From The Chicago Electric Piano Company YouTube channel, another great performance by Nigel Hall, the one and the only. Nigel Hall performs an original arrangement of "What a Wonderful World", recorded on Mavis Staples' 1976 Rhodes Suitcase piano. This recording demonstrates the lush stereo tremolo that has become synonymous with the Rhodes suitcase sound.
The Bob James Trio relive the magic of this classic track “Angela”, filmed in splendid 4K and recorded in HiRes audio.
Full Concert Friday this week and a 2011 performance by Japanese jazz fusion guitarist, Masayoshi Takanaka.
高中正義 40周年記念最終章「SUPER COLLECTION」 Masayoshi Takanaka 40th Anniversary SUPER COLLECTION 00:00 Introduction 01:14 Blue Lagoon 2003 08:21 パラレルターン | Parallel Turn 13:46 Space Wagon 22:16 空ド白ソ | Sora Do Shiro So 27:46 Tropic Birds 33:02 一番好きな海の色 | Ichiban Suki na Umi no iro 38:21 渚・モデラート | Nagisa Moderato 44:41 Eyelands 48:45 Shake It 53:41 You Can Never Come To This Place 01:02:15 憧れのセーシェル諸島 | Akogare no Sesel Shoto 01:08:24 Blue Curacao 01:16:44 Finger Dancin' 01:22:15 Thunder Storm 01:27:52 Mambo No. 5 01:34:30 Saudade 01:39:01 Ready To Fly 01:49:48 Medley 01:57:41 黒船 (嘉永6年6月2日・3日・4日) | Kurofune (Kaei 6 Nen 6 Gatsu 2 Ka, 3 Ka, 4 Ka) ----Musicians---- Percussion - Nobu Saito Drums - Masahiro Miyazaki Bass - Akira Okazawa Keyboard - Yoshinobu Kojima Keyboard & Sax - Masato Honda Guitar - Naruhi Inaba Guests: Drums - Shuichi "PONTA" Murakami Bass - Tsugutoshi Goto Vocal, Chorus - AMAZONS (Yuko Ohtaki, Kumi Saito, Tomoko Yoshikawa)
Another treasure, unearthed by Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
BBS, 1965. The Count Basie Orchestra featuring Eddie Lockjaw Davis
From a performance on Halloween in 2019, October 31st, 2019, here is Widespread Panic featuring the legendary bassist for New Orleans funk institution, The Meters, playing their song "Hey Pocky Way". The show took place at UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Debuting in late 2021, here is the latest single from Joe Bonamassa's newest record "Time Clocks". This one is called "Curtain Call".
From his 1997 record "Playin' Hooky", here is Bob James with the tune "Mind Games" featuring Boney James on tenor saxophone. Saw Bob James play this tune with his trio at The Dakota, with drums and upright bass, and it was just as good, if not even superior, to the studio track on this recording. Check it out.
Full Concert Friday this week, features Chick Corea and his quartet at the 1993 Marciac Jazz Festival. The band lineup is:
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack, Tal Farlow on guitar and Red Norvo on vibraphone, play together at the 1982 Playboy Jazz Festival. A show that took place, would you believe, 40 years ago?
Another video from Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Woody Shaw, trumpet; Dag Arnesen, piano; Bjorn Alterhaug, bass and Billy Hart on drums.
Kongsberg Jazz 1987 Courtesy NRK
The Nigel Hall Trio performs "Silence is Samba", written by Adam Deitch. Featuring Erick "Jesus" Coomes on bass, Adam Deitch on drums and Nigel Hall on electric piano.
Nigel is playing Mavis Staples' 1976 Rhodes Suitcase Piano, fully restored by CEPCo. For more info on this piano, please check our blog post here:
https://chicagoelectricpiano.com/rhod...
Recorded live at the Chicago Electric Piano Company in 2021.
Video: Liina Raud
Audio: Mike Novak
Editing: Justin Howe
A video from The Chicago Electric Piano Company in Chicago, Illinois. Credits at the bottom of the post.
The Nigel Hall Trio performs an arrangement of Eddie Kendricks' "Intimate Friends". Featuring Erick "Jesus" Coomes on bass, Adam Deitch on drums and Nigel Hall on electric piano.
Nigel is playing Mavis Staples' 1976 Rhodes Suitcase Piano, fully restored by CEPCo. For more info on this piano, please check our blog post here:
https://chicagoelectricpiano.com/rhod...
Recorded live at the Chicago Electric Piano Company in 2021.
Video: Liina Raud
Audio: Mike Novak
Editing: Justin Howe
Eddie Kendricks was of course, lead singer and co-founder of Motown legends The Temptations.
Frank Gambale, at a Los Angeles studio session, plays his classic instrumental "Credit Reference Blues". Check it out.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack, here is tenor saxophonist Sam Butera with the instrumental "Night Train". This tune blurs the line between jazz, blues, and rhythm & blues. The tune is featured on a 1965 Louis Prima special.
Sam Butera (August 17, 1927 – June 3, 2009) was an American tenor saxophonist best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Butera is frequently regarded as a crossover artist who performed with equal ease in both R&B and the post-big band pop style of jazz that permeated the early Vegas nightclub scene.
Another cool track shared by Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack, with the Horace Silver Sextet. This is "Cape Verdean Blues" from their concert at Jazz Fest in Berlin, West Germany, in 1987. The band lineup features Horace Silver on piano, Brian Bromberg on acoustic double bass (upright bass), Carl Burnett on drums, and Andy Bey on vocals. The tune really emphasizes Bey's distinctive vocals and the rhythm section, even though Silver's band also includes horns, with Dave Douglas on trumpet, and Vincent Herring on saxophones (alto and tenor), plus flute. Do the samba Caribbean and dig this song!
From Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack), here is the trio of Roy Haynes on drums, Pat Metheny on guitar, and Dave Holland on upright bass, playing in Brecon, The Netherlands, circa 1992.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack, this is the composition "Tour de Force" composed and arranged by Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet. This is taken from the same concert that gave us "Everything Happens". It is the same band. Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, Sonny Stitt on tenor saxophone, Kai Winding on trombone, Thelonius Monk on piano, Al McKibbon on bass, and Art Blakey on drums.
Once again, in lieu of a Full Album Friday (yours truly is still planning out ideas for that feature and it will continue), a live performance of a great song. Revisiting a great song by jazz and R&B saxophonist Eddie Harris on the tenor sax, with a groovy live version of "Listen Here" in a medley with an improvised vocal tune, "Eddie Who?" sourced from Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Eddie Harris Funk Project Live in Germany, 1991. Eddie Harris: Tenor Sax, Piano, Voice; Ronald Muldrow: Guitar; Bradley Bobo: Six-String Bass; James Gadson: Drums; Derf Reklaw Raheem: Percussion, Voice
Bluesman Larry McCray, joined by Joe Bonamassa plays his new single "Arkansas". This is the first single, from his new record "Blues Without You".
From his Tour de Force tour and concerts at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, England, here is Joe Bonamassa, covering B.B. King's song "Chains & Things".
Live and studio reposts of Bill Withers' "Lovely Day" from his "Menagerie" record released in 1977.
