The Future of Jazz: Billy Taylor/George Russell/Bill Evans

[elortibamal]

Bill Evans is a genious

[Sax4Life07]

Bill Evans and his unparalled playing.....enough said!

[lindseyblair]

this host is a drag, I fell like I'm attending a class

[ozawablog]

Your video is a favorite on Harare

[jazzjanne1]

Awesome jazz!

[tubesoxabc]

ck out these swingin' cats. they make jazz fun!

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[PanshyCats]

Ídolos.

[PanshyCats]

Esto si es música!!!

[dedecruzdeferro]

The Future of Jazz: Billy Taylor/George Russell/Bill Evans, muito bom mesmo, uma maravilha de música!

[M1k3L1z4rD]

the piano sounds kinda ramdom x)

[WANIBUNtv]

かっこよすぎ！

[Yoostoobz]

10:40

MILTON FRIEDMAN!?

[vecernicek2]

@Yoostoobz haha! yes, the are look alikes!

[Suspensote]

An approximately 29-year-old Bill Evans! What a treat! Thank you!

[JulioEnoc]

Excellent video, and discussion.

how to imagine taht music would change a lot with electronoc influences.

thanks for the upload.

[JustSportVideos]

I just jazzed in my pants.. 

[cliffabrown]

These videos would be even cooler without the advertisements...

[CallOfDutyLegend111]

Sas gamw ta kolotripidia!

MALAKES !VALTE NA AKOUSOUME JAY Z!

[TheAirdoc]

beautiful, nuf said...

[ofudgems]

The piano playing and rhythm @ 7:48 - 8:13 is NUCKING FUTS! DAMN! The speed and the way it dips below in sound, like its diving underwater leaving the sound above and journeying to the deep waters on its own, is SICK! Thank you so much for posting this. Respect. I happened to find this in a link after watching "We Got The Jazz/Buggin' Out" by A Tribe Called Quest.

[Ouellette1978]

lol, this was filmed like when the world was a decent place to live in!!!

[Herbieplay53]

So cool to see this. One of the trumpet players on here is Doc Severenson who was the band leader for the Tonight Show staring Johny Carson.

[unclejunglebass]

and a year later ornette came out with the shape of jazz to come. nobody saw that comin.

[MicRichy1]

@unclejunglebass Except for George !

[unclejunglebass]

@MicRichy1 haha damn youre right! i missed that little interview in the middle... awesome stuff.

[imasuperstarish]

well idk how i found this vid but i like it!!!!!

[girlmusician24]

Gr8 show. What kind of Jazz was it that they were  playing?

[soultaker1083]

@girlmusician24 The real kind of jazz

[chivasmexicano1]

@girlmusician24 bebop

[1994ard]

realy cool

[honeybee7700]

RIP Billy

[shakuhachi]

Wow, this was once on an american tv station? Thank you for uploading this!

[adeart7]

@shakuhachi Yeah. It seems as if our society has gotten dumber if one looks at the current programming on television. What do you think?

[RossBrass]

Thanks for this brilliant upload! Jazz at it's best!

[MrAlexhutch]

Nobody else has ever played jazz clarinet like Tony Scott,

[xklamation]

Brilliant, thank you so much JVG for this vid, for everything you share :) jazzy love from Lisbon

[DrokaxPedro]

- Nice =)

[13loomisst]

Thanks very much.

[MrKeys57]

wow! just so enjoyable! really good!

[SpitsBeaTz]

This video is brilliant, absolutely brilliant. And yes, Jazz still catches the attention of the Gen Y population. I'm 18.

[dysproosium]

@SpitsBeaTz it sure does ;) 16, age aint nothing but a number. could you please tell me some good jazz pieces? they're so hard to find on the internet.

[leetheglee3523]

@dysproosium /I AM WITH YOU LIL BRO. WE HAVE TO STEP INTO OUR HISTORY OF JSZZ. "LET'T REUNITE

[dysproosium]

@leetheglee3523 thanks :) can you tell me some good jazz songs? im in a mood of listening to jazz.

[jose044]

@dysproosium

Giant steps, donna lee, equinox, so what, confirmation, oleo, stella by starlight... just to name a few, they are classics. For modern stuff you shoud check music of allan holdswordth, or chick corea for instance.

[dysproosium]

@jose044 thank you !

