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Robin Kelly (who I presume wasn't there) quotes some less than generous reviews, but I heard this when it was on Wolfgang's vault and I thought Monk sounded good. Maybe not essential but definitely worth listening to. Actually mhatta (who he?) put it very well in 2009.

The guy who wrote this article managed to be wrong about almost everything.

Just skimmed a book about him which seems to say he played with Don Byas! Long before he played rock'n'roll "In Denmark, Watts would sit at an unfamiliar kit behind fast US saxophonist Don Byas..."

Not legally. It's a separate city but it is in the surrounded by LA .

I had tickets to see Mulligan do it live w (IIRC) Konitz replacing Woods but a friend chose the same date to get married. Arghh.

Quincy?

Own 5 different versions of KOB. Also several versions of Portrait of Pee Wee on cd. But I do try to stick to one only.

I think it was around that time he did an interview for Coda and gave his version of the Koko session.

Looks like it's on the set of Jammin' The Blues.

i saw him with a local Montreal rhythm section in the early '60s. Interestingly the rhythm section was guitar bass and drums: The Charlie Biddle Trio whom I also saw back Art Farmer and Jackie McLean.

I've heard from at least one other prolific poster that you were why he left.

Was he one of the guys Jim drove off the board?

He was pretty well known amongst jazz fans when I started listening in the early '60s. I Remember Clifford, Whisper Not, Along Came Betty and Killer Joe amongst others by him were as close as you got to "hits" in the jazz world.

The notes go on to say that Curson even took up the piccolo trumpet "to fit the bill". But the notes also quote him as saying "I think (Don and I) were trying to come close to each other. I don't know why, because all we ever talked about was Dizzy."

The liner notes to a Savoy cd which includes 3 cuts from Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 state that Curson "had been recruited by Charles Mingus in 1960 to play in the style of Don Cherry". Is this widely known? Has it been published elsewhere? I was familiar with Curson before I'd ever heard any Don Cherry because he often played Montreal when I moved there in 1961. (I saw Mingus sit in with him at least once.)

Sort of off-topic: The Mosaic Louis Prima/Wingy Manone set is available for both streaming and downloading on Amazon. A bit expensive per disc but the discs have more on them than the hard copy release. (3 volumes instead of 4.) https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=Louis+Prima%2FWingy&i=digital-music&ref=nb_sb_noss

Are we not counting bootlegs? There are many recordings of Bird from the Pershing Hotel Ballroom: http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/BirdQuery.aspx

Am I the only one who can only one who can't get the "active" format?

By white people?

You're a good man.

I've somehow got a disc's worth of Infidel's outtakes on my computer and it's way better than the original release, so I'm looking forward to this.

Thanks for this.

Is that the one from the Savory collection? IIRC they used recordings he supplied when they wanted a "sequel" to the Carnegie Hall set. Are the Manhattan Room discs from Savory? And are they a licensed release?

Damn right. And the ad doesn't even mention Cecil Taylor.

A Love Supreme?