I've loved this tune since I first heard it about 45 years ago. Thanks LdnQueen for posting the slooooow version, the version with finesse, panache, sweetness, joy, and love. I've just listened to it for about ten times in a row, and my ears feel like they've died and gone to heaven.
To all you enlightened friends that have labeled me an idiot (cool...let's see you get out of your pathetic driveway with that moniker) Plus, don't even know where the venom is from. But I don't really care.... in fact....let's plat marty robbins!
@minter74 In Ken Burns' Jazz on PBS, Quincy Jones pointed out that Hefti composed this tune as an uptempo number and this is how he originally rehearsed it with the Band. Basie was perceptive enough to see the possibilities that would be realized if the tune was dramatically slowed down. The rest as they say, is history.
my band teacher told me today that this song reminds him of smooth hot fudge dripping down and ice cream sundae. maybe i should mention that my band teacher is also my schools wrestling coach. beautiful song...
This is one of the hardest pieces that I have ever played. This is played badly by so many bands because all they do is play the notes on the paper. If you took this to a contest and made any mistake, it would be scrutinized tremendously.
This song shows how great the Basie Band was. They soud amazing on slow, soft songs like this, and amazing on loud, fast, screamer songs like "Splanky."
This song was the one that the APOLLO THEATER used when the curtains would open up and the band came up from the floor. It was the APOLLO's theme song!
@swordlord285 you are retarded, the beauty in this tune is that it swings hard and has meaning in this and the chords and articulation and phrasing, not all good music is fast, grow up, listen to some jazz, or don't irritate everyone else with your ignorant comments.
40 yrs old…and I never had the pleasure of knowing Count Basie until the day after my Mom passed. My family is still recovering from that loss but every time I long for my mother’s voice…I play this song. Beverly Cronin passed away in the night with her beloved husband Jim right by her side, along with all seven children encircling. I am, and will always be Beverly’s baby boy…and God how I miss her! We all do.
I stil think this is CB's greatest ever. How they manage to make it swing with such a stict tmepo is fantastic surely of of Neal Heftis finest. pieces. Anybody who does like this is crazy!. I have an original "The Atomic Mr Basie LP's and will never sell it. Thanks for posting
Bravo to my Great Uncle Wendell Culley who played many years in Count Basie's Band! Love this song...I can feel the spirit of it and I dedicate this song back to you...You are credited with this song, and I can see why...RIP Uncle Wendie
@yportermoore2010 Crikey ! Your Great Uncle played with Count Basie - you must be incredibly proud. I saw Count Basie in the UK very late60's or early 70's with a white English R&B singer called Georgie Fame. Wonder if your Uncle was in that band then? Damn hard number to play 'cos there is the temptation to rush it - well on drums anyway. Actually it is probaly 'cos I wasnt very good !!
My Father gave me one of greatest gifts- ever! He shared his song with me...I will never forget it. It represents A lifetime of love for my Dad's wife, my mother, our world! This is...and will always be my Father's song. A tribute to more than 50 years of love, dedication, and devotion to one of the greatest examples of how to make a family...of how to enjoy life, and how to make a marriage like no other. I miss Mom, but I will never compare my loss to what it's like for you. I love you Dad!
Word for absolute word ...I agree. The only exception is that my Mom is still alive.
Sunday mornings. Slamming Screen doors. Summer of '67. Fireflies and Daddy.
This is what I will always remember most. Warm wishes to you jumper. Coming from a place where few have been privileged to have gone. Boy were we ever lucky!
on my way home today and was n rush hr traffic. i just happend to have the station on jazz. this song came on. never heard it before today. it is so beautiful. had to add it to my favorites.
@clmccaffrey Saw Count Basie Orchestra at Blues Alley in DC recently. Best I've ever heard them. What did it cost to hire the Basie Band for one night back then?
This was my lullaby when I was a kid for years. The jazz station played it every night and I wouldn't go to sleep until I heard it. It's my heart. So beautiful.
Wonderful composition - I think this is the theme song for Don Kennedy's BIG BAND JUMP radio program. You owe it to yourself to listen to a remarkable a capella version of Lil' Darlin' by The Real Group, also available on YouTube.
I could have sworn I saw Count Basie play this on Playboy After Dark back in the 60's. Does anyone have any recolection of that? I was just a kid back then and not supposed to be seaking a peek at the show, but the music was always so cool...
