# +bonus (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover +bonus. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ron McClure: Seeing Miles Davis and Meeting Coltrane—An Extra Chapter](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/ron-mcclure-seeing-miles-davis-and) _2026-08-15 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ \[The well-known bassist Ron McClure is my friend and neighbor on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ## [Wardell Gray with Billy Eckstine & Sonny Criss: An Unissued Radio Broadcast!](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/wardell-gray-with-billy-eckstine) _2026-08-09 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ There is a substantial website, by Stuart Varden and our friend James Accardi, devoted to the beloved saxophonist Wardell Gray (1921-1955). If you click on the discography tab there, you will see an annotated listing of every recording of Gray. A number of items, mostly isolated numbers from radio broadcasts, are marked “unissued.” Today you will get to hear a complete broadcast that has never… ## [Freddie Hubbard Audio Interview with Dan Morgenstern, 1 of 2 (+Bonus)](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/freddie-hubbard-audio-interview-with) _2026-08-01 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ (For paying subscribers, below you’ll find the Downbeat issue of December 1, 1966 where the printed version of this interview appeared, along with an article on Johnny Hodges and a blindfold test with Bill Cosby—long before anybody knew what we now know about him.) ## [Sonny Rollins, In Memoriam: The Rarest Print Interview](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/sonny-rollins-in-memoriam-the-rarest) _2026-07-25 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ With the recent passing of Sonny Rollins (1930-2026), we have lost one of the great masters in the history of music. ## [Stuff Smith Performs & Talks on Paul Whiteman's Show, Unissued—Guest Post by Anthony Barnett (+Bonus Audio)](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/stuff-smith-performs-on-paul-whitemans) _2026-07-19 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ (Paying Subscribers, you will find a rare Stuff Smith 8-minute radio broadcast at the bottom, featuring wild violin and Jonah Jones’s flamboyant trumpet.) ## [Tadd Dameron & Fats Navarro: A Complete Recording Date w Unissued Takes & A Mistitled Song, 2 of 2 (+Bonus Transcriptions)](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/tadd-dameron-and-fats-navarro-a-complete-b9a) _2026-07-11 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ (Paying Subscribers, your bonus this time is a book of 42 Fats Navarro solos, transcribed by Boston-based trumpeter Peter Kenagy. Even for non-musicians, transcriptions are helpful as guides for following the recorded music.) ## [Tadd Dameron & Fats Navarro: A Complete Recording Date with Unissued Takes, 1 of 2](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/tadd-dameron-and-fats-navarro-a-complete) _2026-07-04 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ These materials were uncovered by the late researcher and radio host Phil Schaap (1951-2021), during a period when he was working in the Savoy Records archives. ## [Jack Teagarden Audio Oral History, 4: Boyhood Photo & Tales of Wingy Manone (+Bonus Book)](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/jack-teagarden-audio-oral-history-2b9) _2026-06-28 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ (For Paying Subscribers, you will find below a PDF of the complete 274-page autobiography of Wingy Manone, a book that is very entertaining as well as historically valuable!) ## [Charlie Parker: Dating His Solo Recording of "Honey & Body"—Guest Post by John Purcell, with Carl Woideck](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/charlie-parker-dating-his-solo-recording) _2026-06-20 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ \[John Purcell is a Boston alto saxophonist with a lifelong interest in Charlie Parker and his music, and a Founding Member of this Playback. ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5Ym2t141s03z) _2026-06-20 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [Ornette Coleman: Rare Print Interview with John Litweiler, 2 of 2](https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/ornette-coleman-rare-print-interview-cda) _2026-06-14 · Lewis Porter · Playback with Lewis Porter!_ Last time we read the first part of this interview of Ornette Coleman by John Litweiler, a jazz journalist based in Chicago.