Since this feature is still employing a non-topical, summer-vacation protocol, today's post is simply a sort of video jazz festival, for which your editor has selected full sets from six of the all-time giants of jazz, recorded at various locations around the world in the middle of the last century.
In order, the videos are:
In order, the videos are:
- Louis Armstrong in 1959 in Antwerp, Belgium
- Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1965 in Montreal
- Count Basie Orchestra in 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Thelonious Monk Quartet in 1963 in Japan
- Charles Mingus Sextet in 1964 in Oslo, Norway
- Miles Davis Quintet in 1964 in Milan, Italy