This is such a beautiful piece . I first heard it on the "A Bronx Tale " soundtrack . Never new it was Donald Bryd . It is filled with so much emotion . If you like this one , you should listen to Booker T. and the MGs version of "Summertime ". Both hit me the same way .
Back in 65s I lived in the South Bronx On Prospect Ave ..Downstairs in a Pizza Store They had a Jukebox ..And This side was always beening playd...I was seventeen years old..And I still love it today..Many Thanks bystandemusic for the memories..*
I heard this wonderful music on HBO's documentaries on prostitutes in Hunt's Point and Atlantic City. I searched for its title but to no avail Then I heard Swingadelic with Duke Pearson on a jazz station. It was close to what I was looking for but not the exact version. This what I heard on HBO! It's beautiful!! Thank You Donald and may God Bless your memory!
The Brother that stated the South Bronx in the 60's hit the nail dead on the head,
I used to play the 33 1/3 record till the grooves were worn out.
In that day we had The Fania All Stars, Johnny Pacheco , Eddie & Charlie Palmieri, Willie Bobo, not to mention all the R & B groups Stax Records, Motown ah man I could go on and on Music was Great.
@roadschokar Muy Bien Amigo..Good old Latin Jazz I feel where you are coming from..I grew up Soul And Latin Jazz You forgot Mongo Santamaria..That mean Conga Player...Bless Them all..Amen!..*
@Concepcion8able Y repecto a que mi amigo lo siento , who could ever forget the Watermelon Man, but as I said there were so many, it was just a really cool time to be alive. There seem to be a few of us still around that truly appreciate that era. Peace
@eckythimble It's not a mixture of anything you dumb fuck. It's simply a traditional black gospel hymn accompanied by instruments that have been routinely associated with Jazz. Mind your mouth about categorizing this beautiful work of art.
@Jemini29944 "It's not a MIXTURE of anything... It's simply a gospel hymn ACCOMPANIED by instruments... routinely associated with Jazz...." = EPIC FAIL!
@Jemini29944 hey dude, am not mad at you at all. Also no danger of being able to put me in my place, I am still pushing the limits, so it's impossible for anyone else to "put" me anywhere back within these obsolete limits.
@Jemini29944 No sweat dude. Your first point was actually a very informative and positive one ("black gospel hymn")... it actually stands stronger without the funny language. cheers.
Beautiful music! Very captivating! A friend of mine sent me this piece.How sweet of him! Thank you very much Will.I have also listened to Charlie Musselwhite's version.I love both of them.
I am probably older than most of you who posted on this song. I used to hear it on my car radio coming home late at night or early in the dark morning after a night of partying in Manhattan. It was the perfect calming music to end the night with. That was way before the "Bronx Tale". No talent was wasted here.
@225marklin Actually it was Symphony Sid that I was listening to on my car radio going home late at night on WEVD. Me and my friends used to see him on Monday nights at the Village Gate, which was Latin night.
This melody makes me especially sad because "there's nothing more terrible than wasted talent "and ironically that's what happened to Lillo Brancatto. After repeating the same phrase over and over in the movie he wasted his talent by choosing a painful path later on in life. This tune is like a requiem for his dreams.
@anthonytalks! Wow yeh @ 1st i was overwhelmed purly by the beauty, then sadness for all those of whom i've loved & had the pleasure of knowing & are passed kicked in . . . . then remembered some of me mums wise old words 'Theres nothing like a good cry' i dint as i'm in a rush as usaul to get on wth my day! Thou knowing i cld made it better & i remembered them ♥
Folks , if you haven't heard it. please pick up Donald Byrd : A New Perspective. i am in love with the entire album. That's where this track is from..
First heard this song by one of my co-workers at a Uptown New Orleans restaurant and fell in love with it. My co-worker's father was a jazz musician in Nola and he grew up listening to this style. And I also love that it features a young Herbie Hancock, who was brilliant even back then! I need to be sitting in a smoky juke joint right now....powerful song!
I Like Finding Where Music Producers Get There Samples From Because It Always Expands My Musical Libary. My First Time Hearing This Was On A Bronx Tale. And Then Years Later The Rap Group Slaughterhouse Sampled It. I Love Good Music.
yes, my first time was also a bronx tale. this piece is so haunting and somewhat sad to me, yet, at the same time, it brings to mind hope and dreams for a better way.
