No relation.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUVIkC0rgk0&feature=
We will now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
No relation.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUVIkC0rgk0&feature=
We will now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
in what is sure to be a gratuitous star-grab, i give you sun ra, in all his glory.
(i've been trying to pin down an actual date for this video, but i've found contradictory answers. in all honesty, the quality of this video may belie it's actual "classic"-ness, and the technological advancement of some of the instruments lead me to believe it's sooner than later. however, i firmly believe sun ra transcends both space and time, so...)
monk and rouse. yyyyyup.
here are the boys in japan.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ9El7k4mNo
1963
due to overwhelming popular demand, we've decided to make a week of this, so sit back, grab your shades, and dig on this:
the sextet ran around europe playing this song before it was to become sadly prophetic mere months after.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwohpatsYsE
1964
Oh. Joe. Come home soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VigOzx_8BbU
No Miles video of this one online or I'd of gone with that.
i already see hitman's dust way up ahead, but i'll at least try not to embarrass myself.
here's oscar peterson tickling the ivories in italy with a couple of hacks backing him up.
1961
Jazz players often have a rep for being real cool dudes. Dexter Gordon does nothing to dispel this reputation.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Msqw94XfKk
I have been in quite the jazz kind of mood as of late. I don't know if jobu will be able to keep up the next couple of days but I am going to be spinning some older cuts.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrmJJ87KZ0U
Belgium, 1958.