30th Oct., 2020
Dextern Gordon (An Ort und Stelle – Jazz in Kopenhagen, German TV, 1963) Live in Copenhagen, 1962. Documentary made in 1962 for the German TV program, An Ort und Stelle: Jazz in Kopenhagen. eaturing Dexter Gordon (ts), Lars Gulin (bar), Sahib Shihab (fl/as), Harold Goldberg (p), Benny Nielsen (b) and drummer Alex Riel. Club scenes at Copenhagen's Jazzhus Montmatre. ired 1963. Radio Bremen, coord. Klaus Lonrenzen. This documentary opens with a train stopping at Copenhagen station. Waiting there are pianist Harold Goldberg, bassist Benny Nielsen and drummer Alex Riel. Lars Gulin gets off the train and they all meet with Gordon and flutist Sahib Shihab. Actress Hanne Borchsenius joins Gordon for awhile. An immaculate love and jazz dream. |
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24th Oct., 2020
THE THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET LIVE IN POLAND (Varsaw, April 1966) "Epistrophy" by Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke "Round midnight" by Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams "Lulu's back in town" by Al Dubin, Harry Warren Personnel: Charlie Rouse, tenor sax; Thelonious Monk, piano; Larry Gales, acoustic double bass; Ben Riley, drums. Recorded in April 1966 in Warsaw. |
This live session (one of two) recorded by the Polish public television in 1966 took place two years before Monk appeared on the cover of Time magazine. 'Everyone who came to meet his plane wore a fur hat, and the sight was too much for him to bear. "Man, we got to have those!" he told his sidemen, and for fear that the hat stores would be closed before they could get to downtown Helsinki ...' http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,873856,00.html
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20th Oct., 2020
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