[123perroperro]

THXX!!!.....for video.............bles

[mantzoliadelas]

very like

[Parvenu333]

Russell is the greatest genius of our time.

[kevinherbert]

So coooooooool....hot players

[DavidWinterberg]

I adore it!

[narufingers]

good stuff dude.

[yoki33]

what piece at 19:49?? nice video:)

[noidelaplatja]

@yoki33 Double exposure

[busessuck1]

After listening to a fair few of these bebop guys I understand why so few people care for jazz these days- I'm sorry but this sorta thing is just not a good as the old time swinging jazz that basically isn't available to people who don't actively want to find it- people like coltrane on the other hand are what most people think of when they hear "jazz"... it's certainly not bad, but it's music that's gotta be listened to and expertly appreciated

it's a very strict musical boundry

[closetome]

What was the list of books man?

[UncleBob88]

the piece asked about was Body and Soul by Coleman Hawkins (1939)

[hiddenpunk291]

@UncleBob88 cheers buddy

[hiddenpunk291]

whats the piece at 13:18 ?

[aldcor]

@hiddenpunk291

really.. wtf? :D :D

[Marllonee]

Old but goodie !

[LookieHippie]

Great, love it.

[redlinebam]

"If America has a future, Jazz has a future"

hahaha wtf?! 14:16

[aldcor]

@redlinebam

ha.. really.. wtf? :D

[fromthesidelines]

This was the 13th and final program of the series, originally presented as part of a daily rotating series of five "lectures" produced by National Educational Television during the 1957-'58 season, in co-operation with NBC, who provided the facilities and offered their affiliates the option of airing those programs daily at 5pm(et) [few did: WRCA-TV in New York aired kinnies of all five weekly shows, back-to-back, on Sunday mornings]. I believe "THE SUBJECT IS JAZZ" usually aired on Fridays....

[jassbo]

What a great solo by tony scott.

[floppykid]

Would sound nice in a hotel lobby.

[ricadus]

Great to see Bill Evans performing in Russell's classic "Stratusphunk". I always felt the Russell sextet albums from that time (the late 50s/ear.y 60s) were a little held back by George's keyboard technique compared to what a master like Evans could do.

[JAC06]

George Russell was so far ahead of his time. This stuff could be released today and people would be talking about how "cutting edge" the harmony is...

[Eerik39]

How i like Tony Scott.In my early years i had tonys walking  vith swedish quartet.Not find in Youtube tony scott. He vas great.thanks.

[MisterGoulash]

Woww!!

Back to the future...

[caponsacchi]

This is a great introduction to early Bill Evans, showing why Miles was drawn to him and why he became, along with Coltrane, the most influential player in jazz after 1960. He was physically made to play the piano--look at his posture, positionings, the size of his fingers (diameter, not just length) . He got more tone out of a piano than any successor, playing deep into the keys. Evans 1979-80 is the most expressive piano in jazz, going into deep, even dark, places of Bill's Russian psyche.

[jazz1bro]

Incredibile facility and focus going on! Must have been nice to be surrounded by cats on this level as during their times. The B.S found in most inner city public school programs don't promote this type of music usually. Most importantly the public is now used to dumbed downed promoted musics that often features clowns with some degree of varying musical talent .that usually is more reflective of others musics then their own. I hear strong original personalitites through every musician here

[JazzPoetic65]

Keep playing Jazz kid...They left you out because they don't have what you have that is...That special connection with America's Classical Music JAZZ!!!!

[zonedout245]

It's incredible how in that time they would have a show like this. To think, Jazz was popular music then. Popular music with no gimmicks or mainstream stupidity. It was about the music (.)

[drummerboy6800]

Jazz, like any advanced art form is always going to go over the heads of most, but remain a gem that can't really be sold in any meaningful way, leaving it in the hands of those who really get it and lost on those whose lives are bereft without it...

[denvertbone]

I'd love to see something like this on primetime tv; but it'll never happen unfortunately.

[TheVighvajk]

Im a drummer, studied playing jazz cince a year.

I still think that Im an amateur however Im drumming since 7 years.

I thought that Im a good drummer until I met jazz. :D

People (the most) today are too stupid for this music, however as a "musician" Im in love with jazz:D

Thank god some of us stil need thease kinda vids!

