04/28 – 05/04: Jazz on the Tube Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Monday, April 28, 2025

Jazz Birthdays

* Mario Bauza

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/sun-sun-babe/

* Mike Renzi

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/remembering-mike-renzi/
 
* Blossom Dearie

* Steve Khan

Duke Ellington Week: “3 Songs Featuring Johnny Hodges – 1969”

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/3-songs-featuring-johnny-hodges-1969/

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Jazz Birthdays

* Duke Ellington

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/take-the-a-train-5/

* “Toots” Thielemans

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/bluesette/

* Ray Barretto

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/nadie-se-salva-de-la-rumba/

* George Adams

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/blues-for-monet/

* Dave Valentin

Duke Ellington Week: “It Don’t Mean A Thing – 1965”

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/it-dont-mean-a-thing-1965/

Remembering Andy Bey (1939-2025)

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/celestial-blues/

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Jazz Birthdays

* Percy Heath

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/how-high-the-moon-cello-solo/

Duke Ellington Week: “The Mooche – 1952”

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/the-mooche-1952/

Thursday, May 01, 2025

Jazz Birthdays

* Little Walter

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/little-walters-jump/

* Ira Sullivan

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/wee-pot/

* Shirley Horn

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/heres-to-life/

* James Newton

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/sometimes-i-feel-like-a-motherless-child/

Duke Ellington Week: “Bli Blip – 1942”

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/bli-blip-1942/

Friday, May 02, 2025

Jazz Birthdays

* Richard “Groove” Holmes

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/the-man-i-love-2/

Duke Ellington Week: “La Plus Belle Africaine – 1969”

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/la-plus-belle-africaine-1969/

Saturday, May 03, 2025

Jazz Birthdays

* John Lewis

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/django/

* Jymie Merritt

* Bing Crosby

Duke Ellington Week: The Hawk Talks – 1951

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/the-hawk-talks-1951/

Sunday, May 04, 2025

Jazz Birthdays

* Maynard Ferguson

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/primal-scream/

* Don Friedman

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/stablemates/

* Ron Carter

https://jazzonthetube.com/video/willow-weep-for-me-3/

* Rudresh Mahanthappa

https://www.jazzonthetube.com/rudresh-mahanthappa/

* Lars Gullin

* Bob Sheppard

Everybody’s Doin’ It – Dale Cockrell

Chroniclers, Jazz on the Tube Interview, Podcasts


 
What was going on before jazz?

A lot of hanky-panky. In fact, a lot more hanky-panky than most of us can imagine.

That’s where Dale Cockrell comes in.

He helps us visualize the pre-1917 sex-crazed world of “dives” and “black and tans” fueled by live music.

Spoiler alert: Some of our great-grandparents might not have been quite as tame as they’ve been made out to be.

Lots of surprises here including the unlikely birthplace of the man who taught Louis Armstrong how to read music and run a band. (Hint: Not New Orleans.)

Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917

You can order the book here

– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube

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Thanks.

Cuba Insight – Join the list

Cuba

Cuba is not just another country with music.

It’s nothing less than the Mother Ship of Afro-Latin music.

With its habanera, danzon, changüí, son, son montuno, rumba, mambo, cha-cha-cha, timba, and wide variety of Afro-Cuban spiritual musical forms, Cuba has been as important to the music of the world as the United States has been with its blues, jazz, rock and rock, and gospel music.

But getting information about the Cuban jazz scene is not easy…

It’s scarcely covered by major jazz magazines. Even getting a list of jazz venues in Havana isn’t easy.

Ken’s Cuba List is filling the gap with videos and articles that will help you put Cuba’s music in perspective and educate yourself about its riches past and present.

We’re also sharing practical information including travel tips and a weekly listing of what’s going on in the clubs in Havana (the only source of this particular info on the Internet.)

– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube

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Great news – Eddie Durham rides again

Jazz on the Tube Interview, Podcasts, Producer-Presenters

Long-time Jazz on the Tube subscribers know we have been dedicated advocates to the idea that arranger/composer/music director/ amplified guitar pioneer/trombone virtuoso Eddie Durham deserves a much higher profile among jazz fans and jazz students than his memory currently enjoys.

How high?

It’s time that he be placed at the level of Duke Ellington and other ESSENTIAL masters of the art.

As an important step in that direction, we’re delighted to announce a MAJOR documentary on Eddie’s life and music that launches tomorrow February 1, 2024.

Details and an informative wide-ranging interview.

Watch the interview above, and for more info on the documentary, click this link.

– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube

P.S. Our unique programming is made possible by help from people like you. Learn how you can contribute to our efforts here: Support Jazz on the Tube
Thanks.

Music credit: The Jazz on the Tube podcast theme song is “Mambo Inferno” performed by The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Bobby Sanabria from the CD ¡Que Viva Harlem!

 

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