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Newport Jazz Festival July 17, 1955 Bobby Hackett, trumpet MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE Bud Shank LOVER MAN Ben Webster SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME Billy Taylor, piano Wyett Reuther, bass Jo Jones, drums

A rare chance to hear the great saxophonist's speaking in a candid and relaxed interview with The Voice of America's Willis Conover. There are many, many more Conover interviews at digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc701827/

It's impossible to truly appreciate the great big band music of the 1930's and 40's if you haven't either played it for or watched great dancers express the terpsichorean urge (as Ellington called it). Here is Frankie Manning and Margaret Batiuchok dancing to BIG JOHN SPECIAL (as arranged by Horace Henderson for Benny Goodman) during one of the magic nights that the New York Swing Dance Society...

It's impossible to truly appreciate the great big band music of the 1930's and 40's if you haven't either played it for or watched great dancers express the terpsichorean urge (as Ellington called it). Here is Frankie Manning and Margaret Batiochuk dancing to BIG JOHN SPECIAL (as arranged by Horace Henderson for Benny Goodman) during one of the magic nights that the New York Swing Dance Society...

UCF's FLYING HORSE BIG BAND, led by Professor Jeff Rupert, plays Bill Finegan's arrangement of THE CONTINENTAL, originally written for and recorded by Tommy Dorsey.

Jesse Drakes (tp) Lester Young (ts) Gil Coggins (p) Aaron Bell (b) Connie Kay (d)

What a great tune - by Mel Torme and Gerry Mulligan. I loved hearing this incredible duo in person back in the 1980's - Marano's perfection in every way, bringing the music and the words vividly to life, and Montiero's deep sense of harmony and texture. They always reminded of the same feeling I got from some of Gil Evans' music...

Martha Tilton sings with the Goodman band minus Goodman

Loren Schoenberg and Doug Pomeroy talk about the legendary Savory Collection.

1940 Interview with Martin Block

The first orchestration of a Lester Young solo to surface! Jack Jenney's DOGGIN' AROUND with Lester's solo expanded for the saxophone section. 10/23/39

A wonderment. Lester plays so many shapes and phrases that never made it into his studio recordings, and just the general sense of play gives us a much more complete sense of what was at the essence of his music. The totality of Lester's musical world remains, in a sense, a mystery. Mary Lou Williams remarked that it took him several choruses just to warm up, and none of the pre-Army recordings...

Rehearsal at the Library of Congress 6/9/23 Ekep Nkwelle sings Billy Strayhorn's LOVE HAS PASSED ME BY AGAIN as part of a Tribute To Billy Strayhorn, conducted by Loren Schoenberg. The Library of Congress presented Bill Charlap's Trio and various other events from June 8 - 10, 2023. This tune was sadly cut from the concert, so we share this rehearsal footage. Seneca Black, Summer Camargo, Chris...

MINGUS WALKS the Ellington band 1953

Ellington Presents: Ben Webster/Cabin In The Sky

Mary Lou Williams on her childhood

Boogie in The Basement - Luis Russell w/Roy Haynes 1945

Lee Konitz/Paul Bley/Larry Grenadier play Indian Summer 4.12.02

That Old Feeling - Barbara Lea/Hank Jones

ROY ELDRIDGE 75TH BIRTHDAY GREETINGS!

Jo Jones talks about Basie, plus a surprise

Monk's FIRST recording of 'Round Midnight - 1944

Loren Schoenberg Big Band Swings for Swing Dancers w/Mel Lewis 1988

Herbie Hancock meets Benny Goodman

Harry James 1948 with Willie Smith