Here are three performances on video, and one ripped 45 of “Caravan” by Juan Tizol, the trombonist for the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Duke Ellington
Thelonius Monk
Nat King Cole
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And here is a snappy rendition of it by the Plas Johnson Quartet (Tampa records). (Courtesy of Office Naps.)
[Thanks to Cynical-C Blog]
The rest of the academic world has gone on their summer vacations while we here at UCLA are still working away. One and a half more weeks of class and then finals week, graduation and SUMMER!
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So as the academic year winds down, I have noticed the most remarkable trend in my friends over [...]
A fun 5-minute documentary from 1965 about Igor Stravinsky. (Click on the image and watch it on YouTube.)
I woke up this morning with Miriam Makeba on my mind. I have no idea why, but I searched for her name, found a website that didn’t load for me, but found a recent (May 4, 2007) article by Karen Lotter (suite 101) which begins:
Miriam Makeba, Mamma Africa, lived in enforced exile for 31 [...]
Daniel Wolf offers up a pair of brave posts on Renewable Music about composition competitions. He, along with David Ocker’s Mixed Meters blog, have joined the front lines of the QUESTION AUTHORITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC movement. I on the other hand, having become one with the universe, have thrown down [...]
Here is Pink Floyd’s first single which was written by original band member Syd Barrett. The song is based on a real person who was a transvestite. (Read Wikipedia’s description of the story.) This is a rather bizarre video I had not seen where the band carries a mannequin around a beach. Hmm, what does [...]
A silly June Carter introduces that Tennessee country artist, Hank Williams, singing one of his signature songs, “Hey Good Lookin’.”
The one and only Patsy Cline sings her famous “Walking after Midnight” in this ancient video clip. A good song to launch the summer.
The ur-electronica music from the late ’70s, Jean Michel Jarre is very cool here in this original video of his ongoing Oxygene series. Ah, those were the days where it was sooo cool to have a room full of keyboards, racks, rigs, flashing lights. Of course you really need all that equipment to play those [...]
A veritable treasure trove of manuscripts are now available online. The Juilliard Manuscript Collection is a flash-based website with images of 99 manuscripts, and 8000 pages of high resolution scans of manuscripts by “famous” classical composers. I immediately gravitated to Stravinsky, finding early sketches for PETRUCHKA, which started out its life as a piano concerto, [...]
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