Words And Music with Oscar Peterson Part 1

[amccolgan1]

That's impressive if Ain't Misbehavin' is the only tune he knew!

[Hamporkcheese]

what kind of amp did he use????

[fatNightCAT]

please fix the audio!!!

[incubator2k3]

Why oh why doesn't public channels on my country do this kind of shows.

[Hamporkcheese]

@incubator2k3 cause we want to watch the x factor.... sad world we live in....

[TenorJazzPlayer]

Joe Pass..........wow!!!!!! I've never really paid attention.......to the record collection i go..

[TenorJazzPlayer]

Oscar is swings so nice....its not just the notes he plays....but how he plays them. Its crazy, but a sax player could learn so much from just his right hand.

[kantaraka1]

IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE HAS EDITED PARTS OF THE SOUND OUT! PLEASE FIOR GOD'S SAKE, PUT IT BACK! HOW CAN ANYONE BE SO WICKJED? MUTE OSCAR PETERSON AND JOE PASS?

[grahamwebb2000]

nice

[Doctorbeermaker]

This really takes me back. I watched this on BBC2 -I think it was after Newsnight - I was still at school. I remember talking about it to my friends. Joe Pass just blew me away. I vividly remember him walking on stage with this big semi acoustic and playing divinely. Such talent. Although I'm an old prog rocker I can still appreciate the skill and musicality on show. Don't get that now.

[G3r0n1mo]

There is no dislike in almost 3 years!

The Legend = Oscar Peterson

[kfb998p]

Wonderful series of posts- thank you newjackswing21. I remember watching this series when it was first shown on the BBC. Back then there were only 3 (4?) channels, so frequently you'd find yourself watching something outside of your box, as it were, and learning from it. This was one such programme, and boy did it change my ideas about what music and musicians could be! No chance nowadays- Fox, Sky, reality TV, X factor- you got it! Youtube may be our only hope, but the numbers don't look good..

[newjackswing21]

@kfb998p thanks its a plesure to share such amazing footage of a past era

[tommie997]

m 13 and all I wish for is to make a living playing my beloved instrument and yet it deeply saddens me when hardly anyone my age likes good music no matter the genre. I hope one day things may change from modeling to music and people rediscover the beauty of music. Whether it be Stevie Ray Vaughn or Johnny Costa, Scotty Anderson or John Coltrane, Bireli Lagrene or Duke Ellington, Guthrie Govan or Frank Zappa, list goes on, just people out there wanting to share good music regardless of genre.

[ignarukih]

@tommie997 Dude - you're awesome and you'll go far. Just keep practicing and having fun. I wish I was half as switched on as you when I was your age.

[jazzevans]

@tommie997 im a little bit older than you and can really sympathise. I did a presentation on miles davis at school and none of my year knew who he was!

[MrPianoguitar]

VIRTUOSO

[CMane]

Incredible! RIP Joe Pass

[JamieKayChingching]

could anyone tell me the name of the beautiful piece that oscar plays at the start of this video?? thanks

[mayorelvis2]

he was a genius

[WolfMartini]

the song great Mr.J.P. played is : "ain't misbehavin' ", his guitar is a D'Aquisto custom made for him; ca. 20x the price of a peerless. Ibanez kind of copied it in the 80ies (model JP 20) but peerless copy is not bad.

[jazzevans]

i meant the trio piece at the beginning

[undapar1]

@jazzevans the first time I heard him play, I wanted to give my Gibson ES175 to Goodwill.

[jimmiskos]

what model is this guitar is a peerless??

[jazzevans]

does anybody know what this is called?

[jonrittmann]

wow!

- jon

[rvic11]

Thank you for uploading this! The Count Basie interview is fantastic!

[undapar1]

@rvic11 my father took the resposibility of expanding my outlook/appreciation of real music, very seriously. Sidney Bechet, Sachmo, Ed Hall is what I grew up on. Now my son love the basie band, Ella and some Miles & Train. not bad for 17. None of his contempories understand why he likes this stuff. They listen to Kenye Jayz and Biggie

[KhanShin]

I love the font in the intro.

[irelephant]

Superb. This is the apex of solo jazz guitar and piano performed by its most brilliant players. Interesting that western culture, complete with input from the President of the US, has now focused its attention on Kanye, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce. Talk about being dumbed down. Anybody got a time machine?

[coreyagraph]

when you find it, turn it on loud!

[Stealth4Health]

I hear you. I think we should take the hint from Oscar and play meaningful music.

[gr00veN1k1]

I'm coming too. Count me in :)

[vetmusician]

Your comment is one of the most intelligent I have read on Youtube.....................an­d also the saddest, because of the truth it contains, as a people we are no longer inspired by greatness, mediocrity and superficiality are the order of the day................another dark age, I believe it was Mark Twain who said," History doesnt repeat itself..........But it tends to Rhyme".......so true. I will get to work on that Time Machine now.................LOL.

[irelephant]

thanks vetmusician. In the seventies, Saturday Night Live had Gregory Hines singing and tapping jazz numbers with Eubie Blake at the piano. The boomers were the last generation of Americans interested in preserving our cultural traditions. People now are told to sit down at their computers and multitask while suits at the media corporations promote rap and commercialized country. Meanwhile, the budgets for musical training are cut from the public schools, and the legacies of jazz legends lost.

