John L

That is a great idea to make a catalogue available, and I imagine that people like Loren Schoenberg must already have something that documents the entire collection. At the Museum, the most difficult question is WHAT to listen to. It is hard to make a choice if you do not even know what is available.

It would be really nice to hear that version of After You've Gone.

OK, thanks. Clearly, he kept very active during the first half of 1983.

Romualdo - Try this one - it worked for me https://yt2mp3.info/en37/ The Young/Eldridge/Goodman/Wilson tracks may not get any sort of release soon as the Benny Goodman estate has apparently been blocking the release of all recordings where he is present.

OK, I finally listened to this out of curiosity. I agree that this is certainly well below Dexter Gordon's usual standards of excellence, although his playing here is still arguably professionally sound. This was his 60th birthday celebration that was not meant to be recorded. So we might cut him some slack if he had a few extra drinks that night. I also note that there are exceedingly few other Dexter Gordon recordings from 1983-1984, bootleg or otherwise. I don't even know of any others. Was it a down time for medical or other reasons? From his spoken voice, it would seem that he is struggling with something.

I don't recall if this has been discussed but Loren Schoenberg has been quietly making more of the Savory collection available through broadcasts. Some of them are on Youtube. The broadcast below is particularly substantial, containing two utterly amazing jam tracks from 1938 with Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, two fine tracks led by Bunny Berigan, and two of the tracks from the famous 1938 jam session with Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, and Fats Waller in MUCH better sound quality than any previous reissues. I downloaded the music from Youtube and cut out the spoken part. Very satisfying!

Sad indeed. RIP

Some good records were made, no doubt. With time, it will become clearer which ones will endure. The funny thing is, I think that a lot of us wanted to like some of these records a lot more than we were eventually able to. The lesson might be this - as much as we might miss the classic jazz of the past, turning back the clock is a risky proposition. You can't erase history. You can play the old stuff, but it is damn hard to compete with it on its own terms.

Very sad. I somehow didn't pay much attention to her for a while but then later became a big fan. She was an enormous talent. RIP

Yes, that one is extraordinary, particularly for Coltrane. I am also quite attached to Miles in Europe, My Funny Valentine / Four and More / The Sextet in Newport 1959 / Almost anything from the 1967 Europe tour / Juan-Les-Pins 1969. In a certain mood, I will also pull out something from the 1971 Europe tour with Bartz, Jarrett, Henderson & Ndugu. That band had a certain unique groove.

He was a fine contributor to this board. RIP

Wow. RIP

Thanks, Gheorghe. I would say that I will listen to it and see for myself. But I am in no rush at all. There is too much great Dexter Gordon on wax to want go through the pain of hearing something like that.

I saw Dex many times in the 70s but not in the 80s. He always maintained a very high degree of professionalism even if he might of had one too many a few times. I never saw him "completely drunk and unable to play." I have a number of concert recordings from the 80s that, while some of them suggest a bit of decline, are also professionally sound. So if there is a tape of Dex so drunk that he completely messes up, I have not heard it.

In fact, the sound is not bad.

Well, OK. But I thought that the question was musical rather than corresponding to how genres are divided in record stores. Who really gives a damn about the latter?

And don't forget T-Bone Walker!

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Charles Brown yet. Almost his whole discography could qualify. And what about BB King? He could swing as hard as anybody. Percy Mayfield is not discussed much in jazz circles but a lot of his music was quite jazzy, and a number of his songs have become jazz as well as blues standards. I think that Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson was mentioned before. Cleanhead falls smack in the middle of the continuum described above by Jim. And there is always Jay McShann as well.

I have what is supposedly a recording from Copenhagen from November 11, 1966, which would have been made on the same day as the interview listed in the Jazz Discography Project and one day after the Stockholm recording issued by Hat Art. I don't remember where I got it but it must be circulating: Copenhagen, November 11, 1966 Albert Ayler, Don Ayler, Michel Samson, Bill Folwell, Beaver Hariis Introduction, The Truth is Marching In, Holy Ghost, Our Prayer, Incomplete Track

There is also the jazz / blues of the classic blues singers (Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Chppie Hill, Carla Smith etc.) and their bands recorded at a time when jazz and blues recordings were seamlessly one and the same. In the 40s, we had recordings made under the leadership of people like Sammy Price, Hot Lips Page, and Tiny Grimes that fit this description,

I don't think that they all could be DDD as the recording sessions go back to 1982. Back in the 90s, some of us at the Jazz Corner Discussion Board went in on a "Horace Tapscott Internet Box" with the primary goal of putting volumes 1-7 on CD.

I think the reason might be rather simple. Volumes 1-7 correspond to a time when Nimbus West was not marketing CDs. I believe that volume 8, as well as subsequent volumes, were issued on CD right away.

Rooster - Is Bettye performing in the DC area? I didn't see any listing. OK, I see that she is at The Hamilton tonight. I don't think I'll be able to go but it should be great. DC audiences get the best out of her - she is from DC and has a lot of relatives here.

The only thing in my collection that comes close would be a broadcast from the Half Note from July 1958 where Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh play Billie's Bounce. But there was no trumpet present,.

Damn! RIP.