Tears, pain and history of black people deeply engraved in this timeless master piece. Hard to control my emotion when i listen to it ... and no need to be black to feel it !
when i lived in NYC, I first heard thison WRVR a jazz station in the 70s. This is one of my alltime top 10. U can hear the sadness and melancholy in the voices and solo trumpet. But it also very uplifting. This is a bonafide masterpiece.
I heard this late one night for the first time while driving home. Man I was hooked so early the next day I raced to the only store that even carried this to get the cassette but the guys like we only have it on CD and this is when nobody even had or wanted a CD player cause even a crappy one would burn you out 300 bucks. But this was the CD that forced me to cross over the cassette to CD bridge. Ive lost sold or scratched almost every CD Ive owned But this one I still have in mint condition
heard this in a chappelle show sketch and in A Bronx Tale. I heard some guy called A-Lyricz sample it in a song called Kick It. Best sample ive heard from it yet, check it out if you aint already on myspace
oh yeah, and "Hot Rats," too...must have been the coolest record shop dude I ever ran into. DIdn't say much of anything, just asked me a few questions and suggested those three tapes.
Some shp owner laid this cassette on me when I was college visiting in Providence, RI. This and "Ill Communication." Great tapes to have in the walkman riding around the NorthEast, looking at the seamy side of things from a train window....
Duke Pearson's version isn't "better", they're both very unique beautiful songs and I would call this masterpiece barely a "cover/remix/" -or whatever (Magnus' version is though)- of Pearson's. It's just an eyewink/friendly gesture from Byrd 2 Pearson. Love them both actually
O.K. for all of those who keep saying "A Bronx Tale", that's not the movie I remember it in! I think I remember it in School Daze or another Spike Lee movie!!!
Hey BystanderMusic! Thank you so so much for the biographical notes about Donald Byrd. I wish more people had the knowledge, patience and generous-educational spirit that you do! The music is beautiful and moving. Thank you. RussHamer. (p.s. where did you get al that info about Byrd?)
NP, it feels good to see how many people liked this song and i still can't believe this video has almost 70k views and still there's not such a thing like a bad comment or bad words on comments, you know, this is youtube after all.
In 1966, Rev. James Cleveland recorded a song with the Walter Arties Chorale titled "Christ the Redeemer". If you listen to it, particularly the 1966 version since the 1977 version is a bit more "70s-ized", it sounds VERY much like this song. Rev. Cleveland was known for bringing aspects from other genres into gospel, so it wouldn't surprise me if Rev. Cleveland used this song as his basis for "Christ the Redeemer".
This reminds me to pray for the ancestors of mine who were slaves and the ancestors of mine who owned them and the ancestors of mine who knew nothing about either.
Yes, this is very moving. I can feel myself dancing and I am sitting down. I can listen to it over and over never get get tired of hearing it. This is a thinking song when you have a problem or a important dicision you need to make
I just recently left my 20's and I'm really starting to feel jazz music. I must admit I think a lot of the older generations have more style than we have today. I mean you can close your eyes to this tune and it's like you can "feel it." You just don't get that same kind of response with a lot of today's stuff.
I hosted a jazz show on public radio in the late 90's in Southern California. i played this tune late nights around Easter. Just seemed about right. I still love it.
The first time I heard this song I was a young teenager growing up in South Central Los Angeles. John Posey and Robert Portillo taught me to play chess while this song played. As I learn to love the song...I thought, I want this song to be played at my burial. It is sort of sad...but it is also has life in it. So my friends and family can keep that in mind. It will be a sad day for some but they have to remember that Basil Espinosa lived such a full and wonderful life.
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anaykatyal 1 week ago
Gorgeous and timeless. The musicians are also brilliant especially the keyboard player.
GailChasin 1 week ago
This is such a beautiful piece . I first heard it on the "A Bronx Tale " soundtrack . Never new it was Donald Bryd . It is filled with so much emotion . If you like this one , you should listen to Booker T. and the MGs version of "Summertime ". Both hit me the same way .
ceilinggod 1 month ago
Back in 65s I lived in the South Bronx On Prospect Ave ..Downstairs in a Pizza Store They had a Jukebox ..And This side was always beening playd...I was seventeen years old..And I still love it today..Many Thanks bystandemusic for the memories..*
Concepcion8able 1 month ago
@Concepcion8able I just read your post again, I too was 17 in 65
roadschokar 1 month ago
I heard this wonderful music on HBO's documentaries on prostitutes in Hunt's Point and Atlantic City. I searched for its title but to no avail Then I heard Swingadelic with Duke Pearson on a jazz station. It was close to what I was looking for but not the exact version. This what I heard on HBO! It's beautiful!! Thank You Donald and may God Bless your memory!
dudahead100 2 months ago
@dudahead100 He knew how to blow that Horn..This piece of great music gets into your Soul..*
Concepcion8able 1 month ago
every time I hear this song, my mind drifts to a different place...
massappealtm 2 months ago
The Brother that stated the South Bronx in the 60's hit the nail dead on the head,
I used to play the 33 1/3 record till the grooves were worn out.
