Post a video/soundclip of yourself playing Jazz

[swinginmandolins]

I know there is a similar thread up in the post a picture section, but I thought it would be nice to have a collection of genre specific videos/mp3's. I'll get it started with this one:

[Martin Jonas]

Being fairly hopeless at improvising disqualifies me from "proper" jazz, but I have fun playing ragtime and similar non-improv proto-jazz. Here's a rough-and-ready go at "The Entertainer" -- I'm sure I could smoothen up the phrasing a bit with some practice, but my recording/playing time is squeezed into a couple of hours a week on the weekends while the kids are in bed.



Another early-jazz (or sort-of jazz, anyway) standard I enjoy is "La Petite Tonkinoise", written in 1905 but made famous by Josephine Baker's big hit in 1930. Whether the tune is inherently jazz is debatable (it's a polka, essentially), but Josephine Baker certainly had a jazz attitude.



For a jazzier (and very high energy!) take on that tune, here is a fun version by French singer Célina Ramsauer found through the "related videos" panel on Youtube (no mando content, sorry):



Martin

[Acquavella]

Hello,

I'll chime in....there aren't a lot of opportunities or videos of me playing jazz. Here is one from a radio spot I did on Jazz 88.3 in San Diego.

[swinginmandolins]

Thanks for sharing Martin and Chris!

[Bruce Clausen]

Nice work, everyone! Here's my contribution, an improv on "Georgia" that I had up for a while a year or so ago. (But is it jazz?)

[jramsey]

That was just beautiful, Bruce. My contribution is the old Jethro classic Reuben Sandwich. Shot about a year (and more that a few pounds) ago. Nothing like a video to make you realize you need put in some work, musically or physically.:grin:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaAz5B7vCpI

[swinginmandolins]

Bruce that was a beautiful version of Georgia.

Jordan always enjoy your videos.

[Brad Weiss]

well, my whole utube site would do it.... ;)

[Ted Eschliman]

A little Django on a nylon string:

[Dfyngravity]

Love the sound of that Nylon Stringed mando Ted. I bet it is a little easier on the fingers too!

[Gary S]

Here is an old new orleans standard, "That's a Plenty". Jethro did a great job with this one. I just hacked around a bit with it. By the way, how do you get the video to show up on the thread? I only know how to attach the the link...Gary
http://www.youtube.com/user/mandolintunes#p/a/u/0/-u8t8eloZlU

[Miko]

Here is my one and only Youtube posting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toctqJcml-g

[jasonanick]

Here is a video of me playing "Minor Swing"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PgHe4geDpw&feature=related

And one of me playing "Nuages"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li6u7OLe1AQ&feature=related

Enjoy!

Jason Anick
www.jasonanick.com

[Ted Eschliman]

Here is my one and only Youtube posting:



Nice shirt!
(playing too...)

[swinginmandolins]

This is starting to become a nice collection of videos...:)

[QUOTE=Gary S;799798]. By the way, how do you get the video to show up on the thread? I only know how to attach the the link...Gary

This link http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?46090-Embedding-YouTube-Videos&highlight=posting+youtube+video tells how to embed the video so it shows.

[Gary S]

I hope this posts. "That's a Plenty"...Gary

[Gary S]

another attempt

[Gary S]

Okay. Who can tell me where the... YouTube video ID is located? Thanks...Gary

[Martin Jonas]

Okay. Who can tell me where the... YouTube video ID is located? Thanks...Gary

Gary, the Youtube video ID is just the 11-character final part of the URL, i.e. in your case "-u8t8eloZlU". So, the embedded link is:



Great playing and tone, by the way!

Martin

[Gary S]

Thanks for your help Martin. By the way I am enjoying everyones tunes...Gary

[Seth Rosen]

Great videos everyone. I'll play too:

[mtucker]

Wonderful playing there, Jason!

[...and Master of None]

Great videos everyone. I'll play too:


Nice job, Seth. What intrigues me though is the contraption the fella on the right is playing. I'm assuming the strings are open across the back and he's striking them with the stick? Was this something he dreamed up or is it commercially available and does it have a name?

[Seth Rosen]

Nice job, Seth. What intrigues me though is the contraption the fella on the right is playing. I'm assuming the strings are open across the back and he's striking them with the stick? Was this something he dreamed up or is it commercially available and does it have a name?

Thanks. It's call the JasperBridge and is the invention of guitarist and percussionist Tom Shaper, who is the guy playing it. You can find out all there is to know about it at this web site:

http://www.myjbridge.com/fr_home.cfm

[...and Master of None]

Thanks. It's call the JasperBridge and is the invention of guitarist and percussionist Tom Shaper, who is the guy playing it. You can find out all there is to know about it at this web site:


That is just way, way cool. I wore grooves in the pickup bobbins of one guitar because I went through a phase where I was palm slapping and palm brushing the strings for a sound a little softer but similar to what he's doing on that thing. I see myself having to find a place for yet another instrument...

