The lead trumpet thing is cool, but what is the point of it? Its kind of redundant and pointless to the song, not to mention there are literally no other versions with that in it. Great solo by TD too btw, what a trombone sound.
Well, Blazer . . . I WILL try to catch your program on Mondays.
40 years ago, I was fortunate to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I could hear two great big band/jazz radio stations---KJAZ out of Oakland, and KMPX in The City . . . the tapes I recorded from them are still in pretty good condition . . . listen to them constantly . . . although now, I can hear much of the same on Y-Tube.
Well, folks . . . we should recall who wrote & arranged this driving number---the gifted Sy Oliver.
The trumpeter is Charlie Shavers. The clarinetist is probably Buddy DeFranco.
But . . . I think there's a bit of trickery going on here . . . the sounds coming through are a bit more than could be produced by this rather modest 14-piece group. But . . . why pick nits?
@garysaddleback - Hi Gary, The clarinetist is Buddy DeFranco and he told me in an interview a couple of months ago that it was a dispute with Tommy Dorsey on how he was to play this tune "Opus One" that got him fired from the Dorsey Orchestra. Listen to "A Night at The Palomar" Every Monday evening at 9PM EST on WYYR.com to talk about the big bands and the swing era!
I love how on a beautiful piece of music like this dickheads bring up war. This Is about one greatest tbone players of all time not jap concentration camps. Fucking monkeys.
@rsalvucc1 If I'm not mistaken, Charlie Shavers wrote the big band classic entitled "Undecided", which was recorded or at least performed by most of the major big bands.
TD and his band , yes sir we will never see his like again. The comments from the Yankee Clipper2 American music at its finest and best totally agree . 5/5
Ok,Ok,.. I apoligize to td1238 and pedricolas. I didn' t mean to offend anyone. I signed up and made my first ever comment. I didn't mean this in the way you two must have understood this comment. I'l never comment anywhere on here again.
That particular war was more-or-less for a good cause and not just for oil or propaganda. ...And times did suck if you weren't white, etc. Things aren't perfect now (for one thing, swing music isn't popular anymore), but they're far better. If we could just bring back 30s and 40s popular music, things might become perfect, or at least head in the right direction.
Great people era, great music era. I always felt I was born a generation to late. The times back then, it seems people meant something to each other and it wasn't all me, me, me. People were there for the war effort, it meant something to be an american...
@Hambone571 don't be so nostalgic. We blew the japs away with an A bomb, we had concentration camps and if you were of the wrong color you sit in the back of the bus if you were nice, no matter how well you blew the horn man.
Things are far from perfect now, but they are way better that they used to be.
Not to get into an argument but .. we had no concentration camps. That term gets misused a lot so it loses it's sting. If you're talking about the camps where Japanese Americans were interred, no way was that close to CCamps. A-Bomb. Sure but what choice was there? And it ended a war that would have gone on. No way to invade Jap homeland without huge loss of life beyond the bomb. The interest was saving ours over saving theirs. That's war.
I can only deduce you don't know the definition of "concentration" if you believe the U.S. did not have them. In fact I grew up with a kid whos father was sent to one as a kid. Yes the U.S. had them. Perhaps you are confusing them with Death camps I'm not sure.
To most ppl of my generation, there was little diff. if any between the death camps and Ccamps. as set up in WW2. If you are referring to the internment camps Japanese Americans went to, those in no way compared to the German concentration camps whose slave labor and brutal treatment usually ended in death. AND, a ccamp and death camp often were one in the same. Talk to a holocaust survivor sometime and see if they made a distinction.
my father used to dance after the war in France in 1945 in Dijon the US soldiors tought him how to dance the swing and the music was of Tommy Dorsey!!
Not many people realize that Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey were the very first to put Elvis on television on their summer television show, which I believe this clip is from. This was always one of my favorites by Dorsey--thanks for posting it!
@cioupty Actually, there was some rivalry between Dorsey and Miller- in the 1940's. In the early 30's, there wasn't and as it as noted here, Miller actually played in the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in the early 1930's, did some arranging for them.
Dude its not about the medoly or the beat. Swing is all about the rhythm that goes with the beat and being able to improvise a solo along with the song. And today I bet that none of the BS rap and hip-pop artists cant even play what the Swing Era had.
