Pepper - baritone
Zoot Sims - tenor (Zoot is probably most famous for his pairing with Al Cohn and having a saxaphone playing Muppet named after him)
Tommy Flanagan - piano (Saxophone Colossus with Sony Rollins, Giant Steps with Coltrane, several with Kenny Burrell, etc)
Ron Carter - bass (only the most recorded jazz bassist in history)
Elvin Jones - drums (always fun to hear an Elvin and Carter rhythm section)
fun fact: the 1963 album Dakar was initially credited to Pepper but upon reissue was credited to Coltrane.
here are the first and last songs of the album, the rest are mostly slower songs i'm really not in the mood for right now.
I slept last night in a good hotel
I went shopping today for jewels
The wind rushed around in the dirty town
And the children let out from the schools
I was standing on a noisy corner
Waiting for the walking green
Across the street he stood
And he played real good
On his clarinet, for free.
yeah, I just discovered it yesterday. Teared-up, she's so gorgeous and talented.
That whole hour plus documentary is worth a viewing. The festival became sort of adversarial for a minute between some festival-goers and the musicians, because the promoters had fencing and police in place to ensure it didn't become a Woodstock in that regard.
Like the sentiment for some was that it was all corporate. Joni Mitchell seems anything but corporate to me, and she's even advertising in that song, that so many play "real good for free."
that 1st track had to have inspired The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
u know of those cats?
yes, and that's part of the point. GSH was singing about that in the 70's, DHH was rapping about that in the 90's, and here we are 50 years later in the United States of Unconsciousness.