On The Road Again

OTRA from J. Sprig on Vimeo.

This soulful 1963 documentary directed by Dietrich Wawzyn and shot in gorgeous black and white for German TV takes us to the roadhouses, churches, pool halls and streets of the American south where something deep, powerful and poetic found expression in the blues, jazz, gospel and rock and roll. If one were to look for the spiritual core of the USA, direct your eyes and ears to the music and artists presented in this film.
On The Road Again reminds us of a world familiar and yet distant, a place that will never exist again but persists at the edges of our consciousness like the insistent memory of an old lover stuttering in the sprockets of memory’s dysfunctional machine, an America vaguely recalled which has been buried under a tacky facade called “America,” composed of viral shopping malls, endless interstates and cookie cutter suburbs that cover our land like a scab made of plastic and plywood.
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Fela Kuti - Music is the Weapon

Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 — 2 August 1997), or simply Fela ([feˈlæ]), was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti

http://www.fela.net/

Billy Cobham - Stratus [Live -1976]

Billy Cobham & George Duke Band -  Live at Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976.

Billy Cobham - Drums

George Duke - Moog Synthesizers

John Scofield - Guitars

Alphonso Johnson - Bass

Herbie Hancock on Sesame Street

John Coltrane - Live

Miles Davis - Autumn Leaves - 1964

1964 in Milan

Miles Davis - trumpet
Wayne Shorter - tenor sax
Herbie Hancock - piano
Ron Carter - bass
Tony Williams - drums

Dave Brubeck - Take Five - 1966

1966 in Germany

Dave Brubeck - piano
Paul Desmond - alto sax
Eugene Wright - bass
Joe Morello - drums

Charlie Parker & Coleman Hawkins [1950]

(date 1950)
Session I Improvisation with:
Charlie Parker - alto sax
Coleman Hawkins - tenor sax
Hank Jones - Piano,
Ray Brown - Double bass,
Buddy Rich - Drums.

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - Hot House [1952]

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie perform Hot House on U.S. television,
1952.

Personnel:
Charlie Parker - alto sax
Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
Dick Hyman - piano
Sandy Block - bass
Charlie Smith - drums

Art Blakey Drum Solo - 1965

 Art Blakey nails this drum solo in 1965.
This video is from an excellent collection of Drum Solos via www.hudsonmusic.com