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Starter's Guide To Cool Jazz

Source: @earfeeeder

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🎷✨ JAZZ BACK THURSDAY ✨🎷

Since 1987, the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Competition has been one of the most prestigious jazz contests in the world, discovering and launching the careers of top young musicians.

📸 This 1991 photo captures three past winners at the saxophone competition finals in Washington, D.C.

🎷 Joshua Redman (far left) – 1991 saxophone winner 🎺 Ryan Kisor (far right) – 1990 trumpet winner 🎹 Joey DeFrancesco (center) – Competed in the very first competition in 1987, placing 4th

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1930s Jazz Lounge 🎶 Classic Swing & Old Jazz Playlist

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1930s Jazz Lounge 🎶

Classic Swing & Old Jazz Playlist Step back in time to the golden age of jazz with this 1930s Jazz Lounge playlist, where the smooth rhythms of classic swing and old jazz melodies create the perfect vintage atmosphere. Imagine yourself in a cozy, dimly lit lounge, surrounded by the warm glow of candlelight and the rich sounds of saxophones, pianos, and brass bands filling the air. Whether you're looking to unwind, set the mood for an elegant evening, or simply indulge in the timeless charm of jazz, these handpicked classics will transport you to an era of sophistication, rhythm, and pure musical magic. Sit back, relax, and let the melodies swing you away! 🎷✨ ✉Contact us: jazzmusicback@gmail.com

Transcript

0:00[Music]

0:06the midnight Bree it calls your

0:13name soft and low it feels the

0:20same golden Echoes In The Sky why did we

0:26have to say goodbye do you ever dream of

0:34me do my Whispers call you

0:41near in the night Embrace I

0:46[Music] wait hope and love will draw you

0:55near oh moon above tell me truth does

1:00she miss me like I do through every Star

1:05my heart still sways lost in love in yesterday's

1:11[Music]

1:26hate the city glows but it feels so

1:33cold without your touch your hand to

1:42hold memories dancing candle light fading slow but shining

1:49[Music] bright do you ever dream of

1:56me do you ever dream love

2:03me do my Whispers call you

2:09need in the night Embrace I

2:16await hope and love will draw you

2:23near oh moon above tell me truth

2:31does she miss me me like I

2:37do through every Star my heart still sways lost in love in yesterday's Haze

2:46lost in love in yesterday this

2:52[Music] hze the city

2:58glows but it feel feel so cold without your

3:05touch your hand to

3:10hold memories dance in Candle Light fading SW but shining

3:20bright do you ever dream do you ever

3:27dream do you ever

3:32[Music] do you ever

3:37dream dance High [Music]

4:10your laughter still lingers in my mind like a melody Lost In Time the night is

4:19long the world moves slow but your voice still calls I don't let go though you're

4:28gone I feel feel you near a ghost of love so bright so

4:39clear oh in the midnight rain you call a

4:44fading touch a love so tall through time and TI through stars that glow I still

4:52hear Whisper Soft and low

4:58[Music]

5:08Footsteps in Moonlight Shadows that

5:14[Music] dance memories linger won't let go

5:22tonight I chase Your Touch in dreams so deep but wake find I'm left alone

5:36[Music]

6:09Footsteps in Moonlight Shadows that

6:15dance memories linger won't let go

6:23tonight I chase Your Touch in dreams so deep but wait to find I'm left alone

6:34[Music]

7:09the band is playing the base is tight

7:15the horns are blazing what a sight grab your shoes don't waste no

7:25time come on baby let's swing to

7:30tonight feel that Rhythm let it

7:36flow tap your feet and lose

7:41control the night is young the Moon is high we'll dance till

7:48dawn so let's fly swing all night don't let it

7:57stop feel that Groove let's dance till we drop spin me around

8:05hold me tight we're in the mood it feels

8:12so right

8:19[Music]

8:35the trumpet's calling hear that

8:40sound Bas is walking were Heaven

8:45bound jazz is flying through the air so

8:51shake it swing it take me there feel that Rhythm let let it

9:01flow tap your feet and lose control the night is young the Moon is

9:11high we'll dance till dawn so let's

9:16fly swing all night don't let it stop

9:23feel that Groove let's dance till we draw spin me

9:30around hold me tight we're in the mood

9:35it feels so right

9:41[Music]

10:04[Music]

10:10well the night is hot and the lights are low the band's on fire let the trumpets

10:20blow shake your hips tap your feet let's make this joint feel the heat no don't

10:28be shy don't hold back swing it fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat it's

10:35calling you jump and drive it's time to move the jump jve spin around feel the

10:43rhythm don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the swing is hot let's

10:49bring the the [Music]

10:56heat grab a partner take my head we'll dance until we just can't stand

11:02Spin Me High dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jazz we know don't be

11:09shy don't hold back swing it fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat it's calling

11:16you jump and drive it's time to move jump dve spin around feel the rhythm

11:24don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the swing is

11:29let's bring the [Music]

11:36heat grab a partner take my hand we'll dance until we just can't stand Spin Me

11:44High dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jazz we know don't be shy don't hold

11:52back swing it fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat it's calling you jump and

11:59jve it's time to move jump jve spin around feel the

12:07rhythm don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the

12:13S is hot let's bring the [Music]

12:27heat grab a p to take my hand we'll dance until we just can't stand Spin Me

12:34High dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jazz we [Music]

12:44know grab a partner take my hand we'll dance until we just can't stand Spin Me

12:52High dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jaz we know

12:59[Music]

13:06[Applause] don't be shy don't hold back swing it

13:13fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat it's calling you jump and dve it's time

