Jazz & Blues Lounge

I can’t get enough of YouTube.  I shouldn’t write about them so much, I suppose and you can just as easily spend half your day doing searches there like I have been doing.  Still, I am trying to save you some time and effort by pointing you to the great jazz performances.
Not long ago I wrote about the man who called himself the “inventor of jazz” Jelly Roll Morton.  Well, there isn’t any video of him that I can find, but you can still listen to his music at YouTube.  Click right HERE and hear one of his classic compositions, …read more

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The death of Oscar Peterson got me thinking about jazz pianists recently.  As you may have known from reading past posts, I tend to be a man who is a fan of the horns.  However, if you read carefully, you will notice that I stray into other instruments from time to time.  I am a Lionel Hampton fan, for example, and he played the vibes.
I do enjoy jazz pianists.  However, who are the ones you should focus on?  Around here, I do try to imagine that people new to jazz stop by and check things out and, maybe, something I …read more

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