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Here’s a live performance of “Black Market” from 1978. I hear this all the time in my house because my husband likes to practice to it.

Ben Webster studied the violin in elementary school. Later he taught himself how to play piano and played with a few bands. After hanging around with Budd Johnson for some time, one day he asked him, “How do you run a scale on that thing?” Budd Johnson showed him how to play a C scale [...]

Art Tatum was mostly self taught. When he was little he used to play the piano rolls of his mother’s player piano. Sometimes the songs the piano played were duets. He didn’t realize that and learned how to play all the parts at once. Maybe this how he learned how to play so fast. Blind [...]

I got up this morning and decided to watch the Miles Davis interview that was featured on 60 Minutes in 1990. I remembered watching it when I was much younger and today just seemed like a Miles kind of day to me–whatever that means.
Here’s a Miles Davis performance of “Tutu” with Marcus Miller, David [...]

When I was little this was one of my top rollerskating songs. I loved everything on the Live At Birdland album.
This performance was recorded in 1963. Enjoy!

This is from a 1997 performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival.