The 69th Monterey Jazz Festival ends today with Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter billed as a duo, which the festival says is the first time they have appeared anywhere that way, on the hundredth anniversary of Miles Davis's birth, and with Charles Lloyd playing the sixtieth anniversary of Forest Flower on the same stage at six. Today's record is "The First Day," the Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis session Blue Note lists first in its own catalog, and then Sekou takes us into the small New York studio Alfred Lion rented for a single day in January 1939. | The Lead: The 69th Monterey Jazz Festival ends today, and it ends with Herbie Hancock, 86, and Ron Carter, 89, billed as "For Miles" on the Jimmy Lyons Stage at a quarter to eight, which the festival calls the first time they have appeared anywhere as a duo, on the hundredth anniversary of Miles Davis's birth. At six the printed grid puts the Charles Lloyd Quartet on the same stage for the sixtieth anniversary of Forest Flower, dedicated to Jack DeJohnette, and at a quarter past seven The Bad Plus play what the festival bills their farewell tour. Listen to This: "The First Day," Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, the session Blue Note lists first in its own catalog: Alfred Lion heard the two pianists at John Hammond's Spirituals to Swing concert on December 23rd, 1938, and two weeks later started a label by cutting nine Ammons solos, eight by Lewis and a pair of heated duets in a single day. The Bridge: New York, 1939, a small studio rented for a single day, two boogie-woogie pianists, and a man who had never made a record. Blue Note Records dates its founding to that session. On the Road: Birdland in New York gives the world premiere of Ed Neumeister's NeuNeuNonet at half past five, nine players strong, with Matt Wilson's Good Trouble and the Birdland Latin Jazz Orchestra behind it. Plus David Garfield's seventieth birthday at Catalina in Los Angeles, Alicia Witt's album release at the Dakota in Minneapolis, and the last of four nights with the Isaiah Spencer Quartet at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago. One More Note: September 27th, 1924: Bud Powell is born in New York, and the Library of Congress keeps the date in its own catalog. The Paris years are the ones with film on them, and Rutgers holds it, over twenty hours shot by Francis Paudras, who lived with Powell in a Paris apartment and filmed him with a home movie camera. | The Daily Quintet is an AI-crafted production, researched and checked by humans. Every listing you hear came from the venue or the festival's own organizer.
