The thing i notice the most in jazz is how much they are smiling. These people enjoyed their music so much, they didn't just make it to make some money, or be famous, they were celebrating life and the world around them. GO JAZZ!
The song was originally called "Blue Balls". When asked what the name of the song was, Basie quickly looked at his watch and said, "One O'Clock Jump." They were live on the radio at the time....
I thank all of you who are keeping this kind of music alive. If it werent for you, we would be foreced to listen to the crap that is given us today. Many people dont know the importance of this kind of music and the influences ithas on music today.
Amazing, I wish there where still musicians getting billions of dollars an album instead of talentless hacks like Lady GaGa, Justin Bieber, and Nickleback.
@playingthepiano1 Because nobody cares about classic music. People care more about talentless 16 yr olds with $250 haircuts that look like they have pillow head, aka that Bieber loser.
@336kgf-_- you idiot. I hate the artists you just listed, it's YouTube get over the damn spelling and just because I don't like this genre of music doesnt mean I'm ignorant or stupid. The only advice i have for you is to not make a fool of yourself while trying to sound smart -_-. Btw why has this been going on for years now!
i just want to ask everyone to take a minutes silence or a minutes Jazz applause to the late great Eric Walkden.
A trumpet player that shoulda gone professional in the 40's with Kenny Baker but chose his family.
Loved the swing and playing the local jazz scene - a trumpet that should never be forgotten. A truly great man survived by a fantastic Sax player called Tom.
These guys are what keeps music live for many years. Jazz owns the music industry...
Hey guys, I´m living in Costa Rica right now, I lived in NY for 44 years, I saw the Count Basie Band live at the Metropole Cafe, and I will NEVER forget the show I saw.
Just UNFORTGETABLE!!! I consider myself very lucky as everybody who were able to see them in person should feel. I´m afraid we will never see anything like that anymore. JUST A GREAT BAND !!!
Roger that - the age comment. I was listening to jazz and swing in the 60's and 70's along with what is now classic rock, blues, western swing (Bob Wills), bluegrass, rhythm and blues, and so forth. Still do to this day plus I'll attend an opera every once in a while.
it's got sorta a ragtime feel. sad that not many people like jazz. but once you start listening to it, you start humming it and you can't stop. now i have to concentrate on not swinging notes when i play classical music.
@Koro1955 Count Basie on piano, Buddy DeFranco on the Clarinet, Clark Terry on the trumpet, Jimmy Lewis on Bass, Freddie Green on the Guitar, Wardell Gray on the Saxophone, Gus Johnson on the Drums.
i'm 18 months old, and love jazz. what's even crazier than my taste for good old swingin' music is that i can type and spell almost impeccably. what now?
@samplenajar, you were a year and 6 mounths old when you wrote this? Hmmm not so sure about that. It does mean though that you are somewhere around two years and one mounth old now.
@samplenajar I'm sick of those comments. It's all the same "I'm [insert young age] years old and I love [insert music genre here]". Purely aimed to get votes. Just listening and stop chasing top comments, they don't make your epeen bigger.
@cyberpolice9000 There is no irony as getting top comments isn't my goal, I just came and expressed my opinion and there is no specific syntax in my comment that reappears everywhere else. I can't stop people from liking it if they did. I didn't know it is actually, until I got the notification for your comment. I was just pissed that I saw it in every second video I checked.
Probably the finest piece of footage of Count Basie and his band I've ever seen - and the visual and audio are actually pretty much in synch! Wonderful!
We lived around the corner from Basie's house in Queens New York. My older sister's and brothers would go to his pool parties. I was too little to go in the late fifties to early sixties.
This features one of only a small handful of great modern clarinetists,Buddy DeFranco.Also a treat to hear Wardell and Clark on the same session.Thanx very much for the post!!!
is that Buddy DeFranco on clarinet? Basie was one of my favorites -- saw him in Augsburg, Germany in 1964 - he did a free concert at our Army base ... I think he had one of the best bands in the history of jazz.
I just like the way they alternate one after the other before the microphone...clarinet plays and then leaves place for the trumpet; then trumpets leaves and saxophone comes...and so on... jazz is just SO COOL !!
Hahaha the thought of someone listening to a bit of Basie AND playing WoW at the same time does make me chuckle...they are clearly very related in taste after all, aimed totally at the same demographic...
oh and it's spelt calculators and protractors. If you're gonna insult someone, Ulis, at least spell it right...