13:20to move jump J spin around feel the rhythm

13:27don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the swing is hot let's bring

13:34the [Music]

13:54heat soft rain is falling on my window

14:01pain like the tears I've cried in love sweet

14:07name Whispers of laughter echo in the

14:14dark memories linger still warm in my

14:20heart Moonlight dancing Shadows on the

14:27shore waves come your name but you're too

14:33far if I close my eyes I still see your face lost in

14:43time in a sweet Embrace oh whisper

14:49dreams and midnight s

14:54fading echoes in the star Skies

14:59I reach for you but you're not there

15:05just a memory in the midnight

15:11[Music]

15:17air oh whisper dreams and midnight

15:25sides fading Echoes In The Star Sor

15:30skies I reach for you but you're not

15:36there just a memory in the midnight air

15:42[Music]

16:10letters unop words left un traces of your touch still dancing my

16:22head Shadows walson where you used to be but

16:29I can't hold on I'm just set them

16:35free whisper dreams and in night

16:41sze fade in echoes in the star

16:47skies I reach for you but you're not

16:53there just a memory in the m night

17:02[Music]

17:18[Applause]

17:26[Music]

17:35the city sleeps the lights are low I hear a Melody so soft and

17:45slow it takes me back to when you were

17:50mine dancing close lost in

17:55time every step every sway brings back Whispers of

18:05yesterday moonlit streets your hand in

18:11mine love like a song playing on

18:16time One Last Dance one more

18:21chance to hold you close feel your

18:26romance spin me around don't let me

18:31go keep me in your arms so slow

18:39[Music]

18:58the Jukebox hums our favorite tune your laughter lingers like a silver

19:08moon Through The Echoes of love we

19:13share I keep dancing but you're

19:18nowhere maybe the train took you too

19:24far but my heart stays Where You Are

19:30if you're out there just turn around come back home don't let me down

19:42[Music]

20:12maybe the train took you too far but my heart stays where you

20:21are if you're out there just turn

20:26around come back home don't let me [Music]

20:49[Music] down Whispers of Love still call for you

21:00your laughter lingers in the air a

21:08Melo Beyond Compare the world keeps turning yet here

21:16I stay Dreaming of You night and

21:23day though time moves on love stays the

21:28same forever in a song your

21:34name oh the Stars May fade the winds may

21:41change but love like ours will still

21:46remain through every note through every

21:52rhy you're in my heart beyond all time

21:59[Music]

22:09[Music]

22:23the world keeps turning yet here I

22:29stay Dreaming of You night and

22:34day though time moves on love stays the

22:40same forever in a song your

22:46name oh the Stars May fade the winds may

22:53change but love like ours will still

22:59remain through every note through every ride you're in my

23:08heart beyond all time

23:17[Music]

23:28a faded picture on the wall a

23:35Melo that says it all your voice still lingers in my

23:44mind like a love song Lost In

23:49Time the night is long the fire

23:55low yet memories still seem to

24:01Glow though you're gone I still

24:06replay the love we had lost in

24:11[Music] yesterday time moves

24:18on but I stand

24:24still holding on to but I feel every

24:31whisper every side still lingers on as time goes by

24:45[Music] [Applause]

24:50[Music]

25:03a love so sweet a love so true still plays like jazz in shades of

25:14blue though life has changed one thing

25:19stays you're in my heart always

25:25[Music] [Applause] [Music]

25:38[Applause] [Music]

25:49a love so sweet a love so true still plays like jazz and shades of

25:59blue though life has changed one thing

26:05stays you're in my heart

26:11always file moves on but I stand

26:17still holding on to what I feel every

26:25whisper every side still lingers on as time goes

26:32[Music]

26:50by soft rain falls on my window

26:56tonight bringing a echo of Love fading light I close my eyes but I still

27:06see the way you once looked at me the days move on yet time stands

27:15still in every song I hear you still

27:21though you're gone your touch remains like Whispers lost in the

27:30rain oh Shadows of [Music]

27:36yesterday they never seem to fade away I reach for you but you're not

27:45there just memories floating in the

27:50air mid night size and a lonely

27:56tune dancing Al beneath the moon your laughter lingers in the breeze

28:06like a ghost I cannot see the days move on yet time stands

28:15still in every song I hear you still

28:21though you're gone your touch remains like Whispers love L to

28:30[Music]

29:11midnight Sid and a lonely tune dancing

29:18alone beneath the moon your laughter lingers in the breeze

29:26like a ghost I cannot see the days move on yet time stands

29:35still in every song I hear you still

29:41though you're gone you touch remains like Whispers lost in a

29:50rain Whispers lost in a ring Whispers lost in

30:01[Music]

30:22Rain softly now the night call calls your

30:31name yet I stand Here lost in the

30:40rain a love on bright now just a

30:49song still playing so you've been gone

30:58every whisper every side still lingers though you said

31:06goodbye though time has taken you away my heart will wait come what may

31:16fading Echoes drifting slow caring love you never

31:24know through every Star through every every Breeze your memory stays with

31:32[Music]

31:49me I see your face in

31:54Candle Light a fleeting

32:01dream a love so [Music]

32:06right but dreams will stand the dawn must

32:15rise yet I still see you in my eyes

32:23[Music]

32:42I see your face and candle

32:48[Music] light a fleeting

32:53dream a love so right

33:00the dreams must end the dawn must

33:07R eyes yet I still see you in my

33:22[Music]

