The technical mastery, stylistic versatility, and deep musicality of Hank Jones

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Caravan (Tizol) - Hank Jones Quartet featuring Hank Jones, piano; Frank Vignola, guitar; Peter Washington, bass and Louis Nash on drums.

Jazz Festival Bern 2001

Michael Brecker Quindectet, Blue Note Tokyo, 2004

 

Full Concert Friday this week featuring the Michael Brecker Quindectet at the Blue Note Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan, 20 years ago, in 2004.

Blue Note, Tokyo, Japan - February, the 2nd 2004

Michael Brecker - Tenor Saxophone

Gil Goldstein - Piano, Accordion

Alex Sipiagin - Trumpet

Petr Gordon - French Horn

Robin Eubanks - Trombone

Bob Sheppard - Flute, Soprano Saxophone

Dan Willis - Double Reeds

Roger Rosenberg - Bass Clarinet, Baritone

Joyce Hammon - Violin

Meg Okura - Viola

David Edggar - Cello

Adam Rogers - Guitar

Boris Koslov - Bass

Antonio Sanchez - Drums

Danny Sadwick - Percussion

Robin Trower "Bridge of Sighs" (revisited)

 

Reposting what is my favorite Robin Trower song.  This is a live performance from 1974 of "Bridge of Sighs" from "The Old Grey Whistle Test" concert television show in England.  The date of this performance is April 17th, 1974.  Had a version of this tune on the blog for a long time, and have found another one to share.  Check it out.  

Brecker Brothers, Japan, August 23, 2003.

 

Brecker Brothers
August 23, 2003
Mt Fuji Jazz festival, Japan

Michael Brecker: Tenor
Randy Brecker: Trumpet
Mitch Stein: Guitar
Rodney Holmes: Drums
David Kikoski: Keyboards
Chris Minh Doky: Bass

Montuno - "Latin Jazz Suite" - Lalo Schifrin

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Montuno - "Latin Jazz Suite" - Lalo Schifrin featuring the WDR Big Band with soloists Jon Faddis and David Sanchez. 1999.

Miles Davis "Circle in The Round"

 

A Full Album Monday, as opposed to a Full Album Friday, and for good reason.  To celebrate the 98th birthday of Miles Davis, here is his 1979 "Circle in the Round" compilation record.  In it, he continues pushing the boundaries of what jazz can be.  These recordings actually range throughout a 15-year period of Miles Davis's career between 1955 and 1970.   This particular tune "Circle in The Round" was recorded in 1967 and put on the record as track number four.  

The band lineup includes Miles Davis on trumpet, bells and chimes, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on keyboards, Joe Beck on guitar, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums.    

Revisiting Phish's tune "Fuego" again

 

This week's Sunday Special revisiting Phish's song "Fuego" again.  "Fuego" from Phish's 8/18/2024 show at Mondegreen at The Woodlands in Dover, DE.

Michael Brecker - Impressions

 

Conservatory Den Haag 2003

David Barker (drums) 
Rodrigo Reijers (bass) 
Michal Vanoucek (piano)
Guy Nikkels (guitar)

Mike Brecker with Steps Ahead Capitol Jazz 1982 "Young and Fine"

 

This clip was on YouTube for years but it was terribly out of sync.

I tried several times to sync the audio with the video, but with no succes.

I tried again today because I was under the impression that the video was too fast,

but the audio was ok. That was the solution. With some trial and error

I slowed down the video to 83% and that was it. 

It's a very, very short clip, but Mike Brecker is burning with Steps on the 

Capital Jazz Festival, Knebworth, UK. July 25, 1982

Burnin' Blues - Joey DeFrancesco, Bobby Durham, Massimo Farao Live in Bern

 

Burnin’ Blues - Joey DeFrancesco, Bobby Durham , Massimo Farao

Live in Bern

Phish with Billy Strings - 8/7/2024 - Wolfman's Brother → Death Don't Hurt Very Long

 

"Wolfman's Brother" → "Death Don't Hurt Very Long" featuring Billy Strings from Phish's 8/7/2024 show at the Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI.

Keith Jarrett and Gary Peacock -- I Fall In Love Too Easily

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.  

I Fall In Love Too Easily - Keith Jarrett, piano and Gary Peacock, bass with Jack DeJohnette's tasty brushwork. For more great video, please visit the new home of the Jazz Video Guy: http://syncopatedjustice.com #keithjarrett

The Moody Blues "Nights In White Satin" (revisited)

 

This week's Sunday Special.  Revisiting, for the first time in a dozen years, a favorite tune.  This is The Moody Blues' magnum opus, "Nights in White Satin", one of the best ballads ever written.  This particular version is from a 1968 episode of "The Beat Club" television show.  This is the classic lineup of the band with Justin Hayward on guitar and vocals, Mike Pinder on keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals, John Lodge on bass and vocals, Ray Thomas on flute, and Graeme Edge on drums.  

