....actually, quite informative and entertaining video. Just in case you play trumpet or another brass instrument, I think you might find some trumpet and brass tutorials quite intriguing over at YOURBRASSINSTRUCTOR's Channel.
I always gets a kick out of watching freddie play the chords on a fast song, because it always looks so nonchalant in his body language but the left hand has a look like it's frantically playing the part
I adore big band jazz. I finally managed to find time to do jazz band and we're doing this piece! Not as fantastically as Count Basie's band, of course, but we're getting the hang of it.
Im so happy to be a part of the jazz band in my school. I play drums and love all styles of music but everybody forgets about big band music and just go for the modern jazz. We play so much big band music its rediculous
Perfect drumming from Harold Jones, all from a basic 4 piece set, Shows what a great drummer can do. You don't need a multitude of drums and cymbals to swing and drive the band. He was my second favorite Basie drummer after Butch Miles.
Harold Jones was a great drummer, highly under rated. He was my second favorite Basie drummer after Butch Miles. Worked for many years with Sarah Vaughan.
We're talking about Freddie Green! His rhythm is perfect! Just listen any recording of Basie only with the rhythm section to appreciate his playing. A good example is the 1974 album "Satch and Josh", where Basie plays with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Louis Bellson, and of course Freddie Green.
Freddie Green is one of my favorite guitarists. His role was apparently modest because he was not a soloist but remove his guitar from the orchestra and you realize how important he was.
I studied jazz guitar and aimed to emulate him unfortunately there's no demand for this kind of work, big bands being a thing of the past.
You're absolutely right! And it's true, there's no demand for big bands. I try to play Basie's style on the piano, but nowadays everybody wants modern jazz (post Kind of blue, I mean), which is great and I love it too, but lots of people thinks that's the only kind of jazz. I think a good jazz musician must know something from Scott Joplin to Scott Henderson, for understand the roots and the future way of jazz. Anyway, I think Freddie is the most perfect rhythm guitarists in history!!
I almost forget it. Maybe big bands are too expensive, but I try to play the classic swing standards with only the rhythm section, piano, bass and guitar (Nat King Cole's style) and why not drums (Basie's rhythm section). I think it's a nice alternative to a big band, keeping the style.
The report of Harold Jones' demise is greatly exagerated and untrue. He is very much alive and well, continuing to be the greatest jazz drummer in the world. You can check him out with Tony Bennett on tour and you don't want to miss Tony's latest CD, "A Swingin Christmas" featuring the Count Basie Big Band, including Harold.
Harold now lives in Woodacre in the San Francisco bay area. He has a big band that plays out of the area and does plenty of local gigs. I've had the good fortune to be on a few gigs with him in the last few years. He makes everyone sound great and he's a completely great guy to hang with, smart, funny and unpretentious.
Isn't this a Nestico tune? I've played it several times, and I believe he was the composer. It's a blast to play, and I know Nestico wrote a lot for Basie. Great to see this awesome performance!
Yes, indeed, Sammy wrote this one. A wonderful man and a terrific mentor. I was a student of his 35-36 years ago. He took me under his wing and taught me basically everything I know about jazz. I f you liked this one, find a copy of "The Wind Machine", another Basie/Nestico collaboration. Whew!!
Yup it is, if you enjoy it check out a basie cd entitled Basie-straight ahead, hopefully uv heard of it already. it has excellent arrangements of this tune as well as many others!!!!
Wow, it's great to see this live as I have wanted to see Harold Jones play with the Count. The Basie drummmers were all awesome...I heard something live with Basie and Mickey Roker and he sounded unbelievable. Straight Ahead is my favorite Basie Album. I saw the band recently and Butch Miles is great.
I'm playing this one now with the big band I'm a memeber of. Quite tricky sax parts! Being the first tenor, I'm afraid I won't be so lucky to produce a similar great solo to Lockjaw's :).
Yes, that is Lockjaw Davis. As far as Harold Jones.. Outstanding. He's playing on what now looks like a schoolkids starter set and absolutely kicks Basie's band in the a**. One of my favorite clips!!!
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....actually, quite informative and entertaining video. Just in case you play trumpet or another brass instrument, I think you might find some trumpet and brass tutorials quite intriguing over at YOURBRASSINSTRUCTOR's Channel.
yourbrassinstructor 1 week ago
Who is the sax soloist
drkfnx600 1 month ago
I always gets a kick out of watching freddie play the chords on a fast song, because it always looks so nonchalant in his body language but the left hand has a look like it's frantically playing the part
newkindofcrazy 11 months ago
I bow down to Harold Jones. GREAT drummer
Coremetima 11 months ago
FUCKING A, MAN.
rockclimber21 1 year ago
Charlie Fowlkes on bari sax! what a good sound on a low Bb horn.... and of course, i'm a bari sax guy (:
CBariSaxM 1 year ago 2
all about Oscar Brashear. master trumpet player
Crumpdog 1 year ago
I adore big band jazz. I finally managed to find time to do jazz band and we're doing this piece! Not as fantastically as Count Basie's band, of course, but we're getting the hang of it.
