Brilliant music from this Norwegian outfit.... gotta love the autoharp! PS. I didn't edit the video so the next tune starts towards the end... still its a nice teaser!

Brilliant solo on James Carters Lianmo. Would upload the whole track but its too long.

Superb latin jazz. Big sound from a small band...

Brilliant jazz vocal scat stuff at the Stuttgart jazz fest in 1999. Groovy swinging modern hiphop-like take on a jazz standard...

Beautiful evocative track from this forward thinking German 4tet.

Wow.. I have never heard a cover of this done this way... kinda big band jazz rock.. Dianne Reeves just kills... brilliant!

A brilliant cover of the Pat Metheny classic. Great guitar and piano solos in particular. Peter Herbolzheimer in the 80s and 90s was less funky than the 70s... but boy they sure were hellishly tight..

Considering his status in European jazz, there is not enough Joachim Kuhn on Youtube... Again.. another solo I would replay again and again...

Improvisation with two of the modern masters as part of Klaus Doldingers band. Also check for Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen and Al Foster. Back in the 90s I would watch this section over and over and over.... Free jazz with a groove..

Brilliant German based String 4tet.

Starts with another track but leads into this masterwork. I think this was the Lugano Jazz Festival in 1999. From my old VHS...

Brilliant version of this fabulous song. Sanchita outdoes herself this time... just superb... what more could anyone ask..

What a brilliant mix of influences... east meets west meets east...;-)

From the ill fated Jazz 606. :( What a DEEEEEEEEEEP groove.... brilliant playing all around but all bow down to that GREAT piano solo from Dave Newton...

Great track from Jazz 606. Brilliant guitar work too from Jim Mullen.

Another brilliant track from this wonderful pianist... release this damn CD!! ;-) From my old VHS tapes...

Again...from Jazz 606... Why wasn't this ever released on album...Julian Joseph on fender rhodes... brilliant stuff...

From the ill fated BBC program comes this gem of a track. Jonathan Gee is the composer and he plays a mean piano. David Jean Baptiste on Bass Clarinet. Lemn Sissay on vox... From my old VHS tapes....

From my old VHS collection comes this. Its a real beautiful ballad that just takes me away... (sorry for sound quality).. I could imagine something similar coming from Kenny Wheeler... Notable for Judds brilliant use of the Steiner EVI with the Oberheim Xpander. Also check for Mitchell Forman's lovely piano solo and exquisite usage of synth pads ...

Herbie and Chick getting down into the piano... literally... did not realise any of the 1978 collaboration tour existed on video, so its nice to see it... sorry for the aspect ratio... damn ripping software...

From some old DVD I had lying around. Sounds a bit Eddie Henderson-ish... nice rhodes...

Lugano Jazz festival in 2005.

Ahh.. Tony Wilson... looking cool in denim... RIP... Rock band with progressive flavours... great sounding Hohner pianet! Not my kind of thing normally but I think this is quite catchy.. plus I love anything that reminds me of my childhood and this is a real slab of nostalgia with all the long hair and bad fashions (and this from a guy with long...

Piano solo from the mighty Bruninghaus as part of his regular Eberhard Weber gig. Great ambidextrous playing... Track is called Fire Side from his duo LP with Manfred Schoof.

Uri Caine on a Rhodes Stage MkII with Dave Douglas band. The rhodes sound alive and well in modern jazz!

This is a live studio outtake from a standards session that involved Ella Fitzgerald. However, in the midst of all this they cut this groovy number! This isn't as good to my ears as the version on the Wait A Minute LP from 1973 featuring Sigi Schwab but its gold dust all the same... The version here has Dieter Reith on Hammond, Philip Catherine...

Yet another great track from the Light Lines LP. This group should be more well known... very nice rhodes from Jasper and pad sounds from the organ... Manfred Schoof (tp,flgl) Michel Pilz (b-cl) Jasper van't Hof (keys) Günter Lenz (b) Ralf Hüdner (d) December 19th 1977 NDR Germany

Another great track, this time from the Light Lines LP. From a time when it was okay for jazzers to dress like dock workers... ;-) This group should be more well known... Manfred Schoof (tp,flgl) Michel Pilz (b-cl) Jasper van't Hof (keys) Günter Lenz (b) Ralf Hüdner (d) December 19th 1977 NDR Germany

My first video upload in a while... but what a track to start with.. Shades of Herbies Mwandishi period but somehow this transcends that to me... plus the bass player is wearing a cravat and an amazing moustache of that time period... :-) beautiful bass line, intense flugel, lovely synth organ... can't get better than that! Jasper is playing an o...

Just a snatch of Herbie and his 5tet in Stuttgart. (Note: The video and audio lost sync after youtube processed it) Herbie Hancock (piano) Lili Haydn (vocals, violin) Lionel Loueke (vocals, guitar) Matt Garrison (bass) Richie Barshay (drums, percussion)

Lovely piece of european jazz. Jan Garbarek - saxes Eberhard Weber - b Rainer Brüninghaus - keyb Marilyn Mazur - perc

Very nice clip of Hermeto doing an intense improvisation on rhodes, clavinet and vocal scat.

Mad freak out rhodes improvisation from 1971 as part of the Miles Davis Group. The late Don Alias on percussion.

Amazing jazz fusion piece... very very spooky mime artists though... :-0

Mid 70s German AOR with a curious mixture ofjazz funk rock disco influences...set in a boxing ring... great musicianship. I shouldn't like it but as I've now played it 3 times, I guess I do ;-)... full of the classic 1970s guitar gestures, booty shaking, Kevin Keegan perm... I think the organ player is the same guy out of Frumpy... great solo....

Fabulous relentless krautrock jam.

Kozmigroov x 10.... completely wild jazz fusion. Lots of clavinet and EMS VCS3 synth. Personnel Wolfgang Dauner - keys, Sigi Schwab on guitar and tarang, Fred Braceful drums, Roland Wittlich drums and a very young Eberhard Weber on Bass.

Very nice clip of Popol Vuh in the electronic era. Florian Fricke on the moog modular that would later be owned by Klaus Schulze. Very nice film style too...

Great in the studio clip.

Great bit of Can... much better than the version on the LP. And is that really Dave Nice (from Radio Fab FM) on keyboards...? ;-)

Nice bit of vintage synthesizer tomfoolery. Lot of knob turning... ahem.. A bit ahead of its time I think...

Fabulous German trippy space rock from 1971. Great reverbed drum sound (Conny Plank engineered I believe), wicked LSD influenced 'crazy' video. A classic! Was contacted by Rainer (singer) from the band and he gave me some infos www.myspace.com/diesirae48 my follow-up-band to dies irae is since 33years green wave infos: www.myspace.com/gre...

Classical ambient folk mantra from 1973. Featuring the late great Florian Fricke on piano and Djong Yun (vocals), Conny Veit(guitars, percussion).. among others...