Count Basie - I left my baby

[icipicimuci333]

Where can I find this lyrics?

[GeneralFork1Over]

This is the most jazzy jazz I have ever heard and jazzed to. Absolutely fantastic.

[maestrop1ease]

I didn't know Coleman Hawkins was in this!

[Bix12]

Wow--what a line-up. Can you imagine being around to catch these cats live?! Damn...that must've been the absolute living end.

[JOHNNY4RIVELS]

that it absalut Jazz Sound.

[nigel1034]

I'm guessing this was on the Sound of Jazz?

[ssg263]

wow....thanks for sharing.  do you know what year this is?

[ElLeonMusical]

Who's the trombone player???

[danylongshaft]

DIcky wells , and i think Vic may be sitting in to ....whata fucking line up lol

[brewereric]

whos on guitar...i wanna say charlie christan but im not sure???? any thoughts

[stcyrist]

it's Freddie Green.

[brewereric]

ty ty,

the fact that you cared to reply means alot to me, this is just the most infectious music ever created....now im going to learn more about freddy green....ty ty so much

[stcyrist]

Hi brewereric,

if you want to learn to play like Freddie Green look for a booklet "Swing& Big Band Guitar" Charlton Johnson used to play for quite a while with the Basie Orchestra as a guitarist. It comes with a DVD and has lots of excellent practises. Have a good time!

[brewereric]

cool beans man thanks.....it sure beats mel bey...omg remember those books...ty again...the thought was heartfelt...the flashy stuff gets kinda boring....freddie is a old school chop master...again ty

[drafe007]

wow! great comment mannumber7 did you write that yourself?

[mannumber7]

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a great art they did produce, such were the times, those halcyon days of yore-these were true musicians -when the men played music from somewhere unknown deep inside, and they discovered truth. Musical reality. Never seen before - or, sadly, after.

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Hardly a dry eye in the club after that one I bet you.

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This is insanely good; I'm moved.

[drafe007]

great, comment i loved the poetical quaility of it.

[brewereric]

I do agree

no one to copy from or mimmick...interesting comment my friend. my grand father used to play this song alot, said he saw him right before going to war in "41" it hit him as he watched somewhere in harlem, that in 23 days hed be leaving my gram's basically in the backdoor crying. they drank and were ft dix bound to leave for itialy. he made it back with enough zest to dance when he played this song. .check roomful of blues...their rendition

[KROGERSGROUP]

nice comment but i have to say there were people to copy from..maybe people that you never heard of. but they did the same thing musicians do..learn from records,etc.maybe it wasn't this style of music but they would learn songs and incorporate it into their playing and then add their embellishments... the great Clark terry said..the way to learn this music and just like him and everyone else has done..

imitate,,emulate,,,and then innovate!!!

[brewereric]

well maybe in a way, what i mean is like traditional blues and the likeness it had to traditial folk music from mali. like 1912-1928 jazz the soul of a musician is to create back then there were no louie armstrong tribute bands...ya know.

like creating along the theme but not duplicating others work....thats what i meant. like the standard robert johnson sweet home chicago...sure charlie patton invented it but eric claptons not remaking his stuff.....later

[brewereric]

i always say...the best music is the stuff that was never recorded.....if I had a time travel mach i know what id do with it...lol the prob is that id better keep my mouth shut cause im sure id be killed before i got back to the dam thing...it was much harder for black folk back then....maybe thats why the music was so deep this is the real deal not that crap the white chaps were trying to sell as race music back in the 20's and 30s, i say that respectfully im bi racial

[beat80cj]

@brewereric Same thing happened in the late 40's and 50's era, a lot of songs were stolen, and some sung by Elvis Presley. Elvis was in no ways better than Little Richard or several others. Pat Boone stole some too. The originals were much better, a whole lot more heart in them. Little Richard and a few others were the real kings of Rock and Roll. Jazz should be played the same way, with a lot of heart.

[jazzbox72]

I agree with the warwolf 100 %!

[warwolfii]

These days any sod who can play three chords on a guitar thinks he's a musician. Back then you had to "pay your dues." These guys mastered their craft through years of hard work on the road, in towns where they weren't welcome off the bandstand. They were the best...the best.

[ari1234a]

Those times guys knew how play. Tell me a band that swings as hard as they ?

They even had a bass player who smokes a pipe !

I think that J Rushing was mean guy, just leave his baby like that.

[jarlque]

Wow, what a gem; this is the best! Thanks for sharing this!