Today, five concert videos that recently went up on YouTube featuring exceptional jazz artists I've been thinking about lately...
Here's Eliane Elias with Marc Johnson (b), Graham Dechter (g) and Rafael Barata (d), at Jazz à Vienne, France, in 2014...
Here's the McCoy Tyner Quintet in 1990, with Freddie Hubbard (tp, fl-h), Ralph Moore (ts, ss), McCoy Tyner (p), Avery Sharpe (b) and Aaron Scott (dr), recorded live in Stuttgart, Germany, at the festival Jazzgipfel Stuttgart 1990)...
Here's Joe Henderson (ts), Jimmy Owens (tp), Gary Burton (vib), Cedar Walton (p), Larry Ridley (b) and Roy Haynes (d), at the Newport Jazz Festival/Paris in 1973...
Here's Chick Corea and his Akoustic Band in Hamburg, Germany in 1987, with Chick Corea (p), John Patitucci (b) and Dave Weckl (d)...
And here's Oscar Peterson in London,1980, with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b) and Martin Drew (d)—and special guests Joe Pass and Count Basie. The conversation between Peterson and Basie remains one of my favorite discourses on Art Tatum...
