Dizzy Gillespie Big Band 1947 groovy man

[primeVibe]

Nice!

[J4K8123Productions]

I just love this music, the first time I heard this type of music I fell in love with it

[NacoMan08]

Hahaha Dizzy looks so peculiar.

[aarfeld]

Could someone who knows please list the band members in this performance. It's a shame that Diz couldn't hold his big band together then--but then, few others were able to either.

[fatnassi13]

délire!! j'adore trop ma préféré dizzy depuis mes 14ans j'en suis fan et continue a 22ans encore!!!!!!! j'adore son solo et celui de milt jackson et un détail celui qui a coté de milt 1er rang!!!!!!! il est conquis je sais c'est qui!!!!!!! ça sent le retour des années plus tard!!!!! dizzy mon triompéttiste que j'apprécie le +++++ j'adore daveharrris gayles tous le monde quoi c'est la famille!!!!

[upfromtheskies8]

@fatnassi13 Oui, John Coltrane est lá prés du Diz.  Behind him, and to stage right.

[felltone]

At last the leader turned around and said -"listen pops you had better stop-There you go you did it again-You just beeped-When you should have bopped".

[felltone]

There was a guy who had some brand new tricks-Played the horn for all the crazy chicks.-The thing that made him such a flop-Was that he beeped-When he should have bopped. You could catch him{??}right up on the stand-But he couldn't seem to dig the band -Thought he was the cream of the crop-but then he beeped-When he should have bopped. All the cats gathered round to see what he was trying to prove-But anyone could plainly see that he was draggin them out of the groove.-

[Wulgaris]

Jazz always makes me happy, in 4 hours from now, im going to find out if im going to jail for 3 years or gettin foot chain movement ditector thingy, dont know whats it called in english.

i've been listening to jazz for 7 hours on youtube now.. few hours more and no matter what the judge says, im going to be happy :)

[UtmostBill]

@Wulgaris I think your "Foot chain movement detector thingy" is called house arrest.

[WlatPziupp]

@Wulgaris Guess you got the ankle thing then.

[MrMaxbrilliant]

@Wulgaris Sorry wrong button

[pyroboi21]

I'm only 17, and this is real music.

[sclapione]

@pyroboi21 "I'm only 17"

Very interesting

[viniciuscorbani]

12 people are deaf ._.

[ox092]

I'm currently reading his book and man is it LONG. But its worth every bit of my time.

[slavelaborisfun]

love dizzy

[TonyAgutter]

look Milt on vibraphone!

[Ellington1899]

Sweet - thank you so much for posting this!

[remco366]

sorry man but i gotta hate those guys saying: im 16 and i love jazz im 14 i listen to metal but this is really really cool! maaaan everybody can love music.....

[SydTheRatCatcher]

@remco366

I completely agree with you man, age doesn't mean a fucking thing.

[sclapione]

@remco366 You want a lollipop ?

[ipguitar]

@remco366 They prolly hear a lot of the adults around them saying it... alot, god knows i do hahaha

[WhatTheFlyinFudge]

Dizzy Gillespie = Morris Day (of the Time)

[TrptfanLB]

Check out Chris Rock on Bari at 2:00



[LazyGuitar]

Milt Jackson! Awesome

[doobiedoo74]

roots

[scottc102]

theoretically, if I found a genie and the genie said 'you can have one wish' id go back to 1947, just for the music.

[2foxytierchen]

Dizzy is just so hot!!

[ThatHoboOverThere]

Please, can we have just ONE more person come on these video and brag about their age? I think that's what we really need. This is why I hate the "top rated comments" system.

[sclapione]

@ThatHoboOverThere It gets on my fucking nerves, too .... It's not as if Dizzy couldn't atleast be our grandparent .... My Gawd ....

[1979saxman]

I've been into jazz for around 10 years now, and this is the first time I've ever heard Dizzy NOT on a muted trumpet.

[DajaWaja]

lately it is the trend to say your age and comment something. It seems a lot of ppl find that adorable

[jescarpita]

ahh classic, innocent, yet brilliant!!!! this is the real american shiznitz. if it only it still dominated the airwaves and clubs like it did in the 30s,40's, and 50s

[syn2142]

am i racist if i'd say that he looks a bit like ludacris?

oh... selfcorrection: ludacris looks like him. kinda

[Bumsunite1]

Happy Birthday!

