~ Duke Ellington - C Jam Blues (1942)
Views: 397730 |  |  |  |  | A 1942 recording of C Jam Blues beformed by Duke Ellington and a collection of other Jazz giants in a famous recording called "Jam Session". Other artist included Barney Bigard, Sonny Greer, Ray Nance, Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton, Rex Stewart, and Ben Webster ...More . Use this link to open my Jazz Giants library playlist. www.youtube.com EUdGs6FKg= |
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~ Sarah Vaughan - The Sassy One
Views: 641697 |  |  |  |  | For more great Sarah, check out: www.mosaicrecords.com Jazz critic Leonard Feather called her "the most important singer to emerge from the bop era." Ella Fitzgerald called her the worlds "greatest singing talent." During the course of a career that spann ...More ed nearly fifty years, she was the singers singer, influencing everyone from Mel Torme to Anita Baker. She was among the musical elite identified by their first names. She was Sarah, Sassy -- the incomparable Sarah Vaughan. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1924, Vaughan was immediately surrounded by music: her carpenter father was an amateur guitarist and her laundress mother was a church vocalist. Young Sarah studied piano from the age of seven, and before entering her teens had become an organist and choir soloist at the Mount Zion Baptist Church. When she was eighteen, friends dared her to enter the famed Wednesday Night Amateur Contest at Harlems Apollo Theater. She gave a sizzling rendition of "Body and Soul," and won first prize. In the audience that night was the singer Billy Eckstine. Six months later, she had joined Eckstine in Earl Hiness big band along with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. When Eckstine formed his own band soon after, Vaughan went with him. Others including Miles Davis and Art Blakey, were eventually to join the band as well. Within a year, however, Vaughan wanted to give a solo career a try. By late 1947, she had topped the charts with "Tenderly," and as the 1940s gave way to the ... |
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~ Nina Simone: Four Women
Views: 506981 |  |  |  |  | Fiori, fiori per Nina. Flowers, flowers for Nina al Festival Jazz di Antibes del 1965. Narrano le leggende che dopo questa interpretazione Duke Ellington abbia scritto per lei "La plus belle africaine" qui Nina è nel fiore della sua arte amalteo.wordpress ...More .com www.boscarol.com My skin is black My arms are long My hair is wooly My back is strong Strong enough to take the pain Its been inflicted again and again What do they call me My name is AUNT SARAH My name is Aunt Sarah My skin is yellow My hair is long Between two worlds I do belong My father was rich and white He forced my mother late one night What do they call me My name is SIFFRONIA My name is Siffronia My skin is tan My hairs alright, its fine My hips invite you And my lips are like wine Whose little girl am I? Well yours if you have some money to buy What do they call me My name is SWEET THING My name is Sweet Thing My skin is brown And my manner is tough Ill kill the first mother I see Cos my life has been too rough Im awfully bitter these days because my parents were slaves What do they call me My name is PEACHES |
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~ Duke Ellington - It don't mean a thing (1943)
Views: 874414 |  |  |  |  | Duke Ellington and his orchestra playing this awesome tune in 1943. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills, now accepted as a jazz standard. The music was written and arrang ...More ed by Ellington in August 1931 during intermissions at Chicago's Lincoln Tavern and was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra for Brunswick Records (Br 6265) on February 2, 1932. Ivie Anderson sang the vocal and trombonist Joe Nanton and alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges played the instrumental solos. The title was based on the oft stated credo of Ellington's former trumpeter Bubber Miley, who was dying of tuberculosis. The song became famous, Ellington wrote, "as the expression of a sentiment which prevailed among jazz musicians at the time." Probably the first song to use the phrase "swing" in the title, it introduced the term into everyday language and presaged the Swing Era by three years. The Ellington band played the song continuously over the years and recorded it numerous times, most often with trumpeter Ray Nance as vocalist. |
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~ mood indigo - Duke Ellington
Views: 317759 |  |  |  |  | The great Duke and his orchestra. Sorry but after Jimmy Hamilton's playing everyone else should quit (including our friend kenny... no...just kidding!) PS: U can check the other version I'd posted too. Anyways Don't know that much about jazz but i love th ...More is one too. Some day with time i need to look for more of these in my archives. Good luck Wilo" People writes me about this particular video all the time.... I know that is a great great video but still not getting it why "this"... Love it anyways!! Good luck for everyone out there!! PS: Just so you guys know I'm getting a little tired of reading fights over who's better than who or stupid comments like that so I'll delete them all and make everyone happy. |
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~ Frank "Sugarchile" Robinson - Caldonia
Views: 293549 |  |  |  |  | From movie "No Leave No Love" 1946 Frank "Sugarchile" Robinson SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON (By Dave Penny) Born Frank Robinson, 1940, Detroit, Michigan The history of 20th century entertainment is littered with child prodigies; from Shirley Temple in the 1930s, ...More Toni Harper in the 1940s and Frankie Lymon in the 1950s. On the whole, although precociously talented, child entertainers were usually saddled with inferior, childish material that, while perhaps cute at the time, were usually novelty acts that grew tiresome pretty quickly. Some couldn't handle the swift drop in popularity and turned to drink or drugs, while others retired gracefully and concentrated their energies in other directions. One such was that tiny bundle of Detroit dynamite, "Sugar Chile" Robinson. Born Frankie Robinson, the youngest of six children, in Detroit in 1940, "Sugar Chile" began pounding on the family piano as a toddler - he reputedly banged out a recognisable version of Erskine Hawkins' Tuxedo Junction at the age of two - and by 1945 he had been "discovered" by pianist and bandleader Frankie Carle. Within a year he was asked to play at a Whitehouse party for President Harry Truman, had guested with Lionel Hampton's Orchestra and even appeared performing the title song in the 1946 MGM romantic comedy film "No Leave, No Love". It was not until July 1949, however, that he made his first records for the Capitol label, when, in the consummate company of jazz veterans Leonard Bibbs on bass and drummer ... |
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~ Ben Webster - The Brute
Views: 213266 |  |  |  |  | www.jazzvideoguy.tv presents the immortal Ben Webster. Ben is without question one of the musics immortals. He did not originate a style or spearhead a period of radical change; but his magnetic tenor saxophone playing moved listeners as deeply as the wor ...More k of any other artist on his or any other instrument. Intensity and honesty were the hallmarks of Websters music from his early days in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. During the Twenties and Thirties, he gained fame as a major Coleman Hawkins disciple and one of jazzs premier hot soloists through his work with the big bands of Bennie Moten, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, and others; and while his uptempo brilliance continued to be displayed after he joined Duke Ellington in 1940 on classics like "Cotton Tail," the Ducal environment and nightly exposure to alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges brought out a ballad mastery in Webster that continued to blossom in the Fifties, when he made a series of recordings for Verve. Appreciation of Websters work has only grown since his passing in 1973. Ben Webster - Tenor Saxophone, Kenny Drew - Piano, Nils Henning Orsted Pederson - Bass, Alex Riel, Drums |
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~ Papa Jo Jones
Views: 199254 |  |  |  |  | This is very cool...he puts down the drumsticks and plays the kit like a large set of handrums...then pics up the sticks again and rocks it out! Papa Jo Jones has played with Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Elle Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, Lion ...More el Hampton, Roy Eldridge, Chuck Berry, Buddy Tate, Benny Goodman, John Coltrane... |
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