Jack DeJohnette - Herbie Hancock - Don Alias: MERCY STREET

 

Montreux 1997: The New Standard All Stars:

Herbie Hancok - Piano
Michael Brecker - Saxophone
John Scofield - Guitar
Dave Holland - Bass
Jack DeJonette - Drums
Don Alias - Percussion

What is Jazz, Anyway?

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

A documentary from the Kongsberg Jazzfestival 1975, featuring brief interviews and performances: *CARL M. NEUMANN-CHRISTIAN REIM QUARTET* Carl Magnus Neumann - saxophone Christian Reim - piano Bjørn Kjellemyr - bass Ole Jacob Hansen - drums \ *POLISH RADIO JAZZ BIG BAND - Quotation from myself (T. Stanko)* Tomasz Stanko - trumpet Other musicians unknown *DON CHERRY QUINTET* Don Cherry - pocket trumpet, doussn'guni, vocals Frank Lowe - tenor saxophone Arild Andersen - bass Billy Higgins - drums *ED THIGPEN'S ACTION-RE-ACTION* Ed Thigpen - drums Janne Schaffer - guitar Kjell Öhmann - piano Mads Vinding - bass Carlos Pandeiro - percussion *ELVIN JONES QUARTET* Elvin Jones - drums Pat La Barbera - saxophone Roland Prince - guitar David Williams - bass *CHARLES MINGUS QUINTET* Charles Mingus - bass Jack Walrath - trumpet George Adams - tenor saxophone Don Pullen - piano Dannie Richmond - drums *DON CHERRY QUINTET* Don Cherry - vocals, melodica Frank Lowe - tenor saxophone Arild Andersen - bass Billy Higgins - drums #elvinjones #charlesmingus #doncherry #billyhiggins Special thanks to Norwegian Television, NRK, for documenting this music. ---

Pim Jacobs en het Metropole orkest - Meditation - Music All In - 11/06/1976 • World of Jazz

 

Just as the title suggests, this performance is indeed what it says on the marquee, or on the tin.  Pianist Pim Jacobs and the Metropole Orkestra playing "Meditation" on the Music All In television program on June 11th, 1976.  

Phish - 8/15/2024 Mondegreen - What's Going Through Your Mind

 

"What's Going Through Your Mind" from Phish's 8/15/2024 Mondegreen set at The Woodlands, Dover, DE.

Sun Ra - Outer Space Employment Agency, Excerpt from Space is the Place

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Excerpt from "Space is the Place," an 85-minute Afrofuturist science fiction film made in 1972 and released in 1974, directed by John Coney, written by Sun Ra and Joshua Smith, and features Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Plot: Sun Ra, who has been reported lost since his European tour in June 1969, lands on a new planet in outer space with his crew, known as "the Arkestra", and decides to settle African Americans on this planet. The medium of transportation he chooses for this resettlement is music. He travels back in time and returns to the Chicago strip club where he used to play piano with the name "Sonny Ray" in 1943, where he confronts the Overseer (Ray Johnson), a pimp-overlord, and they agree on a game of cards for the fate of the Black race. In present time (the early 1970s), Ra disembarks from his spaceship in Oakland and tries to spread word of his plans. He meets with young African Americans at an Oakland youth centre and opens an "Outer Space Employment Agency" to recruit people eager to move to the planet. He also agrees with Jimmy Fey (Christopher Brooks) — an employee of the Overseer — to arrange radio interviews, a record album, and eventually a concert that will help him dictate his message. As the card game between Ra and the Overseer is played, and it becomes clear that the Overseer is winning, Ra's plans to recruit local black youth for his new utopian space colony suffer setbacks. Many of them are suspicious of Ra, accusing him of faking his outer-spatial origin as a gimmick to boost his record sales. He is kidnapped by a team of white NASA scientists who threaten him with violence, desperate to learn the secrets to his space-travel technology. As Ra's concert rapidly approaches, he is saved by three local teenagers, who escort him to the music hall just in time. At the concert, as the Arkestra play their signature free jazz, the NASA scientists appear and attempt to assassinate Ra with a pistol. One of the teenagers jumps in front of the bullet, saving Ra's life, and as he is bleeding out on the stage, Sun Ra waves his hand and the teenager, his friends, and Ra himself all disappear from the music hall. One by one, black people across Oakland vanish into thin air and reappear on Ra's spaceship. Jimmy Fey resists leaving Earth on Ra's spaceship, but Ra doesn't let Fey leave; Ra takes Fey's "black parts" with him onto the spaceship, leaving his "white parts" behind on Earth. Fey, now acting white, leaves the Overseer, who loses the duel. As Ra's spaceship launches off into the cosmos and music begins playing, a montage implies that Earth is destroyed in its wake.