[David Horovitz]

With apologies to Don Stiernberg, last year I attempted to transcribe his playing on the Gershwin song They Can't Take That Away From Me. Not my best take but the only one I recorded on video:

http://web.me.com/dhorovitz/Music/My_Music/Entries/2009/6/14_They_Cant_Take_That_Away_From_Me.html

[MandoNicity]

With apologies to Don Stiernberg, last year I attempted to transcribe his playing on the Gershwin song They Can't Take That Away From Me. Not my best take but the only one I recorded on video:

http://web.me.com/dhorovitz/Music/My_Music/Entries/2009/6/14_They_Cant_Take_That_Away_From_Me.html

Nice job David! You get the swing/dynamics down great! I love this thread!

JR

[Acquavella]

A tune recently composed for Duo LaRe by Denise Mangiardi, a jazzer from NYC. This is from a concert at Dizzy's San Diego Jazz Club. I can't remember the date but it was recent.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZtWXj7jm2M

[AaronWeinstein]

Wow...so many interesting ideas here. Very cool. I have a few solo mando videos on my youtube channel. Here's one of em...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v__MDt1ePAA

[MandoNicity]

I've enjoyed your chord/melody work on the tubes very much Aaron. Dig your violin work also.

JR

[Martin Jonas]

This thread has been a bit dormant lately, so here is a video of me playing "Begin The Beguine" -- fairly straight reading of the lead melody part from an anonymous arrangement for mandolin ensemble. Fun tune to play!



Martin

[WillFly]

Just keeping the thread going... some more stuff originally done by Bix with Paul Whiteman. Played on tenor guitar and mandolin, with guitar backing - key of F.

The Love Nest

[Marc Woodward]

Nice playing Will - I love the little quiver you get on a single string instrument like the tenor guitar...

Here's my contribution fwiw:
Mandolin and double bass duet on Autumn Leaves (which I've just put up on my Soundcloud channel). Hope you like!

http://soundcloud.com/marc-woodward/autumn-leaves-part-2

Marc

[berkeleysquare]

http://vimeo.com/19709964

I was diagnosed with MS a few years ago and now I only play on video! Mostly guitar, but this is my first mandolin video.

[DevilishDandolinMan]

Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk)

[DevilishDandolinMan]

http://youtu.be/SX6GOSbwfXo

[berkeleysquare]

http://youtu.be/SX6GOSbwfXo

Nice work, Dan -- nice work everybody. I have really enjoyed these videos.

[Marc Woodward]

Hi all,

no vid this time just a soundcloud link to a recording of my new group 'Kirkwood Brown Trio'- this still needs a little tweekin but destined for new cd shortly. Hmm, not jazz more blues or rock even so maybe belongs in a different thread... let me know what you think!
http://soundcloud.com/marc-woodward/mail-1-1-disp-attd-realattid-f

Cheers
Marc
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=inbox&action=read&tid=bE03rOmqD0WiJKRgLEpKjg#!/pages/Kirkwood-Brown-Trio/178790135510487
http://www.myspace.com/kirkwoodbrowntrio
http://www.myspace.com/marcwoodward

[Marc Woodward]

Whoops - sorry, just discovered that link had an error! Here it is correctly (I hope!):

http://soundcloud.com/marc-woodward/2nd-time-broken-mp3
Cheers
Marc

[Marc Woodward]

Footage of a gig last week with my band 'The Kirkwood Brown Trio' playing 'Apple in the Barrel' (originally on my 2003 cd: Bluemando).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0HQU1P_zHY

Blues rather than Jazz but I hope that's ok for this thread! Mandolin is my 1920 F2. Still haven't found a better sounding mandolin....
Come and visit our myspace or find me on facebook if you're interested - thanks,
Marc

http://www.myspace.com/kirkwoodbrowntrio
http://www.myspace.com/marcwoodward

["Umm, fish?"]

Very nice video, Marc! I can't get the SoundCloud link to work, but that might just be me.

[Marc Woodward]

Thanks Andy! Not sure why you're having difficulty with soundcloud.... You are following the 2nd of the two links above ( not the 1st which was incorrect)?

Cheers
Marc

["Umm, fish?"]

I have a flash blocker installed because flash often kills my whole internet experience. When I want to actually see or hear a flash, I click on it and it's supposed to then load. But that sometimes doesn't work. Like I say, likely my fault. But I certainly enjoyed the video.

[DevilishDandolinMan]

By band playing Song for my Father by Horace Silver. Enjoy!

[DevilishDandolinMan]

http://youtu.be/XbzMqY9xPEc

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

[Phil Vinyard]

Here's my shot at entering the swing world:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViJZ_5MtvFY

I've been swapping e-mails with Bruce Graybill in anticipation of him teaching at Kaufman Kamp next year. He found out I really enjoyed working with Don Stiernberg at the last Kamp, so he sent me a copy of a tune he wrote for Don, "Shytown Haunt". Thanks, Bruce!

[Rocklikeastone]

Here's two (mostly) Improvised solo over backing tracks in C and A. After years of failed attempts at playing jazz guitar it's pretty cool to jazz it up on mandolin. I'm not entirely happy with both of them as i find the first too slow and the second too fast... Oh Well

Eric


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Up7h9gS3j0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTEq6tbzCio&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

[farmerjones]

I left my mandolin in my other pants. :)
Kansas City Kitty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_sn8rKJFHw

[swinginmandolins]

Here are a couple of new one's for me:

[swinginmandolins]

I tried something different with this one. I usually just do chord solo videos, but decided to try one improvising over iReal b(previously iReal Band). Hope you enjoy!