This is a video clip with an interview of well known jazz piano player Bill Evans from 1966. Listen to this musician talking about what he calls the jazz process, considering jazz as a style. It’s interesting that Bill Evans considers jazz as more a creative process than a style, since [...]
Ionisation by Edgar Varese Performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain
Watch this video with Pierre Boulez conducting the Ensembe InterContemporain for a performance of Edgar Varese’s (1883 – 1965) composition Ionisation. The music involves many percussion instruments and some rare music instruments like the siren and the lion’s roar which you can listen to as a solo instrument at 1:15 of [...]
Composer Arnold Schönberg in an Interview about Art and Music
In this video clip you can see some images of Arnold Schönberg’s paintings and personal photos while he is being interviewed about different issues.
Arnold Schönberg belonged to the painting school called Blauer Reiter together with Vladimir Kadinsky and other famous painters. However, Schönberg decided to concentrate on music. In this interview [...]
Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society Performing Christmas Woman
Watch this music video clip with Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society performing their sond Christmas Woman on the Moers Jazz Festival (Germany) in 1994 with bandleader Ronald Shannon Jackson on the drums, Dom Richards playing the electric bass, Rob Reddy on soprano saxophone, James Carter playing the tenor saxophone [...]
Brahms’ Capriccio performed by Arthur Rubinstein the Great Master of Classical Piano
This video shows the great piano artist Arthur Rubinstein performing a classical composition by german composer Johannes Brahms, the Capriccio No. 2. Arthur Rubinstein is well known as an excellent piano player and discovers the inner structure of this capriccio for our ears. He plays the Capriccio No. 2 out of [...]
Frank Zappa Performing Inca Roads with some Original Claymation and Overdubs
This video clip shows Frank Zappa performing Inca Roads live on stage and has some fantastic claymation (= animation with clay) work included. The noises from the claymation part seem to bother some people on youtube, however, this is great work and worth listening to. If you don’t get it the [...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concert for Flute Harp and Orchestra
This video clip shows Katrina Szederkenyi on the harp and Desislava Dobreva on flute performing the first movement of the Concert for Flute, Harp and Orchestra. In this version, the orchestra is subsituted with a piano, which is a frequent way of reducing costs and still be able to perform [...]
Frank Zappa Ronald Reagan Hairdress and Documentary Video
This video shows Frank Zappa at work in different situations ranging from the making of a music video to working with a 25 performers symphony orchestra that is putting on stage his compositions. It has some interesting parts about the appearance of Ronald Reagan’s hairdress in the mentioned clip. For people [...]
