Shostakovich - Jazz Suite No. 1: III. Foxtrot - Part 3/3

[XieYali]

あぁ～これは最高です。

[whatifwemet]

can't believe how awesome this piece of music is. especially the solo of the lap steel guitar plus trombone blows my mind, I'm in love with music once again.

[leon00thomasian]

is that an electric guitar solo?! WOW! :) Loved it

[MrFalloutaddict]

@leon00thomasian it was a Hawaiian Guitar solo, electric guitars didn't exist at this time.

[leon00thomasian]

@MrFalloutaddict it sounds amazing. :)

[MrFalloutaddict]

@leon00thomasian I love the sound of Hawaiian instruments, they sound so mellow.

[skutratufahija]

@MrFalloutaddict Yes, they did. This is from 1934 and Les Paul invented electric guitar in 1931. Nevertheless, this is daring combination of "pop" instrument with classical music.

[MrFalloutaddict]

@skutratufahija Les Paul invented the electric Guitar in '40 I thought?

[corrda1993]

@MrFalloutaddict

Les Paul invented the solid body guitar. There were electric guitars before that. Charlie christian, Freddy Green and Wes montgomery all played EL guitar.

[LoisJD]

Shostakovich creates beautiful music

[PsanterShelZahav]

The Hawaiian guitar.. :D Though he had a depressive side, he definitly did have a sense for humor...

[nicoelduro13]

Lovely guitar solo!

[logrun9]

I tried putting the 3 parts together into a playlist but this one comes up much louder than the first two. I love this piece sooo much though.

[Supermabelina]

El era un geeniiiooo!!!!!

[wks1978]

I LOVE THIS PIECE!

I'm going to have to play in it someday!

[OzzieJohnFerguson]

I love music by Shostakovich. He was one of the most inventive modern composers.

Thank you for posting this piece.

[FFmrbandmissw]

Oh!I love this!!

[TheWanderingNight]

Love that Hawaiian guitar.

[SolidFrostbite]

truly shostakovich is amazing. such beautiful compositions. absolutely fantastic.

[mihka4enok]

fuck off

[Nerwenil]

Ez az egyik kedvencem. Zeneszerzőm és darabom is. :) Sok más mellett ez sem maradhat ki. (L)

[219043]

This is a fucking marvelous song.

[Cateriinne]

Может уже хватит переругиваться?

Лучше наслаждайтесь музыкой, товарищи!

[nagyesszep]

what is that instrument from about 1:30 which sounds like an electric guitar?

[melisande69]

@nagyesszep it's an hawaiian guitar.

[kafenwar]

The ending is virtually identical to Duke Ellington's "Jungle Nights in Harlem."

[RWBHere]

Thanks for these three videos.

Every bit as good as the second suite. And plenty of surprises in this foxtrot. [I've never heard this suite before.]

I'll browse your other videos later.

[rebelchovar]

En la URRSS, grandes genios salieron de alli, han creado casi toda la musica actual.

[lucky20corriente]

Maestro

[MIICHEMI]

wow.. this is..

[WHAAM9]

1:30 --- i love !!!

[klangversuch]

Marvelous

[pablovasconezm]

It exist a russian proverb... always is better there, where we are not...I lived in Soviet Union, we can to be sure that the thru it is in the middle of two extreme opposite opinions...

[zezinhozeppelin]

That's cleary jazz....the only difference is that he doesn't use the pentatonic scale so frequently

[DOBBERT365]

GReat

[mazzisousa]

GREAT

[kingrolo27]

Love it!

But, what is the instrument that comes in at 1.30?

[barabassie]

Some sort of Hawaiian (lap?) steel  guitar, I think

[SlashFlash93]

@kingrolo27 I'm not quite sure, but I think it's a slide guitar!!

[yumyumwhatzohai]

it's a dobro

[aesthetic1950]

This has a Nino Rota feel about it.

[Shadowbunnyjedi]

@christopher19894 that's what jazz is, dear sir

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

It's no jazz, folks, but a nice adaption. The same with Gershwin: No jazz, but very influential on jazz. No banjo, just a Hawaiian slide guitar. Funny. -- For real jazz, swingin' jazz feel free to visit my blog any time. URL is in profile.

Keep up the good work.