I'm wrack-in my brain to thinK of a name to give to this tune so Perry can croon,and may-be ol Bing will give it a fling.And that-il start every one humin the thing.The every one is swing in today I'll it Opus One
...the melody's dumb, repeat and repeat... but if you can swing, it's got a good beat... and that's the main thing to make it complete.... cause everyone's swingin today!
I love Charlie Shavers' little head shake at the end of his solo. Anybody know who the drummer is on this. I can't make out his face. Anyway, great song.
The term "opus" is used to classify a composer's work, but it is used primarily for classical music. For example, the fourth collection that a composer assembled would be called Opus 4. This piece is titled "Opus One" as a joke, mocking the formal notation of pieces.
People are rating your comment negatively because it's a term that you should learn early on in any music study.
Only place you hear music like this is in R.S.A's Sad that the original Big Band Swing genaration is nearly if not already dead. That said tho if things like youtube help us keep a connection with the music it's fact it il be staying round for years to come.
Oh I LOVED this record! I wore out 2 copies back in the day. This one and Gene Krupa's version with Anita O'Day singing. Wore a couple of them out too. Terrific.
ask MTV from what i heard the video killed the radio star. Who would have thought that song was right. I miss the live big bands with all the talent and sound that would make you want to move. I am not the first to say it and i am not the last but todays music needs to take notes from the past.
The clarinetist is Hugo Loewenstern, Jr., who had also played with Jack Teagarden and Harry James. How do I know this? He is my father! And the trumpetist is, indeed, Charlie Shaver.
@rextony22 no support for jazz anymore, sadly. People now think of jazz as a dance, and dancing music. People do not want to dance nowadays... I don't hold these opinions, but I have asked
No matter when it was done or by whom, great music is great music. This is great music. Simply awesome.
A later version of this song was done with strings added to the orchestration to make it more lush and resplendent. Result? Breath-taking musical sparkle!
THAT version could very well serve as the bellwether song of the Big Band genre, so great is its impact! Of course, there ARE some Benny Goodman songs that could well vie for that honor as well!
the suffix "-ist" is generic. The only instruments with the suffix "-er" are ones which have names that are also verbs. Trumpet is a verb, therefore a person who plays it is a "trumpeter". Same with Drummer, Whistler and Piper. Drum, Whistle and Pipe can all be used as verbs.
This is the early 50s show. Jimmy and Tommy were the very first to feature Elvis Presley on tv as a guest, and that was huge exposure considering the following Big Band still had.
Correction to Cornhusk60: Jack Teagarden was the greatest. Easily. Very Easily. Also, he has been called the greatest jazz vocalist of all time.... Check him out.
Thank you for your comments, in music there are no borders and unites us all, I will put more videos JAZZ of the problem is not that I do not infringe on the rights of commercial companies, but really after 25 years these should be Part of mankind as with ASPIRIN.Un hug.
Gracias por tus comentarios, en la musica no hay fronteras y todo nos hermana, voy atratar de poner mas videos de JAZZ el problema es que no lo hago por no chocar con los Derechos comerciales de las compañias, aunque realmente despues de 25 años estos deberian ser parte de la Humanidad como ocurre con la ASPIRINA.Un abrazo.
They still do. Music from this era was really good, and it required a lot of talent. But the musicians of today have talent as well, just with different instruments. Guitar isn't so easy.
You're correct that the trumpet player is Charlie Shavers, but the video is probably from the early '50s, judging from Tommy's hairstyle. He went completely gray in the '50s and wore a crewcut.
Just wasn't done back then....mostly. Roy Eldridge was a colored trumpet player who worked in Gene Krupa's band. Most of the time they couldn't have it...Civil rights wouldn't come about for at least 20 years!
B-E-A-utiful!
sanan22 2 days ago
my alltime favorite kind of music !
alltheway62 1 month ago
The pianist is an old friend; Freddie Deland, from Atlanta. I think the clarinettiest is Johnny Mince, another great guy who I got to know a bit.
harryslide 3 months ago
eu to tocando trombone
gildamusica 4 months ago
Kerreeeennn!!!! This is very cool!! So I remember when I watch Tom & Jerry. I miss it so much. (*,*) coooolllll....
Penelope4823 5 months ago
The lead trumpet thing is cool, but what is the point of it? Its kind of redundant and pointless to the song, not to mention there are literally no other versions with that in it. Great solo by TD too btw, what a trombone sound.
macree01 6 months ago
Love how the pianist looks like he's trolling the trumpet player.
trash266001 6 months ago
Well, Blazer . . . I WILL try to catch your program on Mondays.
