Incredible!

oh my gAWD! I HAVE A SMILE ON MY FACE THE SIZE OF UTAH!  
so fcuken good....rarely does something kill ya like this.  
wayne AND ms alex - god bless charlie parker wherever thou art - ....bad! bad!! bad!!! 
i am laughing at how good and REAL this is...doubling the sax lines! who woulda thot......i gotta go and practice a whole bunch more.  
simply - enthralling performance! YHVH!!

I'm still recovering from hearing it... amazing performance.. I swear that whole band have taken huge amounts of cocaine though before the performance.. !! LOL.. (nev)

I talked to Wayne a couple days ago for about an hour or so and after discussing family and our favorite NBA teams (he was a Pistons fan like me when he was in Detroit but he's had his nose up the Lakers butts since he moved in '80), and the fires raging all around his neighborhood and on and on, he told me about this 20 year old footage that turned up on YouTube of him and Alex blazing away. If you think what you see and hear is amazing get a load of this: Wayne had written out every single note of the solo and he handed the chart to Alex and the next day - THE NEXT DAY! - she walked into the club and performed what that video captured. That blows my mind. What a break that PBS was on hand to record it. I even have to give some props to YouTube for this. I don't imagine this would have ever been seen without it. I'll see if I can get Wayne to pop on by and say hello.

Hey Paul, and everyone - thanks for the kind words! Yeah, it took me forever to write out that solo! if I remember correctly, it's three different Bird solos I put together. Alex nailed it in 24 hours, I figured it would take six weeks! I'm still plugging away in Southern California, but it's getting harder these days. I'm mostly doing recording sessions and casuals, not much club work at all. I may have to get a real job one of these days! Wait - Naaaa! Bye the way, YouTube also has the video of "The Summer of 42", recorded the same day.

Please mother, make them stop! 
 
Ha ha.

Can i just add i've had that scat in my head for two days now and i can't get rid of it !! surgery maybe... i'm off to listen to some hard core/emo/thrash/heavy metal/screamo/grunge/hard rock/speed metal/acid jazz crossover to see if that helps...

Wow Wayne Wayne! What an incredible blast from the past to see you and Alex again (even if it was a recording). I'm glad to hear you are still giging. I miss all my old friends since I moved to the East Coast. I was back to the Quiet woman last month on a quick visit they still have entertainment most nights you should talk to Lynn your talent should not be wasted on casuals! What is Alex up to these days?

Hi Liz, Alex is back in Southern CA, after a long stay in the bay area, but is not singing much, as far as I know. Hope all is well! Take care, WW

For the record: PBS didn't record this video. A guy named Myles Brashear took the money out of his pocket, maybe $20,000, to record a 60 minute video. He thought jazz was dying and wanted to do something about it. He then offered it to PBS, and they showed it nation - wide. Alex Taylor was a guest on this one song. The rest is the house band playing bop and fusion. My favorite thing on the video is "Loma", by guitarist Bob Moore, (another guest). I play flute and piccolo on this samba,and it's BURNING! The video was called: Jazz Stars of the Future, and is listed in the Library of Congress Jazz Videos, somewhere. I would provide the URL, but who gives a ----. WW