Das läuft heute seit Stunden, manche Sessions/Tracks in Schleife … faszinierend, aber ob das „essentiell“ oder ist im Vergleich mit der alten Bird-Box mit dem ganzen Verve-Material kann ich momentan überhaupt nicht sagen, dazu müsste ich die Sessions komplett anhören. Aber darauf habe ich keine Lust, diese Doppel-CD genügt für den Moment völlig, und sie macht Spass. Keine Frage, nur ein Grossmeister haut solche Alternate Takes raus (die jeweiligen Master Takes sind auch mit dabei, derselbe Approach wie beim Miles Davis Bootleg-Set, zu dem ich auch nochmal will die nächsten Tage).
[Danny] Bank, who died in 2010, told me in 2006. “And we were very friendly. . . . We used to live in the same hotel . . . on 54th Street [in New York], the musicians’ hangout . . . the Alvin Hotel. He had a room on the same floor that I had.
“One night I was practicing something by Hindemith—the woodwind quintet: boomp, baba-bada-bada-boomp. . . . You know that? It’s a very famous clarinet passage. Then later that night, at about 2 in the morning, I figured I’d go down to Birdland, on Broadway there, where Bird was playing; you know, once you play in Birdland, you get a free [admission] for life. So as I walked in, Bird stopped—and started to play just what I played in the hotel room: duck! daga-diga-diga-duck, diga-da, da. Perfect!
“He had a perfect ear, you know; he could play anything, in any key. I tell my students: There’ll never be another somebody like him, for a hundred years. Nobody can get even close.”
von hier: http://www.wsj.com/articles/more-bebop-from-bird-1468436966
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"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #164: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv, 10.6., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tba