♫ Buy the CD or Download: bit.ly/2Z4TAFy 1. 00:00:00 Benny Carter Nightfall 2. 00:03:13 Coleman Hawkins Body And Soul 3. 00:06:18 Duke Ellington Blue Feeling 4. 00:09:35 Benny Goodman Memories Of You 5. 00:12:52 Benny Carter & His Orchestra Mighty Like The Blues 6. 00:16:02 Coleman Hawkins Lost In A Fog 7. 00:19:10 Duke Ellington In a Sentimental Mood 8. 00:22:31 Benny Goodman These Foolish Things 9. 00:25:49 Benny Carter Just A Mood 10. 00:29:17 Coleman Hawkins Lamentation 11. 00:32:22 Duke Ellington Stormy Weather 12. 00:35:30 Benny Goodman More Than You Know 13. 00:38:49 Benny Carter Melancholy Lullaby 14. 00:41:51 Coleman Hawkins Devotion 15. 00:44:42 Duke Ellington Accent On Youth 16. 00:47:51 Benny Goodman I Surrender Dear 17. 00:50:56 Benny Carter Lazy Afternoon 18. 00:54:03 Coleman Hawkins Lullaby 19. 00:57:06 Benny Goodman Sweet Lorraine
I wish there was some place that has nothing but the sweet sounds of great jazz , and that smokey haze with just the slight of candle lights, old fashioned microphone on stage with the touch of amazing class and a talented beauty singing ... where's a place like that in Jersey,??
My grandfather just turned 101 on 10-15-20 and this is the music he requested for his birthday its soothing beautiful music and it was such joy seeing him dance with my grandma who's 99 and yet they have so much life in them and do things on their own still
I had my two sets of grandparents. One set lived on the West Coast. They would travel to Vegas in the 1960s to see all the hot acts, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis. My other grandparents lived on the East Coast. They traveled to New York in the 1940s to hear all the big bands play. Dorsey, Ellington, Goodman. How cool is that!
If you ever get married have it be a 1920s- 30s themed party Or if you already are, then your bday, or your wife's bday, or anniversary. I'm just saying, why not enjoy it now somehow
As someone who's in love with big band swing and artists like Boogie Belgique and Ours Samplus, I agree 100% considering people can sample these songs and give them new life. I just wish they gave credit to the original artists like I do...
I’m drinking my morning coffee, smoking a cigarette, reading a paper and listening to these tunes. Having the time of my life enjoying this sunny winter day. I tell you what, folks, life could be a dream sometimes!
I'm leaving this comment here so after a month or a year when someone likes it, I get reminded of this song ❤ Edit: Thank you soo much for 10k likes, seriously you guys made my day, I wasn't expecting that much of likes... have a great day. ❤
My late father, a decorated WWII Vet, used to listen to Big Band music nearly every night after work. In time, I began to get why he so loved this music, and, in time, I treasured The Greatest Generation's music almost as much as they did. RIP, Pop. I'll see you all when I get there. ❤
I'm 17 and love this it's so peaceful. I put this on in my room while I study or write essays and it's so nice. A time when people could dance forever with someone they truly love.
Age ain't got nothing to do with it, my sister. It's in the soul. I'm 40 and love this stuff just as much. It's simply within us to love a certain innocence; it's why it resonates so much. Don't ever lose that.
Incredible, what year did you visit and how was the scenery like to you? the smell of the air, the clothing, the vehicles. I’m a young man from new york myself i would absolutely love to hear about it sir 🙃
I lost my grandma a few months ago,she was very dear to me and she used to tell me stories about that era, well not in New York, but in Athens. Anyway, listening to this kind of music makes me feel like shes with me once again, telling me stories about how beautifull the world was back then. My point is , music that really speaks to you, it feeds your soul and makes your imagination far more powerfull than anything technology can provide these days. Keep using your imagination or you will lose it folks!
My great-grandmother is 103 years old this year. One day, when things are safe to travel to again, I hope that I can ask her to tell me about the old days.
I cant beleive what weve lost in music compared to today I miss jazz band and playing trombone its sad to graduate and move on and I cany imagine what older folk feel seeing the world change so drastically
I can imagine myself walking down the streets of New York at night, listening to this music being played in the record shops while looking at all the dazzling street signs with the cool wind of the night air gently blowing...
omg i would love to host a beautiful 50's style dinner with friends. But for one, i have one friend, and for two, she doesn't apprecieate this kind of music. BUt omg could you imagine walking in with a cute white flowy dress, your hair curled, heels on and a record player playing this type of music. A tvd type beat situation yk.
