Jazz Mystery

I learned about the following rare and recently recovered jazz recording in a book I am reading by Michael Connelly, Echo Park. http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=10459

Apparently, in January of 2005, jazz archivist Larry Applebaum was digitally transferring the Library of Congress' Voice of America collection when he found some tapes marked “sp. Event 11/29/57 carnegie jazz concert (#1),” with one of the tapes barring the sole marking “T. Monk.” He listened to the tapes and recognized them as a rare, and previously completely unknown, recording of the collaboration between John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk at a concert in Carnegie Hall.

The story of the jazz tapes and Applebaum's opportune discovery of them plays into the background of Connelly's crime mystery in interesting ways (one of the reasons I like Connelly; he always gives you a little more than you expected from a detective novel). The above link from Blue Note records describes the discovery of the tapes and allows you to listen to a couple tracks from the recordings. The story behind the tapes' discovery adds to the mystique behind these recordings. I'm not a huge jazz listener, but I enjoyed listening to these tracks.