Music Videos
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Cedar Walton: 'Body and Soul'
Loved this pianist ever since I first heard him with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. The Cedar Walton Trio consisting of Cedar Walton (piano), David Williams (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums) performs live at Heineken Jazzaldia in 2005. Continue reading
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Video: Gilad Atzmon & the OHE 'Songs Of The Metropolis'
10 January 2013 — Youtube A film by Tali Atzmon Gilad Atzmon & the OHE Songs Of The Metropolis. Some of Gilad’s wonderful music plus his musings on ‘multi-culturalism’ etc. Continue reading
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Music Video: Mike Stern – 'All Heart'
10 January 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Guitarist Mike Stern performs with David Sanborn (sax), Lincoln Goines (bass), and Dennis Chambers (drums). Continue reading
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Video: Happy Birthday Max Roach 'Live at Blues Alley'
Maxwell Lemuel Roach was born on January 10, 1924 in the Township of Newland, North Carolina and moved to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn when he was four years old. Max began playing bugle at a young age and was playing drums with gospel groups by the time he was ten years old. Continue reading
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Video: Celebrating Kenny Clarke – 'Blues Riff'
The Kenny Clarke Band performs his composition “Just A Blues Riff” in Switzerland in 1966 featuring Flavio Ambrosetti (alto sax), Franco Ambrosetti (trumpet), George Gruntz (piano), Isla Eckinger (bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums). Continue reading
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Chano Pozo & Dizzy Gillespie 'Manteca'
Dizzy’s dozens of Latin-flavored compositions, including the hit song “Manteca” and “Tin Tin Deo” (both co-written by Pozo), “Fiesta Mojo” and others – have Afro-Cuban drumming derived from the ritual rhythms of West Africa as their rhythmic backbones. Continue reading
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Love You Madly – Ella Fitzgerald acc. by The Tommy Flanagan Trio
Ella Fitzgerald performs at Montreux in 1969 accompanied by pianist Tommy Flanagan’s Trio featuring Ed Thigpen on drums Continue reading
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John Coltrane: 'Greensleeves'
From the album “Live! at the Village Vanguard” (1961) featuring John Coltrane(tenor and soprano sax), McCoy Tyner (piano), Reggie Workman (double bass), and Elvin Jones (drums). Continue reading
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Video: Woody Shaw – 'But not for me'
24 December 2012 — Jazz on the Tube Often referred to as the “last innovator” in the jazz trumpet lineage, Shaw is credited with revolutionizing the technical and harmonic vocabulary of the instrument and is considered one of the great jazz composers and band leaders of the twentieth century. Born with a photographic memory Continue reading
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Video: Landfill Harmonic film teaser
Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash. Continue reading
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Eddie Palmieri: Oyelo Que Te Conviene
15 December 2012 — Jazz on the Tube The fantastic Eddie Palmieri, one of my favourite artists. Continue reading
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Video: Sbujwa
I had a treat when I was in Johannesburg recently. I was about to jump into a cab when this van pulled up and out piled these colourfully clad kids. With their exit came the loud, blasting house-sort of music, then the dance moves, taunting, shouting matches, some alcohol, and street fashion … but at… Continue reading
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Video: Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
12 October 2012 — Secret Society I love this orchestra! Saw them at Cafe Oto awhile back. Shades of Charles Mingus via Gil Evans and then some… Argue calls it Steamboat Punk but it sounds like Jazz to me. Here, the band is playing ‘Induction’. Check out the album ‘Infernal Machines. Continue reading
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Video: Woody Shaw plays Monk's 'Bemsha Swing
The great Woody Shaw playing the Thelonious Monk composition “Bemsha Swing,” was recorded on Aug. 21,1985 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA. with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Stanley Cowell piano, David WIlliams bass, and Terri-Lyne Carrington on drums. Continue reading
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Video: Miles Davis Live at Tanglewood
Recorded at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, MA Aug 18, 1970 Continue reading
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Video: Chucho Valdes – Calle 54
Chucho Valdes, son of the great Cuban pianist, Bebo Valdes, recorded as part of the documentary film “Calle 54,” produced by Fernando Trueba. Continue reading
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Video: Abbey Lincoln on Billie Holiday
The great (and much under-rated) singer Abbey Lincoln tells it like it is and sets the record straight on history’s portrayal of Billie Holiday. Continue reading
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Video: Gonzalo Rubalcaba
The amazing Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba performing ‘Autumn Leaves’ at the Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival in 1991. Continue reading
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Video: Duke Ellington Orchestra at Newport: 'Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue'
6 March 2012 I suppose I must have been around fourteen years old when I first heard this and later when I bought the album I wore out this track that had Paul Gonsalves 27 choruses nearly causing a riot. But for me, it was hearing the rap of a rolled-up newspaper on the stage Continue reading
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Video: Black History Special: Jazz Legend Randy Weston on His Life and Celebration of "African Rhythms"
In a Black History Month special, today we spend the hour with the legendary pianist and composer Randy Weston. For the past six decades, Weston has been a pioneering jazz musician incorporating the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa. His most famous compositions include “Little Niles,” “Blue Moses” and “Hi-Fly,” and his 1960 album, “Uhuru Afrika,”… Continue reading
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