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Adderley, Cannonball - Somethin' Else Blakey, Art - A Night at Birdland, Volume 1 Blakey, Art - A Night at Birdland, Volume 2 Blakey, Art - At the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 Blakey, Art - At the Café Bohemia, Volume 2 Blakey, Art - Meet you at the Jazz Corner of the World Blakey, Art - Moanin' Brown, Clifford - Jazz Immortal Brown, Clifford - Memorial Album Burrell, Kenny - Midnight Blue Byrd, Donald - A New Perspective Byrd, Donald - Byrd in Hand Byrd, Donald - Slow Drag Clark, Sonny - Cool Struttin‘ Clark, Sonny - Sonny Clark Trio Coleman, Ornette - At The Golden Circle, Volume One Coleman, Ornette - At The Golden Circle, Volume Two Davis, Miles - Birth of the Cool Davis, Miles - Volume 1 Davis, Miles - Volume 2 Dolphy, Eric - Out To Lunch Donaldson, Lou - The Natural Soul Dorham, Kenny - The Complete 'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia Dorham, Kenny - Una Mas Dorham, Kenny - Whistle Stop Gordon, Dexter - Go Green, Grant - Am I Blue Green, Grant - Green Street Green, Grant - Idle Moments Griffin, Johnny - A Blowin' Session Hancock, Herbie - Empyrean Isles Hancock, Herbie - Maiden Voyage Hancock, Herbie - My Point of View Hancock, Herbie - The Prisoner Henderson, Joe - Our Thing Henderson, Joe - Page One Hill, Andrew - Point of Departure Hubbard, Freddie - Hup Cap Hubbard, Freddie - Hub-Tones Hubbard, Freddie - Open Sesame Hutcherson, Bobby - Dialogue Jackson, Milt - Wizard of the Vibes Johnson, Jay Jay - The Eminent, Volume 1 Johnson, Jay Jay - The Eminent, Volume 2 Jordan, Clifford & John Gilmore - Blowing in from Chicago McLean, Jackie - A Fickle Sonance McLean, Jackie - Capuchin Swing McLean, Jackie - Jackie's bag Mobley, Hank - No Room for Squares Mobley, Hank - Roll Call Mobley, Hank - Soul Station Mobley, Hank - The Turnaround Monk, Thelonious - Genius of Modern Music, Volume 1 Monk, Thelonious - Genius of Modern Music, Volume 2 Morgan, Lee - Lee-Way Morgan, Lee - The Rumproller Morgan, Lee - The Sidewinder Powell, Bud - The Amazing Bud Powell Volume Three - Bud! Powell, Bud - The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume One Powell, Bud - The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume Two Powell, Bud - Time Waits Rollins, Sonny - A Night At The Village Vanguard Rollins, Sonny - Sonny Rollins Vol. 2 Shorter, Wayne - Juju Shorter, Wayne - Speak No Evil Shorter, Wayne - The All Seeing Eye Silver, Horace - Blowin' the Blues Away Silver, Horace - Finger Poppin' Silver, Horace - In Pursuit of the 27th Man Silver, Horace - Six Pieces of Silver Silver, Horace - Song for my Father Silver, Horace - The Stylings of Silver Smith, Jimmy - Cool Blues Smith, Jimmy - Groovin' at Small's Paradise Smith, Jimmy - House Party Smith, Jimmy - The Sermon Turrentine, Stanley - Hustlin' Tyner, McCoy - The Real McCoy Williams, Anthony - Life Time Young, Larry - Unity

SERIES I (1994) Ornette Coleman – The Empty Foxhole Don Cherry – Symphony for Imrovisers Cliff Jordan and John Gilmore – Blowing in from Chicago Kenny Dorham – Whistle Stop Freddie Redd – “The Connection” Andrew Hill - Judgement J.R. Monterose – S/T Bobby Hutcherson – Components Wayne Shorter – The All-Seeing Eye Johnny Griffin – The Congregation Tina Brooks – True Blue Baby Face Willette – Stop and Listen SERIES II (1995) Jackie McLean – Destination Out! Grant Geen – Green Street Grachan Moncur III – Some Other Stuff Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia Andrew Hill – Smokestack Lee Morgan - Leeway Ike Quebec – Heavy Soul Pete La Roca - Basra Dizzy Reece – Blues in Trinity Freddie Hubbard – Ready for Freddie Lou Donaldson – Sunny Side Up Walter Davis Jr. – Davis Cup SERIES III (1995) Lee Morgan – The Procrastinator Grant Green - Solid Wayne Shorter – Etcetera Bobby Hutcherson - Patterns Hank Mobley – A Slice of the Top SERIES IV (1996) Grant Green – Sunday Mornin’ Donald Byrd – Byrd in Flight Here Comes Louis Smith Johnny Coles – Little Johnny C Jack Wilson – Something Personal Paul Chambers – Paul Chambers Quintet Ike Quebec – Soul Samba Harold Vick – Steppin’ Out John Jenkins – John Jenkins with Kenny Burrell Jutta Hipp – Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims Sonny Red – Out of the Blue Dodo Greene – My Hour of Need SERIES V- (1997) Jackie McLean – Swing, Swang, Swingin’ Art Blakey – Orgy in Rhythm Vols. 1 & 2 Clifford Jordan – Cliff Craft Sonny Clark – Dial S for Sonny Horace Parlan – Us Three Horace Silver – Further Explorations by Horace Silver SERIES VI (1997) Freddie Hubbard – Goin’ Up Bobby Hutcherson – Stick-up! Booker Ervin – The In-between Bennie Green – Soul Stirrin’ Jackie McLean – ‘Bout Soul Baby Face Willette – Face to Face SERIES VII (1998) Freddie Redd – Shades of Redd Horace Parlan – On the Spur of the Moment Larry Young – Into Somethin’ Ike Quebec – It Might As Well Be Spring Tina Brooks – Back to the Tracks Fred Jackson – Hootin’ and Tootin’ SERIES VIII (1998) Sonny Clark – Sonny’s Crib Hank Mobley – Third Season Lee Morgan - Infinity Art Blakey - Africane Jimmy Smith – Softly as a Summer Breeze Bobby Hutcherson - Medina/Spiral SERIES IX (1998) Julius Watkins – Julius Watkins Sextet Vols. 1 & 2 Sal Salvador Quintet/ Kenton Presents... Howard McGhee Vol. 1/Introducing Kenny Drew Howard McGhee Vol. 2/Tal Farlow Quartet Frank Foster/Gearge Wallington - Showcase Gil Melle – Complete Fifties Sessions SERIES X (1999) Grant Green – Blues for Lou Bobby Hutcherson – The Kicker Jimmy Smith – Six Views of the Blues Art Blakey – Drums Around The Corner Lou Donaldson – A Man with a Horn Dizzy Reece – Comin’ on Various Artists – The Lost Sessions SERIES XI (2000) Andrew Hill – Grass Roots Don Cherry – Complete Communion Tina Brooks – Minor Move Lee Morgan – Taru Sonny Clark – My Conception Jackie McLean – Vertigo Kenny Burrell - Introducing Kenny Burrell Stanley Turrentine with the 3 Sounds - The Complete Blue Hour Sesions Sonny Criss - The Complete Imperial Sessions SERIES XII (2001) Hank Mobley – Straight No Filter Andrew Hill – Lift Every Voice Booker Ervin – Structurally Sound Grant Green – First Session Don Wilkerson – The Complete Blue Note Sessions George Braith – The Complete Blue Note Sessions SERIES XIII (2002) Tina Brooks – The Waiting Game Freddie Redd – Redd’s Blues Hank Mobley – Thinking of Home Jackie McLean – Jacknife Chick Corea – The Complete Is Donald Byrd/Doug Watkins – Transition Sessions: Watkins at Large/Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill/Byrd’s Eye View

I'd like to pick up on this from a more general point of view. The free jazz movement may seemingly have done what Picasso did to painting and what Hemmingway did to writing: art was democratised. Suddenly everybody seemed to be able to express one-self in form of painting, writing, or musically. Of course Hemmingway took this much further himself than Picasso did, typing (not writing) away in a semi-drunken state and not looking back much to improve his texts. Listening to free-jazz one may certainly gain the impression that it's "just kids hammering away at their instruments" and that therefore everybody can do it. The philosopher Karl Popper made some very interesting remarks on written art, extending them to art in general. According to Popper a book is not just a collection of subjective thoughts of the author. A good writer re-works his texts by re-reading, adding and deleting phrases, thus improving the result. The author not only writes his text, he learns from it as well. This feedback between the author's subjective thoughts and the text he has written means that there must be something more in the written text than merely the author's subjective thoughts. There must be some objective truth hidden there. (I really love this thought, it's very positive...) Then he goes on and writes (rough translation by yours truly) "that the superficial and misleading theory that a spoken or written sentence is merely the expression of a subjective thought and nothing more has had a disastrous influence. This misleading theory has lead to expressionism. To this day almost everybody takes it for granted that a work of art is the expression of the artist's personality. Almost every artist believes that and this has destroyed art. "In truth the great artist is someone who learns, someone who keeps his mind open, not only to learn from works of others but also from his own work; particularly to learn from mistakes he made, like all others make them, and also to learn from the piece he is currently working on. This is also very much true for book authors as it is for musicians. This way he grows above himself. Too few people know that Haydn when he heard the premier performance of one of his works at the University of Vienna started crying and said: 'I did not write this.'" Following this train of thought it is not sufficient to "really mean it" or to be convinced of/by yourself. You have to be open to development, open to criticism. Now I am a scientist and in (my) science Popper's ideas and standards certainly apply. As someone enjoying the arts 'passively' and not actively participating in them, I tend to agree with him on the art front as well.