David MurrayIt was in the late seventees that I heard David Murray’s Flowers For Albert for the first time. On the first note and on the spot I loved it. I bought the record and listened and listened.
Records became cd’s. Record players became cd players and somewhere in between I lost my Flowers for Albert. That didn’t matter for a while, most of the music was still in my head. But after some years it disappeared and what stayed was only a good remembrance of music I loved.
After twenty years I started to look for the cd to replace my record, but it was never released. People who were very into jazz but a bit younger than me didn’t know ‘Flowers for Albert’.
Tonight, well technically yesterday ‘cause I write this a bit late, David Murray and his Black Saint Quartet played in the Bim House. Oh, yes, he lost some of his freaky hairs, but it was a very good concert. He has a wonderful and original pianist – Lafayette Gilchrist – and a very lyrical baseplayer, Jaribu Shahid. Didn’t like the drummer Malik Washington. And you know what I did after the concert? Mr. Murray was in the BimBar and I dared to ask him this question: Mr. Murray, is there a chance that Flowers for Albert will be reissued? And he said, yes, in fact I just have to watch his website to see when and where and very soon I will be able to listen to ‘Flowers for Albert’ again. One happy woman!

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