ElvanLady 1 year ago
Im so happy to be a part of the jazz band in my school. I play drums and love all styles of music but everybody forgets about big band music and just go for the modern jazz. We play so much big band music its rediculous
PearlDrumsAllDay94 1 year ago
COOOOOOOKIN'
hkboomboom88 1 year ago
Niiiice...
trumpethooah 1 year ago
fantastic! I really want to play it on electone.
whiter5911 1 year ago
Perfect drumming from Harold Jones, all from a basic 4 piece set, Shows what a great drummer can do. You don't need a multitude of drums and cymbals to swing and drive the band. He was my second favorite Basie drummer after Butch Miles.
stevebul 1 year ago
Harold Jones was on fire right here.
yoozook9 1 year ago
The 2 piccolo flutes at the very end are hilarious!
Khamomil 2 years ago 2
I think the title is a play of words with the Magic Flute by W.A. Mozart.
Khamomil 2 years ago
Beautiful! I agree that Harold Jones is first-rate.
nicmart 2 years ago 2
pure SAMMY NESTICO!!!!!!! THAT GUY IS A GENIUS!!
celticmoon7 2 years ago 3
any idea why he left basie.???
buddyrichforever 2 years ago
Total badassery.
ignarukih 2 years ago
Harold Jones was a great drummer, highly under rated. He was my second favorite Basie drummer after Butch Miles. Worked for many years with Sarah Vaughan.
stevebul 2 years ago
Man, thats as close to Buddy as I've ever heard.........great work Harold ,,,!!!!
shermanater87 2 years ago 2
Man,That's as close to Buddy Rich, as i've ever heard......just great stuff...!!!!
shermanater87 2 years ago
Einfach Klasse!!!!!Basie!!!!!!!!!!
HarunConn 2 years ago
1:31-1:44 God, that guitar player must be WORKING. Jeez, I don't play guitar, but that's gotta be tough.
TonyLikesToJazz 2 years ago
We're talking about Freddie Green! His rhythm is perfect! Just listen any recording of Basie only with the rhythm section to appreciate his playing. A good example is the 1974 album "Satch and Josh", where Basie plays with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Louis Bellson, and of course Freddie Green.
OscarPetersonFan 2 years ago
Freddie Green is one of my favorite guitarists. His role was apparently modest because he was not a soloist but remove his guitar from the orchestra and you realize how important he was.
I studied jazz guitar and aimed to emulate him unfortunately there's no demand for this kind of work, big bands being a thing of the past.
Khamomil 2 years ago
You're absolutely right! And it's true, there's no demand for big bands. I try to play Basie's style on the piano, but nowadays everybody wants modern jazz (post Kind of blue, I mean), which is great and I love it too, but lots of people thinks that's the only kind of jazz. I think a good jazz musician must know something from Scott Joplin to Scott Henderson, for understand the roots and the future way of jazz. Anyway, I think Freddie is the most perfect rhythm guitarists in history!!
OscarPetersonFan 1 year ago
I almost forget it. Maybe big bands are too expensive, but I try to play the classic swing standards with only the rhythm section, piano, bass and guitar (Nat King Cole's style) and why not drums (Basie's rhythm section). I think it's a nice alternative to a big band, keeping the style.
OscarPetersonFan 1 year ago
Never get enough of this great tune. What an incredible band. Thanks for posting.
flugelsak 2 years ago
im a metal and ive always been inspired by the energy of the drummers who play these high tempo songs. awesome
Zachdudeio2 2 years ago
intense bass.
Theseventhknight 2 years ago
Ahhh i love this song! And seeing the greats playing so effortlessly makes it so much better!
AfroSwordo 2 years ago 2
freddie green the man
kkoommnneenn 2 years ago 9
He is Basie band's time keeper & groove maker!!!!!
