Music you'd like to hear and probably won't.

[jazzbo]

For instance, I'd love to hear Thelonious Monk performing "So Danca Samba."

Or Louis Armstrong and the All Stars live renditions of "Light my Fire."

Edited June 25, 2013 by jazzbo

[lipi]

Two things come to mind immediately:

1) Buddy Bolden

2) Count Basie battling Chick Webb at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem (same night as the Goodman concert at Carnegie Hall, incidentally)

Oh, I lied: 3) Sidney Bechet playing with Ellington.

[miles65]

The battle between the orchestra's of Jean Goldkette and Fletcher Henderson 1926.

[AllenLowe]

Baby Dodds accompanying Merce Cunningham

[Scott Dolan]

My most desired pairing that never was would be Thelonious Monk and Eric Dolphy.

I think they were absolutely perfect for each other musically speaking.

[king ubu]

Satchmo and Kenny G ... oh, wait!

[Rooster_Ties]

The Jazz Messengers with Tyrone Washington and Woody Shaw on the front line (circa 1969, April iirc)

[robertoart]

Larry Young Trio with James Blood Ulmer on guitar - circa mid-70's. Apparently they played a gig at Berklee at least.

[medjuck]

The Miles Davis Quintet with JJ Johnson.

[Shawn]

Wes Montgomery sitting in with Coltrane's classic quartet.

[Joe]

The Herbie Nichols rehearsal band with Roswell Rudd and Tina Brooks.

[brownie]

The Kansas City Coleman Hawkins-Lester Young confrontation.

Charlie Parker with the Earl Hines orchestra in 1943.

[sidewinder]

Monk with Pat Patrick !

[sgcim]

This is a long list, but here's only a few:

Don Joseph jamming with Bill Evans

Jimmy Raney playing with Bill Evans at a jazz clinic

Pepper Adams playing Miles Davis' solos down an octave at the same time Miles was supposedly improvising

Bob Bruno playing bass with Teddy Wilson while tripping on acid

Bob Bruno playing piano duets with Don Preston at the Musicians' Union in Cal.

Bob Bruno jamming with Jimi Hendrix and Larry Young in NYC

Bob Harris playing piano with Gabor Szabo in 1970

Judee Sill playing upright jazz bass and singing in a duo with Bob Harris

Phil Woods playing at Carnegie Hall with the opera singer mentioned in Martin Williams' rundown of the Thirdstream concert featuring Eric Dolphy

Steve Kuhn playing with the John Coltrane Quartet

All of these things happened, but weren't recorded, AFAIK...

[Big Beat Steve]

The Kansas City Coleman Hawkins-Lester Young confrontation.

Charlie Parker with the Earl Hines orchestra in 1943.

Diz with Earl Hines too.

[jazzbo]

Antonio Carlos Jobim and Gil Evans collaborations.

[Joe]

The Ornette - KD - Mingus - Max Newport Rebels 4tet.

The Miles / Prince collaboration (unless I missed something...)

A "tenor madness"-type date pairing Joe Henderson and Warne Marsh.

[mjzee]

Clifford Brown plays Miles Davis compositions.

[jazzbo]

A lot more 'forties Minton recordings.

Billie Holiday and Gil Evans collaborations.

[Larry Kart]

I once had a dream in which Jack Teagarden was playing "Stars Fell on Alabama" while Paul Desmond embellished the melody.

[AllenLowe]

hmmm....I once dreamed I could play the piano like Bud Powell - which, now that I mention it, IS something I'd like to hear:

"Allen Lowe Plays Bud, On Piano, and Better than the Original."

[Rooster_Ties]

The Miles Davis Quintet with JJ Johnson.

Or the 2nd Quintet with Joe Henderson added (in '67, iirc).

Or the Miles and Gil Evans Orchestra concert from '68, with Wayne (iirc).

[A Lark Ascending]

Sibelius' 8th

Mahler 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th

[BeBop]

The Kansas City Coleman Hawkins-Lester Young confrontation.

Charlie Parker with the Earl Hines orchestra in 1943.

To the Hawk/Pres "confrontation", I'd add Ben Webster and Herschel Evans....if the stories I've heard retold are true. ;-)

[mikeweil]

Wes Montgomery sitting in with Coltrane's classic quartet.

Yes!!!