33:28the midnight Breeze it calls your

33:35name soft and low it feels the

33:43same golden Echoes In The Sky why did we

33:48have to say goodbye do you ever dream of

33:56me do my my Whispers call you

34:03near in the night Embrace I

34:08[Music] wait hope and love will draw you

34:17near oh moon above Tell Me True does she

34:22miss me like I do through every Star my my heart still sways lost in love in

34:32yesterday's [Music]

34:48ha the city glows but it feels so

34:55cold without your or touch your hand to

35:04hold memories dancing candle light fading slow but shining

35:12[Music] bright do you ever dream of

35:18me do you ever dream

35:25M do my wish call you

35:31near in the night Embrace I

35:38wa hope and love will draw

35:45you oh moon above tell me

35:52Tru does she miss me me like a I

35:59do through every Star my heart still sways lost in love in yesterday's Haze

36:08lost in love in yesterday this

36:14[Music] Haze the city

36:20glows but it feels so cold without your touch

36:28your hand a hold memories danceing candle light

36:36fading slow but shining

36:42bright do you ever dream do you ever

36:49dream do you [Applause]

36:56ever do with the dream dance Highway

37:03[Music]

37:32your laughter still lingers in my mind

37:37like a melody Lost In Time the night is long the world moves slow but your voice

37:45still calls I don't let go though you're gone I feel you

37:54near a ghost of love so bright so

38:01clear oh in the midnight rain you call a

38:06fading touch a love so tall through time and TI through stars that glow I still

38:14hear Whispers soft and low

38:20[Music]

38:30Footsteps in Moonlight Shadows that

38:36[Music] dance memories linger won't let go

38:45tonight I chase Your Touch in dreams so deep but wake to find I'm left alone

38:58n [Music]

39:31Footsteps in Moonlight Shadows that

39:37dance memories linger won't let go

39:45tonight I chase Your Touch in dreams so deep but wake to find I'm left alone

39:56[Music]

40:27a the band is playing the base is tight

40:37the horns are blazing what a sight grab your shoes don't waste no

40:47time come on baby let's swing

40:52tonight feel that Rhythm let it flow

40:59tap your feet and lose control the night is

41:06young the Moon is high we'll dance till dawn so let's

41:13fly swing all night don't let it

41:19stop feel that Groove let's dance till we drop spin me around

41:27hold me tight we're in the mood It Feels

41:34So [Music]

41:56Right the trumpets calling hear that

42:02sound Bas is walking where

42:07heavenbound jazz is flying through the air so shake it swing it take me

42:18there feel that Rhythm let it

42:23flow tap your feet and lose control the night is young the Moon is

42:33high we'll dance till dawn so let's

42:38fly swing all night don't let it stop

42:45feel that Groove let's dance till we draw spin me round hold me tight we're

42:56in the would it feels so right

43:01[Music]

43:26[Music]

43:32well the night is hot and the lights are low the band's on fire let the trumpets

43:42blow shake your hips tap your feet let's make this joint feel the heat no don't

43:50be shy don't hold back swing it fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat it's

43:57calling you jump and drive it's time to move the jump drive spin around feel the

44:05rhythm don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the swing is hot let's

44:11bring the the [Music]

44:18heat grab a partner take my hand we'll dance until we just can't stand Spin Me

44:25High dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jazz we know

44:30don't be shy don't hold back swing it fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat

44:37it's calling you jump and drive it's time to move jump dve spin around feel

44:45the rhythm don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the swing is hot

44:51let's bring the heat

44:59grab a partner take my hand we'll dance until we just can't stand Spin Me High

45:06dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jazz we know don't be shy don't hold

45:14back swing it fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat it's calling you jump and

45:21JB it's time to move jump

45:27spin around feel the rhythm don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the

45:35S is hot let's bring the [Music]

45:49heat grab a partner take my hand we'll dance until we just can't stand Spin Me

45:56High dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jazz we

46:01[Music] know grab a partner take my hand we'll

46:10dance until we just can't stand Spin Me High dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in

46:17the Jazz we know [Music] [Laughter]

46:24[Music] [Applause]

46:31don't be shy don't hold back swing it fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat

46:38it's calling you jump and dve it's time to

46:44move jump ja spin around feel the rhythm don't slow down raise your hands clap

46:53your feet the swing is hot let's bring the [Music]

47:18soft rain is falling on my window

47:23pain like the tears I've cried in love

47:29sweetening Whispers of laughter echo in the

47:36dark memories linger still warm in my

47:42heart Moonlight dancing Shadows on the

47:49shore waves tell your name but you're too

47:55far if if I close my eyes I still see your face lost in

48:05time in our sweet Embrace oh whispered

48:11dreams and the night Sun

48:16fading echoes in the star Sky I reach for you but you're not there

48:27just a memory in the midnight

48:33[Music]

48:39a oh whisper dreams and midnight

48:47sides fading echoes in the star

48:52skies I reach for you but you're not

48:58there just a memory in the midnight air

49:04[Music]

49:32letters unopen words left un said traces of your

49:40touch still dancing my head

49:45Shadows wson where you used to be but I

49:52can't hold on I'm just set them free we

49:58whisper dreams and in night

50:03s f in echoes in the star

50:09skies I reach for you but you're not

50:15there just a memory in the main night

50:27a

50:34[Music]

50:40[Applause]

50:48[Music]

50:57the city sleeps the lights are low I hear a

51:04Melody so soft and slow it takes me back to when you were

51:12mine dancing close lost in

51:17time every step every sway brings back Whispers of yesterday

51:27day moonlit streets your hand in

51:33mine love like a song playing on

51:38time One Last Dance one more

51:43chance to hold you close feel your

51:48romance spin me around don't let me

51:53go keep me in your your arms so

52:01[Music]