40 years ago, I was fortunate to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I could hear two great big band/jazz radio stations---KJAZ out of Oakland, and KMPX in The City . . . the tapes I recorded from them are still in pretty good condition . . . listen to them constantly . . . although now, I can hear much of the same on Y-Tube.
Does anyone else remember Rick Wagstaff on KMPX?
Gary in Arizona
garysaddleback 7 months ago 2
I'm 25 and this kicks all the music on the top 40 charts nowadays ASS!
turbodaze 7 months ago
Well, folks . . . we should recall who wrote & arranged this driving number---the gifted Sy Oliver.
The trumpeter is Charlie Shavers. The clarinetist is probably Buddy DeFranco.
But . . . I think there's a bit of trickery going on here . . . the sounds coming through are a bit more than could be produced by this rather modest 14-piece group. But . . . why pick nits?
Gary in Arizona
garysaddleback 7 months ago 2
@garysaddleback - Hi Gary, The clarinetist is Buddy DeFranco and he told me in an interview a couple of months ago that it was a dispute with Tommy Dorsey on how he was to play this tune "Opus One" that got him fired from the Dorsey Orchestra. Listen to "A Night at The Palomar" Every Monday evening at 9PM EST on WYYR.com to talk about the big bands and the swing era!
blazerwolfsmartt 7 months ago 2
I love how he clears the spit from his bone at 0:15 !!
rogueleader12 9 months ago
BOB SNYDER.
vivalachunk 9 months ago
1:26 trumpet!
Papadello2203516 9 months ago
iss that cat anderson playing trumpet?
biffon69 10 months ago
@biffon69 I think so. He played with Duke Ellington, too.
SplankyCP 6 months ago
Who's that on the keyboard, isn't he playing broken note, broken finger? Floyd Cramer Style?
rdconnally 10 months ago
many people think this style of music doesn't exist anymore. not true! ck out this L.A. band that recreates this era with a heavy helping of hip.
search cinnamon doll jazz
tubesoxabc 10 months ago
haha the pianists' face is amusingly intimidating from 1:31- 1:38
euch27 10 months ago 10
Томми велик. Велик и его оркестр. Это срижали настоящего, мирового джаща.
wanawara111 10 months ago
The Guy that played the trumpet solo is far better than awesome
like if you agree
alibamber 11 months ago
I love how on a beautiful piece of music like this dickheads bring up war. This Is about one greatest tbone players of all time not jap concentration camps. Fucking monkeys.
oofak07 11 months ago
13 years ago this song changed my life musically. awesome!
BornToLoseOutToLunch 1 year ago
A classic
patjack1956 1 year ago
Why else whould he close them?
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Trumpeter at the end is going to pop his eyeballs playing like that!
jwgerlach 1 year ago
Trumpeter at the end is going to pop his eyeballs playing like that!
jwgerlach 1 year ago
@jwgerlach Charlie Shavers is the trumpet
rsalvucc1 1 year ago
@rsalvucc1 If I'm not mistaken, Charlie Shavers wrote the big band classic entitled "Undecided", which was recorded or at least performed by most of the major big bands.
monteleone1010 11 months ago
The trumpet at the end. That's nuts.
TheGrandArgument 1 year ago
la mejor musica del mundo vivan las grandes bandas
williee72 1 year ago
TD and his band , yes sir we will never see his like again. The comments from the Yankee Clipper2 American music at its finest and best totally agree . 5/5
fordroad 1 year ago
"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"! This is great stuff!
flashback96 1 year ago
Insane musicians!
Uyusanis 1 year ago
Ok,Ok,.. I apoligize to td1238 and pedricolas. I didn' t mean to offend anyone. I signed up and made my first ever comment. I didn't mean this in the way you two must have understood this comment. I'l never comment anywhere on here again.
Hambone571 1 year ago
@Hambone571 hey don't take it so personal, you are bound to offen somebody, we are just killing time. It is just a conversation, a civil one.
pedroforonda 1 year ago
That particular war was more-or-less for a good cause and not just for oil or propaganda. ...And times did suck if you weren't white, etc. Things aren't perfect now (for one thing, swing music isn't popular anymore), but they're far better. If we could just bring back 30s and 40s popular music, things might become perfect, or at least head in the right direction.
td1238 1 year ago
Great people era, great music era. I always felt I was born a generation to late. The times back then, it seems people meant something to each other and it wasn't all me, me, me. People were there for the war effort, it meant something to be an american...
