"Codes" (Bonus Track) | The Lao Tizer Band

 

The Lao Tizer Band performs "Codes" (Bonus Track) from their brand-new Billboard Jazz Top 10 CD/DVD combo-pack release, "Songs From The Swinghouse"! Amazon https://amzn.to/2BcjNWi (order physical copy to get CD & DVD) Apple Music/iTunes https://apple.co/2MJeToA Spotify https://spoti.fi/2HF7iZ1 Google Play http://bit.ly/2DJ6PBj Visit http://www.LaoTizer.com for tour dates and more! Facebook   / laotizerband   Instagram   / laotizer   Written by Lao Tizer (Lao Tizer Music – BMI, Fiera Music – BMI, Djembe Music – BMI, Modern Works Music Publishing - ASCAP) Rhythm Section Arrangement by Gene Coye, Ric Fierabracci, Munyungo Jackson & Lao Tizer Horn arrangement by Lao Tizer Horn orchestration & copyist Bijon Watson Karen Briggs – violin Chieli Minucci – electric guitar Ric Fierabracci – bass Gene Coye – drums Munyungo Jackson – percussion Lolly Allen – marimba Eric Marienthal – alto sax Steve Nieves – tenor sax Bijon Watson – flugelhorn Lao Tizer – grand piano, Fender Rhodes, keys

"To Touch The Sky" (no intro) | The Lao Tizer Band

 

The Lao Tizer Band performs "To Touch The Sky" from their brand-new Billboard Jazz Top 10 CD/DVD combo-pack release - "Songs From The Swinghouse"! Available now worldwide on Yse Records! Amazon https://amzn.to/2BcjNWi (order physical copy to get CD & DVD) Apple Music/iTunes https://apple.co/2MJeToA Spotify https://spoti.fi/2HF7iZ1 Google Play http://bit.ly/2DJ6PBj Visit http://www.LaoTizer.com for tour dates and more! Facebook   / laotizerband   Instagram   / laotizer   Written by Lao Tizer (Lao Tizer Music – BMI) String arrangement & copyist Karen Briggs Chieli Minucci – acoustic guitar Jeff Marshall – electric guitar Ric Fierabracci – bass Gene Coye – drums Munyungo Jackson – percussion Karen Briggs – 1st violin Rachel Grace – 2nd violin Nikki Shorts – viola Artyom Manukyan – cello Lao Tizer – grand piano

The St Thomas Story - Sonny Rollins | Jazz Video Guy | Origin of His Classic Composition

 

From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.

Sonny Rollins explains the origin of his classic composition, Saint Thomas.  The Caribbean music played at home there was al there was all kinds of music played at home I mean there was uh as I mentioned to you before uh fratzwaller I heard him when I was really small on the radio or something but there was all kinds of music at home we used to have this piano with the piano rolls and those guys people I guess like james p johnson you know would be playing those piano roles there was a lot of we had the radio there was all sorts of music on the radio we used to listen every sunday there was a couple of programs uh on called wings over jordan which was a gospel show that came on every sunday morning and that was it for the you know everybody in the community uh wings over jordan uh people of my uh vintage would uh know very well whatever when once I met name uh so there was a lot of music there was a music from a to z my first memories of caribbean music was I think when my mother took me someplace that and the band was there and they were playing uh, that's one i remember that very well because i was sort of a young baby almost and uh it was something a local right around the house or someplace near a house or something so i i recall that very distinctly that uh that i heard that then probably my mother used to sing that i think my mother used to sing that uh you know this this this was sort of a saint saint thomas song as you know later i made my arrangement of it uh was often uh credited as being the the composersly it was it's an adaptation of that uh traditional saint as melodies there was a records i think my mother had some um calypso records also around the house you know so i've heard i heard some of those also well i remember the names of some of these guys i remember i called the lord invader and then i remember a guy called attila the hun then i remember a guy called um because the duke of iron who i later actually saw performing you know at uh park palace so there were a couple of names or those names like that were you know quite colorful if we we might say so i remember those.

The Band & Eric Clapton "Further On Up The Road"

 

This week's Sunday Special.

Happy 80th Birthday to Eric Clapton!

From "The Last Waltz" the Martin Scorsese documentary concert movie of The Band's final concert, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California, on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, here is The Band with Eric Clapton jamming on "Further on Up the Road".  The whole movie is great and so is the entire concert which I have posted here, which is separate from the movie.  If you have a chance and you have not heard or seen any of The Last Waltz, I highly encourage you to check it out.  This is truly musical history.  

Kenny Burrell "Lover Man"

 

From Legends of Jazz Guitar- Volume 2

featuring Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Grant Green & Charlie Byrd

Titles include: BARNEY KESSEL, KENNY BURRELL & GRANT GREEN Blue Mist WES MONTGOMERY Full House, 'Round Midnight JOE PASS Original Blues In A, Prelude To A Kiss KENNY BURRELL Lover Man, My Ship BARNEY KESSEL BBC Blues CHARLIE BYRD Jitterbug Waltz and Isn't It A Lovely Day?

Illinois Jacquet, Dexter Gordon, Arnett Cobb, Buddy Tate & Budd Johnson Live • World of Jazz

 

Full Concert Friday this week once again via World of Jazz on YouTube.

Tenor Saxophone Battle, North Sea Jazz Festival 15 July 1979

The world's greatest tenor saxophone players: Illinois Jacquet, Dexter Gordon, Arnett Cobb, Buddy Tate and Budd Johnson perform a sensational and memorable tenor sax battle live on the stage of the North Sea Jazz Festival 1979

They are accompanied by:

Hank Jones, piano,
Gene Ramey, bass
Gus Johnson, drums

Repertoire played a.o.:

Lady Be Good
Love Affair
In The Still Of The Night
She Got It
Satin Doll
Flying Home
Alone Together

This concert took place on Sunday 15 July 1979, Prins Willem Alexander Hall, Congresgebouw, The Hague, The Netherlands

Free "The Stealer"

 

Free, from a rare television performance, circa 1970, of their song "The Stealer".  Free, were a rock and roll quartet featuring Paul Rodgers on lead vocals, who also played piano and both lead and rhythm guitar with the band, lead guitarist Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser on bass, as well as keyboards and rhythm guitar, and drummer, percussionist, and vocalist, Simon Kirke.