BillF

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Love those early Montgomerys!

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Gerry Fitt Dingle Foot Mr Dangle

Monty's Double Amos Trice Eric Forth

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Randy Newman Wilbur Harden Patrick Standish

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Such as the original Mwandishi Cover?

I don't know of any other re-recordings of BotC - just the studio and club recordings of the original band. I think it has become something of an exercise for music students. I went with my wife a few years ago to hear students perform it at Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music. Afterwards my wife claimed she knew just about every note they played. Shows how often I'd been playing the original at home! As to the re-recording, it certainly sounds different with a modern rhythm section. Around 1960 I recall my musician and student friend, John Rubin (brother of Ronnie Scott bassist Ron Rubin) saying that BotC didn't swing, as did Shorty Rogers' "Popo"/"Didi" session with a similar band. Perhaps John would have preferred the 1992 version of BotC.

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The vigorous comping of Horace Silver was really something, but surely the most distinctive "comping" (or not comping) was from Monk, the latter often with visual entertainment.

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