LOUIS ARMSTRONG Muskrat Ramble

[viper88887]

1:15

[57dogsbody]

Ol` Danny never gets a mention , but he is a ROCKIN` drummer.Spose its cos Louis is so darn Brilliant.

[redcrowdemon]

Louis' soloing here is in the highest register where even playing a simple scale will test the stamina of the average trumpet player. (I've been there, worn the t-shirt - gave up). But it's SO much more than that: if the notes of the scale are like uncooked spaghetti - hard and inflexible - Louis microwaves them into steaming hot, bendy, tasty twirls covered in bolognaise sauce...

[tooken]

Thumbs up if Country Joe McDonald I-Feel-I'm-Fixin-To-Die brought you here

[killerk1997]

Music is neither good or bad, it's just whether you like it or not.

Kiran-Aged 14

[stingpower]

It must have been really special to have seen Louis live,like here in 1962 in Munich!

[TailGunner01]

GASTON

[FA1Lproductions]

Great song by him.. But I will forever be touched by his song "What a wonderful world". That song has meaning and passion... I love louis.. Wish he was here with us today to teach these new "dogs" about what music really is!

[harsishava]

You can watch and love the music and the man 24/7 360 days a year!

[AndreaMimi1984]

Cool. 

[buenosaires4u]

There are six people hearing impaired.

[computerdynamo]

turn on the 1911 button at 1:38 ;)

[Urbino237]

@LucilleBall861911 > Right you are! When I need some get-up-and-go really bad I listen to his 1938 Big Band recording of Hoagy Carmichael's "Jubilee". My goodness that is one inspiring 'marching' tune!

[Lotarionesco]

jjajajajaja q buena onda

[DjGrissino]

soundcloud com /djgrissino /cheesecake-dj-grissino

[chefessboo]

Trummy was my dad's best friend,at the end of his life he was always there in Hawaii,

I'd love to hear from his daughter.

Hope you two got to play in heaven.

love you both

Babette ory

[Abriggs500]

Trummy Young: I love his signature little knee bending he does to the beat of the song.

[busessuck1]

Today it suddenly struck me as really creepy that my entire music collection consisted of virtually nothing but dead guys

[Squarerig]

JDTW.They are all dead because god-with a small g-wants them to play for him and him alone!Recall what the bible says.He is a jealous god,full of wrath and will not suffer his will to be thwarted.Keep jazzing!

[chazwinski]

I went and saw a band play this in New Orleans in July. What a fun night! :)

[momomomomo85]

Fantastic rendition of a jazz classic, I love it.

Btw, the bass player's hand at 2:00 reminds me of Zoidberg's, ehrm, upper lip tentacles.

[theinvisiblelight]

One thing I love about Louis is how during all the intros, it just kinda sounds like the whole band is blowin their own solo, and they line up.

[jive4005]

awesome

[TheBastard97]

Earthworm Jim had this song as the ending theme :D

Get the greatness :3

[questionful]

so much joy from this!

[cw1310]

Smooth as silk.

[gixerracer]

Why does he hold that rag while he plays his trumpet?

[Urbino237]

At some point in his career Louis started bringing along a stack of 40 white handkerchiefs to every concert, used to wipe his face and brow throughout the show. Occasionally one of the tapes will catch him tossing a damp one into the open piano or elsewhere and pick up a fresh one from the pile.

[questionful]

to wipe all that sweat off!

[j102610stephen]

@gixerracer for when he uses his spit valve...

[redbenus]

Brings up an emotion that today's music can't make you feel... absolutely wonderful

[DeanoPiano]

Sensational!

[agimus]

Beautifull, can't help myself but to listen it over and over again.

[Urbino237]

Incredible chops for a 62 year-old horn player, who played 300 nights a year until very close to the end. And every show he gave what we see here - 100%. If I could get one note right for every 100 Louis blew, I would be happy. We won't see his like again. I think it was Benny Green who said "Anyone can learn what Louis Armstrong knows about music in a few weeks. No one could learn to play like him in a thousand years."

[gixerracer]

I got a trumpet part of Basin street blues for my trumpet, its awsome

[pozzana]

Just perfect!!

[serenadeop24]

Great bass solo. They did a great job micing/recording/mixing him--you can actually hear the bass through the whole song!!!

[g88keeper]

Thank you for getting this clip up on here, to see Armstrong in 1962 playing this with a controlled fury is amazing. He claimed he wrote the tune, though it is attributed to Kid Ory, and Sidney Bechet reckoned it was an old tune of Buddy Bolden's, called 'The Old Cow Died And The Old Man Cried'.

