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)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)
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)
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 1 August 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)
― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 1 August 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)
― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)