europe. Especially in Austria too. Had a long talk with him after a concert.

I´m not a Bird completists but I think some of the stuff was on a Spotlite Label LP when I was a teenager. You see, then when I had discoveded Bird (after Dolphy!) I wanted to have more Bird LPs. About the same time I discovered Jackie McLean, who remained my favourite voice on alto since then: Usually I listend to more demanding stuff of himm but last night I wanted to hear something more easy to listen to, since I was very tired: This is what I listend to:

Very very interesting life of Freda Kahlo really. I could not read very well the article, but it seems that she is painting and dressed like housewomen those days when they would cook. I think she would have been a very very beautiful woman too if she had done a bit something about here thick eyebrows, I mean make them thinner. I heard she had a relation with Troțchi. It is interesting we didn´t know nothing about him over here. Lenin was omnipresent, Stalin was not mentioned any more.... but Troțchi, they say he was a comunist, but didn´t he leave the URSS before it even started to exist ?

I have been listening to those two albums for 48 years if I am right. Maybe Agharta first in early 1977, and Pangheea a little later, it was much more expensive. I was still at high school when it came out and one of the first who had it. During intermissions between classes we tall and tiny long haird kids would act like "Miles" who was our hero , we had those huge sun glasses, would bend down and imitating that whah whah sound of the trumpet, and others would beat percussion patterns on the school tables until the prof for the next lesson our would come in and shout at us to stop 😄

Last night I listend to those two: Both fantastic albums: I like Ornette Coleman´s arrangements for that string summit. Alice Coltrane on organ has captured much of here late husband´s sound on soprano. One can say she trasponds the music of Trane to the piano and organ, maybe even more than Larry Young who is my favourite organ player. I don´t have many experiences of hearing a harp, but this is very fine, the tunes are great ! That duo Alice with Rashied Ali....wonderful !!!! "The Creator has a Masterplan" has always been a favourite of mine. It gives me that certain mood, maybe it is what religious people are into. I´ll never know since I don´t have no religion, but sometimes especially in lonely places which I seek to relax I feel there could be Godnesses, waternymphs and spirits..... so something might be there in the nature....... And this music has it. I love to hear it when I can be alone and don´t have to talk to nobody...., like all that kind of late Trane and post trane music....

My trumpet player performed with Barry Harris in Den Haga, but it must have been later, since he was born in 1980. He had studied with Aack van Royen up there, also performed with Lee Konitz. I out to ask him eventually about those encounters with the giants.....

That´s the edition of the band I saw live. Very fine. I had the album but it seems I lost it or had borrowed it to someone and didn´t get it back, I can´t remember what had happened, but I remember the music. As much as I remember, it didn´t reach the same power the live concerts had.

Big fan of him. Got to hear him the very first time on the Black Lion LP "Anthropology" which became a "hit" when all them folks came to my place to listen to records into the small hours. They all loved that record and often asked me to spin it in the course of a night......

Is it possible that I saw him live with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band ? I think HE was the pianist. Jesper Lundgaard was on bass, Dick Oats and Steve Coleman where saxophonists, Pepper Adams on bari I think, so I think I remember Jim McNeely was on piano......, was a very fine night, to hear that legendary band. After Thad Jones had left the band, it was not the same anymore, most of all because they got Bob Brookmeyer to compose and arrange. Nothing against Broockmeyer, he sure has many fans here, but in my case the connections did not happen. It may be my fault, but I didn´t hear anything that thrilled me.... A treasure from my early teenie years. From the first few bars a livelong favourite of mine. I think, Sun Ra, late Trane, Pharoah Sanders and Dolphy where main sources to live that miracle of good music....

