Caravan

This has been on youtube for at least five years (probably more). It was uncovered in the Netherlands some 10 years ago. The (Jewish) piano player, Leo de la Fuente, died at Auschwitz.

Hurray!

Coltrane Quartet, Comblain-la-Tour, 1 August 1965: http://youtu.be/jj0HTcSKX1Q?t=57m16s

I don't believe it. They (Max & Ornette) played together at the "alternative" Newport festival, ca. 1960, in a quartet with Mingus and Dorham. There is a famous photo of that (somewhere).

Bought Ghosts right after it was first released and after having seen & heard the band in Amsterdam in the autumn of 1964. Also heard the radio broadcast at the time (the original source of the Hilversum session). Knocked me out.

Has anyone mentioned that Connie Kay is great on the Prez in Boston? Hard swinging crackling bebop drumming. If you only think of MJQ when you hear his name, then listen to this one. Kenny Drew is good as always, but Horace really gets it down. Joe Schulman does a good job too.

Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! = 5 Flies Apparently it is a real restaurant, however. I'm not sure I'd want to use flies to help advertise a food service venue though. It is (or was?) a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands. I was a dishwasher there in 1968.

Hi Tones - Scott, Tootie, Trane, Bill Carney

Peter Brötzmann (#20) bought his bass sax from the late Henk van Es, Dutch baritone player who was short of money, during the mid 1970s.

I checked a wide variety of albums where he is either leader or sideman. They all referred to him as Sonny Red. Perhaps you are thinking of the two d's in the female alto sax player Vi Redd? FWIW, He is routinely billed as Sonny Redd on Savoy... And note his billing here... This last being a true outlier, i.e., I've never seen him billed as Red Kyner anywhere else... Huh... I've seen him billed as Sylvester 'Red' Kyner (IIRC on the Gretch Drum Night at Birdland double LP - ?Roulette).

Albert Ayler - Spirits Rejoice with Gary Peacock and Henry Grimes.

Here's the Monk story in Clark Terry's own words: As it was situated in 1956 in the book, this presumably relates to the second (additional) session for Brilliant Corners, where Terry played on Bemsha Swing and not to the Terry-Monk Quartet date, which was done in 1958.

Dewey Johnson with Jimmy Lyons: Don't know when this was recorded, but definitely post-Ascension.

Watch this on YouTube and you'll read: "Richard Koloda has been working on a biography of Albert Ayler for a number of years now and it will soon be finished. When published it will be the first book-length biography, in English, of this major figure in the Free Jazz movement..Back in October 2001 Richard filmed an interview with Donald Ayler and his father, Edward, in Cleveland."

Monk with Hygelund and Wright in Paris 1969: http://youtu.be/GzX6jTe4yE0 http://youtu.be/9ANF1mpvvBo

Are we talking about the same Chasin' the Trane? When I bought Live at the Village Vanguard (Impulse A 10) 50 years ago, it was Workman and it's him whom I hear (and is listed) on the CD version of that LP as well. I think that discography is just wrong in this respect. Didn't know about Richard Davis - thanks for the link.

Workman is on Chasin' the Trane, not Garrison. Coltrane wanted Art Davis in the band, not Richard Davis.

There is a photo of Lou Donaldson with Bird (and Joe Newman, Walter Bishop, Ron Jefferson) in Art Taylor's book Notes and Tones.

Lee Konitz said he never had the opportunity to play "head to head" with Bird, but he makes good for that here:

The bearded trumpeter is Alan Jeffries, one of the "bebop boys" in the Redman band.

Terry Pollard

At the Jazz Messengers site that announces this CD http://www.jazzmessengers.com/jazz-messengers-picks/product101630, producer Nalle Nilson writes: "Resurfacing now, they include about 30 minutes of music from one of his concerts, recorded by me. Later I found a recording made by the Swedish Radio which was recorded only five days after mine (I´ll Remember April) in such extraordinary musically quality that I just had to include it on this album", This is simply not true - the whole thing was recorded by Sveriges Radio and all of it is from the same date (whether that is February 2 or 5, I do not know, but in any case the 5th is not "five days" after the 2nd)). The original sequence of the tunes is: There'll never be another you, Walkin', I remember Clifford, All the things you are and I'll remember April, you can easily infer that from the announcements Don makes. After All the things, the audience applauds long and demands more, and the band returns to the stand and plays I'll remember April as an encore. I also have another tune (Groovin' high) recorded (also by Sveriges Radio) January 31, 1962 with the same (Arne Domnérus) rhythm section. If Mr. Producer had searched a bit better, he would also have found radio recordings of five tunes from December 5, 1967, with the same drummer and different piano and bass player. These six tunes would easily have fitted on the cd, without having to repeat the two Town Hall titles again (which are widely available on plenty LP's and CD's). The drummer (Egil Johansen) on all of this is something of a liability - he just refuses to swing.

Saw Stitt three times (perhaps I'm forgetting some....). In 1964, on alto only, with McGhee, J.J., Bishop, Potter, Klook; in 1971, both alto and tenor, with Dizzy, Winding, Monk, McKibbon, Blakey; and in 1975, on tenor only, with Dexter, Philly, and local (Dutch) piano and bass. On each occasion Stitt was blowing adequately but not spectacularly. He was no match for Dexter, but Stitt tried hard. Cecil Taylor was in the audience, digging Philly.