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Btw Brahms suffered life long from excessive self-criticism .... what a irony ....

Probably misleading, my bad .... individual CBBB musicians aimed for more commercial music, whereas Francy Boland had different ideas about the Big Band's sound in the 70's .... "Off Limits" set these diverging views even more apart ....

@ "HutchFan" : could not resist 😎 .... off course a complete exaggeration, still making ironically the point his Piano Concertos are hard to digest ....

Don't get me wrong, this is exiting music .... it was the beginning of the 70's and the music was changing .... but maybe it has a reason, that this was- apart from the Stan Getz collaboration - their last album .... I had a lengthy talk with Gigi Campi in the late 90's and he stated that it became increasingly tedious holding the key members of the CBBB together .... "crossover" to more popular music was tempting .... means it was also about money ....

Both Brahms Piano Concertos are monoliths, no question ....

Really love the CBBB and although a good effort this swansong also mirrors a bit "jazz-rock" territory championed by MPS stablemates Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass subsequently, means more groove oriented than sophisticated ....

What are your impressions .... ?

Superb playing by Cecil McBee ....

Terrific 👌👍 ....

Interesting observations .... would disagree about Ahmad Jamal sounding " cold" on piano though ....

Isabella Colbran Jacopo Ferretti Gaetano Donizetti ....

🤯🥳🤯 ....

Gigi Riva Enrico Albertosi Sandro Mazzola ....

Kim Basinger (Photography : Helmut Newton) ....

DeMarcus Cousins Marcus Miller Henry Grimes ....

Nice find 👌👍 .... with successfully blending typograhy ....

Robert Velline The Vel-Vets Caetano Veloso ....

Ronnie Mathews was a reliable sideman (too) ....

Thnx for sharing .... I'm envious 🤓 ....

That's a good description about my view on Sonny Rollins from the late 60's/70's onwards ....

Probably not all of them, but some "quality control" would haven been of help .... btw it is particularly ironic that he accused Bruckner of this (and was part of a movement which destroyed Bruckner's career during his lifetime) .....

And very fine (underrated) musician overall ....

Thnx .... I'm interested in his career until the late 60's .... thereafter not so much .... so also books about his life will have always have an ambivalent reader with me ....

https://www.mlb.com/news/juan-soto-agrees-to-contract-with-mets-sources The "generational player" was a mercenary on loan unsurprisingly ....

Ronnie Mathews "Shades Of Monk" (Sound Hills Records) 1995 .... no frills Piano Trio date with classy players involved ....