Recent acquisitions

Even while living on the cheap, a gal needs to soak up some entertainment here and there. This evening, I managed to stumble upon a collection of 50 musicals, mostly from the 1930s and 1940s, for $20. A lot of them were just excuses to feature some simply amazing jazz performers, variety show style. I also nabbed a 2-DVD set of old Zorro TV episodes for $2.50. If I played everything back to back, I'd have over four straight days' worth of stuff to watch. Even if I were a four hour a day couch potato (which I'm not), that would mean almost a month's worth of watching at just half the cost of cable. Neat-o!

Cannonball Adderley - Jive Samba (ca. 1963)

This video from 1963 was quite possibly recorded live at Studio G by TBS TV on July 7. It features:

Cannonball Adderley - alto sax
Nat Adderley - cornet
Yusef Lateef - flipping from tenor sax, to oboe and flute
Joe Zawinul - piano
Sam Jones - bass
Louis Hayes - drums

Charles Mingus Sextet - Live in Norway, 1964 Part 3

That's Eric Dolphy wailing away there. This is just amazing stuff. Better than caffeine, even.