Who Gets The Jazz?

I have not forgotten my commitment to delivering some Jazz info every few days, it's just been a hectic couple of weeks. I am consumed with my upcoming move (yes, the saga of me and my horrible roommates ends Friday!) and, as you can tell, the passing of the King of Pop. I wanted to share one of my favorite internet thing things with you: Jazz On The Tube. It's a great search engine for Jazz clips on the web. You can also sign up to have a video (sometimes two) sent you your email addy each day- it's a real treat and great way to discover new tunes.

Last week, JOTT introduced me to Miles Davis' cover of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" live at the Monreaux Jazz Festival:


Love it! I'd also like to share one of my longtime faves, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman's "Lush Life":

Sometimes when I listen to Coltrane, I feel like I'm in love with him and we just have a very low key relationship. Is that weird? It was, forget I said it. But seriously, portraying Alice in a 'Trane biopic that I wrote=life goal, for real.

Charles Mingus-"Moanin"


This ish is amazing. Just think about it: Black folks, this is your history. And the present aint always a gift.Anyway, this is a crazy tune and it makes me think of Michele Obama's recent quote about Jazz being like democracy: "individual freedom with responsibility to the group." RESPONSIBILITY TO THE GROUP IS NOT BRINGING YOUR KIDS ON STAGE WHEN YOU TALKING ABOUT FUCKIN ALL THE GIRLS IN THE WORLD, btw. Shame on alla y'all involved!

I'll leave y'all with one of my favorite contemporary Jazz musicians, Roy Hargrove and his RH Factor. Not *technically* a Jazz song, but definitely worth presenting, this is their cover of Parliament's "I'll Stay". I think I have posted it before, but like my favorite NKOTB song, it bears repeating. Featuring D'Angelo, ftw.



Peace to all you cool cats and nappy sweets!
Sister Toldja