Hey Coltrane fans, got a million bucks?

[democracyindanger]

http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/ap/20050119/110614962000.html

A treasure trove of jazz memorabilia including saxophones that belonged to Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet and a gown that Peggy Lee wore when she sang "Fever" will go on the auction block next month...

...Among the items to be sold are a 27-page letter handwritten by Louis Armstrong, a smoking jacket worn by Thelonious Monk, an unreleased tape of a 1951 performance by Parker and original Al Hirschfeld caricatures...

...Ettinger estimated that Parker's sax and Coltrane's tenor sax each could sell for as much as $1 million...

I'd prefer Monk's smoking jacket, m'self, but that's just me.

[mr_hat]

1. No, but I did shell out

$15 for Wynton Marsallis' live dvd of "A Love Supreme."

Highly recommnded for all non-prissy purists.

[gottaB]

3. Now I'm going to check out Branford's version, then Wynton's

My prejudice is towards Branford. We'll see.

[democracyindanger]

4. Cripes, they BOTH did versions?

[gottaB]

5. I'm sensing a bit of sibling rivalry....

Yeah, Branford's was first.

[BurtWorm]

2. You know how to wind up with $1 million as a jazz impressario, right?

Start with $10 million. ;)