Count Basie - fast and happy blues

[VjArkiv]

)))*!*(((

[rockntroopen]

wow first time i listen to these guys.. fantastic!

[Elitios]

so many legends lined up.. it's almost scary

[johnnysax105]

jimmy rushing one of my favs 2

[sdh74]

I actually own this DVD. It's somewhat of a jip because they completely edited out Thelonius Monk's segment. Perhaps you saw where he was playing and Count Basie was sitting in the well of the piano? In any event this is from a 1957 CBS TV special.

[MortenBoHansen]

50-52 is HAPPY notes! :d

[MrPetepohl1]

We will Never see musicians of this class again, SUPERB

[TheHirn12345]

hahaha look at the trumpet at " 01:26 " ...theres smoke commin out of the trumpet!!

thats a smokin solo....

[TheHirn12345]

hahaha look at the trumpet at 01:26 ...theres smoke commin out of the trumpet!!

thats a smokin solo....

[martin1226]

Amazing music. Everyone has the biggest sh_t -eating grin! So fun.

[someonespadre]

I suspect these guys enjoy their jobs.

[Matek0012]

love at how the trumpet solo starts of with smoke coming out of the trumpet.

[searcherboy]

Great post. This was truly an 'all star' band, assembled for this particular broadcast. Hawkins, Webster and Mulligan, playing saw together on the same gig! And Jo Jones!

I like Jo Jones' obvious enjoyment of Basie's stride solo at 2:00.

[valvetrom]

Basie's beautiful stride

[memphis148]

Bitchin trumpet solo.

And I usually hate trumpet solos.

[SuperChemicaleRa]

stink xD

[ivanovickr]

Se pasaron,, esta atascadisimo.. ..

[Pferdekopfnebel]

Question: I know very old movies are sped up due to less fps.

What about this one? And what about the sound?

[MapleD2]

Whats up with the powder coming out of the trumpet at 1:28 lol?

[Ogsonofgroo]

@MapleD2 Its so the mute doesn't stick.... :)

[robchalfen]

this is a kinescope, '59 would have been video, so i'd say '57 or before

[prendiegirl916]

ok, I think my great uncle joe wilder is in this video,but i can't find him...

[kitmenkin]

Little Jimmy Rushing---"Sent for Your Yesterday and Here You Come Today"

[fillra]

Apparently this was a rehearsal tape. I saw this (or something very similar) in the late fifties. It started with Basie alone, who was then joined by soloists, one by one. Amazing.

"Open All Night" (aka "Fast and Happy Blues"): Emmett Berry, Doc Cheatham, Joe Newman, Joe Wilder (tp); Roy Eldridge (tp, flhn); Vic Dickinson, Benny Morton, Dicky Wells (tb); Earl Warren (as); Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster (ts); Gerry Mulligan (bs); Count Basie (p); Freddie Green (g); Eddie Jones (b); Jo Jones (d)

[fillra]

That's Joe Williams (1918-1999), blues- style vocalist with Basie from the early 1950s until 1961, then rejoined in 1974 until Basie's death in 1984.

Try a youtube search, also allaboutjazz.

[jmkism]

Nothing can compare to this! Nothing.  Absolutely amazing. From Mister 5 by 5, to Coleman Hawkins--Jo Jones, et. al., these guys were the best that jazz ever had ( but for Coltrane).

[keython301]

that joint at 1:27 was tight

idk how that happened

[fillra]

keython, I assume that the smoking bit was pre-arranged, a party-trick. He'd take a huge drag on his cigarette (or joint) just before his solo, then blow hard into his horn. They all look stoned anyway.

[milesito]

is smoke really coming out of Newman's trumpet?

[davidking56]

There's a flugelhorn sticking up in the middle of the trumpet section. could it be Clark Terry?

[liljohnreplogle]

No it's Roy Eldridge actually. How you doing Dave? :)

[JohnColtraneTunes]

Coleman Hawkin is a true great !

[rayjr62]

I think this was pulled from that CBS TV special- TV Producer / Jazz fanatic Robert Herridge did a "live" TV special with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as well. I think Theolonius Monk and Ahmad Jamal performed as well. It aired in the late spring of 1959.

[kitmenkin]

Yes, in the very beginning when Basie

opens up it is Theolonius in shades in

the background!!!!

[Bumptiously]

@rayjr62 Herridge was uncompromising enough to do a 3 part adaptation of Dostoyevsky, on TV, with only one actor and a chair. Imagine that on TV today ! For his jazz presentations, he insisted on "No Set/Backdrop" and "dress as you would for a rehearsal". Collaborator Nat Hentoff says, " That meant most of the musicians wore their hats...[bringing] Benny Carter to excoriate me for letting those jazzmen into living rooms all over America with their hats on." (Dignity was REALLY important.)

[rayjr62]

@Bumptiously Such a program would never get made, let alone aired today. Not enough tittilation. Moreover, it would never be profitable enough for the "Harvards" who run the networks.

[MrSoran]

Mulligan. AM I RIGHT?

What a burnin' vid. love these guys

[Jazzman303]

at 1:27-28 is that smoke coming out of his trumpet. Does he take a hit of his cigarette right before the solo?

[sayyes2bull]

for edie. i love you!

[musicboox]

nice nice, I lööve it!