1966 Willie "The Lion" Smith

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1966 Willie "The Lion" Smith

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Rudolf Weitz

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Willie "The Lion" Smith bei den Berliner Jazztagen 1966 spielt und singt "ain´t misbehaving" und "st. louis blues"

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@melaniek1984 11 жыл бұрын

it kind of kills me that there aren't more people in the audience!!!!!

@timmclaughlin8420 7 жыл бұрын

The Lion was the man. Its so great that this performance has been preserved and shared. And fluent in Yiddish to boot!

@bennyjazzful 12 жыл бұрын

WHAT A WONDERFUL PERFORMER; A GREAT PERSONALITY & SOME INCREDIBLE PLAYING WELL DONE

@johnwhitehead3360 3 жыл бұрын

Privileged to see him in London and sit next to the piano!

@Aaron-md2eo 3 жыл бұрын

Man that must've been a treat. I wish I could have met him or other cats from that era.

@marcelverweij2415 4 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!!

@renaudpatigny 4 жыл бұрын

The Lion ..... a stride piano legend

@jazzfanjohn 16 жыл бұрын

Fabulous. Love how he rolls the r's! A Steinway too!

@JHENDRIXROCS 7 жыл бұрын

Too bad we don't have anyone playing like The Lion today. It's a treat to watch him play on film!

@renaudpatigny 4 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

@JHENDRIXROCS 4 жыл бұрын

Swing Oasis Never heard of her. Will have to check her out.

@JHENDRIXROCS 4 жыл бұрын

Swing Oasis Wow! She is an excellent stride player! Does she sing too!? Thank you for turning me on to her!

@renaudpatigny 4 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

@JHENDRIXROCS 4 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!

@bluv6 13 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.

@TheQuantum09 13 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.

@christiandueblin2401 9 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for that film!! Absolutely amazing. He was a friend of the Swiss Stride piano legend Henri Chaix!

@EliotKrupa 16 жыл бұрын

i love how he sing with a huge cigar in his mouth.

@sydbarret7765 5 жыл бұрын

real man

@alexisortegamusic 4 жыл бұрын

real talent, real artist

@andrewbarrett1537 3 жыл бұрын

I like the exciting syncopation he sings on "St. Louis Blues". Really cool!

@michelbignault7221 11 жыл бұрын

Its à VERY. Gréât pianist !!!

@JHENDRIXROCS 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for informing me about another stride pianist!

@drbekken 17 жыл бұрын

Let's face the hard facts. Some musicians are better than others. The Lion was - and remains - one of the giants. Yeah.

@pukulu 11 жыл бұрын

great playing

@F0nkyNinja Жыл бұрын

"Please believe, folks"

@jazzlars7122 10 жыл бұрын

My favourite Stride-Piano player.

@CarlosEPinto 8 жыл бұрын

Superb!

@DAVO1984FI 12 жыл бұрын

William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff "The Lion" Smith

@MightyAlz 13 жыл бұрын

@TheQuantum09 60's? This guy was playing this stuff in the 1910's!

@pianolancelot9006 11 жыл бұрын

it kind of kills me that there aren't more people like Melanie K!!!!!

@TheQuantum09 13 жыл бұрын

@MightyAlz Wow. I REALLY need to dig into the world of Jazz a bit more.

@herminestover 10 жыл бұрын

makes me even prouder to be a Yid!

@esmeephillips5888 2 жыл бұрын

The Lion was ahead of Sammy Davis in that respect😏.

@goedeck1 10 жыл бұрын

LOL when he says "achte."

@d.e.b.b5788 9 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.

@stevenfox9695 8 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. :)