Willie "The Lion" Smith bei den Berliner Jazztagen 1966 spielt und singt "ain´t misbehaving" und "st. louis blues"
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@melaniek198411 жыл бұрын
it kind of kills me that there aren't more people in the audience!!!!!
@timmclaughlin84207 жыл бұрын
The Lion was the man. Its so great that this performance has been preserved and shared. And fluent in Yiddish to boot!
@bennyjazzful12 жыл бұрын
WHAT A WONDERFUL PERFORMER; A GREAT PERSONALITY & SOME INCREDIBLE PLAYING WELL DONE
@johnwhitehead33603 жыл бұрын
Privileged to see him in London and sit next to the piano!
@Aaron-md2eo3 жыл бұрын
Man that must've been a treat. I wish I could have met him or other cats from that era.
@marcelverweij24154 жыл бұрын
Just came across a photo of my fathers who was at Central Plaza club in 1949 with The Lion playing with James P Johnson...This is the first clip I have seen of The Lion. How amazing would it have been to be at that club!!
@renaudpatigny4 жыл бұрын
The Lion ..... a stride piano legend
@jazzfanjohn16 жыл бұрын
Fabulous. Love how he rolls the r's! A Steinway too!
@JHENDRIXROCS7 жыл бұрын
Too bad we don't have anyone playing like The Lion today. It's a treat to watch him play on film!
@renaudpatigny4 жыл бұрын
No sir I dont agree with you, today we have Stephanie Trick, she can play wonderfully the music of Willie the Lion Smith ; look at this : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtJhitV6sNiucok.html
@JHENDRIXROCS4 жыл бұрын
Swing Oasis Never heard of her. Will have to check her out.
@JHENDRIXROCS4 жыл бұрын
Swing Oasis Wow! She is an excellent stride player! Does she sing too!? Thank you for turning me on to her!
@renaudpatigny4 жыл бұрын
@@JHENDRIXROCS you are welcome ; no she doesn't sing but she's in my opinion the best stride piano player in the world nowadays ; I'll hire her for a tribute to Erroll Garner next year in Brussels
@JHENDRIXROCS4 жыл бұрын
Swing Oasis That’s great! Hopefully she will get more publicity in the future as she is a phenomenal player! Again, thank you for bringing her to my attention!
@bluv613 жыл бұрын
William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff "The Lion" Smith. One of Duke Ellington's major influences, he was one of the last of the New York-style 1920s piano "professors" still playing by the time this film was made. And he was still playing and performing quite wonderfully, as the video shows.
@TheQuantum0913 жыл бұрын
I can't believe that people were playing chords this COMPLEX back in the 60s. Truly amazing. I think that I cherish the key of E flat simply because it's the first key that I learned to play in.
@christiandueblin24019 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for that film!! Absolutely amazing. He was a friend of the Swiss Stride piano legend Henri Chaix!
@EliotKrupa16 жыл бұрын
i love how he sing with a huge cigar in his mouth.
@sydbarret77655 жыл бұрын
real man
@alexisortegamusic4 жыл бұрын
real talent, real artist
@andrewbarrett15373 жыл бұрын
I like the exciting syncopation he sings on "St. Louis Blues". Really cool!
@michelbignault722111 жыл бұрын
Its à VERY. Gréât pianist !!!
@JHENDRIXROCS3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for informing me about another stride pianist!
@drbekken17 жыл бұрын
Let's face the hard facts. Some musicians are better than others. The Lion was - and remains - one of the giants. Yeah.
@pukulu11 жыл бұрын
great playing
@F0nkyNinja Жыл бұрын
"Please believe, folks"
@jazzlars712210 жыл бұрын
My favourite Stride-Piano player.
@CarlosEPinto8 жыл бұрын
Superb!
@DAVO1984FI12 жыл бұрын
William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff "The Lion" Smith
@MightyAlz13 жыл бұрын
@TheQuantum09 60's? This guy was playing this stuff in the 1910's!
@pianolancelot900611 жыл бұрын
it kind of kills me that there aren't more people like Melanie K!!!!!
@TheQuantum0913 жыл бұрын
@MightyAlz Wow. I REALLY need to dig into the world of Jazz a bit more.
@herminestover10 жыл бұрын
makes me even prouder to be a Yid!
@esmeephillips58882 жыл бұрын
The Lion was ahead of Sammy Davis in that respect😏.
@goedeck110 жыл бұрын
LOL when he says "achte."
@d.e.b.b57889 жыл бұрын
I"m not knowledgeable enough to be able to tell one good piano player from another once you get to this level of talent. All I know is that this sounds good, and I want to hear more. As old as I am, I never got to hear any of the old timers play live (wait; dad took me to hear Hubie Blake once, but I was too young to appreciate what I was hearing). Right now I'm just glad I get to listen to Dick Hyman. There's a young lady named Stephanie Trick who plays nice, too.
@stevenfox96958 жыл бұрын
+D.E.B. B Dick Hymen is really great! Billy Taylor passed a few years ago, but he visited my high school a few years back and he's the reason I started playing Jazz. :)
@busessuck113 жыл бұрын
@TheSorrowedMan it's a natural side effect of actually makin an effort to sound good
@pianiplunker198115 жыл бұрын
That's a funny comparison. Like Sammy Davis Smith was a black Jew.
@pop990013 жыл бұрын
maybe he can try singing it without the cigar..that aside, this is brilliant