@Ulis Your problem is that for whatever reason, you seem to think that people don't ACTUALLY like this music, but that "old people" forced it on us. That, and your more recent arguments focused on forcing your own opinions on us. Why the Hell should our own standards conform to yours? You think Jazz sucks, therefore I must hate it too? I happen to like all music in general (although rap isn't much to my taste...). Jazz is just higher up there, so I listen to jazz more often than, say, rock.
and before u say anything, no, i am not some strange nerd who has strange taste. i like rock, i certainly like hiphop, and i dont think that just cuz this music is old means that it sucks.
Ulis101... not just old geezers listen to this stuff. im a high school student, i play bari sax in my school jazz band, we play at jazz festivals every year, and i love this music.
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@336kgf shut up. Everyone shutup. I am entitled to my opinion without the constant lecturing to keep my mind open and that I have no sense in music and that "I have no sense in spelling" it's a freaking comment log not a damn report for skool so shut up. In my opinion this song sucks extraordinarily an that's that leave me alone. I don't need help I'm not ignorant I just don't like this song. I don't have to and I definately don want to so shut up
I'm watching this video for part of an essay in my Jazz History class. I'm also interested in this particular song because Neil Peart of Rush features this in the tail end ofhis drum solos. All I have to say is WOW. This is without a doubt my favorite era of jazz, when you could really improvise and not lose the musical integrity. mcfunkyfresh, you rule. Great job in finding this masterpiece.
ahhh. People these days don't get this music. They are used to the popular 4 chord songs of pop artist and don't even try to understand jazz..
i'm only 16 and i wish i knew about Basie, ellington, charlie parker, monk...ect before now ^^
jazz is hard. all the chord progressions~ haha i like it ^^
and yea, people in those days did do cocaine/heroine..which was sad. but some didnt, and some quit! (sad to think of how great charlie parker was and how big of an addict he was...) like miles davis~
I'm 55 and the one thing I wish was possible in life was time travel, just to see the Basie band in say 44' the Battle of the bands at the Savoy between Basie and Chick Webb.
By the way the original name of this song was Blue Balls!
According to the Ken Burns series, they changed the name because Blue Balls was not appropriate for live radio. It's a great tune regardless of the title.
jazz is not really hard... jazz is actaully "bad" music. Much like the punk scene of 80's/90's, it was a rebellion against complex music. Look at early riff tunes, they just jammed a few melodies. Most jazz is just jamming on a tune, which is not that hard. It seems hard or complex when compared to a 2 chord punk song or basic melodic pop tune, but jazz is actaully fairly simple when looked at in a global sense
actually i don't think you know what your talking about. lol have you played jazz? have you had to solo?
jazz may not be bach, but all the information put into knowing the chord changes (when doing an improv) and the scales/tritones/whether you resolve a bad note/how to put the notes together...
yes... i have improved many times. Its pretty easy to pick out the ii-V-I's... once you've done that you can move around the piece pretty easy. Watch for bridges and just transpose a motif... if you play the changes 5-6 times you can get them down pretty easy, and in jazz there are only a few common progressions, they just move them in different keys with different bridges, etc. It is certainly complicated, but not that hard to figure it out, and once you do its easy to jam it out....
I DISAGREE...having grown up in the early punk days, I can tell you that punk never had diminished or 9th chords, or augmented (1:46) These cats were all classically trained....but then there was Richard Loyd from television, an exception
this is the music that realy get in our hearts , is the one that make us move like we havent move before. Count Basie give us the meaning of rithm and joy
I would like to thank Ulis for his intervention brought a lot of intelligent, wise and constructive comments. we need some more of these today! this is the respect that the Grandmasters deserve!
Poor Ulis. Has a chance to respond intelligently and instead needlessly calls people "lifeless losers", though he knows nothing of the varied lives of the people writing here. What protracters (sic), calculaters (sic), and Warcraft have to do with swing is anybody's guess. What a confused young man.
As McFunky said, referencing Clinton (the great one, not the awful president): free your mind and your ass will follow. If you're really a musician, you'll one day blush at your idiocy.
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Listen y don't u stop telling me that I should start listeining to this trash cuz I'm not gonna and another thing I'm not coming bak to listen I'm coming bak to to tell u guys this " U GUYS HAVE NO LIVES THIS IS BULLSHIT,CRAP, A SHITLOAD OF SLIME. You guys need to kno sumthing ppl changed the songs becuz they thought it could be changed into sumthing better which they did u guys need to kno this is not time less it's dead...decaying
dude shut up you can't honestly tell me that modern artists have any of the skill that Basie, Ellington or any of those guys had. I guarantee the modern idiots wouldn't be able to write out the circle of fifths, let alone construct a solo based on jazz chord changes
I think we would all take you a lot more seriously if you could actually spell. Did you even bother paying attention in spelling class in school, or were you too busy not caring? Just curious. What you just wrote-bad spelling, grammatical errors et al-THAT is dead and decaying. Stay off a board like this unless you can come up with a feasible sentence structure.
