help me with my class?

this prince 1985 show has decent video quality and has remained up for several months, which is pretty stable as prince youtubes go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOFem3JEn2E

the boredoms' amazing 77 boa drum show in brooklyn, in multiple parts starting here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXCCJIwLf2w

me and a few other ilxors floating around in that boadrum crowd

me too. that was a good day.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - I, Eye, Aye: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHhPmXqts3M

because there are probably some worthwhile discussions to be had about whether there's a clear-cut dividing line between novelty/spectacle and ~serious art~, and whether handing out free cocaine is a constructive way to boost audience engagement

(fwiw I can't find a better quality upload, it doesn't seem to be available on any streaming services, and the DVD is prohibitively expensive)

nevermind, that DVD link is for a completely different show. afaict the Montreux video was only ever issued on VHS under the title The One Man Twins

Youtube just recommended this “live” performance of Don’t Start Now by Dua Lipa. It’s not the studio version but it sounds too perfect to be live? I also think I noticed she’s doing different things between edits so it might be a multi take, no idea. Seems fishy. If it’s actually live then yeah this one’s great.

One of my all time favorites is this tv performance of Aguas de Março by Elis Regina, she’s so joyful it always makes me smile.

https://youtu.be/FI1b9RK10JI

Ah forgot to link the dua lipa one:

https://youtu.be/YSoT3T58QFY

I also recommend any Julien Baker and Melanie Di Biasio performance you can find on youtube. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad one by them.

And this performance of Cellophane by FKA. Love that the setup includes a singer/beatbox doing the “tchk tchk” parts.

https://youtu.be/bNqXhfUfwgc

my favorite is stevie wonder just killing it doing "satisfaction" on sesame street:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

prince? gotta be his performance at the holiday inn in sheridan, wyoming for the premiere of "under the cherry moon":

https://youtu.be/te97LW90d1Q?t=596

starts ten minutes in and just kills it dead for the next ten minutes

Laurie Anderson - Home of the Brave (haven't watched this in full but it looks pretty great)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mua8Pr6uRso

I keep watching Khruangbin's Boiler Room set...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgWnrIC8X-k

... and find my self contemplating all sorts of things as I'm mesmerized: how much sound can a traditional trio make; are vocals important; are they a jam band/indie band/psych band; it's it significant that they're Texan, that they're white/black/latinx; why does the music sound laid back but look showy when performed?

xp my favorite live stevie is beat club ‘73

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og2mJjecDYw

also here is sonny sharrock on french tv from 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvkUSUlPkZs

Jazz Casual:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Casual

Jazz Casual was an occasional series on jazz music on National Educational Television (NET), the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The show was produced by Richard Moore and KQED of San Francisco, California. Episodes ran for 30 minutes. It ran from 1961 to 1968 and was hosted by jazz critic Ralph Gleason. The series had a pilot program in 1960. That episode, however, has been destroyed. 31 episodes were broadcast; 28 episodes survive.

A couple of other things:

Johnny Cash at San Quentin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3paDG8ulPbY

Elvis from his '68 comeback special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZe_8u-rGWE

Cab Calloway in a great scene from the movie Stormy Weather (ok, not truly live but still, c'mon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8

A few favourites: Tyler, the Creator - Tiny Desk Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1w-hDiJ4dM
CAN, Sporthalle Köln, 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FaydRUQ42Q
CAN, Soest, 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zhdNviS0Vs

very recent and very good: The Highwomen covering The Chain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVLNB3d-2cA

this thread could eat up some social-distancing time

I thought about posting that Khurangbin set myself, I really enjoyed it ... on the same theme of "how much noise can a traditional trio make," here's the Hedvig Mollestad Trio at Taktlos 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsxcMdtO_lw

This is awesome - https://vimeo.com/25619692

That xpost complete set of Jazz Casual episodes should be infotaining, judging by the one I saw, w Art Pepper: the artist and combo perform one or two songs, you get your own impression without pre-sell, then artist sits down for brief conversation with host, gets up for more music, and comments may or may not affect your take (incl. memory of performance before comments). 30 minutes, just right.

