Videos: Five Jazz Joes

Cruising around YouTube yesterday evening, I fixated on jazz artists whose first name is Joe. Hardly average, as you will see and hear, these giant Joes demonstrated exceptional talent on stage. [Photo above of Joe Morello]

Here are five videos by jazz artists named Joe:

Here's Joe Farrell on tenor saxophone with Elvin Jones on drums and Jimmy Garrison on bass in 1968...

Here's tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra...

Here's trumpeter Joe Newman playing Georgia on My Mind...

Here's Joe Williams with the Count Basie Orchestra in 1959...

And here's drummer Joe Morello with the Dave Brubeck Quartet playing Take Five on TV's Playboy Penthouse in 1959. What a drum solo!