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Bellson Krupa Rich

Spanky was certainly for real, but there was no Sam Dockeryery in the history of the music! There was! Cousin to Hickeryery and Dickeryery. I'm surprised Jim's not playing their trio album.

Spanky was certainly for real, but there was no Sam Dockeryery in the history of the music!

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Here's a fuller description: http://www.jazzmessengers.com/jazz-messengers-picks/at-the-free-trade-hall-1961

Lorena Bobbitt Snipcock & Tweed Joe Castro

I only recall one number from the concert - Shorter's "The Chess Players". Will be interesting to see if it's on the album. (This was much the same time as The Big Beat also including that composition was recorded for Blue Note.) Unfortunately, I also recall that the Free Trade Hall's dreadful acoustics didn't accord well with Art's deafening drumming - so what sound quality can we hope for on the disc?

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Harry Beckett Henry Lowther Kenny Wheeler

I was there! "That's my hands you hear clappin' on that record" (Pee Wee Marquette)

Sassy Dizzy Lucky

Playing a tune called "The Benefactor".

I think that's very true. When I first listened to Charlie Parker (c. 1978) it was no different to listening to Beethoven. Music that was not by a living (or even recently dead) musician, being forged in the moment. I had to get past a film of 'oldness' before I could start to experience it as living music. Whereas, I suspect to you and Peter, this was thrilling, 'in the now' music from the off. Yes, it was "in the now" music. Parker had only been dead for three years when I started listening to him and I was in time to hear as new musicians on the scene Cannonball, Timmons, Roland Kirk, Oliver Nelson, Bill Evans, Coltrane, Ornette, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, etc as well as being around for the release of much of the Blue Note and Riverside catalogues as new albums. My comment on Ted Gioia's blog about listening to Parker today is also relevant here: http://www.jazz.com/jazz-blog/2008/7/24/bird-dead-two Charlie Parker was still around when I was in my early jazz listener period. I had one opportunity to hear/see him live but didn't get there. He died soon after that. I feel fortunate though to have seen a number of jazz greats that left us long ago. Among those I saw in person who died long ago are Lester Young, Bud Powell, Clifford Brown, Kenny Dorham, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Lennie Tristano, Wes Montgomery, Paul Desmond, Oscar Pettiford, Philly Joe Jones, Doug Watkins, Johnny Hodges,Louis Armstrong,Thelonious Monk, Roy Eldridge, Charlie Shavers, Illinois Jacquet, and many others. Can't resist rising to that challenge, Peter! Of the long departed that I saw, these come to mind: Duke, Count, Ben, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole, Hines, Teagarden, Dicky Wells, Earl Warren, Rushing, Hodges, Hampton, Herman, Joe Turner, Lucky Thompson, Cannonball, Dizzy, Tristano, Stitt, Desmond, Lee Morgan, Mobley, Roland Kirk, Thad, Mel, Maynard, Woody Shaw, Philly Joe, Klook, Blakey, Bill Evans and Timmons. And all in the UK, mainly here in Manchester! As with you and Bird, I most regret missing Coltrane and Miles gigs.

Played this one yesterday for the first time for a long time - 24 tracks by the original quartet. First heard some of those in the 50s, but never tire of them.

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I think that's very true. When I first listened to Charlie Parker (c. 1978) it was no different to listening to Beethoven. Music that was not by a living (or even recently dead) musician, being forged in the moment. I had to get past a film of 'oldness' before I could start to experience it as living music. Whereas, I suspect to you and Peter, this was thrilling, 'in the now' music from the off. Yes, it was "in the now" music. Parker had only been dead for three years when I started listening to him and I was in time to hear as new musicians on the scene Cannonball, Timmons, Roland Kirk, Oliver Nelson, Bill Evans, Coltrane, Ornette, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, etc as well as being around for the release of much of the Blue Note and Riverside catalogues as new albums. My comment on Ted Gioia's blog about listening to Parker today is also relevant here: http://www.jazz.com/jazz-blog/2008/7/24/bird-dead-two

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Similar to my experience, Peter, except that my starting dates are about four years later than yours. I think that the fact our generation started with jazz, rather than with another musical genre, helps explain our present day tastes.

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