I think of this as a baby's lullaby. If you can't imagine holding your grandbaby and rocking her/him, you've got a way to go to understand how to play it. This is tenderness and love expressed magnificently.
i am also bass bone in my hs jazz band, and if its easy your not playing it right. it doesnt go especially high or low, but making a chart that was originally written as a swinger sound like a ballad takes a lot of effort.
@MJTTOMB So true , so sweet, if you master this timing. with a whole big bandit still brings tears to my eyes, you must have a very confident way of playing even simple crotchets, with space in between
@MJTTOMB Very well said. Caring for each note is what bind them together. Then, notes a becoming a language who tell us something signifiant which can be unterstood by our heart. It's all about doing things right...
Essa música é muuuuuito boa,brasileiros ouçam Count Basie,esta música em particular é tremendament.linda...Linda melodia,tempo incrível,q.tempo é esse nessa música me digam?Sonzera...
Thank you. I really needed that. For someone reason in my family they just ignore the fact that he died and dont talk about him at all, to avoid having to face it. So im doing it alone and its really hard.
This was my grandpa's favorite song and everytime i hear it I think of him. He died this year on september 7th and i took it really hard he was the first person that was close to me to have died. I was really close to him and the only connection i have with him now, is Jazz (because he introduced me to it when i was little) particularly this song. So thank you for posting this.
Awesome! I am 6th grade though... In the Eckstein MS jazz band (if you have ever heard of our school. We compete a lot across the country). I love jazz.
oh really that's cool! I agree. It is such a nice song! what instrument did you play on it? I have the piano part (so i have tons of solos!). We have a competition this friday which is also against highschool jazz bands (i am in middle school). I'm really excitited!
Neal Hefti wrote "Lil Darlin" in 1958. You can check numerous sources to confirm that, including ASCAP (Title Code: 420040057). He arranged the song for Count Basie.
Wow. My middle school jazz band is playing this song for our next concert!! i play the piano on it and my part's really hard! But nobody can perfect it as well as this.... so relaxing too.... itz nice to know somebody that appreciates really good jazz, since most ppl are more in2 rock and rap and pop (not saying i don't like it, too) but ppl should listen to this stuff more often i think... nice.
we have a jazz band and i am little kid and we sound nothing like this we suck at this song and we have to do this for festevil so its like epic fail and i am leader of it D:
Well good for your attempt! Don't be hard on yourself or compare yourself to one of the great legends of jazz, Count Basie. I'm sure he would tell you to keep you head up and keep swinging!
I think I like this so much because it does not NEED words. I have heard several vocal versions and disliked them all. This needs to be done WITHOUT words.
First time I heard it, it was accompaniment to a wonderful ice-skating pair in competition.. The skaters performed as though they were made of rubber and of courses the judges did NOT like them. But I thought the combination was wonderful. jenny_6664
this truly is sonic nutrition, thanks for pointing it out J-man....i cant wait to play it for my girlfriend, she loves this stuff as much as me. She can tell miles from coltrane. ;)
I absolutely agree, I just been puttin brushes to this, its a very special groove, requiring the most subtle brush nuances....fantastic arrangement, we love you Mr. Hefty, but Count Basie gave the royal flush with this one. God bless, and those final chords....to die for, thanks LDN Queen for posting.
Yeah the whole band just coast like a balloon in the sky. LDn Queen has an eclectic taste in music, check the tunes she picked, a very nice variety for someone so young. Thanks LDn Queen, post some more.
Yes, pimlico2cv, The Count Basie version IS the dreamiest version of Lil Darlin. I don't like to hear it "marched thru" but, actually Neal wrote it to be played much more up tempo but 'the count' wanted it slow. I also heard Mr. Hefti originally wrote it for his daughter. I also LOVE Frances Wayne, Neal's beloved, late wife! She was a fabulous singer Neal met when they were both with Woody Herman near the start of both their careers. Her Lps are still out there! You will love her! Cheryl
Cheryl...sorry to pass on the info, that Neal's daughter, Marguerita, passed away in, if memory serves me correctley, 1997. She was an MD (ObGyn). I communicate with Paul, her brother, on a regu;lar basis. He's still devastated about it.
Should have added that the night prior to Neal's death (Oct 11, 2008), he took his son and daughter-in-law out to dinner. Was in very good spirits. When he didn't answer the telephone the next morning, they rushed to the house, where they found Neal sitting on a chair, with the telephone in his hand.
