This blog was created to help preserve jazz music, a near- extinct musical idiom today. With the proliferation of hip-hop, electronica, sampling techniques etc, there simply is no commercial room for music played with acoustic instruments.
Jazz great Lou Donaldson in action (pic by yours truly)
I will be mostly presenting videos from my personal collection of past and present masters of this great art form.
The attitude of the gallant Six Hundred which so aroused Lord Tennyson's admiration arose from the fact that the least disposition to ask the reason why was discouraged by tricing the would-be inquirer to the triangle and flogging him into insensibility.
F.J. Veale,
Advance to Barbarism
(Mitre Press, 1968).
Music posted here is for information purposes only. I don't subscribe to the notion that record companies are ripped off by the proliferation of blogs like this one. It is my firm belief that quite the contrary happens i.e. by bringing awareness to hitherto virtually unknown artists to the general public the music benefits greatly and a new level of interest is created.
Listeners are therefore kindly requested to buy the original music and support artists if they fancy what they hear - remember: if you like it, buy it!