# Jazz fans: Live gigs worth inventing time travel for

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**Created:** [February 16, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-fans-live-gigs-worth-inventing-time-travel-for/155467 "2003-02-16T17:32:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-fans-live-gigs-worth-inventing-time-travel-for/155467/1 "2003-02-16T17:32:59Z")

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We all have a mental list of historic performances we would give a right arm to be able to experience. My top three in no particular order:

Miles Davis - Plugged Nickel December 1965

John Coltrane - Village Vanguard November 1961

Art Pepper - Maiden Voyage August 1981

Any others?

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**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-fans-live-gigs-worth-inventing-time-travel-for/155467/2 "2003-02-16T19:52:16Z")

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After seeing " Jazz on a Summer’s Day " many times ( about the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival) I would have loved to have been there and to have seen it live.

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**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-fans-live-gigs-worth-inventing-time-travel-for/155467/3 "2003-02-16T19:54:53Z")

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The Quintent at Massey Hall - Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Charles MIngus, Bud Powell

Duke Ellington at Newport, 1956

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**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-fans-live-gigs-worth-inventing-time-travel-for/155467/4 "2003-02-16T21:11:38Z")

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Miles Davis and the “Birth of the Cool” band- Royal Roost, 1949

Any Jimmie Lunceford performance, just to see what the fuss was about.

One of Art Tatum’s “garden party” performances

Any of the early 1900’s performances, especially by someone who never recorded (Buddy Bolden) or whose recordings weren’t as good as they could be (Freddie Keppard).