The great trio with Israel Crosby and Vernel Fournier at the height of its powers in 1959. This comes from the CBS television show the Robert Herridge Theatre with explains the illustrious crowd around the piano which includes Ben Webster, Hank Jones and Jo Jones among the show’s other performers.
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It’s amazing how treasure troves keep getting unearthed. Time Life has posted unpublished photos of Miles Davis from May 1958 leading the band with John Coltrane, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. These were taken by Life photographer Robert W. Kelley and they are amazing.- MC
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Record Mecca – Virtual Jazz Museum →
Record Mecca is a virtual museum that has just posted an amazing collection of jazz memorabilia, much of it relating to John Coltrane. Included is a poster for the February 19, 1966 Lincoln Center Titans Of The Tenor concert for which I had a front row seat. Coleman Hawkins was in great form with his quartet and Zoot Sims, backed by Roger Kellaway, was absolutely incandescent that night. Half way through Sonny Rollins’s set, Yusef Lateef slipped onto the stage with tenor in hand. The closer was shocking as the audience was expecting the classic Coltrane quartet. Instead out came Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali and am army of horns including Don and Albert Ayler who stood at the edge of the stage and exploded into turbulent sound. I, for one, was pinned to my chair in utter confusion. - MC
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Art Pepper
The July 1964 Downbeat article “Art Pepper’s Not The Same” is a fascinating sample of the “What Were They Thinking” syndrome. Art threw himself headlong into free form music with this particular quartet and the only evidence of its existence was a half-hour TV show on NET (forerunner to PBS). I remember watching the program in utter disbelief. It was the sound of musicians trying NOT to be themselves. Fortunately, this phase passed quickly and Pepper got back to being his brilliant self and made another 20 years of magnificent music.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]“Mystic Brew (Trixation version) ,” by Vijay Iyer (2009)
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Trials,Tribulations and Joys of Issuing Great Music
Our 11 CD Duke Ellington set is about to come to fruition. It’s been a year since we embarked on this project. Searching out alternate takes, the best available sources from the major label masters to individual record collectors and we are now close to the deadline to releasing this massive piece of history. Scott is working into the night to get this out for the holidays.
A terrific short documentary of Duke Ellington as band leader with appearances by Ben Webster, Willie The Lion Smith, Clark Terry and Duke himself among others.
