An impromptu keyboard realization of Exercise 1.2.c from Job IJzerman's "Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento" – a new book that rehabilitates the old method (partimento) of teaching the fundaments of European classical music (harmony & counterpoint).

The goal of such instruction (a student's technical and idiomatic proficiency) is the ability to extemporize right-hand figurations over a given bass in the vein of such arcane practices as continuo and fugue. Take it from me, this method works: for a mediocre keyboardist such as myself to be able to improvise such a coherent phrase so fluently without premeditation ... that's SOMETHING! 😄

There's plenty more to come on this exciting pedagogical front. Stay tuned...

An impromptu realization of Exercise 1.2.c

In this oral history, George Morrison, Denver's Godfather of Jazz, talks about music, Mahalia Jackson, Maxine Kohl, Andrew Kirk, Nat King Cole, Boulder, Mattie Silks, Paul Whiteman, and more. Morrison was born in Fayette, Missouri on September 9, 1891 and was a longtime resident of Colorado.

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This item was cataloged and digitized as part of the Mazzulla Collection Access and Digitization Project.  In 2022, History Colorado was awarded a 3-year grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to fund work on the Fred M. Mazzulla Collection. The grant funds were used to catalog, arrange, describe, publicize, and digitize 50,000 items within the Mazzulla Collection, including photograph prints and negatives, manuscript material, scrapbooks, and audio recordings.

Oral history of George Morrison, 2022.57.931

Previewing music from “Payton's Place.”

Nicholas Payton: trumpet
Tim Warfield: tenor sax
Anthony Wonsey: piano
Reuben Rogers: bass
Adonis Rose: drums

The full set list is as follows (all compositions by me unless noted):

Back to the Source
Paraphernalia (Wayne Shorter)
The Last Goodbye
Concentric Circles
United (Wayne Shorter)
I'm Old Fashioned (Kern & Mercer)

The Nicholas Payton Quintet - Live at the Village Vanguard 12.14.97

Yellow, Magenta, Cyan and Black (theme of YMCK)

Audio excerpts from the Music & Arts Library exhibition, on the 3rd floor of Butler Library, Fall 2012

2.2 - Bruno Bartolozzi - New Sounds for Woodwinds - Ensemble (1967) (excerpt)

Demo tracks for Avalon Jazz Band's latest project "From Paris to New Orleans"

Ma Belle Louisane

Casio During Quarantine

Interview conducted by George Pratt.

Photo by Apeda Studio, courtesy Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections, George Eastman Museum.

00:00:00 Introduction 

00:01:00 Early Life – Family and performing Vaudeville  

00:03:30 Early Career – Meeting Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and start in pictures  

00:09:34 Early Career -- THE GARAGE (1920)  

00:11:05 Early Career – Buster Keaton Productions and distribution with Metro  

00:18:30 Early Career  – Pivot from shorts to features, OUR HOSPITALITY (1923), THE NAVIGATOR (1924) and THE GENERAL (1926)

00:24:43 Early Career – Short films with Edward F. Cline: HARD LUCK (1921), THE BOAT (1921), THE PLAYHOUSE (1921)

00:32:10 Early Career – THE FROZEN NORTH (1922), THE ELECTRIC HOUSE (1922)

00:39:20 Early Life – Movie-going experiences at vaudeville shows, BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) and Mack Sennett productions

00:42:00 Early Career – THREE AGES (1923), SHERLOCK JR. (1924) and trick photography  

00:54:10 Career – SEVEN CHANCES (1925), GO WEST (1925)

00:59:30 Career – THE GENERAL (1926)

01:05:00 Career – COLLEGE (1927)  

01:07:00 Career – STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928)

01:09:35 Career – THE CAMERAMAN (1928)

01:17:00 Career – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract, working with director Edward Sedgwick

01:22:19 Late Career – LIMELIGHT (1952) 

01:31:45 Reflections – Favorite films from career


The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19.

Generous support for the introductions provided by Art Bridges, and made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES. 

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this audio do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Library Sciences or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Silver Voices

Silver Voices: Buster Keaton Interview (1958)

Feat Stomp

🎼 Composer/Arranger/Orchestrator
🎷 Multi-Instrumentalist (woodwinds)
📚 Scholar, Educator, Polemicist

An impromptu realization of Exercise 1.2.c

Graham Jacobson