[nuke97]

This is mind expanding music.

You are right though pop music gets way too much credit and after pro-longed exposure could damage your sense of hearing.......Kanye West in the White House?? .....Im

[jazzevans]

@irelephant this was on a bbc production, for the uk!

[nuke97]

@irelephant its frieghtning! and when you find that time machine let me know!

[smuffjules]

@irelephant yes. This is way above most peoples heads. I feel extremely fortunate knowing that I can truely appreciate the real actual music that most of the braindead public just don't get. Most folks are impressed by celebrity...not music. They know NOTHING about music and don't care.

[zinnington]

@irelephant What you say is frightening. I've been gigging,playing for almost 45 years. You mention that you play jazz the noses go up and faces contort. Dumbed down is an understatement. When I do play I have to compete with tv sets and sporting events. The more well off the people I play for the more of an attitude there is. I sneak in jazz tunes at a red neck bar playing blues and they love it. America is not the great cultre it thinks it is

[JesuitFarmer]

@irelephant Has "now"???....as if a culture has ever focused on this!!...pop music has always taken the reigns...the "masses" have always loved the music they can listen to while the work, while...not really listening... But when they want something deeper, something that can express the more subtle voices of their joys and sorrows...they always turn to good music, just not with a group of people...have faith!

[irelephant]

@JesuitFarmer Flamenco, opera and flamenco were the popular music of previous generations. My grandfather, an Italian-American radio announcer played Caruso for the masses in Brooklyn. Similarly, jazz artists like Ellington and Goodman, and classical composers like Gershwin and Bernstein all had mass audiences. Go back and watch Libarace play on the Ed Sullivan show. Compare the standard then to the rappers, Spears and Gaga's of today and you will find a downward spiral towards atonal garbage.

[JesuitFarmer]

@irelephant Yes, but that's totally irelephant! I see your point and it feels right--but all the lovers of what you call refined and truly melodic have fathered the atonal generations of today...how much can we blame newborns? SO..let's admit at least, the music is changing, and still is, so we may see some better days ahead..It's just that with all the new technology, artists are cheapening their vision, compromising their sound for what surprises and freshens their ears by such new sounds...

[irelephant]

@JesuitFarmer Commercialization and hyping of such "artists" as M&M, Gaga, and Vanilla Ice was all done to make a buck off the youth who demographically were becoming less represented by boomers and more so by inner city ethnic minorities. I think the schism between contemporary youth culture and that of twenty years ago is huge, and largely reflects the supplantion of the sixties progressive optimism with the stark and often brutal realities of inner city youth.

[JesuitFarmer]

@irelephant Well said, and isn't it lovely? Music that was made is immortal. Never lost. So If todays music is overcharged with vanity and vice, its been a long time coming, eh? All that's represented wasn't invented from thin air...Art has always been a matter of exploitation--the grief and obstacles of a generation are celebrated, but moreover USED to embody the unspoken drama of an often nightmarish atmosphere...What music we have is what we are, and always will be--praise it or change it!

[jazz1bro]

@irelephant Interesting comments!

[Vayshen]

BBC huh? Wish we had reruns of these kinds of shows.

[vetmusician]

We Dont, But anytime you want to see Kanye West Take the Mic From Taylor Swift there are 1,000,000,000 places you can find that..............Its Sad, I guess thats why they call it a treasure because it gets buried and its REALLY hard to find,,,,,,,,,,LOL

[cj1982]

he clams on a note at about 8:45. pass was such a master that actually hearing him do that gives hope to us mere mortals!

[JazzJunkie4]

lol, I agree

[joesykesjazz]

What's the first tune Oscar plays? It is his own, or a standard?

[doublealufwaffe]

Man, Busendorfers are great. To bad my ex-wife threw mine off a building.

[BizzMarki]

O_o?... your ex threw a grandpiano off a building? why do I find that hard to believe...

[theroyalpriest]

she must be really strong...

[doublealufwaffe]

You have no idea

[Vayshen]

Jealous of the piano perhaps? ;)

[doublealufwaffe]

Perhaps, haha

[oss587]

ha Joe Pass ,super ,ce son ,ce jeu ,extra !

[1crow]

What year was this?

[Dollyjeb]

Beautiful!

[michalknot]

First bars after bass solo i could listen for million of times!!!!!

[Vpmatt]

Great vid! RIP Oscar Peterson and NHOP.

[blah148]

joe's playing was absolutely beautiful

[unibomber111]

Joe certainly A'int misbehavin'

[unibomber111]

Why am i so silly?

[slothvader]

oscar and joe...like getting liszt and chopin together.

don't get no bettah den dis, brahs.

[Mrphilharmonic]

Where can I get the full DVD of this? - someone PLEASE tell me!!! Thanks SO much for posting this by the way. You are totally giving so many people pleasure for doing so!!

[cdshorst]

Was für eine großartige Idee, die größten Jazzmusiker an einer Stelle zusammenzubringen.

Von der Musik, die dort gemacht wird ganz zu schweigen! Sie müssen voneinander begeistert gewesen sein!

So do I!

[willyvallez]

Merci pour cette vidéo! ( "fantastic" !)