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[Joseph K]

[Jazzrook]

"Joe Albany... A Jazz Life":

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=LZxHgSg0x2M

JR

[Jazzrook]

Early footage of the second great Miles Davis Quintet on the Steve Allen Show, September, 1964:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=saF_AuWv1hY

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Early footage of the second great Miles Davis Quintet on the Steve Allen Show, September, 1964:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=saF_AuWv1hY

JR

Amazing playing on that - did that band ever cough up a bad performance? Not one I've seen. Coincidence at 2 minutes in Miles doing that quote he sometimes did from Basin St Blues, because only yesterday was I playing Eddie Harvey's arrangement of that by Humph's band on "Blues in the Night".

[Joseph K]

Early footage of the second great Miles Davis Quintet on the Steve Allen Show, September, 1964:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=saF_AuWv1hY

JR

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, JR. Happy birthday Miles!

[Joseph K]

John McLaughlin's very recent Hamburg show can be watched here, starting at 4 hours 4 minutes in:

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/109072-002-A/elbjazz-2022/?fbclid=IwAR2R0xDyEai_ocdwxumPXr2X3VAi5aWCFxI2FU1NrTVAgimPt7hXP56596Y

[Jazzrook]

Charles Mingus with Bobby Jones, Charles McPherson, Eddie Preston, Jaki Byard & Dannie Richmond playing 'Pithecanthropus Erectus' in 1970(?):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=RJRlFzpWnTQ

JR

[Tenor Freak]

Back to January 1972 and a Blue Note special on the PBS series "Soul!". Lee Morgan with his group three weeks before his er, last night at Slug's in rare colour video. He also plays a Jymie Merritt piece dedicated to Angela Davis. Plus Horace Silver having to play a vile RMI piano. A must-watch IMO.

[Jazzrook]

Freddie Hubbard with Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Tony Williams playing 'Cantaloupe Island' at a BLUE NOTE concert in 1985:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=2VN8zH366M8

JR

[Tenor Freak]

A doco about composer and pianist Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982):

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

T Bone Walker, with the JATP crew, Zoot Sims, Clerk Terry, Dizzy Gillespie et al, London 1966 or 67..

"Women you must be crazy". I think it was after this concert that Gillespie grabbed, gropped and assaulted Val Wilmer and her partner, coming to real "fist" blows, in which T Bone Walker emerged the decent one. This is in Val's autobiography and it was an encounter that rightly went very deep.

Anyway, T Bone is a joy...

http://youtu.be/pFqK6PBq-hA

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I really get tired of this stuff being excused away as "but he was a genius", the same venal crap with Miles...

"At this point, Stevie came into the room. Dizzy made a grab for her, screaming about “Fucking bitches!” I gazed in astonishment as he pulled her down by her hair to waist level. There were three other men in the room, but they just froze, open-mouthed. I grabbed Dizzy’s arm and tried to drag him off, but he was a heavy man and wouldn’t be shifted. He was limbering up, drunkenly, with his other fist, so I had no other option but to punch him myself, in the face. With a bull-like roar, he turned on me and sent me flying across the room where I bounced to the floor down a stack of aluminium chairs. In a second, he was astride me, fist raised to strike. One of the onlookers was a local musician who had been drinking. Dizzy was his hero, yet even in his sozzled state, this was too much for him. He helped Stevie pull my assailant away. He staggered to his feet, but I had gone beyond fury by now. I had never really hit anyone before, but now I punched him, as hard as I could. He went sprawling, blood spurted from his nose and his lip. I know I could not have accomplished this pugilistic feat had he been sober, but that left hook stayed notorious for ages.

As Dizzy lay on the floor, I looked around and saw T-Bone standing quietly in the doorway. “You women get out of here,” he told us, and we meekly obeyed. He shut the door and waited until the other man rose to his feet. Then, apparently, he knocked him down again..."

[Jazzrook]

Muddy Waters with Otis Spann, Ransom Knowling & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith playing 'Country Boy' in France, 1964:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=F8ICf_jt-0M

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

I really get tired of this stuff being excused away as "but he was a genius", the same venal crap with Miles...

"At this point, Stevie came into the room. Dizzy made a grab for her, screaming about “Fucking bitches!” I gazed in astonishment as he pulled her down by her hair to waist level. There were three other men in the room, but they just froze, open-mouthed. I grabbed Dizzy’s arm and tried to drag him off, but he was a heavy man and wouldn’t be shifted. He was limbering up, drunkenly, with his other fist, so I had no other option but to punch him myself, in the face. With a bull-like roar, he turned on me and sent me flying across the room where I bounced to the floor down a stack of aluminium chairs. In a second, he was astride me, fist raised to strike. One of the onlookers was a local musician who had been drinking. Dizzy was his hero, yet even in his sozzled state, this was too much for him. He helped Stevie pull my assailant away. He staggered to his feet, but I had gone beyond fury by now. I had never really hit anyone before, but now I punched him, as hard as I could. He went sprawling, blood spurted from his nose and his lip. I know I could not have accomplished this pugilistic feat had he been sober, but that left hook stayed notorious for ages.

As Dizzy lay on the floor, I looked around and saw T-Bone standing quietly in the doorway. “You women get out of here,” he told us, and we meekly obeyed. He shut the door and waited until the other man rose to his feet. Then, apparently, he knocked him down again..."

Thanks for quoting this, BL - what an extraordinary story: I've only met Ms Wilmer on one occasion, queuing up for a gig at the Union Chapel; from what I have heard she would not be somone to mix with.

[Jazzrook]

Don Cherry's NU with Carlos Ward, Mark Helias, Ed Blackwell & Nana Vasconcelos live in San Sebastian, 1986.
They were also recorded live at Bracknell the same year.

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=sr1dmWgQEtY

JR