At the Town Hall concert, the musicians were free to play the tunes - "Bebop," "Groovin' High," "Hot House," "A Night in Tunisia" and "Salt Peanuts," all jazz anthems by the end of that year but at the time still unknown - for twice as long, and at a furious tempo. Solos went on for two minutes or more, and they're blazing - Diz scaling heights on trumpet, Bird hitting speeds on alto sax, that no one had heard before. The studio recordings, great as they are, sound mellow, even quaint, by comparison.
Man, I'll take one of those!
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 31 July 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)
But yeah, the SPEED of this stuff .. 1945 .. man, it's like Bebop emerged fully-formed right from the womb.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 31 July 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 1 August 2005 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 1 August 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)