Double Bass Sam Jones Videos??

[SantinoTaf]

Hey TB!
I am looking for videos of Sam Jones playing bass. Of course you can type in his name in youtube and find some hits, but i know there are a lot of videos out there that miss the search engine, so i am asking you guys for links to live footage of Sam Jones at work! I would love to know more about him in general so any direction towards books/personal anecdotes/interviews about him would be awesome!
Thanks!
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[Earl]

 

[juusokasperi]

 

[Michael Karn]

 

[Reiska]

Incredible tone and touch, beautiful melodical playing. Thanks for the thread, learned a ton of stuff just watching him play!

 

[sean_on_bass]

Just bumping to say that this man is an underrated force on the bass. Just one of those players where everything they play is perfect and what a bass line should be.

 

[BobDeRosa]

Thanks so much for posting this. I can't ever get enough Sam.

Just out of curiosity, in the Oscar video is he actually wearing a neck tie around his neck rather than under his collar or is that an ascot of some sort?

 

[BobbyT]

Not much to add—just wanted to say thank you to all the folks who contributed. This thread is a gold mine.

If you haven’t already, also check out this thread as well for some great SJ recommendations... not a lot of video but worth diving into: Sam Jones' sound... Wow!!

 

[pbass888]

The man with Oscar and Bobby Durham

Edit : I’ll look for a transcription I did of this and hope to post soon.

 

[marcox]

The man with Oscar and Bobby Durham

Edit : I’ll look for a transcription I did of this and hope to post soon.

Wow. Simultaneously limber and rock-solid. Maybe "supple" is the word I want?

Would it be accurate to say that Sam Jones is mostly/strictly a one-finger right-hand player?

 

[Bruce Calin]

I saw and heard Mr. Jones in NY at the Village Vanguard not too long before he passed, although I obviously didn't know that at the time and it wasn't at all obvious from his playing, which was as solid and swinging as when I had heard him on record. I remember that his left arm was at a ninety-degree angle from the neck of the bass no matter where he was on the neck(what strange things we notice and remember) and I wondered if that was one of the reasons he got such a great sound. I still believe that there was something about the way players who played on gut strings unamped for most of their careers perceived and produced their sound that we today don't have. To hear an feel the power of someone like Sam Jones play live unamped is something impossible today.

 

[834federal]

Is that Ben Webster in the audience?

 

[Earl]

(2) Cedar Walton Quartet (Umbria Jazzfestival 1976) - YouTube