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My tribute
I played almost three solid hours of Elvin on my jazz show Sunday. (With the exception of two selections from new releases, Chris Potter's Lift and John Scofield's EnRoute.) Some of the albums I hit: Sonny Rollins' Village Vanguard, Tyner's Trident, Murray's Special Quartet, Henderson's Inner Urge, Grant Green's Solid, Three Card Molly from Jones' Earth Jones, McLaughlin's After The Rain, Shorter's Speak No Evil. Only two Coltrane quartet pieces, though (from Coltrane and Crescent). I didn't even get to everything I wanted to play - I missed Hubbard's Ready For Freddy and Barney Kessel's Feeling Free, and didn't even play anything from Puttin' It Together or The Ultimate. And I had planned to play the Coltrane duet Vigil from Kulu Se Mama, but it didn't happen. (I wanted to hit some earlier Elvin, and took a cut from Jimmy Forrest's All The Gin Is Gone.) And unfortunately, Joe Farrell's Outback was unavailable to me. (Damn it! When is that being reissued!)
I got to acknowledge Steve Lacy as well, starting the show with something from Reflections. I'll do him justice next time.
I just found out about Elvin's death LAST WEEK. I'll have to seek out jazz obits from now on, since apparently even Elvin Jones' death doesn't rate news coverage.
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