Watch this video with the great jazz tenor saxophone player Sonny Rollins playing his composition The Bridge and being accompanied by Jim Hall on guitar, Bob Cranshaw on bass and Ben Riley on drums. This tune is written and performen in up tempo which is a challenge for all musicians. However, [...]
Cannonball Adderley Performing Round Midnight on His Alto Saxophone
In this video clip you can watch alto sax player Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley perform the tasty jazz ballad Round Midnight written by Thelonious Monk, another significant jazz piano player of the bop era. In fact, this video is part of an educational television series about jazz (The Subject Is Jazz) where [...]
Sarah Vaughan Performs the Bebop Classic Perdido
This video clip shows Sarah Vaughn or Sassy, as she was called by frriends and fans, performing Perdido which has become a jazz standard to play for jazz musicians. The video is a scene taken from Rhythm and Blues Revenue, a movie made in 1955 which you can download without copyright [...]
Charlie Parker – Summertime
Watch this video of Charlie Parker playing the famous George Gershwin song ‘Summertime’ while a slide show of a few Charlie Parker photos is passing. This blues is well known in the jazz world and many of the jazz players have recorded their version. The video we are showing [...]
Sonny Rollins – ‘Tenor Madness’, classic jazz standard
Sonny Rollins is another great master of tenor saxophone playing. Watch this video clip with Sonny Rollins playing the jazz standard ‘Tenor Madness’ from the bebop tradition. As John Coltrane and Joshua Redman Sonny Rollins too sounds with a lot of energy in his voice. I like it for the subtleness [...]
John Coltrane – Soloing on ‘Freddie the Freeloader’
watch Miles Davis standing in the background smoking a cigarette while John Coltrane, the great master of bebop saxophone playing, is soloing over the choruses of the jazz standard tune ‘Freddie the Freeloader’. Listen to the energy … velocity, precision, feeling, energy, it’s all there. If you wish to watch more [...]
