Gillespie & Armstrong

Video Find of the Day

I went looking for a Halloween video and got distracted. I won't try to explain how I got distracted this far.

Not only do you get two jazz greats, you get spit.

Dizzy Gillespie & Louis Armstrong - Umbrella Man

Donald Lambert

Video Find of the Day

I really just wanted a decent version of Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt. I found this one, from the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival. Terrible video, terrible audio, but you get the idea. This guy couldn't read music, but he was a genius.

Donald Lambert - "Anitra's Dance"

Benny Goodman By Hoorn

Video Find of the Day

Goodman by Hoorn, Netherlands, about 30 kilometers up the peninsula from Amsterdam, sounding great.

Benny Goodman - St. Louis Blues

Cumbia Dance

Video Find of the Day

Fantastic high school performance with a jazz side to it.

Música y cultura 2008 -- La Luna Y El Pescador,-E.A. Valencia



Cumbia has African roots, of course. Doesn't everything?

Colombian Cumbia Dance Performance With Xiomara

Miles Davis

Video Find of the Day

Miles Davis recorded Bitches Brew in 1969. I was elsewhere at the time, but now I hear it, I like it.