[sharonanony]

maybe he cheeks was stretching to meet the Cosmic. And the Cosmic gave him the trademark of the Stretched Cheeks, to show he stretched to the Cosmic, Akashic Records. no one have his trademark of Stretched cheeks show on google.

as soon as I saw them I said Dizzy Gillespie. I knew who it was.

[LimpLoser]

I just swinged and bopped so much i shit my pants!

[kickingfatality]

this is when Music was real ...not some dubbed sampled garbage the kids think is music today...

[unclefurriesam]

Im so jelous of old people, if only I was 70.

[ExperienceYP]

Dizzy doin his thing. This is music!!!

[pindaric]

Timeless!

[777christianboy]

i actualy live in cheraw sc the town where dizzy was from i know where his house was

[Jamesc210]

This Shit is soo awesome......... Hip Hop Producers have to sample it.

[indoorin]

I miss hearing this on the radio (My jazz station is down for some reason.) At least I still have classical.

[methodhigh3]

all the ones who dislike this just piss off this is awesome :P

[caira94]

dizzy was fiiiine lol

[buglet489]

I thinkthisis the very first gangsta rap ever.

"Beepedd when he shoulda bopped"?

[jescarpita]

this is some real music! innocent yet hip and groovy not like that "gansta rap" that gives nothing to society

[basschick1691]

real music indeed!

[edstearn]

dizzy was the greatest ever

[edstearn]

dizzy was the greatest ever

[MissyVonCarlsen]

I'm only 19, and I'm really into the old big band music. I came across this song randomly here you YouTube and fell in love with it. Whats the name of it?

[tsi2568]

Great! I like it!

[SiT1986]

I hated old big band.

[FCntertainr]

Looks like the great Milt Jackson on vibes, the alto saxman on the right is definitely John Brown from Harrisburg, Pa. I heard him play in 1971 at a program I was playing alongside in a funk band. This band never recorded but came after the Eckstine band which was the first to play bebop. There are acetates(discs) that play only 6 times they are discovering that may have radio broadcasts thought lost for all time. The Dizzy & Bird ones sound great with computer enhancement not here 20 yrs ago!

[nassar57]

@FCntertainr Daddy-o: like where's these groovy Bird/Diz acetates available?

That's like my bag- you dig? Oh..yea,,,that's a YOUNG Kenny Clark on drums in this one too!

[FCntertainr]

@nassar57 The 'acetates' only play 6 times then are NO GOOD! Then they recorded direct -to-disc no tape ! The sound was good for the time and these were radio broadcasts. They are finding more and more in warehouses and processing them to be preserved on digital media. I have a cd Diz and Bird at Carnegie Hall recorded 1947 and the sound is unbelievable! On ROOST records, Capital and blue note!-Fc

[JuiceboxFairy]

whats the name of the song he's singing?

[JuiceboxFairy]

this music is amazing!! ♥

[CharlieFoom]

Before Jazz had soul.

[Pino4649]

Did he ever do any voice acting? I could swear I heard his voice on an Easter cartoon, I think it was, made back in the 70's or 80's. There was a jazz number in that show with a rabbit singing with that voice.

[fuckingharpsichord]

he sings so nice laybacked !

[TilGabrielCalls]

dude its *Laidback* not laybacked

[MrMello001]

The best all around leader/entertainer of soul music

[elgoogskcus]

And check out young Milt Jackson on the vibes - wow!!

[gradeahaze]

Man I wish I could make music like that! Just don't tell anyone! :D

[DStroyU]

My grandma met Dizzy a long time ago.

My face when she told me this: O_O

[musicaldogs]

Holy cow.  He must have been a teenager, or close to it! He was still playing up to the 1990's.

[kdfan]

he was 30 that year.

[dRowNingkAt]

is this song called groovy man?

[mondodave]

"He Beeped When He Should've Bopped."

[dRowNingkAt]

thanks =)

[VicCastalucci]

i would of loved to live in this era and been able to fight for america and kill me some krautz

[imnazhole]

OUT-STANDING!!

[julesmonendrumface]

the trompet player you see left when the vibes has his solo

his face is like wynton marsalis ?:P

lol

[rogelito]

The vibes player is Milt "Bags" Jackson. Obviously Wynton Marsalis was only a twinkle in his daddy's eye when this band was in existence, but the man for whom he is named, pianist Wynton Kelly, was in Dizzy's big band exactly ten years after this, 1956-57.

[bach65]

I would give my right arm to be able to play just one of Dizzy´s phrases ...once in my life...He was a master indeed.

