ElginThompson

Thanks for posting.

Disc 4.

Disc 1

Disc 1 - Bird live performances on Savoy.

Sam Rivers BN Disc 3

Disc 2

Disc 2

Bird at Birdland Disc 2

Agreed, if playing by the rules ... Bird. This year has been almost exclusively Bird.

Bird on Verve, Disc 2 w/ Machito!

Started off Mingus Day w/ Jazz Icon in 64. Now into the collection.

Yard - Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes, Disc 2

Herbie Nichols Complete BN disc 3.

The JDilla reference on a jazz board made my day. Awesome.

Bad link (double http://) Here's the link again: http://www.jazzdisco.org/fats-navarro/catalog/album-index/ Ooops! Thanks. :hat tip.

When in the completist mood, I always check here ... does not have the bootleg stuff, but a decent reference. Jazz Discography

Diz - Disc 6. French vocal overdub on the latter half of the session is maddening and fascinating at the same time ...

I finished reading the book last week. Yes "afram" and "euram" are annoying, there are some style issues that a sympathethic copy editor could have resolved easily, he is rather sketchy on the historical background to the development of bebop, and quite cursory in his comments on the actual music. BUT, this book represents a really extraordinary amount of careful, detailed historical research, including the medical and criminal records, Maxwell Cohen's legal files and countless detailed interviews with just about everyone who knew Bud. He gives carefully argued and balanced judgements about conflicting evidence, and has created a credible and compelling narrative (this does get better as the book goes on, and it's worth perservering). The story that emerges is deeply tragic, in some ways even more so than what we all think we know from the standard literature, and very few players in the story emerge with much credit (some honourable exceptions like Hentoff, Wolff/Lion, Randi Hultin and a few others). The graphic accounts of the mid-fifties Verve sessions produced by Leroy Lovatt or the final ESP recording with Scotty Holt and Rashied Ali are genuinely horrifying, as is the story of his last two years in NY. What really emerges in general is a sense of how badly Bud was exploited (financially, emotionally, artistically) even by individuals who thought they had his best interests at heart. A few odd omissions, like no mention of the late 50's RCA albums (how did they come about?). For all its relatively minor faults, they are far outweighed by the virtues, and I'm glad that this work was does with so much care while so many of the leading players were still alive. Essential reading, IMO. Most of all it has taken me back to the music (most recently the 1953 Birdland broadcasts, the 1962 Swiss recordings that have been recommended elsewhere on the forum)as well as to Ethan Iverson's lively, extended post on his blog. Glorious music, a wonderful artist. Well said. Finished this afternoon. The use of afram and euram reflect a broader sanitized effect on the racial environment persons of color experienced in the US during the last century (and if Trayvon is a flash point, this century as well). Given the racial construct the author establishes, it seemingly glosses over the effect this environment likely had on black artists and how this probably further contributed to BP's dissapation (and reduction from a normal communicative existence). Nonetheless, what the author lacks in presenting bebop's development, he certainly acquits himself well with the exhaustive psychiatric details he has uncovered and shared. It's the latter which I personally found equally fascinating and revolting (that and Altevia Edwards deserves her own special spot in hell - but that's another point), though not althogether surprised at how psychiatric patients were treated in the 40s-80s. Highly recommended reading - may be worth some of you to pick up a Kindle or other e-reader.

Klook, disc 4.

Disc 5

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Playing Complete at the Bayou ... inspiring and depressing simultaneously ... I WANT THE HAWK MOSAIC!!!!

Hawkins/Eldridge at the Bayou Club. Disc 1.

Jeff - hang in there and keep listening to music to soothe the soul.

Fats! Disc 2.