Thelonious Monk trio, 1952, 1954.

Monk in Stockholm 1961, photo by Robert Parent.

Photo of Özlem Özgür from the "Özünü Ara" record with her dedication, approximately translated: "To my big brother Lars with love and respect." Signed by Özlem, who plays her baglama/saz (sort of bouzoki) and sings songs out of the Turkish folk music treasure from as far back as the 13:th century. Discography and video:    Özlem Özgür

Discography:  Dizzy Gillespie Live at Carnegie Hall 1947.

Max Roach - drums, Booker Little - trumpet, George Coleman -      tenor sax, Ray Draper - tuba, Art Davis - bass. From the 1959 TV      broadcast Look Up and Live: The Delinquent, the Hipster, and      the Square produced by the National Council of Churches. Also      including a depiction of a beat poetry reading. The tune played      is Booker Little's Minor Mode Blues. Max Roach's legacy -      papers etc., material for a regrettably never edited book, is now      to be seen at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. John      Coltrane considered Little the only trumpet player who      could really play the kind of thing Coltrane had in mind.      Discography:     Booker Little, 1938-1961      Play on YouTube:  The many sides of Max Roach, w. Booker Little

 As videos on YouTube tend to disappear from time to time due to copyright
 infringements, I prefer to list some other special discographies/biographies here:

    Eric Dolphy, 1928-1964

    John Coltrane, 1926-1967

    Albert Ayler, 1936-1970

    Abbey Lincoln, 1930-2010



Discography:     Charles Mingus, 1922-1979

This concert by the Charles Mingus sextet is from Town Hall, NYC, April 1964, though the record cover of
this French release erroneously says it to be recorded at Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis.

The above Charlie Parker LP is a compilation from 4 different sessions by Archive of Folk Music, Jazz Series.
This release from 1959 (indicated by the liner notes) contains 5 tunes from May 1950 featuring 'Fats' Navarro
and 'Bud' Powell, later released on Columbia in 1977 as part of One Night In Birdland. The Archive record
has a considerably better sound, as many tunes are transcribed from worn 78's by splicing, editing and adjusting.
As many as 500 splices may have been made in a single recording. Other Parker record covers (Swedish text).

     

Parker, Powell, Curly Russell and the powerhouse Art Blakey in Monk's 'Round Midnite'. Navarro out.
The microphone seems to be moved from Bird to Bud after Bud's started soloing. Bud could be magical,
especially in ballads like "I Remember Clifford", remembering Clifford Brown, who died in a car accident
together with Bud's younger brother Richie. Prokofiev went to New York to listen to Bud Powell.

     

Bud Powell, Curly Russell and Art Taylor in Bud's Un Poco Loco and Oblivion live at Birdland, NY, 1953.
Beware of the very weak sound. Connect your computer through a DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) to
your stereo amplifier and good loudspeakers or earphones. Then turn up the sound volume to a decent level.

Before the LP's came the EP's (therefore in some cases more original recording sources):

Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition including Chico Freeman (bcl), John Purcell (fl; as (in the coda)), Peter Warren (b) and Jack DeJohnette (piano, drums) playing John Coltrane's India live. This concert introduced me to the then new generation of jazz musicians. A few years later, on June 10, 1982, I had the pleasure to see Special Edition on the Montmartre scene in Copenhagen with David Murray replacing Chico Freeman. Talking to John Purcell in the intermission I realised that they would make a concert on the following week in Barcelona ... Which happened to be on the same week that I had booked my family on a hotel at the Costa Brava. The day after that concert I bought a newspaper with the review: "Jack DeJohnette offered a night of excellent jazz". Chico Freeman returned to Montmartre in May 31, 1984, with his own group including Mark Thompson on piano, Cecil McBee on bass and the sparsely recorded drummer Freddie Waits. A performance by this Chico Freeman quartet.