that's precisely what I meant, a big deal at the time, but not as biggie looking back not being able to place it in its historical context.
Yup, turns out only the old people knew this one
Bird surely is an important guy to the music, but there's loads of stuff I want to hear and the earliest recordings of the Bird are not the priority of my limited funds at the moment. And yadda yadda, of course we should listen to the elders to understand the young ones, but ey, who's gonna bring time into our young lives to accomplish that? and do we need to slurp up every single note the dude played to understand the future? I hope not. This is a rather marginal recording that is utterly interesting to hear, important from a historical perspective and what else not, but I would not necessarily have lived an unhappier life not having heard it altogether. I just hope no one is feeling, let alone being, compelled to listen to shit and is just hearing the stuff (s)he likes and moves onward from there at an own pace and in a self determined direction. that's all.