In that day we had The Fania All Stars, Johnny Pacheco , Eddie & Charlie Palmieri, Willie Bobo, not to mention all the R & B groups Stax Records, Motown ah man I could go on and on Music was Great.
roadschokar 2 months ago
@roadschokar Muy Bien Amigo..Good old Latin Jazz I feel where you are coming from..I grew up Soul And Latin Jazz You forgot Mongo Santamaria..That mean Conga Player...Bless Them all..Amen!..*
Concepcion8able 1 month ago
@Concepcion8able Y repecto a que mi amigo lo siento , who could ever forget the Watermelon Man, but as I said there were so many, it was just a really cool time to be alive. There seem to be a few of us still around that truly appreciate that era. Peace
roadschokar 1 month ago
uoooooooo yea beatifull music exelent bross
jonathanxxxify 2 months ago
Im from the South Bronx and back in the early 60s this music took my soul..A great side..*
Concepcion8able 3 months ago in playlist summer
rrrrrrrrr so good
stoinge 4 months ago
who the hell disliked that? I hope, they'll get testicular cancer.
apostle602gmail 4 months ago
There just ain't words to describe it... takes ya back in time :)
Tigarapld 4 months ago
Oppression is experienced by people of all races and colours, sometimes by the people closest to them.
planet123 4 months ago
" Check out the piano on this ! "
areyuwithme 4 months ago
Cant beat the Oldies Kids! I love em and never will stop. This is straight Classic for those on game:)
ivoryknight14 6 months ago
the 6 people that disliked this must have no soul whatsoever.
tiffanyleona104 6 months ago 2
Mix of jazz + country-western film music chanting... a brilliantly successful hybrid here!
eckythimble 6 months ago
@eckythimble It's not a mixture of anything you dumb fuck. It's simply a traditional black gospel hymn accompanied by instruments that have been routinely associated with Jazz. Mind your mouth about categorizing this beautiful work of art.
Jemini29944 4 months ago
@Jemini29944 "It's not a MIXTURE of anything... It's simply a gospel hymn ACCOMPANIED by instruments... routinely associated with Jazz...." = EPIC FAIL!
eckythimble 4 months ago
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Jemini29944 4 months ago
@eckythimble dont be mad at me because I put you in your place :)
Jemini29944 4 months ago
@Jemini29944 hey dude, am not mad at you at all. Also no danger of being able to put me in my place, I am still pushing the limits, so it's impossible for anyone else to "put" me anywhere back within these obsolete limits.
eckythimble 4 months ago
@eckythimble Very well stated sir. I like the way you think @eckythimble, forgive my foul tongue.
Jemini29944 4 months ago in playlist Liked
@Jemini29944 No sweat dude. Your first point was actually a very informative and positive one ("black gospel hymn")... it actually stands stronger without the funny language. cheers.
eckythimble 4 months ago
@eckythimble Understood, sir. Cheers :-|
Jemini29944 4 months ago
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@eckythimble Understood, sir. Cheers :-|
Jemini29944 4 months ago
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blackandtanful 6 months ago
It took me about seven years to find this song!!! A Bronx Tale is amazing! and the scene with this song gives me goosebumps. Thank God I found this!
JAWKYD2 6 months ago
@JAWKYD2 " Love " The Bronx" tale. Tried to find it on DVD....no luck. Glad yu found the song after
so many years! A friend was playing this on his computer one day, I said: " who is that ?" Love it!
areyuwithme 4 months ago
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MVonThaBeat 6 months ago
Always loved this song but never knew the name of it. Haunting. I believe Alvin Ailey (dance company) used to use this song as well.
cbate2012 6 months ago
A mixture of adversity and hope.
Enigma758 7 months ago
to paraphrase Dr. King, unmerited suffering is redemptive.