[88esquire]

mitch1171: I got into jazz at your age -- when everyone else was rockin' to the San Francisco Sound here. Ignore the lemmings. Pursue your interest with passion. You live in a time when thousands more books, reissues of classic recordings, musical transcriptions, and learning materials are available. It beats locking yourself in a room with your instrument and a bunch of Charlie Parker records. Read as much as you can about the artists, the techniques, harmony and rhythm and have fun.

[jjoseph3000]

Does anyone know the opening song? Just getting into my jazz and I love that song!

[Mattius946]

as long as videos like these still exist and people still watch them and apply the concepts within, jazz will never die! it is only going to grow more and more as people continue to study it and apply it and further advance into different new and equally fresh and good sounds!

[ronaldalankeller]

Tops!



[vietnamesebboytezx]

thanks man!!..i love jazzzzzzzzzz

[bill291212]

nothing like this today on tv. in fact, jazz had no future as far as im concerned. JAZZ IS DEAD, LONG LIVE JAZZ!! frank zappa had a funny quote, "jazz isnt dead, it just smells funny'

[Auraruth8]

@bill291212 that was funny!

[FigliodiVittorio]

Thank you for posting! Does anyone know the name of this series? Is is available in any form? I'm stunned that something of this intellectual seriousness was made for television. I'd DIE to see the show with the Copland interview.

[OccultpedoRapist]

badass

[OccultpedoRapist]

badass

[OZRIC1985]

This is incredible stuff!!!! Now these guys REALLY know music! And this was over a half century ago! :-)

[theroyalpriest]

this needs a "love" button instead of a "like" one!!

[flamefleir]

to me jazz just sounds like noise blurted out randomly with no reason... actually jazz isnt too different from metal (heavy/thrash/speed metal), or anything that involves notes being played really fast. i thought the clarinet solo was the most random thing ever... the guy was just trying to shred on a clarinet... i do like a lot of thrash metal though. i just dont get jazz. i guess its not my thing

[Fenderfan171]

@flamefleir

Thats because all you metal heads are the same, you cant appreciate any other forms of music. plus there is so much hate and angst in metal and it breeds angry people.

[flamefleir]

@Fenderfan171 i dont just like metal. i do appreciate classical pieces such as ones from dvorak and elgar and my favorite cellist is yo yo ma. but i also enjoy some rap/hip hop as well... i like a lot of kinds of music but not a lot of jazz

[awesomewelles90]

@flamefleir For me jazz took a little time to get into and of course I don't like all jazz but once I started to get into it it was very rewarding.

[ZupraVisor]

This is the most beatiful clarinet solo ive ever heard

[ADELIN90]

jazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzz

[Jazzyteach65]

I love tunes like that which has comping horn lines.

Wow, George predicted the future

[Jazzyteach65]

I love tunes like that which has comping horn lines.

[touristfawkes]

I want to start listening to Jazz, but where should I start? The closest to it's roots as possible, please. If someone could save me some time from looking it up on google, I would be most grateful.

[Shiffla]

his root's is close to New Orleands, beetwen 1900-1910

in that kind of jazz the instruments make improvisations all at the same time...

[captainkill1]

fuck rap!!

[YeahChonas]

The bass player have a very unique and interesting technique with his right hand.

[fullweedman]

Jazzzzz !!!

[iamhungey12345]

Wow, rap is different back then.

[ppaplaya]

rofl

[bostonbakedbeans28]

Check out my documentary on Jazz's effect on America's racial boundaries.

[zurudu]

yeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

nise

peace from belgium

[flipperboy]

damn his predictions are dead right

[d4mi3n]

Thanks for sharing this video

[beatles713]

anyone know the list or good books on Jazz?

Please answer.

[obscurecult]

Well you just need the 'Real Book of Jazz', the big bible with lots of standards, and then learn to improvise and let your heart be free.

[YeahChonas]

A book that is called ''The Jazz Theory Book'' is very good if you want to learn alot about jazz.

[FreeBeDrug]

Classic!

Feel free to watch my hip/hop improvisation.

[VJSco]

Very nice :))))

[replayfeti]

thank you jazzvideoguy

[bean9seventy]

i found that realy warm and intresting

picked up a few good tips ,,,

and of course the memorys of those times ,,history

[salocinaej]

concerto for billy the kid at 06:11

[Muzikman127]

Weird, I listened to this video without watching it. I did not expect to see a white man in a suit sitting rigidly at the piano :p.

