Videos
Count Basie – All of Me
Example of Count Basie’s comping at the piano – sparse chords and minimalist playing
Cottin Pickin’ Blues – The History of the Cigar Box Guitar
Delta blues, which was born in the poverty-stricken areas of Mississippi and Louisiana, was not first performed on Gibson or Gretsch guitars. It was first played by the “diddly bows” and home-made stringed instruments created with salvaged materials. Some of these instruments only loosely resembled guitars in that they had strings, a neck and instrument …
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Count Basie – Take Me Back, Baby
A 1940 musical feature with Jimmie Rushing on vocals in a jazz/12-bar-blues with setup story.
Cutting contest from movie “Scott Joplin”
While the movie biopic about Scott Joplin only loosely resembles the facts of the life of the Ragtime King, we can get a feel for the world in which Joplin developed his style and gained popularity in the late 1800’s.