Featured Jazz Videos

A Week In Hamburg: Rehearsing & Performing Tim Hagans

Tim Hagans
Duration: 59:21
818 views

This new documentary by Michele Brangwen features the incredible musicians of NDR Bigband, also known as the Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestra. Billed as a big band of soloists, the artists perform “A Conversation," a suite by Grammy-nominated composer and trumpeter Tim Hagans, who also conducts and solos. This film follows the band as they rehearse and perform this unique composition that reconfigures the traditional placement on stage of the musicians to facilitate wild and inspired musical conversation. Performers discuss their connection to the music and to each other. Filmed in October 2021 during pandemic, the work chronicles musicians coming together to make art during a time when it is needed most.

The Big Seduction

Maggie Herron
Duration: 5:05
1,110 views

From Maggie Herron's release My Story In Song with Bill Cunliffe, Grant Geissman, Bob Sheppard, Kye Palmer, Darek Oles, and Dan Schnelle.

Saddle Shoe Sally

Tobin Mueller
Duration: 4:03
622 views

Absolute feel good jazz combining swing bop and contemporary stylings, featuring the blazing saxophone of Woody Mankowski and the superb composition of pianist Tobin Mueller. Newly remastered for Mueller’s retrospective compilation: Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 1: JAZZ Originals. The album is full of epic, inventive, thrilling performances. “Tobin Mueller composes some of the freshest, well-crafted jazz tunes of the era. He adroitly combines post bop, fusion, funk and progressive Big Band in entertaining and unique ways. Woody Mankowski's skill on saxophone is a joy to experience, as are the contributions of bass legend Ron Carter. A highly anticipated collection...” —Dr. Jazz

The Chicken

Matthew Alec
Duration: 6:40
1,258 views

Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric featuring Tom “Bones" Malone performing “The Chicken" by Pee Wee Ellis. at Cleveland's famed Bop Stop jazz club on February 4, 2022. From the album Live at the Bop Stop!.

The Wind

Allison Adams Tucker
Duration: 4:23
1,167 views

Old school meets the digital age! Allison’s fourth album RETRO Trilogy recorded in New York under producer Matt Pierson is a retrospective of self identity within Gen X-Y-Z culture and the human experience ending a Millennium, with dreamy jazz re-imaginings of iconic music from the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. 3 EPs “1977”, “1988”, “1999” rolled out into one Album. Allison lead and background vocals, Kevin Hays piano, Tony Scherr bass, Kenny Wollesen drums, Yotam Silberstein guitar, Bashiri Johnson percussion.

Minor Blues

Kurt Rosenwinkel
Duration: 12:23
3,722 views

Live from Chris' Jazz Cafe with with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Aidan McKeon (saxophone), Joseph Block (piano), Alexander Claffy (bass), Mark Whitfield Jr. (drums), on December 29th, 2022.

Recommended by Michael Ricci.

I Didn't Know What Time It Was

Nikos Chatzitsakos
Duration: 5:23
2,107 views

The Nikos Chatzitsakos Tiny Big Band performs its arrangement of “I Didn't Know What Time It Was" for vocals, six horns, and piano trio. Featuring Alexandria DeWalt, Will Mallard and Salim Charvet.

Ukrainian Jazz Waltz

Andrew David Perkins
Duration: 2:24
888 views

Written in 1916 by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovich and titled “Shchedryk,” the song tells the tale of a swallow flying into a household to proclaim the plentiful year that the family will have. For a Christmas concert, a choir director by the name of Oleksander Koshyts commissioned Leontovich to write a song based on Ukrainian folk melodies. Leontovich created a completely new work for choir. Now called “Carol of the Bells,” the song has become associated with Christmas.

Recommended by Michael Ricci.

The St. Andrew's Sessions - Part Two

Simon Deeley
Duration: 13:47
887 views

Filming session (part two) at St. Andrew's, Presteigne, Wales. From April 26, 2022. With Simon Deeley on piano and Max Davison on bass. Playing original compositions by Simon Deeley.

The Shovel Shuffle

MarieVeronique Bourque
Duration: 4:28
918 views

There’s a satisfaction in shoveling snow, a certain athleticism, a nuanced choreography to it all. Who are we kidding–shoveling snow is the worst! But if you live in Canada it’s a necessity, and jazz flutist Marie-Véronique Bourque and her band are here to add a little bit of levity to the situation with their new single “The Shovel Shuffle!”