These are videos that I like

Today’s featured videos all source from a series of shows put on by Sofar Sounds in New York City and London.

The first video is an October 2015 performance by harpist Brandee Younger of the Alice Coltrane devotional “Rama Rama” at Sofar New York.

You should also check out Younger’s latest album Wax & Wane (go read & listen to it).

Next up is a July 2016 show with Mammal Hands performing their song “Hillium” at Sofar London.

You should also check out the trio’s latest album Floa (go read & listen to it).

And our third and final video today brings back to Sofar New York for a March 2016 performance of the song “Paraty” by Anne Drummond & Nilson Matta.

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Today’s featured videos put the spotlight on the quartet Estafest.  Their new album Bayachrimae was yesterday’s daily recommendation (go read it).

This first video is a performance of the song “Polderlucht,” from a 2017 show at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht for VPRO Vrije Geluiden.

Your video personnel:  Oene van Geel (viola), Mete Erker (sax), Jeroen van Vliet (piano) and Anton Goudsmit (guitar).

And here’s a performance of the song “Papillon,” which appears on their previous album Eno Supo.  This performance happens at one of my favorite venues, the Bimhuis in Amsterdam.

You can read more about Eno Supo on this site-> (LINK).

Today’s featured video is of the trio Viriditas.  Their self-titled debut was yesterday’s daily recommendation (go read it).

This first video has them performing live at the Surry Arts Barn in Surry, Maine.  The song is “A Ramble,” and you can hear the studio version on their new album.

Your album personnel:  Ben Cohen (tenor sax), Ross Gallagher (bass) and Deric Dickens (drums).

And here’s the song “Front Country” from the same performance.

And if you want to skip my write-up and just go check the album out, you can listen to it, and purchase it, on their Bandcamp page.

Today’s videos feature Miguel Zenón.  The saxophonist’s new album Típico was a recent daily recommendation (go read it).

Here’s an EPK for the new album, including interviews and music.

And here’s an in-studio performance of the song “Cantor,” just one of many lovely songs to be found on the new recording.

Your video personnel:  Miguel Zenon (alto saxophone), Luis Perdomo (piano), Hans Glawischnig (bass) and Henry Cole (drums).

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Today’s featured videos all were selections in my most recent Best of Bandcamp Jazz column, comprised of recordings released in January 2017, and starting the year off in great fashion.

You can read that column on The Bandcamp Daily (go read it).

First up is Chelsea McBride’s Socialist Night School performing live at the 2015 Toronto Jazz Festival at Nathan Phillips Square.  It features the song “The Twilight Fall,” which is the title-song of her new album.  Bonus points for the sound of seagulls at the start of the video.  As someone who grew up along the shores of Lake Michigan, I find it one of the most soothing sounds the planet has to offer.

You can listen to their album, and purchase it, on their Bandcamp page.

Next up is a video from the duo of Marc Sarrazy and Laurent Rochelle performing the title-track from their new album Intranquillité.  Even it weren’t a great song, the video would get featured because (yes, you guessed it) for the shot of train tracks.

You can listen to the album, and purchase it, on their Bandcamp page.

And our final video today is a live in-studio performance by Benoît Lugué, performing the song “El Tigre” from his new album Cycles.

You can listen to the album, and purchase it, on his Bandcamp page.

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