Hambone571 1 year ago
@Hambone571 don't be so nostalgic. We blew the japs away with an A bomb, we had concentration camps and if you were of the wrong color you sit in the back of the bus if you were nice, no matter how well you blew the horn man.
Things are far from perfect now, but they are way better that they used to be.
pedricolas 1 year ago
@pedricolas
Bullshit!!!!
tumsabai1 1 year ago
@pedricolas
Not to get into an argument but .. we had no concentration camps. That term gets misused a lot so it loses it's sting. If you're talking about the camps where Japanese Americans were interred, no way was that close to CCamps. A-Bomb. Sure but what choice was there? And it ended a war that would have gone on. No way to invade Jap homeland without huge loss of life beyond the bomb. The interest was saving ours over saving theirs. That's war.
betteroffsingle 1 year ago
@betteroffsingle
I can only deduce you don't know the definition of "concentration" if you believe the U.S. did not have them. In fact I grew up with a kid whos father was sent to one as a kid. Yes the U.S. had them. Perhaps you are confusing them with Death camps I'm not sure.
Hiloboy1 11 months ago
@Hiloboy1
To most ppl of my generation, there was little diff. if any between the death camps and Ccamps. as set up in WW2. If you are referring to the internment camps Japanese Americans went to, those in no way compared to the German concentration camps whose slave labor and brutal treatment usually ended in death. AND, a ccamp and death camp often were one in the same. Talk to a holocaust survivor sometime and see if they made a distinction.
betteroffsingle 11 months ago
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Hiloboy1 11 months ago
Who's the Trumpet player???
NikoBoss32 1 year ago
@NikoBoss32
Charlie Shavers (:
does anyone know who the pianist is??
muse113bliss 1 year ago
My grandpa is the one that takes the clarinet solo!!!
seri0usj0ker 1 year ago
@ANASTASIACHAVEZFILM ¿Hay necesidad de usar esas palabras? jajaja
mrcmxoner 1 year ago
sure there's still Jazz around, but com'on we know deep down inside its not the same as it was and may never be...
ChainsawedMovies 1 year ago 2
oh how nice to hear real music played by artistes with talent AND dress sense
ianskidmore 1 year ago 2
date?
swilsonsww 1 year ago
Oh, HELL, Ya!! All the way!
dirtyflask 1 year ago
sad thing about this is that it'll never repeat...
mrcmxoner 1 year ago
This number is hot.
MrSkipper13 1 year ago
a joy to listen to
sloppyoscar 1 year ago
thanks, songs like this help me play them better. got on for a trumpet solo?
ClueLou 1 year ago
my father used to dance after the war in France in 1945 in Dijon the US soldiors tought him how to dance the swing and the music was of Tommy Dorsey!!
gourbi 1 year ago
@gourbi sweet! bet that was fun.
ClueLou 1 year ago
I love TD but it was Sy Oliver who really made that band cool with his compositions and arrangements-- yes, indeed!
samanthajanepink 1 year ago
tommy dorsey and glen miller are amazing
BirdMan6400836 1 year ago
All American Music!
nicomateo23 1 year ago
Contemporary music at its finest.
Gentrone 1 year ago
Love tommy and the boys
flowage5 1 year ago
Actually It was a cool cat named Alfonso.
onewiseowl 1 year ago
Not many people realize that Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey were the very first to put Elvis on television on their summer television show, which I believe this clip is from. This was always one of my favorites by Dorsey--thanks for posting it!
michaeljayklein 1 year ago
das beste das ich kenne
igelhoff 1 year ago
at the end, for a fraction of a second, there is the beginning of boogie woogie
anonemusify 1 year ago
LA EPOCA DE MIS ABUELOS.mis queridos abuelos. LOS AMO Y EXTRANIO.QPD
pepelluchos 1 year ago
The original! Love his sound, so straight a head and no bullshit
digitaltrombone 1 year ago
i often wonder if there was any rivalry between tommy dorsey and the great man himself , glenn miller back in the 40's??
cioupty 1 year ago
@cioupty no, there wasn't. Actually, when Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey made their "the Dorsey Brothers" band, Glenn Miller was in it
anonemusify 1 year ago
@cioupty Actually, there was some rivalry between Dorsey and Miller- in the 1940's. In the early 30's, there wasn't and as it as noted here, Miller actually played in the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in the early 1930's, did some arranging for them.