Greetz,

Bruno

[dlyavhoda]

you`re right, this is totally academique music, like stravinsky, gershwin, and so.

who knows jazz would not give your post a 'minus', but 'plus'.

[MicrobeObliteratorMo]

of course it's not authentic jazz, but you can't really say it's not jazz...even tho i do agree that it's mostly jazz influence. cz it's hard to say what is jazz or what's not. kinda depends on what the composer thinks.

[HolbergEM]

Magnificent.

[agicogne3]

Shostakovich - Jazz Suite No. 1: III. Foxtrot - Part 3/3 version agréable, à découvrir, puis à déguster plusieurs fois pour comprendre les subtilités de la pièce. J'ai aimé. Amicalement. agicogne

[Amatherasu1789]

Would you like a cup of tea, Mr. Shostakovich?, Here there is "tea for two"...and i´ve never mind share with a "formalist"...hope Mr. Stalin doesn´t discover our formalist traition to the "authentic essence" of Russian music...

Imusiki...again, your work is just amazing!

[bobart]

What kind of instrument is it when the trombones are playing uninterrupted glissando? Sounds like some kind of guitar.

[SerafinToxico]

isn't it a hawaiian guitar?

[Amatherasu1789]

Banjo

[enlatadafeliz]

OHHHHHHHHH MYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOODDD!!!

I love this music and this musiciant!

[tristramshamdy]

no manchen

[ArturoAlejandroS]

The jazz suit are nice music of Shostakovich.Maybe with the 5ºsymphont, the most famous (Second suit, waltz)

[atralfalgar]

Chostakovitch is a very general-purpose composer : he's powerful, dancing, sad, patetical, sarcastic ...

[ArturoAlejandroS]

When I knew that he composed jazz suites, I couldn't believe.I said"He lived in URSS, the art was regulated, this is occidental and similar to USA music, how the soviets didn't say anything, they prohibited many works of him".

Very nice.

[atralfalgar]

The Soviet censorship was not able to regulate everything! The art and the freedom is stronger than the dictatorship.

[ozzy1871]

Soviet Union created the best ART in the world,not only Shostokavich also Khacaturian...

Why Prokofiev came back USSR,why he didnt coose USA freedom.Dont forget Shostokavich was a SOVIET composer....

[atralfalgar]

You forget Gustav Mahler. He was best than the soviet composers.

[sheepeasy]

The USSR was a disgustingly oppressive regime. The Soviets didn't create the art, it was the Russians, Armenians (in Khachaturian's case) and Georgians.etc. The Russian empire had been producing some of the world's best art and music long before the Bolsheviks. In fact, Shostakovich's music was regularly banned and many composer's families were killed during the Purges.

I have no evidence to support this, but the USSR was a force of evil that repressed talent.

[ahbahpuh]

Of course you didn't have any evidence, anglosuckson. It's simple, it's a lie.They were criminals, grafters, pilferer who were killed the most -- they managed to take a power after a revolution. The science, technology, education and arts were given a huge support. It's my advice to you: don't talk a shit about things you don't know anything about, just like USSR history. It was the greatest time for Russia, Empire was a shit, current situation is a shit.

[yagankiely]

Well the US deported a composer for having politicly influenced music. Check Hanns Eisler.

A lot of the conspiracy theories about USSR oppression are created through anticommunist propaganda. Yes the USSR wasn't great, but it isn't as bad as it is frequently told. Shostakovich's view of the USSR's government has been highly exaggerated by his son (logically to push the music in the West) and unsubstantiated anecdotal reports that often have ulterior motifs.

[SerafinToxico]

Sure but you can't deny the oppression was still there, it was totally tangible n sometimes Stalin himself gave the orders to forbid or to allow music.

[yagankiely]

Yes, the oppression was there, but my argument is that it is exaggerated and no worse than in it's western alternatives.

[pookiehohn]

@ahbahpuh Hear hear!

(Here here?)

[PhysicsFritz]

@ahbahpuh Your a fucking idioit. I am not American but there are not even remotely as many prisoners in America as there were in the Gulags in the USSR. Fucking idiot...

