The Bad Plus & Fashion?

Thought this was a neat, and somewhat odd, pairing. This is a video of a recent release of Isaac Mizrahi's ("The Fashion Show" on Bravo) Fall 2010 collection. Now why the heck am I talking about this on my blog? Excellent question internet land! Go through the exact same process I did: watch the video, roll your eyes, and all of a sudden listen to the music in the background... holy crap, you realize it's The Bad Plus playing live behind a runway walk. I guess music and fashion really are one world.......... (insert sarcastic scoff).

Here's the full show:

This video contains an interview with the band:

More Links:

Check out this link to Do The Math, mentioned a couple of time on this blog, about the band's schedule the day of the fashion show.

And, finally here's the original video from Isaac's site.  I think we can all thank Isaac for making a pretty cool choice in music.

Also, does anyone have any idea where you might be able to purchase the songs performed here, "One Thirty-Three", "High Waist Drifter", & "Really Good Attitude"?  If you track it down, leave a comment below (with great thanks in advance).

Jaleel Shaw on Uncensored Interview

Hey Guys - I found an interesting site www.UncensoredInterview.com.  They have some very cool interviews up there, one of which is with Jaleel Shaw.  It's a really short one on one, but I thought it was worth sharing.  They also have another interview with another Alto Saxophonist, Rudresh Mahanthappa.  I'll be posting it very soon.

Jaleel Shaw: Don't Just Stand There.

Also check out Jaleel's website with some free downloads and stay tuned for my post on the equipment of players like Jaleel which will hopefully allow people to find the mouthpiece, reed, ligature, and horn combinations of a lot of these great players without having to dig through tons of blog threads.