Category Archives: Jazz

Today’s Music: Oscar Peterson with Joe Pass

Posted on December 11, 2011 by admin

How can you go wrong with the Oscar Peterson Trio with Joe Pass on guitar? (If you don’t know who these great musicians are, go to the Google and get some learnin’.)

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Music: Kenny Burrell Three-peat

Posted on November 21, 2011 by admin

Kenny Burrell is one of my favorite guitar players, both because of his fluid, bluesy solos and his mastery as ‘King of the Ice Cream Chords.’ (Meant as a compliment.) He’s played with every major name in jazz over the … Continue reading →

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Music: Herb Ellis Riffs Some Blues

Posted on November 19, 2011 by admin

Here’s the great guitarist Herb Ellis just playing around with some blues riffs, but when he’s playing, it’s some serious music. (And see if you catch the jazz references, especially to Charlie Parker.) Herb passed away last year at the … Continue reading →

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Today’s Music: Freddie King & Eric Clapton “Hideaway”

Posted on November 1, 2011 by admin

Freddie King, the less well-known of the Three Kings of the Blues Guitar (the other two being B.B. King and Albert King, and none of them related to one another), recorded his seminal blues hit “Hideaway” (or “Hide Away”) back … Continue reading →

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Today’s Music: Otis Spann Three-peat

Posted on October 29, 2011 by admin

You never heard of Otis Spann you say? Catch up here — he was one of the greatest post-war blues pianists and played with the Muddy Waters band for nearly 20 years, as well as working as a session man … Continue reading →

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Music: Pinetop Perkins Friday

Posted on October 28, 2011 by admin

Mississippi bluesman Pinetop (b. Joseph William) Perkins played piano with every big name in the blues at one time or another, from Sonny Boy Williamson during the Great Depression to Earl Hooker in the ’50s to Muddy Waters in the … Continue reading →

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Louis Jordan: “Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door”

Posted on October 24, 2011 by admin

Some mellow Blue Monday blues. From 1946, Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five:

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Ray Charles: “I’ve Got News For You”

Posted on October 20, 2011 by admin

The Genius apprearing on the old Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1990. Amazingly, the sound quality is pretty decent. Enjoy.

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Fats Domino and Leadbelly: Blue Monday Twofer

Posted on October 3, 2011 by admin

For a guy who never got up from his piano bench, New Orleans’ own Fats Domino could rock with the best of them and proves it here with his hit “Blue Monday”.  Below that clip, Huddie Ledbetter, AKA ‘Leadbelly,’ accompanied by an … Continue reading →

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“Choo-Choo-Ch’Boogie” Louis Jordan and the Tympani Five

Posted on September 28, 2011 by admin

Here’s the incredible Louis Jordan, all but forgotten today, one of the fathers of modern blues and rock. This hit, “Choo-Choo-Ch’Boogie”, one of many for Louis, originally came out in 1946 when the genre was called ‘jive boogie’ or ‘jump blues’ … Continue reading →

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