[ahbahpuh]

@PhysicsFritz there are things that help to differ smart people from stupid ones. One criteria is smart people admit their mistakes when found a proof. The proof can be statistics, documents, etc. Stupid people cannot admit they were wrong. The statistics shows there are 2.319.000 prisoned in USA right now. They were prisoned or executed 3.777.000 in the period between 1921 and 1954. The average serve time was 6 years. 1.345.000 of them were prisoned/executed in 1937-1938. These numbers < USA.

[SirMeowMeow]

@PhysicsFritz This is the wrong argument to be making. Is it numbers you are really concerned with? Or proportion?

Further, you are putting people together under one category (prisoners) when being a prisoner in the US has very different implications on mortality than being a prisoner in the USSR. Furthermore, there are very different pathways to becoming a criminal between these two countries. Do you really wish to gloss over these facts to win a technical debate that sidesteps larger facts?

[Gonnakillyou]

@ahbahpuh Your defense of the USSR as it was would have been met with disapproval by Shostakovich. Just sayin'.

[ahbahpuh]

@Gonnakillyou

My defence of the USSR would be endorsed by him if he would know what XXI century russka would be.

[Gonnakillyou]

@ahbahpuh That doesn't make it any less worse, and he would know it. He's lost enough friends to show trials and Gulags to know that the USSR was quite simply hell to live in. It doesn't matter if nowadays matters are worse (a highly dubious claim anyway), it matters that it was and will always have been hell. Even the first circle of hell is as much a part of hell as all the others. Your futile try at revisionism changes nothing about that.

[ahbahpuh]

@Gonnakillyou

I know the word GULAG (not Gulag, it's abbreviature) too )) But it's not the reason to use it all the time when speaking about the the Stalin's USSR, especially without any mind what was happenining indeed ;)

[Gonnakillyou]

@ahbahpuh I didn't use it all the time, and what do you mean?

The general message is true either way, USSR kind of sucked, and nowadays Russia maybe sucking more doesn't suddenly make it suck less.

[ahbahpuh]

@Gonnakillyou

Another silly comment ))

Why didn't he left USSR then? He easily could do this, but he didn't, because the possibilities for artistic (and science) people were higher in USSR than in West that time: no need to make money, looking for clients to write music for, etc. Only creation. It was the time of huge jump for russians, like one in XVIII century, with Peter the Great.

[WheelsRCool]

@ahbahpuh Actually, Shostakovich almost was jailed for his work while in the U.S.S.R. Stalin's Soviet Union killed something on the order of 30 million people, while hundreds of millions more lived in terrible poverty, fear, and misery.

[MrFalloutaddict]

@ahbahpuh Stalin's USSR Was awful, no denying that. He jailed and slaughtered around about 20m of his people for reasons that wouldn't even get you a fine in the west. The USSR Would have only really worked if Lennin could have stayed in power forever, butofcourse he couldn't. Socialism and communism are great ideals, when used correctly. The issue is that there are so many corrupt leaders out there that it simply wouldn't work in society. Gulags for the innoccent staliners, Jail for Guilty west

[werkzeug0]

@MrFalloutaddict "He jailed and slaughtered around about 20m"

MrFalloutaddict --> yet another one retard with no own brains

[MrFalloutaddict]

@werkzeug0 oh really? The GUlag program jailed around about 20 million people, of them, millions were killed. The exact number isn't known due to the minor revolutions which occurred and the lack of foreign liberation. I also said "Around" and so obviously wasn't pointing to an exact number. Of course, if you saw a different problem with that statement, please be free to write an incoherent, rambling response to this comment.

[werkzeug0]

@MrFalloutaddict "GUlag program" jailed less than USA modern "prison programm"

[werkzeug0]

@MrFalloutaddict "millions were killed" --> very precise calculations

[Piccinels]

@ahbahpuh yes, but US have the freedom of information act, the bill of rights and pluralistic general elections.

[wjsado]

@ahbahpuh quality not quantity ;)

[ZacieszBezczelny]

@ahbahpuh

No there isn't. Did you want to say that about 10-20 per cent of US citizens are in prisons? Just read "GULag" of Anne Apelbaum (my grandfather was in the soviet camp and he thinks that the book is quite good) or even "The GULag Archipelago" of Solzhenitsyn, "Another World" of Herling-Grudziński.

