The Youtube Lounge Jazz After Hours thread

Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone)
Jim Hall (guitar)
Bob Cranshaw (bass)
Ben Riley (drums)

March 23, 1962; the Jazz Casual show (KQED-TV, San Francisco).

The Bridge**
God Bless the Child
If Ever I Would Leave You (part one)
If Ever I Would Leave You (part two)

**I saw the first few seconds of "The Bridge" at Crooks and Liars, and was loving it; then it stopped playing, and I haven't been able to get it to play again. It doesn't bode well for the future of the other three clips. Get one DVD, Markus Zéro.

Charles Mingus (bass)
Johhny Coles (trumpet)
Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet)
Clifford Jordan (tenor saxophone)
Jaki Byard (piano)
Dannie Richmond (drums)

[This is from a rehearsal; these are shorter versions of what would have been played during a live set.]

So Long, Eric
Meditations (false start)
[then Mingus tunes up, chats with Dolphy about the latter's planned move to Europe…]
Meditations
So Long, Eric

Eric Dolphy Quintet, August 30, 1961, Berlin.

Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet)
Benny Bailey (trumpet)
Pepsi Auer (piano)
Jamil Nasser (bass)
Buster Smith (drums)

GW
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God Bless the Child

Cecil Taylor, February 22, 1985, New York

Cecil Taylor (piano)

Pontos Cantados (part one)
Pontos Cantados (part two)

Because I thought there was, but I couldn't find it through search.

Count Basie - "Booty's Blues" feat. Cleveland Eaton (bass) & Booty Wood (trombone), 1981

Blues March

Miles Davis (trumpet)
Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone)
Herbie Hancock (piano)
Ron Carter (bass)
Tony Williams (drums)

Introduction by Joachim-Ernst Berendt
Agitation
Footprints
Stella by Starlight
Walkin'
Gingerbread Boy

Jazz Gehört und Gesehen TV broadcast, probably November 1967, Berlin. Found via the "St. Louis Jazz Notes" blog, which also has three two versions of "Impressions", from Trane/Dolphy, Wes Montgomery, and Braxton/Corea/Vitous/DeJohnette.

Art Blakey's Jazz Messagers with Lee Morgan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGDTGBHM9M

Lenny Tristano - "Tangerine"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGLpczTtnEM

Count Basie & His Orchestra featuring Lester Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbubFSgUTlM

Bud Powell - "Blues in the Closet"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLS2GCJ-jBg

Django Reinhart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJ_12helJ4

I'm not usually a big Metheney fan, but the interplay between him and DeJohnette (after Redman is done) is explosive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDa0MrJT6KY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzq81Und4M

puttin' it together

holy crap, I remember that clip.

Mehldau on this clip is one of the sickest things I've ever seen. Brian Blade on this clip is the other.

My after-hours friends: Shelly Manne.

wow brian blade

Contrast in stage posturing is also really funny, with Mehldau swinging super hard and looking like the most unswinging and effete guy ever, not to mention that ridiculous bit with the ciggy hanging from his mouth; meanwhile Blade looks like the baddest guy ever.

I also got the feeling from this that Roy Haynes was a big influence on Blade.

there are some definite elvin & max roach licks too.

i love how joshua redman is totally getting off on blade's playing.

this is a clip of "Mr. Smooth", Irv Williams...Irv is 88 in this clip, might be a couple years older...basically he has held it down in the Twin Cities are for decades, still plays weekly gigs at the Dakota during happy hour, this is him in the Artist Quarter in St Paul.

Me and my wife went to have dinner at the Dakota and he was playing, dressed in a nice suit, when they got off at 7pm he walked around and personally shook hands and thanked every member of the audience.

so damn charming and real nice player for cooler/lounge jazz type stuff

Another clip of '65 Coltrane

I love that era - you can really hear the classic quartet on the verge of ripping apart but the tension is awesome

I don't recall hearing trane do Green Dolphin Street before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT2GPo4JsGY&feature=related

Eddie Gomez, David Kikoski, Bill Stewart on Nardis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pRNZbkveys

Paul Desmond plays "Emily"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkcRo7oUIro&feature=related