MRAm33t 7 months ago
Beautiful music! Very captivating! A friend of mine sent me this piece.How sweet of him! Thank you very much Will.I have also listened to Charlie Musselwhite's version.I love both of them.
miss3v3lyn 7 months ago in playlist MY VERY SPECIAL FAVORITES!
This was part of the Malcolm X movie soundtrack too. At the end following the assassination scene. It is a solemn song that just makes you think.
klwarmack 8 months ago
Moving...
QnsFinest145 8 months ago
"A Bronx Tale" has such a killer soundtrack.
Philtration 1 year ago 22
@Philtration i agree, thats why i added all most all the music to my favorites!
MistaDaddyShady 1 year ago
this is powerfully incredible music..what happend to real talent!?:(
JesusmyKing4Life 1 year ago
I am probably older than most of you who posted on this song. I used to hear it on my car radio coming home late at night or early in the dark morning after a night of partying in Manhattan. It was the perfect calming music to end the night with. That was way before the "Bronx Tale". No talent was wasted here.
Brooklyn50s 1 year ago 3
@Brooklyn50s
I was a bit younger, maybe 15. Heard it on my clock radio, late at night when the folks thought I was sleeping.
"Symphony Sid" on WEVD introduced me, and many others, to jazz and Latin music.
225marklin 1 year ago
@225marklin Actually it was Symphony Sid that I was listening to on my car radio going home late at night on WEVD. Me and my friends used to see him on Monday nights at the Village Gate, which was Latin night.
Brooklyn50s 1 year ago
amazing track. best bebop artist
Mjkl1707 1 year ago
Does anyone have "Catwalk" by Don? Would love to hear it after all these years!
TobyMontoney 1 year ago
fucking beautiful
absolutely fucking beautiful
now i know i gotta get this album
antsorter 1 year ago 2
this is pure magic...no other way to say it..I once had it on cd and lost it....
trurhyme909 1 year ago
22 from detroit and a huge fan of this jazz great!! real music all day
KrayzayKilla187 1 year ago
this is on a fine compilation called LOOK INTO THE FLOWER ....
nubient 1 year ago
Pharoahe Monch!!
birdman987654321 1 year ago
This melody makes me especially sad because "there's nothing more terrible than wasted talent "and ironically that's what happened to Lillo Brancatto. After repeating the same phrase over and over in the movie he wasted his talent by choosing a painful path later on in life. This tune is like a requiem for his dreams.
proudaddy1980 1 year ago
he named this Christ the Redeemer...feels like going to heaven!
eastSpeaks 1 year ago
I grew up with this! Sipped Henny to it on many occasions.
bigoak43 1 year ago
Bellísimo tema. Yo conocía la versión de Charlie Musselwhite, nada más. Pero esta versión es preciosa, también
alacran1969 1 year ago
@anthonytalks! Wow yeh @ 1st i was overwhelmed purly by the beauty, then sadness for all those of whom i've loved & had the pleasure of knowing & are passed kicked in . . . . then remembered some of me mums wise old words 'Theres nothing like a good cry' i dint as i'm in a rush as usaul to get on wth my day! Thou knowing i cld made it better & i remembered them ♥
eyesrdeeperbrown 1 year ago
the video is called "green monkeys fresh live"
guidaru 1 year ago
i've found a electro jazz version of this great song a let me tell you IT IS GREAT!
guidaru 1 year ago
what album is this?!
afrocentralcity 1 year ago
This one's for my my Best Bud' ED!
curtflirt1 1 year ago
we played this at my dad's funeral-he was a hugh jazz buff and it seemed so right as part homegoing ceremony
jossiegal 1 year ago 7
@jossiegal Sorry about your Dad..I know he enjoy It..*
Concepcion8able 1 month ago
@jossiegal I'm sure he would've loved it!
Tigarapld 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Don't forget Spike used it in "X". Really appropriate for the funeral scene.
ahdisag 1 year ago
You don't know whether to Cry because it is Sad or because he is so Damn good!
PirateABE 1 year ago 4
play it man...sang it chi'ren!!!
kronk99 1 year ago
gorgeous!
GloriaJanvier 1 year ago
Gorgeously moving!
GloriaJanvier 1 year ago 2
Folks , if you haven't heard it. please pick up Donald Byrd : A New Perspective. i am in love with the entire album. That's where this track is from..
smthaxter 1 year ago
I just can't get enough of this song.