His job always awesome all the time.
ejaki 2 years ago
My Dad was just passing by my Office and he commented that he saw the Count at Massey Hall and the Royal York in Toronto in the 60s.
dsdc1001 3 years ago
what about the sax player man?...nobody talks about him?...thats Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis brothers!
alisanchazz 3 years ago 3
The report of Harold Jones' demise is greatly exagerated and untrue. He is very much alive and well, continuing to be the greatest jazz drummer in the world. You can check him out with Tony Bennett on tour and you don't want to miss Tony's latest CD, "A Swingin Christmas" featuring the Count Basie Big Band, including Harold.
kjazz1 3 years ago
Harold is from Richmond, Indiana and was a family friend in my childhood. My father initiated a Basie Day and Count came to our house!
nicmart 2 years ago
he is my cousin . he is my granmothers sister son .
kendalbaker10 2 years ago
I love Harold Jones. I love Count Basie. Thank god for Nestico's genius
schatzmaster 3 years ago 3
Whats so cool, try to get a band together and play this today. out there. This is Great thanks for posting !
SC515 3 years ago
lockjaw!
frankovic07 3 years ago
Harold Jones - great drummer and a real gentleman.
BrassAttack1 3 years ago 11
Also, that drummer, Harold Jones. He actually just died about a week ago.
tjc197 3 years ago
@tjc197 get real Harold is healthier than you are and is playin w/ Tony Bennett / Di Benedetto , YOU CAPICHE , caio, Bambina
DYNODRUM 1 year ago
Yerp, that's freddie. That was an amazing sax section.
tjc197 3 years ago
Is that Freddie Green??
loosegums 3 years ago
Yes.
cashchecks 3 years ago
...it is Freddie Green! What a band, all great guys and this is the first time I get the chance to see and hear Harold Jones driving the band.
cashchecks 3 years ago 2
Harold now lives in Woodacre in the San Francisco bay area. He has a big band that plays out of the area and does plenty of local gigs. I've had the good fortune to be on a few gigs with him in the last few years. He makes everyone sound great and he's a completely great guy to hang with, smart, funny and unpretentious.
walkinbass 3 years ago 2
God Bless Harold Jones, one of the greatest un-sung heroes of the drumming world.
jaschaheifetz 3 years ago 5
harold jones is good.... but i prefer sonny payne.....
philipizcool 3 years ago
An absolutely flawless performance of a magnificent composition by the greatest band leader of all time......
drumminman49 4 years ago
Isn't this a Nestico tune? I've played it several times, and I believe he was the composer. It's a blast to play, and I know Nestico wrote a lot for Basie. Great to see this awesome performance!
clskmstg 4 years ago
Yes, indeed, Sammy wrote this one. A wonderful man and a terrific mentor. I was a student of his 35-36 years ago. He took me under his wing and taught me basically everything I know about jazz. I f you liked this one, find a copy of "The Wind Machine", another Basie/Nestico collaboration. Whew!!
bargaincountertenor 3 years ago
Played Wind Machine in college - love it!
clskmstg 3 years ago
I was in the college band Sammy was directing when he wrote "Machine" . We were his "lab" to iron out the wrinkles before he took it to Basie.
bargaincountertenor 3 years ago
Yup it is, if you enjoy it check out a basie cd entitled Basie-straight ahead, hopefully uv heard of it already. it has excellent arrangements of this tune as well as many others!!!!
FatManOWNSatBARI 3 years ago
Wow, it's great to see this live as I have wanted to see Harold Jones play with the Count. The Basie drummmers were all awesome...I heard something live with Basie and Mickey Roker and he sounded unbelievable. Straight Ahead is my favorite Basie Album. I saw the band recently and Butch Miles is great.
ElectricShed 4 years ago
Harold Jones is in the house!
sussexcounty 4 years ago 3
I'm playing this one now with the big band I'm a memeber of. Quite tricky sax parts! Being the first tenor, I'm afraid I won't be so lucky to produce a similar great solo to Lockjaw's :).
PietPost33 4 years ago
The best track on "straight ahead" by far.....maybe a close second is Switch in Time. Cool.
karaokeboy1 4 years ago
What about hayburner?
jakepirtle 4 years ago
harold jones is one of the great big band drummers.
that man PLAYED!!
ive had that 1968 berlin concert on audio tape for years!
and i aint planning to record over it....ever!
bigbreadeaterellis 4 years ago 3
@bigbreadeaterellis Harold is THE Stick...
DYNODRUM 1 year ago 2
Yes, that is Lockjaw Davis. As far as Harold Jones.. Outstanding. He's playing on what now looks like a schoolkids starter set and absolutely kicks Basie's band in the a**. One of my favorite clips!!!
brian740 4 years ago 2
Is that Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis on the tenor?
philmonsax 4 years ago
what sectacular drumming dont forget his name harold jones my god awsome player.
haircut333 4 years ago 2