What Jazz Music are you Watching
 

I think this thread would be appropriate for the countless music videos that are available. We can add different genres if this becomes popular.

Youtube is not my primary source of listening to music but a good video to see the Jazz legends in action is hard to pass up.

To raise the bar of enjoyment significantly, these are best enjoyed with a desktop DAC/pair of headphones or perhaps a pair of desktop speakers. I prefer headphones myself. Computer speakers tend to be limiting in bass qualities and Jazz relies on a good bass foundation for the full effect. :yes:

I'll start

Wes Montgomery - Here's That Rainy Day - Live London 1965

Stan Tracey (piano)
Wes Montgomery (guitar)
Rick Laird (bass)
Jackie Dougan (drums)

Television broadcast, "Tempo", ABC TV, London, England, May 7, 1965

https://youtu.be/-iVgONy8kMY

Some trivia...

Carnival in Flanders closed after only six performances but generated a top jazz standard composition in “Here’s That Rainy Day,”

Carnival in Flanders was based on the 1935, French film comedy La Kermesse Heroique, which had won several Best Foreign Film awards. Despite the success of the source material, a score by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke, and a cast that boasted John Raitt, the production struggled to establish itself. Veteran film director Preston Sturges was hired to salvage the play three weeks before its Broadway debut, but the last-minute rescue attempt was not enough, and the show closed after only six performances.

Carnival in Flanders, for all its brevity, left its impression on Broadway. The Van Heusen/Burke score generated a top jazz standard composition in “Here’s That Rainy Day,” and Raitt’s co-star, Dolores Gray, won a Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical, a standing record for the shortest-lived, Tony-Award-winning role!

https://www.jazzstandards.com/compos...atrainyday.htm



Maybe I should have saved those left over dreams
Funny, but here's that rainy day
Here's that rainy day they told me about
And I laughed at the thought that it might turn out this way
Where is that worn out wish that I threw aside
After it brought my lover near
It's funny how love becomes a cold rainy day
Funny, that rainy day is here
Funny how love becomes a cold rainy day
Funny, that rainy day is here



Nat King Cole - Here's that rainy day :thumbsup:

https://youtu.be/uNQ82Dw91DA

Jeff Beck - A Day In The Life (Live at Ronnie Scott's)

Technically speaking Jeff Beck is Jazz/Rock fusion genre as well. So why not some great electric guitar from Jeff Beck in this thread. :D


https://youtu.be/hHHY3eRUMsM

Enjoyed this very special meeting of Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson in Hanover, Germany. The two only played together but a few times... (after the early 50s)

Enjoy. This is some truly beautiful Jazz. :music:


Bass – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Drums – Tony Inzalaco
Piano – Oscar Peterson
Tenor Saxophone – Ben Webster



https://youtu.be/q5IaMdhVBFo

ART TATUM LIVE [EXTREMELY RARE FOOTAGE]

Art Tatum was an incredible pianist.

Art Tatum was among the most extraordinary of all jazz musicians, a pianist with wondrous technique who could not only play ridiculously rapid lines with both hands (his 1933 solo version of "Tiger Rag" sounds as if there were three pianists jamming together) but was harmonically 30 years ahead of his time; all pianists have to deal to a certain extent with Tatum's innovations in order to be taken seriously. Able to play stride, swing, and boogie-woogie with speed and complexity that could only previously be imagined, Tatum's quick reflexes and boundless imagination kept his improvisations filled with fresh (and sometimes futuristic) ideas that put him way ahead of his contemporaries.

Born nearly blind, Tatum gained some formal piano training at the Toledo School of Music but was largely self-taught. Although influenced a bit by Fats Waller and the semi-classical pianists of the 1920s, there is really no explanation for where Tatum gained his inspiration and ideas from.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/art-...5770/biography




ART TATUM LIVE [EXTREMELY RARE FOOTAGE] https://youtu.be/bzMyhzadzTQ

Count Basie on Art Tatum, Interview with Oscar Peterson 1980 :thumbsup:

Piano - Oscar Peterson & Count Basie
Bass - Niels Pedersen
Drums - Martin Drew

https://youtu.be/YAeT3Dr74Ys

Gershwin plays I Got Rhythm (1931, 3 camera views)

George Gershwin plays I Got Rhythm at the opening of New York's Manhattan Theatre on 5 August 1931, his performance filmed from three different camera angles.

https://youtu.be/oQdeTbUDCiw

Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by the American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which synthesizes elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.

The composition was commissioned at the request of bandleader Paul Whiteman. The piece received its premiere in the concert, "An Experiment in Modern Music," which was held on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City, by Whiteman and his band with Gershwin playing the piano.

The work was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé several times, including the original 1924 scoring, the 1926 "theater orchestra" setting, and the 1942 symphony orchestra scoring.

The rhapsody is regarded as one of Gershwin's most recognizable creations and as a key composition which defined the historical period known as the Jazz Age. The Nation has described Gershwin's piece as inaugurating a new era in America's musical history.

The editors of the Cambridge Music Handbooks have posited that "the Rhapsody in Blue (1924) established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works."

The American Heritage magazine notes that the famous opening clarinet glissando has become as instantly recognizable to concert audiences as Beethoven's Fifth."






From the 1945 Film "Rhapsody in Blue"

Robert Alda stars alongside musical greats Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, and Oscar Levant in this biopic treatment of the life of composer George Gershwin. The film traces Gershwin's rise, from his first big hit "Swanee" (performed by Al Jolson, playing himself), to his collaborations with lyricist brother Ira (Herbert Rudley) to the heights of artistic achievement with the debut of "Rhapsody in Blue" at Aeolian Hall https://youtu.be/VAuTouBhN5k