CNN has a nice pictorial entitled Billie Holiday’s Illustrious Career.
Category - Jazz
The song also is identified in the clip as The Kid From Red Bank. Basie was born in the New Jersey town in 1904. It certainly is a better title, unless there...
Unlike some other jazz greats, there is a tremendous amount of great Ella Fitzgerald material on YouTube and other video sites. None are better than this...
This recording features Charlie Christian, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie. Christian was a member of Benny Goodman’s sextet and a pivotal figure in...
Eubie Blake was 98 when this recording was made of him playing his Charleston Rag. The audio is only passable. Blake composed I’m Just While About...
Scott Joplin lived at the very outer edge of the communications age, and even saying that is pushing it. He came before film or audio recording, but his work...
This morning, the site featured the great Big Joe Turner. One of the clips featured Jay McShann along with Turner. Here is more McShann. Kansas City has a...
Editor’s Note: I ‘d like to thank Scott Dwight, a site visitor, for submitting this guest post. He noted that much of the content is from Wikipedia...
In a post about Henry Mancini earlier this week, I linked to an iMDB bio that mentioned the relationship between jazz and movies. Along those lines, check out...
The “cat” Mancini refers to in his little intro is sax player Don Menza. He played a key role in one of the most recognizable opening passages in...
