Diving into Sunday with a historic summit meeting. It’s been around – both on video and via radio broadcast, but it’s one of those milestone moments where so much talent was in one place at one time that it blew the roof off Philharmonie Hall in Berlin.
Every one of these Tenor players is a legend in their own right – Ben Webster, Don Byas, Brew Moore, Booker Ervin, Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon – with support from Kenny Drew on piano, Niels-Henning Oersted-Pedersen, bass and Alan Dawson on drums.
The videos that are floating around say the venue was the Sportspalast in Berlin, while this performance comes by way of Philharmonie Hall, also in Berlin – this is also a radio broadcast coming by way of WDR – so there’s either confusion or there is more than one performance, but needless to say it’s one that should be witnessed and wrapped up in and savored.
A good hour-plus to dive into and spend a Summer Sunday with – press play and let go.
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