Zu Eager und Cohn* fand ich das hier vorhin schon recht interessant:
I heard Eager several times in-person during his ’80s „comeback.“ The first time he was pretty feeble, like Rip Van Winkle awaking from his long nap; the second time, with Al Cohn as his frontline partner, he was still a bit wispy in terms of technique but otherwise much more together. On the other hand, Al not only was in fantastic form but also seemed determined (and I don’t think this was my imagination) to crush Allen into a powder with the sheer strength of his playing. If so, I thought this might have gone back to episodes from the Eager’s ’40s heyday; I’ve heard that he could behave with insufferable arrogance (especially toward fellow young tenormen) at that time, and Al might have been on the receiving end of some of that shit back then. Another thought that came to mind was that Al might have been playing at Allen like that (if, in fact, he was) as a way of semi-angrily saying to him, „Wake up, man — you’ve pissed away your gift.“
Von Larry Kart hier:
https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/2504-allen-eager-uptown/
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*) nicht Sims, aber da liegt der eine beim anderen nahe 
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