Art Blakey - drums, band leader Bobbie Timmons - piano, (composed this song) Wayne Shorter - tenor sax Lee Morgan - trumpet Jymie Merritt - bass Recorded early 1961. Legendary.
There isn't enough Bobby Timmons out there. he is one of the best Jazz pianists I have heard and he was a brilliant song writer. It is a real shame he died so young.
Just finished watching the Lee Morgan documentary on Netflix that’s why I’m here!! This is black art I’m celebrating (snap snap snap) anyone else here 2021 after learning about Lee Morgan. Love this piece
A beautiful, heartbreaking movie. I first heard Lee Morgan around 1960 but my appreciation of his playing has only increased in the interval. Just his pure technical command of the instrument! When you have brilliant musical ideas you need extraordnary technique to bring them to the audience, and he had both. What a sad loss.
If my memory is correct, this was filmmed at the TBS studio in Tokyo, 1961. I'm very glad to see Bobby Timmons' fingers at the end of this song. I'm from Japan and am 44 years old. I read that Blakey and his Jazz Messengers was just like the Jazz Influenza when they visited Japan for the first time. Their music was completely different from the music that the Japanese used to listen to, such as Glen Miller or Benny Goodman. The word "funky" soon became popular in Japan.
The last of the greats left us who in this video amazes us with his incomparable art. Grateful to have listened to him on his last visit to Buenos Aires. "Wayne Shorter", thank you for so much beauty.💖💖💖💖🎵🎵🎷🎷
11 years after you wrote this comment, I, a 17 year old Chinese-American (going on 18), am jamming to this masterpiece from 60 years ago. Jazz lives on.
@@ugurakbulut1068 Ask an African American what they think. Nearly all of them consider themselves Americans first. Their ancestors brought African rhythms and combined them with European musical theory-broke it and made their own form. This is an American form.
If there's any question that jazz is dead, listen to all the guest bands night after night on the network shows. Try to find even one that will risk a minute or two on an instrumentalist. Or on a jazz singer like Roberta Gambarini or Cecile Salvant. Instead it's bad guitar-strumming singers doing their precious unmemorable original songs (usually a phrase--not a melody). Popular music, show tunes, etc. were once written by professionals, and these became the "standards" of measurement for jazz musicians. Without them, the music has no worthy vehicles for interpretation and improvisation.
I have had this song stuck in my head for the last four days (and that's a good thing). This is so awesome. There's so much to love here--all the solos, my favorite being Timmons at 5:02. I also love the way Blakey bangs the drums (the part at 6:54 being one example).
Saw the Jazz Messengers in '89 at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase in Chicago. Started the set with a blues shuffle, but sounded pretty stiff and clunky to start with. After the head and first solo it warmed up a bit. By the 2nd solo the stiffness was gone. By the 3rd solo, the rhythm section was completely locked in and the soloist was playing inside a blast furnace of molten energy that had me on the edge of my front row seat. The shuffle groove just kept growing in intensity even after it seemed it couldn't get any more intense. By the end of that tune... everyone in that venue had gotten the message. Life-changing experience.
This is the jazz dream team and Art Blakey may be one of the greatest bandleaders of all time. Lee plays with so much passion. Bobby Timmons has so much soul
This is the solo that inspired a Swedish jazz fan and film director to spend 7 years making the film: "I Called Him Morgan." Lee's wife and murderer is a tragic heroine by the end of the film. Lee sounded fine with the Messengers and Wayne Shorter, who initially wouldn't leave Blakey and go to Miles. I just prefer hearing him with Hank Mobley because Hank's age grounds him more firmly in the melodies of the great composers--Berlin, Kern, Gershwin, Porter, Ellington, etc. Hank thinks in terms of complete melodies, 32-bar forms, and seems fresh and inventive each time out. Henderson and Shorter have a better handle on the freedom of modes, where a single "tone center" replaces the relentless progression of chords--as in "Body and Soul" (from 5 flats to 2 sharps at the bridge).
Agree wholeheartedly with you on material like this but this particular band was special and one of my all-time fav Hard Bop line-ups! When I was young and getting into Jazz i picked up an album by this group called 'The Witch Doctor' and I've loved the vibe and feel of this unit ever since and got every album they did. Shorter added a certain edge that combined with Morgan that gave this band an urgency you didn't often get from a regular great Hard Bop unit of the time playing standards. Timmons added the commercial appeal with the overt soul and gospel styling's and it was just as he started making his name for this after his stint in Canonball's commercially successful group just prior, so he hadn't yet fallen to the pressure of concentrating solely on his soulful playing thus neglecting his great Bud Powell influenced Bebop playing. We hear a lot of that style in this group's recordings. Drugs unfortunately split this great band up but they left a great legacy and launched Shorter's epic career!
For rosaire0. The original title is DAT DERE, a song written by Bobby TIMMONS. A child talking to his father "Hey, Daddy what dat dere ? Hey Daddy, hey look it o-ber der ! I hab dat big el-e-pant o-ber der !" And so on. Very nice to sing.
This clip is a Treasure to be preserved like an antique artefact. Watched this clip dozens and dozens of times, felt compelled to comment several times and I must repeat myself; this is an orgasmic performance!
Unforgettable Artists. Art Blakey really made a great job with his Messengers in these years. I listen to this piece since I'm 16, I'm 32 now. Over the years I found 3 different live versions of it and I have them all on my MP3, unable to decide which one's the best. I recommend them all to you!
Dat Dere, by Bobby Timmons. First group (1959-61) called "Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers." All these solos great, but what a solo by Lee Morgan! Lee Morgan - Trumpet Wayne Shorter - Tenor Bobby Timmons - Piano Jymie Merritt - Bass Art Blakey - drums Lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr.: "Hey Daddy, what's dat dere? And what's dat under dere? Oh Daddy, oh hey Daddy, hey look at over dere! And what dey doing dere? And where dey goin dere? And Daddy can I have dat big elephant over dere?"
@dangerousdaveT This is because taariqtaariq informed us that Art Blakey was an Ahmediya. Back on the subject Art Blakey was one of the most lyrical,melodic and expressive drummers ever. thanks for any postings of him and The Messengers in their many forms.
Oscar Brown wrote lyrics and recorded it on his album Sin and Soul. The lyrics are about his young kid. The whole album is fantastic and deserves to be better known. He also wrote the lyrics to Max Roach's We Insist! suite.
This line up of the Jazz Messengers will always be my favorite. I'm told Art felt the same way. I especially enjoy this video because of sweet sassy soulful Lee Morgan!
Man these cats are "playin dey instruments" My dad always said, when Blakey sat down at the drums he had but one thing in mind....keep it simple and make it swing. great post.
Great song. I wish we still have some great artist out there. Now we have this candy-ass jazz or rock&roll jazz and it all sound the same. So I play my albums and thank God for Art Blakey and all other jazz artist who gave us so much great music.
With the passing away of Wyne Shorter, all these jazz legends are gone now. Big ups to Bobby Timmons for this piece of his writing, one of the underrated jazz musicians who passed away at a young age, same like Lee Morgan
Absolutely fantastic. I've been an avid rock fan for most of my life and I can't help but fall in love with Jazz. It's beautiful in ways I can't begin to explain.
