Video of the Day – Esperanza Spalding “Rest in Pleasure”
Winner of the Grammy for best new artist in 2011, bassist, composer, singer Esperanza Spalding stands as one of the strongest young voices in the…
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Video of the Day – Jon Batiste Teaches How to Piano
Everyone wants to impress their friends on an instrument. Thanks to New Orleans jazz pianist Jon Batiste, you can learn the basics of piano in…
Video of the Day – Joshua Redman and James Carter
In this absolutely fire video, Joshua Redman and James Carter throw almost every saxophone technique possible at the Thelonius Monk standard “Straight, No Chaser.” From…
Video of the Day – Conrad Tao covers Beyoncé’s ‘Blue’ on Piano
At age 22, Conrad Tao has won honours ranging from the Davidson Fellow Laureate to the being the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Artist-in-residence for 2015–2016. In…
Video of the Day – Caroline Shaw & Vanessa Goodman
Youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Caroline Shaw is primarily a violinist, but composes primarily for contemporary, cutting edge chorale, drawing on eclectic forms of…
Video of the Day – Lullabies with Alessio Bax
In an adorable edition of “Tiny Desk Concert,” Italian classical pianist Alessio Bax plays classics by Bach, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff of his CD Lullabies for…
Video of the Day – Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – “K.K.P.D.”
New Orleans trumpet player Christian Scott is the driving force behind Stretch Music, a genre that aims to “stretch” jazz’s structural foundations to coalesce various…
Video of the Day – Barry Douglas and Celtic Airs
Splitting time between recording Beethoven concertos, directing music festivals, and conducting the Camerata Ireland, which he founded, Irish pianist and composer Barry Douglas is a…
Video of the Day – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers “Dat Dere”
In light of the ongoing Montreal Jazz Festival, here’s a wonderful live performance of the pianist Bobby Timmons’s “Dat Dere” by Art Blakey and the…
Video of the Day – “Stars and Stripes Forever”
For another American themed video, here’s Russian-born American virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz’ piano transcription of the iconic American bandmaster and composer John Phillip Sousa’s “Stars and…