Heartworn Highways now a famous proto-Americana doc, several excerpts in Ken Burns country history,, but what's not as well-known among those who have only read about it is the Townes-type mood swings, and not only his: each segment/extended scene-situation is equally immersive. DVD has worthy bonus material.

Wild Combination, re the life and music of Arthur Russell, also a nimble, deep focus sweep & swoop, from Great Plains to Downtown. More excellent extras, and (as w HH), unusually good/justified/crucial talk/music ratio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NjZrPX-l0

CSNY - "Down By The River" Live from... idk. I always thought it was Hullabaloo or something.

Anyway this is interesting because of square TV host, square TV set, well coiffed "wholesome" teenagers styled for TV and then CSNY shows up to blow your mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbF7LODCIGQ

Liza + PSB on Arsineo Hall

THANK YOU SO MUCH for these!!! I am getting around to compiling them soon and i can share the doc if anyone is interested
everything is crazy right now at my school, we are all seeing each other on webcams for the first time and it's hilarious
meanwhile, i am making this list :)

Einstein on the Beach: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirLVoOHstO5pYKp_AiWAs9ullp4ieNSl

Boris live at Shimokitazawa Shelter (apparently ripped from a DVD):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjn-IrkxVbk

Bardo Pond f/ Makoto Kawabata at Terrastock 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkXL3yfRSL4

Dum Dum Girls 2014 (I've actually watched this one):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayb03dUNkKM

This 'un is a trip--take it, wiki:
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul is a 2005 film/documentary directed by Fatih Akın. The film is a journey through the music scene in modern Istanbul, Turkey as well as portraying its cultural life. It was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
It features German musician Alexander Hacke (member of Einstürzende Neubauten) as the narrator.[2] Hacke and Akın travelled around Istanbul with a mobile recording studio and a microphone, assembling an inspired portrait of Turkish music — from arabesque to indie rock and rap. All of which they make their own thing---I mostly just knew a few vintage vanguard smokin' Turks , like Erkin Koray, who's in here---but dammn. Especially impressed by those who perform music usually assumed to depend on studio or stage wizardry, but here (in streets, vacant lots, etc.) sure seems to be in the moment (however much rehearsal or previous performance may have already transpired). Blanking on her name, but a case in point would be one particularly awesome balladeer, deep folk-pop, RIYL Natacha Atlas or Kate Bush for that matter, but killing it right there in the sun and dust and mobile mic.

I'm interested in your final doc compilation, please.

wiki's on a roll:
Latcho Drom ("safe journey") is a 1993 French film directed and written by Tony Gatlif. The movie is about the Romani people's journey from north-west India to Spain, consisting primarily of music. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.[1]...The film contains very little dialogue and captions; only what is required to grasp the essential meaning of a song or conversation is translated. The film begins in the Thar Desert in Northern India and ends in Spain, passing through Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and France. All of the Romani portrayed are actual members of the Romani community.
This is one of the very few music docs I've ever seen that conveys the best of thee festival experience: no copters, cops or runners, no seizures or fistfights or dogbreath, just a series of pellucid dreams, strongest bubbles, leaving my senses refreshed as by the kind of sauna I can rarely afford.

No talk in Jazz On A Summer Day:
Jazz on a Summer's Day is a concert film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival [1] in Rhode Island, directed by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and Aram Avakian[2], who also edited the film. The Columbia Records jazz producer, George Avakian, was the musical director of the film.

The film mixes images of water and the city with the performers and audience at the festival. It also features scenes of the 1958 America's Cup yacht races. The film is largely without dialog or narration (except for periodic announcements by emcee Willis Conover).