Absolutely, and you would be surprised as to how often younger guests ask us who or what it is on these occasions. My wife and I now live in a country village In SW France in a house built in 1740? Despite all the mod-cons, to sit in a deep lounge chair in front of a small log fire surrounded by my books after a dinner party listening to this sort of music is still magic.
@@normanclark933 sitting by a fire with books lite internet to this sounds lovely! What part of France do you live in? I would love to visit there soon :)
@@itszbebabaybee Before anyone has a bash at me for late arrivals to a subject (true), I will apologise for a late reply! Makes a change? I do indeed live in a lovely part of France - and as you probably know there are many. My location is South Central France in the Departement of the Correze, now part of Nouvelle Aquitaine. It is a region adjacent to the Dordogne and Lot collectively making up The Valley of the Dordogne. Lakes, hills, forest ad mediaeval villages abound. My house is in a non-touristic village but within 30 minutes drive are no less than six of The Most Beautiful Villages in France, and my house is on a ridge where I look over one of them (Curemont) from 6kms distance, but an overall view of almost 60kms. Correct also about books as my house is was built around 1740, and I have a separate two-story 'cottage' which houses the bigger part of my 3,000 plus books, and 2000 DVDs and I am steadily selling off my LPs - just a few with a measly total of 1000. In my career I lived and worked in 12 different countries (for longer than a year). I took French Nationality some six years ago, but have had a home here in France since 1992. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else!
@@Gerardo032002 don't forget a few cats or dogs curled on the carpet by the fire with everything else mentioned earlier and you have the perfect day....rain,jazz.tea/coffee/furry friends ❤💙💛💚💜🖤
My grandmother is 100yrs old, my mom's 80, I'm 50, my daughter is 30 and my granddaughter is 11. I remember my grandmother playing this at breakfast. I fell in love with the era, and I passed this love and appreciation of the turn of the century music to my daughter and granddaughter. This is lovely! ❤🌹
I have so many of these in my collection of 78s. I like to bring them out on a snowy night, light a fire (in the fireplace) enjoy a good cigar and a little brandy and wind up the old victrola.
i LOVE it just turned 87 years old and I remember this music in childhood days of the forties as I sit and listen during a rain storm the music has style it is wonderful !
Listening to oldies late at night trying to finish a project. Been listening for hours, but as soon as the first song came on, my eyes filled with tears, and I felt intense tingling in my entire body. I grew up in Provence, the child of a jazz musician father and a writer and travelling saleswoman mother who loved music. I know this song like the back of my hand, like the heart of my mind. They used to run completely illegal jazz club nights in the summer months - the Krazy Kats. People would drink and talk and eat, and spill out into the garden. I was always the only child and I watched from afar as the jazz trio or quartet played all through the night. My mum and I drove everywhere, we listened to this one Benny Goodman CD a lot because you could hear it ok over the rumble of her van. She died a couple of summers ago, very sadly and painfully. The people around her forced her to manage everything until the very end, and insisted on denying her condition, so that I was had not idea what was actually happening. I quit my job to go and spend time with her but she died 8 days after I arrived. I never got the chance to talk to her, she was too far gone. She was kept in denial and I never got to say goodbye, either. I tried my best to reach her throughout my life, to love her as she wished, but somehow it never worked out - she wanted to open up to everyone but she was spikes and fortresses with me. I wrote her a long email telling her how much I loved her - she acknowledged it but never answered it in kind. I hope it reached her somehow though... That she knew someone loved her. Before she died. Still. It hurts to never have got an answer, and that I never got to say goodbye. I'm pretty sure Nightfall was a favourite of hers, but I'm not sure how. She told me about a few favourite songs but never that one. It's the feeling of my childhood. Impossibly heavy, and crying out to be preserved at all costs, infinitely precious yet already vanishing. The only way forward is to let it all go. You can't process someone else's sadness for them... Maybe I can tie happier memories to this music in time. I can try. Best of luck to us all...
The eloquence with which you wrote this tells me that you have processed thoughts and emotions that many never even acknowledge. Your healing is likely much farther along than you may believe. I know that, to you, I am no one and nothing, but your story spoke to me and I appreciate you for that. Thank you and my best wishes.
As you write, The only way forward is to let it all go. You are a caring person. We don't know why the fortress was built, it may have been built many years before you came on the scene. But this pain reminds me of the Fox in The Little Prince. God bless you, you are struggling towards the Real.
