Friday Video: Andrea Keller Quartet with Bernie McGann @ Uptown

With both Bernie McGann and Andrea Keller playing tonight at separate gigs, as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, this seemed like a good video to share on a Friday!

The Necks – unseen footage from ‘Beyond El Rocco’

An outtake of The Necks, in their early days, performing for Kevin Lucas’s film Beyond El Rocco.

Barney McAll record development session at 58 Northsix/Metta Soundlabs

Pianist Barney McAll in a record development session with Kurt Rosenwinkel on guitar, Drew Gress on bass and Obed Calvaire on drums at 58 Northsix Media Labs in Brooklyn.

Joe ‘Bebop’ Lane sings ‘Body and Soul’

In this great ‘home video’ from the collection of drummer Barry Woods, Joe ‘BeBop’ Lane lets rip with his inimitable raw and wild vocal improvisations on ‘Body and Soul’ . Playing with him are Alan Turnbull on drums, Evan Lonhing on the keyboard, Rolf Stuube on bass, Freddie Hill on trumpet, Ken James on tenor sax and Freddy Wilson on baritone sax.

Gest8 – The Emperor’s Old Clothes

Gest8 perform Tony Gorman’s piece ‘The Emperor’s Old Clothes’, at the SIMA Sound Lounge in Sydney in 2008. Featuring Sandy Evans on soprano saxophone, Phil Slater on trumpet, Carl Dewhurst on guitar, Steve Elphick on bass, Paul Cutlan on bass clarinet, Satsuki Odamura on koto, and Greg White on computers and electronics.

Australian Colour Diary 37: Country Jazz

25th Annual Australian Jazz Convention 26-31 December 1970 – A little snapshot of country Australia in years gone past – with jazz.