Видео 259
Просмотров 569 458

Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins - FILM

4:12

FILM - Ben Webster Associates 1959

6:17

Solo Sinatra track - his rhythmic genius!

2:51

MONK's BRAKE'S SAKE - rhythm track with Percy Heath/Art Blakey

4:52

SHADOW WILSON and Monk #2 - 1948!

5:41

SHADOW WILSON and Monk - 1948!

5:41

Excellent Monk Documentary

From producer Toby Byron and director Matthew Seig
This is a wonderful documentary on Thelonious Monk that to my mind is just as essential as the acclaimed STRAIGHT, NO CHASER that Clint Eastwood produced as an apology (or at least I like thing so) for his mangled and erroneous take on Charlie Parker in BIRD.
This film has extended interviews with:
Monk's sister Marian and son T.S.
Randy Weston
Barry Harris
Ben Riley
Orrin Keepnews
Dr. Billy Taylor.
I've shared this version as the other one on YT is burdened throughout with a dozen, long commercials.

Видео

Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins - FILM

4:12

Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins - FILM

Просмотров 3 тыс.Месяц назад

Filmmaker Christopher Seufert has found some remarkable silent B&W footage from a handful of classic Norman Granz record dates. He's permitted to share these excerpts, for which I threw some music from the sessions underneath, with no time spent trying to match anything to the image but it helps with the ambience.

6:17

FILM - Ben Webster Associates 1959

Просмотров 1,5 тыс.Месяц назад

Solo Sinatra track - his rhythmic genius!

2:51

Solo Sinatra track - his rhythmic genius!

Просмотров 300Месяц назад

Here is DON'T WORRY 'BOUT ME from the second set of The Sands recordings with Basie's band. Try tapping along or somehow keeping rhythm (not easy at this slow tempo) to really feel how sophisticated Sinatra's time feeling is - this is what he got from Billie, and Lester by extension.

MONK's BRAKE'S SAKE - rhythm track with Percy Heath/Art Blakey

4:52

MONK's BRAKE'S SAKE - rhythm track with Percy Heath/Art Blakey

Просмотров 2733 месяца назад

Here is a rare opportunity to hear Monk, Percy Heath, and Art Blakey as they accompanied Gigi Gryce on BRAKE'S SAKE. Saxophonist/composer/bandleader Gigi Gryce (the subject an excellent biography, Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce by Noal Cohen and Michael Fitzgerald) was a favorite of Thelonious Monk's in the 1950's. This quartet session, recorded October 15, 1955 under Gryce's na...

5:41

SHADOW WILSON and Monk #2 - 1948!

Просмотров 3823 месяца назад

I’ve always been fascinated by what Shadow Wilson played on the original Blue Note version of Monk’s I MEAN YOU. Coleman Hawkins was the first to record this piece almost two years earlier - remember, Monk had been his pianist back in 1944. You’ll hear the original recording (remixed to amplify drums) followed by drum track only. There’s a link to the original in COMMENTS below. In almost all l...

5:41

SHADOW WILSON and Monk - 1948!

Просмотров 4273 месяца назад

I’ve always been fascinated by what Shadow Wilson played on Monk’s first recording of I MEAN YOU. Coleman Hawkins was the first to record this piece almost two years earlier - remember, Monk had been his pianist back in 1944. Here we have the 78 take twice with drums remixed to predominate. There's another version with the 78 take here on RUclips followed by drum track only. There’s a link to t...

ART BLAKEY - with Monk - Epistrophy 1957

10:50

ART BLAKEY - with Monk - Epistrophy 1957

Просмотров 9493 месяца назад

Has there even been a musical partnership closer than that of Thelonious Monk and Art Blakey? Not to my knowledge. In 1957, Monk called John Coltrane, Gigi Grace, Ray Copeland, Wilbur Ware, and his mentor, Coleman Hawkins, to record MONK’s MUSIC. Something happened in the middle of EPISTROPHY where the regular 32-bar form got off-kilter, and Blakey came in which a thundering solo to right the s...

9:12

A STUDY IN MAX ROACH

Просмотров 6663 месяца назад

A STUDY IN MAX ROACH - 1947 It's hard to imagine how NEW Max Roach's playing must have sounded in 1947. He had his influences (Jo Jones, Sid Catlett, Chick Webb) to be sure, but he took them and came up with something without precedent, and that includes even the pioneering work of Kenny Clarke earlier in the decade. This clip features three versions of Charlie Parker's Klactoveedsedstene - tak...

2:53

Lester Young I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME

Просмотров 1,8 тыс.3 месяца назад

This one of the most well-known of the Teddy Wilson/Billie Holiday recordings, which starts with a piano chorus that is a crowning achievement of jazz paraphrase. Lester's obbligato has also attained classic status, but now we can hear all the notes that were obscured by Holiday's voice, and we are the richer for it. Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra : Buck Clayton (tp) Buster Bailey (cl) Lester Y...

5:03

Lester Young's CHANGES MADE - 1941

Просмотров 8783 месяца назад

From my essay included in the MOSIAC box set Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie And Lester Young Studio Sessions: Velvet. That’s the word Pulitzer prize winning composer (and former jazz pianist) Mel Powell used to describe Young’s sound at this juncture in his career. These four tunes and two others captured on a contemporary broadcast are all that remain of the first band Young formed after leavin...

3:32

Lester Young - IT'S SAD BUT TRUE 1941

Просмотров 1,2 тыс.3 месяца назад

Lester Young reached a peak in 1941 as he started his career as a bandleader; it was a peak in terms of tone, melodic invention, and sheer other-worldly beauty. Sadly, something kept him out of the recording studios at that point (obscure hint: possibly The Bringdown). No session for his own band, but just this date where they backed up vocalist Ina Mae Carlisle, a last pre-war session with Bil...