Boy, I remember my mom always talking about Harry James. She knew him from the 40's. Pretty hip cat to have recognized this as a classic and to have come up with a killer arrangement for it. Most "serious" musicians would probably have looked down on a "pop" song such as this. Way to go, Harry.
I"m a brazilian tied to swing's big bands era. This is a great song perfomance of Harry's band. Fantastic see three rhytms playing at the same time when the clarinet player Robert Achilles is doing his best. Fortunately the legacy and the name of Harry James Orchestra still remains nowadays directed by Fred Radke. By the way, what albun is this from and how can I find the CD or MP3 ?
Mr. James and company are flat out WAILING on this! What a shame we live in such a graceless age today- no one knows how to dance anymore....GREAT Vid!
We thought we were hot stuff back then, with our pompadours, peg pants, Mr B collars and such. We didn't realize we were witnessing the greatest music ever, gone but never forgotten
This is almost 50 years old and it is still REAL MUSIC !! ,not like that rap crap yins listen to now. I bet snoopdog and p-ditty can't play a horn that good.
My Dad was in the RCAF during WW2 and I grew up listening to this music, but this is the first time I seen or heard this cut. friggin awsome!!!!!!! I love this music
Fantastic! A great Big Band take on the The Booker T and the MGs classic. 'Ol Harry James still has the chops at this relativley late date in his career. some pretty wild improv work by the horn and woodwinds sections. Almost makes it kind of sound in the style of Sing, Sing Sing, the Benny Goodman classic. And check out all those "squares" dancing, showing all the kids, hey we can be hip too!
This is totally amazing, and would you believe I have danced to Harry James and Gene Crupa plus Buddy Rich - I guess that dates me, never heard this one.
@xlfutur1 I'm 17 years old, I'm having a Roaring Twenties party for my 18th birthday (straight & male) we will have a live swing band, and zoot suits will be mandatory dress.
@smartguy5000 Wow sounds like a fun time, happy birthday and enjoy yourself! You will be delving into some real classic American song material. The Jazz Age of the 20s gave way to the Swing Era of the 30s and 40s. To the trained ear, there is quite a difference, and often people lump them together into one genre, but it is all good. Your great grandparents in their youth were just as energetic in that time, perhaps more so, as dancers are today. Remember it was all pure talent.without computers!
And... you thought this origionated with Booker T and the MG's... didn't you. Now go find out who origionated "Walk, Don't Run"... ( hint... Not the Ventures...)
@rolex427sc - The clarinet player? He was on about four hours of practice a day plus at least seven gigs a week. He was certainly sitting in the "pocket" and playing beautifully. The whole band has a feel. It's relaxed, understated and the solos are flowing. I didn't think this tune had a life before booker t and the mg's.
@gsmonks Actually it's a Wurlitzer, not a Fender Rhodes. A 100 series to be precise, as used by Ray Charles on "What'd I Say", Joe Zawinul on ""Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" and The Chantays on "Pipeline".
@butterfingersbeck B'gosh, you're right! I should have known that, because I had one. It spent half its time in the Western Canadian Radiographics shop in Vancouver, BC, being tuned, having tines replaced and mechanisms put back together. The box was made of wood, as were the keys and their mechanisms, like a real piano.
@butterfingersbeck If you REALLY want to be precise, it's a 120. There's a good picture of one over at this site: soundandcircuit.webs.com/wurlitzerelectricpianos.htm (third one down)
@butterfingersbeck If you REALLY want to be precise, it's a 120. There's a good picture of one over at this site: soundandcircuit.webs.com/wurlitzerelectricpianos.htm (third one down)
My grandfather told me about this song. (the clarinet player)
The way it worked was at the end of the song, the trumpets would play that line from "It ain't Necessarily So" and then they would all compete for the highest note. Harry would let them have it for a while and he would try and hit way above everybody else and blow them away. Unfortunately, Harry didn't in this video.
andifyouhadtwocoats, you sir are an idiot as harry james was not gay. he was quite the opposite, going to bed with women every night. i have no problem with gays, but i do have a problem with misrepresentation of history.
