From Blue Note - nice eh?
And here is why it's cool - in a semi lame animesque kind of way... Sorry no embed, it's a video.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/kids-on-the-slope/episode-1-moanin-595623
Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe and composer Yoko Kanno have reunited for an anime adaptation of Sakamichi no Apollon (Kids on the Slope), a Shogakukan Manga Award-winning manga by Yuki Kodama. Fuji TV started broadcasting the series on April 12, 2012 (trailer). The series is currently being streamed on Crunchyroll, and will later be streamed on Hulu and The Anime Network.
The manga is a coming-of-age story set in in a provincial town in Japan in the late 1960's. The main characters are brought together by a love for jazz music: the studious piano-playing model high school student Kaoru, the bad-boy jazz drummer Sentaro who introduces his classmate Kaoru to jazz, and their classmate Ritsuko whose father owns a record shop and provides practice space.
Sakamichi no Melody (opening credits song)
Altair (closing credits song)
Commentary on the trailer focusing on the music
Episode reviews with screenshots
Moaning theme - Moaning the Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
Following the "Moaning" theme - not the same tune, but high up on the scale of teh coolness...
and Charli Mingus - Moanin'
This one is brutal - you can hurt yourself listening to this.