“Melancholy Baby,” semi-forgotten now, was supposedly the song that drunks demanded to hear, much to musicians’ distress. Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker recorded it (with Thelonious Monk on piano) as a semi-gag. Here Bill and Lee take it for a ride in the mid-sixties, with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen on bass and Alan Dawson on drums. Konitz’s album Motion, recorded about the time this video was made, was/is a remarkable album. To my ears, Lee sounded a lot like Ornette Coleman on Motion. But somehow he stopped. Sometimes bad things happen to nice people.
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