@rolex427sc He was on years of hard work and practice. Robert Achilles was a great musician and didn't spoil his life like a lot of the others out there. He gave up drinking and smoking and actually became a pastor in Gilroy, California before he passed away in May of 2008. He was my grandfather.
my grandma used to listen to these songs,most of them by glenn miller. im 15 and a classic rock nut, but i like these old songs, and listen to them when there arent any witnesses around to compromise my reputation lol
@MissssJupiterSunrise Clarinet player was Robert Achilles. He happens to be my grandfather. He also plays the baritone sax in this song. Unfortunately, he passed away in May two years ago. My father and I have both inherited his musical talent and we have our own bands.
@mwcvw My dad played a Wurlitzer. He used it as a trade-in for a Steinway baby grand. I never liked the sound of it. Some day I'll track down his Wurlitzer and buy it back.
It's swing- ballroom style, baby. Cool, smooth and jazzy. Guys, grab a gal and get on that dance floor. The only thing we're missing are the martinis. Great stuff.
Interesting because of Buddy on drums, and the use of the small electric piano (probably a Wurlitzer, with a wood case), and Harry's interesting wah-wah work.
I like this, but I think it deviates too far from the original. They gave it a very "swing" feel, and transformed it into a standard Big Band song. Booker T's version had a groove that was decades ahead of its time.
@fggoodman Music that required less talent happened. That and bebop, I like bebop but people couldn't dance to it, I don't like dancing but people that wanted music to dance to couldn't do it to bebop which really took over jazz at that time. Then there was the world war, that really killed big bands, with losing band leaders/players and money problems most of them died soon after the war. I wish I could haved lived then, I would sacrifice modern tech. to go back then for that music.
0:58 -1:45 but especially 1:04(!) is the reason why I am now learning to play trumpet. Can't get enough of it. Watching it over and over. And other reasons of course are Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Miles Davis... etcetera!
0:58 -1:45 but especially 1:04(!) is the reason why I am now learning to play trumpet. Can't get enough of it. Watching it over and over. And other reasons of course are Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Miles Davis... etcetera!
Wow, excellent music , back in a day when a trumpet player could actually make a living on the single yob of playing gigs with an orchestra... Hairy James, tremendous expression on that horn...
Who are his lead players? They were really goin at it in the end! Awesome post and I just love Harry James. A GREAT player that just knew how to play!
@BarbieDoll2006T1 Your father-in-law did not play first chair sax. He played 1st tenor sax. The 1st chair (alto), which has the lead is in the middle. 1st chair is in the middle.
That is one of the best solos I've ever heard on the clarinet; starting off low and mysterious in the chalumeau range, working upwards until he's wailing away in the third register. Absolutely outstanding; it's what's kept me coming back to this great performance over and over again.
@Agachisanilles your grandpa was what we now call a monster player.. ie; someone who has mastered the instrument... and indeed he did.... what a great band... what a legacy for you...
AWESOME but where is GIGI?
MichaelHansenFUN 1 week ago
I have been loving this song 24/7 from both booker t's and this band
blujay1337 1 week ago
Smmmmmoooooooooooooooooottttttttttthhhhhhhh....
ronetteloverz 1 month ago
Grande classe Harry, merci beaucoup, thanks a lot
fab66100 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
all I can say is wow
amabee2002 1 month ago
Who can afford a 16-piece band?
kenp3L 3 months ago
One of the BEST video's I've seen in a long time, I keep coming back to it.
YouTube can be so fantastic sometimes
Thank you very much peejay1975 for posting it!
Dlrealife 3 months ago
Who passably might dislike this I just don't understand
MrHotsexyToy 4 months ago
I would not dance to that music. I would be to busy listening to it.
michaelterry1000 4 months ago 2
Chubby Jackson on bass. Nice.
sdartist1 4 months ago
nice
MANELEVIPCOM 4 months ago
Alllright... Upright solo: thud thud thud thud dud-da-dud... thank you Leo Fender for the p bass.
brooklynstudio 5 months ago
GREAT!
9lontoonieful1 5 months ago
That was so remarkable that it's sexy. Where are the maestros of today?
