Previously unknown Diz/Bird concert discovered!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/arts/music/31kapl.html

At the Town Hall concert, the musicians were free to play the tunes - "Bebop," "Groovin' High," "Hot House," "A Night in Tunisia" and "Salt Peanuts," all jazz anthems by the end of that year but at the time still unknown - for twice as long, and at a furious tempo. Solos went on for two minutes or more, and they're blazing - Diz scaling heights on trumpet, Bird hitting speeds on alto sax, that no one had heard before. The studio recordings, great as they are, sound mellow, even quaint, by comparison.

Man, I'll take one of those!

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 31 July 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Two, please.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've heard this. Fred Anderson has a copy. He's been playing it quite a bit over at his bar, in between sets. It's really really great. The sound quality is amazing too! Really makes you wonder how nobody knew about it for so long. Chuck Nessa of Nessa Records fame put it out, I think. Dunno where he got it.

But yeah, the SPEED of this stuff .. 1945 .. man, it's like Bebop emerged fully-formed right from the womb.

Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 31 July 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

This is, like, the coolest news story of the year.

Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 1 August 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Whoa!

M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 1 August 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
This is really good, btw.

M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)


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