It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got five strings: Russian chicks shred Monk. Ilya Bondarenko and Tatiana Zhmendak, both 11, with Natalia Lebedeva, piano, Constantine Ionenko, bass, and Alexei Fantaev, drums. At the Fourth International Children’s Jazz Festival “Okeshkin Jazz” 2/06/2013. Posted by Illia Bondarenko
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Eric Ineke JazzXpress—“Rhythm-a-ning”
Live at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam during Eric Ineke’s 70th birthday concert on April 1, 2017. Featuring Rein de Graaff – piano, Tineke Postma – alto sax, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen – tenor sax, Simon Rigter – tenor sax, Gidon Nunes Vaz – trumpet, Marius Beets – bass, and Eric Ineke – drums. Posted by Eric Ineke-…
Beirut Jazz Vocal Ensemble—“Strollin’” (Charles Mingus) and “Blue Monk”
Donna Khalife, Marita Sbeih, Tagreed Darghouth, Raghda Allouche, Roya Semaan, Naima Yazbek, Lama Kabbanji, Nisrine Yassine, and Lama Abou Ali, with Donna also supplying the piano. Frankly, their take on “Strollin’” strikes me as a little flat-footed, but their “Blue Monk” is quite sprightly. Anyone doing bop vocals in Lebanon in 2017 is an inspiration…
Going Back In Time: The World War II Esquire Jazz Concerts
Back in January of 1944 and 1945 Esquire Magazine organized two serious all-star jazz concerts, featuring all the poll winners—people like Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington—all joining together, and, remarkably, for the most part playing together without the whole thing turning into all-star ego-fest. The concerts were…
Cuban Masters of Jazz—“Blue Monk”
Bobby Carcasses, Vocals; Jorge Reyes, Bass; Mary Paz, Congas. Havana, 2014. Posted by the Cuban Masters of Jazz
Cuban Masters of Jazz—“Blue Monk”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZkiivaAJY Bobby Carcasses, Vocals; Jorge Reyes, Bass; Mary Paz, Congas. Havana, 2014. Posted by the Cuban Masters of Jazz
Thailand Jazz—“In Walked Bud”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhVDcDvysE I don’t have any names, because everything is in Thai script. The tune, and the lyrics, written by Jon Hendricks, do get around. Posted by Nok DekPerdNote
Jazztory— “Four in One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcguot5lU7I Bulgarian jazz? Yeah, baby! Hot from Sophia, Club Studio 5. Alexander Logozarov, guitar; Arnau Garrofe Farraz, tenor sax; Boris Taslev, bass; Borislav Petrov, drums/producer/host. Posted by Jazztory Archive
Maiko Jazz Violin—“Straight No Chaser”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNLp_Lx0Ew Yeah, I know, “Straight No Chaser” was last month. But I wanted to do two Japanese violin chicks wailing on Monk in a row. Posted by Maiko Jazz Violin
Apple doesn’t do Jazz
It’s a well known, and thoroughly lamentable, fact that kids rule the world. Nowhere is this dominance more visible, and more vicious, than in the world of music. Almost 12 years ago, I started loading my collection of some 800 CDs—about 9/10th jazz and 1/10th classical—onto my Windows computer, creating a folder for each artist/composer…