Hey - I was a wannabe drummer & grew up in Chicago & I used to go to the Sunday matinee shows with my older cousin starting in 1956 - the Modern Jazz Room on Randolph & State & the Blue Note on Clark & Madison. Admission was $1.50 at both clubs and you got a couple of soft drinks. Caught Getz Quartet @ the ModernJazzRoom & got their autographs but I can't remember anything for some reason. I don't remember the Birdcage but I remember the Birdhouse that was on Clark & either Division or Chicago Ave. Saw Blakey's Jazz Messengers & Coltran's band there. Did you see Getz there? When you saw Getz at the Civic was it in 1957 with JJ Johnson? Was it a JATP concert? Ever go to McKee's or the Bee Hive or the Pershing Room on the south side?

I did see Getz with JJ Johnson and I do remember Stan playing, "It never entered my mind" I believe Oscar and Ray Brown were also there. I saw the Miles Davis Quintet at the Civic Opera House a few years later also Ken Nordine with word Jazz. The Birdcage was in the loop and served only soft drinks....Cecil Payne opened for Stan that night and I actually shook Stan's hand and remember it being very soft. I went to Tuley High School and use to listen to WCFL with Sid McCoy at night playing Jazz.

MrJazzohjazz I listened to jazz on the radio too when I was a teen in Chicago, Sid McCoy on AM at night when I was riding around like teens do at night & Dick Buckly on FM when at home. After I wrote I never heard of the Birdcage I recalled that I did hear of it but thought it was a small club on Rush St. & not downtown. I went to the Sunday matinees almost every week - Basie Ellington Brubeck Adderley Krupa Miles Getz Baker JJ Johnson Rollins Roach Stitt Coltrane and have forgotten many others. I think that concert you went to at the Civic if it was in '57 it's available on CD & it is in my opinion one of the 5 greatest jazz albums ever & it does have 'It never entered my mind' a ballad featuring just Getz -the album is titled 'Stan Getz & JJ Johnson at the Opera House 1957' & if you search it here you'll probably find some tunes posted.

MrJazzohjazz Fantastic trivia. This is why I read the comments. For the history man....

...they sound comes from the Getz' s soul....not the Selmer....

lol way to make it into an advertisement at the end

or just sit back with a cognac and enjoy the sound.

I agree.....!!!

Check the record with René Thomas

Thanks Roland ! The b5 (Eb) is the sub for A (the 5th),in the key of D minor which this tune is usually played.I'm always afraid to discuss such depths.