[ritade45]

Frank is my favorite too! We have the same birthday but his was 1915 - mine 1951. He sent me anautographed pix of himself which is on my mantle as we speak! Dizzie was teriffic but too short lived. I love all of this music.

[jazzalex22]

DIzzy was not short lived he lived from 1917-1993 so he was the second long life next to SInatra. Diz at least took care of himself better than Miles or other old timers did. When I first heard an artist like DIzzy Gillespie I said well nobody will ever play like him no matter how they try nobody will ever be a DIzzy. He drew many inspiration from Roy Eldrdige. Their feud was the first before Frank and Bing.

[sewitt60]

So melodic, even though his orchestra was short lived, it put out some great tunes.

[parkerweiss1234]

haha watch the drummer :P such jokes!

but great band./ vid! lovin dizz!

[Masakione]

Dizzy's cheeks are really crazy:D

Music was different before war..

SO sweet..

But admit that the 50's and 60's are also great music..

ROCKnROLL!

But all the shit after that.. is not anymore the same..

[punkhunter38]

I'm only 38...and this is real music

[tinroofbusted]

Punkhunter38. This was a time when music ment much more to people. It was their small peice of happiness in a very real and dark world of Hitler and the ATOMIC BOMB. Grandfather told us the fun parts, him driving a German generals Dusenberg as a message car and him taking pics over Germany so he could draw maps for the Allies. He never told us the bad parts. Grandma said It's good he does not remember what he saw. The times were simple then. Its harder to tell who is wrong and right now

[KnightGarter]

I think we in The Netherlands had a harder time during the war then the United States had.

[tinroofbusted]

You did indeed suffer more then you should have, I would never say less. I think many suffered more then any person should. My point about the music was to say, It lifted peoples broken spirits even for a night. The worry about their familys overseas and of their loved ones fighting in the war. Canadian schools teach us about what happened in the Netherlands. I ment no disrespect to you or anyone. The music was brilliant then as it is now though.

[mmaybrown]

@blackomen666, I agree with you and I'm 19

[Lchsmb2009]

@blackomen666 I'm also 15 (assuming your 15 now) and I agree, this is real music :p.

[sErgEantaEgis12]

@blackomen666 I'm glad to see I'm not the only teenager who like something else than Heavy Metal,pop or rap!Oh and I'm 13...

[112ALONE]

@blackomen666 heck yes it is, and i hope everyone as young as you are and even younger can appreciate this music.

[Directorbbz]

@blackomen666 Same here, and I agree

[emynem248]

@blackomen666 aaa...oohhh... of course... you are inteligent! :-s

[jordinio1O]

@blackomen666 you are 14 and ur name is 'black omen 666'. Go and play footy or ride a bike in the sunshine!

[WillowTreePeace]

@blackomen666 hell to the ya! :)

[analogout]

@blackomen666 lol looks like someone is building a real taste for music, keep checkin every music style and you'll be allright

[superterrifichappy]

@blackomen666 ungrateful nazi jew bitch shut your mouth

[litlewing]

@superterrifichappy  you are a fucking retarded and its reflected on your videos, thats the magic of youtube

[YOUPUBEISGAY]

@blackomen666 I Was Born This Morning At 6 o'Clock And I Know This Is Real Music...

[benlorenc]

@blackomen666 get out of here and comment on some zeppelin.

[drzlajke]

@blackomen666 you are 31, that can be checked on your channel.

[TromboneGirl123]

sweet, my uncle showed dizzy to me a few months ago when i got my first jazz cd. loved this stuff since.

[hotmail99]

For those who leave negative responses to video like this, keep in mind that this stuff will out live todays music by leaps and bounds. Music from last year alone is already stale. Thats why "artist" so to speak sample this stuff up through the 70's. Art is created, not duplicated. Besides, you probably looking at your great-grandfather ;)

[denverpeach99]

Love this!!! Thank u!!

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

"How long was Cain mad about his brother?" -- "As long as he was able." Jive talk from yesteryear.

Boppin' best,

Brew

[GEhotpants101]

@BrunoJazzmanLeicht Ha ha ha. It took me a while, but that's funny. lol Clever '40s jive people...

[zener39]

Beats the heck out of rap !

Thanks for sharing !

[WeasleyOurKing]

Everyone knows rap is crap.

[Persillebalzm]

rap has good music as all other genres, you only gotta find it.