Cuchifrito 5 months ago
Boy, I remember my mom always talking about Harry James. She knew him from the 40's. Pretty hip cat to have recognized this as a classic and to have come up with a killer arrangement for it. Most "serious" musicians would probably have looked down on a "pop" song such as this. Way to go, Harry.
leftchicago 5 months ago
He should have used his bari for the solo. Killer band.
rbcastillo 5 months ago
the muting of the trumpet is out of this world
narutofiles 5 months ago
great :)
narutofiles 5 months ago
Now this is the straight dope!
JazzyBlues420 5 months ago
If you think Bob Achilles played a mean clarinet, you shoulda heard him preach!!
supertrampfan1 6 months ago
I"m a brazilian tied to swing's big bands era. This is a great song perfomance of Harry's band. Fantastic see three rhytms playing at the same time when the clarinet player Robert Achilles is doing his best. Fortunately the legacy and the name of Harry James Orchestra still remains nowadays directed by Fred Radke. By the way, what albun is this from and how can I find the CD or MP3 ?
Wilsonschmitt 6 months ago
Harry James made me melt inside from that trumpet solo. It was so, so sexy!
woofiny 6 months ago in playlist Good Music 8
"Superbly brilliant, what an excellent performance".
TheDelightfulmiles 6 months ago
Can you please post the song just before this one? The Singer is my Mother (C.C. Carter).
Thanks
TranceZend 6 months ago
Man!!!! these cats can really swing!!
nikon052952 7 months ago
jesus christ they're swinging so hard..
DreamDeliriumMusic 7 months ago
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DreamDeliriumMusic 7 months ago
Squares can jam too!
theflyroller 7 months ago
This is better than I feared it would be. The clarinet player looks like a close personal friend of Snagglepuss.
biglinguist 7 months ago
Swing it baby!
Dave897456 7 months ago
Mr. James and company are flat out WAILING on this! What a shame we live in such a graceless age today- no one knows how to dance anymore....GREAT Vid!
asgaard636 7 months ago 2
Fab
TimothyinToronto 7 months ago
Wow ! Joe Friday on drums !
InBy9OutBy5 8 months ago
@InBy9OutBy5 That's Buddy Rich, Philistine!
snuffyny 7 months ago
@snuffyny
I was kidding. Lighten up, Chooch !
InBy9OutBy5 7 months ago
@snuffyny
Amen!
I'm a chef and I use green onions every day! And, this song starts up in my head EVERY time I cut them up!
Great version of Booker T.'s!
Buddy Rich was the original stuff for sure.
This is classic jazz with a touch of R&B.
wdchefdave56 6 months ago
GREAT ..THANKS !
russ12395 8 months ago
Wow! Yet another You tube surprise...that was awesome,,,,,,,, I love the MGs version but that was something else.
Show that to kids these days and they just wouldn't get it!
tubemagpie 8 months ago
We thought we were hot stuff back then, with our pompadours, peg pants, Mr B collars and such. We didn't realize we were witnessing the greatest music ever, gone but never forgotten
joeasmythe 9 months ago 2
i dont know why... but this song reminds me the doors!!!!
Jamarone 9 months ago
@Jamarone the doors where highly Jazz influenced
ronin730 9 months ago
Such tight dance floor.
RedSphinxSc 9 months ago
atomic passion/angel cake
BShose121 9 months ago
I like the way Buddy Rich twirls his left drumstick at the very, very end as if to say the whole thing was down to him and it wasy EASY!
MAJORSNODGRASS 10 months ago 4
oooohhhh weeee damn im diggin this jam cool baby cool !!
shaunsstuff79 10 months ago
This is almost 50 years old and it is still REAL MUSIC !! ,not like that rap crap yins listen to now. I bet snoopdog and p-ditty can't play a horn that good.
murfspop 10 months ago 2
Oh man! let's boogie!!
buddyeagle 10 months ago
LBJ going crazy at 1:14
ryfan90 10 months ago
Omg...Killed it. In a bad way.
TIPPY5117 10 months ago
My Dad was in the RCAF during WW2 and I grew up listening to this music, but this is the first time I seen or heard this cut. friggin awsome!!!!!!! I love this music
1mojo1952 10 months ago
Such fine music, classy and chillin` at the same time :)
Bluzer86 10 months ago
5:52 YouTube video: Harry James on trumpet playing Green Onions, 1965. Buddy Rich on drums.
