Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Sun, 22 Jul 18 12:15:52 +0000 View Full Post Twelve and a half minutes of jazz perfection....Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane swinging on Rollins' "Tenor Madness", with the great Red Garland onpiano, Paul C...
Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Sat, 21 Jul 18 16:53:24 +0000 View Full Post The amazing Rahsaan Roland Kirk live in Prague in 1967 with his composition "The Inflated Tear". It takes a minute for the song to really get started. Stick wit...
Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Fri, 20 Jul 18 12:26:51 +0000 View Full Post We played this beautiful Hoagy Carmichael song last night at our regular Thursday night gig. Just guitar, bass and flugelhorn. Such a gorgeous song, performed h...
Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Thu, 19 Jul 18 13:17:18 +0000 View Full Post McCoy Tyner with orchestra..."A House Is Not A Home", with Christian McBride on bass and Lewis Nash on drums. Yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKnlVjEHoKg
Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Tue, 17 Jul 18 12:31:41 +0000 View Full Post I decided to search for "Russian Jazz" after the American president's "performance" in Helsinki with Putin, since it appears we Yanks may all have to learn Russ...
Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Mon, 16 Jul 18 13:49:29 +0000 View Full Post Leon Thomas, with the beautiful Horace Silver composition "Song For My Father". Dedicated to my dad, Irving Gitlin, born 100 years ago today July 16, 1919. Love...
Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Fri, 13 Jul 18 12:37:53 +0000 View Full Post The great Joe Williams with Count Basie and his Orchestra singing "Well Alright OK". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYVEdPy8gQY
Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Thu, 12 Jul 18 12:35:16 +0000 View Full Post The two acknowledged masters of the 7-string guitar...George Van Eps and Howard Alden...play Cole Porter's "Night and Day" in Germany in 1993. Van Eps was over ...
Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Tue, 10 Jul 18 13:52:08 +0000 View Full Post "It's Alright With Me"...trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding on a Japanese television program back in 1982. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxUj2fKFX7A
Post by @pete_gitlin (@ellojazz) on Mon, 09 Jul 18 12:59:09 +0000 View Full Post Cyrus Chestnut has been one of the unsung heros of modern jazz piano...so creative and brilliant. Here he is back in 2012 with his take on "It Could Happen To Y...