Phish - 8/17/2024 Mondegreen - Tweezer → Scents & Subtle Sounds

 

"Tweezer" → "Scents & Subtle Sounds " from Phish's 8/17/2024 show at Mondegreen at The Woodlands, Dover, DE.

A Tribute by Ben and Noel Haggard as They Perform Their Father’s Iconic Hits.

Another Sunday Special this week.  Merle Haggard's sons Ben and Noel Haggard, continuing to pay tribute always to their father's musical legacy as "the poet of the common man".  

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Randy Brecker Quintet Mondo Perso New York - 1991

 

Full Concert Friday again this week.

Randy Brecker Quintet

Mondo Perso

New York

1991

Randy Brecker: Trumpet

David Kikoski: Piano

Wayne krantz: Guitar

Vince Loving: Bass

Rodney Holmes: Drums 

1 Intro

2 Hurdy Gurdy

3 There's A Mingus Amonk Us

4 Squids

5 Moontide

6 Little Miss P

Phish "Mercy"

 

From their July 23rd, 2024, concert at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, here is Phish with the tune "Mercy".  

The Gipsy - Joey DeFrancesco, Bobby Durham, Massimo Farao’

 

Live in Bern 

The Gipsy - Joey DeFrancesco, Bobby Durham, Massimo Farao’

Of note, pianist Bobby Durham doubles on vocals, and Joey DeFrancesco doubles on both Hammond organ, and trumpet.  

Frank Vignola Quintet, David Grisman, Robinella - Sweet Georgia Brown

 

The title of the post says it all.  The Frank Vignola Quintet with David Grisman and Robinella performing the now century old 1925 jazz standard "Sweet Georgia Brown" composed by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, and Kenneth Casey, who wrote the lyrics to the tune.  Check it out.  

Fifty years old, yet this Elvis song is still better than anything in modern music.

This week's Sunday Special, all about Elvis Presley's song "Can't Help Falling In Love".  

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"Bob Seger's 'Turn the Page': A Timeless Anthem Released in 1973"

Highlighting another one of my favorite songs of all-time.  "Turn The Page" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band.

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Dave Brubeck Quartet Live At The North Sea Jazz Festival • 10-07-1982 • World of Jazz

 

Full Concert Friday this week featuring the Dave Brubeck Quartet live at the 1982 North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland on July 10th, 1982.

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. He studied at the University of the Pacific. His best-known group was the Dave Brubeck Quartet with saxophonist Paul Desmond (1924-1977), bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello that he started in 1951.  Brubeck wrote a number of jazz standards, including ‘In Your Own Sweet Way’ and ‘The Duke’. His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the saxophone melody for the Dave Brubeck Quartet's, ‘Take Five’, which has endured as a jazz classic on one of the top-selling jazz albums. He also wrote ‘Unsquare Dance (1961) in 7/4 ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’.

On this recording the Brubeck Quartet consists of:

Dave Brubeck, piano
Chris Brubeck, bass guitar & bass trombone
Randy Jones, drums
Bill Smith, clarinet

New Orleans Suite - Duke Ellington

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Duke Ellington at La Bussola, a waterfront nightclub in Marina di Pietrasanta, near the resort of Le Focette, Italy. July 20, in 1970.  From the New Orleans Suite: Second Line, Bourbon Street Jingling Jollie, Aristocracy A La Jean Lafitte, Thanks for The Beautiful Land, and Portrait of Louis Armstrong.

The band lineup is as follows:

Trumpets: Cootie Williams, Cat Anderson, Mercer Ellington, Fred Stone, & Nelson Williams

Trombones & Bass Trombone: Booty Wood, Malcolm Taylor, & Chuck Connors

Reeds: 

Russell Procope, clarinet & alto saxophone

Norris Turney: flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, & tenor saxophone

Harold Ashby: clarinet, tenor saxophone

Paul Gonsalves: tenor saxophone

Harry Carney: clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone

Rhythm section:

Duke Ellington: piano

"Wild" Bill Davis: organ

Joe Benjamin: bass

Rufus Jones: drums