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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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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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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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Miles Davis Live! 'Bitches Brew'
30 May 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Taped 18 August 1970 at the Tanglewood Festival. Miles in full flight! Bennie Maupin, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Airto Moreira and others… Continue reading
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Miles Davis – 'I fall in love too easily'
Miles Davis on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on sax, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on the bass, and Tony Williams on drums. Recorded in 1967. Continue reading
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Miles Davis 'So What'
This is as good as it gets on this, Miles’ birthday! Miles with John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Paul Chambers on bass, Jimmy Cobb on drums and Wynton Kelly on Piano plus a horn ensemble. Continue reading
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'Manteca!' – The Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra with Chano Pozo
Co-written by Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller in 1947, it is among the most famous of Gillespie’s recordings (along with the earlier “A Night in Tunisia”) and is “one of the most important records ever made in the United States,” according to Gary Giddins of the Village Voice. Continue reading
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Jacob Collier sings 'Pure Imagination'
Got sent this by a companero: an interesting video by Jacob Collier doing a rendition of the title song from ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘Pure Imagination’ with Collier doing six-part harmony and on melodica. Enjoy Continue reading
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Video: Jimmy Smith Trio on Jazz Scene USA
Jazz Scene U.S.A. was a short-lived syndicated television show shot in Los Angeles in the early ‘60s and hosted by Oscar Brown, Jr. This episode is given over to the Jimmy Smith trio with Quentin Warren and Donald Bailey. If you’ve never had the pleasure of seeing this amazing musician live, enjoy this. Continue reading
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Video: 1959…the year that changed jazz
A sixty-minute doccie, produced and narrated by Nat Hentoff. In 1959 four major jazz albums were made, each a high watermark for the artists and a powerful reflection of the times. Each opened up dramatic new possibilities for jazz which continue to be felt: Miles Davis Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck, Time Out, Charles Mingus,… 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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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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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
The New Dark Age 