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Documentary: Bert Joris and A Song Is Born

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 ...

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Documentary: The Rise and Fall of the Concorde

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 ...

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Documentary: The Long Night of Lady Day (1984)

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 ...

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Documentary: Basie, The Kid From Redbank

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 ...

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Documentary: Born to Swing

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 ...

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Documentary: Johnny Dankworth

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 ...

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Minidoc: Vince Guaraldi in the Studio

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 ...

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Doc: Dinah Washingon - Evil Gal Blues

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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Ben Makinen

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Ben Makinen - member BMI - is a performer, composer, and producer living in Denver, Colorado. He is president of Bmakin Music, a label he created to carry music from all points of the globe, regardless of genre. Seeing Miles Davis perform live three times and then meeting the Dalai Lama in person forever changed the way Ben would approach the art of music. He is a 2006 Independent Music Awards Finalist: Film/TV-Multimedia. Ben is the producer of jazz album Fishleather Jacket which received the Roger Bobo Excellence In Recording Award in June of 2006. As a drummer and percussionist, he has been touring the world as a sideman since 1985 with R&B, funk, and rock bands, jazz trios and big bands, avant-garde electronica ensembles, in Broadway shows, on international cruise ships, and with opera troupes and symphonic orchestras

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Louis Prima: King of the Swingers

Louis Prima: King of the Swingers

Born in New Orleans, trumpeter, singer and entertainer Louis Prima grew up in the city's Italian-American community. He was influenced not only by New Orleans's Black jazz and folk culture but also the tradition of commedia dell'arte that dates back to 16th-century Italy. Comedy's earliest form of improv, this form of street theater poked fun at ...


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