March 15, 1916: birth of Harry James, American musician and band leader (d. 1983)
mkworkman 10 months ago
Fantastic! A great Big Band take on the The Booker T and the MGs classic. 'Ol Harry James still has the chops at this relativley late date in his career. some pretty wild improv work by the horn and woodwinds sections. Almost makes it kind of sound in the style of Sing, Sing Sing, the Benny Goodman classic. And check out all those "squares" dancing, showing all the kids, hey we can be hip too!
TheEldoradoKid 10 months ago
buddy rich is G-R-O-O-V-I-N-G!!!
bluesguitardude 10 months ago
GREAT MUSIC..... !!! thanks for posting.
maureen1938 11 months ago
This is totally amazing, and would you believe I have danced to Harry James and Gene Crupa plus Buddy Rich - I guess that dates me, never heard this one.
redwhiteandblues 11 months ago
This is totally amazing, and would you believe I have danced to Harry James and Gene Crupa, never heard this one.
redwhiteandblues 11 months ago
Gotta love the James Bond lick at the end. The end of an era. No one will dance like that to this kind of music again, especially in suits and ties.
xlfutur1 11 months ago
@xlfutur1 I'm 17 years old, I'm having a Roaring Twenties party for my 18th birthday (straight & male) we will have a live swing band, and zoot suits will be mandatory dress.
smartguy5000 11 months ago
@smartguy5000 Wow sounds like a fun time, happy birthday and enjoy yourself! You will be delving into some real classic American song material. The Jazz Age of the 20s gave way to the Swing Era of the 30s and 40s. To the trained ear, there is quite a difference, and often people lump them together into one genre, but it is all good. Your great grandparents in their youth were just as energetic in that time, perhaps more so, as dancers are today. Remember it was all pure talent.without computers!
TheEldoradoKid 10 months ago
This made me very happy! Thanks DB
Baleigh02 11 months ago
Aaw - just feel it!!!
simnebrael 11 months ago
That was cool, but the upright bass needed to be "miked".
He worked soo hard!
notwaiting 11 months ago
is that aKing trumpet?
57dogsbody 1 year ago
And... you thought this origionated with Booker T and the MG's... didn't you. Now go find out who origionated "Walk, Don't Run"... ( hint... Not the Ventures...)
ThomasDeLello 1 year ago
@ThomasDeLello Think this originated with Booker T & the MGs? That's because it did, in 1962. This cover is from 1965.
Walk don't Run was written by Johnny Smith in 1955, covered by Chet Atkins a couple of years later and then by the Ventures in 1960
gezunder 1 year ago
Awesome indeed! Provides me with a new found appreciation for Harry James and band.
bejeeber 1 year ago
@rolex427sc - The clarinet player? He was on about four hours of practice a day plus at least seven gigs a week. He was certainly sitting in the "pocket" and playing beautifully. The whole band has a feel. It's relaxed, understated and the solos are flowing. I didn't think this tune had a life before booker t and the mg's.
KoolRifz 1 year ago
@KoolRifz It didn't. This version was done in1965. Green Onions is an original composition by the MGs.
gezunder 1 year ago
Masters...I love it.
arnyone 1 year ago
PLEASE!!! Let me have the cool old fashion electric piano and the cool rogers drum set and I will never ask santa for another thing.
1hipgig 1 year ago
@1hipgig The electric piano is an early Rhodes, as in Fender/Rhodes. There are lots around.
gsmonks 1 year ago
@gsmonks Actually it's a Wurlitzer, not a Fender Rhodes. A 100 series to be precise, as used by Ray Charles on "What'd I Say", Joe Zawinul on ""Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" and The Chantays on "Pipeline".
butterfingersbeck 11 months ago
@butterfingersbeck B'gosh, you're right! I should have known that, because I had one. It spent half its time in the Western Canadian Radiographics shop in Vancouver, BC, being tuned, having tines replaced and mechanisms put back together. The box was made of wood, as were the keys and their mechanisms, like a real piano.
gsmonks 11 months ago
@gsmonks That's OK. I play a Wurlitzer 200 (the plastic-bodied one) in a 9-piece ska band, The Skanx here in London, UK.