Wow, this takes me back. For a short time in the early 80's, I was the lead trombonist in the Wood River Valley Orchestra, a big band comprised of AFA Local 474 musicians in the Sun Valley, ID area. Lil' Darling was in our book. A tennis/ski instructor played the trumpet solo, and, man, he could swing. Neal Hefti wrote some of THE BEST big band compositions and arrangements, and they will live one. He may not be a household hame, but Neal Hefti was a real American Master.
Amen to that, we used to Nail this in High school, our band teacher was so strict, we took it to Iowa state band competition and aced it, i have always been so moved by this piece, even when i was 17 and without a clue, something about that groove man.
Lil' Darlin is perhaps the dreamiest of all the Neal Hefti compositions. I love it and I so enjoyed listening to it here tonight! Thank you Mr. Hefti for decades of gorgeous and HAPPY music, that has enriched the lives of countless listeners! You are totally irreplacable! I miss you already. With so much love and thanks, Cheryl Morris Monteiro
This is really nice!!! The first time I have heard this song, it was a very nice rendition by Take 6. This is so much better! Thank you for posting this one.
wow... this is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard! and the fact its done by Basie's band makes it even better!
and i have no idea y people say the saxes r out of tune... unless im deaf i think they sound awesome! and being a sax player myself, i think i would know lol :P
An elegant, romantic instrumental version of one of the greatest tunes ever composed. Count Basie is without a doubt an all-time great of 20th century music legends.
My jazz band is playing this, along with Splanky. My teacher is obsessed with Count Basie apparently.
NionCraft 3 days ago
Classy with werfect pace.....super cool & exquisite on the ears!...
SimonNoina 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
This subtle, classy, fabulous sound will never be duplicated. Len Mead
MeadLen 3 weeks ago
Wonderful wonderful music. More please from this muse.
chrisclement2006 4 weeks ago
It has something that makes you listen to it over & over.
HeidiEbK 1 month ago
I feel like im playing Fallout
movieboy6 2 months ago
aaaaahhh man, nearly melted in my seat
yoimlo 2 months ago
I play this tune on solo guitar and it is the hardest tune due to keeping the tempo, it is a test in patience
mwjazzman 3 months ago
I love this joint...I had it on CD and lost it 5 years ago...this puts me in a mellow mood...
MrTonyCejas 4 months ago
One of my all-time favorites! I couldn't remember the name, but just stumbled across it here! Thnks much, LdnQueen!
Bemused111 5 months ago
I just want this to go on forever!!
pricesel1 5 months ago
woah! thanks for upload!!
HeeCat00 5 months ago
I've loved this tune since I first heard it about 45 years ago. Thanks LdnQueen for posting the slooooow version, the version with finesse, panache, sweetness, joy, and love. I've just listened to it for about ten times in a row, and my ears feel like they've died and gone to heaven.
gfasolino 6 months ago
" Dios Bendiga tu Alma "
Gracias Basie.
21/08/1904 - 28/07/2011.-
selene2302 6 months ago
To all you enlightened friends that have labeled me an idiot (cool...let's see you get out of your pathetic driveway with that moniker) Plus, don't even know where the venom is from. But I don't really care.... in fact....let's plat marty robbins!
minter74 7 months ago
The "kid" from Red Bank,NJ - more like the GENIUS from Red Bank,NJ
One of my all time favourites
mb19512002 7 months ago
his arranger also wrote this...Neil Hefti.
minter74 8 months ago
@minter74 In Ken Burns' Jazz on PBS, Quincy Jones pointed out that Hefti composed this tune as an uptempo number and this is how he originally rehearsed it with the Band. Basie was perceptive enough to see the possibilities that would be realized if the tune was dramatically slowed down. The rest as they say, is history.
ecapital46 7 months ago
THE COUNT ; the swingiest band in the world fast or slow with panache. Big band swing, BASIE you will live forever.
sylvia6918 8 months ago
This is what the word "beautiful" means!
johnrlamkin2 8 months ago
Maybe it's the good news day
UltimateJazzyQuintet 8 months ago
My school jazz band is doing this song!
TheIzzysteve 8 months ago
One of the greatest songs of all time. What a version this is!
sumrexdiscus4u 1 year ago
this song is the perfect test of patience. thats the hardest part about it
not rushing it
punkout7 1 year ago 18
my band teacher told me today that this song reminds him of smooth hot fudge dripping down and ice cream sundae. maybe i should mention that my band teacher is also my schools wrestling coach. beautiful song...
Graymanz 1 year ago
This is one of the hardest pieces that I have ever played. This is played badly by so many bands because all they do is play the notes on the paper. If you took this to a contest and made any mistake, it would be scrutinized tremendously.
