[saruxanset]

You have to see this. Bird with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, etc., in excellent quality: Link

Till now the only known film (or so I thought) of Bird was that short "Hot House" with Dizzy Gillespie, which is also here. 99 clips have been posted by this user: Link

[jessyhalm]

Didn't Clint Eastwood make some movie with Bird in it? I could swore I saw it.... (JOKING!)


And thanks for passing that video along BRian - now I'm NEVER going to get anythign done this sat afternoon!

[Nfvzjvcl]

Wow...

I flicked through the other 98 and found not only the great Adderley sextet but also Los Van Van, possibly my favourite Cuban band, and the lovely late Elis Regina singing the classic Aguas de Marco. Delightful.

Thanks Brian.

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[saruxanset]

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I'm assuming that they wanted to have the music as high fidelity as possible, opting to put their energy into the recording *first*, then put their efforts into making it look good later (a cleaner look without microphones, etc).

I wonder if there are any interwiews with Gjon Mili (the fillmmaker) about this strategy. I'm sure he must of been asked about it a bunch.

From a historical perspective, this was a poor idea. (We have about 300 hours of Gilligan's Island shows but only about 3 minutes of C. Parker.) And from a filmmaker's perspective it looks a bit daffy. But on the other clips you can see musicians yelling at each other, teasing each other, trying to to screw up each other and stuff.