TagsTagsExtraordinary Swedish musician Nils Landgren may be most famous as a trombonist, but as you can hear from this video he's also a gifted singer. With the great Michael Brecker on saxophone, here's a gorgeous performance of James Taylor's classic tune, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight." (h/t: Randall Gross.) If you ...
The most telepathic jazz trio in history reverently performs the classic Oscar Levant ballad "Blame It On My Youth," with their usual sensitivity and grace. Listen to the sound of Gary Peacock's double bass at the 1:00 mark; sheer beauty.
The Keith Jarrett Trio burns through Dizzy Gillespie's "Woody'n You," twisting and bending the chord structure and rhythm until it seems like it's falling apart, but somehow remaining coherent and swinging like mad. An inspired performance from the early days of the group.
Here's an ultra-tight performance by the band Laszlo, a track titled "Bohemian Groove."
The best jazz trio in history, from their out-of-print DVD "Standards II - Live in Tokyo," recorded in 1986. All the solos in this one are simply masterpieces, and don't miss the ending. UPDATE at 11/12/11 3:16:34 pm Just discovered that this DVD is actually still available at Amazon, but not on ...
Here's some Saturday music, a spectacular performance of the jazz classic "Nardis" by pianists Kenny Barron and Brad Mehldau, two very different stylists who work very well together.
(Hat tip: davesax.)
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Our Sunday evening music is another outstanding track from the Keith Jarrett Trio's 1996 concert at Tokyo's Orchard Hall. It starts out as the jazz standard "Last Night When We Were Young," and mutates into "A Caribbean Sky" in a stunning interplay.
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Here's the Keith Jarrett trio playing live in Tokyo in 1996, at their most telepathic. Starts with a beautifully musical drum solo by Jack DeJohnette.
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Keith Jarrett's encore improvisation from his 1984 solo concert in Tokyo is simply one of the most amazing feats of pianistic technique I've ever seen. This video focuses on his hands much of the time, so any piano players out there may want to have a box of tissues handy; ...
Tonight's musical interlude is a beautiful studio performance of "Nightingale," by the unclassifiable band named The Reign of Kindo, from their latest album: This Is What Happens.
One of history's greatest jazz trios plays a standard from 1945, "I Wish I Knew," by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon. Perfect music to enjoy with a glass of Zinfandel and a wedge of extra-sharp cheddar.
Here's some Christmas Eve jazz, with a stellar version of the standard "All Of You," by one of the greatest piano trios in history: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette. Keith is quite ... animated in this one. [Video]
Every few years I rediscover a monumental work of improvisation, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever recorded: Keith Jarrett's Solo Concerts: Bremen & Lausanne. I first heard this record in a small sushi bar in Tokyo in 1974, and it hasn't aged; if anything, it's more moving ...
This is a 1982 live recording of a Keith Jarrett solo concert in Hamburg, Germany, in which Keith totally reinvents the jazz standard "All The Things You Are," in a mind-blowing improvisation that takes the tune places it's never been. The audio track isn't great, but the performance definitely is. [Video] ...
At Tokyo's Metropolitan Festival Hall in October 2002, here's Keith Jarrett performing the classic tune "Don't Worry 'Bout Me," by Rube Bloom and Ted Koehler. Just gorgeous playing. [Video]
The most telepathic trio in the history of jazz, Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette, perform the Rodgers and Hart standard "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" with profound sensitivity and awareness. [Video]
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The unique rock/jazz band Reign of Kindo has a new album out, and it's freaking excellent. You should buy it because you will like it. You will like it. You should buy it. Like. Buy. Hope. Change. (I'm trying out that neurolinguistic programming stuff from the previous post.) All kidding aside, ...
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Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau play the jazz standard “All The Things You Are” at the 2007 San Sebastian Jazz Festival. And by “play” I mean: exhibit a level of telepathic communication beyond most mortal human beings. [Video]
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The Reign of Kindo has a new video, another interesting and unclassifiable rock-jazz hybrid song titled “Needle and Thread,” recorded live in the studio. This track is on their self-named EP. [Video] Here’s an Amazon MP3 widget with samples from the rest of this fine album: [Video]
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Here’s another unique song from the unclassifiable band calling itself Reign Of Kindo. [Video]
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Here’s some crystalline minimal ECM jazz from the Tord Gustavsen Trio, with Harald Johnsen (bass) and Jarle Vespestad (drums), performing a gorgeous composition titled “Still There” from the album Being There. (iTunes Store.) [Video]
This is a rare 1976 video of Keith Jarrett’s European quartet, with Jan Garbarek (sax), Palle Danielsson (bass), and Jon Christensen (drums), playing the abstract yet oddly lyrical tune “Mandala,” from the absolutely exquisite album My Song. (iTunes Store.) [Video]
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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette making a joyful noise, in a tune called “Prism” from a 1985 concert in Tokyo’s Koseiniki Hall. [Video]
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