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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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Arturo O'Farrill Concert in the Park
6 May 2013 — Great Latin Music The Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra performs a free concert in the park and shows off the deep Latin Jazz talent pool the Big Apple is home to. Continue reading
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Joe Henderson Live in Europe 1977
24 April 2013 One of my favourite artists, Joe Henderson, taped I think some time in 1977 whilst on a European tour. See the rest of the concert here. Continue reading
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Dizzy Gillespie 'Salt Peanuts' and more…
Recorded at a time when Diz was fronting his fabled post-war big band featuring jazz greats such as pianist John Lewis, vibraphonist Milt Jackson or bassist Ray Brown, this concert film catches the irrepressible trumpeter in top artistic form. Continue reading
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The Political Pied Pipers on the Road to Mangaung: A Different Kind of Tale By Dale T. McKinley
South Africa’s modern-day political pied pipers are, like the fairy tale character’s clothing, a patch-work collection. But we should not be deceived by appearances alone, for the securocrat-inspired tune of intolerance and political similitude they are playing with increasing enthusiasm and volume on the road to Mangaung is as deadly to all South Africans as… Continue reading
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Charles Mingus/Eric Dolphy – The Last Concert
Rare concert footage of Eric Dolphy’s last concert with Charles Mingus was filmed in Stockholm in 1964. Eric Dolphy alto sax and bass clarinet, Clifford Jordan tenor sax and flute, Johnny Coles trumpet, Jaki Byard piano, Charles Mingus bass, and Danny Richmond drums. Continue reading
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‘Bohemia After Dark’ – Cannonball Adderley Sextet
Filmed at a live concert in Switzerland in 1963. Julian “Cannonball” Adderley alto sax, Nat Adderley cornet, Yusef Lateef sax tenor, Joe Zawinul piano, Sam Jones bass, and Louis Hayes drums. Continue reading
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Cannonball Adderley ‘Straight, no chaser’
1974 concert in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Cannonball Adderley (alto sax), Nat Adderley (trumpet), George Duke (piano), Walter Booker (bass) and Roy McCurdy (drums) Continue reading
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Ed Neumeister ‘ESP’
27 April 2011 Readers might be curious as to why I also publish music videos on a site dedicated to investigating imperialism. Well the short answer is that I’m an ex-muso raised on jazz, funk, reggae, latin and african music and amidst all the gloom and doom, I need a shot of syncopation every now Continue reading
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Stars come out for Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Winter Concert
Television and West End stars will be coming together in December to perform for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in a fundraising Winter Concert. PSC’s Winter Concert is on Tuesday 7 December at the Polish Centre, King Street, Hammersmith. Continue reading
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Video: Cuba ‘Peace without Borders’
Video: Thousands attend the “Peace without Borders” concert in Havana, Cuba, featuring Colombian singer Juanes and other international artists Continue reading
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Odetta Live in concert 2005, “House of the Rising Sun”
Odetta Holmes 1930-2008 I remember seeing her perform in one of those small gardens alongside some towering skyscraper in Manhattan with a waterfall at her back and her saying to the small audience that she’d have to retune her guitar so it didn’t collide with the noise the water made. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1825138 more about “Odetta Live Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon in Valencia – And the Bush Burned
The concert, an hour and a half of intense musical emotions, was based on four themes taken from two important albums of the group, MusiK (2004) and Refuge (2007), in which Atzmon articulated and developed a line of reasoning and discourse that is explicitly dedicated to describing through chromatic scales the current Iraqi tragedy undertaken… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 