Evening Melancholy now has a page on YouTube. Currently, we have only posted two videos, but we will add more as time allows. The one rule applied to this page is that we do not want to create videos for particular versions of songs that already exist on YouTube. For instance, one of the first videos we created was Laura by Charlie Parker. Obviously, there are a few different versions of the song on the website already. However, we could not find the live Birdland session with Symphony Sid’s introduction. The hope and desire is for Evening Melancholy to illuminate, not compete with the other great videos that already exist. After all, jazz is a familial art form.

Also, YouTube is to be seen as well as heard, so we will try to avoid the laziness of posting a song with just one static picture. A video should attempt to be as fluid and intriguing as the song itself. The key word here is “attempt”. We are new to this, so it’s hit and miss.

Here is the Charlie Parker video we created: