These are videos that I like

Today’s featured video comes courtesy of the Stian Omenås Ensemble with a promo video for their early-2016 release Klangkammer 2.

That album was included in one of my This Is Jazz Today columns, which you can read here (LINK).

Your video personnel:  Stian Omenås (trumpet, percussion), Rob Waring (vibraphone, percussion), Mats Eilertsen (double bass), Erik Nylander (drums, percussion) and Markus Stabel (video production).

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Today’s featured video comes courtesy of guitarist Ryan Blotnick, performing the song “Lunenberg” at NYC’s Rockwood Music Hall.  That song is one of my favorites on his new release Kush… a recording with plenty of good songs to choose from.  A write-up of Kush will be appearing on this site later this evening.  Be sure to check back in for that.

The video is dark and only captures part of the song.  It doesn’t feature any trains or holiday lights or passing scenery or the other kind of stuff that floats my boat.  But, damn, this rendition of the song is wonderful.  You always hope that the live performance brings out elements of a song while still honoring the studio version, and that it gives off a different kind of energy.  You don’t want a replica of the studio version but you also don’t want the live version to turn its back on the original either.  This clip of “Lunenberg” captures so much of what we hope for in the live performance.

Your video personnel:  Ryan Blotnick (guitar), Michael Blake (tenor sax), Scott Colberg (bass), RJ Miller (drums) and guest:  Jonny Lam (pedal steel).

Update:  Here’s an additional video from that same show that Ryan Blotnick just uploaded.  This is the song “DX7,” which also appears on Kush.

And if you don’t feel like waiting for my write-up of Kush to post later today and just want to go buy this album right now, you can scoop it up (and listen to it, too) on the artist’s Bandcamp page.

We’ve got two featured videos today, both courtesy of the Wolfert Brederode Quartet.

Later today, I’ll be posting the first of two columns giving a rundown of some recent ECM Records releases.  Black Ice, the 2016 release from the Wolfert Brederode Trio, will be included among them.

Unfortunately, the only videos out there are with him as a quartet and supporting his 2011 release Post Scriptum.  It’s not a huge distance between his sound back then and his newest, but as a piano trio, with no wind instruments, the music does have a different personality.  So be sure to check back in later today.

In the meantime, here’s those videos…

The first song is “Inner Dance.”  It’s takes place at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam.  I’ve featured many videos from this location.  Typically those windows have a wide view of trains and the city and passing traffic, which I’m a sucker for.

The second video is from the Wolfert Brederode Quartet and the song “Angelico.”  Some dude attached the song to his home footage of traveling by train and boat.  The sound isn’t always great, but, y’know, footage of traveling by train and boat is gonna get a video featured exactly 100% of the time.

The album Post Scriptum is available for purchase at Amazon.

And you can learn more about the album at ECM Records and listen to an album track on their site (LINK).

And a reminder, later today I’ll be posting the first of two rundowns of recent ECM Records releases.

So, my plan was to (excitedly) announce the news that Estafest has a new album coming out in January 2017, and accompany that news with a simple video.

That’s when I discovered Stella’s Kitchen Sessions.  The internet continues to find ways to amaze me.  As best as I can tell, there’s a restaurant that records little impromptu shows in their kitchen.

And that’s why we have today’s featured video.

You can read about their album Eno Supo on this site (LINK).  It’s a wonderful recording and one of the last cuts for this site’s Best of 2014 list.

Your video personnel:  Oene van Geel (violin), Mete Erker (soprano sax) and Anton Goudsmit (guitar).

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Today’s featured video comes courtesy of the Mark Dresser Seven, showing them in studio during the recording session of their new release Sedimental You.

That album was featured on yesterday’s This Is Jazz Today column, which you can read here (LINK).

Now, here’s that video…

And if you’re not interested in anything I have to say about the album and just want to go purchase it right this moment, it’s available at Amazon.