A Day for 10 Jazz-Folk Clips

For some reason, today feels like we need some jazz-folk to remind us all what's most important—country, freedom, truth and respecting our differences.

Here are 10 jazz-folk clips:

Here's Brother John Sellers' Down By the Riverside in 1954, with Sir Charles Thompson (p), Freddie Green (g), Walter Page (b) and Jo Jones (d)...



Here's Kitty White singing Ten Thousand Miles in 1956...



Here's Fred Katz's Old Paint from Folk Songs for Far Out Folk in 1958, with Fred Katz (cello), John Towner Williams (p), Billy Bean (g), Mel Pollan (b) and Jerry Williams (d)...



Here's Bill Smith's Go Down Moses in 1959, from Folk Jazz, with Bill Smith (cl,arr) Jim Hall (g) Monty Budwig (b) Shelly Manne (d)...



Here's Johnny Griffin playing Hush-a-Bye from The Kerry Dancers and Other Swinging Folk in 1961, with Johnny Griffin (ts), Barry Harris (p), Ron Carter (b) and Ben Riley (d)...



Here's Harold Land playing Tom Dooley from Jazz Impressions of Folk Music in 1963, with Carmell Jones (tp), Harold Land (ts), John Houston (p), Jimmy Bond (b) and Mel Lee (d)...



Here's Paul Winter playing Waltzing Matilda in 1963, from Jazz Meets the Folk Song, with Dick Whitsell (tp), Paul Winter (sop,as), Jeremy Steig (fl), Jay Cameron (bar), Warren Bernhardt (p), Sam Brown (g), Cecil McBee (b), Freddie Waits (d) and Jose Cingo (perc)...



Here's Helen Merrill singing Motherless Child in 1966, from Helen Merrill Sings Folk, with Hozan Yamamoto (shakuhachi), recorded in Japan in 1966...



Here's Kenny Clarke playing Here the Good Wind Comes from Out of the Folk Bag in 1967, with the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band...



And here's Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott playing Blowin' in the Wind in 1968 on Common Touch, with Stanley Turrentine (ts), Shirley Scott (org), Jimmy Ponder (g), Bob Cranshaw (el-b) and Idris Muhammad (d)...