The film features performances by Jimmy Giuffre; Thelonious Monk; Sonny Stitt; Anita O'Day; Dinah Washington; Gerry Mulligan; Chuck Berry; Chico Hamilton, with Eric Dolphy; and Louis Armstrong, with Jack Teagarden. Also appearing are Buck Clayton, Jo Jones, Armando Peraza, and Eli's Chosen Six, the Yale College student ensemble that included trombonist Roswell Rudd, shown driving around Newport in a convertible jalopy, playing Dixieland.[3]

As was scheduled in advance and announced in the program, the last performer Saturday night was Mahalia Jackson, who sang a one-hour program beginning at midnight, thus ushering in Sunday morning. The film concluded with her performance of The Lord's Prayer. But not too much of that or anything else: editing is deft, although some jazz fans then considered it too damn quirky, as I think Gary Giddens mentioned. Seems like an influence on Monterey Pop and Woodstock, in its cooler way. Does have a cusp-of-the-Sixties vibe at tymes, esp. Chico Hamilton's group.

Also Jimmy Giuffre.

Chuck Berry rocks the Count Basie Orchestra, Anita O'Day is nonchalant badass etc

Zaire 74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jogVNf1x_Xw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire_74

and thanks for that amazing highwomen live version of the chain, that's amazing!

Chuck Berry rocks the Count Basie Orchestra, Anita O'Day is nonchalant badass etc

I like this Talking Heads Rome show - less happening visually than Stop Making Sense, but lots of Adrian Belew:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOirHv4wOv4

here is the list i gave to my students -- please keep in mind it was made for them, not you! it's not exhaustive. but it will provide many hours of quality musical entertainment. i might even watch the Bieber one if i get bored enough ---> shorturl.at/moNRZ

i am also going to add things as i stumble on them + my pitiful "other resources" tab needs help. didn't want to drown my students in choices though. it's a small menu but everything is good!

Oh shit wattstax is on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdAkEwq0Af8

oh lol you already have it on there

You don't have the TAMI show tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODJDdIbkF4

TAMI Show comes and goes from youtube -- I'll add it if it's the complete thing. the old youtube was super high quality too because of that weird format they used to shoot it. last time I looked for it, it was gone but one semester we watched it in class and my students LOVED the lesley gore part

they didn't know there was an original version of "you don't own me" and they clapped!

necessary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFgzzWT3zX4

Ok here's a question -- what are some good examples of "listening guides" or "how to get into ______"/an introduction to ________ guides?

With this new online learning situation I am having to get extra creative with the final project this time. We can't do the fun things I've done in the past (put on a show, make a zine) -- I realize they COULD make a zine but it would lose a huge part of the fun. I thought maybe designing listening guides might be kind of fun? Esp for music that isn't in English, it might be fun to have an English speaker's guide to, say, bachata.

you could do worse than the rough guide series?
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/a-rough-guide-to-the-rough-guides/Content?oid=897715
https://www.librarything.com/series/Rough+Guide+Music+Guides

useful, thank you!!

bandcamp daily does a lot of stories like this under its lists header:

The Manic, Joyous Sound of Brazil’s Funk Carioca
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/the-manic-joyous-sound-of-brazils-funk-carioca

A Guide to African Country Music
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/african-country-music-list

The Fresh, Inventive Sounds of Contemporary Chinese Post-Punk
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/chinese-post-punk-list

bump! I am going to be teaching two things next week (one week only, volunteer gig): 1) 5 one-hour drum lessons via zoom 2) workshop about concert films (based on the list I put together last spring when covid hit)

i am bumping this thread just to alert that i may need some help thinking of good songs to practice for xyz task and I was hoping to harness the power of ilx (and readers of this thread) to answer those questions more precisely/better than google can.

when i have a question, i will post and if anyone feels like answering/is able to answer, great! this thread is like my phone-a-friend <3

classes start monday

Hijacking this thread to say that if anyone has any suggestions for French/Francophone pop songs I can play in a middle school classroom - not just to read/translate lyrics, but also just to get kids moving around the room - please send them my way! I am woefully ignorant about Francophone music and want to have a lot of fun and diverse music in my classroom.