This Berlin performance is Miles Davis jazz-fusion at its best. R40f, the video’s uploader, has an impressive collection of live performances (Sonic Youth, Sebadoh, etc.) and film (Dali) available in addition to this Davis performance. JazzVideoGuy is a better source for jazz. His ongoing collection of jazz biopic and live videos is easily the best source for free, high quality, rare jazz videos I’ve ever come across. From Sonny Rollins or Sarah Vaugh (Perdido live) to Thelonius Monk (Thelonious Monk at Town Hall) and a bundle of other artists I haven’t even heard of, JVG’s collection is a goldmine.
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‘Down there in the Gypsy camp a banjo was jiggling with a popular melody.., one had the impression of distant dance music, dizzying waltzes one the sweetness of an accordion. Camp fires were everywhere, each with its cooking pot. Everywhere chickens were stewing and banjos going wild…’
This was the setting in which Django grew up - in a world that today has become the stuff of legend, the world of the bohemian and the vagabond on the doorstep of a great city… — Django Reinhardt a biography by Alain Antonietto
Django featured with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France and performing ‘Swing’ (1939)
also: profile, longer version of video above & NPR’s Django Reinhardt: A Gypsy Legend
Elephant9’s Dodovoodoo — the debut release from the trio of “Ståle Storløkken (Supersilent, Humcrush) on keyboards, Nikolai Eilertsen (The National Bank, Lester) on bass and Torstein Lofthus (Shining) on drums” — was released late last month on the ever reliable Rune Grammofon label (buy it). At long last, the album is in stock at the distros; I eagerly await my copy.
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