Negli ultimi anni ci siamo abituati a sentire la musica grazie all' esecuzione di pochi elementi, quelli essenziali: addirittura in alcuni casi questi elementi si riducono a tre, ovvero i musicisti al lavoro sono il pianista, il batterista e il contrabbassista. Per questo motivo sentire suonare un pezzo jazz non solo eseguito da un' intera orchestra ma da un' orchestra agli albori della sua vita ci riporta al passato e questo tuffo all' indietro ci riempie sia di stupore che di sensazioni piacevolissime. E' un po' come rivedere una persona cara come era in gioventù o come ritrovarsi circondati all' improvviso da tutti i giocattoli della nostra infanzia. Un grazie di cuore ai ricercatori di RU-vid per queste continue piacevolissime emozioni. Sono le nove a.m ,,,
I played with Lionel Hampton and his orchestra in 1974 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for the celebration of the Mary McCloud Statue in Lincoln Park. Mary McCloud Bethune and Lionel Hampton were good friends when she was alive. I was trumpet section leader all four years at Bethune-Cookman College Marching, Concert, and Stage Band.
my grandfather decided he would learn clarinet when he was 42. By 55 after 6-8 hrs of practice A DAY he was a master and lead in the ABC Jazz band that toured Australia. He passed away nearly 20 years ago but not before he heard me play Benny G on the very same Clarinet he learned on. I started around age 8 and played for about 10 years but gave it up. He always spoke about Goodman being his inspiration.. he honestly was so good, listening to this makes me reminisce about what i heard coming from him. (not saying he was as good as BG but darn it sounded like it!)
Such a story! I decided to learn play clarinet one year ago (42 years old), no much time to practice 6-8 hours a day but I am committed to learn and play as much I can. This music is wonderful.
WOW...WOWEE ! & WOWSERS ! I have been listening to bigband since I was a KID, and watching movies and videos laced with bigband, but this video is OUT-THERE ! WOW I loved it ! Thanks for compiling this collection. I could not stay still in my seat ! from uncontrollable foot tapping and jirating in my seat like I was dancing, to that good rhythm !!! There's nothing like it now - The last few generations have forgotten how to write songs !!! THANKS AGAIN !!! Bill, from Tn. 🇺🇸
The "chamber music" of small jazz groups, Benny's Quartet, appears at the beginning- Goodman, Teddy Wilson on piano, Gene Krupa on drums, and Lionel Hampton on vibraphone. THAT'S who THEY are!
At 2:15 Krupa twirls his left drumstick. Never saw that before . A young H James in that tune. I wish there was a film like this when Berrigan was playing with them.
Admiro mucho, entre otros, a Benny Gooodman y a Gene Krupa. Tuve la suerte de ver en Chile, hace muchos años, al genial Lionel Hampton y su orquesta. ¡Qué músicos más maravillosos!
No question, Benny Goodman was upbeat skippy, and showed how a group played "freestyle" together! And I had heard Goodman was early in bringing black people in his orchestra. But I didn't know they were part of his offshoot quartet! A-1 amazing!!!
The California Ramblers were allready mixed in 1924, when they hired Bill Moore. They owned their own club, so could do that. It didn't make the Jazz history classes, but it is more than 10 years before Benny.
For me, Sing, Sing, Sing from the 1938 Carnegie Hall concert was never bettered; at least in the recordings since. Slipped Disc that night is I think, a masterpiece of small-group jazz.
I believe that is Lionel Hampton on the Xylophone with Benny Goodman's Orchestra? He played the Xylophone faster than my wife can type. And she is a super fast typist.
My Lord... These guys play every night with this blazing speed?? Yikes... can you imagine that kind of playing today? I think that old task master Benny Goodman must have had them all scared or something as that band played their fricken hearts out and fingers off probably just to keep a job! Amazing...
The band members used to have a nickname for their taskmaster, Goodman. It was "laser eyes." Apparently Benny had a piercing stare that he would level at them when he thought they needed discipline. Wow.
