Bill Evans Plays Waltz for Debby
Bill Evans gives a beautiful reading of his most famous composition “Waltz For Debby” on what appears to be an early-to-mid‘60s TV show. Gorgeous performance. With Chuck Israels on bass and Larry Bunker on drums.
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The Birthplace Of America’s Music Meets America’s Super Spectacle And That Gets Jazz A Mention On The CBS Evening News
As Trombone Shorty, Troy Andrews who also sings and plays other brass instruments has forged a career with a wonderful hybrid party music that draws on jazz, blues and funk with contemporary elements. His live sets are great and his albums are fresh and eclectic. But this CBS News profile on Andrews reveals a well-rounded and grounded artist who is cheerfully giving back to his community and its children.
-Michael Cuscuna
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Joe Henderson: Young Jazz Players that Get Ellington and Strayhorn
Listen to this incisive 1993 interview with saxophonist Joe Henderson, with Bill King of Jazz Report Magazine. Henderson had it all down, back then, on the growth, understanding and respect he saw in young players like Christian McBride, Stephen Scott and Roy Hargrove.
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The Rhythm Magician
This 1989 Tony Williams interview conducted by John Ephland took place during a very happy time in Tony’s life when he was composing with frequency, leading his own quintet and touring extensively. Ever a restless spirit, he was happy with where he was at that point in time. His free-flowing, affable reminiscences in the article bear witness to that.
-Michael Cuscuna
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The 52nd Street Club Where Basie Made His Breakthrough New York Appearance
From the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University (Newark campus) comes this digital exhibit of Count Basie. This is one of five exhibits co-produced by the Institute and the Dana Library Media and Digital Services and was overseen by staff member Tad Hershorn. Unlike the virtual tours of the Benny Carter, Mary Lou Williams and Fats Waller collections, this exhibit does not emerge from a specific collection housed at the IJS, but via images from various jazz photo collectors and musicians. Among the photo essays included are images from the Famous Door in 1938.
-Scott Wenzel
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SF Jazz: Is Not-for-Profit the Wave of the Future? Is That Good for Jazz?
Now that SFJazz has opened, many have written about the new Bay Area jazz venue. This article, much more than a review of the hall or the opening concerts, raises important issues about the present and future for jazz venues — not just in the Bay Area, but across the country. (Photo: Karl Mondon for San Jose Mercury News)
-Nick Moy
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McCoy Tyner and Friends Jam at SFJazz
One of the first video nuggets from SFJazz: McCoy Tyner, playing his composition Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit, with Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone, Esperanza Spalding, bass and Eric Harland, drums, and playing the blues with a group of West Coast players,including Bobby Hutcherson, John Handy, Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell and bassist Matt Penman.
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Keeping Up with Jason Moran
It’s hard to keep pace with the hard-charging Jason Moran. The MacArthur Fellow and now Artistic Director of Jazz at the Kennedy Center has become an inveterate shuttle commuter. Yet Moran is hardly confining his touring to the Northeast corridor: he helped launch SFJazz on its maiden voyage, will join Dave Holland in a quartet at SFJazz next month, and recently combed the southwest with the Bandwagon. Catch up with him in this JazzTimes profile, before he’s off to his next challenge — and ours.
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Miles Davis: Frank Appraisals. Of Course.
This 1955 interview of Miles Davis by Nat Hentoff for Down Beat is absolutely fascinating. The article was written after Miles’s triumphant “comeback” at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, where George Avakian offered to sign him to Columbia Records. The rest is history. What is really extraordinary here is the genius of Miles Davis the listener, and what he has to say about the prominent jazz artists of the time.
-Michael Cuscuna
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Read MoreUp Close with Dizzy Gillespie
A sinuous performance of Tin Tin Deo by Dizzy Gillespie.
Although this clip focuses on Diz, the group he’s playing with here, including James Moody on alto saxophone and flute and Kenny Barron’s piano, appears on Mosaic’s set, the Verve/Philips Dizzy Gillespie Small Group Sessions (#234),currently on back order, but due to be restocked in May 2013.
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