Just shut up u lifeless losers u guys truly have no lives. So many ppl have been commenting this saying the same thing listen u guys can just go bak to ur calculaters and protracters and go bak to playing world of Warcraft while listening to this trash
@Ulis101 I suppose you listen to rap and top 40 music and think that's quality. I would take this over Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber any day. I would smack you around about your spelling prowess or lack of it, but then again you probably could care less.
And further, Ulis, if you're a musician, rock or whatever else, you'd do yourself a favour broadening your palate. You could learn a lot from a Wardell Gray solo (he takes one at 1:23), as you could from Coltrane or Bird or whomever. Music didn't start with rock and roll, and rock isn't the end of the line. One day you'll look back and be embarrassed by your provincial and narrow outlook. Gotta start listening, man.
No, Ulis, there will always be people who listen to Basie and Ellington, to name just two. Doesn't matter if it's not millions who know them, this music will live on. As will some rock, though most bands will be forgotten eventually. Hell, I listen to rock music, but I also, for example, listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith and Blind Willie Johnson from the 20s, and Haydn and Mozart from the 1700s. And so do many others.
These are the guys that inspired me to take up clarinet - thanks for the upload!
Twil1ght2000 3 days ago
i had to do a huge report on him and it took me an hour!!!
michael10905 1 week ago
God, Im sorry that people in my generation turn music into a rubbish money making buissness.
maytas19079 1 month ago in playlist JAZZ & SWING 3
How bout I just cap everyone on this stream in the dome and we'll be done with it.
EliGangOrDie 1 month ago
14 people lost count.
Powerstar98 1 month ago
Thanks Count & All.
Simply saying: Great Jazz. Thanks again.
grafonolafavorite 1 month ago
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YouRikeMe 2 months ago
I'm tired of these age things, and I like people to STFU and listen to the music
YouRikeMe 2 months ago
I'm five and I dig that jive!
gptvproductions 2 months ago
@gptvproductions
I'm six, and I don't play them tricks!
IOYB 2 months ago
i am 3 and gotta pee
pearsnockie 2 months ago 2
i'm 3 and i was the tenor saxophonist in king oliver's jazz band.
However, i love me some dubstep when i'm not listening to delta blues.
therunningpiano 2 months ago
I'm 16 and I'm a complete fucking metalhead.
But I do love me some swing.
evanwarsify 3 months ago
hey, im 19, and jazz is cool, but THIS i am listening to for a jazz history class. STFU kid.
infamousSwaggr 3 months ago
WHAT DOES YOUR AGE HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT MUSIC YOU LIKE DEAR JESUS.
sairfaxroolz813 3 months ago 5
porra q massa
Akhius 3 months ago
@oneclockjump You mean you named your acCOUNT BASIEd on this song. Sorry. Couldn't resist.
toby1234dh 4 months ago 44
im 12 AND this is better than any music you hear these days on the radio
rblodget 5 months ago 2
@rblodget
I used to be like you, nfortunately i got sucked into the trap of crapy radio, stay old school man, its the way to go.
HDDOUGGY 5 months ago
" Dios Bendiga tu Alma "
21/08/1904 - 28/07/2011
Gracias.
selene2302 6 months ago 2
whoo my favorite instuments clarinet and piano :)
TheNani313 6 months ago
Genius Clarke Terry and still alive! Saw him on a Miles Davis biopic (search youtube it's in 13 parts) and he seemed a charismatic guy!
Ledonist 6 months ago
The thing i notice the most in jazz is how much they are smiling. These people enjoyed their music so much, they didn't just make it to make some money, or be famous, they were celebrating life and the world around them. GO JAZZ!
drkfnx600 6 months ago
Class act--of all the great big bands no one swung it better than Basie!
kingorthy 6 months ago
The song was originally called "Blue Balls". When asked what the name of the song was, Basie quickly looked at his watch and said, "One O'Clock Jump." They were live on the radio at the time....
terrryc 6 months ago
ten stars all around
fastborzoi 6 months ago
The Beethoven of jazz!!!
Rest Peacefully
COUNT BASIE (1904-1984)
PigfootAbernathy 6 months ago
Count Basie bares a striking resemblance to a one, Carl Winslow
jettcenterfold 6 months ago
i loved how the trumpet came in.
pwnmonkeyisreal 6 months ago
@pwnmonkeyisreal The guy who plays trumpet is Clark Terry according to the description.
TxmxthyJS7868 6 months ago
9 people can't jump
ControlledExplosions 7 months ago 2
The fact that nine people dislike this amazes me. I mean, Really? This is THE man of swing.
zbuck44 7 months ago
Count Basie, king of "less is more"!
