Miles Davis Quintet featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams. Recorded at Berlin, West Germany, on November 4, 1967. Posted by Miles Davis Performance Album I doubt if Thelonious would care for this rendition, since both Shorter and Hancock use his most famous composition as little more than a jumping-off point. Davis…
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Played Twice—“Blue Bolivar Blues”
Played Twice at Servant Jazz Quarters in early 2014. Dan Wood on piano, Nick Malcolm on trumpet, George Crowley on tenor sax, Olie Brice on bass and Simon Roth on drums. Posted by Dan Wood
No, not that Avishai Cohen! This Avishai Cohen!
Two Avishai Cohens! One plays bass, the other one (this one) plays trumpet! Avishai is shown here with Yoni Zelnik, bass, and Jeff Ballard, drums, at the 2015 Tbilisi Jazz Festival. Catch up with this Avishai here!
Joey does Bird—“Anthropology”
Jazz prodigy Joey Alexander, with Russell Hall on bass and Sammy Miller on drums at the Jazz Standard in New York. Posted by trender18
Sylvain Neault—“Bye ya”
Pièce interprétée au récital de fin de maîtrise en violon jazz de Sylvain Neault au TCU (Université Laval, Québec), le 13 mai 2015. Les musiciens: Sylvain Neault, violon ; Martin Desjardins, sax ténor ; Sébastien Champagne, piano ; Alexandre LeBlanc, contrebasse ; Olivier Forest, batterie. Posted by Sylvain Neault
Thelonious Monk— “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are”
https://youtu.be/CTijrDIU-m4 Why not hear from the man himself? Thelonious in Japan, 1963, with Charlie Rouse on sax, Frank Dunlop on drums, and Butch Warren on bass. Fuzzy picture, excellent sound, and excellent band. The elaborately phonetic spelling of “Bolivar Blues,” presumably some sort of in-joke, refers to the Bolivar Hotel in New York, sometime home…
Gábor Bolla and Joey Alexander—“Ask Me Now”
Is jazz international? Ask me now! Indonesian piano phenom Joey Alexander teams up with Hungarian saxophonist Gábor Bolla, Swedish bass player Mattias Svensson and Danish drummer Morten Lund. Posted by Mr. Red Panda
What is the deal with CDs these days? Remember CDs? They were round and played music. Noted cartoonist “Sketching Sketcher” points out that they’re still on the market, sometimes at prices that seem just a tad bit high for grandpa technology. I’m not a grandpa, although I could play one on TV, but I still…
Oh, that Earl Warren!
Am I the only person lame enough to make fun of Bill Gates every time I catch a Microsoft product behaving in a less than perfect manner? I wouldn’t be surprised. I was listening to music on my computer, using the Microsoft “Music” program, which tells you not only the artist you’re listening to but…
Terumasa Hino & Toshiko Akiyoshi—“Straight, No Chaser”
Terumasa on trumpet and Toshiko on piano. Posted by jazzytaka