And another bio

Johnny Smith [link]

A Talmage Bio

[link]

Tal Farlow

This website [link] contains some wonderful videos from the film, Talmage Farlow.



In addition to interview segments and bits of live performance, there are some great scenes with the legendary Lenny Breau [link].

youtube, googlevideo, dailymotion, zippyvideos

All of these sites are allowing people to upload vintage music performance videos. That this is copyright infringement there is no doubt, but in the meantime (assuming the copyright holders can ever get it together to shut all this stuff down), there's a lot of music to enjoy that people otherwise would never see.



A short video of Grant Green [link] on fire in a short jazzy blues solo.

Joe Pass 55:14

A 55:14 video documentary [link] of the making of the album Roy Clark & Joe Pass Play Hank Williams [link]. The recording itself appears to be out of print. I believe that this is the last recording made by Joe Pass before he passed away.

Rick Stone Performing "My Funny Valentine"

My Funny Valentine [link]

Wes Montgomery Video

Wes Montogomery clip of Full House [link] Right click to download.

Robert Conti Interview

Here's an interesting interview [link] with the somewhat controversial Robert Conti.

pandora.com

An interesting new site, pandora.com is an online radio station. You enter the names of artists you like, and pandora plays tunes by these artists, as well as tunes by artists that pandora's staff has characterized similarly as part of the music genome project. The result is to expose you to artists you might like, but may have never even heard of. In fact, many of the musical selections appear to be by non-mainstream artists.

One guitarist (who's music is not available on amazon and who has no listing in allmusic.com), is Jeffrey Burr. His guitar playing sounds just wonderful, and it seems that the only place you can hear it (short of buying his CDs), is on pandora.

Some other artists that pandora as exposed me to are the Todd Gustavson Trio, John Lewis, Enrico Pieranunzi and Brian Bromburg.

Jimmy Bruno

Jimmy Bruno, one of the greatest living jazz guitarists, has announced that he has bi-lateral carpal tunnel syndrome, and is ceasing all touring.