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Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder perform "I Shall Not Be Moved" from their 2022 album, GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE. Cooder and Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite nearly sixty years after they first played together with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives. With Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo—joined by Joachim Cooder on drums and bass—the duo recorded eleven songs drawn from recordings and live performances by Terry and McGhee, who they both first heard as teenagers in California. Video by Jeff Coffman.
Watch This VideoTaj Mahal & Ry Cooder perform "I Shall Not Be Moved" from their 2022 album, GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE. Cooder and Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite nearly sixty years after they first played together with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives. With Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo—joined by Joachim Cooder on drums and bass—the duo recorded eleven songs drawn from recordings and live performances by Terry and McGhee, who they both first heard as teenagers in California. Video by Jeff Coffman.
Watch This VideoThe video for Tigran Hamasyan’s rendition of Elmo Hope’s “De-Dah,” from his 2022 album StandArt. The album comprises American standards from the 1920s through the 1950s, by Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, Jerome Kern, David Raksin, and others, as well as a piece Hamasyan improvised with his bandmates. Paintings by Gaguik Martirosyan. Animated by Robert Edridge-Waks.
Watch This VideoTaj Mahal & Ry Cooder perform "Hooray Hooray" from their 2022 album, GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE. Cooder and Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite nearly sixty years after they first played together with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives. With Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo—joined by Joachim Cooder on drums and bass—the duo recorded eleven songs drawn from recordings and live performances by Terry and McGhee, who they both first heard as teenagers in California. Video by Jeff Coffman.
Watch This VideoTaj Mahal & Ry Cooder perform "Hooray Hooray" from their 2022 album, GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE. Cooder and Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite nearly sixty years after they first played together with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives. With Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo—joined by Joachim Cooder on drums and bass—the duo recorded eleven songs drawn from recordings and live performances by Terry and McGhee, who they both first heard as teenagers in California. Video by Jeff Coffman.
Watch This VideoBrad Mehldau's "maybe as his skies are wide," from his 2022 album, Jacob's Ladder. Video edited by Robert Edridge-Waks.
Watch This Video"Sit Shiva," from Gabriel Kahane's 2022 album Magnificent Bird, finds the composer/singer/songwriter skirting the rules of his digital hiatus in order to mourn, online, the death of his maternal grandmother; in typical fashion, he mines not just pathos, but humor and grace amidst his family’s grief. The video, directed by Kahane and Robert Edridge-Waks, contains excerpt from "New York stock shots" by Urban Safari Film Inc. (C) 1995 City of Vancouver (CC BY 3.0).
Watch This VideoMolly Tuttle & Golden Highway perform “Crooked Tree,” the title track to Tuttle’s Nonesuch Records debut. Filmed at Hartland Studios in Nashville, the video features Tuttle on guitar and vocals alongside her band of bluegrass virtuosos—mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjoist Kyle Tuttle, fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and bassist Shelby Means. It was directed and edited by Michael Kessler, recorded and mixed by Ryan McFadden, and mastered by Edsel Holden.
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