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Drums 'n' Brass: 10 Video Clips
More swinging brass you say? Hey, why not. With the holidays upon us, what better way to usher in the season than with killer drummers driving powerful big bands. Here are 10 video clips of great big band drummers plus one of the finest drummers of the post-war years who also was a crackerjack arranger. Here's ...
Four Maynard Ferguson Videos
What would the holidays be without brass. Here are a bunch of recently posted YouTube clips of Maynard Ferguson in action, including Christmas for Moderns, an Ed Sullivan Show performance in 1960 and a full album uninterrupted by ads [photo above of Maynard Ferguson and Rufus Jones on drums]: Here's the famed 1960 Maynard Ferguson Big ...
New Nancy Wilson Videos
There has been a surge of new Nancy Wilson videos going up at YouTube this year, especially in past few months. The majestic magnificence of Nancy only grows with time—her jazz feel, her soulful swing, her signature phrasing and how she operated her mouth to produce notes that belonged to her and her alone. Here are ...
New Bill Evans on YouTube
Four Bill Evans live recordings have surfaced over the past few months on YouTube. Since the last two weeks of the year are often contemplative, these clips should be most welcome: Here's the Bill Evans Trio, with Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass and Alan Dawson on drums, playing Beautiful Love in Denmark in 1965. This went ...
Backgrounder: Lucky Thompson + Oscar Pettiford
After I posted Tuesday on saxophonist Lucky Thompson, the emails poured in. So I decided to make my Backgrounder this week one of the Thompson albums I love dearly: Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford. The material was recorded in January and February 1956. The four January tracks are Bo-Bi My Boy, OP Meets LT, Tricotism and ...
Eliane Elias: Tiny Desk Concert
On December 9, Eliane Elias visited NPR's offices in Washington, D.C., with Marc Johnson (b), Leandro Pellegrino (g) and Rafael Barata (d,percussion) to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. These concerts are a video series of live performances that began in 2008 and are hosted by NPR's Music near the desk of All Songs Considered's host Bob ...
Video and Audio: Lucky Thompson
In February 1960, Lucky Thompson led an octet at the Paris Blue Note. Featured on stage were Thompson (ts,ss) backed by Leonard C. Johnson (tp), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Marcel Rasko, Joe Rasko and Sahib Shihab (saxophones), Buddy Catlett (b) and Kenny Clarke (d), with Thelma Thompson on vocals. Thelma was Lucky's wife and would die three ...
Backgrounder: Johnny Alf, 1971
Two sides of a single released in Brazil in 1953 by Johnny Alf set the stage for the bossa nova four years later. For those sides, Alf assembled a trio that featured him on piano, guitarist Garoto and bassist Vidal. The instrumentals were Alf's own Falseta (or Deceit) and Luiz Bonfa's De Cigarro em Cigarro (or ...
Tal Farlow Doc and 10 Tracks
Tal Farlow is widely considered the father of the modern jazz guitar. His commanding attack and speed had much to do with the large size of his hands. As for his robust sense of swing and rich jazz-chord voicings, they were unbeatable. Born in 1921, Farlow was self-taught and deeply influenced by Benny Goodman's guitarist Charlie ...
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 ...
