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Vancouver jazz fest special edition playlist

A weekly gleaner of Internet sources and other media
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Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister (1947) by photographer William Gottlieb.
L.A. Times introduces its readers to the 1986 Vancouver jazz festival: http://lat.ms/1erG1Gt.
 
New Orleans music magazine Offbeat documents the showdown at Vancouver jazz fest in ’86: Locking Horns: When Miles Davis Met Wynton Marsalis — http://bit.ly/1IRGnjm.
 
Vancouver jazz fest photos through the years/Chris Cameron photos Coastal Jazz & Blues Society: http://chriscameronjazz.photoshelter.com/gallery-list.
 
Reading list Sun Ra issued his students when he taught a class at Cal Berkeley in the 1970s: http://bit.ly/1BmCraQ.
 
Sun Ra and his Arkestra performing “Face the Music” and “Retrospective” on the NBC show Night Music in 1989, the same year they performed at the Vancouver Jazz Festival: http://bit.ly/1ntdcbG.
 
Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake perform “All About Ronnie” live in Antibes, 1963: http://bit.ly/1FpN4Er.
 
 
Ornette Coleman — A life in pictures: http://bit.ly/1QQna3n.
 
‪Charles Mingus Sextet feat. Eric Dolphy - Take the "A" Train‬ recorded live in Norway, April 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuCbQCnoIzI.
 
Interview with Kathelin Gray re: restoration of Shirley Clarke’s film Ornette: Made in America: http://bit.ly/1LhPpJT.
 
Al Neil Trio performing in 1964 documentary, In Search of Innocence, the only known existing footage of the Cellar Jazz Club: http://bit.ly/1IRMGn3.
 
West Vancouver vocalist Joani Taylor performs “Take Five” featuring Jay Kin: http://bit.ly/1GToykJ.
 
Art Blakey and the Messengers (featuring Lee Morgan and John Gilmore) — Theme for Stacy 1965: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGUP2gdtnGs&index=10&list=PL7m_u69ZSuoUPwcFfDp_C_d37siPs5A1o.
 
Willem Breuker Kollektief 1981 (with Han Bennink on slagwerk) — Jazz Uit De Kroeg — Heavy Days are Here Again: http://bit.ly/1K1d8My.
 
‪John Coltrane Quartet plays on Ralph J. Gleason’s San Francisco public television series, Jazz Casual‬‬, Dec. 7, 1963: http://bit.ly/2tRMlPy.
 
Joni Mitchell performs “Furry Sings The Blues” and “Hejira” on August 29, 1987 as a guest on the premiere of Showtime Coast to Coast with host Herbie Hancock (piano), as well as Bobby McFerrin (vocals), Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone), David Sanborn (alto saxophone) and Larry Klein (bass guitar): http://bit.ly/1GxIN6j.
 
 
Interview with John Orysik, 2015: 30 years of passionate music-making.
 
Thelonious Monk Quartet on Danish TV 1966: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lI8MojtIow.
 
Chicago cellist Tomeka Reid gives budding musicians a taste of jazz in Vancouver high school program.
 
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie perform “Hot House” in 1951: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJYO6_t4d08.
 
Charlie Parker laughing at Coleman Hawkins on BBC4: http://bit.ly/1CfOhOR.