CmrnNxn 1 year ago
@CmrnNxn That's part of the problem is they can't count. It's that tempo of not too fast, not too slow. It's easy to rush.
clinto5 2 months ago
Playing this song in Band :)
RettroTopp 1 year ago
Silky smooth. The horns breath as one.
MrJungleWarrior 1 year ago
5 people were born with no souls
Zuien 1 year ago
@Zuien dont worry, them doesn't know what they say.
nandoabdalla 1 year ago
This song reminds me of my first love....Thank you for posting this.
noirtriptyline 1 year ago
A true Masterpiece-"Little Darlin" My father's favorite and my favorite too
creolelady182 1 year ago
This song shows how great the Basie Band was. They soud amazing on slow, soft songs like this, and amazing on loud, fast, screamer songs like "Splanky."
jlmullett 1 year ago
This song was the one that the APOLLO THEATER used when the curtains would open up and the band came up from the floor. It was the APOLLO's theme song!
VideoalAZ 1 year ago
you know, i play the clarinet and in jazz band we have to play this song!
Kintama171 1 year ago
The trumpet in this is so sexy, I love it.
Critchie23 1 year ago
@Critchie23 You got to be mature enough not to get faster, you got to be as cool as
doctor who watches a pretty patient undress
valvetrom 1 year ago
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Critchie23 1 year ago
@swordlord285 you are retarded, the beauty in this tune is that it swings hard and has meaning in this and the chords and articulation and phrasing, not all good music is fast, grow up, listen to some jazz, or don't irritate everyone else with your ignorant comments.
alexisjazzsax 1 year ago 2
Beautiful!!!
PChemato 1 year ago
have to learn this for my school band, god its soo slow, if your out of tune its the worst!!
swordlord285 1 year ago
warm and playful as the title suggests. beautiful and casual as i would imagine from my favorite artist
dano112311 1 year ago
I played this with the jazz band not too long ago,
And i fell in love with it instantly.
This will forever be one of my favorites.
MooCow697 1 year ago
I remember this from my middle school jazz band days. I thought this was the most beautiful song I'd ever heard.
MissGenius3847 1 year ago
mmmmm i remember playin dis in my bandgeek dayz. nice song.
mrpadrote1001 1 year ago
Brings tears to my eyes because of the perfect relaxed timing and those #9 chords
valvetrom 1 year ago
40 yrs old…and I never had the pleasure of knowing Count Basie until the day after my Mom passed. My family is still recovering from that loss but every time I long for my mother’s voice…I play this song. Beverly Cronin passed away in the night with her beloved husband Jim right by her side, along with all seven children encircling. I am, and will always be Beverly’s baby boy…and God how I miss her! We all do.
jumpercronin 1 year ago 3
This music always has the same effect everytime I hear it! Marvellous for a slow dance I could listen toit all night
fairyqueenize
fairyqueenize 1 year ago
I stil think this is CB's greatest ever. How they manage to make it swing with such a stict tmepo is fantastic surely of of Neal Heftis finest. pieces. Anybody who does like this is crazy!. I have an original "The Atomic Mr Basie LP's and will never sell it. Thanks for posting
bigcat178 1 year ago
@bigcat178 This piece is great, you should listen to for lena and lennie, its another nice slow swinging piece very similiar to this one
alextheman12345 1 year ago
The 4 people who dislikes this must either be brainless or a total idiot!
HongLJ 1 year ago
This is one of the greatest songs ever composed. Count's orchestra is really on top of their game on this song.
sumrexsucsid1 1 year ago
Bravo to my Great Uncle Wendell Culley who played many years in Count Basie's Band! Love this song...I can feel the spirit of it and I dedicate this song back to you...You are credited with this song, and I can see why...RIP Uncle Wendie
yportermoore2010 1 year ago
@yportermoore2010 Crikey ! Your Great Uncle played with Count Basie - you must be incredibly proud. I saw Count Basie in the UK very late60's or early 70's with a white English R&B singer called Georgie Fame. Wonder if your Uncle was in that band then? Damn hard number to play 'cos there is the temptation to rush it - well on drums anyway. Actually it is probaly 'cos I wasnt very good !!
campyoldie 1 year ago
My Father gave me one of greatest gifts- ever! He shared his song with me...I will never forget it. It represents A lifetime of love for my Dad's wife, my mother, our world! This is...and will always be my Father's song. A tribute to more than 50 years of love, dedication, and devotion to one of the greatest examples of how to make a family...of how to enjoy life, and how to make a marriage like no other. I miss Mom, but I will never compare my loss to what it's like for you. I love you Dad!
jumpercronin 1 year ago
@jumpercron
Word for absolute word ...I agree. The only exception is that my Mom is still alive.
