The Album
Art Tatum
The Album
DUKE ELLINGTON Alice Babs - LES CONCERTS SACRES
08/01/2009 : ¨¨¨¨je vous en prie!!achetez les cd des concerts sacrés de DUKE ELLINGTON VOILA CE QUI REPRESENTE POUR MOI LA PLUS BELLE CHOSE CREE AU 20EME SIECLE PAR LE PLUS GRAND COMPOSITEUR DU 20EME SIECLE (C'EST L'AVIS DE BEAUCOUP DE MUSICOLOGUES ECLAIRES) LE GRAND EDWARD KENNEDY ELLINGTON, DIT "DUKE"IL Y A AVEC LUI L'IMMENSE CHANTEUSE SUEDOISE ALICE BABS ET LE LEGENDAIRE CLARINETISTE RUSSEL PROCOPE VOUS REMARQUEREZ LES MAGNIFIQUES REGARDS QUE SE JETTENT ALICE, JOHNNY HODGES ET LA "MAITRE" MONSIEUR DUKE ELLINGTON QUI A DECIDE DU SORT DE MA VIE A L'AUBE DE MES 12-13 ANS. (AU MEME TITRE QU'ART TATUM ET CHARLIE PARKER)
Duke Ellington:concerts sacrés:Alice Babs - Heaven
08/01/2009 : Duke Ellington:concerts sacrés:Alice Babs - HeavenVOILA CE QUI REPRESENTE POUR MOI LA PLUS BELLE CHOSE CREE AU 20EME SIECLE PAR LE PLUS GRAND COMPOSITEUR DU 20EME SIECLE (C'EST L'AVIS DE BEAUCOUP DE MUSICOLOGUES ECLAIRES) LE GRAND EDWARD KENNEDY ELLINGTON, DIT "DUKE"IL Y A AVEC LUI L'IMMENSE CHANTEUSE SUEDOISE ALICE BABS ET LE LEGENDAIRE SAXOPHONISTE ALTO JOHNNY HODGES. VOUS REMARQUEREZ LES MAGNIFIQUES REGARDS QUE SE JETTENT ALICE, JOHNNY HODGES ET LA "MAITRE" MONSIEUR DUKE ELLINGTON QUI A DECIDE DU SORT DE MA VIE A L'AUBE DE MES 12-13 ANS. (AU MEME TITRE QU'ART TATUM ET CHARLIE PARKER)
Carla Thomas & Father Rufus Thomas - Do the Funky Chicken
20/10/2008 : Related artists: Booker T. Jones, Irma Thomas, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Johnny Ace, The Staple Singers, The Bar-Kays, David Porter, Isaac Hayes, Carla Thomas, Junior Parker, B.B. King, Ike Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Bobby Blue Band, Bobby "Blue" Band, Eddie Floyd, Sam Phillips, Mike Stoller, Raymond Jackson, Al Lewis, Soul Stirrers, George Jackson, Percy Sledge, Al Green, James Carr, Luther Ingram, Albert King, Bobby Rush, Sam Mosley, Sam Cooke, Booker T. & the MGs, Booker T. & the MG's, the Mar-Keys, Elvis, Al Green, James Brown, Little Richard, Fats Waller, Art Tatum The songs in the film, in order of appearance, are: "What You See Is What You Get", performed by The Dramatics "Oh La De Da", performed by the Staple Singers "We the People", performed by the Staple Singers "Respect Yourself", performed by the Staple Singers "Star-Spangled Banner", performed by Kim Weston "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing", performed by Kim Weston "Someone Greater Than I", performed by Jimmy Jones "Lying on the Truth", performed by the Rance Allen Group "Peace Be Still", performed by The Emotions "Old-Time Religion", performed by William Bell, Louise McCord, Debra Manning, Eric Mercury, Freddy Robinson, Lee Sain, Ernie Hines, Little Sonny, the Newcomers, Eddie Floyd, the Temprees, Frederick Knight "Son of Shaft/Feel It", performed by The Bar-Kays "I'll Play The Blues For You", performed by Albert King "Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone", performed by Johnnie Taylor "Walking the Backstreet and Crying", performed by Little Milton "I May Not Be What You Want", performed by Mel and Tim "Picking Up the Pieces", performed by Carla Thomas "The Breakdown", performed by Rufus Thomas "If Lovin' You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to be Right", performed by Luther Ingram "Theme from Shaft", performed by Isaac Hayes "Soulsville", performed by Isaac Hayes
Oscar Peterson Mirage
26/04/2008 : Vidéo peu connue d 'un des plus grands pianistes de jazz qui fait ici une démonstration éclatante du style "stride" cher à son maître Art Tatum , style difficile à jouer mais spectaculaire ; tout y est : indépendance des mains , maîtrise de la main gauche ( dixièmes ) , changement de rythme , improvisation , technique , swing !
