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Topic: trumpet
‘This little light of mine’ performed by Sister Rosetta Tharpe in 1960
In this clip from 1960, Sister Rosetta Tharpe performs 'This Little Light of Mine' live on stage at the first Festival de Jazz d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins in France. According to the video notes, she's accompanied by clar...
Where India’s Top Brass Get Their Instruments
No Indian celebration is complete without a brass band. In the country of 1.3 billion people, there are at least 700,000 villages. And each village generally has two or three brass bands. But where do all of the trump...
How a Bach Stradivarius trumpet is made
In this video series from musical instrument manufacturer Conn-Selmer, we see how a Bach Stradivarius trumpet is made. The mouthpiece above is shaped to the tune of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee. T...
Apartment Symphony – A Looping POV Masterpiece
This video by musician Keith Peskosky, his Apartment Symphony entry into an online video competition, is a traveling, looping mind-bender of music layers. In the video notes and comments, he explains: "What happen...
Hazel Scott plays Black & White on two grand pianos (1943)
Hazel Scott was not only a gifted pianist and singer -- a child musical prodigy who at only eight years old was given a scholarship from the Juilliard School of Music to be privately tutored -- she was also the first ...
Trumpet Party
This cute animation by Justin Lawes is short, simple, super playful, and showcases an entirely new way to play an animated trumpet. Trumpet Party!
B.B. King – Live performance in Stockholm, Sweden (1974)
From his visit to Stockholm, Sweden in 1974, this is B.B. King and his band playing live at Konserthuset, The Stockholm Concert Hall. The performance starts at 1m20s. The opening of the video is a brief interview with...
Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars – Basin Street Blues (1964)
In 1964, Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars were featured on The Bell Telephone Hour, a long-running NBC music program that moved from the radio to television in 1959. Here they play an Armstrong standard: Basin Street B...
The Mills Brothers: Swing It, Sister (1934)
Donald Mills, Harry Mills, Herbert Mills, and John Mills: The Mills Brothers perform Swing It, Sister in the 1934 film Strictly Dynamite. Note the excellent mouth trumpet action, a jazz-era vocal technique that ...
Subway musicians play together from 9 different subway stations
In Chris Shimojima's Signal Strength, eleven musicians unite in a live experiment about connectivity and community: they play a song together from nine different New York City subway stops with the help of WiFi-enable...
What Happens When 350 Musicians Meet For The First Time?
This summer, around 350 musicians of all kinds -- "Young, older, professional drumlines, community marching bands, seasoned jazz players, Indian wedding band musicians, Brazilian samba drummers and scads of amateur pl...
Dizzy Gillespie live on stage: Salt Peanuts
American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer Dizzy Gillespie peforms Salt Peanuts live on stage, likely at the Ontario Place Forum in Toronto, circa 1971. We love the fun audience warm up in the...
Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers in Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
From 1941’s Hellzapoppin’, watch this phenomenal performance by Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, the Savoy Ballroom's supreme swing dance group founded in 1935 by Herbert “Whitey” White. This cl...
The Elephant Shrew – Songs for Unusual Creatures
From Michael Hearst and PBS Digital Studios, enjoy Songs for Unusual Creatures: The Elephant Shrew. Please note, however, that the elephant shrew is not related to an elephant. From Wikipedia: In the archives: more...
NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts: No BS! Brass Band
Twelve minutes of blasting brass funk: NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concerts presents three songs from No BS! Brass Band.
Louis Armstrong performs Basin Street Blues and Reveille
Louis Armstrong performs Basin Street Blues and Reveille on television in the 1950s. Watch more Louis Armstrong on this site.
Dizzy Gillespie plays Tour de Force and Manteca on Italian TV (1960)
A short clip of three songs performed on Italian television in 1960: Tour de Force and Manteca by Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, Leo Wright on alto sax, Junior Mance on piano, Art Davis on bass and Teddy Stewart on drums...
Louis Armstrong – When the Saints Go Marching In
Louis Armstrong and his band, When the Saints Go Marching In. Watch more Louis Armstrong on this site.