It's like watching Harpo Marx play his harp. These people truly LIVED through their talent. I do believe that there still is great talent today, but that is obscured by the media. If anyone becomes too profound, then that's a bad thing today. Cause it makes you think too much. Take Mike Judge's film "Idiocracy", which was made thru the Fox Channel. Just when it was released in theaters, Fox Channel suddenly stopped ALL advertising for the film--because they realized it was making fun of THEM.
Tommy Pederson hosted a trombone reading session at Hoyt Bohannon's garage. Top LA players would play mostly Tommy's arrangements and rotate around each part after every tune. You had to have serious lead chops (or bass trombone chops) and have a strong slide vibrato. I got to play there a few times in the mid 1980's and was scared to death!
Keig Garvin played this at the end of the College of William & Mary Band School in 1966. It was amazing, in front of the Wren Building and several thousand people. Garvin was amazing!!
This is high class comedy. It takes a LOT of skill to make it look so funny while at the same time delivering a very high quality musical performance.
This is high class comedy. It takes a LOT of skill to make it look so funny while at the same time delivering a very high quality musical performance.
This is high class comedy. It takes a LOT of skill to make it look so funny while at the same time delivering a very high quality musical performance.
Wow! I'm a HUGE Tommy Pederson fan (I've played many of his trombone duets and trombone ensemble arrangements). I knew he played for Spike Jones, but I had no idea this video existed. Ten million thankyous to the poster.
Every time I think something can not be done someone does it. Where has this trombonist been hiding. That performance deserves a "HOLY SHIT!" Eddie in New York
Sacjazzconnect: This is the Spike Jones Show from the late 50's. Spike would have other musicians on as well. Tommy Pederson is recreating Spike jones' "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" exactly how he recorded it on RCA Victor with Spike's group. This is not from a recital... it's Spike's show on live TV!!! (NBC, I believe). This video is taken from "The Best of Spike Jones volume 4, A Musical Wreck-We-Um" put out by Paramount Home Video.
This is not Spike Jones; it's Tommy Pederson. Though Tommy did this routine with The Spike Jones City Slickers, this particular video is from a recital Tommy did on his own. Tommy Pederson was one of the busiest trombone players in Los Angeles from the late forties through the sixties, and continued to be quite busy through the seventies. He composed a lot of "Concertos" and method books with the byline, "The world's foremost authority on the art of playing the trombone." Nobody argued.
BTW, Harold Lloyd is the iconic Straw-hat Keystone Kopps stuntman during the max Sennet era of silent films. Lloyds amazing stunts included his "Safety last" film after he lost most of his thumbs from a stunt went wrong. Lloyd also did those chase scene live to run almost a 1/2 mile with no sweat even if the film was sped-up for effects. Harold was shown in the opening of the Christopher Lloyd appearence in Back To the Future as Doc brown.
I saw right away this was not Spike even though the Title did infer it was a Spike Jones feat. BTW, my dad smoked ever since his youth in WW2 at 18 , he passed away suddenly at 85 a few years back with no ties to smoking. It was the aesbestos mines near their home that was now linked to almost ever death other than accidents. He was lucky to make it to 85 as a smoker, he took sick and got worse over 4 months.But I never smoked or would endorse it for the retail smokes made with chemicals.
I have yet to hear anyone else do this song on a T-Bone. The tonguing and slide accuracy for tones meant many hours to practice it. Even a valved trumpet is tough when the pistons makes the notes, this guy was in tune to the piano keys just from experience and at high speed. i play the T-bone and it alos uses more air than a trumpet so i doubt this guy smokes or loafs around with no exercise. He's the Harrold Lloyd of music.
Jones was a lifelong smoker. He was once said to have gotten through the average workday on coffee and cigarettes. Smoking may have contributed to his developing emphysema. His already thin frame deteriorated, to the point where he used an oxygen tank offstage, and onstage he was confined to a seat behind his drum set. He died at the age of 53, and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
Heard this on an album in the 70's. Great to finally see the video. Fantastic!
Soundbox78 1 week ago
Talent? This is the real deal!
throovest 1 month ago
What? Enjoy it or make your "flattering "comments somewhere not so public.
Jm01394 1 month ago
That's some first-class flutter tonguing right there. Must have been a hit with the ladies.
ConnorMTracy 1 month ago 2
It's like watching Harpo Marx play his harp. These people truly LIVED through their talent. I do believe that there still is great talent today, but that is obscured by the media. If anyone becomes too profound, then that's a bad thing today. Cause it makes you think too much. Take Mike Judge's film "Idiocracy", which was made thru the Fox Channel. Just when it was released in theaters, Fox Channel suddenly stopped ALL advertising for the film--because they realized it was making fun of THEM.
Musicolored 1 month ago
Tommy Pederson hosted a trombone reading session at Hoyt Bohannon's garage. Top LA players would play mostly Tommy's arrangements and rotate around each part after every tune. You had to have serious lead chops (or bass trombone chops) and have a strong slide vibrato. I got to play there a few times in the mid 1980's and was scared to death!
jazzytrb 2 months ago
Keig Garvin played this at the end of the College of William & Mary Band School in 1966. It was amazing, in front of the Wren Building and several thousand people. Garvin was amazing!!
ChadwickGore 2 months ago
Wow thats some impressive trombone playing
benjola2 2 months ago
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Chaotically wonderful interpretation of "The bum of the flightle bee".
SOGLIDER 3 months ago
I played with Tommy once..he actually suggested that I play the lead book....nice guy!
Great player!
ouwelul222 3 months ago
Man, check that dude out
badgerbeth2 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Spike Jones
Musicianship! And such a simple gimmick but so effective
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arizaphale 4 months ago
that man has some lungs on him!!!