I think part of the reason this music and this era is so appealing is that there was no time pressure, you were alive and could just dance the night away. You had won, you had made it, just by the virtue of still breathing in that moment. That is a feeling I have been searching for ever since childhood, and I'll probably meet my grave before I do, but I can tell this is music made with that feeling infused in it to its very core, and it offers me a brief respite from the storm. I hope that at least as an old man I might one day feel the world at peace in a way I have been robbed of as a young man, I just hope the cost isn't too high to get there.
Jesus loves you. He can bring you peace. He made the ultimate sacrifice for you because Jesus loves you. I pray you will accept into your heart and one day then you will get to spend eternity in peace with Jesus in heaven. John 3:16 God be with you. ❤️✝️🙏
Oh this music and those years. Back when people had style and where more alive and united unlike now. Individualism (egoism) destroys community as a whole. Thanks for posting this!
I am 3,573,894 Aeons old and there was never a time on this fleeting vessel of despair that the arts were so innovative and truthful. Even though our souls are forever destined for the emptiness of the Old Void, these artists were able to fashion out of their minds pieces that will stand the cruel tests of time and which can bring humans of all ages together under a banner of futile unity.
I am 26 years old, and I love this music so much. I am kinda of an old soul. I listen to all these old classic tunes, and I barely listen to the recent music. I don't know, I just feel so incredibly happy while listening to this old music. And nostalgic. It reminds me of a time that I didn't get to live, but somehow I wished I did, in some ways.
I'm 17 and happened across this video and felt like listening to something new and can't lie your grandfather's era was most definitely something else my guy
I'm in my 60's, but I first learned to love this older music back when I was 6 years old and I got my first little plastic record player and my dad gave me his stack of old 78s to play. They were so much fun! I put on Frank Sinatra and Bix Beiderbeck (look him up - he is the coolest!) and Harry James, and all these great musicians, and everyone else was listening to what they called "bubble gum" music. And now, I am still listening to this same great music, because it is just great musicianship. Keep listening, because great music never dies.
haha I came here after reading a book with a character who died in the 1930s and he enjoyed this type of music so here I am listening to it now reading a book and I must say it’s rather calming and pleasant!
UNFORTUNATELY nightclubs nowadays have to have flashing lights, & loud music you have to scream over. Much better with dim lights, & sultry jazz where you could RELAX. Bring it back on Jazz Brunch Sundays or Jazz music Sunday afternoons.
@@brandishaw778 Yes, or pajamas in public. Homeless people dressed better in the 1930s than millionaires today. Sad times for sure. Glad I'm not alone in my thoughts on such things.
This really captures a time and place that I was the most happy in my life.Late night in New York in the fifties, what a great time.Thank you so much. Its great the tempo is just so right.
Yes. This is exactly what I was looking for. It's strangely hard to find collections of this style of jazz. It's all up-beat or modern. I only wish this was longer.
Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for tonight... while stuck at home fighting a tough sickness, & angry at this weird modern world in which people are superficial, self-absorbed, seem barely human, aren't individuals and don't take good, responsible, kind care of one another anymore. This is music that would've played in my grandparents' little house, and it takes me back to those days :) Very healing. Thank you for this mellow, cheery, perfect mix.
You’re so right. It seems that all people care about is their phones and their social status. The time period that this music captures was really a time to be alive (until the stock crash of course). This is definitely the type of music my grandmother listens to. Hope you have a great day/night and stay healthy and safe! :)
@ImNotMad ButUR Aw! Thank you! I am just now seeing your wonderful comment here :) I hope you are well. I love the thoughts you shared, you've made my night 🌠💖 Oh and you have a moth or a brown butterfly ☺☺☺ I am in love with them, all my life since very early childhood. I had a white one land & sit on my car today, after a dragonfly hovered around it! Your shoes sound wonderful, I totally get that. Yes I've thrift shopped all my adult life, used to wear mostly clothes from 30s to early 60s, so well made, tailored & ladylike. Do you ever watch the YT channels about clothing from past eras? Some of them are amazing, very enriching & relaxing to watch.
The afternoons spent in the garden tending to the roses, trimming the ivy that was climbing the neighbor's wall, the smell of freshly cut grass, the townspeople stopping to look at our garden from the gate. Around 7 p.m. a few friends arrive with a bottle of chilled white wine, we sit on wicker chairs as the sun goes down. Sunday comes and he would drive me around the hills with his 1966 Alfa Romeo Spider. My dad didn't know a single title and only remembered a few artists by their name, but he could hum each of these songs by heart.
