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The only improvement I could wish for on this would be Coleman Hawkins blowing tenor sax. (Never mind that he died in 1969).

She looked better tonight when she performed at a blues/jazz jam session and soul food buffet at the local Elks Lodge in South Chicago (51st & Prairie). She is a little thinner now and wore an outrageous tie-dyed dress and straight bleached hair. I sat in as the 2nd keyboard player and she messe...

Great performance! She did just as well tonight at my local Elks Club Lodge here on Chicago's South Side

I met Holle tonight at a blues/jazz jam session at my local Elks Lodge. She looked great, wearing an outrageous tie-dyed dress and long bleached hair. I sat in as the 2nd keyboard player, and she got in my face, provoking me to play some wild blues licks while I kept wishing my wife was in the ...

Horrible audio and video, but I was glad to see my buddies George Fielder on drums, Waynezo on Guitar, Edmond Holmes on trumpet, Mr. Blackwell on tenor sax, Fred Key on upfright bass, Al on alto, Clarence and George Ewing on flute. I wish I had been there., but you already had a token white ba...

Thanks for uploading. I enjoyed seeing and hearing my friends. But why upside-down?

Who is playing with Hawkins on this one? The piano player doesn't sound like Monk at all & reminds me of Teddy Wilson. It's not a Monk tune, either.

Glad to see Jack DeJohnette and Cecil McBee (from the classic Charles Lloyd quartet of 1966) stoking the fires underneath Michel.

Sun Ra wrote this tune in Chicago in the 1950s, almost 20 years before he and his Arkestra moved to Philly

Thanks for posting a great version of Sun Ra's "A Call For All Demons".

This isn't just Sun Ra's "A Call For All Demons", which is a spacey blues. It starts out with Sun Ra's "Saturn", which was in his book since the mid-1950s. "A Call For All Demons" starts just before 4 minutes into the video.

This was the first song play by Sun Ra I ever heard, back in 1977 when I found the album "Nubians of Plutonia" in the $1.99 cutout bin. I now have close to 100 Sun Ra albums and enjoy playing in a band her on Chicago's south side with a couple of musicians who played with Sun Ra over 50 years a...

I thought the bass player started sounding better right after he threw his sheet music on the floor. Good performance of one of my favorite tunes!

Is the tenor player John Gilmore, on sabbatical from the Sun Ra Arkestra? This must have been one of of Lee Morgan's last appearances with the Jazz Messengers.

Miles plays only organ here.(not electric piano) This was a Columbia studio session from March 30, 1976, with Miles' regular band from 1975 and a keyboard player (Mark Johnson?) added.

@sheldons7 This is the version reissued on Moondog's "The Viking of Sixth Avenue" compilation I think this was originally on his 1969 Columbia LP. He recorded again at a faster tempo on his 1994 release :Sax Pax for a Sax"

@Jakedyt1 Moondog was blind from age 16 on, but was never really homeless. He rented an apartment for most of his years as an eccentric Viking-clad street musician in Manhattan and spent the last 20+ years of his life in Germany

Thanks! This works as well for cellos as with saxophones. I've been listening to several versions of Moondog's recordings of this song repeatedly today.

Charlie Parker always wanted to meet Igor Stravinsky, and Moondog would have introduced the two of them if Bird hadn't died so young.

Fantastic video! Thomas Chapin was my high school classmate who introduced me to the music of Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Rahsaan would dig this, too.

@the731272 Actually, this is a Seagate ST-4096 MFM drive. 1024 cylinders, 9 heads, 17 sectors/track. Most 386 PCs had a preset hard drive type for this. Sometimes the ST-4096 could be low-level formatted at 26 sectors per track with an RLL contoller (type 1 in BIOS) to get about 116 MB. Back ...

I saw the hard drive identified as a Seagate ST-250R, one of the slowest and least reliable drives Seagate ever made. The ST-11R controller was capable of low level formatting this drive with 31 sectors per track. Normal MFM drives were low-level formatted to 17 sectors per track. RLL drives ...

I met Pete this summer at the memorial service of a tuba player Pete played with in the late 60s. What a great guy! Pete's Mom was a favorite of the tuba player and lots of other musicians through the years. She is still alive at 100 years old!