Just Friends - Oscar Peterson 1974
04/11/2007 : Just Friends Oscar Peterson 1974 Norman Granz heard Oscar Peterson for the first on a ?live local? broadcast in Montreal in a cab to the airport. He turned around invited him to New York. At the age of 24 Oscar Peterson stunned Carnegie Hall in 1949 and began a prolific jazz career in the next year. In the early seventies he met a young bassist from Denmark. Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, born in 1946 joined Oscar on many of his concert tours and together they recorded more than 50 albums This clip was recorded in Prague in 1974. One hears the incredible togetherness and of course the skill and talent of these two master improvisors. One of the best and fastest bass solos I ever heard and then Oscar being able to switch within a chorus or two between the stride style developed by Fats Waller and the utmost technical swing style started by Art Tatum, both jazz pioneers from the twenties and thirties. A stunning performance!!
Tiny Grimes
02/05/2007 : Tiny Grimes (1916 ? 1989) began his musical career playing drums and piano. In 1938 he took up the guitar choosing the unusual electric 4-string tenor guitar. In 1940 he joined the Cats And A Fiddle as guitarist and singer. In 1943 he joined the Art Tatum Trio as guitarist and made a number of recordings with Tatum. The early Tatum Trio recordings made for the Asch and Comet recording labels are some of the more interesting early examples of Tiny Grimes? guitar work.
Oscar Peterson Quartet Live (1987)
19/04/2007 : Il est né le 15 août 1925 à Montréal, Québec, Canada. Il commença à apprendre la trompette et son père lui apprit à jouer du piano à l'âge de cinq ans, mais vers l?âge de sept ans il se consacra au piano. Il gagna rapidement une réputation de pianiste techniquement brillant et de pianiste de jazz mélodieusement inventif, et devint un invité régulier des radios. Il apparut la première fois au Carnegie Hall en 1949. Il joua et enregistra entre autres accompagné par Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, Ed Thigpen, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Louis Armstrong et accompagna Ella Fitzgerald, Clark Terry, et Joe Pass. Un des grands tournants de sa carrière fut son engagement par l?impresario Norman Granz au sein de l'écurie Verve Records, grâce auquel il put jouer avec les artistes de jazz les plus importants du moment. Ses premières influences furent Teddy Wilson, Nat King Cole, James P. Johnson et le légendaire Art Tatum, avec lequel beaucoup essayèrent plus tard de le comparer. En fait, Oscar s?imprégna des talents musicaux de Art Tatum assez tôt lorsqu?il avait dix ans et quand son père lui fit écouter un des disques de cet artiste, il fut si ému par ce qu?il entendit qu'il ne toucha pas le piano pendant plus d'un mois. En 1993, Oscar fut victime d?une sérieuse attaque qui affaiblit son bras et sa main gauches et qui le rendit inactif pendant deux années. Cependant il surmonta cette infirmité et aujourd?hui il fait encore des tournées, enregistrant et composant comme il l?a toujours fait. En 1997 il reçut un Grammy Award pour l'ensemble de son ?uvre et son inscription à l'« International Jazz Hall of Fame », preuve qu?Oscar Peterson est encore considéré comme l?un des plus grands musiciens de jazz de tous les temps. Son travail lui valut sept récompenses au Grammy et il fut primé au Canadian Music Hall of Fame en 1978. Il a été fait Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Québec en 1991.
Oscar and Dave
09/04/2007 : Mike Jones, the pianist often compared to his mentors and friends Dave McKenna and Oscar Peterson, wrote this tribute on the fly and recorded it for an EP available online. You can find the EP at his website, JonesJazz.com. This is the video of the recording session. The recording shows the left hand action reflected in the piano and the right hand action is so fast it almost needs to be seen frame by frame. This Mike Jones opens for Penn and Teller, and played in the 2007 SXSW Music Festival. He's recorded for years with Chiaroscuro. He's shopping for a new label now that Hank O'Neal is retiring the label. The guy is a monster!!