52:19slow the Jukebox hums our favorite

52:25tune your laughter lingers like a silver

52:30moon Through The Echoes of love we

52:35share I keep dancing but you're

52:41nowhere maybe the train took you too

52:46far but my heart stays where you

52:51are if you're out there just turn around

52:57come back home don't let me down

53:04[Music]

53:34maybe the train took you too far but my heart stays where you

53:43want if you're out there just turn

53:48around come back home don't let me down

53:55[Music]

54:11[Music]

54:16Whispers of Love still call for

54:21you your laughter lingers in the air

54:28a Melo Beyond

54:33Compare the world keeps turning yet here I

54:39stay Dreaming of You night and

54:45day though time moves on love stays the

54:51same forever in a song your name

54:57oh the Stars May fade the winds may

55:03change but love like ours will still

55:08remain through every note through every

55:14Ryme you're in my heart beyond all time

55:21[Music]

55:29[Music]

55:45the world keeps turning yet here I

55:51stay Dreaming of You night and day

55:57though time moves on love stays the same

56:04forever in a song your name all the stars May

56:12fade the winds may change but love like ours will

56:19still remain through every note through every run you're in my

56:30heart beyond all [Music]

56:49time a faded picture on the wall

56:56a meloy that says it [Music] all your voice still lingers in my

57:06mind like a love song Lost In

57:11Time the night is long the fire

57:17low yet memories still seem to

57:23Glow though you're gone I still

57:28replay the love we had lost in

57:33[Music] yesterday time moves

57:40on but I stand

57:46still holding on to what I feel every

57:53whisper every sound still lingers on as time goes

58:02[Music]

58:11[Applause] [Music]

58:24by oh a love so sweet a love so

58:30true still plays like jazz in shades of

58:36blue though life has changed one thing

58:42stays you're in my heart always

58:47[Music] [Applause] [Music]

59:00[Applause] [Music]

59:11a love so sweet a love so true still plays like jazz and shades of

59:21blue though life has changed one thing

59:27stays you're in my heart

59:33always file moves on but I stand

59:39still holding on to what I feel every

59:47whisper every side still lingers on as time goes by

59:56[Music]

1:00:13soft rain falls on my window tonight bringing Echoes of Love fading

1:00:23light I close my eyes but I still

1:00:28see the way you once looked at me the days move on your time stands

1:00:37still in every song I hear you still

1:00:43though you're gone your touch remains like Whispers lost in the

1:00:52rain oh Shadows of yes

1:00:58today they never seem to fade away I reach for you but you're not

1:01:07there just memories floating in the

1:01:12air midnight size and a lonely

1:01:18tune dancing alone beneath the moon your laughter linger in the breeze

1:01:28like a ghost I cannot see the days move on yet time stands

1:01:37still in every song I hear you still

1:01:43though you're gone your touch remains like Whispers lost

1:01:52[Music] a

1:01:57[Music]

1:02:33midnight size and a lonely tomb dancing

1:02:40alone beneath the moon your laughter lingers in the breeze

1:02:48like a ghost I cannot see the days move on yet time stands

1:02:57still in every song I hear you still

1:03:03though you're gone your touch remains like Whispers lost in a

1:03:12ring Whispers lost in a ring Whispers lost in a rain

1:03:23[Music]

1:03:45softly now the Night Calls your

1:03:53name yet I stand here lost in the

1:04:02rain a love once bright now just a

1:04:11song still playing though you've been

1:04:18[Music] gone every whisper every

1:04:24side still lingers though you said goodbye though time has taken you

1:04:33away my heart will wait come what may

1:04:38fading Echoes drifting slow caring love you never

1:04:46know through every Star through every Bree your memory stays with me

1:04:57[Music]

1:05:12I see your face in candle

1:05:18[Music] light a fleeting

1:05:23dream a love so [Music]

1:05:28right the dreams will stand the dawn must

1:05:37rise yet I still see you in my eyes

1:05:45[Music]

1:06:04I see your face and candle

1:06:10[Music] light a fleeting

1:06:15dream a love so

1:06:21right but dreams must end but Dawn must

1:06:29rise eyes yet I still see you in my

1:06:44[Music] eyes the midnight

1:06:53Breeze it calls your name soft and

1:07:00low it feels the same golden Echoes In The Sky why did we

1:07:10have to say goodbye do you ever dream of

1:07:18me do my Whispers call you near

1:07:24[Music] in the night Embrace I

1:07:30[Music] wait hope and love will draw you

1:07:39near oh moon above Tell Me True does she

1:07:44miss me like I do through every Star my heart still sways lost in love and

1:07:54yesterday's hate [Music]

1:08:11the city glows but it feels so

1:08:17cold without your touch your hand to hold

1:08:27memories danceing candle light fading slow but shining

1:08:34[Music] bright do you ever dream of

1:08:40me do you ever dream of

1:08:47me do my Whispers call you

1:08:53near in the night Embrace

1:09:00iwait hope and love will draw you

1:09:07near oh moon above Tell Me

1:09:14True does she miss me me like I

1:09:21do through every Star my heart still s way lost in love in yesterday's Haze

1:09:30lost in love in yesterday's is

1:09:36[Music] haze the city

1:09:42glows but it feels so cold without your

1:09:49touch your hands are hold

1:09:55memories dance in Candle Light fading small but shining

1:10:04bright do you ever dream do you ever

1:10:11dream do [Applause]

1:10:18you do you ever dream dance High

1:10:25[Music]