But well I'm happy that Shostakovitch as a communist. He could write such a masterpiece.

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

@ahbahpuh Correct.

"Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union"

by Mario Sousa(on the net)

[KaRidder234]

@ahbahpuh ∽∽ *One* innocent who is imprisoned is *one* too much, in any country.

[JammaPants]

@ahbahpuh

The population of the adult correctional population in 2009 was 7.2 million including those on parole. The population of prisoners that went through the Gulags in 1938 was 16 million, according to Antonov-Ovseyenko - not including other types of incarceration. Don't try to defend the injustice and tyranny of the Soviet Union. Its rule oppressed more than Germany did under Hitler. At least Americans are protected under the writ of Habeas Corpus from unlawful detention.

[Stymfalide]

@JammaPants Americans protected from unlawful detention? You make me laugh! The US isn't better than the USSR, you with all your values and your secular state that is 'united under God' (how the hell does that make sense?). At least, in Sovjet Russia, not a THIRD of the ENTIRE population was as moronic as to believe that "god" created the universe. Before criticizing others, get your facts straight: there are more afro-am young males in prison then there are in college. Justice? Didn't think so.

[JammaPants]

@Stymfalide

You're conjuring arguments that didn't relate remotely to what I was claiming. I was stating the simple fact that there were more contained in the Gulags than in US prisons. I can't believe you would try to defend a country that detained their citizens at the whim of a dictator! Things are not perfect, the justice system is still fucked, but it's not close to being as corrupt as the USSR in the 20th Century. Plus, prove my facts wrong, because you haven't yet.

[simpleman6942]

@JammaPants i hvnt read the whole conversation but you are right every judicial system has flaws man but you shouldnt be criticizing other countrys comparing them to yours as if yours was better because its not, different maybe but not better, for an example I could say in my country we have never discriminated/segregated/perse­cuted our native people or balck man, never invaded other countrys for silly ideological diferences and never waged war to other countrys about oil we have never used

[JammaPants]

@simpleman6942

One, the Jews WERE persecuted under Stalin. Jews persecuted more than any other group under Stalin. Read up on the 'Doctor's plot' and the Night of the Murdered Poets. Christians were also heavily persecuted. Five years after the rise of the USSR, 28 orthodox bishops and over 1200 priests were executed. Thousands more were arrested.

Secondly, I'm pretty sure Eurasia, Afghanistan and other oriental countries would disagree about the ideological war argument.

[simpleman6942]

Responder a este vídeo... havent used H bombs to vaporize civilians or drop napalm on villages or bombs on hospitals and i could go ooooooooon an on an on an on but that woudlnt mean your country is worst than mine, or more corrupt or its people worst human beings it just means we have different historys.

and finally!! common man why bring stupid political disscusions in a Shostakovich video haha enjoy the music man peace all

[JammaPants]

@simpleman6942

It's never been a debate about which country is better. All I have been stating is that the judicial system is fairer in the United States than it had been in Russia under the USSR. True, the US has done 'evil' things, but that was never the question.

I started with disputing a claim with facts. The arguments came afterwards. I don't think sensationalism should overtake a true political judgment, though. Otherwise, I do not think people would be defending the reign of Stalin.

[nikpapgre]

@ahbahpuh Βravo! Congratulations! You are superb, my friend! Good answer!

[ozzy1871]

nice answer...We can ask why Prokofiev didnt choose to stay in USA (The freedom :) ) and got back to USSR...

[sheepeasy]

Blah blah blah. You're all wrong and I'm right. But please, continue fighting amongst yourselves.

[zezinhozeppelin]

"The freedom"?

What do you mean, bro? I guess it's the same freedom that Nikola Tesla had...

[AmiralSAS]

@atralfalgar

Thanks to the the communism. He has been forced by the communism first with Staline and then with the others to compose and to be ideal representant of musical propaganda. He hated the communism, with his friends who has been silenced or who died in jails or in gulags or committed suiciced.

Music was his only way to express what he really thought about communism.

Without communism he would have not be mentaly tortured and would have not done all what he have done.

[atralfalgar]

Génial !

[amtelspzoo]

Wonderful piece! Thank you very much for so much music of my favourite composer!

[tHEnOOSEsWINGS]

Excellent. Thank you.