Keith Jarrett – Somewhere Over the Rainbow
An evening pause: Performed live in Japan 1984.
Hat tip Danae.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Hovercraft Deer Rescue
An evening pause: Another example of the wonders of modern technology. This is intended to illustrate the GoPro family of tiny portable cameras, but note the hovercrafts as well.
Hat tip Tim Vogel.
Tony Smiley – Baby Steps
An evening pause: He calls himself “The Loop-Ninja”. Watch. It is amazing what one person can do with today’s technology to produce music.
Hat tip tdub.
Moving Hearts – Finore
An evening pause: Some Irish music with one normally un-Irish instrument.
Hat tip Danae.
Henry Mancini – The Baby Elephant Walk
An evening pause: From the 1962 Howard Hawks film Hatari!, this scene, and the music that goes with it, shows off the film’s light-hearted adventurous tone. And yes, that’s John Wayne following the girl. Since then this music has been reused innumerable times in youtube pet videos.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Boogie Woogie by Dona Oxford
An evening pause: Stick with it. She not only plays it, she explains it!
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Duo Scarlette – Trapeze
An evening pause: Here’s a different kind of flying, compared to yesterday’s evening pause.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Dubai World Record Eagle Flight
An evening pause: Hat tip tdub. As he noted, “The final tuck and dive to its master is breathtaking.”
Nanci Griffith & The Chieftains – Red Is The Rose
An evening pause: The melody is the same as Loch Lomond, which illustrates how much in common there is between the Scots and the Irish, no matter what they tell you. (And I would include the English too!)
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Edie Brickell & Steve Martin – When You Get To Asheville
An evening pause: They usually give Martin first billing, but Brickell is really the star here. Martin is good on banjo, but it is her song. Though it is amazing to see how Steve Martin has reinvented himself again.
Aerosmith – Livin’ On The Edge
An evening pause: Good music, but this video reveals a great deal about the future in how it portrays an adolescent view of the present. Even more important, the view is very typical of modern culture.
The Refreshments – Let It Rock
An evening pause: Who says the world doesn’t love American culture? Watch a Swedish band and an English guitarist play classic rock.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Katie Melua – If you were a sailboat
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Diana Krall – I Get Along
An evening pause: Hat tip to Danae.
????? – John Wilson Orchestra
An evening pause: This pause is going to be a challenge. I am curious who can most quickly identify the film that this suite comes from, performed here live in 2013. I am sure that anyone that knows anything about movies will figure it out by around 2:30, but can you do it sooner? One hint: this is one of the greatest and most popular films ever made.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
Blackmore’s Night – Minstrel Hall
An evening pause: Performed live by Ritchie Blackmore in Paris, 2006.
Hat tip to Danae.
Cass Elliot, Mary Travers, & Joni Mitchell – I shall be released
An evening pause: Performed live on the Cass Elliot Show, 1969.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Fred Astaire & Leslie Caron – Something’s Gotta Give
An evening pause: From the 1955 film Daddy Long Legs.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Roy Clark & Buck Trent – Dueling Banjos
An evening pause: While the version of this song for the movie Deliverance (1972) was quite good, I really dislike how that film made all country folk look like they were mentally and physically crippled. The portrayal seemed quite bigoted.
This performance, however, just shows us some great banjo playing, the way it should be done.
Star Trek – Amok Time
A Saturday pause: In memory of Leonard Nimoy.
T’pau: “Live long and prosper, Spock.”
Spock: “I shall do neither. I have killed my captain — and my friend.”