Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz on YouTube

[jazz4u]

Hi Folks,

This is Warne Marsh's son. I found this on YouTube. It's Lee and my father with Don Elliot. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays.

Jp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fLEIP0WaVg

[Claude]

Hi!

If you want to have more video footage from that TV session, and in better quality, "Geneva's move" (the Youtube clip) and "Subconscious-Lee" are available on the Lee Konitz "Live at the Village Vanguard" DVD, which has a Lee Konitz quartet concert from the late 80's and these 1954 recordings (6:45 min total), which are not identified as such on the DVD cover. It was a huge surprise when I watched the DVD for the first time. I wasn't aware this footage existed.

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo

[jazz4u]

Hi!

If you want to have more video footage from that TV session, and in better quality, "Geneva's move" (the Youtube clip) and "Subconscious-Lee" are available on the Lee Konitz "Live at the Village Vanguard" DVD, which has a Lee Konitz quartet concert from the late 80's and these 1954 recordings (6:45 min total), which are not identified as such on the DVD cover. It was a huge surprise when I watched the DVD for the first time. I wasn't aware this footage existed.

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo

Thanks. I had no idea this existed either.

[sheldonm]

Hi!

If you want to have more video footage from that TV session, and in better quality, "Geneva's move" (the Youtube clip) and "Subconscious-Lee" are available on the Lee Konitz "Live at the Village Vanguard" DVD, which has a Lee Konitz quartet concert from the late 80's and these 1954 recordings (6:45 min total), which are not identified as such on the DVD cover. It was a huge surprise when I watched the DVD for the first time. I wasn't aware this footage existed.

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo

Thanks. I had no idea this existed either.

Cool stuff! Big fan of Warne's as well as Lee's. Lee's niece is designing some business card/logo stuff for me, I just sent the link to her as well.

Mark~

[MartyJazz]

Hi!

If you want to have more video footage from that TV session, and in better quality, "Geneva's move" (the Youtube clip) and "Subconscious-Lee" are available on the Lee Konitz "Live at the Village Vanguard" DVD, which has a Lee Konitz quartet concert from the late 80's and these 1954 recordings (6:45 min total), which are not identified as such on the DVD cover. It was a huge surprise when I watched the DVD for the first time. I wasn't aware this footage existed.

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo

Yeah, it was a "huge surprise" for me too when I acquired that DVD and watched it for the first time. Aside from the fact that this is rare bonus footage, all the other "Live at the Village Vanguard" series DVDs that I've either acquired or seen, e.g., Mal Waldron, Johnny Griffin, etc., don't have any additional earlier era footage. Footage from the '50s and '60s of modern jazz artists always grab me which is why I highly recommend the Jazz Icon DVD series that has recently been released. Great stuff!

[JPF]

The Marsh/Konitz footage is from a series broadcast in 1958 (not 1954, as the tape indicates) on NBC-TV, called "The Subject Is Jazz." The host of the series was Gilbert Seldes and the musical director was Billy Taylor (seen in these clips).

It lasted 13 weeks and explored various facets of the world of jazz. I remember one show was an entire half-hour devoted to an analysis of Bird's famous break on "Night In Tunisia"! It featured Tony Scott. Another show featured a "cutting contest" (my characterization) between Billy Taylor and Bill Evans.

Can you imagine one of the four major commercial broadcast networks airing a 13-week series on jazz nowadays? Hah!!

The producers of the Jazz Icons DVD series should try to get their hands on this stuff, quickly, before it disappears like so much other historical footage.

[brownie]

One more from that 'The Subject Is Jazz' TV show!

Subconscious Lee

[donald byrd 4 EVA]

can any of you recommend any other DVDs with early lee and/or warne footage? (are there any?)

[.:.impossible]

I need more Warne Marsh. Brilliant...

[jazz4u]

I need more Warne Marsh. Brilliant...

The Warne Footage has recently been yanked from Youtube, and there are no Warne only

DVDs.

[RDK]

That's unfortunate.