https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shZ517KIYJY Monk in cut-offs and tennis shoes? Deal with it! Intermediate Group B takes flight at Julian Joseph Jazz Academy. Featuring Ava Joseph, vocals; Kaidi Akinnibi, Ruben Ross, Alex Dmochowski, tenor sax; James Wade-Sired, trombone; Tommy Williams, guitar; Menelik Claffey, bass; Adam Hughes, piano; Zehy Al Dhabari, drums. Posted by Julian Joseph Jazz Academy Mo…
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Olinka Mitroshina—“Four In One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXQooXwRGjc Olinka Mitroshina, who usually devotes her time to reinventing “traditional” jazz (Bessie Smith, George Gershwin, Billie Holiday), here gets Monkish. Posted by Olinka Mitroshina Mo Monk, Mo Monk, Mo Monk? Yes! Available now from Mostly Monk
The Snake at the Table
A month ago, thoughtful conservative Ross Douthat wrote a column, “The Necessity of Stephen Miller”, in which he argued that if liberals want a deal on immigration, they’re going to have to allow White House dude Stephen Miller a place at the table. Yes, Ross acknowledges, El Stevo has views on immigration that are at…
JiYoung Lee New Trio— “Bemsha Swing”
Korean jazz, posted by JiYoung Lee
Joey Alexander—“Evidence”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_LFXNJzNwY Fourteen-year-old Joey Alexander, not playing “Bemsha Swing”, but here shown playing at an all Monk recital at Lincoln Center, now available as a CD, or whatever terminology we use nowadays for recordings. Jazz has never seen a talent as precocious as Joey’s. I feel it is safer not to speculate on what the future…
The Mooche si, The Mooch no
Some while back, I posted a dismissive note on Facebook regarding the highly welcome departure of Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci, to wit: “The Mooche is mooted and muted. Suck on this, Tony: You’re history.” Well, Tony is history, but I unfortunately misspelled his nickname, as a jazz buff might, because there are two famous “Mooches”…
Pete Siers with the Russell Malone Quartet–“Trinkle Tinkle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e-qRJ3U25A Russell Malone, guitar; Pete Siers, drums; Louis Herivaux, piano; Paul Keller, bass. 1993 Jazz at Vienne, France. Posted by Pete Siers
Mark Lockett Quintet–“Trinkle Tinkle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihr6aLpnkJo Live recording at Paris Cat Jazz Club, 2 December 2008, Melbourne, Australia. Mark Lockett, drums; Paul Van Ross, sax; Shannon Barnett, trombone; Mark Fitsgibbon, piano; and Desmond White, bass. Posted by MALockett08
For the Right, All Roads Lead Through Russia. Unfortunately.
For the “Respectable Right,” I mean—the Wall Street Journal Right, the National Review Right—the “Thoughtful Right”—I guess you could call them, Big Donnie’s recent speech in Poland, which I, uh, didn’t like, made their little hearts beat faster than Max Roach’s Night in Tunisia drum solo from the Jazz at Massey Hall album (which you…
Joshua Redman —“Trinkle Tinkle”
Festival Triumph of Jazz at the Moscow House of Music on 19 February, 2011. Joshua Redman (tenor sax), Reuben Rogers (bass) & Gregory Hutchinson (drums). Posted by Taberculat