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Documentary: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe began recording on the electric guitar in 1941, for her first Decca sides with Lucky Millinder's band. She was one of the first true fusion artists, combining multiple styles of music in her delivery. At this point in time, hundreds of thousands of black Americans were on the move, leaving the farms of ...
Documentary: Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz
Director John Fordham's joyously poetic documentary Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz first appeared on the British TV series Omnibus in 1989. It tells you all you need to know about Ronnie, his straight-faced sense of humor and the Soho club still in operation founded in 1959. Ronnie passed in 1996. Here's Ronnie Scott and All ...
Documentary: Bert Joris and A Song Is Born
Bert Joris is a Belgian trumpeter and flugelhornist with a beautiful tone who has been recording since 1978. Let me give you a taste. In 1987, Bert recorded with legendary Belgian vibraphonist Fats Sadi on a spectacular album called Sadi's Nonet. If you dig Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool, you'll love this album. Here's Thanks ...
Documentary: The Rise and Fall of the Concorde
During the 1960s, as the U.S. spent billions to beat the Soviet Union to the moon and fight a war in Vietnam, another expensive race was taking place in Europe. Air France and British Airways had joined forces to develop a supersonic passenger plane ahead of the Soviets and the Americans. When the Concorde took off ...
Documentary: The Long Night of Lady Day (1984)
How bad did Billie Holiday have it? You have no idea. Coming up in the 1930s, she faced raw racism and sexism head on, but the challenges and injustices the singular vocalist endured took a toll and led to a life of alcohol and drug abuse. The origins of her blues, why she started wearing gardenias ...
Documentary: Basie, The Kid From Redbank
Three days into the week, I'm still hooked on Count Basie. What can I say. The sound, the feel, the simplicity and the prowess—no band was as influential in jazz over the decades. Duke Ellington was a towering figure with a singular band, but I think it's fair to say that he didn't influence nearly as ...
Documentary: Born to Swing
In 1973, the BBC aired a 50-minute documentary from director John Jeremy on the alumni of the Count Basie Band of 1943. And then the documentary went out of print. Fortunately for us, the person behind Remembrance of Things at YouTube found an old VHS tape at the public library and uploaded it as a vital ...
Documentary: Johnny Dankworth
Jazz in Britain has a glorious and robust past. From the 1920 and '30s up until World War II in 1939, jazz in the U.K. was largely sweet and hotel in dance-band style. Bands were formal and highly accomplished. Remember, Cherokee was by Ray Noble, the English bandleader, composer and arranger who recorded it first in ...
Minidoc: Vince Guaraldi in the Studio
Vince Guaraldi is best known as the jazz pianist accompanying A Charlie Brown Christmas and other TV's adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. But Guaraldi was well established before those gentle 1960s holiday specials as a member of Cal Tjader's groups and the leader of his own superb trio. His biggest hit was Cast Your Fate to ...
Doc: Dinah Washingon - Evil Gal Blues
Back in 2010, the BBC aired Evil Gal Blues, Jill Nichols's wonderful documentary on Dinah Washington. As we wait until TypePad's finishes revamping its functionality so I can resume posting with images, here's the film on the singer known as the “Queen of the Blues." At the end, catch a rare and exceptional video clip of ...
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