This video features Muddy Waters performing a blues. The video itself has no moving pictures, just one fixed photo of Muddy Waters performing. However, the music is still sounding and you can listen to Muddy Waters singing as well as playing the guitar and blues harp.
The legendary guitar hero Jimi Hendrix [...]
Muddy Waters Performing the Blues
Blues Legend Big Bill Broonzy Performing Hey Hey
This video features the great blues guitar legend Big Bill Broonzy (born as William Lee Conley Broonzy) performing the tune Hey Hey. Even though Big Bill Broonzy is not very well known, he has recorded about 350 songs! The guitar player and singer gained a certain popularity with his small band [...]
Blues with B.B.King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton on Sweet Little Angel
This video show an all stars line-up with B. B. King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton performing Sweet Little Angel together live on stage. The blues originally had been music played and sung by black people in the United States and is the base for the later [...]
Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster and Billie Holiday playing the blues
Watch this video with some of the greatest jazz musicians ever playing and singing the blues. Listen to Coleman Hawkins sweet mellow tone and enjoy Lester Young leaping in on this song.
At the beginning of the video, Billie Holiday is talking about the blues music, dividing it into sad blues and [...]
Albert King – Born under a bad sign – Blues with much soul
Watch this video with black blues guitar player Albert King performing his song Born Under a Bad Sign. The arrangement includes a brass section wiith trumpets, trombones and saxophones. The clip has fair audio quality and presents one of the most important blues players with his band live on stage.
Albert King [...]
Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass – ‘Stormy Weather’
Watch this video of two jazz giants treating the classical blues theme ‘Stormy Weather’. As always, Joe Pass plays his guitar in a superb manner and building an excellent base for the divine voice of Ella Fitzgerald. This video was recorded around 1975 in a german television studio.
Jimi Hendrix – ‘Hear My Train A Comin”
Watch this video of Jimi Hendrix playing the song ‘Hear My Train A Comin” on an acoustic 12-string guitar. Hear Jimi Hendrix gowing back to the roots playing this amazing blues which already contains the seeds for the later ‘Voodoo Child’ Jimi Hendrix Guitar Classic.
Jimi Hendrix is mostly known as a [...]
Lester Young – The smooth Tenor sax player
Lester Young is one of the tenor saxophone players with a very smooth sound. Watch this music video produced by the Warner Bros from the early days of jazz music. Here Lester Young plays his horn together with other important jazz musicians, all of them black guys with the exception of [...]
Emily Remler – female musician playing the blues
Watch this video with female guitar player Emily Remler playing a blues.