Armstrong, Ory, Lilian Hardin, Johnny St. Cyr and Johnny Dodds first recorded this tune on 26th February 1926 in Chicago.

Who is on the t-bone in this? He's damn good too!

[BanjoBill427]

That is Jack Teagarden on trombone.

[crayboy35]

You sure? He looks like Trummy Young.

[RVGrandpa]

Sorry, Jack Teagarden was a white guy; though equally as good as this gentleman.

[Easterfrog]

@RVGrandpa Hard to compare apples with oranges.

[philperson]

The trombonist is Trummy Young

[eroctheleo]

That's not Jack on trombone. He was a tall white cat.

[valvetrom]

Its definitely Trummy Young (who was sideman to Dizzy and Parker) His style and tone is unmistakeable.Teagarden was sophisticated, melodical. Trummy is mor a frontlne agressive player,also wonderful,powerful.

[WiseNomads]

AWESOME! 5stars music ,,, LOve you Louis Armstrong.

[ShadowPandamassacre]

Dead funky!!!

I'm 14 and I listen to metal and drum & bass but I can take time off to listen to jazz as well, especially if it's this awesome!!!

[creten69]

it takes me back to disneyland.

[siddharthaananda]

love this and West End Blues

[pinarello001]

Only to have been alive in the 1930's when jazz was at its peak... I could have lived and died before the age of cycnicism, computers, corruption, greed, over population, destruction: damn. You can stuff most music since the death of Django. Heaven is a place where jazz blares loud and rich from every cloud...

[daffybastard]

i am from deep south louisiana i am so glad i was raised with jazz and real blues

[JustDontThinkTwice]

I'm 13 and i can't get enough of jazz. Louis Armstrong is the king of jazz and i admire him so much! Why are all great musicians dead?

[cw1310]

You are smarter then most adults.

[ukoslavia1]

Time and drugs have taken all the good musicians...

[MrsCow18]

@JustDontThinkTwice the real question is, why are people these days not real musicians LOL

but then it's important to appreciate all types of music, but you dont' hafta liek them LOL

[gr0mithtimon]

@JustDontThinkTwice

because you are here watching them instead of making good music

[8ballasnow]

@JustDontThinkTwice drugs.

[busessuck1]

@JustDontThinkTwice

...the reason these videos are only watched by a bunch of (awsome) twelve year olds is that old people don't know they're on here

[iStrider]

@JustDontThinkTwice Because of you. Kids aren't meant to listen to jazz.

[masanotti421]

@iStrider @JustDontThinkTwice you are both idiots.

[vanliere]

@JustDontThinkTwice Good. Enjoy it! I'm 67 and still do.

[Abriggs500]

@JustDontThinkTwice Because you were born in the wrong generation I'm afraid to say.

[tsf56]

@JustDontThinkTwice Because they tought themselves and actually knew what they wanted done, now everyone has teachers and the internet to learn from, these guys listened to a radio and boom they played, music used to be the shit, now its just shit.

[lomax343]

@JustDontThinkTwice Because Simon Cowell finished what Stock Aitken and Waterman started. 

[crytun]

@JustDontThinkTwice well young man, i first salute you. there will always be the end of something. life is the one thing we no control over. the gift that we have is to be able to review videos and DVDs. you may ask your parents to find a catalog named Rhino records. one of my favorites would be Ahmad Jamal

[shoobupshoobup]

@JustDontThinkTwice Honest, they're not. Some of them haven't been born yet. Think of that!

[zachattacknao]

@shoobupshoobup well said

[michiel2047]

@JustDontThinkTwice htey aren't all dead. You just have to know where to look :)

[nessajax]

I love music... and although i am 16 years old and i normally hear hip hop and techno, this is a great music! louis armstrong is one of the best musicers i have ever seen...

(ps. maybe my english is bad because i come from germany)

[cw1310]

By the way this kind of music ( jazz) is very popular in Germany.

[duncanjazz]

Amazing!! That last note..!!!!!!!!

[aztiff]

Astonishing!

[FISHMUSIC4U]

Hot sound quality AND a HOTTT recording

from an ETERNAL horn master

Smokin ala '62!!

[mikeferr107]

WOW. That was mindblowing. It's hard to believe that this was shot just 8 years before I was born. God, I'm old. None the less, what an AWESOME performance!!

[Beemerboy324]

Country Joe McDonald's original inspiration.

It's one, two, three, what are we fightin' for.

[sillydream1969]

the real grandfather of rock an rolllllllll.