Sunday mornings. Slamming Screen doors. Summer of '67. Fireflies and Daddy.
This is what I will always remember most. Warm wishes to you jumper. Coming from a place where few have been privileged to have gone. Boy were we ever lucky!
TheMsNarcissa 1 year ago 3
Es algo impresionante el TEMPO de esta interpretación, que genera un deseo intenso de completar la frase musical.
COUNT BASIE: TODO UN GIGANTE !
interesa@hotmail.com
interesa1 1 year ago
this might be one of the hardest styles to cop... laying back so much when the tempo's already so laid back... so hip
tajto 1 year ago 2
on my way home today and was n rush hr traffic. i just happend to have the station on jazz. this song came on. never heard it before today. it is so beautiful. had to add it to my favorites.
itsmister2u 1 year ago
This is why God granted you the gift of ears.
wlipman 1 year ago 21
Ouch, 1:57 is really painful. If you're gonna play that slowly, play in tune...
Bergunthera 1 year ago
J'aime particuliérement ce standart de count basie très nostalgique et très romantique !Quel grand Jazzman !
hggarlot 1 year ago
I'm so happy the Essentially Ellington Festival has included Basie
vcosner 1 year ago
@vcosner it has?! since when?! this might help my chances of my band director letting the jazz band audition...
SuperCMajor 1 year ago
@SuperCMajor just for next year
vcosner 1 year ago
I hired Count Basie to do a dance once...all I did all nite was stand next to 'the man', watch and listen...remember it like it was yesterday
clmccaffrey 1 year ago 3
@clmccaffrey Saw Count Basie Orchestra at Blues Alley in DC recently. Best I've ever heard them. What did it cost to hire the Basie Band for one night back then?
CribNotes 1 year ago
I got to hear the orchestra perform this in person. It was an awesome experience.
dmarcheta 1 year ago
This was my lullaby when I was a kid for years. The jazz station played it every night and I wouldn't go to sleep until I heard it. It's my heart. So beautiful.
dmarcheta 1 year ago
Wonderful composition - I think this is the theme song for Don Kennedy's BIG BAND JUMP radio program. You owe it to yourself to listen to a remarkable a capella version of Lil' Darlin' by The Real Group, also available on YouTube.
rmk811 1 year ago
I could have sworn I saw Count Basie play this on Playboy After Dark back in the 60's. Does anyone have any recolection of that? I was just a kid back then and not supposed to be seaking a peek at the show, but the music was always so cool...
edcasanova2003 1 year ago
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berral 1 year ago
God, how beautiful...
7jack7 1 year ago 10
We Play this in stage band!! :D
DatFoootanaryBaby 1 year ago
@DatFoootanaryBaby same!
aidange2 1 year ago
@DatFoootanaryBaby so do we (Y)
aidange2 1 year ago
when you *think* you know how to lay it back.... come and listen to this song.
;)
notbendable 1 year ago 5
I think of this as a baby's lullaby. If you can't imagine holding your grandbaby and rocking her/him, you've got a way to go to understand how to play it. This is tenderness and love expressed magnificently.
fredjuergens 1 year ago
@fredjuergens I was my lullaby for many years. indeed....
dmarcheta 1 year ago
oh God. i played this in my jazz band in HS and it was sooo.... sooo... slow... Then we got to play whirlybird.... Exact opposite.
timsk 1 year ago
lmao last year i played the bari part in this song too
izayzay980 1 year ago
We're playing this in my jazz band I have the bari sax part, it's one of my favorite songs we've played in jazz band.
grommit93 2 years ago 2
@grommit93 LOL!!!! were playing this in band tooand im playing the bari sax part too!!!! lol
fromdisarm 2 years ago
personally i don't really like this piece but to each his own hey.
packerfanbd1995 2 years ago
This discussion gives me hope for the future of Jazz, Music & Humankind.
As for diffaculty, would agree that this is an easy arrangement. Its also one of the most musically demanding pieces out there.
Keep listening. Keep playing.
fredrobinson1955 2 years ago 2
the FIRST jazz song I ever played...10th grade high school.
:-)
aztechuhs 2 years ago
I've just been introduced to the music of the Count. Wow....! It has blown my mind....!
