Steve Gray

Of the ones I could have seen - Monk, Blakey, Horace Silver Those I couldn't - Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Billie Holiday Did see lots of people mentioned here though including Albert Ayler at the infamous BBC recording at the LSE 1966 https://londonjazznews.com/2016/11/07/feature-ghosts-and-spirits-remembering-albert-ayler-at-the-london-school-of-economics-in-november-1966/

+ Tranein' In Another little known released track is "Nature Boy / One Down One Up" from the New Wave In Jazz Village Gate sessions. Released on this - https://www.discogs.com/release/8727682-John-Coltrane-Legacy?srsltid=AfmBOoqf0jJFR5P6360QtCjoQet3xelStuGhGYJWDuXLInJzRCXl9jYi Nearly 30 minutes long

Speaking of Johnny Coles, his 100th birthday would have been just a couple of weeks ago. It didn't make as much news as some other trumpeter's 100th birthday.

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Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Eddie Locke, Lawrence Brown (with Ellington), Charles Mingus, Johnny Griffin, Bill Basie Peter, you didn't see Bill Crump? Shame on you 🙂 Very impressive list. Where and when did you see Lester Young, if I may ask?

I seem to remember Paul Jeffrey talking about occasionally playing with Sonny on the bridge. Can't remember where I saw that though EDIT: Link https://x.com/thejazzestate/status/1979266375144325620

"Ballin'" is also the title of a long-lost album by the Miles Davis Quintet recorded in 1956 😀 Unfortunately Bob Weinstock burnt the tapes when Miles moved to Columbia because he didn't want to ruin Miles's success at his new label.

That's almost as if you don't think he was a wonderful jazz musician 🙂 I saw him 6 times I think Twice at Ronnie Scott's in the 60s where he started playing in the club doorway, playing all the way to the stage. On a bill with Mccoy Tyner and Muddy Waters!. At the Drury Lane Theater. At the Palladium. Last time was at House Of Blues in New Orleans. I also saw him at a CD signing at J&R records in NY. RIP Sonny

I'm just old that's all 🙂 Sometimes I think I must have seen Miles 3 times in the 60s because I can't reconcile the images I have in my head of the events but I don't think I can have because he only appeared in the UK in 1960, 67 and 69 in the 60s The 67 show was interesting because he was on a bill with an Archie Shepp group with Roswell Rudd and Grachan Moncur. He went on first because apparently he refused to follow Archie Shepp

I saw them both Coltrane with Dolphy, Tyner, Workman and Elvin on November 17th 1961, 2 weeks after they recorded Live at the VV This was at the Walthamstow Granada, London on a bill with a Dizzy Gillespie group featuring Leo Wright and Lalo Schifrin. I was 14 at the time. Miles twice, in '67 with the second quintet and '69 with Shorter, Corea, Holland and De Johnette

I joined April 29th 2003 and was also on the BN board before that. Don't post much though, too busy listening to music. I'm nearly 80 though so who knows for how long

That's so small. Would love to see a bigger picture

She might have been born 'Ella Fitzgerald' and married into the name 🙂

Can't find a photo, guess I was wrong, but here are brownie's memories of an Albert Ayler recording session at Judson Hall https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/37678-brownie-on-ayler/

Judson Hall, I believe I seem to remember but I may be wrong that there is a photo of Brownie at an esp-disk session at Judson Hall