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

[danasgoodstuff]

Lee Morgan & Sonny Rollins

Little Walter & Albert Ayler

[BeBop]

A little off-topic, but if you'd asked me 45 years ago, I would have said "The Benedetti Tapes of Bird". So who knows?

[BeBop]

Also, the recordings of Wardell Gray from the Beehive, early 1955 (shortly before his death)...long rumored to be coming out momentarily...rather like the Detroit Before Mowtown recordings.

Yeah, I could find bootlegs of the Beehive gig.

[colinmce]

Ran Blake Quintet - Duke's Attic (unreleased)

New York Art Quintet box set ($$$)

Anthony Braxton - Solo (Paris) 1985 box set (unreleased)

Jimmy Giuffre 3, 1966 (unrecorded)

Steve Lacy's Japanese LPs ($$$$$$$)

[brownie]

where is the sound (VOA archives?) from that evening???

[Big Beat Steve]

where is the sound (VOA archives?) from that evening???

:tup !!

[Clunky]

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

Or indeed the solo interval sets Herbie played when Jazz Messengers at Cafe Bohemia was being recorded.,

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The only 2 Mali Kunkan albums I've never heard

L'Ensemble Instrumental National du Mali. "Soundiata ou l'épopée Mandingue"

L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes

MG

[Don Brown]

A few days ago, Sidewinder said he'd like to have heard Pat Patrick and Monk playing together. Well I did hear Patrick working as a sideman with Monk here in Toronto right near the end of Monk's performing days. It was at the Colonial Tavern but I can't remember the exact date. I know that It was the last time I saw Monk and it was sadly disappointing. As a big admirer of both men I really expected something special. I'd seen Monk at least half a dozen times with Charlie Rouse who was so reliable he'd started to become easy to take for granted. I was expecting to hear something fresh and exciting with Patrick in Rouse's place, but it was not to be. Mind you, Monk was suffering from a really nasty head cold during the whole week of this engagement and, as a result, his own playing was not up to his usual high standard. Patrick, who was playing tenor and not his usual baritone, sounded pretty ordinary and not even Wilbur Ware was able to lift the group out of its torpor. I'm damned if I can remember who the drummer was.

[sidewinder]

Don - That's very cool that you caught the Colonial Tavern gig. Robin Kelley's bio of Monk mentions that very gig in Feb 1970 and says that due to problems with Monk's poor health the opening was delayed for 4 days. Monk and Nellie were holed up in their room in the King Edward Hotel for most of it and not even a personal visit from Duke Ellington got him out of there !

The bio mentions that Monk had recurrent cold/flu problems during this period, plus prostate issues and deteriorating bipolar disorder.

Edited June 29, 2013 by sidewinder

[robertoart]

A Post-Punk/Free Jazz guitarist once told me Monk peed his pants while on stage at the Sydney Opera House. I thought the guitarist (not Monk), was just being iconoclastic, but alas, it may have been true.

[Chuck Nessa]

A few days ago, Sidewinder said he'd like to have heard Pat Patrick and Monk playing together. Well I did hear Patrick working as a sideman with Monk here in Toronto right near the end of Monk's performing days. It was at the Colonial Tavern but I can't remember the exact date. I know that It was the last time I saw Monk and it was sadly disappointing. As a big admirer of both men I really expected something special. I'd seen Monk at least half a dozen times with Charlie Rouse who was so reliable he'd started to become easy to take for granted. I was expecting to hear something fresh and exciting with Patrick in Rouse's place, but it was not to be. Mind you, Monk was suffering from a really nasty head cold during the whole week of this engagement and, as a result, his own playing was not up to his usual high standard. Patrick, who was playing tenor and not his usual baritone, sounded pretty ordinary and not even Wilbur Ware was able to lift the group out of its torpor. I'm damned if I can remember who the drummer was.

I have a recording of that group from Boston in February pf 1970. The drummer was Beaver Harris.