Nchrist3541 2 years ago 3
..........meow!
lloron74 2 years ago
iam playing this song in my high school jazz band easy. bass trombone
aj777vxz 2 years ago
i am also bass bone in my hs jazz band, and if its easy your not playing it right. it doesnt go especially high or low, but making a chart that was originally written as a swinger sound like a ballad takes a lot of effort.
samestforte 2 years ago
@samestforte i am paliyng it right
aj777vxz 2 years ago
Nothing's easy if you're doing it right. If you think it's easy, you're missing the subtleties and the nuances and you're just playing the notes.
MJTTOMB 2 years ago 37
@MJTTOMB So true , so sweet, if you master this timing. with a whole big bandit still brings tears to my eyes, you must have a very confident way of playing even simple crotchets, with space in between
valvetrom 1 year ago
@MJTTOMB i quite disagree. everything is very easy,but not everyone is capable
TheKolosd 1 year ago
@MJTTOMB Very well said. Caring for each note is what bind them together. Then, notes a becoming a language who tell us something signifiant which can be unterstood by our heart. It's all about doing things right...
karitea 5 months ago
This is really nice. Check out the version by Fourplay. It swings without cable baby....
pullom19 2 years ago
ahaha yes, trumpet band geek!!
me too
1234REM4321 2 years ago
this one reminds me of my days as a band geek. used to play trumpet.
eljinetetriste 2 years ago
I always think of this one as a big warm musical blanket that I can curl up into
themonkeymorton 2 years ago 3
YOU SAID IT！ A Big Warm Musical Blanket！ I like that.
ChangeSona 2 years ago
wow. Play out of tune much? Damn basie band lol
spikedude001 2 years ago
I had this song in my head all day but couldn't figure out the name. But I knew it was Neal Hefti. Beautiful!
monkey747 2 years ago
lovely muted trumpet fromWendell Culley
farelf59 2 years ago
This is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. I like other versions I have hear, but this is the best.
1sucsidxermus 2 years ago
im playing this with my sax band.. i play the baritone
TenaciousFuckYou 2 years ago
Oooo Nice :)
I love baritone
hoping to buy one in the near future
i play alto and tenor and clarinet occasionally
chadflaps 2 years ago
Bari sax is the only sax. Bass is the momma and Contra bass is the daddy. haha
Flcracker94 2 years ago
its absolutly Hefti and Count.This song brings tears out to dry,its so wonderful!!!
HarunConn 2 years ago 3
one of my favorites
crayyawn 2 years ago 4
JC
you where right an i was sober,sorry.
HarunConn 2 years ago
Nah. NEAL HEFTI is the composer/arranger on this piece.
OtherJC 2 years ago 2
if anybody don`t like this song and this supperb arrangement...he must be dead.
Its nelson Riddle and the absolute combination withh the Count
HarunConn 2 years ago 2
congratulation! you left the best comment here! Holly truth;D
SilvaMorasten 2 years ago
We are playing this in my Jazz Band... going 7th... Iove this song!
DoubleLScience 2 years ago
If you're from this planet you can't help but love this song. Late nights, rainy nights, lazy afternoons in the hammock--it is THE BEST!!!!!!!
prunellapussywuggums 2 years ago
I played the drums for this song, in band. It's A m a z i n g. : D
dcrules1 2 years ago
Oh, so much beautiful memorys with this sweet melody!
Thank you, LdnQueen.
Regards.
6211945 2 years ago
This is one of the smoothest and greatest songs ever composed.
prelude2cinema 2 years ago 3
Extremely laid back and smooth this is a "Classic" among Classic's.
MahoganySoulBrother1 2 years ago 2
Love this song, the feel is just so cool and laidback. Never fails to cheer me up :)
Jakeyboy424 2 years ago 2
One of my Dads favorites, played it at his funeral.Lost the best freind I had,RIP mate.
andyredwatch 2 years ago 2
I had to play this with my jazz band and it was so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!
PSNisCABKID 2 years ago 2
Fantastic and so smooth. Mike
ibew38football 2 years ago
Essa música é muuuuuito boa,brasileiros ouçam Count Basie,esta música em particular é tremendament.linda...Linda melodia,tempo incrível,q.tempo é esse nessa música me digam?Sonzera...
flordogueto 2 years ago
Basie's intro to this has some serious mystery...heavy.
impala327 2 years ago 2
i played this on sax band on baritone im 9th grade!!! beautiful!!!!!