Check out some of our videos - search for "The Skanx".
butterfingersbeck 11 months ago
@butterfingersbeck If you REALLY want to be precise, it's a 120. There's a good picture of one over at this site: soundandcircuit.webs.com/wurlitzerelectricpianos.htm (third one down)
RohitSatoskar 4 months ago
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@butterfingersbeck If you REALLY want to be precise, it's a 120. There's a good picture of one over at this site: soundandcircuit.webs.com/wurlitzerelectricpianos.htm (third one down)
RohitSatoskar 4 months ago
It is fascinating, It is fascinating, Óle Óle & Óleee!! A toast of Chanpen!!
Martin
Raiwons 1 year ago
It is a marvel!!!. A million stars for this video!!
Martin
Raiwons 1 year ago
bravissimo..
SuperAhlberg 1 year ago
My grandfather told me about this song. (the clarinet player)
The way it worked was at the end of the song, the trumpets would play that line from "It ain't Necessarily So" and then they would all compete for the highest note. Harry would let them have it for a while and he would try and hit way above everybody else and blow them away. Unfortunately, Harry didn't in this video.
Agachisanilles 1 year ago
amazing trumpet solo, learning it right now
greenerroee 1 year ago
Anybody know where I can get some recordings of this band with Buddy and Harry? This is amazing.
uberman54533 1 year ago
I mean I know it is obvious... but these guys are white.... dot 3....
jasongb111 1 year ago
andifyouhadtwocoats, you sir are an idiot as harry james was not gay. he was quite the opposite, going to bed with women every night. i have no problem with gays, but i do have a problem with misrepresentation of history.
HJWins 1 year ago
Damn... this is the first song i learned to play on the bass and I'm proud of it
captain31893 1 year ago
The musicians are in a different dimension, transported by great music. This is priceless, priceless.
onasugol 1 year ago
whatever that Clarinet plalyer was on, I need some of it every morning @ 7:00...
rolex427sc 1 year ago 39
@rolex427sc He was on years of hard work and practice. Robert Achilles was a great musician and didn't spoil his life like a lot of the others out there. He gave up drinking and smoking and actually became a pastor in Gilroy, California before he passed away in May of 2008. He was my grandfather.
Agachisanilles 1 year ago
@rolex427sc .
You need to come off them dylsexia plils. Then u can be a clarinet plalyer
RSilvermoon27 1 year ago
@rolex427sc
Yeah, that was a good one!
monomanonair 1 year ago
@rolex427sc I think that's just what happens when you love your music.
smartguy5000 11 months ago
@rolex427sc He was awsome!
lincaines 7 months ago
@rolex427sc I agree.he's tremendous
DCgarrett 5 months ago
my grandma used to listen to these songs,most of them by glenn miller. im 15 and a classic rock nut, but i like these old songs, and listen to them when there arent any witnesses around to compromise my reputation lol
williamrafe1 1 year ago
@williamrafe1 u are an idiot.
strelacivan 1 year ago
@strelacivan and ur w whiny bitch......which one do u think people hate more?
williamrafe1 1 year ago
@williamrafe1 du bist eine idioten.
strelacivan 1 year ago
@strelacivan agus go bhfuil tú a bitch whiney, mar tá mé sa
williamrafe1 1 year ago
@williamrafe1 ti si idiot.
strelacivan 1 year ago
@strelacivan TI si leathcheann.
williamrafe1 1 year ago
Is that a wulitzer electric piano? Anyway still a great arrangement love the ending
Leedysgladstones 1 year ago
Wowwww....he's playing the trumpet with a sardine.......
bvb7589 1 year ago
This is Great!
aardman666 1 year ago
very good but one solist only would be much better
zsvz 1 year ago
Groovy version :-)
BaddDaddi 1 year ago
The white-guy repression syndrome in that audience is palpable! Loosen up, cats!
Bix12 1 year ago
who is playing everything in this besides james and Rich?
