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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: 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: 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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Video: Oliver Nelson and the Berlin Dream Band 1970
‘Black, Brown and Beautiful’ – Oliver Nelson and The Berlin Dream Band, 1970 Continue reading
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Videos: Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Live in Berlin 1986
We must all learn to travel the spacewaves if we want peace in this world. Both videos recorded in 1986, one in the former East Berlin and the other in former West Berlin. Continue reading
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Video: John Coltrane plays the standards
John Coltrane tenor with Wynton Kelly piano, Jimmy Cobb drums, Paul Chambers bass. Continue reading
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Sam Rivers/Arthur Blythe/Chico Freeman – 'Lester Leaps In'
A line-up to die for perform “Lester Leaps In” as part of “Salute to the Saxophone, recorded live at the Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton, Montreal in 1992. Continue reading
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A history lesson By William Bowles
The history of capitalism is the history of continuous revolutions in production: from the rural to the city; from cottage industry to factory; and finally from factory to ‘outsourcing’, the rise of the ‘service’ industry, de-industrialization and the financialization of capital. The end of an economy based on actual production and along with it, the… Continue reading
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Miles Davis Classic Quintet – 'Round Midnight'
Recorded in 1967 in Stockholm Sweden. The second classic Quintet: Miles Davis, trumpet; Wayne Shorter, tenor sax; Herbie Hancock, piano; Ron Carter, bass; and Tony Williams, drums. Continue reading
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Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – 'Hothouse'
Charlie Parker, alto sax; Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Dick Hyman, piano; Sandy Block, bass; Charles Smith, drums. Continue reading
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Johnny Griffin Live at the Village Vanguard
Video clip of tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin soloing over an up tempo blues, filmed at the Village Vanguard with Ronnie Matthews piano, Ray Drummond bass, and Kenny Washington drums. Continue reading
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Sonny Rollins 'Jazz Casual'
From the late 1950’s tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and guitarist Jim Hall play on the television show “Jazz Casual” with Bob Cranshaw on bass and Ben Riley drums. The quartet that recorded the amazing ‘The Bridge’, Rollins’ first album after several years meditating and practicing in the dead of night on Manhattan Bridge (cf. ‘The… 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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Thelonious Monk 'Crepuscule With Nellie'
The inimitable Monk in a solo performance of one of his own beautiful and evocative compositions. Continue reading
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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – 'Moanin'
In this live performance filmed in 1958 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers present the tune “Moanin'”, composed by Charles Mingus, from their album of the same name and my very first Jazz Messengers album. Continue reading
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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers 'Goldie'
From deep in the archives, here’s a video featuring Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers Performing live in Paris during the late 1950’s. At the time the bands members were, Wayne Shorter, Jymie Merritt, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, and of course Art Blakey, an all star line up if ever there was one. Continue reading
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Marcus Miller 'Run for cover'
This video was filmed live in Japan in 1991 with Marcus Miller on bass, Everette Harp sax, and Poogie Bells drums. Continue reading
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