"Jazz From Monterey: 1958, Birth of a Festival"

[ghost of miles]

This past weekend's Night Lights show, Jazz From Monterey: 1958, Birth of a Festival, is now up for online listening (just ahead of the 2010 festival). It features live performances from the Jimmy Giuffre 3, Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, Billie Holiday, Cal Tjader, and Dave Brubeck.

Coming later this week: "Goin' Up: Jazz in the Space Age."

Edited September 18, 2014 by ghost of miles

[medjuck]

Listening just now and wonder why the entire Billie Holiday set has never been legitimately released. I know it got terrible reviews but this one song sounds pretty good and not that different than other latter day Lady Day.

[ghost of miles]

I haven't heard the entire Holiday performance from that festival, but I agree with you, Medjuck. Does the Concord/MJF label have plans to release more music from the Monterey vaults?

[medjuck]

The reviewers may have been responding to the way she looked.

[Stereojack]

I seem to recall that there was a release of her Monterey performance on the Blackhawk label in the 1980's.

[ghost of miles]

We re-aired "Jazz From Monterey, 1958: Birth of a Festival" this past week, and it remains archived for online listening:

http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/jazz-monterey-1958-birth-festival/

[ghost of miles]

Up for the start of the 59th annual MJF tomorrow:

Jazz From Monterey, 1958: Birth Of A Festival

...and a sequel (with hopefully another one or two to come in the future):

Jazz From Monterey: 1966