https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7CkzoDTBTE The Israeli pianist live in concert, 2/16/2017. Posted by Yaniv Grady1 If you go to his site, you’ll see some chick doing standup in Hebrew. Jews are funny! Who knew? ↩︎
Tag: jazz
Thunk!—“Bemsha Swing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugcpK8U9OBM Stephen Gauci, Tenor Saxophone; Kenny Wessel, Guitar; Michael Bisio, Bass; Jeremy Carlstedt, Drums. Recorded in Brooklyn, 2013 Posted by Stephen Gauci
Mauro Vicino Trío—“Bemsha Swing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaZVnvUQk_o Mauro Vicino, guitarra, Cristian Ferreira, contrabajo, and Hernán Mandelman, batería. Posted by Cristian Ferreira
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…
Woody Shaw—“Bemsha Swing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaoBZHYbuus Woody Shaw-trumpet. Stanley Cowell-piano David WIlliams-bass Terri-Lyne Carrington-drums. Aug. 21, 1985, Cambridge, Mass. Posted by Steve Provizer.
Matt King—“Bemsha Swing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juCD6NxcRTw Matt King (piano, Fender Rhodes), Chico Pinheiro (guitar), Itaiguara Brandao (bass), Mauricio Zottarelli (drums). Posted by Matt King From the album “Monk In Brazil”
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…
Wheaton College Jazz Ensemble—“Bemsha Swing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJQo0R3htYs Can Christians do Monk? Oh, yeah! The Wheaton College Jazz Ensemble, featuring Katie Ernst, director; Tim Henry, trombone; Joel Campau, trumpet; Austin Alianiello, soprano saxophone; and Ryan Burroughs, drums. The arrangement is by Bill Holman. No information on the rest of the performers. Posted by Wheaton College
Thelonious Monk—“Bemsha Swing” et al.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zUulKnCTf0 Have I linked to this before? Well, so what? I’ve decided to do a run on “Bemsha Swing”, co-written by Thelonious with drummer Denzil Best, so why not start off with The Man? Monk is joined by Charlie Rouse, tenor, John Ore, bass, and Frankie Dunlop, drums, playing “Nutty”, “Bemsha Swing”, “Epistrophy”, “Crepuscule With…
Emanuele Arciuli–Elliott Carter’s “Night Fantasies”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Nz8jTAJlk Last week I posted a video of Spanish pianist Ricardo Descalzo playing “Eine Kleine Mitternacht Musik”, a nine-part suite/“rumination” by George Crumb on Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight”, one of 21 “variations” commissioned by Italian pianist Emanuele Arciuli. There are videos of Arciuli himself playing Crumb’s suite, but the sound wasn’t very good and I…