Gil Mosko It was known as the "Ray"by the band members. Goodman wouldn't stare at someone directly, but at their general direction like being in a trance.
With Benny Goodman I see Lionel Hampton on the vibes, Harry James at first trumpet, and Gene Krupa on drums. Why was this posted without identifying the other members of the orchestra?
As much time as I have spent listening to BG over the years, I still cannot come up with the name of the furiously up-tempo opening number played by the Goodman Quartet -- or the following selection, featuring the band. What are they, please?
Did anyone else hear a door bell ring at 4:15?? I was listening with headphones and put it on pause and ran to my front door then realized it was almost 3:30 in the morning and no one would be ringing the door bell at that awful hour!
Sorry doctor fate but you're way off. He is on the floor tom at 4:15 and it doesn't sound anything like a cowbell. Being a drummer I know what a cow bell sounds like and looks like. He plays the cow bell at 6:42 the sound at 4:15 is not coming from the drums (watch his hands also) in fact I don't think the sound is an instrument at all. I think it's possible that when this recorded a bell went off in the recording room and that was not supposed to come out in the recording.
The only actual instrument it could be would be the vibes and I don't think there was a vibes player in that particular band but even if there was the sound just stands out as being in a totally different location from the band if that makes sense. Who cares really but I really did whip my headphones off and started to run to the door then said wait a minute; that couldn't have been me door lol.
That was Benny's clarinet, he hits certain notes to make that growling sound which sounds like ringing, that is called gutbucket sound, coning from your gut. In other words the true feeling of the music.
onrputt The tune "One O'clock Jump"was a tune played by Count Basis which became his Theme Song. The story goes while Basie's band recorded the song at the Decca studios, the technician looking up at the clock said one o'clock, so he said, " One o'clock, jump!!, meaning for the band to hurry up because it was only a 3 and 1/2 minute time on i the recording so that's how the name stuck to the song.
Unfortunate that this video is speeded up by a half tone (probably recorded in a different format and frame rate). Can someone fix it so we can hear the way it really sounded? It's supposed to be in B flat.
Johnny "Scat" Davis. He was shown as a member of Goodman's band in the film, "Hollywood Hotel" but did not play for the soundtrack. You can read more about him at: greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2018/05/forgotten-ones-johnny-scat-davis.
You don't find it gives you shortness of breath when smoking then trying to play? I use to smoke in my teens then I grew out of it. Would you want your doctor, bus driver, pilot and so on to be high on weed?
I don’t see how these “Big Bands” could ever make it! Lots of people onstage need to be paid, accommodated, travel expenses, etc. they mighta gotten big money but by the time it was split up?
The long middle section with the Gene Krupa drum solos is "Sing Sing Sing." It's one of the seminal swing numbers that paved the way into Rock, R&B, etc.
"I've Got a Heart Full of Music" :) In the Bob Hope movie (is it Girl Crazy? Love Crazy? I can't remember) Gene Krupa's orchestra plays the same song but they call it Wire Brush Stomp probably because of copyright issues with Benny Goodman's record label.
LIONAL, BENNY, HARRY AND GENE PUT IT ALL TOGETHER . GENE WAS ONE OF SEXIEST DRUMMERS ALIVE. HE DID SUPER THINGS WITH THOSE STIX. I LOVED WATCHING HIM AND LISTENING TO HIS SOLOS. SYLVIA! TOO BAD HE WAS HOOKED ON DRUGS.
@@johnkrenos4216 Impossible: Zoot Sims born in 1925. He had 12 in 1937. Too young to play as TS in the BG band. The alto could be Toots Mondello. George Koenig... mmm...
Johnny "Scat" Davis. He was shown as a member of Goodman's band in the film, "Hollywood Hotel" but did not play for the soundtrack. You can read more about him at: greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2018/05/forgotten-ones-johnny-scat-davis.
