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[Jazzrook]

A fiery performance from Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra in Berlin, 1970. Magnificent June Tyson!
I was lucky enough to see his Arkestra the same year at Queen Elizabeth Hall. A truly amazing concert.
Jay Korber strikes again!

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=qp29FTEnPJg

JR

[Jazzrook]

Krzysztof Penderecki - Actions For Free Jazz Orchestra, Donaueschingen, 1971.

An incredible line-up of free jazz players!

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ZA1agClYujc

JR

[elmo]

This is one of the most amazing bit of playing by Sonny Rollins i have ever heard...... Sonny, NHOP and Alan Dawson

https://youtu.be/cdJSQF3AzX8?feature=shared

elmo

[Jazzrook]

Anthony Braxton Quartet with Kenny Wheeler, J-F Jenny Clark & Charles “Bobo” Shaw at Chateauvallon Jazz Festival, 1973:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=IRVPUQ5em6M

JR

[Jazzrook]

Sadly, the Jay Korber postings of 1966 footage of the Albert Ayler Quintet in Munich, Bordeaux & Berlin have been removed but the latter two can now be seen here(but for how long?):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=pembWQSZX6k

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=K5IaU5_ey2I

JR

[CGR]

The amazing Bruce Forman live

[Jazzrook]

Dizzy Gillespie’s Reunion Big Band playing ‘Things To Come’ in 1968:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=-XCQkJRSgRQ

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Tony Kinsey, who has just died aged 97. "Jaffa Daze", BBC, from 1964, with Peter King, Gordon Beck and Les Condon etc. A very long career and a very good drummer, strangely one who is not mentioned much now, even in the realm of British jazz players of the time.

http://youtu.be/A37wOKltI0Y?feature=shared

From UK Jazz News...

"He is, surely, the last man standing from the London club scene of the 1950s, a pioneering era of modern jazz now fading into legend. It was a time when sharply suited adventurers brought the new sound of New York bebop to the smoke-wreathed basements of Soho. Post-war, pre-Beatles, a time remembered in black and white but pulsing with musical colour for the inner-city in-crowd.

Drummer Tony Kinsey led poll-topping small groups as well as sharing stages with such visiting luminaries as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Oscar Peterson. He was resident bandleader at the fabled Flamingo Club for eight years, and with Tubby Hayes, Joe Harriott, Johnny Dankworth, he was among that elite group who could hold their own with visiting American stars. In the Sixties Kinsey branched out to write and arrange for big band and for strings, with his music appearing in film and TV.” (John Bungey)"

[Serial_Apologist]

Tony Kinsey, who has just died aged 97. "Jaffa Daze", BBC, from 1964, with Peter King, Gordon Beck and Les Condon etc. A very long career and a very good drummer, strangely one who is not mentioned much now, even in the realm of British jazz players of the time.

http://youtu.be/A37wOKltI0Y?feature=shared

From UK Jazz News...

"He is, surely, the last man standing from the London club scene of the 1950s, a pioneering era of modern jazz now fading into legend. It was a time when sharply suited adventurers brought the new sound of New York bebop to the smoke-wreathed basements of Soho. Post-war, pre-Beatles, a time remembered in black and white but pulsing with musical colour for the inner-city in-crowd.

Drummer Tony Kinsey led poll-topping small groups as well as sharing stages with such visiting luminaries as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Oscar Peterson. He was resident bandleader at the fabled Flamingo Club for eight years, and with Tubby Hayes, Joe Harriott, Johnny Dankworth, he was among that elite group who could hold their own with visiting American stars. In the Sixties Kinsey branched out to write and arrange for big band and for strings, with his music appearing in film and TV.” (John Bungey)"

Always sad to learn of the death of one admired and had at least the chance to meet once towards the end (in the audience of one of the Way Out West collective's gigs at the Bull's Head. Tony, who didn't seem a man in his nineties, had always kept "contemporary" - his compositions of later years bearing little imprint of the early years, when to my ears he still had the finest "feel" for bop drumming style in this country - others (mentioning no one in particular) more sound and spectacle than sensitivity and subtlety - hear him now behind those Dankworth Seven sides from '50/'51.

[Jazzrook]

Kate Westbrook singing about the history of barbed wire!

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=baKOtxArki4

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Eddie Harris/Les Mccann, Montreux.. "Kathleen's theme".

Haven't heard this for a long while and all the focus was always on "Compared to What", but Mr Harris really impressive on what was McCann's set. And Ella in the audience...

http://youtu.be/3AXcuR4wnZc?feature=shared

[Jazzrook]

Rare footage of the classic Ornette Coleman Quartet with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden & Billy Higgins reunited in Barcelona(?), 1987:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=sPLLhF84SZg

JR