As far as jazz fans are concerned, Ira Gitler’s liner notes don’t exaggerate when he compares the recent discovery of a recorded 1945 Gillespie-Parker concert to the unearthing of Tutankhamen’s tomb ...
I was at the bar of the Village Vanguard during a set one night a couple of years ago, when the owner, Lorraine Gordon, sidled up to me and whispered in my ear. “Can you watch those two?” she asked, ...