TheSwingShift 1 year ago
Wasn't that Cat Anderson on Trumpet?
boneman222 1 year ago
@boneman222
No, it was Charlie Shavers!
TheJazzvideos 1 year ago 2
I love it!
yiyalila 2 years ago 2
Thanks for posting this classic.
swirlcrop 2 years ago
I've seen the trumpet solo maybe 200 times and I'm so impressed - sbody know his name?
sorenpo 2 years ago
I think is name is Charlie Shavers (only 90% sure!). He was also a composer: he wrote the jazz classis "Undecided", among others.
monteleone1010 2 years ago
Dude its not about the medoly or the beat. Swing is all about the rhythm that goes with the beat and being able to improvise a solo along with the song. And today I bet that none of the BS rap and hip-pop artists cant even play what the Swing Era had.
IDrAsianI 2 years ago
@IDrAsianI I definetely agree. Heck, nobody even sings in rap!
jaguarjaguarjaguarja 2 years ago
Umm, maybe because they are not trying to sing?
Nismo416 2 years ago
I'm wrack-in my brain to thinK of a name to give to this tune so Perry can croon,and may-be ol Bing will give it a fling.And that-il start every one humin the thing.The every one is swing in today I'll it Opus One
yeksrub 2 years ago
...the melody's dumb, repeat and repeat... but if you can swing, it's got a good beat... and that's the main thing to make it complete.... cause everyone's swingin today!
Tre404 2 years ago
do you know what a riff is?
MrTrent 2 years ago
MrTRENT: Why do you ask?
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roughwaytogo 2 years ago
Holy shitttt... What was that trumpet solo?
gannggstaz 2 years ago
American music at it very very best yes sir 5*****
yankeeclipper2 2 years ago 61
A Great T. Dorsey's Orchestra.
FAUSTORICCARDO 2 years ago 2
the drummer might be maurice purtill who played for glenn miller. tis is a wild guess. corky
chriskcr 2 years ago
Maurice Purtill played for Tommy Dorsey, too.
cenotosa1 2 years ago
I love Charlie Shavers' little head shake at the end of his solo. Anybody know who the drummer is on this. I can't make out his face. Anyway, great song.
ParadiddleMcFlam 2 years ago
Maurice Purtill.
cenotosa1 2 years ago
Thanks for the info!
ParadiddleMcFlam 2 years ago
you can hear this music every wednesday night at Swing 46 in NYC. Stan Rubin Big Band plays this chart.
dbassline1 2 years ago
master!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mariocanario01 2 years ago
This is swingin'! I'm tapping my foot so much it looks like I'm having a siezure! ;)
cenotosa1 2 years ago 2
what does opus one really mean?
dnl5649 2 years ago
why are people - my question?
really what does opus one mean???
is is a name or does it mean something i don't know?
i am curious, i don't know, so i want to know
please stop - my question and give me an answer, i would like to know
dnl5649 2 years ago
The term "opus" is used to classify a composer's work, but it is used primarily for classical music. For example, the fourth collection that a composer assembled would be called Opus 4. This piece is titled "Opus One" as a joke, mocking the formal notation of pieces.
People are rating your comment negatively because it's a term that you should learn early on in any music study.
patsbassoon 2 years ago
'Ahhhhhhh Maaaaaaan, this is Great!
Brilliant, Absolutely Amazing to finally see this tune being performed live.
Robert DeNiro & Liza Minelli Starred in NEW YORK NEW YORK' and this was played in that movie.. A true Classic.
Thanks for posting!!
cubanbrown 2 years ago 8
Only place you hear music like this is in R.S.A's Sad that the original Big Band Swing genaration is nearly if not already dead. That said tho if things like youtube help us keep a connection with the music it's fact it il be staying round for years to come.
BornToLoseOutToLunch 2 years ago
Oh I LOVED this record! I wore out 2 copies back in the day. This one and Gene Krupa's version with Anita O'Day singing. Wore a couple of them out too. Terrific.
2agray 2 years ago
Ahaha! The progressive grin on the piano players face through the trumpet solo cracks me up. Anyways, great song, made my night
weshockusuckers 2 years ago
anybody knows who is on the double bass???
monteleone1010 2 years ago
Around 1:34 That's why Trumpet players hate Piano players'!
J.K. I play both and guitar.
