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Where are you? ie. What country?

In 5 decades I've seen Sonny Rollins 6 times in 4 different cities.

If you're interested in latter day Skip James, Wolfgang's Vault has a 1968 concert.

Bob Bossin tells this story about Seeger;; Sometime in the mid-80s, I went to Philadelphia for the annual get-together of the People’s Music Network, a loose confederacy of political songsters. I crashed at the home of one of the organizers along with a half-dozen others, one of them Pete. Naturally Pete Seeger was given the guest room, but he insisted on rolling out his sleeping bag on the floor of the office. So I got the bed. What the hell. That same weekend, a few of us got our signals crossed and got to the venue an hour early. It was bitter cold. The building was locked, empty, and not in a good part of town. “It’s too cold to just stand around,” Pete suggested, “so why don’t we pick up some of this litter.” Which, for the next three-quarters of an hour, we did.

Pete Seeger never seemed worried to me. Usually seemed to be having a lot of fun. What it said on his banjo was 'This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender".

Trombone Shorty. He's not short, plays trumpet as well as trombone and doesn't play much jazz but he's the real deal. Most fun I've had at a concert in years.

I believe that they are all studio recordings. The live tape was just used to find the correct sequence of the songs. And apparently two numbers from the show were not recorded in the studio and are not on the cd.

Toronto is where I saw him in '60s ,at the Town Tavern,with Frank Foster, during a hugh snow storm,only few people showed up, wish I had a recording of that set ,he played like it was packed ,what kind of cancer did he have ? I don't remember. I do remember that he had be diagnosed while abroad (in Scandinavia I think)).

Amazon has it for $36 in paper. I may get it out of nostalgia. I met Pepper Adams a couple of times. Once in Montreal in the early '60s and later in Toronto after he'd been diagnosed with cancer. He'd read my friend Josef Skvorecky's The Bass Saxophone about a musician dying of cancer and invited Josef to a gig. (I can't remember where). Josef invited me partly because he wasn't that interested in much modern jazz and not really knowing who Pepper was though he should bring someone who was more appreciative. Pepper played great and sat with us between sets. He was very open about his medical condition and thanked Josef for the story which he felt was true to his situation.

IIRC (and I often don't) the Canadian Lps were different again. Maybe they'll do a Canadian set next.

A few years agoI saw Charles Lloyd at a small (600 seat) local (for him and me) theater. It was shortly after the death of Billy Higgins and Lloyd made several references to "Master Higgins". It was quite moving but when he played the same venue the next year I figured I'd seen him recently and didn't need to go again. However it was an entirely different group and when I bought Sangam the cd recorded at the very concert I had skipped I I realized I had missed something that was special. I've been kicking myself ever since.

Ornette Coleman was playing the Colonial Tavern in Toronto and they wouldn't let me in because I was wearing jeans! Must have been the late '60s.

Thanks for posting. The comments are interesting especially the last one.

What was the history of CP Records? I only remember the Bird and Prez Lps when they were new. I'm surprised by the variety of other material. Wasn't the label partially owned by some of the Parker family?

Wow. Thanks Mrjzee.

I just got this from Amazon. The personal listings etc on the Parker sides are obviously wrong. is there anyplace, person, site etc I might get the correct listings. I've tried to figure it out from Peter Losin's Bird discography but it looked like a lot of work to try to collate everything.

Thanks. I bit the bullet and ordered it.

Hmmm. I'm considering this. Not sure I want 30 more cds. Isn't there some really good Prez included?

I'm surprised about the Chu Berry. I would have thought that several other sets that are still readily available would have run low before it.

Which bio do you recommend? John Edward Hasse: "Beyond Category, the Life and Genius of Duke Ellington".

Seems to be available on Amazon for $20. BTW The missing songs from the single cd are available as downloads. I've always been interested in the DVD because it was shot at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

No, not to stream but they charge for downloads. (Lot's of things aren't available for download.)

Wolfgang's Vault seems to have access to a lot of jazz concerts not just those from The Newport Jazz Festival. As with their rock concerts, a lot of them aren't very good but some are gems. There's a couple of Mingus Quintet concerts from '77 (one of which they describe as being by a quartet) that I like better than the studio sessions from the period. And there's a set each by Al Cohen and Zoot Sims using the same rhythm section (with Jimmy Rowles) one night at The Great American Music Hall. And today they're honoring Dizzy Gillespie.

I've just finished the Teachout book. It's the 4th bio of EKE I've read in the last decade and easily the worst. ( I've never read Collier's-- it sounds awful.) However about the only negative thing Teachout doesn't say about Duke is that he was a mediocre piano player.

The Oliver Nelson Mosaic is available on iTunes for $44! Are there other Mosaics available there? (Of course it's not advertised as a Mosaic but just as being from the Verve Music Group.)