1:10:54your laughter still lingers in my mind

1:10:59like a melody Lost In Time the night is long the world moves slow but your voice

1:11:07still calls I don't let go though you're gone I feel you

1:11:16near a ghost of love so bright so

1:11:23clear oh in the mid night rain you call

1:11:28a fading touch a love so tall through time and TI through stars that glow I

1:11:36still hear Whisperers soft and [Music]

1:11:51low Footsteps in moonlight Shadows that

1:11:58[Music] dance memories linger won't let go

1:12:07tonight I chase Your Touch in dreams so deep but wake to find I'm left alone

1:12:20[Music]

1:12:53Footsteps in moonlight Shadows that

1:12:59dance memories linger won't let go

1:13:07tonight I chase Your Touch in dreams so deep but wake to find I'm left alone

1:13:18[Music]

1:13:53the band is playing the basee is tight the horns are

1:14:00blazing what a sight grab your shoes don't waste no

1:14:09time come on baby let's swing

1:14:14tonight feel that Rhythm let it

1:14:20flow tap your feet and lose control

1:14:26the night is young the Moon is high we'll dance till

1:14:32dawn so let's fly swing all night don't let it

1:14:41stop feel that Groove let's dance till we drop spin me round hold me tight

1:14:52we're in the mood It Feels So [Music]

1:15:18Right the trumpet's calling hear that sound

1:15:25Bas is walking we Heaven bound jazz is flying through the air so

1:15:35shake it swing it take me there feel that Rhythm let it

1:15:45flow tap your feet and lose control the night is young the Moon is

1:15:55High we'll dance till dawn so let's

1:16:00fly swing all night don't let it stop

1:16:07feel that Groove let's dance till we dry

1:16:12spin me around hold me tight we're in

1:16:18the mood Feels So Right

1:16:25[Music]

1:16:48[Music]

1:16:54well tonight is hot and the lights are low the band's

1:17:00on fire let the trumpets blow shake your hips tap your feet let's

1:17:09make this joint feel the heat no don't be shy don't hold back swing it fast

1:17:15let's hit the track Feel The Beat it's calling you jump and drive it's time to

1:17:22move up jump dve spin around feel the rhythm don't slow down raise your hands

1:17:30clap your feet the swing is hot let's bring the the

1:17:37[Music] heat grab a partner take my hand we'll

1:17:44dance until we just can't stand Spin Me High dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in

1:17:50the Jazz we know don't be shy don't hold back swing it fast let's hit the track Feel

1:17:58The Beat it's calling you jump and drive it's time to move by jump J spin around

1:18:07feel the rhythm don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the swing is

1:18:13hot let's bring the [Music]

1:18:20heat grab a partner take my hand dance until we just can't stand Spin Me High

1:18:28dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jazz we know don't be shy don't hold back swing

1:18:37it fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat it's calling you jump and jve it's

1:18:44time to move jump J spin around feel the rhythm

1:18:52don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the swim

1:18:57is hot let's bring the [Music]

1:19:11heat grab a partner take my hand we'll dance until we just can't stand Spin Me

1:19:18High dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jazz we know

1:19:29grab a partner take my hand we dance until we just can't stand Spin Me High

1:19:36dip me low Let's Lose ourselves in the Jazz we

1:19:42[Music]

1:19:50[Applause] know don't be shy don't hold back swing

1:19:56it fast let's hit the track Feel The Beat it's calling you jump and Jive it's

1:20:03time to move jump J spin around feel the rhythm

1:20:11don't slow down raise your hands clap your feet the swing is hot let's bring

1:20:18the heat [Music]

1:20:39soft rain is falling on my window

1:20:45pain like the tears I've CED in love

1:20:51sweetening Whispers of life after echo

1:20:57in the dark memories linger still warm in my

1:21:04heart Moonlight dancing Shadows on the

1:21:11shore waves have your name but you're too

1:21:17far if I close my eyes I still see your face lost in

1:21:27time in our sweet Embrace oh whispered

1:21:33dreams and midnight s

1:21:38fading echoes in the star skies I reach for you but you're not

1:21:48there just a memory in the midnight a he

1:21:57[Music]

[dominikmons-blog]

Luxury Jazz Music

The Origins of Jazz: A Journey Through Time Jazz, a genre that resonates with the soul, has a rich and vibrant history that spans over a century. Born in the heart of New Orleans, this musical form has evolved through countless phases, leaving an indelible mark on the cultural landscape of the world. Join us as we embark on a journey through the origins of jazz, delving into its roots, notable…

[1001penguinjazz]

1001: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Apparently the first recorded jazz that became popular. This album is a series of recordings made through the years 1917-1921 and that couldn't be a truer reflection of the sound. This album is time travel at it's finest. You get a real sense of how it must have felt in that time to hear this music for the first time through one of these recordings.

I have appreciation for this in the grand scope of jazz history, but after two songs I wanted to poke my finger through my eye to my brain and swish it around a little so that I could feel a different kind of pain. My personal tastes reflect a very small window for listening to this specific album and this specific sound.

noteworthy tracks: Livery Stable Blues, Tiger Rag, Bow Wow Blues (My Mama Treats Me Like A Dog)

[pasthistoricalevents]

The Women Who Changed History Forever #shorts #ytshorts

[boomerissimo]

Louis Armstrong e Dexter Gordon: più che amici 🛑 Il legame che non ti aspetti 👇 #boomerissimo #dextergordon #louisarmstrong #jazzhistory #UnoRadio

[homegrown-kc]

Happy Birthday Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.

