Just randomly stumbled on this thread from a search for Dolphy.
Unbelievable performance. I would actually KILL REAL PEOPLE to have witnessed Trane and Dolphy playing live. McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones are so awesome here as well.
I have barely listened to anything else besides Coltrane over the last 3 days but My Favourite Things stands out as one of my personal favourites. I despise musicals as a rule and never thought I'd love a Rogers and Hammerstein composition so much
Also, Fins, did you ever get round to listening to the Olatunji Concert?
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
I'd never heard that, in fact, I don't know any Coltrane other than Kind Of Blue.
That was brilliant.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKDAbp9m5yw
Has there ever been a virtuoso in popular music, as completely in command of an instrument as Dolphy? Apart from Art Tatum, maybe?
Here's an old-fashioned virtuoso:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPcnGrie__M
Yes! It's his jazz reconstruction of Dvorak. Only someone of Tatum's skill could get away with that!
Here's Dick Hyman's attempt to explain some of the basics of Tatum's approach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQoiTxx1mDM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKgVtH8qgOA&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEl87kax7_Y&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw11vYrd0J4&mode=related&search=
I play the orchestra part with people sometimes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRHlZho5xm8&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqxWuCXmbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84wjmbrE0pg&mode=related&search=
Unbelievable performance. I would actually KILL REAL PEOPLE to have witnessed Trane and Dolphy playing live. McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones are so awesome here as well.
I have barely listened to anything else besides Coltrane over the last 3 days but My Favourite Things stands out as one of my personal favourites. I despise musicals as a rule and never thought I'd love a Rogers and Hammerstein composition so much
Also, Fins, did you ever get round to listening to the Olatunji Concert?
That was brilliant.