RudySunseeker 7 months ago
first song of this genre ive heard in forever. LOVE IT <3 :D
Nathanomo 8 months ago
@Nathanomo First song in this genre? Where have you been living?
CallUsCriminals 7 months ago
@CallUsCriminals It seems as thoug I haven't been.. not before this :D
Nathanomo 7 months ago
Ah, their smiles go perfectly with the music. [:
CraveOcean 8 months ago
this is what jazz is all about!
king140 8 months ago
Oh YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fastborzoi 8 months ago
HOW CAN ANYONE NOT LIKE THIS SONG? I AM GONE, REAL REAL GONE!
someonespadre 8 months ago
I LIVE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE COUNTS OLD HOUSE GANGSTA OR WHAT
dizyootum 8 months ago
if u all like count basie check out my page !! ive got some acetate discs of original off the air homemade broadcasts i got at an antique store
shaunsstuff79 9 months ago
GOOD THINGS!! 4 the ones that ,wait??
MrZepplen 9 months ago
un crack!
Andruloff 9 months ago
Who are the 9 crazy people??
MrReddFoxxx 10 months ago
I love the Count's facial expressions as he plays :)
austinthebookworm5 10 months ago 2
me sa love this jazz
austinthebookworm5 10 months ago
Thumbs up for Count Basie! :D
thebluetrain57 10 months ago
It reminds me of the day I discovered Amelia Earhart went missing on her world flight.
FlyinRyans35 10 months ago
@FlyinRyans35 speaking of that, BRING BACK DINOSAURS!
TheLAKERSareGodsTeam 10 months ago
@faticeandchocoice the pianist
GeinaMM 10 months ago
looove this!!!! damn that makes me feel soooooo good!
Freethinker12341 10 months ago
I thank all of you who are keeping this kind of music alive. If it werent for you, we would be foreced to listen to the crap that is given us today. Many people dont know the importance of this kind of music and the influences ithas on music today.
PraystationPortable 10 months ago
Amazing, I wish there where still musicians getting billions of dollars an album instead of talentless hacks like Lady GaGa, Justin Bieber, and Nickleback.
twilight7896 10 months ago
It's Just Wonderful!
MrMaymac 10 months ago
Oh! Play that thing!
Quantumjiters 10 months ago
This awesome then ... and it's awesome today. Swing it, Count!
crawfishdave57 10 months ago
@faticeandchocoice It's guy who is on the camera...
wilsondenazare 10 months ago
Great sound. Can't beat the 'big band sound'. Thanks for taking time to upload video!
peanutzinuk 11 months ago
Swing, baby! Swing!
redskinfankorea 11 months ago
Why does this only have 26600 views???? C'mon this is a classssssssiccccc youtubers! REAL JAZZ. ;D
playingthepiano1 11 months ago
@playingthepiano1 Because nobody cares about classic music. People care more about talentless 16 yr olds with $250 haircuts that look like they have pillow head, aka that Bieber loser.
336kgf 11 months ago 2
@playingthepiano1 Uh, somebody musta heard you because its up to(as Im writing this) 289,941. :)
mistamadscientist 10 months ago
When I used to play WoW I had a big band playlist. But now I have come to terms that WoW sucks and that this is just good to kill things to.
SlipknotFerret 1 year ago
Wow, over a quarter of a million views. Nice.
titostacos 1 year ago
This is the kind of music that changed the musicworld once and for all
MrAminam24 1 year ago
@336kgf-_- you idiot. I hate the artists you just listed, it's YouTube get over the damn spelling and just because I don't like this genre of music doesnt mean I'm ignorant or stupid. The only advice i have for you is to not make a fool of yourself while trying to sound smart -_-. Btw why has this been going on for years now!
Ulis101 1 year ago
i just want to ask everyone to take a minutes silence or a minutes Jazz applause to the late great Eric Walkden.
A trumpet player that shoulda gone professional in the 40's with Kenny Baker but chose his family.
Loved the swing and playing the local jazz scene - a trumpet that should never be forgotten. A truly great man survived by a fantastic Sax player called Tom.
These guys are what keeps music live for many years. Jazz owns the music industry...
ILiveOnMyBoat 1 year ago
Wow go Freddie go
stepenwolf7 1 year ago
Hey guys, I´m living in Costa Rica right now, I lived in NY for 44 years, I saw the Count Basie Band live at the Metropole Cafe, and I will NEVER forget the show I saw.
Just UNFORTGETABLE!!! I consider myself very lucky as everybody who were able to see them in person should feel. I´m afraid we will never see anything like that anymore. JUST A GREAT BAND !!!