Morahman7vnNo2 2 years ago
What happened to real music?
5023849465 2 years ago
ask MTV from what i heard the video killed the radio star. Who would have thought that song was right. I miss the live big bands with all the talent and sound that would make you want to move. I am not the first to say it and i am not the last but todays music needs to take notes from the past.
Tinymoezzy 2 years ago
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tallswede68 2 years ago
Everytime I see this video, it reminds me of Ricky's band in I Love Lucy
zomgSAMANTHA 2 years ago
what year was this
swilsonsww 2 years ago
This sounds like the band from about 1941.
i002492 1 year ago
I believe the pianist is Robert Emmerich
sykochik2003 2 years ago
anybody know who's on the piano??
BadVizion 2 years ago
that was me .not realy
billbloodma 2 years ago
The clarinetist is Hugo Loewenstern, Jr., who had also played with Jack Teagarden and Harry James. How do I know this? He is my father! And the trumpetist is, indeed, Charlie Shaver.
danawanaify 2 years ago 10
wow so do you play also
chris20000005 2 years ago
I am a jazz vocalist - I worked with my dad until very recently, when he finally stopped performing in public.
danawanaify 2 years ago
A great clip. Thanks for sharing!
SandyDog102 2 years ago
I would love to see swing jazz make a come back in the coming years. and hopefully blow away the competition lol. which it can.
rextony22 2 years ago 38
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mikedressner 1 year ago
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@rextony22 no support for jazz anymore, sadly. People now think of jazz as a dance, and dancing music. People do not want to dance nowadays... I don't hold these opinions, but I have asked
mikedressner 1 year ago
saw this for the first time tonight-
hats off to the cool cat who sent it our way!
hobokendago 2 years ago 2
This has to be the coolest 1:51 I have ever seen. These cats can wail.
plushlush 2 years ago 2
Wow, that was just so laid back and smokin'!!
LLJtbone 2 years ago 2
Fantastic musicians
terencehaydn 2 years ago
No matter when it was done or by whom, great music is great music. This is great music. Simply awesome.
A later version of this song was done with strings added to the orchestration to make it more lush and resplendent. Result? Breath-taking musical sparkle!
THAT version could very well serve as the bellwether song of the Big Band genre, so great is its impact! Of course, there ARE some Benny Goodman songs that could well vie for that honor as well!
Peace.
FanOfJanis 2 years ago 4
If only the trumpet player in our school band played that well...
evisceratedcake 2 years ago
this trompet player is AWESOME
funkrock94 2 years ago 3
yah buddy defranco!
licoricestic 2 years ago
you mean Johnny Mince, I hope !
zoot1a 2 years ago
Tommy plays the trombone and it looks so easy... the trombone is not easy to play
monteleone1010 2 years ago 4
who is the standing base player???
monteleone1010 2 years ago
upright bass
Cornhusk60 2 years ago
The trumpet player is CAT ANDERSON
7216sp 2 years ago
Funny. Sure looked like Charlie Shavers to me.
Truth614 2 years ago
Pwned
JordanJuno916 2 years ago
Can ANYONE resist tapping their toes or fingers while listening to Opus # 1 ??
dovermoreno 2 years ago 5
nowai.
HendrixGirl4270 2 years ago
the trumpetist hit a high d over c...very very few people can do that on a standard trumpet...maybe a piccolo...lol
JordanJuno916 2 years ago
im not criticizing you or anything but is it really called a trumpetist...lol thats awesome.
fierypenguin311 2 years ago
trumpetist ok... so you're saying he is not a trumpet player? srsly.
HendrixGirl4270 2 years ago
The correct term in "trumpeter". For Tommy, he's a "Trombonist" but not a Tromboner, got it?
Pianist.
Drummer.
Saxophist.
Clarinetist.
I guess most are "-ists"!
78smackdown 2 years ago
the suffix "-ist" is generic. The only instruments with the suffix "-er" are ones which have names that are also verbs. Trumpet is a verb, therefore a person who plays it is a "trumpeter". Same with Drummer, Whistler and Piper. Drum, Whistle and Pipe can all be used as verbs.
Hunsbassist 2 years ago
lol.
The correct term for "Drummer" would be "Percussionist".
mdrocklee 2 years ago
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Glend3 2 years ago
That#s true, bud. Checked your blog ... toppers!
Cheers,
Ralph
NewJerseyRipper 2 years ago 5
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First class ... pure excellence.