[Saxman11290]

@ 4:01 Quotation - All God's Chillun Got Rhythm

[Keygarapture]

I love jazz

[TheGrandBrand]

I never enjoyed the mood of jazz too much, but there's no denying - it's innovative, skillful and is art.

[RCarnes2008]

Is that Frank Galbraith on guitar???

[PetertheOther]

You mean Barry, and yes: when Billy Taylor swaps out with Bill Evans, Barry slips into Mundell's place.

[Muzikman127]

this is so fresh....

Jazz guitar today jus sounds so aware of itself- when these guys were playing it was innovation. There was no right and wrong, no rulebook. And you can hear it in their playing.

[dndn1011]

@Muzikman127 played from heart, not head. Today it is all about the head. Pardon the pun. I want the heart back.

[supahsekzy]

No. You need to play with both.  That is the only way to make truly great music.

[dndn1011]

@supahsekzy I do not agree. The heart is all that you need to make great music, because music is a language of the heart. The head is nothing but a crutch for the ego. It allows people to feel secure about their taste, when they lack faith in their feelings. It allows people to nod sagely and put a rubber stamp of approval on something that completely misses the point. The head can help you learn to play an instrument, but you must always..always.. play from the heart for it to mean anything.

[supahsekzy]

@dndn1011 No. Technique is the vehicle with which you express your musical idea, which must have "heart." The better your technique, the better your ability to express what you're trying to (musically) say. That's why all the people in these videos did scales and arpeggios for hours and hours - musically boring, sure, but it gave them the necessary technical ability they needed to express themselves.

[dndn1011]

@supahsekzy Technique had nothing to do with the head vs heart debate. You need to practice to be able to express what you have inside through your instrument. But music is a language beyond intellect, and the sooner this is embraced again, the better.

[KevinDukekmd]

Jazz is concept plus improvisation. Being Spontaneous.

[uradragon]

wow thank you so much. Wonderful MUSIC! YES!

[ThrashMetal]

Oh, and could someone please tell me the name of the song in the beggining,

[ThrashMetal]

I wish I could give this more than 5 stars...

[webkinzunited]

Phenomenal performances. Where has my country gone?What is paraded as music and art now is a joke.

[tokin1up]

These kids may have somthing with this "jazz". The future looks like a stone groove daddy-o

[jazzmunky]

There's something so all-embracing and optimistic about jazz, it's an idiom people from all around the world can engage with and bring their own ideas and culture into. Jazz can't be compared with passing fads - yes, it has a core musical content, ie. jazz phrasing, extended/substitute chords etc, the "what" of jazz, and it's also a way of life, the "how", but it's also a "moment", the sincere musical expression, which is pure and sort of outside of time/fashion. Jazz can save you, in short.

[iamJROD]

You are correct, you cant compare passing fads(popmusic) to Classical or Jazz. The people who usually appreciate Classical,and Jazz, are serious students of music,and or people who are deep into music.

[BantuNation]

@jazzmunky

and yet people have a hard time admitting the art form was created by black people. No one questions where classical music comes from.

[maiwandwal]

and what have we got. Bloomin MTV crap

This is music! man i should have been born in that era

[rometube]

this is great but sound's awful, painful

[mitch1171]

ima 13 year old boy, who is left out from most schools, just becuase i like jazz, but i dont care, jazz is awesome

[Zuchtsau]

man stay at your point its Ok to be different in case to like something very beautiful.

Props

[ricoismybitch]

i don't get it ?! what problem do your schools have with your music ? why they gotta come between you and your jazz ?!

[jazzmunky]

you remind me of myself when i got turned on to jazz aged 14, in 1996, i was completely alone at school, but i used to hang out after school painting in the art department and listening to jazz on the tape player!

[elPlatoIsPaulCharles]

dude you are 13, even people who are 31 do not appreciate jazz. c'est la vie. 50% will hate you, 50% will love you, so yeah, life is a garden, just dig it

[MrDjalexsensation]

@mitch1171 why?

[Amulius]

@mitch1171 People who leave you ignore you and leave you out just because you like jazz are too ignorant and shallow for you. Jazz is far too great and far too intelligent for those kids. Keep it up. Jazz is great.