JOHNNYEGONZALEZ 1 year ago
American Classical Music!!
bivmvideo 1 year ago 2
My generation's not completely down the drain- I love Basie and I'm a sophomore in high school. He's right up there with Buddy and Ellington
scissorjack43 1 year ago 4
Roger that - the age comment. I was listening to jazz and swing in the 60's and 70's along with what is now classic rock, blues, western swing (Bob Wills), bluegrass, rhythm and blues, and so forth. Still do to this day plus I'll attend an opera every once in a while.
wbloom2314 1 year ago
The "Sancta Sanctorum" of the Swing !
tenorbanjo4 1 year ago
Long live real music played by the masters. Forget the crap of today. It is already dead. Lady gag indeed.
ocnoreen 1 year ago
People who think the new generation is stupid. I'm 15 and I love basie :)
sbsproxmysox 1 year ago 3
omg!:...fuckin amazing...is even more amazing if you think that this music has more than 50 years.......
xScreamToRisex 1 year ago
Im in jazz band and we are gonna play this song tomorrow!
xXxAznKpopFanxXx 1 year ago
Still laughing about that Ulis guy
Anyhow, I'm 17 and I'm here. This song is great... I love Count Basie
His Jumpin'at the Woodside is a masterpiece, I can just listen to it over and over again.
Jazz isn't for old people, its for all ages
As a matter of fact, I even have Jazz on my Ipod allong with the Rock and Punk and Pop stored on it :P
Jazz is great!
GrEenDaYRocCks 1 year ago
it's got sorta a ragtime feel. sad that not many people like jazz. but once you start listening to it, you start humming it and you can't stop. now i have to concentrate on not swinging notes when i play classical music.
pwnmonkeyisreal 1 year ago
is that Benny Goodman on the clarinet?
you900001 1 year ago
@you900001 No, Benny Goodman was a bandleader and would have never played under someone else.
kingreich22 1 year ago
@kingreich22 actually he got his start playing clarinet in other peoples big bands, everyone has to pay there dues, you dont just start at the top.
jimmaya 1 year ago
@you900001 It's Buddy DeFranco, like the description says
Beeepip 1 year ago
Who can give me the different names of all the band members? Thanks so much. It's worth remembering as one of the greatest wonders.
Hope you understand my English.
Koro1955 1 year ago
@Koro1955 Count Basie on piano, Buddy DeFranco on the Clarinet, Clark Terry on the trumpet, Jimmy Lewis on Bass, Freddie Green on the Guitar, Wardell Gray on the Saxophone, Gus Johnson on the Drums.
beat80cj 1 year ago
i'm 18 months old, and love jazz. what's even crazier than my taste for good old swingin' music is that i can type and spell almost impeccably. what now?
samplenajar 1 year ago 75
@samplenajar, you were a year and 6 mounths old when you wrote this? Hmmm not so sure about that. It does mean though that you are somewhere around two years and one mounth old now.
Junebug8147 9 months ago
@samplenajar you're on your way, boy....
doltoy 9 months ago
@samplenajar kids these days
agent5000000 9 months ago
@samplenajar
You ´r a " Wunderkind", just an infant and writing sooo fine. And sooo good Taste of music you have too. :cuddle:
qualmcorder 9 months ago
@samplenajar - Learn how to capitalize. (J/K.)
chiron8839 6 months ago
@samplenajar I'm sick of those comments. It's all the same "I'm [insert young age] years old and I love [insert music genre here]". Purely aimed to get votes. Just listening and stop chasing top comments, they don't make your epeen bigger.
Rawrawrsaur 6 months ago 28
I'm not even born yet, and I love [insert music genre here]. Thumbs up if you agree!
DigiTan000 5 months ago
@Rawrawrsaur
Oh, the irony of your comment being a top comment.
cyberpolice9000 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
@cyberpolice9000 There is no irony as getting top comments isn't my goal, I just came and expressed my opinion and there is no specific syntax in my comment that reappears everywhere else. I can't stop people from liking it if they did. I didn't know it is actually, until I got the notification for your comment. I was just pissed that I saw it in every second video I checked.
Rawrawrsaur 2 months ago
@Rawrawrsaur
If it isn't, then you're right, there is no irony in it. The comment was true, though.
cyberpolice9000 2 months ago
@Rawrawrsaur I'm 3 years old and I love Count Basie!
kioskia1 6 days ago
@samplenajar Yet, you have trouble capitalizing letter that need to be capitalized. What now?
Mcoov 6 months ago
@Mcoov *letters
Mcoov 6 months ago
@samplenajar ... Well ... play the Jazz. :)
whitehottoddy 4 months ago
@samplenajar Using capital letters at the start of your sentences may help too.
