Wolfgang's Vault:

[medjuck]

Wolfgang's Vault seems to have access to a lot of jazz concerts not just those from The Newport Jazz Festival. As with their rock concerts, a lot of them aren't very good but some are gems. There's a couple of Mingus Quintet concerts from '77 (one of which they describe as being by a quartet) that I like better than the studio sessions from the period. And there's a set each by Al Cohen and Zoot Sims using the same rhythm section (with Jimmy Rowles) one night at The Great American Music Hall.

And today they're honoring Dizzy Gillespie.

Edited January 6, 2014 by medjuck

[GA Russell]

Joe, must you pay them an annual fee before you can listen to anything?

[medjuck]

No, not to stream but they charge for downloads. (Lot's of things aren't available for download.)

[GA Russell]

Great! I'll have to give it a try.

[Chuck Nessa]

with minimal searching you can find software to download the stream.

Edited January 7, 2014 by Chuck Nessa

[mjzee]

Today, online concert footage archive Music Vault is releasing 17,318 videos on itsYouTube, give or take a few. "There are probably a couple that will fall out because we still need to go through and scrub for quality," says Bill Sagan (no relation to Carl), CEO of Wolfgang's Vault, the music and memorabilia archive that includes Music Vault along with Concert Vault, Pastemagazine.com, andDaytrotter.com.

Full article here:

billboard.com

For example, Miles Davis at Tanglewood 8/18/70:

http://youtu.be/-vT1mMg8L_0?list=PLhnmhDNF1JJgwcvV9zOXTa3WpCSRrvge5

Edited July 12, 2014 by mjzee

[GA Russell]

Today I received an email from daytrotter, saying that they have a new policy.

One may, without paying, stream two songs of your choice from each and every recording session they have (over 5,000).

[Hardbopjazz]

A lot of the shows sound like crap. I wonder if it Is just because it is a stream or just the poor recording? I listened to a Betty Carter should from 1986. There was so much distortion.