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If you don't already know about this, click here, and just type names of your favourite musicians into the search engine. Tons of video of various sorts... bits of musicians on lost TV show appearances, amatuer video, etc. Just random video clips that have been submitted by random people. Wonderful resource..... (It is old news for some, but I heard about it last week on NPR, being well on the other side of hip these days.) Random finds in my first minutes of visiting: Thelonius Monk, with Charlie Rouse, Ben Riley and Larry Gales playing "Blue Monk". Oslo, 1966. (Link here.) I always love watching his tapping foot, and his wonderful fingering choices which are pure genius.... as do several cameramen who've filmed his performances. This unfortunately isn't one of those times when Monk gets up and does a little dance... I love it when he does that! Bizarrely camp and ridiculously cutesy (but beautifully sung) version of "Rocket Man", by Kate Bush and her band, on MTV. (Link here.) Just excellent, despite being amusingly 80s in style (but actually early 90s). [Update: Oh.. and one of my favourite recordings of "So What", with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) and I'm guessing Wynton Kelly on piano (from the style, the back of his head, and the time, '58 or '59) ....(Link here.)] [Update: I forgot to mention that I was hoping that I might find a video clip of Strings 98's perfomance of "The Maldacena", by 400 string theorists in unison (to the tune of "The Macarena"), but that seems to be lost forever... see here, and here, for more on that, by the way.] -cvj