Filles was a thing you got to have and to study when I was a kid. There is no way to ignore Filles if you want to follow Miles´transition from simple hardbop to the compexity of things like Bitches Brew as the start for a most creative period until 1975. It was so much en vogue, that album. All those there were becoming top acts on their own. Chick, Herbie, Tony, John McLaughlin and so, they became main influences of the jazz of the 70´s which developement I could follow from the start on. You met guys on the street who would stop you and ask you if you have a copy of "Filles". Some few had purchased the LP. We others might copy it on casetofon. I never will forget that question about the album. Nobody here in my surroundings knew how to pronounce it. They all said😄 "Fill Less deh Killi Mann Djaro"

Wonderful , really fun music. The title tune, a Calypso.....Pharoah sounds almost like Rollins sometimes here. And also the swing tunes When Lights are Low and Moment´s Notice are great. And two really moving duets with Joe Bonner, who is just an incredible good pianist.

You say it ! From the Strata East "Dolphy Series" like another favourite of mine: The "Rhythm X" with Charles Brackeen, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell.

So great, so wonderful, you want to hear to this further and further and think "may it not ever stop". Sonny Sharrock is wonderful here. I love that wonderful angelic riff. Some of the best music I ever heard, on that album. That´s the kind of music made for eternity.

Thank you so much for that great answer that explains everything. And you really have a great musical taste, you listen to wonderful albums ! Last nights, I have listened to some Pharoah Sanders:

I see. Well, in my case it is even possible that the weather, more so the anotimp influences something: It was a beautiful spring night when I first heard one of my first Idols Charles Mingus, so if there is such a night in April I might have Mingus in my head or if I´m off, I´d spin it. And it was a beautiful night in september, still warm, and I heard for the first time Max Roach, so September might be a month I start with thouts about Max Roach. Freezing weather is a challenge for me, since I like those really warm nights, where you can get out and the town doesn´t sleep, all kinds of dudes on the streets, and the gals don´t wear long jeans any more....

This was the first Jazz LP I had owned in the early 1970s but it had another cover. I see on some posts, that you have a deep association between weather and music. So, does the weather influence the music you hear ?

incredible: Each of them personal favourites of mine. At least I can say that I saw each of them live on more than one occasions....

I only had purchased one or two from Denon, I think. 1977/78 was happy times for me as a youngster and budding jazzmusician. I already had saw live some of my idols, like Diz, Mingus and Max, so 3 from the 5 Massey Hall Giants. Each was great.

I that the album with "Dat There", a great tune !!!!! It was on one of those three night stints, where I was booked with an international sax player who called it in the last set of one of those nites, I had never played it but you have it in your ears so you don´t have to have a sheet on piano..... I think, once I heard it in a commercial... is that possible ?

Horo had great albums. Especially Sun Ra. Is this album the "Loadstar" by Max Roach ? I didn´t buy it but I think it must have been done when I first heard Max Roach live, it was the quartet that had Billy Harper, wasn´t it ? Roach, Bridgewater, Harper, Workman. I think that was the best quartet. Later I heard it with Harper and Workman replaced by Odeon Pope and Calvin Hill. Also very good, but Calvin Hill had somehow such a "plastic sound" on the bass, sometimes that sounded a bit ugly. And Odeon Pope, ok, he is interesting, but his sound is a bit strange to me, more like a bassoon than the tenor sound I like most....

okay sorry. I didn´t remember I already posted an answer..... As long as I remember the tunes I play..... the rest...... you know, short time memory is not my thing.

Looks like a great bebop gig, groovy joint I suppose, but to have to play so near to the Shithouse.....😜 I mean, you got to head on and blow, but if someone from the audience has done his fiziologic necessities and opens the door and it stinks ? Terrible thing to imagine.

Bird was a big influence of my musical thinking, even if due to my age I didn´t hear music chronologically, that means I would have discovered Bird after I was into the styles of music of the late 60´s early 70´s. The first time I read Bird´s name was when there appeared a super Mingus triple record in Paris 1970 or 71, which had a take "Parkeriana". But listenig to a simple tune like Billies Bounce or more even, Now´s the time so many times one after the other, is just torture for me. I have a Prestige album of Wardell Gray that also has so may tracks.