As a teenager in the late 60’s I was on a flight from NYC to Rochester, NY. Count Basie and his band were the only other passengers. I grew up listening to his music and loved it. I introduced myself to him and told him what a big fan I was. He was so gracious and kind…..I can still see his big smile and I got lots of autographs that day! I was so thrilled!
This music has life: bounce, punch, dynamics, harmonies, melody. Perhaps the last we may hear of such: the musicians are gone. The musicians of today may be good, but they lack the soul this music requires. Miller, James, Ellington, Basie, etc... all gone. The world is a lesser place without them.
ya, I don't really, however, like to much of jazz when it was more of an art form rather than straight up dance music, but I do appreciate metal a lot because of the musicianship there as well.
...and notice how his rhythm section (piano, bass, guitar, drums) are located close to each other on the bandstand. Makes for better communication and cohesiveness.....
The best concert I ever saw was the Count Basie Band playing in the hot sun on the sidewalk right on 6th during a jazz festival in NYC for 2 1/2 hrs. You could tell that they were they were getting off on the rhythms of the city in their home base. in 1975. Ill never forget it.
I had the pleasure of hanging out with Rufus in Lake Tahoe around 1967. My room was right next to his. I heard double bass drum pounding on my wall. Knocked on the door and who pops out but Rufus. I almost fell off my shoes. We went to Reno together on our nights off to hear this young drummer that Rufus thought played better than him.
Heard the Basie band live when Basie was still alive only once, back in 1979. But I STILL feel the hair on the back of my neck jumping on that brass entrance in All of Me!
si vous aimez le Jazz ET vous aimez cette musique, alors vous aimerez découvrir Swingfm, la radio du Hot Club de Limoges, que du jazz et du jazz qui swing, avec le Duke , Lionel Hampton , Count Basie , ...
Des concerts enregistrés et organisés mois aprés mois et années aprés années pendant prés de soixante dix ans par ce Hot Club. La radio du Hot Club de Limoges. Avec toute l'histoire de cette musique, de ces musiciens qui ont construit cet art musical majeur.
Que orqueston y que magnifica interpretacion de "all of me", pieza que ha sido interpretada en todos los estilos posibles un millon de veces, pero ninguna mejor que esta por El Count y su banda.
I found this song while researching Count Basie for my religious rock n roll class project and after listening to the first 10 seconds I immediately fell in love with the song!
Always a treat !!!! Watched a video about the way coloured musicians were treated on tour (usually in a bus or collection of cars) . The interviewer asked why they put up with the trials and tribulations. 'Ah!' one guy said. 'But at night we had the music!!!'
but' and i get yeh! when duke and the rest came to Europe, they where heroes .arriving in Russia the military band played, i forget! but he was met by a rep; of Shostakovich, who wanted an audience with duke. apparently shosakovich was in his sick bed. yet in america they had to use the servants entrance.
How about Norman Keenan laying down that groove on the bass?? (MAN--Basie ALWAYS had great musicians in his orchestra--amazing how he always had guys that could swing like hell and play their a$$es off with such style!!)
Tu as, vous avez tellement raison Jean Claude, habitant Limoges, j'ai eu la chance de connaître son Hot Club animé et présidé pendant plus de 60 ans par Jean Marie Masse, membre de ce Hot Club j'ai assisté à des centaines de réunions mensuelles chez lui avec d'autres amoureux du Jazz, ce Jazz qui swing. Dans les années 80, une radio libre de Limoges (Radio Porcelaine) a offert son antenne à Jean Marie lui permettant ainsi de diffuser du Jazz sur les ondes. Depuis une nouvelle radio a trouvé sa place sur les ondes, swingfm, elle diffuse ce Jazz que nous aimons tant 24h24. Vous aimerez découvrir Swingfm, la radio du Hot Club de Limoges, que du jazz et du jazz qui swing, avec le Duke , Lionel Hampton , Count Basie , ... Avec toute l'histoire de cette musique, de ces musiciens qui ont construit cet art musical majeur. Des concerts enregistrés et organisés mois aprés mois et années aprés années pendant prés de soixante dix ans par ce Hot Club. La radio du Hot Club de Limoges. Avec toute l'histoire de cette musique, de ces musiciens qui ont construit cet art musical majeur. Des concerts enregistrés et organisés pendant plus de cinquante ans par ce Hot Club. www.swingfm.asso.fr
Voici un album du Duke, un album mythique, un album d'anthologie, j'oserais même dire l'ALBUM de Duke. Enregistré en 1957 et en direct un vendredi soir à Carroltown, ce soir là l'orchestre du Duke était tellement décontracté que cela s'entend et se perçoit à l'écoute de l'album. " ALL STAR ROAD BAND " VOLUME 1 : _ Duke Ellington and his big band, à Carrolton en 1957, en public et en direct, dans une décontraction merveilleuse : - Take The A Train ( Live 1957 ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tvrOVCwUzLc.html _ Take The A Train (Ray Nance Vocal) ( Live 1957 ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_KJ31bS7hEI.html _ Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue ( Live 1957 ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1GtYfG577MQ.html _ Stardust ( Live 1957 ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tQjO6KjxDAo.html _ Jeep's Blues ( Live 1957 ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FBd2UZkvjxE.html - Sophisticated Lady ( Live 1957 ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qn-x3b0URm4.html _ On The Sunny Side Of The Street ( Live 1957 ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AseoBpZPbGI.html - Mood Indigo ( Live 1957 ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ricN32SsQj0.html - Perdido ( Live 1957 ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h5HN3vfF9SY.html
