I have continued to poke arond on YouTube to see if I could find any more footage of Charlie “Bird” Parker. It turns out that the stuff I posted yesterday is not exactly the ONLY existing footage of him performing live, at least from what I can see. However, the one clip that struck me […]
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 […]
I have completely fallen in love with the stuff on YouTube. Well, that is to say, I was already wasting for too much time hanging around looking at stuff on YouTube, but now that I found some very cool concert footage of some of the artists I talk about here, I can’t stop looking. You […]
There are times it is just hard to come in here and write. I love writing this blog and I love writing about jazz, but after you have spent the entire afternoon pushing around a vacuum cleaner and then a broom and then a mop and you have cleaned everything including a toilet…well… There are just […]
Since I just wrote about Louis Armstrong, I found this rather amusing. Now, I mentioned how Louis was vital to jazz, the advancement of jazz and was a major player in early jazz. Of course, he is also probably best known for his song “What a Wonderful World.” Well, I came across this little number […]
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