Hello Friends! First, a general note about this newsletter, Playback with Lewis Porter: I hope you have subscribed, because that way you will always get my posts in your email. You won’t have to check all the time to see if I posted something new. I put things up about twice a week, but not on a regular schedule—I post whenever I have completed some research and it is ready to be shared with you. I have posted maybe 40 items since September 2022, and yet you have only seen a
Just kidding! This is WONDERFUL to see, thank you so much for sharing. Mesmerizing. You can practically hear the music. I think that's a picture of Dizzy behind Dolphy?
I love seeing Dolphy take the bass clarinet mouthpiece out of his mouth between phrases. Then he grabs a breath and dives back in, like a gladiator.
And you sure can see Coltrane playing his heart out, "leaving it all on the stage".
Something tells me the film is running fast, maybe 15%, but a sax player would have a better intuition than I about this.
2024 can't come fast enough! Well, Reference-wise, anyway. Godspeed!
It would be a massive, yet historical, task for someone to couple the film to existing recorded music from this gig. Although difficult but maybe not altogether out of the question?
I had the blessed fortune, coming from Sweden and at 17, to hear the quartet 5 nights running at Birdland in late May-early June ’62. Those nights they did’t share the bill, it was all Trane until early mornings. Euphoria, if you know what I mean.
Are you sure that's Dolphy?
Just kidding! This is WONDERFUL to see, thank you so much for sharing. Mesmerizing. You can practically hear the music. I think that's a picture of Dizzy behind Dolphy?
I love seeing Dolphy take the bass clarinet mouthpiece out of his mouth between phrases. Then he grabs a breath and dives back in, like a gladiator.
And you sure can see Coltrane playing his heart out, "leaving it all on the stage".
Something tells me the film is running fast, maybe 15%, but a sax player would have a better intuition than I about this.
2024 can't come fast enough! Well, Reference-wise, anyway. Godspeed!
Thank you! This is wonderful and then some!
Ooh... should we add our own soundtrack?
This was great. Thanks for posting.
I personally think that JC hired Dolphy is because needed to learn more and what better teacher than EC
Thanks for sharing!
It would be a massive, yet historical, task for someone to couple the film to existing recorded music from this gig. Although difficult but maybe not altogether out of the question?
I had the blessed fortune, coming from Sweden and at 17, to hear the quartet 5 nights running at Birdland in late May-early June ’62. Those nights they did’t share the bill, it was all Trane until early mornings. Euphoria, if you know what I mean.
Eric was such an unbelievable musician. So much to learn from him
Thanks Lewis
Great film clip, Lewis! And it encouraged me to listen to all the 62 material.
Thanks, Gerard