[tfonz71]

BA DA & BA DA BUMP

[baritonioX]

POPS is TOPS

[kristianlinck]

Dang when i listen to this my leg wont stop jumping around :o

[krupa500]

Whoa...love the way they just launch back into that beautiful theme at 1:19. Smooth and inspired!

[Shawtygurl86]

stop fightin' !

I am a naughty? ho! pE

[davnkatz]

Love that bass solo. I'm 72 and hope to be able to learn that technique before I die. Really great version (early Louis can't be beat).

[TheSunGotBrighter]

That's very inspirational!

I hate when people give up on their interests when they become seniors because they think they are going to die soon. It is never too late!

[bn3at]

who's the Tbone player??

[optiguytomgmail]

I believe it's Trummy Young. Never seen him, but I think that's the sound. Very underrated... beautiful accompaniment!

[ARMYMan92]

Yep! =]

Thats Definately Trummy!

Great Trombonist!

[daffydoug]

What an incredible piece of musical history!

[9652584]

Trummy always plays great - of course, but have you heard the Town Hall Concert record of Louis doing this tune with Jack Teagarden on bone? Not shabby, either!!

[005davidragon]

i was in new orleans with my dad and i said "you know what we should do?" he said

"The muskrat ramble!"

and whenever that happened whoever said "you know what we should do?" had to hum the entire song before they got to talk again. good times...

he got to see Louis Armstrong... lucky guy...

Satchmo's music will live forever.

[kywarbler]

Thankyou skitdat! 8)

[Paintpower]

louie and the boys knocking it out

[jozefien40]

Just one word for it : MASTERCLASS

Thank's skitdat for posting this video

[hehehe6022]

What happened to the Lyrics?

[Colsey]

they don't need vocals!! there playing speaks loud and clear!! amazing!!

[millsbrothers]

HE SANG THE LYRICS WITH BING CROSBY

[lennhart]

I was lucky enough to have been able to see Louis in person once. The memory of that will stay with me. Thanks for posting this...simply awesome!

[jazztrmpr94]

This song is awesome!!

[bukaruk]

fyi down by the riverside is an old song... 'negro spiritual' if u will. the timing here seems to match with that song more or less, with Louis jazzing it up and putting a whole lot on top of it of course =)

[ml1326]

sensational. trummy is definitely underrated.

[jaspervanpelt]

I agree, Trummy is the best there is. Listen for example to his highly original fills on the break. Couldn't be played better!

[Lotrompetista]

XD Down by the riverside!

Great musicians!

[mhr2608]

"down by the river side" HAHAHA! don't know why they sing that, and i don't know why i find it so funny...

[insideofitall]

The guy on clarinet gets a kick out of it too.

[millsbrothers]

do you hear the strain Trummy played?

[GOTIRES]

billy kyle is amazing on piano.

[ohprettyboy]

wow, Louis Armstrong.. my inspiration

[quakx047]

W're happy people that we can see now all this music.

I live in Thailand There is not so much jazz But I have now Youtube and people like Skitdat

Thanks

[tbcass]

Compare this to Armstrong's version from the 20's. This is more uptempo and swings hard unlike the old version which has a more "umpa" 1 2 feel. I guess it's 2/4 time compared to 4/4 time.

[Simnator92]

I played this for grade 4 exam this year but so much different... this is brill

[consanna]

This is tempo. This is a ramble. So many renditions of Muskrat Ramble are so slow.

[tdub1941]

Weren't they fantastic! YESSSSS !!!!!

[surlylicious]

that was great! thanks for posting it!

[ngassalogy]

after listening to this you could see that satchmo had everthing years back , he could just touch it when he needed to.i mean the music.

[davjazzer]

Great Clip-Pops sonds Wonderful!-That's Billy Cronk on Bass(formerly with the Dorseys)and Joe Darensbourg on Clarinet(Creole New Orleans Musician).

[pupulehapa]

don't forget Billy Kyle on Piano, Trummy Young on Trombone, and Danny Barcelona on Drums

[Dippermouth]

WOW! This is from a two-part German TV show, "The Satchmo Story"...it was filmed May 15, 1962 and aired on October 3 (Part 2 was filmed the following day and aired May 16). I have waited to see clips from this special for years because it featured Pops playing some stuff he didn't play with the All Stars anymore ("Dippermouth Blues," "Mahogany Hall Stomp" and the already posted incredible clip of "Canal Street"). Whatever you have of this, please post it!

[tbcass]

Great Band. Who are the musicians?