Sonny Rollins remembers Jackie McLean
Miles Davis - Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 8/29/1970
Miles laying the funk down.
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950s and ’60s who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world.
In this video, as in his new book, AFRICA SPEAKS, AMERICA ANSWERS: MODERN JAZZ IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation on modernity. He explains how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the politics and culture of both continents.
To read more about the book, visit http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046245
(Source: atane.net)
20 minute excerpt from an interview with Rudy Van Gelder, from the DVD ‘Perfect Takes’.
Documentary of Ornette Coleman recording the soundtrack for Who’s Crazy? - Worth the watch. He’s brilliant.
Duke Ellington performs ‘Take the “A”-Train’ in Reveille with Beverly (1943).
Duke Ellington performs ‘Take the “A”-Train’.
Bill Evans- Interview and Nardis [1970]
I have been so head over heels in jazz lately, and this time its somewhere between the cool and the avant-garde, which falls perfectly into lots of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and well pianist, Bill Evans. Masters of both ends of the spectrum.
Here is Bill Evans playing a Miles Davis tune, entitled “Nardis”.And dude is well spoken too.
Producer Teo Macero talks about working with Miles Davis on Bitches Brew.
