Via this post at Metafilter, here's Big Mama Thornton, with Buddy Guy:

This is great too – Down Home Shakedown, with Big Mama heading a bunch of harp players, including Walter "Shakey" Horton, Doc Ross and John Lee Hooker, queueing up to have their turn at the microphone. There's no doubt who's the boss, though.

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    dearieme

    This little treasure keeps vanishing from youtube, so must be enjoyed NOW.

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  2. Dom Avatar
    Dom

    I love those Reinhardt-Grappelli duets. The video that dearieme posted reminds me that I never understood why critics always gave Grappelli a back seat to Reinhardt.

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    dearieme

    I went to three or four Grapelli concerts. Wonderful fellow – he’d take a solo, you’d be convinced that he’d painted himself into a corner and then “in one bound he was free”. To vary a remark of Larkin’s, how dreadful to have lived in the twentieth century but died before hearing the music of The Quintet of The Hot Club of France!

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