Video Juke Box 2026
Videos Featured on the Sandy Brown Jazz What's New page during 2026
Click on the pictures below to watch the videos .....
or take pot luck and click on the picture of the Juke Box and see what comes up.
April
The Neil Cowley Trio has a new album out Built On Bach which is exactly that. The pianist describes it as "a collection of new compositions, all based loosely on the works of JS Bach, but styled and moulded to sound like the Neil Cowley Trio." Here is a video of Scurry from the album. [See Recent Releases]
Guitarist and bandleader Billy Marrows plays Shenandoah. His solo guitar version is on the album Penelope and a band version on the album Mount Tibidabo. Both are beautiful. Billy drops by for a Tea Break this month (here) and talks about his music and his new album Dancing On Bentwood Chairs.
Clarinettist Alvin Roy has suggested we include this version of Caravan by Dutch pianist Peter Beets and his Trio. You can read more about Peter here. His recording Blues Goes To Spain was released in February (it does not include Caravan played in the video) [See Recent Releases]
The Bristol-based trio Yetii (Alex Veitch, piano, composition; Ashley John Long, bass and Alex Goodyear, drums play the beautiful Afar from their recent album Inner Worlds [See Recent Releases]
Here is Woody Herman and his Swingin' Herd back in 1964 with Woodchoppers Ball. Woody Herman was responsible for bringing so many key jazz musicians to notice - here, the first solo is taken by Sal Nistico and the trombone solo by Phil Wilson about whom one commentator says "He taught me how to doodle tongue using (the) Arbans (method). I am eternally grateful, as this was most important jazz technique I ever learned and to this day, I can immediately tell the difference between those who can doodle and those who don't."
Founded in 1945 in the Netherlands by reeds player Peter Schilperoort, the Dutch Swing College Band was prominent during the Trad Jazz 'boom' of the 1950s. Europe's longest established band is still going although Peter Schilperoort died in 1990. Here they are in 1970 with Bourbon Street Parade.
The impressive Louise Balkwell sings I Can't Give You Anything But Love from her uplifting new album Chatterbox [See Recent Releases]
March
The Hot Club Of Jupiter play Hot Heat from their recent album Copacallisto [See Recent Releases]
The Sant Andreu Jazz Band is always outstanding - here is a recent video (November 2025) with their Dixieland ensemble playing the Royal Garden Blues - Dixieland is alive and well in Spain!
A 'secret session' by vibes player Red Norvo has recently been released. [See Recent Releases]. This video, however, comes from 1958 when Red appeared in a film Kings Go Forth with Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood. Tony Curtis 'plays' trumpet with the band - in reality it is Conte Condoli playing, but check out the other band members.
American vibes player Joel Ross plays Hostile from his new album Gospel Music [see Recent Releases]
Yosef Gutman plays the lovely Kumi Lach from his new album Resisei Lyla with Omri Mor, Itamar Doari, Tal Yahalom and Yoed Nir [see Recent Releases]
In this video the Whatever Jazz Band from Madrid play I'll Be A Friend With Pleasure. The tune is mostly associated with Bix Beiderbecke and his Orchestra from 1930 ; it is not so well known that there were 3 takes for Bix's recording - here is version 1 - and here are takes 2 & 3 (see video for musicians).
Kurt Elling sings My Very Own Ride from his new album with the WDR Big Band In The Brass Palace [see Recent Releases]
February
Pianist Brad Mehldau plays Your Mother Should Know by The Beatles. It is the title song from his album Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles.
Sara Dowling sings Here I'll Stay. This video was recorded for saxophonist Sam Braysher's recent album That's Him featuring the music of Kurt Weill. An instrumental recording of the song was eventually included in the album and Sara's vocals included on other tracks.. You can hear the instrumental version here.
In 1962, Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band appeared in the film Band Of Thieves. Acker and his band are in prison. On their release they are persuaded by their promoter to burgle local stately homes while on tour. His girlfriend, a policewoman, finds out, and Acker and his band go back to prison, as does the promoter. There are a few clips on YouTube but here is the band playing Lonely. The cast (including the band members) is here.
Saxophonist Asaf Harris plays I Don't Know What's Inside (but It's got to be good ...) from his new album I Thought I Was Ready. [see article by Howard Lawes here]
Vocalist Rebecca Kilgore passed through the Departure Lounge in January. It is sad to only come across her voice after she has gone. This video is from 2008 with Rebecca singing Sugar; and here she is from her album with Hal Smith's Rhythmakers and How Long Has This Been Going On?
The Gareth Lockrane Big Band plays Captain Kirkland from their new album Box Of Tricks [See Recent Releases]
We are used to seeing Shaye Cohn playing as part of the Tuba Skinny band, but here she is in New Orleans in December with Craig Flory and David Boeddinghaus and Dreaming The Hours Away.
January
The amazing UK youth music organisation Kinetika Bloco celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2025. Here is a video illustrating what they do and there is an article by Howard Lawes here.
Saxophonist Iain Ballamy plays Green in Blue from his new album Riversphere. The album includes a number of guest musicians - featured here are guitarist Rob Luft and bass player Conor Chaplin. [See Recent Releases]
Here is a video from 1928 that seems to be remarkably preserved. It is a humerous film by Walter Roesner and his Capitolians but features solos by Jimmy Dorsey, Miff Mole and a brief snatch from Leo McConville. Note the paper-tearing percussion from the drummer!
Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie and his trio have a fine new album out, The Shieling, here he talks about the background to the album "Some thoughts and feelings about how my relationship with the Scottish Munros has shaped how I play and write music, especially in relation to 'The Shieling' ...." [See Recent Releases]
The Jim Cullum Band play Jelly Roll Morton's Frog-I-More Rag. Apparently it was written in 1908 to accompany a vaudevillian known as Frog-i-More, a contortionist who performed in a frog costume, but Jelly Roll did not deposit the music for copyright until 1918 for fear that any form of public record was an invitation to purloin his ideas. More information here.
Award-winning Scottish saxophonist Matt Carmichael is featured in this video playing his composition There Will Be Better Days with Bob Mintzer and the WDR Big Band. [See article by Howard Lawes here]
Sadly there seems to be very little footage available of the late reeds player Tony Coe, so we are lucky to have this video of him with the Frances Knight Trio in 2014 playing The Days Of Wine And Roses (not A Foggy Day as the video is labeled).