[Lisia501]

I sax. See your work and you don't know who dizzy is? I have seen Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Don Byas,Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Chu Berry, Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins,Paul Gonsalves, Fat Head Newman,etc. and I should see your work; and you just decided to play jazz music. That's why I say you talk like a damn fool! You couldn't carry the folks I mentioned dick's across the street. How are you going to play good jazz when you don't know what good jazz is and where it came from.

[nicawawa]

number1saxophone, and i use the name loosely, is one of the biggest disgraces to the jazz world. it hurt watching his videos.

anyways, THIS is what true jazz is.

[Wowmer32]

Moby? Dick? Anyway, This is awesome music! This country's innocent days are gone forever.

[mombrokemyradio]

Well, the country wasn't so innocent back then either. They were just more quiet about whatever they were doing

[alessandros00]

Maravilloso, que calidad de musica, nada que opinar solo escuchar.

[d3Iiver]

He was self-taught, Nowadays we know a lot of stuff about technique that everybody hadn't heard about back then.

[samadjhi]

Where do you folks get your info. What makes you think the technique you use today is better? What makes you think Dizzy was self-taught? The folks who teach that his style,approach and or technique was bad can they play like the Diz? I would think they would be able to play better.

[number1saxophone]

I don't know who dizzy is but this style is a little old fashioned. My band recently decided to start playing jazz music and we are better than these has-beens. We use modern instruments and a modern technique. Check out any of our vids and you'll see why most folks say we've got the best band on youtube.

[samadjhi]

You talk like a damn fool

[number1saxophone]

Hey "sandwhich", perhaps you should see my work before you jump to conclusions.

[samadjhi]

I sax. See your work and you don't know who dizzy is? I have seen Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Don Byas,Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Chu Berry, Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins,Paul Gonsalves, Fat Head Newman,etc. and I should see your work; and you just decided to play jazz music. That's why I say you talk like a damn fool! You couldn't carry the folks I mentioned dick's across the street. How are you going to play good jazz when you don't know what good jazz is and where it came from.

[brownpants69]

Are you being arrogant just to wind people up? Are you having a laugh or you seriously that ridiculous?

[number1saxophone]

I call it like I see it. If people get wound up because I'm candid, it's not my falt. And it's not ridiculous to say you're a great player if you know it to be true and everyone else says so too.

[brownpants69]

You had me fooled until I watched your videos! I couldnt seem to get your profile page open yesterday. Anyways... Your video are proper funny. Well done- I guess you could say it was the Sax equivalent of Spinal Tap :)

Keep rocking bro!

[RandE1110]

this stuff is better than anything you could ever do! think before you say something! and nobody really cares about what your band can do compared to dizzy, hes probably a thousand times better than You.

its only old fashioned b/c its from the 1940's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! get over yourself

[CherryTripping]

LOL you cant be serious.."i dont know who dizzy is...this style is a littel old fashioned" lololol

[PhuckYooTube1]

Geez, I don't know Jazz, I listen to Pink Floyd, The Doors, Metallica, Nirvana, Daft Punk, Moody Blues, Mazzy Star, Radiohead, Guns N' Roses...

Dizzy May be old fashioned, but I sway thee to think of roads paved from him. If anything...be in awe from this. Noone ever told him to suck his cheeks in while playing...so his cheeks balloon to grapefruits. Know that he played facing downwards so his manager had his trumpet bell lifted and angled up so that people could hear him better. Jazz Master.

[CherryTripping]

dude.. what? what are you answering to? my comment? i dont see the connection, much obliged if you explained... mine was a reply to someone who said.. well i quoted it

[clochach]

he has his cheeks puffed out for circular breathing and his manager didn't have his bell bent upward because he played too low. he left it on the ground and someone stepped on it then he had all his other trumpets made like that also because he liked the sound

[CherryTripping]

aww, guys... :P

yt doesnt put comments in order anymore by the looks of it -it was a reply my friends

easy now :)

[tinroofbusted]

Hey sometimes I get very confused too.

So all's cool here. Yes I wish YT would put things in better order also. hint,hint, nudge ;)

[Robobot2]

I love big band music but... he has terrible technique, he puffs his cheecks out, one of the things you should never do

[vertox123abc]

actually, dizzy has an amzing technique, he formed his amboshure so well that he was able to puff out his cheeks and stiull keep a great tone, he puffed out his cheeks as a sort of signature move, it wasnt bercause he was tought wrong, it was just a signature he will be remembered by,

[Robobot2]

I agree that he had terrific sound and that he was really skillful. and I just mentioned it because it was the first thing I was ever taught: "never puff your cheeks out" he really is a fantastic musician though

[adeart7]

Didnt he have some kind of physical problem that caused him to do that though? I don't think it was intentional at first. It just ended up becoming his signature.