Bye Bye Boogie Dorothy Donegan
24/03/2007 : Bye Bye Boogie Donegan Dorothy 1987 Pianist Dorothy Donegan in Concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1987 With her are bassist Major Holly and drummer Oliver Jackson. From the "Last Post" The death of Dorothy Donegan this past spring (May 19, age 76, Los Angeles) was lamentably largely ignored by the press and the jazz media as they did regrettably throughout most of the pianist's lifetime. The AP wire did give the indomitable artist lead preference in its daily obits round-up and the New York Times, with its promise of "All the News That's Fit to Print," gave Dorothy her due, including a one-column candid photo of the pianist in performance, and jazz author Chip Deffaa warmly recalled her "strength, energy, and imagination" in his New York Post column. Interestingly, though, Times jazz scribe Ben Ratliff quoted his noted jazz predecessor, John S. Wilson's coverage of a Town Hall appearance in 1971 citing that '"Ms. Donegan showed a technical virtuosity that could be compared only to that of Art Tatum and a swinging drive that might be equaled by Mary Lou Williams." Oddly omitted was the Wilson quote that Donegan carried ever closest to her heart, ". . . She is potentially the greatest jazz pianist playing today." A reflection on this comment comes into focus with Chip Deffaa recalling in his obit, "She was probably the only jazz artist who, in the 1990's, could somehow satisfy the very different audiences of the Village Vanguard (the high temple of jazz purism) and the Tavern on the Green (the glitzy tourist nightspot) - both of which she loved."
Slam Stewart-Lady Be Good
20/02/2007 : Lady be Good Stewart 1979 Leroy "Slam" Stewart was the most recorded jazz bassists of the 1940s. He was born September 21, 1914 in Englewood, New Jersey. He started on violin but switched to bass, studying at Boston Conservatory. Stewart, who had perfect pitch, mastered the technique of playing his solos with a bow while humming along simultaneously at an octave higher, which made him a very popular showman, and made him very famous in the jazz world. He got his nickname from the percussive "slapping" or "slamming"sound his strings made when they hit the neck of his bass while plucking. In 1937, he moved to New York and met Slim Gaillard. Together they became very popular as "Slim and Slam" on radio and records. Their song Flat Foot Floogie was a huge hit. During the 1930s and 1940s he worked mostly in small groups, playing with Art Tatum, Lester Young, Goodman, Parker, Gillespie, and others. He also led his own group which for a period featured the up-and-coming pianist Erroll Garner, and he performed a couple of stunning duets with tenor saxophonist Don Byas at a 1945 Town Hall concert. He won many awards including Down Beat's Best Bassist of the Year (1945) and Berklee's Highest Achievement Honor Award. Although accepted as a pioneer on the bass, he didn't influence a large number of future bassists, because he was too difficult to emulate. In the 1950s, he played with Tatum, Roy Eldridge, and he regularly accompanied singer Rose Murphy. In the 1960s, he added classical music to his repertoire. He frequently toured in the 1970s and 80s playing with a variety of artists, usually in mainstream jazz. Stewart died in 1987. In this clip he plays with Peter Appleyard, Zoot Sims, Hank Jones and some local Canadian musicians.
In the Mist - Johnny Guarnieri
13/02/2007 : In a Mist Guarnieri Johnny 1959 Johnny Guarnieri ( 1917- 1985) is performing one of Bix Beiderbecke's piano compositions. One of the most talented pianists of the 1940s, Johnny Guarnieri had the ability to closely imitate Fats Waller, Count Basie, and even Art Tatum. He played in bands with Goodman, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong and many of the other jazz greats
Oscar Peterson Goodbye
10/02/2007 : Goodbye Peterson Oscar 1961? Having little background on the particular circumstances of this recording it definitely defines Oscar Peterson's extreme skills superior to virtually any jazz pianist in the history of jazz. Oscar's hero was Art Tatum and one can hear a quite a bit of Tatumesque sounding runs. I have listened to a lot of Tatum's recordings and after a while his magic runs to me seem to become somewhat repetitive. I don't feel that way with Oscar's. This track came from a European collector and seems to be recorded in the early sixties in Holland. Ray Brown on bass, and I believe Ed Thigpen on drums.
