Music Videos
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Herbie Hancock – ‘The Spook Who Sat By The Door’ – 1973
The film is about a Black CIA agent who takes his CIA training and goes back to his hometown of Chicago to train gang members into a revolutionary army that will go toe to toe with US forces. The film was so incendiary that the FBI went around to theater owners screening the film and… Continue reading
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messenger: ‘Dat Dere’
The incredible Jazz Messengers with Lee Morgan. Blakey was the drummer I tried to emulate as a teenager. Fat chance! Continue reading
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Charles Mingus ‘Flowers for a Lady’ (1974)
Charles Mingus (bass), Dannie Richmond (drums), Don Pullen (piano), George Adams (tenor sax), Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax) play “Flowers for a Lady” at the Umbria Jazz Festival, Todi, Italy on July 28, 1974. Continue reading
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The Classic Miles Davis Quintet
10 April 2011 — Jazz on the tube Stockholm 1963. Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony Williams. Continue reading
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Sidney Bechet ‘St.Louis Blues’
Bechet, in Paris with a French orchestra. Date unknown but probably the 1940s. Continue reading
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Monty Alexander ‘No woman no cry’
The Monty Alexander Trio performing a Bob Marley classic, “No Woman No Cry.” Continue reading
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Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker ‘Bank Robbery’
The Hot Spot is a 1990 American drama film directed by Dennis Hopper and based on the 1952 book Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams. It stars Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and Jennifer Connelly, and features a score by Jack Nitzsche played by John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal and Roy Rogers. Continue reading
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And the king of all, Sir Duke By Chris Searle
Mike Westbrook is nothing less than a British jazz genius, an utter original and virtuoso of the big band as well as much smaller groups. Continue reading
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Mike Westbrook – ‘Metropolis 9’
Excellent British writer, arranger, producer. Westbrook’s led an innovative big band for a number of years, through the 60s and into the 70s. Continue reading
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Phil Ranelin Live in Paris
Phil Ranelin & Tribe “Livin’ In A New Day” Paris 2009 Kicking live performance http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xav5kaCARL CRAIG & TRIBE "Livin' In A New Day" Paris… by NujazzSpirit Continue reading
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“Vibes from the Tribe” by Phil Ranelin and the Tribe
Great album! From the 1970s, Detroit. See Ranelin 40 years later here, live. Still kicking butt. Continue reading
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Dailymotion – CARL CRAIG & TRIBE “Livin’ In A New Day” Paris 2009 – a Music video
TRIBE who performed with the producer CARL CRAIG in Paris during the Jazz à la Villette Festival on September 10th, 2009. http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xav5ka?autoPlay=1 Continue reading
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Phil Ranelin, featuring Big Black ~ Caravan
Excellent live performance! Phil Ranelin Live @ LACMA 2007. Big Black – djembe Don Littleton – drums James Leary – bass Tigren Hamasyan – piano Zane Musa – alto sax Videography – Amin EL Continue reading
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Jon Hendricks feat André Minvielle au Duc des Lombards
The vastly underrated Jon Hendricks, in a live set. Continue reading
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Jon Hendricks and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – Soul for Sale
The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, led by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, play the tune “Soul for Sale”, featuring Jon Hendricks on vocals. The selection is part of Wynton’s Pulitzer-winning jazz epic about slavery, “Blood on the Fields”. Broadcast in the summer of 1997 on a fantastic but short-lived PBS show called “Sessions at West 54th”. Continue reading
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Bill Withers ‘I Can’t Write Left-Handed’
The inimicable Bill Withers in a live performance from 1973 Continue reading
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Duke Ellington ‘Caravan’
Duke Ellington’s orchestra playing Juan Tizol’s Caravan. Juan Tizol, trombone player, co-wrote the song with Ellington. 1952. Continue reading
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Steve Gadd Band ‘Praise’
3 April 2011 — Jazz on the Tube The Steve Gadd Band performs “Praise,” recorded in 1985 for “Jazz in Concert” with Steve Gadd – Drums; Eddie Gomez – Bass; George Young – Reeds Warren Bernhard – Keys; Ack Van Rooyen – Trumpet. Continue reading
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Thelonious Monk ‘Straight No Chaser ‘- Jazz 625
BBC Jazz 625, Monk plays ‘Straight No Chaser’ with Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales and Ben Riley. Continue reading
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