Ornette Coleman on Nov. 14 Sunday, not Nov. 19

[Wayne Johnson]

Well, Mike.  You are a lucky bastard.  I have a friend in Kansas whose dad 
would take him to listen to King Oliver in Chicago....in the Midway Gardens 
(the long gone Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.)   He probably heard some 
early Armstrong there too.

Others I have known report that they actually heard Zero Mostel as Teve.

Some people have all the luck.

Closest I can get is that once we saw Angela Lansbury and Len Carious live 
in Sweeny Todd off Broadway.

wj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@hotpop.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:48 PM
Subject: Ornette Coleman on Nov. 14 Sunday, not Nov. 19


> We used to have all the early Ornette LP albums. To our
> ear his early stuff is as classic as Coltrane. The sidemen
> I remember from him playing at the Five Spot were Don
> Cherry on trumpet and Charlie Haden on bass. I dont
> remember the drummer which according to the Internet
> would have to have been Ed Blackwell or Billy Higgins,
> at least on the records but maybe, just maybe there was
> NO drummer in the live sets. Seems hard to believe but
> Coleman did everything differently. I gotta check on this.
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> I do seem to remember Coleman playing a weird white
> colored plastic saxophone. This would have been around
> 1968.
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> As for Miles in the 1958 period, I count myself blessed
> or at least very lucky to have heard him that winter at a
> black night club on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. I do
> remember our table as being the only white table there
> and I remember the perfectly fitted tan fawn colored 3
> piece suit he wore. He didnt look at the audience there
> either. That band  would have probably had John
> Coltrane on tenor but as I didnt know squat about jazz at
> the time, I will never know if I heard Coltrane live or not.
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> As for $45, it isnt $45, its $20 which in these days
> seems pretty cheap. As the house wont be full
> (who the hell knows from Ornette Coleman in Austin?)
> it will be my pleasure to infiltrate from the $20 section
> to the $35 or $45 sections or win a free pair from KUT.
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