Incredible!
ObaNarayanShivaji999 1 year ago
The sample was sick on the warriors
FrankyGomez661 1 year ago
love this song. top album.
RabbitHumour 1 year ago
ones for da money twos for da show
feeltherealness 1 year ago
A BRONX TALE MOVIE
punisher2622 1 year ago 2
My God! This is quite different to what he made in the '80's!!
Elisabeth1903 1 year ago
what album is this from?
mmmmmmmmmichael 1 year ago
what is Donald doing now, and how old is he??
knowledgeispowerfful 1 year ago
I love this song. "Christ the Redeemer"
SeanThePoet 1 year ago
This is simply amazing!!!
pelodelperro 1 year ago
HBO hookers at the point.
somerzeze 1 year ago
First heard this song by one of my co-workers at a Uptown New Orleans restaurant and fell in love with it. My co-worker's father was a jazz musician in Nola and he grew up listening to this style. And I also love that it features a young Herbie Hancock, who was brilliant even back then! I need to be sitting in a smoky juke joint right now....powerful song!
noelleygirl 1 year ago 2
magic!
gehweidaspezi 1 year ago
Beuitiful
4000finest 1 year ago
@kalisteboat......ditto!!
diannej99 1 year ago
I Like Finding Where Music Producers Get There Samples From Because It Always Expands My Musical Libary. My First Time Hearing This Was On A Bronx Tale. And Then Years Later The Rap Group Slaughterhouse Sampled It. I Love Good Music.
Bigboi2 1 year ago
yes, my first time was also a bronx tale. this piece is so haunting and somewhat sad to me, yet, at the same time, it brings to mind hope and dreams for a better way.
vibenjiven 1 year ago 2
@vibenjiven very well said. There is a drifty mood that carries you away to another world, time and space.
pacnwcomre 1 year ago
Bought this LP when it first came out in the 60's. Still a beautiful sound.
gmax6060 1 year ago
I wanted to sample this song but decided not to do ...guess I have to much respect for a master piece like this
L075 1 year ago
@L075 i sampled another version of this song , this version too real , i dont know when i try to sample it i feel like im doing blastphemy :p
mcbaardaap 1 year ago
my pops put me on Donald, back in the sixth grade, when i started playing the trumpet. Still listen to him til this day.
ThaKingofCo 1 year ago
Tears, pain and history of black people deeply engraved in this timeless master piece. Hard to control my emotion when i listen to it ... and no need to be black to feel it !
kalisteboat 1 year ago 21
this is truly amazing. i deserve a bitchslap for it taking me so long to come across donald byrd
ArtieStrongManMusic 1 year ago 3
when i lived in NYC, I first heard thison WRVR a jazz station in the 70s. This is one of my alltime top 10. U can hear the sadness and melancholy in the voices and solo trumpet. But it also very uplifting. This is a bonafide masterpiece.
saxmankid 1 year ago 2
I heard this late one night for the first time while driving home. Man I was hooked so early the next day I raced to the only store that even carried this to get the cassette but the guys like we only have it on CD and this is when nobody even had or wanted a CD player cause even a crappy one would burn you out 300 bucks. But this was the CD that forced me to cross over the cassette to CD bridge. Ive lost sold or scratched almost every CD Ive owned But this one I still have in mint condition
aaron3009 1 year ago 2
love this and you should too
henrypeckstv 1 year ago
this is nice
goonie50 1 year ago
heard this in a chappelle show sketch and in A Bronx Tale. I heard some guy called A-Lyricz sample it in a song called Kick It. Best sample ive heard from it yet, check it out if you aint already on myspace
gsian187 1 year ago
wow this is great
grandmasteroy 1 year ago
poetry ...
marmjah 2 years ago
david fat head newman have a good version.
rodellmoore 2 years ago
@rodellmoore Yes, both are good. Different, but each one good in their own right.
Enigma758 6 months ago
wow what a wonderful melody!!! in the same style I have an Eddie Harris title "More Soulful than Soulful"
Sincerely
peter
9988eddie 2 years ago
My mother used to play this when I was a little girl, and I heard it again and it brought back good ooo so long ago memories...
meko390 2 years ago
this is such a beautiful and very sad sounding song you can feel the pain it it heavily
waylo4526 2 years ago
Wow this is the sample for Slaughterhouse's "Warriors".
FASDAGG 2 years ago 2
@FASDAGG
Whoever made that beat didnt do the sample justice at all tho.
