28 August 2020 — Gilad Atzmon
Dear friends and music lovers:
Here is our last night’s Livestream from Ronnie Scott’s Jazz club.
The reaction to the performance was astonishing. Many people were watching us live and shared their thoughts. For the musicians this was a very unique experience. We played in an empty club, yet communicated in real time with so many people around the world.
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31 August 2020 — Jazz on the Tube
The jazz historian and poet Dave Oliphant reads selections from his epic poem “KD: A Jazz Biography”, his tribute to trumpet great and master musician Kenny Dorham, born August 30, 1924 in Post Oak, Texas.
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12 May 2015 — Open Culture
Last week, we posted an interview with the late, great Ray Bradbury that was brilliantly animated by the folks over at Blank on Blank. This week, they unveil a new piece featuring John Coltrane. You can watch it above.
31 December 2019 — Jazz on the Tube
[One of my favourite artists. I actually met him in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1975. WB.]
Andrew Hill (1931-2007) was a masterful pianist and a very original composer whose music fell into the avant-garde but was really in its own category.
14 October 2019 — Youtube
An early bird from their 2nd coming album, here is Talinka’s take on the American song book “If I Should Lose You”
Tali Atzmon – vocs Jenny Bliss – violin Gilad Atzmon – tenor sax Yaron Stavi – db Recorded in the Fish Factory Studio Filmed by Geoffrey Oat Edited by Tali Atzmon
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19 June 2019 — Jazz on the Tube
20 May 2019 — Jazz on the Tube
Exemplary television program with the Miles Davis Quintet featuring John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, and including the Gil Evans Orchestra.
29 September 2018 — Jazz on the Tube
The magnificent Eddie Palmieri, now in his 80th year! A replay of his groundbreaking 1971 (I think) composition, ‘Harlem River Drive’, in a live performance in E. Harlem.
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2 May 2018 —Jazz on the Tube
In 1962, the Goodyear Tire Company sponsored a series of half-hour shows that showcased swing-oriented performers.
This color excerpt from the Duke Ellington program features baritonist Harry Carney and clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton in the spotlight during the medium-tempo blues “V.I.P. Boogie.”
26 January 2018 — Jazz on the Tube
Hugh Masekela (April 4, 1939 – January 23, 2018)
Hugh Masekela “Grazing In The Grass” live at the Kuumbwa, March 24th, 2014
I had the pleasure, and the honour of hanging out with Bra Hugh on a number of occasions when I lived Johannesburg as well as here in London when he visited here. A modest and honest human being, who was the same offstage as we was on, and who dedicated his life, not only to the wonderful music of South Africa but to the struggle to free its people from the evil of Apartheid.
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4 January 2018 — Jazz on the Tube
One of my all-time favourite pianists, who I once met at a friend’s house in Brooklyn in 1975. Continue reading
20 December 2017 — Youtube
Beautiful! Performed by Konse Big Band led by Prof. Johannes Berauer at Klagenfurt Jazz Club 20.12.1017
