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In honor of Chuck Berry’s 90th birthday (earlier in the week), I’m posting this joyous video of his classic performance on You Never Can Tell.

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I played in the house band for a tribute to Merle Haggard last night - here is a video of him performing one of my favorites!

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Miles Davis Quintet - '67; These fellas are performing at the peak of musicality and attentiveness. They are so tuned in to one another it's beautiful.

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What an incredible rendition of this classic ballad. Ben Webster and Co. super fine form.

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Jazz Party, 1958 - Jumpin With Symphony Sid. This video is a treasure of late 50's who's-who jazzmen informally jamming, led by Charlie Shavers. For me, the thing that makes this particular video especially wonderful is the climatic on-screen duel between two saxophone giants, The Hawk and Prez.

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Mance is headin' out...

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This is a hilarious and wonderful music video of a German Yodeler. I was looking up traits of yodeling yesterday and discovered that in traditional yodel practice, the 11th scale degree is sung/heard a semi-tone sharp. That’s the challenge, folks!

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Hard to believe this video actually represents Louis Armstrong's second phase in his professional career - he still appears so young, even at 33. Man, he could out-swing any cat!

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Playing my horn a few years back for social and economic equality.

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Getting this Tumblr kicked off right with a little Lester Young!