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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. 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 |
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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 https://youtu.be/uNQ82Dw91DA |
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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. https://youtu.be/hHHY3eRUMsM Last edited by PHC1; 01-09-2021 at 10:07 PM. |
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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. Bass – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Drums – Tony Inzalaco Piano – Oscar Peterson Tenor Saxophone – Ben Webster https://youtu.be/q5IaMdhVBFo Last edited by PHC1; 01-10-2021 at 01:40 AM. |
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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 |
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Count Basie on Art Tatum, Interview with Oscar Peterson 1980
Piano - Oscar Peterson & Count Basie Bass - Niels Pedersen Drums - Martin Drew https://youtu.be/YAeT3Dr74Ys |
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