Samples: Cal Tjader Quartet - Jazz at the Blackhawk
Damn, son, you must be old as me. I was listening to Tjader in jr. high. Caught George Shearing at The Blackhawk not long before it closed. Reckon I was 18 with a fake ID. Just missed Miles who recorded there before or after. The Jazz Workshop then became the place in SF for, you guessed it, jazz in the late 60's, early 70's. Saw Sun Ra, Cannonball Adderley, Chico Hamilton with Charles Lloyd and Gabor Szabo, John Handy's most excellent quintet (featuring violinist Mike White), Yusef Lateef, and The Albert Manglesdorf Quintet some years later with the advent of the "avant garde" movement
and John Coltrane's famous quartet numerous times. Dolphy was with him once. One special treat more recently was Meredith Monk at Seventh Ave South in downtown New York with a chorus. Alas, these days, my ticket to admission is my beloved system. Bill Evan's "Live at The Village Vanguard" is spinning as I type and it's an
oooh sooo fine recording. Cheers.