JonDubs 1 year ago
oh yeah, and "Hot Rats," too...must have been the coolest record shop dude I ever ran into. DIdn't say much of anything, just asked me a few questions and suggested those three tapes.
joejnyc 2 years ago
Some shp owner laid this cassette on me when I was college visiting in Providence, RI. This and "Ill Communication." Great tapes to have in the walkman riding around the NorthEast, looking at the seamy side of things from a train window....
joejnyc 2 years ago
n-tyce - hip hop joint from mid to late 90's - pretty certain it's this sample
guyfincham 2 years ago
Duke Pearson's version isn't "better", they're both very unique beautiful songs and I would call this masterpiece barely a "cover/remix/" -or whatever (Magnus' version is though)- of Pearson's. It's just an eyewink/friendly gesture from Byrd 2 Pearson. Love them both actually
adrienblavier 2 years ago
@adrienblavier i think Duke Pearson arranged the track and Byrd plays the horns on it...they worked together!
eastSpeaks 1 year ago
Happy Birthday!!!
enbedoopaqua 2 years ago
very nice, thx for the clip & the info!!
grogcaveman 2 years ago
O.K. for all of those who keep saying "A Bronx Tale", that's not the movie I remember it in! I think I remember it in School Daze or another Spike Lee movie!!!
fnkyxpress 2 years ago
Heard this first time on A Bronx Tale.. it plays when C's "friends" are dead..if i remember right?
My favourite movie EVER!
Great song.
antoniodsl 2 years ago 28
No había caído en la cuenta. Byrd y "A bronx tale" son grandes!
PapAlfonso 1 year ago
Hey BystanderMusic! Thank you so so much for the biographical notes about Donald Byrd. I wish more people had the knowledge, patience and generous-educational spirit that you do! The music is beautiful and moving. Thank you. RussHamer. (p.s. where did you get al that info about Byrd?)
russhamer 2 years ago
I took it from wikipedia, sorry, i'm not that smart.
(logged with another account)
suckbloodtouchplease 1 year ago
well, my comment still stands. you still needed to have the patience and consideration for us to put out the effort.
thanks.
russhamer 1 year ago
NP, it feels good to see how many people liked this song and i still can't believe this video has almost 70k views and still there's not such a thing like a bad comment or bad words on comments, you know, this is youtube after all.
Props to the viewers.
suckbloodtouchplease 1 year ago 3
I have this on vinyl, and it never fails to thrill me! the whole album is great, btw.
chalone2 2 years ago
So beautiful.....an oldster like me remembers this well
acadia0 2 years ago
i didnt know whether to be happy, or sad. happy because i was alive, or sad because my friends were dead.
anthonytalks 2 years ago 53
@anthonytalks
"THEY LOOK BETTER NOW RIGHT, DONT THEY LOOK BETTER?!"
xcarlosssx 1 year ago
@anthonytalks depends whether you killed them or not...?
rabmcnab1 1 year ago
@rabmcnab1 it's from the movie, a bronx tale
ANTBOND004 1 year ago
@ANTBOND004 lol... now is the time for me to shut up! Hehe
rabmcnab1 1 year ago
@anthonytalks, Yes i remenber when "C" said that and Bronx tale is my favorite movie too.
macaboy22 1 year ago
damn I remember this song from a movie! I think it was maybe a comedy but I'm not sure! Maybe it was a spike lee joint but I know it was in a movie!
fnkyxpress 2 years ago
It was in a bronx tale. Great movie and great song
unrooolie 2 years ago 4
A Bronx Tale
TuEsBitchass 2 years ago 2
MALCOM X, BRONX TALE
taxigroovenyc 2 years ago
It was the Bronx Tale I bet- that's where I remembered it from
twendywilliams 2 years ago
wow my father had this song playing at his funeral. More people came up to my mother asking her who made this song lol lol..I miss my daddy RIP
Sekiel 2 years ago 2
great soul music
royalnash 2 years ago 2
Awesome! Thx 4 the upload! Great Trumpeter!
AlaskanWildernessMan 2 years ago
In 1966, Rev. James Cleveland recorded a song with the Walter Arties Chorale titled "Christ the Redeemer". If you listen to it, particularly the 1966 version since the 1977 version is a bit more "70s-ized", it sounds VERY much like this song. Rev. Cleveland was known for bringing aspects from other genres into gospel, so it wouldn't surprise me if Rev. Cleveland used this song as his basis for "Christ the Redeemer".
