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What’s some of greatest discoveries in jazz?


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Some unexpected surprises over the past few years:

- the Jimmy Lyons box on Ayler Records,

- the Albert Ayler 'Holy Ghost' Revenant box,

- the various releases from Uptown (Sonny Clark, Serge Chaloff, Charlie Parker, Lee Wiley, Dodo Marmarosa, etc...),

- the Bill Evans 'Turn Out the Stars' VV 1980 recordings,

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Not as big as the Monk/Trane or BirdnDiz, but what about the discovery of Chico Hamilton's Original Ellington Suite w/Eric Dolphy?

        Guy

That's what came to mind for me. I agree that it's not as big a discovery, but the story of how this was discovered is as improbably amazing as the story behind the Bird and Diz at Town Hall discovery.

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How much of a discovery was the Dolphy "Illinois Concert" release?? Guess the tapes had been circulating among collectors for years, so perhaps that sort of thing doesn't count.

Great as "Passing Ships" was, it is a recording that was always known to exist. Just what it exactly was, was the discovery -- but the recording itself wasn't exactly "discovered" as such.

How about the first live Monk & Trane thing, "Discovery!"??

By the way, this is an EXCELLENT idea for a thread. I'll be very interested in the discussion, and what gets mentioned.

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