On Wednesday, October 7, Carnegie Hall will celebrate the opening of its 130th season with a Virtual Gala Celebration featuring a video message and previously unreleased song video from James as well as archival performances from Jon Batiste, Renée Fleming, Rhiannon Giddens, Lang Lang, Wynton Marsalis, and many more!
This free stream will air October 7 at 7:30 pm ET. For full details on how to watch, please visit CarnegieHall.org.
Click now to see fan Sean Lehman’s rendition of JT’s “Fire And Rain”!
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Click now to watch James perform “Fire And Rain” on the popular BBC series In Concert on November 16, 1970. This newly restored footage is the second installment of James’s new series from from the Vault.
James’s longtime guitar player, Michael Landau, has a new album out! Liquid Quartet Live was recorded live at the Baked Potato club in Los Angeles last December with line-up featuring Abe Laboriel Jr, David Frazee and fellow JT bandmate, Jimmy Johnson.
Look for the album here, and check out a new interview with Michael on Guitar.com.
Click now to watch father and daughter duo Erin Rae & David Brock perform JT’s “You Can Close Your Eyes”, from the 1971 album, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon.
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James is digging deep into his personal archives to share newly unearthed or restored video and audio gems via his official James Taylor YouTube channel. There’s a lot of exciting material in the works so read what he has to say:
There’s a lot of stuff in the vault from over the years and we’ll rummage around in there – see what we can find… We’ll do our best to maintain the sharpest photographic clarity and highest fidelity sound quality that modern technology can afford. Best perhaps to start at the beginning, so up first are some the songs from a BBC broadcast in the early 1970s. This may not be the earliest film of me performing… but it’s got to be close. We will roll these out one song at a time over the next many weeks. I wish you the joy of it.”
~James
A special shout-out to legendary artists (and JT pals), Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, for their extraordinary gift last week honoring the essential workers in and around Pittsfield, MA and Berkshire County.
Here’s a small sampling of our Pittsfield-based neighbors, family and friends who continue to keep us safe, healthy, well-fed and well-educated:
Cultural Pittsfield, Pittsfield Fire Department I.A.F.F.2647, City Hall-City of Pittsfield, Downtown Pittsfield, Inc; Williams Elementary School, Allendale Elementary School, UPS, Pittsfield Public Schools Bus Operations, Pittsfield Public Schools, Berkshire Theatre Group, High Lawn Farm, Roots Rising, Pittsfield Farmers Market, Berkshire Health Systems, Berkshire Medical Center, 1Berkshire.