What’s some of greatest discoveries in jazz?

[Hardbopjazz]

This year we had two great discoveries in jazz released to the jazz community .

Bid and Diz at Town Hall on Uptown Records and Monk and Trane at Carnegie Hall on Blue Note.

Any other recordings that you can recollect over the years that have come to light?

Edited October 6, 2005 by Hardbopjazz

[danasgoodstuff]

Clifford Brown - Beginning and the End, even if it really wasn't, quite...

[DukeCity]

I don't know if you'd call it a "discovery" since the recordings were known about, but I seem to recall a fair amount of exictement about the Benedetti recordings of Charlie Parker.

[Chuck Nessa]

Ellington's Fargo Concert.

One small correction; I only do work for Uptown - it ain't mine.

[Hardbopjazz]

Ellington's Fargo Concert.

One small correction; I only do work for Uptown - it ain't mine.

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You never know. One day it may be all yours.

[Guy Berger]

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

[Adam]

How good is the Fargo concert?

[Ron S]

The VOA recording of Ellington at '56 Newport? Goodman at Carnegie Hall (OK, so that was "discovered" in 1950)?

[danasgoodstuff]

How good is Fargo? How deep is the ocean...?

[jazzbo]

The 1932 stereo Ellington material.

[kh1958]

Some things that exist but haven't been released yet--Mingus at Cornell with Eric Dolphy and Mingus at Ronnie Scott's.

[Hardbopjazz]

Even though we know they exist, the Boris Rose recordings he did at Birdland.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

The W. Eugene Smith collection, not yet issued.

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/jazzloft/

Mike

[brownie]

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,

and more...

[Kalo]

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

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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.

[Brad]

I'm having an alzheimer's moment here, but what of the recordings made by the student from Columbia in the 40s, such as the Charlie Christian Jazz Immortal release on OJC, that also included a Dizzy session at Minton's.

[Hardbopjazz]

The W. Eugene Smith collection, not yet issued.

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/jazzloft/

Mike

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Wow Mike, as the first sentense says, "This is gold". 3000 hours of reel-to-reel recordings and 40,000 photos.

[brownie]

I'm having an alzheimer's moment here, but what of the recordings made by the student from Columbia in the 40s, such as the Charlie Christian Jazz Immortal release on OJC, that also included a Dizzy session at Minton's.

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Brad, Jerry Newman was the man!

[GA Russell]

Mosaic's first release, the Monk Blue Note box, included the first release of the song Skippy.

[bertrand]

I think you mean 'Sixteen', not 'Skippy'.

Bertrand.

[Larry Kart]

Although it sadly went back under the waves after it surfaced, Clifford and Max's "Live at the Beehive." IMO that's a signficantly different Clifford Brown than the Clifford who plays on any of his other recordings -- studio or live.

[jlhoots]

I like that Ray Nance violin CD with Ben Webster on clarinet.

[Free For All]

I remember some mention of the Mahavishnu Lost Trident Sessions being a big deal for those who like such things.

EDIT: Also some nice cuts on the Weather Report Live And Unreleased.

Edited October 6, 2005 by Free For All

[Nate Dorward]

Going back to the 1970s, the belated issue of Mingus at Antibes must've been quite the revelation at the time.

[Rooster_Ties]

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.

Edited October 6, 2005 by Rooster_Ties