Sour Times and atmospheric Roads are particularly beguiling.In 2005, Larry Appelbaum – a now-retired jazz specialist in the Music Division at the Library of Congress – made quite the discovery while rummaging through old Voice of America tapes.
He found reels labelled Carnegie Hall Jazz 1957, the never-broadcast recording of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane's two-set benefit concert on 29th November that year, played in aid of the Morningside Community Center in Harlem.For jazz fans, this discovery was all of their Christmases rolled into one.
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