[1110131]

haha "amboshure". noob. sounds like amateur, just like you

[zacktothefuture]

what a waste of space to make such an idiot remark. a pathetic attempt to embarrass someone when you are really speaking more about yourself. "noob".... really...? why make such an ass of yourself?

[earteam]

love this stuff

[mrkool000000]

his trumpet bel isnt up

[mwmoviemaker]

y are his cheeks so big?

[54spiritedwill54]

Big band music makes me hungry.

[EnglandExplained]

He actually has a very pleasant voice- haven't heard him singing before.

[GrandpopProductions]

what song is this?

[mrsahonima]

"He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped." Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers do it, too.

[manicmorbidity]

Back when music was actually music, not some electronic orchestra. Bring back the music!

[evilwarrior]

This is disrespectful towards the instrumental bands of today, that actually work hard to produce good quality music.

I do agree, that since technology put it's hands on music, there's a lot of shit in the music industry *looks aside at techno*, but there still are plenty of good bands, that are instrumental.

[manicmorbidity]

Very true, and I admit my like for some "techno fluff" however, the mainstream media unfortunately seems to respect the electronic aspect more.

[seinormexicano]

Techno isn't bad music. Why can't everyone appriciate different kinds of music? I like big band and techno, as well as several others types of music.

[Jehovaaaah]

techno IS bad music....fuckin pussies like moby destroyin the art of music

[seinormexicano]

If you think Moby makes techno music then you are an idiot.

[errickrb]

Well 1947 isn't really an excuse, just look at gone with the wind, everything was synchronized right. Good song.

[jaroslavmottl]

LoL young milt Jackson !! Wow

[WolfeyWolf]

omg i love the way voices were heard back then..so smoooooth

[fig8slomo]

I have been looking high and low for this one!!!!!!!!

[nnamniets]

hmmm the band doesnt really carry the tune it kinda drags a bit and dizz aint much of a singer fantastic trumpeter though love this solo not as much of a fan of his blazing fast solos more of a feel man myself

[sewitt60]

I get what you mean, the tune doesn't flow. Maybe it's the age of the recording, 60 years ago. Still love the melody though.

[clefairy08]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but listening and watching this video, the audio does not seem to match the visual, especially the vibraphone solo. he seems to move down the instrument while the melody goes up in places. I'm confused :S

[Saxyman14]

Well, it is old, and it is Youtube. things like that happen. this doesn't seem to be too far off though.

[fig8slomo]

did you look at the date?

[ber776]

What band..........James Moody, tenor sax, John Lewis, piano, on theme "He beeeped, when he shoud Bop" fine...

[FRBone]

strange big band setup

[hep2djive]

Rockin Band, Thank You, I have a Big Band but tried to do a bit different style. Bada-BING

[comicjami]

can't get any better than this..

[jazzmac03]

Dizzy is the truth. It never gets old.

[Navire75]

I think you'd be pleased to listen to one of the cd of THE DOUBLE SIX OF PARIS

( great french vocal group ) with DIZZY

GILLESPIE (t), BUD POWELL (p), KENNY CLARK (d)... ( " Groovin' High ", " Hot House ",

" Anthropologie ", " The Champ ", " Blue N'

Boogie " ... ... )

[allaaaah]

James Moody on Tenor ?

[JosephNScott]

"James Moody on Tenor ?" Yep. Moody solos on five tunes in this movie: "Oop Bop Sh'Bam," "Convulsion" (which he wrote), "Shaw 'Nuff," "Dizzy Atmosphere," and "Ray's Idea."

[allaaaah]

i played with Moody for 10 years

[blocksowood]

the actual title is "he beeped when he should have bopped"

it took me forever to find the mp3 =/

[behjoh]

Thats Bags on vibraphone and Ray Brown on bass heheheheh

[JosephNScott]

"Thats Bags on vibraphone and Ray Brown on bass heheheheh" And John Lewis on piano, sounding like John Lewis.

[exampleofbadusername]

Big band music makes me hungry.

[DaRev08]

Well, well, Mr Dizzy wasn't bad on the eyez lol...

[Lapwings]

1947 !! So cool