TheAlana173 4 months ago
it was orig. on the violin..but here it is in brass.......
catfishbates1 5 months ago
This is high class comedy. It takes a LOT of skill to make it look so funny while at the same time delivering a very high quality musical performance.
This is missing today.
0x777 5 months ago
@0x777 there's a LOT missing today, sadly.
tweakfreak87 3 months ago
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This is high class comedy. It takes a LOT of skill to make it look so funny while at the same time delivering a very high quality musical performance.
This is missing today.
0x777 5 months ago
This is high class comedy. It takes a LOT of skill to make it look so funny while at the same time delivering a very high quality musical performance.
This is missing today.
0x777 5 months ago
Wow! I'm a HUGE Tommy Pederson fan (I've played many of his trombone duets and trombone ensemble arrangements). I knew he played for Spike Jones, but I had no idea this video existed. Ten million thankyous to the poster.
bassbonebobf 5 months ago
Wow... where are the trombone players who can do this NOW ?
JeffW77 5 months ago
@JeffW77
Listening to mainstream music. >_>
live4thecarnival 4 months ago
That was great
SirZelaroth 5 months ago
the green hornet has a cold.
jmaxcamp 6 months ago
Wow!
MrDiesel6 6 months ago
Every time I think something can not be done someone does it. Where has this trombonist been hiding. That performance deserves a "HOLY SHIT!" Eddie in New York
Edtique 6 months ago
i couldn't breath cos i was laughing too hard
waveydavey25 7 months ago
is the sneezing inserted to allow the trombonist to breathe? :-)
sunsdomain 7 months ago
@sunsdomain since you mentioned it, i think so...LOL
tobahdoot 5 months ago
Sacjazzconnect: This is the Spike Jones Show from the late 50's. Spike would have other musicians on as well. Tommy Pederson is recreating Spike jones' "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" exactly how he recorded it on RCA Victor with Spike's group. This is not from a recital... it's Spike's show on live TV!!! (NBC, I believe). This video is taken from "The Best of Spike Jones volume 4, A Musical Wreck-We-Um" put out by Paramount Home Video.
casino555 8 months ago
This is not Spike Jones; it's Tommy Pederson. Though Tommy did this routine with The Spike Jones City Slickers, this particular video is from a recital Tommy did on his own. Tommy Pederson was one of the busiest trombone players in Los Angeles from the late forties through the sixties, and continued to be quite busy through the seventies. He composed a lot of "Concertos" and method books with the byline, "The world's foremost authority on the art of playing the trombone." Nobody argued.
Sacjazzconnect 8 months ago
BTW, Harold Lloyd is the iconic Straw-hat Keystone Kopps stuntman during the max Sennet era of silent films. Lloyds amazing stunts included his "Safety last" film after he lost most of his thumbs from a stunt went wrong. Lloyd also did those chase scene live to run almost a 1/2 mile with no sweat even if the film was sped-up for effects. Harold was shown in the opening of the Christopher Lloyd appearence in Back To the Future as Doc brown.
imyy4upeople 10 months ago
I saw right away this was not Spike even though the Title did infer it was a Spike Jones feat. BTW, my dad smoked ever since his youth in WW2 at 18 , he passed away suddenly at 85 a few years back with no ties to smoking. It was the aesbestos mines near their home that was now linked to almost ever death other than accidents. He was lucky to make it to 85 as a smoker, he took sick and got worse over 4 months.But I never smoked or would endorse it for the retail smokes made with chemicals.
imyy4upeople 10 months ago
I have yet to hear anyone else do this song on a T-Bone. The tonguing and slide accuracy for tones meant many hours to practice it. Even a valved trumpet is tough when the pistons makes the notes, this guy was in tune to the piano keys just from experience and at high speed. i play the T-bone and it alos uses more air than a trumpet so i doubt this guy smokes or loafs around with no exercise. He's the Harrold Lloyd of music.
imyy4upeople 10 months ago
@imyy4upeople
Wiki:
Jones was a lifelong smoker. He was once said to have gotten through the average workday on coffee and cigarettes. Smoking may have contributed to his developing emphysema. His already thin frame deteriorated, to the point where he used an oxygen tank offstage, and onstage he was confined to a seat behind his drum set. He died at the age of 53, and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
Just goes to show!
biggestelk 10 months ago
Having just double checked, that's not Spike himsef playing, it's one the his band members, though I don't know which one!
biggestelk 10 months ago
Having just double checked, that's not Spike, one of his band member I guess....
biggestelk 10 months ago
@imyy4upeople /watch?v=VcqRtNCtJ9k&feature=related. Harry Watters. :D This is still a FANTASTIC vid though, Spike/Tommy's tonguing is CRAZY clean.
DrivingPark 8 months ago
Holy crap! :-o.
mrsbonniemoore 11 months ago
This was hilarious! I loved it!
Bassoonbme 1 year ago
As a trombonist, all I can say is...this guy belongs in a hall of fame. Absolutely mind-blowing!
paddyosee 1 year ago 49
@paddyosee Spike Jones and all of his City Slickers belong in a hall of fame :P
callmesora 11 months ago
@paddyosee Check out the 'bone work in Spike Jones' version of 12th Street Rag!
1kittin 8 months ago
@paddyosee As another Trombonist I agree!!!!
stlgtrace 4 months ago
@paddyosee Triple tonguing to the max, eh Paddy! I'm a former trombonist turned percussionist, so I love Spike Jones!
MarleneBomer 3 months ago
@paddyosee I'm a trombone player myself, tried it... I personally can't do it lol
JonnyJones324 1 month ago
@paddyosee
as a random guy with no experience with a horn I fully agree with you. that does not look easy, even though he makes it look so.
danjenkinsdesign 1 month ago
Glorious!
ObaNarayanShivaji999 1 year ago 12