Jazz greats on YouTube.

I hope to build this list up to 100 clips.  Some of the early stuff is simply piano rolls or recordings fronted by a still image.  But still ...

Aphabetical surname order.

Louis Armstrong - when The Saints Go Marching In  Distracting video but great improv..

Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump sample.

George Benson - Here Comes The Sun.  And displaying serious guitar chops playing Take Five.  And giving On Broadway a deep funk.

Eubie Blake plays Black Keys on Parade and Lovie Joe. Newport 1960.

Charlie Christian - Stompin' at the Savoy.

Duke Ellington at The Cotton Club.- Jungle nights in Harlem, Saratoga Swing, Haunted Nights.  -

Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong - Umbrella Man. 

Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing.  A big band classic with Gene on drums and harry on trumpet.  And an even better arrangement and  audio vesion here.

Lionel Hampton - Tom Tom solo.  He's playing a show off party piece here.  His better known vibe work here - Flying Home.

Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra - The Stampede.  78 r.p.m.  This is also notable for featuring the Victrola disc player.

James P. Johnson plays Bleeding Hearted Blues.  Piano roll.

Etta Jones - Crazy he Calls Me.

Scott Joplin plays Maple Leaf Rag.  Piano roll cut by Joplin, perhaps the playback tempo is a bit too andante.

Jelly Roll Morton plays and sings Mamie's Blues.  78 r.p.m.

Mark Murphy - On Green Doolphin Street.  Way out there.  But he still has the instrument @ 76.  His  Eleanor Rigby from the 1970s is the best jazz version I ever heard.

Original Dixieland Jass Band - Livery Stable Blues.

Kid Ory - Tiger Rag

Django Reinhardt - Sweet Geogia Brown.

Joe Williams with Count Basie - Well Alright, Okay, You Win.  Cookin!  Not jazz, but Here's To Life.  And What a wonderful World. 

Teddy Wilson - Love 

 

 

Under consideration for inclusion:

Paul Whiteman

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Comments

[Phillip Molly Malone]

You missed the greatest of the Jazz Greats! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W405HKUwvaE
;-)

[Bob Meade]

Well, my list is just getting started.

Nice to hear from you, Molly.