To learn about The Bird, listen to Jazz from Series 1 available wherever you listen to Podcasts.

New series focused on Jazz musicians, including Parker, Moten, and Basie, coming soon.

Homegrown KC is a podcast dedicated to exploring Kansas City's fascinating history and sharing stories from its rich past. It is available wherever podcasts can be found including but not limited to Audible, Amazon Music, Google Music, Pandora, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

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Cheers!

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[violavermillion1919]

The second book in my Viola Vermillion Vaudeville trilogy is set in NOLA in April 1919.

JAZZOLA SIX!

#jazz #nolajazz #jazzhistory #jass #letsdance

The former Knights of Columbus Hall was a neo-classical building at 836 Carondelet Street. Images: 1) 1911 postcard exterior view. 2) 1918 interior when it was used as a temporary hospital during the Great Influenza Pandemic. 3) 1922 flyer for dance held there by Loyola Law School students. The "Jazzola" band was led by trumpeter Johnny Bayersdorffer.

[nicks-lunchbox-service]

2.10.23 Lunchtime drawing: I’ve been listening to a lot of jazz recently, especially recordings by Rudy van Gelder who had a studio in New Jersey just over the GW Bridge, so here’s a super quick sketch of the Village Vanguard in it’s environment on 7th Ave. A while back I made a painting of its neon sign.

[thecoparoom]

Jazz LEGENDS on NYE in NYC, 1961

The Village Voice - Dec 28, 1961

[projazznet]

[spiritualjazzz]

Sounds Of Blackness

[jazzmusicbox]

In 1950, pianist Hazel Scott hosted her own network show, The Hazel Scott Show. For 45 minutes every week, she played piano and interacted with her audience. It was the first TV show ever to be hosted by an African American, and it received outstanding ratings. Later that year, right-wing journal Red Channels put out a list of actors, musicians and others in entertainment industry suspected of being Communist sympathisers. The list included Leonard Bernstein, Orson Welles and Hazel Scott. She volunteered to testify before the House Un-American Activities and strongly criticised the blacklisting process. A week later, her talk show was cancelled and she moved to Paris. Here, she is performing "Takin' A Chance" in 1943. #jazz #jazzmusicbox #hazelscott #piano #jazzpiano #jazzarchives #jazzhistory #jazzvideo #jazzstandard #show #live #chance #leonardbernstein #orsonwelles #blacklivesmatter #music #musicvideo #legend #jazzlover #instagram #instamood #saturday #instagood #instamoment #paris #talkshow #performance #takinachance https://www.instagram.com/p/CUP09dQsSwW/?utm_medium=tumblr

[labellenouvelle]

NEW ORLEANS FATHERS OF JAZZ

A rare and original WWI New Orleans invitation card for the Grand Ball given by the Original Pullman Pleasure Club at the G0-Operative Hall.   Now look at the Music Band for the event !!  

The Famous Pettit & Duson Jazz Band , no other than  Buddie Petit and Frankie Duson ! If you are a Jazz collector you should recognize this names . The band in the picture is the Eagle Band .

The Eagle Band was a very important band in the history of Jazz. When Buddy Bolden went insane in 1907, Frankie Duson took over Buddy Bolden’s Band and renamed it the Eagle Band after the Eagle Saloon at Perdido and South Rampart Street in the Storyville district of New Orleans.

Band Picture:  The Eagle Band 1916. Left to Right: Big Eye Nelson, Chinee Foster, Frankie Dusen, Buddy Petit, Lorenzo Staulz, Dandy Lewis.

In 1917 Dusen, Buddy Petit and Wade Whaley went to Los Angeles to join Jelly Roll Morton at Baron Long’s night club in Watts. When they arrived Morton ridiculed them so much for their down home clothes and ways, that Dusen and Petit soon returned to New Orleans, angry and swearing to kill Morton if he ever returned to the city.

Wadley stayed on and went on to play with Kid Ory. Ironically, Morton’s verse about Dusen in his 1939 recording of Buddy Bolden’s Blues has given Dusen a touch of immortality, but it doesn’t paint a very flattering picture of him. The lyrics are as follows:

Thought I heard Frankie Dusen shout Gal give me the money or I’m gonna beat it out I mean the money like I explain you, I’m gonna beat it out Cause I heard Frankie Dusen say

Dusen started another band when he returned to the city. In 1918 he played with the band on the riverboat S.S. Capitol. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he played occasionally with Louis Dumaine’s Orchestra and he received money from the WPA during the Depression. Dusen never recorded and he died in poverty sometime around 1940.

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The People and Places Behind L.A.’s Jazz Story

(���Hollywood Jazz — 1945-1972" by Richard Wyatt Jr.)

By Carley Michelle Hildebrand

Charles Mingus, Nat “King” Cole, Frank Sinatra, and Ornette Coleman lived here. Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dave Brubeck recorded here. Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker jammed here. But most importantly, a crucial chapter in jazz history played out here.  

While cities like New Orleans and New York City are where jazz music was born and bred, Los Angeles was the beating heart of the West Coast Jazz scene. From the late 1920s to the 1950s not only was L.A.’s jazz scene influential to the art of jazz itself, it brought pride and power to L.A.’s Black community.

The epicenter of it all was the historic Central Avenue corridor, from Little Tokyo to Watts, with some jazz joints springing up as far away as Hollywood. Central Avenue was the economic and social center of a segregated Black community. A cultural mecca, the scene was constant and electric. As the only integrated section of L.A., people of all races and classes—from blue-collar workers to Hollywood stars—mingled together to watch, to dance, to drink, and...to listen.

