Musical Musings Blog 2... The Infinite Musical Continuum

  From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack. A Tribute to Bob James featuring Jason Miles’ Lisbon Electric 4Tet. For more Jason, please visit: http://jasonmilesmusic.com ⸻ Around the same time Sherrie and I moved to Mexico, I found out that my new friend Jason Miles and his wife Kathy were heading to Lisbon. I had known of Jason for years—mainly through his groundbreaking work with Miles Davis and mutual friends in the music world—but we didn’t actually connect until he hired me to produce a promotional film about his legendary career: Will The Real Jason Miles Please Stand Up? Jason Miles is a Grammy-winning keyboardist, composer, producer, and arranger whose contributions to jazz, R&B, and fusion have spanned more than five decades. Born in Brooklyn in 1951, Jason came of age in the fertile chaos of the 1970s New York music scene and soon became one of the foremost pioneers of synthesizer and electronic textures in modern music. His credits read like a history of postm...

  From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack. https://bretprimack.substack.com/p/the-fifth-bar-of-heaven?triedRedirect=true What happens when jazz legends meet again… beyond the stars? Step into The Fifth Bar of Heaven, a one-act metaphysical play where Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane reunite in a celestial jazz club somewhere beyond Saturn’s rings. Through poetic dialogue and musical rhythm, the play explores melody, harmony, rhythm, spirituality, legacy, and the transformative power of love — all in the language of jazz. ✨ Written with reverence and soul, this play is for jazz lovers, dreamers, musicians, and anyone who’s ever felt the universe in a single note. 🎭 Characters: Louis Armstrong | Duke Ellington | Charlie Parker (Bird) | Miles Davis | John Coltrane 🌌 Setting: A timeless afterlife jazz club — floating in cosmic silence, echoing with sound, memory, and meaning. 📖 Themes: • Jazz as philosophy • Music as a prayer • ...

  From "Dick Clark's Salute To Chuck Manione" from the early 80's.

  From the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival in England, here are The Moody Blues with their tune "Gypsy".  It was originally released on their 1969 concept album about space travel entitled "To Our Children's Children's Children".  The band lineup is: Justin Hayward: electric guitar, vocals John Lodge: bass, backing vocals Mike Pinder: Mellotron, backing vocals Ray Thomas: bass flute, backing vocals Graeme Edge: drums, percussion

  Two-time Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, known for his hit "Feels So Good," died Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at age 84. In this "Sunday Morning" story that aired Feb. 15, 1987, correspondent Billy Taylor profiled Chuck and his brother, jazz pianist Gap Mangione, about their early partnership as The Jazz Brothers. The two went their separate ways but, 23 years later, regrouped for a series of reunion concerts.

We fondly remember the great jazz flugelhorn player, Chuck Mangione, who passed away recently at the age of 84.  On many recordings and in live performances, he played both flugelhorn and Rhodes electric piano.  He played and recorded with such great musicians as saxophonist and flautist, the late, great Gerry Niewood, saxophonist and flautist Chris Vadalla, (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, piccolo), and guitarist Grant Geissman, as well as the rhythm section of Charles Meeks on bass, and James Bradley Jr. on drums.  Here are some of his best songs and performances collected from his YouTube channel. Chuck Mangione, Flugelhorn Player, Trumpeter and “Feels So Good” Hitmaker, Dies at 84 https://jazztimes.com/features/tributes-and-obituaries/chuck-mangione-flugelhorn-player-trumpeter-and-feels-so-good-hitmaker-dies-at-84/ Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good (Nana's Journey Into Song, March 8th, 1979) Chuck Mangione & Nana Mouskouri - Land Of Make Believe (Nana's Jo...

  Full Concert Friday again this week.  A concert by the late, great Michael Brecker on what would have been his 76th birthday on March 29th, 2025.   I uploaded this complete concert to honor Mike Brecker on his 76th birthday.  This was Jay Anderson's first gig with the band. Michael Brecker: Tenor/EWI Adam Nussbaum: Drums Jay Anderson: Bass Joey Calderazzo: Piano 01 Itsbynne Reel 02 Chime This 03 Choices 04 Nothing 05 The Cost Of Living 06 Nothing Personal 07 Original Rays 08 Suspone