Wow! For this Christmas Sunday concert we have something really different that will blow your mind.
From France´s Love @ Jazz sous les Pommiers 2015 we have this huge concert by Snarky Puppy.
This is not the Jazz you are used to listening but after a little while, it will sound as if you have been listening to it your whole life.
Enjoy!
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
It seems that lately we are milking Jazz Casual dry! For all of you who don’t know, Jazz Casual was an occasional 30 minute TV Jazz series on National Educational Television (NET), the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The show was produced by Richard Moore on KQED in San Francisco. It ran from 1961 to 1968 and was hosted by jazz critic Ralph Gleason. This time, our Sunday concert is dedicated to the great late B.B. King.
Enjoy!
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
Just in case you missed it, this Sunday we have a great Jazz Day concert, at none other than the White House. From April 30th, 2016.
Enjoy!
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
Again from Jazz Casual, this time it is the great Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete with the Vince Guiraldi Trio playing live many of the songs that appeared on Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete and Friends, a collaboration between pianist Vince Guaraldi and guitarist Bola Sete, released in 1963 through Fantasy Records.
Enjoy!
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
The great Carmen McRae in another episode of Jazz Casual. A nice Sunday watch. Enjoy!
From AllMusic.com:
Artist Biography by Scott Yanow
Carmen McRae always had a nice voice (if not on the impossible level of an Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan) but it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and ironic interpretations of lyrics that made her most memorable. She studied piano early on and had her first important job singing with Benny Carter‘s big band (1944), but it would be another decade before her career had really gained much momentum. McRae married and divorced Kenny Clarke in the ’40s, worked with Count Basie (briefly) and Mercer Ellington (1946-1947), and became the intermission singer and pianist at several New York clubs. In 1954 she began to record as a leader’ and by then she had absorbed the influences of Billie Holiday and bebop into her own style. McRae would record pretty steadily up to 1989 and, although her voice was higher in the ’50s and her phrasing would be even more laid-back in later years, her general style and approach did not change much through the decades. Championed in the ’50s by Ralph Gleason, McRae was fairly popular throughout her career. Among her most interesting recording projects were participating in Dave Brubeck‘s the Real Ambassadors with Louis Armstrong, cutting an album of live duets with Betty Carter, being accompanied by Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, and closing her career with brilliant tributes to Thelonious Monk and Sarah Vaughan. Carmen McRae, who refused to quit smoking, was forced to retire in 1991 due to emphysema. She recorded for many labels including Bethlehem, Decca (1954-1958), Kapp, Columbia, Mainstream, Focus, Atlantic (1967-1970), Black Lion, Groove Merchant, Catalyst, Blue Note, Buddah, Concord, and Novus.
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
THE SUNDAY CONCERT
This is the Gerry Mulligan Quartet playing live on TV´s JAZZ CASUAL on July 18th, 1962. Enjoy!
From Wikipedia: Gerald Joseph “Gerry” Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.[1] Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan’s pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments.
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
Today’s concert is dedicated to this very special musical ensemble that was put together for a 1971 concert in Copenhagen.
They are: Thelonious Monk on piano, Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, Sonny Stitt on sax, Kai Winding on the trombone, Al McKibbon on base, and Art Blakey on drums.
It is worth a listen on this July 4th. America’s cultural heritage is prolific, and the jazz genre and its great musicians and composers have been one of the greatest cultural gifts America has given the world.
Enjoy! And happy fourth of July!
Until next time.
Ignacio
©2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera
IGNACIO ALPERIN: THE ART OF THINKING OUT LOUD / EL ARTE DE PENSAR EN VOZ ALTA 