For #InternationalJazzDay, get ready to cut a rug while we take you on a tour of some key killer diller locations that played an important role in jazz history, from swinging Central Avenue to swanky Old Hollywood. You dig?

The Dunbar Hotel

4225 S Central Avenue Los Angeles

Any trip through L.A.’s jazz history must start at the Dunbar Hotel. Originally built as the Hotel Somerville, the Dunbar played a key role in L.A.’s Black community for decades. Doctor John Somerville built the hotel for the first West Coast convention of the NAACP in 1928 and it provided first-class accommodations for African Americans in a segregated Los Angeles. At the heart of the Central Avenue jazz scene, many prominent jazz musicians stayed or performed there, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Bessie Smith. Other notable guests included Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Hern Jefferies, Langston Hughes, Joe Louis, Arthur B. Spingarn, and W. E. B. Du Bois. As the epicenter of Black L.A.’s social and cultural life, a number of jazz clubs and theaters sprang up along Central Avenue and the district began to flourish as a popular nightlife destination.  

After a herculean restoration, today the Dunbar Hotel provides affordable housing for seniors and offers a beautiful gathering space for the community. (More recently, the Dunbar also made a cameo appearance in 2019’s My Name is Dolemite.)

Club Alabam

4215 Central Avenue

Perhaps the most famous club along Central Avenue was Club Alabam, known as the “Finest Harlem Cafe in America.” Hints of the Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove (which was segregated at the time) could be seen with its rich furnishings and interior palm trees. Saxophonist Art Pepper recalled that “the bandstand was plush and gorgeous with curtains that glistened.” Club Alabam, which had an integrated audience like all of the clubs along the corridor, became the center of L.A.’s jazz scene boasting some of the finest jazz artists in the country. At its most glorious, wrote jazz historian Steven Isoardi, it was kind of a shining star, the premier spot on the Avenue.

Club Alabam may have been the star, but its neighbors were also just as popular: the Downbeat at 4201 S Central Avenue was a major hot spot and, at one point, was home to an all-star jazz band that included L.A. native, the legendary Charles Mingus. Further along, the Elks Hall at 4016 S Central Avenue was said to have been the biggest Black-owned building in Los Angeles. Able to fit from five to six hundred people, it had three floors, which offered flexibility for a wide variety of acts and events.  

The Lincoln Theatre

2300 Central Avenue

Opened in 1927, the Lincoln Theater was the largest of five theaters along the Central Avenue corridor that provided entertainment to the Black community. While the 1920s boasted the era of the grand movie palaces on Broadway, African Americans were segregated if allowed at all. The Lincoln, built between 1926 and 1927, was the first theatre built by African Americans for African Americans and was easily the most important. A beautiful example of Moorish Revival Architecture, the California Eagle called it, “the finest and most beautiful theater in the country built exclusively for race patronage.” 

The Lincoln was a key venue in jazz history, and its stage welcomed icons like Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington, Sammy Davis Jr. and so many more. It’s listed in the National and California Registers.

Ivie Anderson Residence

724 E. 52nd Place, South Los Angeles

“It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it ain’t got that swing)” was the battle cry of the swing era, and Ivie Anderson’s vocals on the 1932 Duke Ellington recording is nothing less than iconic. Anderson hailed from Gilroy, but called Los Angeles home for much of her life and lived at 724 E. 52nd Place from 1930 to 1945. During this time Anderson toured heavily with Ellington’s band, whom she sang with for a decade. 

(You can even watch her with Duke’s band in the classic Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races, where she performs “All God's Chillun Got Rhythm.”) Anderson’s former home is listed in both the national and state historic registers as a contributor to the 52nd Place Historic District, which is also an HPOZ.

The Tiffany Club

3260 West 8th Street, Los Angeles

You’d never guess as you speed past the low-rise market at West 8th Street and Normandie Avenue that a litany of jazz greats once played there in the 1950s. Dave Brubeck, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Helen Forrest, Nat King Cole—the list goes on and on. (Chet Baker and Stan Getz’s set was recorded and definitely worth a listen.)  

In 1952, the great Louis Armstrong headlined the club with an all-star band that included Earl “Fatha” Hines and Jack Teagarden. It was an integrated audience, as you can see in this famous photo taken in 1954 of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe at the Tiffany. Monroe was a huge fan of Fitzgerald and the two women became friends. Monroe actively promoted Ella by attending her performances, which guaranteed press coverage.

Thomas Jefferson High School

1319 E 41st Street, Los Angeles

Not all jazz greats hailed from the East Coast. Many were born right here in Los Angeles. Most notable, Charles Mingus and Buddy Collette, who both attended Jordan High School in Watts. (Mingus, in fact, grew up steps from the Watts Towers and often saw Simon Rodia as he worked on building his menagerie of glass and scraps.) But it is Thomas Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles that nurtured the talent for the largest number of future jazz artists.

Dexter Gordon and Don Cherry are perhaps its most famous graduates, but for many the real star was teacher Samuel R. Browne: the first Black music teacher in the Los Angeles public school system. After receiving advanced degrees from USC in music and education, he eventually took a job at Jefferson High School where, in 1936, he became the first Black teacher to integrate the school. He often accompanied his students to Central Avenue jazz clubs and, as part of their music education, took them to rehearsals where at any given time they’d see Lionel Hampton, Stan Kenton, or Duke Ellington at work. He’d also bring talent to the classroom—stars like Nat “King” Cole and Jimmie Lunceford—for recitals and master class seminars.