JayEm86 2 years ago
reminds me of my summer fling who learned of this from his summer fling who learned of it through her summer fling...
Mujermajica 2 years ago
Excuse me did I say McDonalds I ment to say WacArnolds.
bellcapn 2 years ago
Ha Ha!! It's a VERY beautiful song but it still reminds me of the Dave Chapelle skit about Calvin working at Mcdonalds. Ha Ha!!
bellcapn 2 years ago
I heart this magnific song for the first time in the picture "A bronx tale" (Robert deNiro) .
Very good orginals soudtracks.
blouman176 2 years ago 2
This is great music!!!!
nyseamex 2 years ago
This reminds me to pray for the ancestors of mine who were slaves and the ancestors of mine who owned them and the ancestors of mine who knew nothing about either.
Jeatkid 2 years ago 4
go byrd... from detroit - didn't know that.
ImhotepRamses 2 years ago
beautifull music
it was in (a bronxe tale) & royce da 5'9 sampled i ton (warriors)
RUSSTRADAMUS 2 years ago
i was bout to say it sounded like a royce beat good looking out
MGSmokedout 2 years ago
peaceful
passjay 2 years ago
Charley Musselwhite plays this on harmonica. Both are great.
bartlettbooks 2 years ago
Yeah...i have that on cd and its great!
fusionlotus 2 years ago
If anyone questions that jazz came out of
blues...you now have no-better evidence!
EYEAMHE 2 years ago 2
i know this tune for decades and it still gets me the shivers - a masterpiece. nice to be here.
notref 2 years ago 3
This is CLASS.
dabrod 2 years ago
I ALMOST GOT IT DOWN TO THE T lol lol i hope to post me playing this just like you hear him playing this is a great work of art
UNDERTAKER730 2 years ago
It's tooooo beautiful! I love this
bartnauta 2 years ago
..........all praises to Freddie Hubbard.......beautiful music never to be forgotten.......
MRAm33t 2 years ago
Yes, this is very moving. I can feel myself dancing and I am sitting down. I can listen to it over and over never get get tired of hearing it. This is a thinking song when you have a problem or a important dicision you need to make
mariandmoore 2 years ago
Deep and poignant. It says so much without using words. True artistry. Thanks for posting.
Blueskywatcher 2 years ago
I just recently left my 20's and I'm really starting to feel jazz music. I must admit I think a lot of the older generations have more style than we have today. I mean you can close your eyes to this tune and it's like you can "feel it." You just don't get that same kind of response with a lot of today's stuff.
DigitalFortress7220 2 years ago 4
brilliant
BurnumBurnum123 2 years ago
Is a very very beautiful
lejardinierdu62 2 years ago
the greatest
GilbertEverhard 2 years ago
Very moving, passionate, emotional.
It makes me cry....
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lindmill88 2 years ago
2 all the political prisioners world wide. Brasil, Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Crotia, Africa......God Bless..
speeches 2 years ago 4
I hosted a jazz show on public radio in the late 90's in Southern California. i played this tune late nights around Easter. Just seemed about right. I still love it.
shamandaveseven 2 years ago 3
yeah, I dig this. This is great. How wholesome this is.
ValhallaHollen 2 years ago 3
beautiful.
JosephO75 2 years ago
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that post up at the top by safetyboy911 was just plain homosexual
alexslagle45 2 years ago
very powerful song...I have yet to find another jazz record like it.
rickyjay2006 2 years ago
Sublime, thanks for postin'.
pryere 2 years ago
The first time I heard this song I was a young teenager growing up in South Central Los Angeles. John Posey and Robert Portillo taught me to play chess while this song played. As I learn to love the song...I thought, I want this song to be played at my burial. It is sort of sad...but it is also has life in it. So my friends and family can keep that in mind. It will be a sad day for some but they have to remember that Basil Espinosa lived such a full and wonderful life.
safetyboy911 2 years ago
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1daftpunk 2 years ago
safetyboy911
That was a beautiful post.
1daftpunk 2 years ago 3
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not trying to be mean but that was kinda gay
ruthlessCsL 2 years ago
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wow.
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...wow. *sigh*
ninoskanna 2 years ago
Very moving.
vtxrider3 2 years ago
very creative song
yugyhs 2 years ago
just slowly ...
liless67 2 years ago