About six or so months ago I signed up for this free Jazz on the Tube e-mail list. Everyday this site sends me videos of Legendary Jazz performances for free. This is a great personal and educational source and I recommend signing up for this.
Here are a couple of videos that have been sent to me recently. Great stuff!!!
First up is a video of Jackie McLean’s group at the Blue Note Jazz Festival in 1986. Woody Shaw (tpt) Cedar Walton (p) Buster Williams (bs), Billy Higgin (dr).
One of the ‘Big Three’ swing tenor saxophone
players and quite possibly the best ever when it
come to playing a ballad…..
The Brute by Ben Webster
Its rare to find live footage of Chet Baker, one of the great trumpet players well known for his “My Funny Valentine” solo.
Here’s a chance to see him live in action, playing “Softly as in a Morning Sunrise”
Why don’t more trumpet players try to sound like this guy?
Breathtaking!
He was Dave Brubeck’s sax player, and wrote the hit song “Take Five.”
Here he plays the waltz “Emily” by Johnny Mandell performed at the
Monterey Jazz festival in 1975.
Tags: Ben Webster, Blue Note Jazz Festival, Chet Baker, Cool Struttin', Emily, Jackie McLean, Jackie McLean Quintet, Jazz, Jazz Education, Jazz on the Tube, Monterey Jazz Festival, Paul Desmond, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, The Brute
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