timeless
Lee Konitz (1927-2020, alto saxophone), Bill Evans (1929-1980, piano [25:33-]), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (1946-2005, bass), Alan Dawson (1929-1996, drums), live (“What’s New,” “All the Things You Are,” “Detour Ahead,” “My Melancholy Baby”), Paris, 1965
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
So many ideas and so much feeling, so much energy and so much technique—it’s a wonder he doesn’t burst apart at the seams.
Jaki Byard, June 15, 1922-February 11, 1999
Live (with Reggie Workman, bass; Alan Dawson, drums), Germany (Berlin), 1965
Part 1 (“Free Improvisation”)
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Part 2 (with Earl Hines, “Rosetta”)
Want more of Jaki Byard? Here and here (with Charles Mingus).
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In conversation (Cleveland, 1985):
Some performances are so full of energy and ideas and feeling—so full of life—you wish they’d never end.
Sonny Rollins (with Alan Dawson, drums; Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bass); “Oleo” (excerpt), live, Denmark (Copenhagen), 1965
Often, as here, the heart of a jazz performance can be found in the interplay between horn and drums. Listen, for instance, to the way these two play off one another at :44-58.
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More from the same performance (featuring drummer Alan Dawson).
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Where did Tony Williams come from?
He began taking lessons from Alan Dawson, in Boston, when he was eleven years old.
At seventeen, he was playing with Miles Davis.
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