From Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack), on YouTube, here is the trio of John McLaughlin on guitar, Joey DeFrancesco on Hammond organ, and Elvin Jones on drums, playing their rendition of “My Favorite Things”, the tune from The Sound of Music written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, that was made famous by John Coltrane. The performance is taken from the 1994 Antibes Jazz Festival in France.
Another one from the "Layla: Revisited" album, live at the Lockn' Festival, with Tedeschi Trucks Band featuring Doyle Bramhall II. and Trey Anastasio. This is "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out", first interpreted by Derek & The Dominos, but going way back to 1923 when Jimmy Cox wrote the tune
For Full Album Friday this week, rediscovering Cameroon born jazz and funk saxophonist, Manu Dibango. The late, great, Manu Dibango, who died last year, from the cursed Coronavirus. This is his "African Voodoo" record released in 1972, and the uploader has ripped it straight from a vinyl LP record. The track listing.
Happy 95th birthday, Miles Davis. A tribute by Jazz Video Guy (Bret Primack), done ten years ago. Today, Miles would have been 95! He left us in 1991 but his music is eternal. Thanks to Sonny Rollins and Gary Bartz for speaking with me about Miles for this video, produced way back in 2011.
From the album "Layla: Revisited", here is the Tedeschi Trucks Band live at Lockn' Festival in Arrington, Virginia, with guest guitarists Doyle Bramhall II. and Trey Anastasio, playing "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad." This record is obviously a tribute to Derek & The Dominos.
From Jazz Video Guy and from one legendary tenor saxophone player, to another. Michael Brecker playing John Coltrane's "Naima", solo. Coltrane, I believe really would have dug Michael Brecker's performance. Two jazz greats, two masters of the tenor saxophone, gone way too soon.
