1950s

Charlie Parker

• “Hot House,” with Dizzy Gillespie (1951)
• Recordings of interviews (1950-1954)
• “Four Brothers” (sitting in with Woody Herman Band, 1951)
• birdlives.com

Thelonious Monk

• “Blue Monk,” from The Sound of Jazz, December 8, 1957 (18:10)
• “Don’t Blame Me,” April 17, 1966, Denmark
• Straight No Chaser, 1988, documentary directed by Charlotte Zwerin, produced by Clint Eastwood (part 1)
• “Evidence“: piano trio lead sheet play along
• William Gottlieb photographs (LOC)

Lester Young

• “Pennies from Heaven” (1950)

Miles Davis

• Miles Davis – So What (Official Video)
  • with Introduction
  • Miles Davis & Gill Evans Orchestra – The Duke (Live, 1959) (HQ)
• on Bill Evans
  • Nat Hentoff article on Abbey Lincoln (NYT 2002), quoting Davis on Evans: “I don’t care if he’s purple . . .”
• Miles Davis is Attacked, Beaten & Arrested by the NYPD Outside Birdland, Eight Days After the Release of Kind of Blue (1959)

• Miles Davis Quintet – Live in Rome, 1969

• Miles Davis on 60 Minutes(USA) – 1989 (1:34, “Are Black musicians genetically . . . )

Moanin’ – Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – Live  (“The Kurhaus”, Scheveningen, The Netherlands, November 19, 1958)