[danhatechav]

@mitch1171

[danhatechav]

@mitch1171 Kids these days know nothing about music, It saddens me :/

[awesomewelles90]

@mitch1171 "left out from most schools" what in God's name are you blathering about?

[mitch1171]

@awesomewelles90 Not schools... but more like, Friends.. Groups... and i still am

[awesomewelles90]

@mitch1171 I'm beginning to see why!

[clarkewi]

@mitch1171 Take up a jazz instrument young man. 5 years on drums to get a good feel for the "shuffle", "funk", "swing", "rock and roll", "polyrhythms" and "TIME". Then put 10 years on guitar or piano to understand the basics of harmony, chord progressions, chart reading etc. Finally take up a solo instrument like Saxophone and /or flute. Study the greats; Bird, Miles, Coltrane and Hendrix. You will become a great teacher like George Russell.

[niggerfuckshitreborn]

@mitch1171 ur so cool.

[JazzPoetic65]

Keep playing Jazz kid...They left you out because they don't have what you have that is...That special connection with America's Classical Music JAZZ!!!!

[BeatBay]

@mitch1171 hey i am 9 years old and i love jazz!

[hazmck]

very cool, nice one

[djangoph1le]

Mundell Lowe and Barry Galbraith on guitar...very rare stuff!!

[eeee48]

i studied with george at nec......what a kind , humble genius....what i learned from him could keep me growing musically the rest of my life...many students at nec were too arrogant and ignorant to appreciate the theory, unbelievable ....but if you live in america , you shouldn't be surprised....i will miss him ...he was a great person and a great teacher. i wrote a piece every week for his class, and learned a lot .....it was a privelege and an honor to have met him.

[eldowns]

thank you

[zalanstyle]

yeaah

[MalNichtEgal]

Hi , hier die Zukunf vom Jazz !

[heru1966]

This is an excellent show and I love to come back to it periodically. :-)

[jrob521]

mundy!!! he's in his mid 80s and can still burn!

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

R.I.P. George Russell. Thank you for all the beautiful music you gave the world. Without you, there wouldn't be "Cubano Be, Cubano Bop", no "Kind Of Blue", no "Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organization", all what jazz propelled so many miles forward in time and space.

Thanks for all that, Mr. Russell.

Yours sincerely,

Bruno Leicht, a thankful musician, who posted a special obituary at his blog

[ibhuv]

Yes billy taylor busily reads his own compositions while troups blow through. Seriously underrated [not w/ bone players] jimmy cleveland steals the show , thankfully hes on mike . Note Bill evans left arm semi paralyzed that month due to you know what. All reading their arses off. Art farmer had entire books of 4-6 different bands memorized at that time. Russell lovely as ever talking to the unwashed. if America has a future. Wowthigpen swinging then and now ..

[anth1957]

Bill Evans was fine, he was making a conscious choice to be more linear and not use his left hand or have Mundell Lowe play behind him. Please don't spread stories about somone's bad habits especially if you don't know the truth.

[planetmullins]

George put forth the only singular theory about jazz that combined a foundation in history, math, and the tones of music as the occur in nature. He was a great teacher that I had the pleasure of studying with and a primary inspiration for the name "planetmullins." During his lifetime he fought illness and small mindedness vigorously and his contribution to the way I think will never be far from my heart. RIP George and know your ideas are alive in 2009.

[ASLAP433]

R.I.P Mr. Russell.

Such a wonderful teacher, artist, and a wonderful gentleman. as your student, I hope you'll be enjoyin' a gig with Bill Evans, Contrane, and.. never to forget, Miles Davis.

[taicatau]

i love jazz music

[bijouxmusic]

it's almost impossible to imagine a TV show like that considering that everything on TV today is pure junk

[ArealWhopper09]

@bijouxmusic just thinking that a show like this can be possible if the people controlling the media realized how important this music is for our culture and education or if more people like us spoke up and demanded this art form to be seen on TV-just my opinion :)

[patishipete]

Anyone know the opening tune? Thanks in advance.

[frecapone]

anyone know who the guys performing are, and where i can get the music?

[vecernicek2]

i suggest you read the information panel to the right from the video..

[frecapone]

that doesn't tell me if the guys are an actual band, and i suggest you read my question correctly, because i also asked where i could get the music..

[antikennyg]

ooooooooo handbaaags