More splendid jazz at my blog (link in profile). Feel free to check it out.
Thx and All best,
Bruno
BrunoJazzmanLeicht 2 years ago 8
Fantastic ! Tommy Dorsey playing his classic Opus One and wow that was the great Charlie Shavers on trumpet!
Johnflugelhorn 2 years ago
this video is from the 1950s, no doubt. Not the 1940s.
johnnycchops 2 years ago
thats my great great uncle tommy dorsey!
watacreativename 3 years ago 2
TD looks a bit gray for this to have been in the '40's.
bobareebop 3 years ago
Was this from the 40s or was it from the mid50s TV show the D brothers had?
machored135 3 years ago
This is the early 50s show. Jimmy and Tommy were the very first to feature Elvis Presley on tv as a guest, and that was huge exposure considering the following Big Band still had.
mdmphd 2 years ago
Correction to Cornhusk60: Jack Teagarden was the greatest. Easily. Very Easily. Also, he has been called the greatest jazz vocalist of all time.... Check him out.
sagodada 3 years ago
Thank you for your comments, in music there are no borders and unites us all, I will put more videos JAZZ of the problem is not that I do not infringe on the rights of commercial companies, but really after 25 years these should be Part of mankind as with ASPIRIN.Un hug.
razalatinaPeru 3 years ago
Glenn Miller was the greatest Trombone player ever. Easily.
Cornhusk60 3 years ago
Correction: Jack Teagarden. Hands down.
sagodada 3 years ago
Comparto plenamente lo señalado por los tres comentaristas precedentes.
nandor41 3 years ago
Gracias por tus comentarios, en la musica no hay fronteras y todo nos hermana, voy atratar de poner mas videos de JAZZ el problema es que no lo hago por no chocar con los Derechos comerciales de las compañias, aunque realmente despues de 25 años estos deberian ser parte de la Humanidad como ocurre con la ASPIRINA.Un abrazo.
razalatinaPeru 3 years ago
Tommy Dorsey was probably the greatest trombone player
who ever livid.
williamholzman 3 years ago 2
Amazing trumpet notes!
clarinet001 3 years ago
When musicians had talent.
fairskyze 3 years ago
They still do. Music from this era was really good, and it required a lot of talent. But the musicians of today have talent as well, just with different instruments. Guitar isn't so easy.
MissMisconception 3 years ago 3
There a lot of trumpet, clarinet, sax, piano, etc musicians who have this talent. I am one of them. Maybe you mean "when music was good..."
clarinet001 3 years ago
I had this record back in the 50's and left it on a chair, forgot and sat on it ,it's nice to hear the tune it again.
seeltham 3 years ago 2
very good trombonist, I like him. He has very good tone and he ist the best improviser
bilka89 3 years ago 3
You're correct that the trumpet player is Charlie Shavers, but the video is probably from the early '50s, judging from Tommy's hairstyle. He went completely gray in the '50s and wore a crewcut.
stonequake 3 years ago
i love 20-30-40 's music <3
suviiip 3 years ago 5
I have a bad feeling this type of music might fall on deaf ears with todays youth...it must be cherished and promoted..I just don't know how!...
SolarTiger 3 years ago
trust me, as a high school student in a urban public high school, it does not die, bands, jazz bands, carry it on....
p2pstudenta 3 years ago 2
Does anyone of you knows who plays the string bass? Thanks.
monteleone101 3 years ago
it's n he Woody Allen (great !) movie
"Radio Days" & even in the (very cool !)
o.s.t
very nice version in here, bravo.
funkzoid 3 years ago
that black trumpet player must have been "outstanding" for a white band to hire him (back in those days)
inkey2 3 years ago
Just wasn't done back then....mostly. Roy Eldridge was a colored trumpet player who worked in Gene Krupa's band. Most of the time they couldn't have it...Civil rights wouldn't come about for at least 20 years!
thbeatgozon 3 years ago
The black trumpet player is Charlie Shavers. This was probably filmed around 1945.
upphetsade 3 years ago
i totally agree !
CatneyReid 3 years ago
I have been listening to this kind of music since I was 12! I am 39 now and I still love it. Why can't we have the Big Band era come back?
thbeatgozon 3 years ago
as good as Benny!!
acerb45666555 3 years ago
Sorry, nobody beats Benny. lol ;)
whenaman 3 years ago
As far as swing is concerned, Benny's number thre