Music Videos
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Bennie Moten – ‘Band Box Shuffle’
Bennie Moten – pianist, composer and bandleader – was born in Kansas City November 13, 1894 Continue reading
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Video: Robert Altman’s “Moten Swing”
Kansas City native Robert Altman left behind a marvelous body of work, but for us this has to be the cream of the crop. He hired top contemporary jazz musicians to re-create the look, feel and sound of Kansas City in the 1930s. Continue reading
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BBC Jazz 625: Thelonious Monk at the Marquee Club
BBC Jazz 625, the Thelonious Monk Quartet Continue reading
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Joe Henderson Trio: ‘Ask Me Now’
This is a performance of Thelonious Monk’s “Ask Me Now,” off of the album “Solo Monk.” Stuttgart, Germany, 1993. Joe Henderson, a tenor saxophonist, leads the trio, in the rendition. Dave Holland is joining him on bass and drummer Al Foster. Continue reading
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Abdullah Ibrahim: ‘The Mountain / Nisa / Mississippi’
17 October 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Festival de Jazz de San Sebastian 2011. Filmed in Plaza de la Trinidad, Donosti, Spain. Beautiful music Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, piano, Cleave Guyton, alto sax, flute, Keith Loftis , tenor sax, Andrae Murchinson, trombone, Toni Kofi, baritone sax, Belden Bullock, bass, George Gray, drums Continue reading
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Video: F**k the Tories Freestyle
14 October 2013 — New Left Project This is an amazing work. Please republish. Don’t know anything about the artist except that he’s a bin man but will attempt to find out more for your delectation. See NextgenUK. Continue reading
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Three Duke Ellington Classics: Medley – Black and Tan Fantasy/Creole Love Call/The Mooch
16 October 2013 — Jazz on the Tube I think I could have been no more than 13 or perhaps 14 when I bought my first jazz album and it was the 1957 classic, ‘Duke Ellington Presents – The Bethlehem Years Volume 2’ made I think after his epic return to fame at the Continue reading
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Abdullah Ibrahim: ‘Capetown Flower’
Boern on 9 October 1934, Abdullah Ibrahim (formerly known as Dollar Brand), is perhaps one of South Africa’s best known musicians, and this, one of his best known and most beautiful compositions. Continue reading
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Video: UK Column Live Aug 28th: How British MPs Are Being Manipulated into War
This episode was broadcast at 1pm UK on August 28th. After this broadcast, UK Labour opposition appears to have thrown a spanner in David Cameron’s engine of war, changing today’s Commons debate and war vote from a slam dunk to a slightly longer, drawn out affair, as Cameron has opted to drop today’s vote on… Continue reading
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Remembering Richie Havens – ‘Freedom’
Sadly, Richie Havens died last week. Here he is at Woodstock in 1969. Continue reading
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in Tokyo 1961
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Tokyo 1961 – Lee Morgan, trumpet – Wayne Shorter, tenor sax – Bobby Timmons, piano – Jymie Merritt, bass Continue reading
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Miles goes Electric: 'Milestones', 'Footprints', 'Round Midnight'
Antibes 1969. Miles goes electric with, amongst others; Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Continue reading
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk – ‘Misty/I Want to Talk’
Misty/I Want to Talk’ performed by the fantastic Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1972. Continue reading
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Video: How the Pentagon Papers Came to be Published By the Beacon Press Told by Daniel Ellsberg & Others
Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon… Continue reading
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Monk Live in Poland, April 1966
The Thelonious Monk Quartet plays an unusual live performance in Poland featuring “Epistrophy,” “Round Midnight,” and “Lulu’s Back In Town.” Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Ahmad Jamal – ‘Poinciana’
2 July 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Ahmad Jamal is one of my favourite artists and this rendition of the song that made him famous (and was the first album I bought of Jamal) justly celebrates his life. Recorded in 2005 with drummer Idris Muhammad and James Cammack on bass. Continue reading
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Hugh Masekela – 'Coal Train'
Recorded at the Freedom Beat Festival on Clapham Common on June 28, 1986 Continue reading
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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society – 'Brooklyn Babylon — Chapter Five'
Weaving together progressive jazz, early-American popular styles, Balkan folk musics, and the sounds of Brooklyn’s diverse contemporary music scene — from the dance-punk of LCD Soundsystem and experimental indie rock of Dirty Projectors to Missy Mazzoli’s blend of post-rock and quirky minimalism — Argue creates a vividly evocative musical narrative that is at once timeless… Continue reading
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Fania Allstars with Celia Cruz Live in Africa
The greatest Salsa band to come out of Nueva York! Recorded in Kinshasa, Congo in 1974 as part of Mohammed Ali’s ‘Rumble in the Jungle’. One and a half hours of fantastic music. Continue reading
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Celia Cruz, Ray Barreto & Adalberto Santiago Salsa en Nueva York – 'Nadie Se Salva de la Rumba'
3 June 2013 — Latin Jazz on the Tube Saludos Salseros y Salseras del Perú y del mundo este es un espacio dedicado a la Salsa, donde podras encontrar ultimas noticias, musica, videos y todo lo relacionado con el genero que nos apasiona. Continue reading
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