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monocoleporter:

Blind Lemon Jefferson - “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”

(Source: tinasinatra)(Source: tinasinatra)

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thegestianpoet: Jelly Roll Morton– Maple Leaf Ragthegestianpoet: Jelly Roll Morton– Maple Leaf Rag

thegestianpoet:

Jelly Roll Morton– Maple Leaf Rag

Loveless Love | Jess Stacy (piano) and Johnny Lucas (trumpet, vocals)

recorded in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 23, 1953

heyjoewhatdoyouknow: The Dave Brubeck Quartet // Strange Meadow Lark I feel like I could sit next to a fireside smoking a fat cigar with a fine glass of wine in my other hand.heyjoewhatdoyouknow: The Dave Brubeck Quartet // Strange Meadow Lark I feel like I could sit next to a fireside smoking a fat cigar with a fine glass of wine in my other hand.

heyjoewhatdoyouknow:

The Dave Brubeck Quartet // Strange Meadow Lark

I feel like I could sit next to a fireside smoking a fat cigar with a fine glass of wine in my other hand.

filmismyeducation: Thirty Days of Jazz: Day 3 Potato Head Blues | Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven  filmismyeducation: Thirty Days of Jazz: Day 3 Potato Head Blues | Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven  

filmismyeducation:

Thirty Days of Jazz: Day 3

Potato Head Blues | Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven  

milvertons: Miles Davis // It Never Entered My Mindmilvertons: Miles Davis // It Never Entered My Mind

milvertons:

Miles Davis // It Never Entered My Mind

theniftyfifties: Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan — That Old Feeling - 1957 (Source: rogerwilkerson, via oldfilmsflicker)theniftyfifties: Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan — That Old Feeling - 1957 (Source: rogerwilkerson, via oldfilmsflicker)

theniftyfifties:

Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan — That Old Feeling - 1957

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jazzinbooks: Wes Montgomery & Jimmy Smith Down by the Riverside Dynamic Duo Verve, 1966   Creed Taylor matched two of his most famous artists, Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith, on this session (Montgomery’s last for Verve), and the results are incendiary — a near-ideal meeting of yin and yang.Smith comes at your throat with his big attacks and blues runs while Montgomery responds with rounder, smoother octaves and single notes that still convey much heat. They are an amazing pair, complementing each other, driving each other, using their bop and blues taproots to fuse together a sound. The romping, aggressive big band charts — Oliver Nelson at his best — on “Down by the Riverside”  (via jazzrelatedstuff)jazzinbooks: Wes Montgomery & Jimmy Smith Down by the Riverside Dynamic Duo Verve, 1966   Creed Taylor matched two of his most famous artists, Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith, on this session (Montgomery’s last for Verve), and the results are incendiary — a near-ideal meeting of yin and yang.Smith comes at your throat with his big attacks and blues runs while Montgomery responds with rounder, smoother octaves and single notes that still convey much heat. They are an amazing pair, complementing each other, driving each other, using their bop and blues taproots to fuse together a sound. The romping, aggressive big band charts — Oliver Nelson at his best — on “Down by the Riverside”  (via jazzrelatedstuff)

jazzinbooks:

Wes Montgomery & Jimmy Smith

Down by the Riverside

Dynamic Duo

Verve, 1966  

Creed Taylor matched two of his most famous artists, Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith, on this session (Montgomery’s last for Verve), and the results are incendiary — a near-ideal meeting of yin and yang.Smith comes at your throat with his big attacks and blues runs while Montgomery responds with rounder, smoother octaves and single notes that still convey much heat. They are an amazing pair, complementing each other, driving each other, using their bop and blues taproots to fuse together a sound. The romping, aggressive big band charts — Oliver Nelson at his best — on “Down by the Riverside” 

(via jazzrelatedstuff)

e-pic: Stomping At The Savoy // Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Your old form just like a clinging vine, Your lips so warm and sweet as wine, Your cheek so soft and close to mine, divine. (via thenormadesmond)e-pic: Stomping At The Savoy // Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Your old form just like a clinging vine, Your lips so warm and sweet as wine, Your cheek so soft and close to mine, divine. (via thenormadesmond)

e-pic:

Stomping At The Savoy // Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Your old form just like a clinging vine,
Your lips so warm and sweet as wine,
Your cheek so soft and close to mine, divine.

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