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I think it was summer of 1975 when I saw Blakey with Schnitter, Shunzu Ohno, Walter Davis, and not sure who on bass at the Top of the Gate. Around 1AM three guys with instrument cases marched through the tables to the stage and you should have seen Bu's face light up with joy and amazement: it was Shorter, Hubbard and Fuller. I think maybe VSOP had played at Wein's NY festival earlier that evening.

There were all those special aggregations for McCoy Tyner at Yoshi's over the years, and I've always wondered whether those gigs were recorded.

I missed Dennis Gonzalez, Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean at Downtown Music Gallery due to the big blackout of 2003. I heard that Hopper borrowed an acoustic guitar for the gig since he couldn't play electric bass.

Hadn't you heard? The legacies of deceased jazz musicians are now available for corporate sponsorship.

In 1991 I went to a Charlie Parker tribute concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Kenny Drew was supposed to be on piano, and I was really looking forward to it, but he didn't make it to the states for some reason, and Stanley Cowell played instead. I never got to see Drew live. I believe it was, however, the only time I saw A.T. Here's a review of the show: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/23/news/pop-in-review-729591.html

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

Bird, Bud & Fats all are on fire.

He's got the chops, and he can be the real deal when he wants to be. And Night Music showed that he has big ears.

Jim, do you have an Amazon link for this one? The material has been released in various forms over the years. I found these on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Live-Birdland-Bonus-Tracks/dp/B002689AUA/ http://www.amazon.com/Birdland-1-Charlie-Parker/dp/B00004SD2O/ I think the 4-disc set on Charly is the same set I have on Ember (Complete Birdland Recordings): http://www.amazon.com/Bird-at-Birdland-Charlie-Parker/dp/B000025BS3/ One amusing thing about the date is that for years the singer on Embraceable You was listed as Chubby Newsome, a female vocalist, but it's actually Little Jimmy Scott (confirmed by Scott himself). I don't think it's a radio broadcast, as stated above, but a location recording.

Why the hell are nickels so much bigger than dimes?

Dinwiddie has a great feature on one of the songs they did at Woodstock that didn't make the original film. I can't remember whether it's on the extra features of Woodstock or in Murray Lerner's Woodstock Diary DVD.

John, would you say most of Africa skipped CDs altogether and went straight from cassettes to digital files on phones? Do bootleggers sell massive mp3 collections on CD or DVD ROM in markets, like in Mexico?

I'd vote to keep the penny in exchange for single-payer healthcare.

Well, chitterlings/chitlin being a kind of iconic soul food, popular with southern as well as northern urban black people, the name was attached to bookings at southern black venues as well as northern ghetto venues, places that would normally have an all or mostly black audience. You da woman.

Looks like you missed the subtitle: ...that never recorded

I was at this show at Hot House that somebody else wrote up: "the New Horizon Ensemble consisting of saxophonist and leader Ernest Dawkins, trumpeter Maurice Brown, trombonist Steve Berry, bassist Darius Savage, and drummer Isaiah Spensor. The six special guests were an even bigger surprise: Roscoe Mitchell, Ari Brown, an unidentified musician on saxophones, Dee Alexander and Taalib Din Zayid on vocals, and a second bassist, unidentified." http://users.rcn.com/jazzinfo/1105/27thChicago.html I can't remember, but maybe Bankhead was the second bassist? I've also seen Dee Alexander with Douglas Ewart's ensemble. The highlight of one of the festival jams at the Record Mart was Fred Anderson's trio (Aoki & Drake) plus Dawkins, Ari Brown and Malachi Thompson.

They left out belly pork. Here's a rant I wrote about egg whites: http://petercherches.blogspot.com/2006/11/throw-off-yolk-of-idiocy.html

I have no idea either. I'd guess anywhere from 10 to 50 shows a year for 40 years. My friend Don can give you an exact count though. He keeps a spreadsheet of every show he's seen with all sidemen. He isn't an auditor for nothing.

I don't think this will "count": http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

Ornette, Al McDowell, Tony Falanga, Denardo and Bill Frisell, at Ornette's Meltdown at Southbank Centre, London. Frisell worked perfectly in the fabric of that sound. Another interesting unrecorded Ornette lineup: Global Expression Project: Ornette Coleman Trio with Charnett Moffett and Denardo Coleman, with special guests Badal Roy, Sultan Khan and Probaker Karaker Henry Threadgill's Society Situation Dance Band, North Sea Festival 1997 I've seen Mark Helias's Open Loose with both Eskelin & Malaby on tenor--I don't believe this two tenor lineup recorded. Dizzy & Mingus as special guests with Sonny Rollins

I'd say if the link route works, then the user is doing nothing shady. Maybe the cookie issue is a gray area, but if a site really wanted to control that I assume they could have a database with view count and only serve articles with a registered login.

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Yeah, the only thing better would be not getting it at all.

I heard Azar at the Jazz Standard recently, with an excellent group (Nicholas Payton, Benito Gonzalez, Essiet Essiet, Tain Watts). They were recording. Here's Nate Chinen's review: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/music/azar-lawrence-quintet-at-jazz-standard-review.html?_r=1 You mean at a party or something with Elvis Costello among others?