DanyonWChong 4 months ago
@samplenajar You mean yrs?
EllysaE 3 months ago
@samplenajar Oh nvm
EllysaE 3 months ago
Named my account based on this song :) Love it.
oneclockjump 1 year ago 54
@oneclockjump Blue Balls was what they called it, but since this was national tv...and the time was___,
it got called. hey love CB and would have have subbed ur account based on ur name. just a bit o trivia.
cheers
arjhendrix 9 months ago
Probably the finest piece of footage of Count Basie and his band I've ever seen - and the visual and audio are actually pretty much in synch! Wonderful!
1953jazzman 1 year ago
Wow. Excellent stuff. You Tube is so magnificent in its ability to keep music like this alive and fresh for all of us. Thanks for posting!
Suldog29 1 year ago
What a deliciously complex thing this is! Christ, these guys had BRAINS!
Pugophile 1 year ago
Who needs words when you have people like Count Basie? Mmm. It's like chocolate... for your ears.
HuttonGlutton 1 year ago
Keep up the good work youtube-Thanks!
MrSkipper13 1 year ago
I'm very fond of music from this era.
These gyus are really swinging =DD
morganify 1 year ago
yes sir!
bigleroygym 1 year ago
Oh yeah! This is what I call real music thanks for uploading.
Alxx2 1 year ago
beh questo tipo di jazz lo posso capire di +, ma mi rendo conto sia difficile per i nostri tempi soffermarsi e gustarlo...
lucatancredi 1 year ago
wow. I love these guys; my heros.
gratzr 1 year ago
We lived around the corner from Basie's house in Queens New York. My older sister's and brothers would go to his pool parties. I was too little to go in the late fifties to early sixties.
theorganloft 1 year ago
This features one of only a small handful of great modern clarinetists,Buddy DeFranco.Also a treat to hear Wardell and Clark on the same session.Thanx very much for the post!!!
postatility 1 year ago
is that Buddy DeFranco on clarinet? Basie was one of my favorites -- saw him in Augsburg, Germany in 1964 - he did a free concert at our Army base ... I think he had one of the best bands in the history of jazz.
johnbresnik 1 year ago
Joe Morgan ex of the Cincinnati Reds could be the Count's son. They bare a striking resemblance.
snackcakeman 1 year ago
I just like the way they alternate one after the other before the microphone...clarinet plays and then leaves place for the trumpet; then trumpets leaves and saxophone comes...and so on... jazz is just SO COOL !!
VintageSoundsNumber1 1 year ago
No, Sinatra was barely able to sing with the GREAT Count Basie...
duckdaotsu 1 year ago
Count B was good enough to play for Frank Sinatra.
bobzani 1 year ago
Count Basie
arjhendrix 1 year ago
foot tapping
beagleman123456789 1 year ago
Amazing!
megandrews1 1 year ago
The guy at 0:48 looks like Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorcese's film 'New York, New York'
nihilistate 1 year ago
@nihilistate Buddy DeFranco was a real white hipster like the Jimmy Doyle character DeNiro plays in New York, New York. I saw the resemblance too!
Mambisa50 1 year ago
XD This is pure genius! = )
I do love Jazz and this is amazing = )
Although I must agree the idea of someone playing WoW while listening to this does make me lol XD
Ulis101 is just being a dweeeb XD Can't respect good musical talent. Fool. ;]
WrappedInDarkness94 1 year ago
Gus Johnson looks so cool playing the drums. Completely chill. "I'm just drumming for Count Basie. Whatever."
cameronkdmaclean 1 year ago
He got that Lester Young style
jamminjoeus 1 year ago
William Basie RED BANK NJ'S FINEST CITIZEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dal4018 1 year ago
Hey McFunkyFreshhh --
Thanks for bringing this up! 'S wonderful, ageless indeed; and the mighty Wardell Gray killed 'em all. Keep it up, man!
BrunoJazzmanLeicht 1 year ago
Hahaha the thought of someone listening to a bit of Basie AND playing WoW at the same time does make me chuckle...they are clearly very related in taste after all, aimed totally at the same demographic...
oh and it's spelt calculators and protractors. If you're gonna insult someone, Ulis, at least spell it right...
LoftProduction 1 year ago
Härlig svartvit jazz.
Krusagarden 1 year ago
Everyone has their own opinionn.
MmmCaroline 1 year ago
@Ulis Your problem is that for whatever reason, you seem to think that people don't ACTUALLY like this music, but that "old people" forced it on us. That, and your more recent arguments focused on forcing your own opinions on us. Why the Hell should our own standards conform to yours? You think Jazz sucks, therefore I must hate it too? I happen to like all music in general (although rap isn't much to my taste...). Jazz is just higher up there, so I listen to jazz more often than, say, rock.