TenaciousFuckYou 2 years ago
Thank you. I really needed that. For someone reason in my family they just ignore the fact that he died and dont talk about him at all, to avoid having to face it. So im doing it alone and its really hard.
frenchie122389 2 years ago
This was my grandpa's favorite song and everytime i hear it I think of him. He died this year on september 7th and i took it really hard he was the first person that was close to me to have died. I was really close to him and the only connection i have with him now, is Jazz (because he introduced me to it when i was little) particularly this song. So thank you for posting this.
frenchie122389 2 years ago 40
Frrenchie he is still with you and will probably reveal that when the time is right,
samadjhi 2 years ago 4
@frenchie122389 sorry to hear about your grandpa. may he rest n peace.
itsmister2u 1 year ago
@frenchie122389 Bless your grand I am 72 and heard thi lovely tune many times
valvetrom 1 year ago
I played this at for District Honor Band and there was a trumpet solo that I have to play it was pretty good
HHSStudent1992 2 years ago
Esse instrumental lindo é indispensável pra quem aprecia uma boa música...
Ouçam,vale a pena!
flordogueto 2 years ago
thank you! i hope you guys did well on your concert (w/ this song)! :)
iluv2dance1296 2 years ago
Awesome! I am 6th grade though... In the Eckstein MS jazz band (if you have ever heard of our school. We compete a lot across the country). I love jazz.
iluv2dance1296 2 years ago
oh really that's cool! I agree. It is such a nice song! what instrument did you play on it? I have the piano part (so i have tons of solos!). We have a competition this friday which is also against highschool jazz bands (i am in middle school). I'm really excitited!
iluv2dance1296 2 years ago
The secret is in the timing, totally relaxed . and those beautiful chords ,halfdiminished going to
7#9, PLAYED SO WELL
valvetrom 2 years ago
So good, but soooo out of tune.
DirtySVStreetFighter 2 years ago
Who is?
Superphilipp 2 years ago
Does anybody know who's composition is it? Don't say Hefti, because it's not. Thanks.
rostik0313 2 years ago
Neal Hefti wrote "Lil Darlin" in 1958. You can check numerous sources to confirm that, including ASCAP (Title Code: 420040057). He arranged the song for Count Basie.
OlePoke 2 years ago
Yeah, it was Hefti, sorry. I just mixed it up with another song. But thanks for searching.
rostik0313 2 years ago
Wow. My middle school jazz band is playing this song for our next concert!! i play the piano on it and my part's really hard! But nobody can perfect it as well as this.... so relaxing too.... itz nice to know somebody that appreciates really good jazz, since most ppl are more in2 rock and rap and pop (not saying i don't like it, too) but ppl should listen to this stuff more often i think... nice.
iluv2dance1296 2 years ago 5
AWESOME BARI PART!!!!!! I play bari in my school's jazz band btw.
nsadri10 2 years ago
That swings so hard! Yet, how relaxed can they get?
monsieuryuck 2 years ago 2
we have a jazz band and i am little kid and we sound nothing like this we suck at this song and we have to do this for festevil so its like epic fail and i am leader of it D:
PookieClan1 2 years ago
Well good for your attempt! Don't be hard on yourself or compare yourself to one of the great legends of jazz, Count Basie. I'm sure he would tell you to keep you head up and keep swinging!
harrisonjazzensemble 2 years ago
What can I say ? This marvellous song played by the greatest of them all. The King of Swing, slow or fast, Count Basie and his Great Orchestra.
P1800Saint 2 years ago
just speachless! What a theme and what a band, OMG!!!!!!
austinhinchey 3 years ago
I think I like this so much because it does not NEED words. I have heard several vocal versions and disliked them all. This needs to be done WITHOUT words.
First time I heard it, it was accompaniment to a wonderful ice-skating pair in competition.. The skaters performed as though they were made of rubber and of courses the judges did NOT like them. But I thought the combination was wonderful. jenny_6664
jenny6664 3 years ago
thank you sooo much for posting this video. i've been needing to hear this song, this slowest and most beautiful version. this made my day, thanks :)
GulperEEL 3 years ago
this truly is sonic nutrition, thanks for pointing it out J-man....i cant wait to play it for my girlfriend, she loves this stuff as much as me. She can tell miles from coltrane. ;)
HuckleberrySlim 3 years ago 2
James....have you no feeling? The whole point of this brilliant rendering is its slow speed!
pimlico2cv 3 years ago
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this song is anoying to play,but nice at the same time, it soundsgood fast and loud :)
james310240 3 years ago
Someone else has probably said it better, but how can a song be so laid-back and so invigorating at the same time?
nickellodeon55 3 years ago 4
That was the magic of Neal Hefti. Don't know any of his compositions and arrangements, that weren't "invigorating."
Tony7840 3 years ago
Invigorating and relaxing as in a hot bubble bath with a glass of champagne.Yeah, that's it!!
Oaktownrob 2 years ago
this song makes me cry everytime i hear it. its so beautiful.
LobsterChopz 3 years ago 3
how beautiful
capitancrook 3 years ago
my jazz band doesnt play it that good
mappum 3 years ago 2
Anyone who wants to know how to play relaxed and still in the pocket need only to study this. Majestic
macvoutie 3 years ago 3
I absolutely agree, I just been puttin brushes to this, its a very special groove, requiring the most subtle brush nuances....fantastic arrangement, we love you Mr. Hefty, but Count Basie gave the royal flush with this one. God bless, and those final chords....to die for, thanks LDN Queen for posting.
psyne000 3 years ago 2
Yeah the whole band just coast like a balloon in the sky. LDn Queen has an eclectic taste in music, check the tunes she picked, a very nice variety for someone so young. Thanks LDn Queen, post some more.
macvoutie 3 years ago
this is just beautiful....
ssg263 3 years ago 5
smoothe
nanogirl 3 years ago
Yes, pimlico2cv, The Count Basie version IS the dreamiest version of Lil Darlin. I don't like to hear it "marched thru" but, actually Neal wrote it to be played much more up tempo but 'the count' wanted it slow. I also heard Mr. Hefti originally wrote it for his daughter. I also LOVE Frances Wayne, Neal's beloved, late wife! She was a fabulous singer Neal met when they were both with Woody Herman near the start of both their careers. Her Lps are still out there! You will love her! Cheryl
cherylmorris1 3 years ago
Cheryl...sorry to pass on the info, that Neal's daughter, Marguerita, passed away in, if memory serves me correctley, 1997. She was an MD (ObGyn). I communicate with Paul, her brother, on a regu;lar basis. He's still devastated about it.
Tony7840 3 years ago
Should have added that the night prior to Neal's death (Oct 11, 2008), he took his son and daughter-in-law out to dinner. Was in very good spirits. When he didn't answer the telephone the next morning, they rushed to the house, where they found Neal sitting on a chair, with the telephone in his hand.
Tony7840 3 years ago
Wow, this takes me back. For a short time in the early 80's, I was the lead trombonist in the Wood River Valley Orchestra, a big band comprised of AFA Local 474 musicians in the Sun Valley, ID area. Lil' Darling was in our book. A tennis/ski instructor played the trumpet solo, and, man, he could swing. Neal Hefti wrote some of THE BEST big band compositions and arrangements, and they will live one. He may not be a household hame, but Neal Hefti was a real American Master.
krameletx 3 years ago 3
Amen to that, we used to Nail this in High school, our band teacher was so strict, we took it to Iowa state band competition and aced it, i have always been so moved by this piece, even when i was 17 and without a clue, something about that groove man.
psyne000 3 years ago 3
Ah yes Cheryl, but it is the Basie rendering at 'half speed,' that you like best. Yes? Peter
pimlico2cv 3 years ago
Lil' Darlin is perhaps the dreamiest of all the Neal Hefti compositions. I love it and I so enjoyed listening to it here tonight! Thank you Mr. Hefti for decades of gorgeous and HAPPY music, that has enriched the lives of countless listeners! You are totally irreplacable! I miss you already. With so much love and thanks, Cheryl Morris Monteiro
cherylmorris1 3 years ago 2
RIP Neal Hefti who wrote this tune.
titostacos 3 years ago
The only other version that is as GOOD as this one is on a Joe Newman Quintent album...my vinyl is up north so I don't have the album title.
SmokeyMatthew 3 years ago
This is really nice!!! The first time I have heard this song, it was a very nice rendition by Take 6. This is so much better! Thank you for posting this one.
bettercall2 3 years ago 2
Wow you can feel this tune like few other can do....I love it...
klfoote 3 years ago 4
wow... this is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard! and the fact its done by Basie's band makes it even better!
and i have no idea y people say the saxes r out of tune... unless im deaf i think they sound awesome! and being a sax player myself, i think i would know lol :P
musik711 3 years ago 4
An elegant, romantic instrumental version of one of the greatest tunes ever composed. Count Basie is without a doubt an all-time great of 20th century music legends.
robdani1997 3 years ago 5