My Way

Learn what you will from this clip, it's a really good one...

Tom Harrell - One of the greats!

Are you a trumpet player?  Then you need to give this a listen.  Mr. Harrell has an interesting story.
 

It's not Kenny G, but they might consider working him in there somehow.

OK...so this is not jazz.  Listen, the nice boys in Metallica are such good sports about the pirated music and all that I thought this clip deserved some attention.  I really like what they've done with Enter Sandman.

This is it!

So on this clip you've got Cannonball Adderley on the alto sax, his brother Nat Adderley on trumpet, Yusef Lateef on tenor sax and flute, Joe Zawinul on the piano, Sam Jones on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums.  This is one of my favorite live groups.  Listen to how hip the rhythm section is, the background lines, the soloists.  This is everything jazz can be.

Groove, you are born with it.

I feel for this thing - click HERE.  It just wants to lay down some jams.  It's hard being a robot in this cold, impersonal world we live in.

Larry McKenna, he's bad!

This guy Larry McKenna is one of those dudes who seems to have magic fingers when it comes to playing hip inside, tasty lines.  Dig this clip of him playing "Groovin' High" and check out the transcription too while you are listening.  He's got a lot of gems in there you can emulate.  Outside of Sonny Stitt, I don't think I've ever heard anyone put bebop lines together so fluently.    HERE is the link to both the recorded solo and the transcription.  HERE is the transcription only.

This is a special animal

This is not your run of the mill pooper scooper dog scat.  Yeah, it turns out scat has dual meaning.  This dog has skills.  Kudos to his trainer and vocal coach.

Stormy Weather

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I've been going through some stormy weather of my own, but don't you worry, I won't leave you out there in the rain to find jazz for yourself.
This is Lena Horne, who just passed away today at age 92.  Lena was a great jazz vocalist and a civil rights leader.  She battled all sorts of persecution in her lifetime, but remained strong willed and steadfast in her convictions.  This is a clip of her performing the song "Stormy Weather."  It's a jazz standard, aren't they all?  Dig in particular the dramatic window-blowing-in music...poor conductor.