Who is the clarinet Player ? That was great?
MissssJupiterSunrise 1 year ago
@MissssJupiterSunrise Clarinet player was Robert Achilles. He happens to be my grandfather. He also plays the baritone sax in this song. Unfortunately, he passed away in May two years ago. My father and I have both inherited his musical talent and we have our own bands.
Agachisanilles 1 year ago
who is playing everything in this besides james and Rich?
MissssJupiterSunrise 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me who's playing the piano?
ThatsMrMoronToYou 1 year ago
@ThatsMrMoronToYou Jack Perciful on piano, Red Kelly (love you dad) on the bass.
duganreno 1 year ago
@ThatsMrMoronToYou Jack Perciful on a Wurlitzer 112
mwcvw 1 year ago
@mwcvw My dad played a Wurlitzer. He used it as a trade-in for a Steinway baby grand. I never liked the sound of it. Some day I'll track down his Wurlitzer and buy it back.
ThatsMrMoronToYou 1 year ago
At 4:41 it sounds a lot like Mancini. I wonder if some of the musicians and/or arrangers were in that band, as well.
ThatsMrMoronToYou 1 year ago
Fookin' awesome! Where was this?
ThatsMrMoronToYou 1 year ago
nvm the soul is still there.
RastafariPoet 1 year ago
Dont like this version, took the soul out of it. lol
RastafariPoet 1 year ago
i have the 45, yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
magicstereosound 1 year ago
Wow - an early Wurlitzer electric piano. Priceless!
morganfjp 1 year ago
It's swing- ballroom style, baby. Cool, smooth and jazzy. Guys, grab a gal and get on that dance floor. The only thing we're missing are the martinis. Great stuff.
sadsack987 1 year ago
what is the point in this?
Ty10Man 1 year ago
@Ty10Man This is an excellent display of musical mastership from a variety of top-players.
Agachisanilles 1 year ago
omg
keravankolli56 1 year ago
Red Kelly is the bass player on this video. He was with james. Kenton and Herman and a character.
Hyslop65 1 year ago
@Hyslop65 Red gave us our first cat. A Siamese named "Sleepy."
My late father, Dave Madden, played with him in several bands.
KuriousKevin 1 year ago
@KuriousKevin
Your father was pretty famous in his own right and a fine musician
Hyslop65 1 year ago
@Hyslop65 Thank you for the kind note. Please drop me a line and let me know who you are, and how you knew my dad.
Cheers,
km
KuriousKevin 1 year ago
wow!
JohnnyGlory 1 year ago
Holy Smokes! Harry James!!
MrsGeekside 1 year ago
holy shit this is awesome!!
Paulfieldz 1 year ago
1:06 - AHHHHH!!!
SolidSulfur 1 year ago
ma friend
you`re much too kind for uploading this
cheers mate!
seurickpp 1 year ago
Wow i remember renying a video years ago with this on it. Always wished i had a copy.
2packs4sure 1 year ago
Interesting because of Buddy on drums, and the use of the small electric piano (probably a Wurlitzer, with a wood case), and Harry's interesting wah-wah work.
crtune 1 year ago
One of the graetest musik by the acclaimed gay icon Harry Jams.
You get gayer and gayer with it.
your trootey,
Rab Hines
andifyouhadtwocoats 1 year ago
Amazing! I'm more of a Gene Kruppa man myself, but Rich is great on this song. Ditto to the clarinet player.
gahrzahk 1 year ago
thanks for posting this
kurt52073 1 year ago
@ Achilles - Your Grandpa really nailed that clarinet solo! Way good!