The Hollywood Bowl

2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles

The enduring, much beloved L.A. icon has long been a friend to jazz musicians...even when the critics weren’t. (When Frank Sinatra made his Bowl debut in 1943 to sellout crowd of Bobby Soxers, the Times sneered about swing: “is it possible that there is no alternative in this country?”) In 1954, Louis Armstrong performed "The Whippenproof Song" on The Colgate Comedy Hour which became the first ever live telecast from the Bowl. Two years later, the Bowl hosted the jazz event of the decade: an all-star concert Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl. With Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald headlining, the concert was an extraordinary who’s-who of jazz greats, among them Oscar Peterson, Roy Eldridge, Buddy Rich, and Art Tatum.

It’s hardly surprising that the Playboy Jazz Festival has called the Bowl home since 1979, making it one of the longest-running jazz festivals around.

The It Club

4731 W. Washington Boulevard

The It Club (which was across the street from today’s Nate Holden Performing Arts Center) was owned by John T. McClain, a man who would go on to become an executive and huge force in the L.A. as one of the most powerful figures in the world of Black music. McClain’s father rubbed shoulders with ganger “Bugsy” Siegel and his mother, an accomplished pianist, appeared with Lena Horne in Hollywood during the ‘40s.

During the 1950s and ‘60s, it was common to see huge jazz stars play the It Club. Miles Davis and John Coltrane were returning guests, and jazz legend Thelonious Monk recorded here in 1964, resulting in the album “Live at the It Club.”  

The Parker Room and Billy Berg’s

1358 Vine Street, Hollywood

The Parker Room, which recently closed, opened in 2017 to pay homage to its famous history. During its heyday in the 1940s, Billy Berg’s was one of the hottest jazz joints in L.A. and the country. Its claim to fame was being the site of Charlie Parker’s first West Coast engagement. (Hence the name “The Parker Room.”) In 1949, Billie Holiday threw an extravagant New Year's Party in the club.

But Billy Berg’s is also emblematic of a change in the L.A. jazz scene. In postwar L.A., Black musicians were making inroads at previously all-white clubs and theaters in places like Hollywood and downtown L.A. Jewish impresario Billy Berg became a prominent player in running integrated jazz joints. As KCET reports, in “less than twenty-five years, Berg came to own at least six different clubs in the Los Angeles area: Trouville, The Swing Club, Waldorf's Cellar, Club Capri, The 5-4 Ballroom and the most famous, Billy Berg's.”

Integrated Hollywood clubs also signaled a change in the tide. The scene on Central Avenue began to fade as white audiences no longer needed to head south to Central Avenue. Likewise, the desegregation of some jazz clubs in L.A. opened up more opportunities for Black musicians outside of Central Avenue.

Nat “King” Cole Residence

423 S. Muirfield Road, Hancock Park

Nat “King” Cole was among the many jazz musicians who “jumped ship” in L.A. while on tour, choosing the city as home. Despite being one of the most successful and popular entertainers of the 20th century, Cole and his family still faced racism. Discriminatory housing covenants enforced by homeowners’ associations across L.A. made his celebrity status irrelevant. In 1948, when Cole and his family purchased this $85,000 property, they were the first Black family to move into exclusively white Hancock Park.

The Cole’s were met with an affidavit by an angry group of white homeowners claiming that 50-year-old covenants restricted homeownership to non-Caucasians. After they refused to move, an ambitious plan to oust them was launched, including threats to his family and their real estate agent. But the law was against the homeowners’ association: that very year, the Supreme Court Decision of Shelley v. Kraemer had deemed restrictive covenants unconstitutional.

The Cole family would continue to endure intimidating acts of overt racism from the neighborhood over the years, but they loved their home and weathered the storms. Cole would live here until his untimely passing in 1965 and in 2003, Hancock Park —an HPOZ—dedicated the post office at 265 South Western Avenue in his honor.

Capitol Records

1750 Vine Street, Hollywood

And any tour of L.A. jazz history wouldn’t be complete without a stop at the iconic Capitol Records building in Hollywood. The Capitol Records label was home to such legends like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, which is why the label's headquarters in Hollywood—a cherished Historic-Cultural Monument—proudly celebrates its connections to jazz history with its gorgeous mural “Hollywood Jazz — 1945-1972" on the south wall of the tower.

Created by legendary L.A.-based muralist Richard Wyatt, Jr. in 1990, the mural was commissioned at the request of the Los Angeles Jazz Society, and in 2013, it received a loving restoration from Capitol Records. An ode to titans of jazz music, the mural is also as beautiful as it is personal. “Nat King Cole’s widow [Maria] asked me if I would show him wearing his favorite tie,” Wyatt recalled in 2013.

** BONUS **

The Lighthouse Café 

30 Pier Avenue, Hermosa Beach

Because we probably wouldn’t hear the end of it otherwise ...

The last stop on our trek through Jazz Land is Hermosa Beach’s Lighthouse Cafe which figures prominently in Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (2016). Like it or loathe it, the film La La Land certainly did much to trigger interest not simply in L.A. locations, but the L.A. jazz scene. To its credit, the jazz club at the center of the film is an actual historic jazz club. The Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach has been in business since 1949, when an experimental Sunday jam session turned into a success. Over the decades, it welcomed greats like Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, but dozens of West Coast jazz artists from Art Pepper to the Jazz Crusaders recorded here.

Thanks to the popularity of the film La La Land, The Light House Café remains a popular destination and is one of a handful of historic, legacy businesses still operating in L.A. that serve up jazz. Others include the Catalina Club, the Baked Potato, Herb Alpert’s Vibrato, and LACMA’s popular Friday night jazz series.