MacaroniLololol 1 year ago
GENIUS !
MrChillin65 1 year ago
my stress swings along with this tune everytime.
LastXzIII 1 year ago
and before u say anything, no, i am not some strange nerd who has strange taste. i like rock, i certainly like hiphop, and i dont think that just cuz this music is old means that it sucks.
ownagemonkeyz 1 year ago
Ulis101... not just old geezers listen to this stuff. im a high school student, i play bari sax in my school jazz band, we play at jazz festivals every year, and i love this music.
ownagemonkeyz 1 year ago
if people are going to post stupid shit on here that is irrelavant to the video then why have a fuckin comment box on youtube?
jjtiojohn12 1 year ago
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@336kgf shut up. Everyone shutup. I am entitled to my opinion without the constant lecturing to keep my mind open and that I have no sense in music and that "I have no sense in spelling" it's a freaking comment log not a damn report for skool so shut up. In my opinion this song sucks extraordinarily an that's that leave me alone. I don't need help I'm not ignorant I just don't like this song. I don't have to and I definately don want to so shut up
Ulis101 1 year ago
btw its not nice to say shut up... lol
ownagemonkeyz 1 year ago
@Ulis101 Говорит вызывающим Джастин Бибер вентилятора девушка, изучить русский язык и хорошая музыка бессловесная ослица!
vincent834 1 year ago
I'm watching this video for part of an essay in my Jazz History class. I'm also interested in this particular song because Neil Peart of Rush features this in the tail end ofhis drum solos. All I have to say is WOW. This is without a doubt my favorite era of jazz, when you could really improvise and not lose the musical integrity. mcfunkyfresh, you rule. Great job in finding this masterpiece.
336kgf 1 year ago
Cool cats and just to see Basie smiling and tickling is so cool.
mrthundaboots 1 year ago 2
Did anyone else who litens to hawaiian music notice that there's a small part that sounds like the first line of "'A'oia?"
'A'oia, e lilo ana 'oe ia'u...
alika207 2 years ago
I don't understand why everyone needs to mention their age when they talk about listening to jazz.
This kind of music is timeless. No age, nothing. Just swingin'.
Crasybutchek 2 years ago 104
@Crasybutchek
Damn right!!!
You don't need to be a genius to recognise this is GOOD music.
Johnnypt13 1 year ago
ahhh. People these days don't get this music. They are used to the popular 4 chord songs of pop artist and don't even try to understand jazz..
i'm only 16 and i wish i knew about Basie, ellington, charlie parker, monk...ect before now ^^
jazz is hard. all the chord progressions~ haha i like it ^^
and yea, people in those days did do cocaine/heroine..which was sad. but some didnt, and some quit! (sad to think of how great charlie parker was and how big of an addict he was...) like miles davis~
Hikarij 2 years ago
I'm 55 and the one thing I wish was possible in life was time travel, just to see the Basie band in say 44' the Battle of the bands at the Savoy between Basie and Chick Webb.
By the way the original name of this song was Blue Balls!
mikeao54 2 years ago 2
I know! yes that would be so awesome to see that performance!
really? haha, i wonder why they changed it?
Hikarij 2 years ago
According to the Ken Burns series, they changed the name because Blue Balls was not appropriate for live radio. It's a great tune regardless of the title.
336kgf 1 year ago
jazz is not really hard... jazz is actaully "bad" music. Much like the punk scene of 80's/90's, it was a rebellion against complex music. Look at early riff tunes, they just jammed a few melodies. Most jazz is just jamming on a tune, which is not that hard. It seems hard or complex when compared to a 2 chord punk song or basic melodic pop tune, but jazz is actaully fairly simple when looked at in a global sense
echoftw 2 years ago
actually i don't think you know what your talking about. lol have you played jazz? have you had to solo?
jazz may not be bach, but all the information put into knowing the chord changes (when doing an improv) and the scales/tritones/whether you resolve a bad note/how to put the notes together...
its more complicated than you think...