ODColon 1 year ago
Unbelievable...My favorite band, and with Buddy on drums...forgetaboutit ! Thanks for posting, it is appreciated
sherom 1 year ago
I like this, but I think it deviates too far from the original. They gave it a very "swing" feel, and transformed it into a standard Big Band song. Booker T's version had a groove that was decades ahead of its time.
earthday47 1 year ago
How in sam hell did 10 people thumbs down this? wtf?
strangersound 1 year ago
That's an early version of a Wurlitzer EP. Anyone know who the pianist is? That's a great solo.
rgk27 1 year ago
What happened to music like that and people dancing?
fggoodman 1 year ago
@fggoodman Music that required less talent happened. That and bebop, I like bebop but people couldn't dance to it, I don't like dancing but people that wanted music to dance to couldn't do it to bebop which really took over jazz at that time. Then there was the world war, that really killed big bands, with losing band leaders/players and money problems most of them died soon after the war. I wish I could haved lived then, I would sacrifice modern tech. to go back then for that music.
selector111 1 year ago
0:58 -1:45 but especially 1:04(!) is the reason why I am now learning to play trumpet. Can't get enough of it. Watching it over and over. And other reasons of course are Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Miles Davis... etcetera!
DGC019 1 year ago
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0:58 -1:45 but especially 1:04(!) is the reason why I am now learning to play trumpet. Can't get enough of it. Watching it over and over. And other reasons of course are Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Miles Davis... etcetera!
DGC019 1 year ago
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DGC019 1 year ago
@DGC019 Dont forget about Hugh Masekela. I played trumpet all through school & still do. You never forget how.
Good luck!
papabugs71 1 year ago
Now that is a white hot version. Bring clarinets back!
dtsamples 1 year ago 2
Wow, excellent music , back in a day when a trumpet player could actually make a living on the single yob of playing gigs with an orchestra... Hairy James, tremendous expression on that horn...
DancingSpiderman 1 year ago
Who are his lead players? They were really goin at it in the end! Awesome post and I just love Harry James. A GREAT player that just knew how to play!
Boost34 1 year ago
is that a very early wurlitzer or rhodes piano he's plaing?
gouchodon1 1 year ago
This is awesome - never heard it played this way before. Thank you so much for posting...
cosworth6nut 1 year ago
Great bass solo too. Say, is that bass painted white ?? LOL
InBy9OutBy5 1 year ago
Wow, that's a great blues trumpet solo.
InBy9OutBy5 1 year ago
Original Dirty Harry !
SlavicMaleChorus 1 year ago
bix beiderbecke and harry james much better than armstrong ever was!
steve89z 1 year ago
Great !!!!!!!
Have just discovered how good this band really were.
GERTA22 1 year ago 7
My grandpa takes the clarinet solo!
Robert Achilles
I was named after him!
Agachisanilles 1 year ago 68
@Agachisanilles Awsome! One of the best jams of all times
retired82jumpmaster 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles
My Father-in-Law is first chair Sax - Corky Corcoran!
BarbieDoll2006T1 1 year ago
@BarbieDoll2006T1 Very nice!
Agachisanilles 1 year ago
@BarbieDoll2006T1 Your father-in-law did not play first chair sax. He played 1st tenor sax. The 1st chair (alto), which has the lead is in the middle. 1st chair is in the middle.
OttoLink10 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles Nice Solo! How cool is that, man? /;-)
Bix12 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles yr grandpa's the man! That was awesome.
kurt52073 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles That's AWESOME!
nork1997 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles your grandpa is a weapon.
gussieGSE 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles
That is one of the best solos I've ever heard on the clarinet; starting off low and mysterious in the chalumeau range, working upwards until he's wailing away in the third register. Absolutely outstanding; it's what's kept me coming back to this great performance over and over again.
wadeharris65 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles Your grandpa was the man.
Masterphonic 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles Very cool.
imjohnmoore 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles Very cool. Your grandfather knew what he was doing.
imjohnmoore 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles you should be very proud! :)
joeetstoke 1 year ago
@joeetstoke I am!
Agachisanilles 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles
AWESOME
Paradox1618 1 year ago 14
@Agachisanilles your grandpa was what we now call a monster player.. ie; someone who has mastered the instrument... and indeed he did.... what a great band... what a legacy for you...
tjmpiano 1 year ago
@tjmpiano Thank you!
Agachisanilles 1 year ago
@Agachisanilles u play clarinet? and nice!!
greenerroee 1 year ago
@greenerroee I do not play clarinet very well, however, I do play a wide variety of music and I have my own band.
Agachisanilles 1 year ago
Jeez that was great. Sounded Thad Jonesy/Mel Lewisy to me.
mahlermahlermahler1 2 years ago 3