Count BASIE & His Orchestra " Air Mail Special " !!!

[AnnisaAyana]

Love Big Band Basie!

[MrPartidoalto]

Man, Papa Jo was so young then!

[leoncoda]

¡¡ Esto es muy anterior a que naciera el ¿original? ROCK& ROLL. Aquí DON BYAS hace el solo de saxo tenor ; no sé quién es el trompetista que toca antes otro solo; El gordo que baila es el cantante JIMMY RUSHING ( ved videos de él cantando , aqui en YOU TUBE) .

[jhb134]

Maybe y'all will notice, Jimmy Rushing (one of Basie's greatest vocalists) actually DANCING, in the sequence.

[MrAudioProducer]

This tune is written by Benny Goodman!

[Cezqo]

haha that's what i call an MC!

[givemetoast]

Was that Basie doing the very first rap ever?

[DoctorRatio]

@givemetoast HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! LOL!!! Yeah man, the FIRST RAP EVER!!!

[OttoLink10]

:45 - Jimmy Rushing. Sweets on trpt. Yes, Don Byas on tenor!

[zhartable]

love it~

[perryjthomas]

That's Don Byas on the tenor solo.

[perryjthomas]

Wow! The Count rappin' !

[startrevolution]

Is that Herschel Evans with the sax solo?

[xmzoliviax]

I love this!

[crow1938]

Freddie Green was there.

[willwelsh816]

@crow1938 look at those fucking chords hes doing man. He isnt mr rhythym, hes DOCTOR RHYTHM lol.

[cholocharile]

@willwelsh816 The chord progression isn't all too difficult with some practice. I know the Benny Goodman Sextet version, which isn't all too different from this one, it's more about speed. But Basie is still one hep cat so that's ok.

[TheDionysiac]

@cholocharile I think he means the killing voicings basie pounds into one's soul.

[DoctorRatio]

@willwelsh816 yeah, he was a jazz maestro

[maxwell2120]

0:45 Willie Dixon?

[s0234429]

This is amazing, the best version of Air Mail Special barring the one on Charlie Christian's album.

[cheleguapo]

@s0234429 Maybe you haven't heard Tiny Grimes version?