Barney Kessel Performing Black Orpheus

Freddie Green

A web site devoted to Freddie Green [link]

Who was Freddie Green? To quote from his obituary in Downbeat:

Freddie Green, guitarist with the Count Basie Orchestra for half a century, died March 1 in Las Vegas of an apparent heart attack. He was 75. Green was the last surviving member of Basie's "All-American Rhythm Section" which included Basie on piano, Walter Page on bass, and Joe Jones on drums. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Green was introduced to Basie by record producer John Hammond, who had discovered the guitarist playing in a Greenwich Village nightclub. Green was not the Basie band's first guitarist, but he remained with the orchestra far longer than anyone else after joining it in March 1937. He rarely took solos, concentrating instead on rhythmic accompaniment. His playing, in the words of music critic George T. Simon, was "wonderfully light yet propulsive". Green also recorded several albums under his own name, as well as with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, and many others.

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.