These were simpler times. We have gotten to a place in this world where respect and love is not common. I’m an old soul since I was young. These were the days where u could get a good job based on your family name or how dependable your dad was , on the merit of his name. Gone are those days but the music is here and it is nice
There's something so Distinct about the sounds of the 20s/30s/40s that just evokes feeling of Magic, Romance and Majesty. While I do love other music, this sound is one of a kind and I'd definitely find myself putting it on each night for varying reasons.
Ignoring how dangerous everything in the home was and how dangerous just existing was for huge groups of people. I'm quite happy to be alive in the 21st century.
@Randi Szöküld you're true but she's right too lol, but honestly I do feel you're right since this is just music and they shouldn't have bought race/pllitical views into this since music is for everyone to enjoy. But I do understand her pov as a poc myself, sometimes kinda get jealous but then again, it's music and we all gotta learn to love it 😊❤️
A deep breath, a soft sigh, just settle down by the fireplace sipping a cool white and drift off with the exotic sounds of an era that I'm sure must have drawn my Charleston stepping Mum and Dad together. Edouard
It's Sunday night, I'm chopping vegetables, washing dishes, and getting ready for work tomorrow. This music has been the perfect, relaxing, and easy going music for a calm night. 👍🏿 #oldbutgold
This music is what I remember playing in the background when I was young. I was a Rock n Roller but as I age I find myself being drawn to these great classics. I’m 79
I'm 62 and still a rocker, especially 90s Grunge up til now, but have always loved smoky jazzy tunes. Blues club type atmosphere. Piano jazz bar vibes.
I can only imagine the sights, smells and sounds of the past.what I wouldn't give to experience this. Today's world feels just wrong. Deep in my bones. Wish I would have been born in a different time.
It's not the time that's wrong, it's the people. It's your own mind. Change yourself, change your perspective on life. Because it sure as hell wasn't all gold n shiny black then and it will never be. Life is struggle but life is also beautiful
"Past perfect" it has been for me but, today, your post invited to dance.....as IF then...yes we know the power of music.....Thank you warmly to all. Happy 2023 TO ALL HAVING MUSIC AT HEART AND JAZZ MORE THAN OTHER.......
I like house music, but then I have a special place in my heart for music from the 30s and 40s. There's something charming about this music that you feel like you're walking alone after sunset in an old city and this music from the cafes start playing this in the background. You know you just stepped into paradise.
I listen to this when me and friends get together and play cards. It really sets the mood and makes everyone feel more comfortable. Plus we all like jazz so thats a plus.
I’m hosting an open house at a home built in the 1920s and am using this as my ambient background music. Just loving daydreaming of what life was like back then in Burns Court Sarasota, FL So happy I found this ❤
5 years in relationship. After all that time, most of romance is gone. So here I am listening to this beautiful mix and fantasize about great romance and desire.
This is the kind of music my 18 and 16 years old daughters love to listen to.both are old souls.Got it from me.and I also got it from my grandfather...❤❤❤
While I'm listening to this I imagine myself in my apartmant in the evening after work back in the 40s, a little jazz after a tough work, relaxing, eating. It's just a perfect night.
Sitting here at my favourite spot in my apartment, watching the pink evening clouds passing by and a gentle breeze coming in through the balcony door, listening to this soothing music, what a perfect moment. I love this playlist! Just waiting for a gentleman to ask me for a dance 😄
Listening to this album early in the morning carrying around my newborn daughter, rocking her to keep her asleep. Sipping some bourbon with low and dimmed lights on that aren’t usually on painting my familiar house in an unfamiliar but cozy way. It is a semi-ethereal experience. Thanks for the upload!
My heart , it warms me from the inside by this magnetic static blue instrumentals, if only we could go back in time....😞 Who would you meet if you could? Me should be Sylvia Plath, or Marilyn 💋😍
A blue pin-striped suit with a red tie, shiny loafers and a fedora😉I spot a pretty young thing smoking a long cigar sitting at the bar alone. "Hey, doll! You got great gams for a young dame"😄
Wow this was unexpected and pleasant. RU-vid algorithm took me here, and I'm very grateful for it. Perfect for drinking alone and contemplating life, politics and the end of the world.
I'm just 15 years old but I love this type of Musics it makes me feel chill and classic even tho I don't look like I listen to this kind of Music cuz I'm Asian, but inside my playlist you will see lots of good songs. 2021? Anyone Else?
