Featured Jazz Videos

Work in Progress: Big Band Harold Land, Part 2

Tony Corman
Duration: 3:51
824 views

More about the music and the players as we prepare our October 8, 2022 concert at California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, CA where the Morchestra will perform original arrangements of the compositions of jazz master Harold Land.

Django 100th Birthday Gypsy Swing Guitar festival @ Le QuecumBar

Django Reinhardt
Duration: 13:10
1,238 views

A celebration of Django Reinhardt's 100th birthday where Le QuecumBar in London brought together 34 of some of the world's finest Gypsy guitar players from six countries. Sadly, after 19 years, Le QuecumBar was forced to close its doors.

Recommended by Michael Ricci.

Queen's Suite

Duke Ellington
Duration: 20:25
1,418 views

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn wrote “The Queen's Suite" for Queen Elizabeth II who was presented with a single pressing of the recording, which was not commercially issued during Ellington's lifetime. Includes Sunset and the Mocking Bird; Lightening Bugs and Frogs; Le Sucrier Velours; Northern Lights; The Single Petal of a Rose; Apes and Peacocks. Recorded April 4, 1959.

Avenue X

Big Lazy
Duration: 4:21
978 views

NYC's instrumental trio Big Lazy's “Avenue X" from their album Don't Cross Myrtle. Filmed in Brooklyn and Moscow.Big Lazy is: Stephen Ulrich: guitar; Yuval Lion: drums; Andrew Hall: bass with Steven Bernstein: slide trumpet.

Recommended by Michael Ricci.

Stardust

Sweet Megg
Duration: 6:50
986 views

Sweet Megg and her talented band of players perform the Hoagy Carmichael classic live at Nelson Drum Shop in Nashville, TN. Megg says about the song, “Stardust has always been one of my favorite songs. The melody, chord progression, and lyrics are in ultimate harmony with each other making the emotional content remarkably vivid. It is sad but also it is melancholy wrapped up in such beauty that it can feel both good and bad at the same time. There is so much in this song. When I’m feeling joyous and in love, I feel inspired to sing it, or when I’m in the depths of depression I want to sing it. It induces feelings and that is why I enjoy it. It makes me feel whatever I’m feeling stronger.” This video was a performance of what we had just finished in the studio. We had spent the past two days recording and had a little send off party at Nelson Drum Shop. That is what this video is about.”

Dialogues Featuring Tim Watson

Dion Kerr
Duration: 7:43
764 views

Dion Kerr presents the second video in his new “Dialogues" series featuring guitar prodigy Tim Watson. It's a follow up to his first presentation with world class drummer David Chiverton. Tim and Dion met in Miami where they both currently live and share the bandstand in a number of groups including New York based Juvenoia and 12EYES.

Sorceress / One Step

Tobin Mueller
Duration: 6:25
1,248 views

Sensuous, polyphonic jazz vocal medley of “Sorceress” from Return to Forever's Romantic Warrior (1976) paired with “The One Step” from Chick Corea's Friends (1978). The recording appears on Tobin Mueller's new jazz fusion album Prestidigitation: a magical fusion of styles, scatting, improvisation and intricate arranging.

Your Heart is as Black as Night

Sylvia Brooks
Duration: 3:28
1,060 views

Enjoy the live performance of Sylvia Brooks' take on this classic jazz-blues song “Your Heart is as Black as Night". Written by Melody Gardot.

Late Bloomin' Jazzman

Mark Winkler
Duration: 4:59
682 views

This is the title song from Mark Winkler's latest album.. Lyrics written by Mark with music by Eli Brueggemann. Featuring Grant Geissman on guitar, Jamieson Trotter on piano, Gabe Davis on bass, Christian Euman on drums and Brian Swartz on trumpet.

Barcelona

Lubos Soukup
Duration: 4:58
1,003 views

"Barcelona” is a composition by Luboš Soukup and pays homage to the buzzing and vibrant Catalonian city of Barcelona. During the intense interaction between saxophone and piano, you believe to be taken along to a walk through the streets. A heroic melody reminiscent of Spanish folklore emerges between rhythmically adventurous improvisations. You can feel that Lubos Soukup and Christian Pabst are playing together for a long time in order to create such a cinematic musical soundtrack.