JAZZ
- Alliance for Improvised Music links
- Artists House video clips on improvisation
- Critical Studies in Improvisation
- Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra videos; Coltrane interviews
- “Giant Steps,” John Coltrane (transcription)
- Anthony Braxton’s Language Music (Nate Wooley)
- Steve Lacy on composition and improvisation in 15 seconds
- Bill Evans 1965
- Frank Zappa on improvisation (starting 12:55)
- Big Bands
- Swing, Best of (Tommy Dorsey, Ray Anthony, Benny Carter)
- Quincy Jones Big Band (1960)
- Duke Ellington Band (1964, Montreal)
- George Russell Big Band (1967, Sweden)
- Inside the Big Band (US Army Field Band)
- Jaki Byard Quartet, “Bass-ment Blues” (1965)
EXPERIMENTAL
RAP
- Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (documentary)
- 8 Mile Rap Battles; w/English subtitles (interpretation of lyrics on rapgenius.com)
- Jin 106 and Park Freestyles
- King Tim III and Fatback Band (1979)
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five with Melle Mel, White Lines (1983)
- Andre 3000: A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (at 2:30)
- Analyses