Hikarij 2 years ago 10
yes... i have improved many times. Its pretty easy to pick out the ii-V-I's... once you've done that you can move around the piece pretty easy. Watch for bridges and just transpose a motif... if you play the changes 5-6 times you can get them down pretty easy, and in jazz there are only a few common progressions, they just move them in different keys with different bridges, etc. It is certainly complicated, but not that hard to figure it out, and once you do its easy to jam it out....
echoftw 2 years ago
Prove it echoftw. Post a video of yourself playing jazz and then we might take your little "jazz is easy" comment seriously.
jakeyates2 1 year ago 3
I DISAGREE...having grown up in the early punk days, I can tell you that punk never had diminished or 9th chords, or augmented (1:46) These cats were all classically trained....but then there was Richard Loyd from television, an exception
iorioriorio 1 year ago
this is the music that realy get in our hearts , is the one that make us move like we havent move before. Count Basie give us the meaning of rithm and joy
prazair 2 years ago
They looked at the clock and there fore the name
mikeao54 2 years ago
I would like to thank Ulis for his intervention brought a lot of intelligent, wise and constructive comments. we need some more of these today! this is the respect that the Grandmasters deserve!
SWING POWER!!!
Ha ha, keep it coming Ulis ; ) !
mcfunkyfreshhh 2 years ago 18
PS Even if you don't like this music, calling it trash is very stupid.
gdash4 2 years ago 49
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@gdash4 the funny part is this was the most popular music of all time
you900001 1 year ago
Poor Ulis. Has a chance to respond intelligently and instead needlessly calls people "lifeless losers", though he knows nothing of the varied lives of the people writing here. What protracters (sic), calculaters (sic), and Warcraft have to do with swing is anybody's guess. What a confused young man.
As McFunky said, referencing Clinton (the great one, not the awful president): free your mind and your ass will follow. If you're really a musician, you'll one day blush at your idiocy.
gdash4 2 years ago
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Listen y don't u stop telling me that I should start listeining to this trash cuz I'm not gonna and another thing I'm not coming bak to listen I'm coming bak to to tell u guys this " U GUYS HAVE NO LIVES THIS IS BULLSHIT,CRAP, A SHITLOAD OF SLIME. You guys need to kno sumthing ppl changed the songs becuz they thought it could be changed into sumthing better which they did u guys need to kno this is not time less it's dead...decaying
Ulis101 2 years ago
dude shut up you can't honestly tell me that modern artists have any of the skill that Basie, Ellington or any of those guys had. I guarantee the modern idiots wouldn't be able to write out the circle of fifths, let alone construct a solo based on jazz chord changes
gathyman 2 years ago
@Ulis101
What a closed minded opinionated person. Interpetation is one thing but without the originals, nothing can begin
caliTcat 2 years ago
I think we would all take you a lot more seriously if you could actually spell. Did you even bother paying attention in spelling class in school, or were you too busy not caring? Just curious. What you just wrote-bad spelling, grammatical errors et al-THAT is dead and decaying. Stay off a board like this unless you can come up with a feasible sentence structure.
336kgf 1 year ago
@336kgf Why do you care about spelling on a youtube comment list. No one gives a crap about spelling!
joeschmoe360 1 year ago
@joeschmoe360 I do.
336kgf 1 year ago
@Ulis101 ... a word of advice young fella if you're a loser better not to advertise it !
fingerscarr 1 year ago 2
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Just shut up u lifeless losers u guys truly have no lives. So many ppl have been commenting this saying the same thing listen u guys can just go bak to ur calculaters and protracters and go bak to playing world of Warcraft while listening to this trash
Ulis101 2 years ago
this "trash" only makes us happy! just put some swing into your life and you'll be happy too!
hmm, however I think this "trash" is on its way to become your favourite as you go back to it everytime... ; )
yeah, keep it coming!
and just free your mind... and your ass will follow, like it says another funky "trash"
Peace, Ulis!
mcfunkyfreshhh 2 years ago 8
@Ulis101 Trash? Are you on fucking crack?
MrPelicanPants 1 year ago
@Ulis101 I suppose you listen to rap and top 40 music and think that's quality. I would take this over Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber any day. I would smack you around about your spelling prowess or lack of it, but then again you probably could care less.
336kgf 1 year ago
AWESOME, had no idea that there was ANY footage of tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray - THANKS for posting!
that1940sguy 2 years ago
And further, Ulis, if you're a musician, rock or whatever else, you'd do yourself a favour broadening your palate. You could learn a lot from a Wardell Gray solo (he takes one at 1:23), as you could from Coltrane or Bird or whomever. Music didn't start with rock and roll, and rock isn't the end of the line. One day you'll look back and be embarrassed by your provincial and narrow outlook. Gotta start listening, man.
gdash4 2 years ago 4
No, Ulis, there will always be people who listen to Basie and Ellington, to name just two. Doesn't matter if it's not millions who know them, this music will live on. As will some rock, though most bands will be forgotten eventually. Hell, I listen to rock music, but I also, for example, listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith and Blind Willie Johnson from the 20s, and Haydn and Mozart from the 1700s. And so do many others.