These are videos that I like

Today’s featured video comes courtesy of Lorelei Quartet (minus their accordionist, actually).  It’s from a February 2010 performance at Pre St Didier.  The song is “Aran,” which appears on their album Seta… yesterday’s daily recommendation (go read it).

Your album personnel: Loris Deval (classical guitar), Alberto Occhiena (vibraphone) and Giorgio Fiorini (double bass).

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Today’s featured videos come courtesy of saxophonist Javier Vercher and percussionist Jorge Rossy.  Their new album Filantropía was yesterday’s daily recommendation (go read it).

Our first video is a promo in support of that album.

Your album personnel:  Jorge Rossy (vibraphone, marimba, piano, drums) and Javier Vercher (tenor sax, bass clarinet, flute, percussion).

Our second featured video is a January 2013 performance at the Jimmy Glass Jazz Bar in Valencia, Spain.

Your video personnel:  Javier Vercher (tenor sax), Jorge Rossy (drums) and Masa Kamagucci (bass).

And our third featured video is from a March 2012 performance at La Campana de los Perdidos in Zaragoza, Spain.  And, yes, you guessed it, it’s getting featured because of all the pretty lights.

Your video personnel:  Javier Vercher (tenor sax), Jorge Rossy (drums) and Masa Kamagucci (bass).

And if you want to skip my write-up of their new album, you can go give it a listen, and purchase it, at the artist’s Bandcamp page.

Today’s featured videos are of is of saxophonist Rafael Karlen performing compositions that appear on his excellent 2014 release The Sweetness of Things Half-Remembered.  That album earned the #3 slot on this site’s Best of 2014 list (go read it).

This first video is of Karlen, pianist Steve Newcomb and the Rosenberg String Quartet perform the composition “The Sweetness Of Things Half-Remembered” at the album Launch at the 2014 Brisbane International Jazz Festival.

Our second video is of a 2016 performance by Karlen, Newcomb and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.  They’re performing the composition “Fading Slowly.”

And if you want to check that album out (and I suggest you do), you can give it a listen, and purchase it, on Karlen’s Bandcamp page.

Today’s featured videos come courtesy of pianist Colin Vallon.  His 2017 release Danse was yesterday’s daily recommendation (go read it).

However, all three of his recordings on the ECM Records label to date have received kind words from me, either on this site or one of my various other outlets.  We’re featuring one video for each of those recordings.

We’ll start with his most recent.  This is the song “Tsunami” from the 2017 release Danse.  It was filmed by Nicolas Masson at Auditorio Stelio Molo, RSI in Lugano.

Your video personnel:  Colin Vallon (piano), Patrice Moret (double bass) and Julian Sartorius (drums).

And here’s a video for the song “Juuichi,” from Vallon’s second album for ECM Records, the 2014 release Le Vent…

Video by Fabian Sbarro.  Personnel same as for Danse.

And here’s a live performance of the title-track to Vallon’s 2011 release Rruga.  It was recorded live at Bern, Switzerland’s bee-flat, IM PROGR back in November 2009.

Your video personnel:  Colin Vallon (piano), Patrice Moret (double bass) and Samuel Rohrer (drums).

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Today’s featured video is from the quartet Roque, whose enjoyable self-titled debut was a recent daily recommendation (go read it).  Here’s a new promo video they just published for the tune “Sul.”

Your video personnel:  João Roque (electric & acoustic guitars), João Capinha (alto & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet), Xico Santos (bass) and David Pires (drums).

You can listen to more of this album, and purchase it, on the artist’s Bandcamp page.