Urbie Green, 'The Flight of the Bumble-Bee' (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) 

"I love the expression on those children's faces! Even at their age they understand that what he's playing is extraordinary and unbelievable!"

Currently listening to the persuasive trombone of Urbie Green on vinyl, what a master of the trombone he was. It just takes you to another world :’)

Only a freshman in high school playing trombone and man this guy blows my mind just how natural and raw his talent is

So awesome!

Notes in triple-tongue flight are being oozed out of Urbie Green's t'bone with unparalleled finesse .

Amazing I am left speechless.

SUPERB !!!!! Thank you very much!

Excellent musical performance!

Oh me gosh this is AMAZING!

Brilliant

EXTRAORDINARIO!!!!

"he is just dubbing" Sadly, I come to the same conclusion. The audio is simply the cut from the album "21 Trombones, volume 2", which I have heard countless times (and you can see clearly playing on the phonograph in the shot). Yes, technically, he is doing the slide movements "live" along with the album, and he's the one who played on the album, but the fact that he is simply miming the actions to the album is probably why he looks so nonchalant. I wish there were a live video recording of him actually playing it for real, but any live video of Urbie from this long ago is, I'm sure quite rare. Even though this video clip isn't what I'd hoped for, there's no disputing that Urbie is one of the true legends of the trombone!

Amazing

Wow!!!

This song is actually called "The Green Bee" and can be found on Urbie's album "21 Trombones". Per some documentation in the album, this was written in the hope it would be the theme song for the TV series "The Green Hornet". Sadly enough, it wasn't selected.

he may be lip syncing here but i saw him do in live back in the late 60's when he was fronting a Tommy Dorsey ghost band. It was the real thing.

Flight of the Bubble-bee by Ubie Green.

Urbie played with Woody Herman in the 1950's then he was out during one performance, and a little known trombonist at the time, Carl Fontana, replaced him... Herman was so impressed with Carl that he kept him on (secretly hoping that Urbie might retire...) stuff of folklore...

it doesnt even look like he is trying

Any idea on what trombone he’s playing

Pretty good... I'm guess

is sad that in this clip he is just dubbing....

Che bello