great youtube clip - hank jones, ray brown, bird, prez, hawk etc

[oliebrice]

have a look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MVGxY-mnz4

trio of Hank Jones, Ray Brown and Buddy Rich, accompanying first Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker, then Lester Young, Bill Harris, Harry Eddison, Flip Phillips and Ella! some sort of JATP thing presumably...

[oliebrice]

this ones even better, brought tears to my eyes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n20GuVWoRVk

billie holliday singing the blues with a band including prez, ben webster, coleman hawkins, mal waldron, milt hinton...