Video of the Week #93

I hope this video will serve as a reminder of what a great pianist Erroll Garner was. This 35-min set is from a 1964 European tour. He is accompanied by Eddie Calhoun on bass and Kelly Martin on drums. Although I only recognized about half of these songs by name, fortunately someone has published a playlist:

• Honeysuckle Rose
• No More Shadows
• Mambo Erroll
• Penthouse Serenade
• Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time)
• Medley:  On the Street Where You Live/I Could Have Danced All Night
• All Yours
• The Lady is a Tramp
• Erroll's Theme

If you'd like to see and hear more, there's another Garner video from this same time period that runs slightly over an hour. It includes his signature tune, "Misty." Because it combines footage from two concerts, some of the songs are repeated.

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Video of the Week #92

Jesse Fuller (1896-1976), largely forgotten today, was very popular during the folk-blues revival of the '60s. He was a one-man band, simultaneously playing 12-string guitar, harmonica or kazoo, the fotdella (foot-operated bass) with one foot and percussion with the other. This 14-minute clip from 1968 features "John Henry," "Red River Blues," and his signature tune, "San Francisco Bay Blues."

If you'd like hear more of the same, here's part 2.

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Video of the Week #91

I've been offline for a while due to problems with my Verizon internet connection, so I'm playing catch-up. Here are a couple of soundies from 1951.

Bob Crosby, younger brother of Bing, was a singer and bandleader from the '30s through the '50s. His band-within-a-band, the Bobcats, specialized in Dixieland jazz. Here they play "The March of the Bobcats." Five members of the octet are identified on screen. The others are Warren Smith, trombone; Nappy Lamare, guitar; and Bob Haggart, bass.

And now for something slightly different, a duet between Ray Bauduc and Bob Haggart, "Big Noise from Winnetka."

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Jackie Wilson replaced Clyde McPhatter as lead singer of the Dominoes in 1953 and remained with them for three years. He went on to a successful solo career that lasted almost two decades until, in 1975, he had a stroke on stage that left him in a vegetative state until he died nine years later. This sharp-looking clip from The Ed Sullivan Show comes from early in his solo career. The last of these three songs to be recorded was "Alone at Last" in 1960, so that's probably the date.

A bonus:  The picture is not as sharp, but the song, "Higher and Higher," released in 1967, is a Chicago soul classic.

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Jazz pioneer Earl "Fatha" Hines appears on Jazz Casual in 1963, accompanied by Johnny Green, bass, and Earl Watkins, drums. The set opens with "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else" and closes with "Love is Just Around the Corner." In between, Hines is interviewed by host Ralph J. Gleason and does a demonstration of how his piano technique changed during his career.

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