Just want to thank you for this blast from the past! I had never seen my daddy play his bass,,ever! (Lee Ivory). What a gift! What a blessing! What a thrill. As my brother said, THIS is what the internet is for!! Making these connections, seeing my daddy again He passed away in '02) and so very young (I was only 5, he was 26) we were stationed in Japan (Air Force). So emotional for me. Thank you again!

A Japanese band player: I am sure not to mistake it about following three people. Eiji Kitamura (clarinet) Tohru Mori (trombone) Jimmy Takeuchi (drums) It is an estimate by me about following three people, and there is not the conclusive evidence. I believe.... Kazuo Yashiro (piano) Tsuneo Yoshiba (bass) Muneyoshi Nishiyo (cornet)

Max Kaminski trumpet, Jerry Fuller clarinet, Ronnie Greb on drums - saw them at the Victoria Memorial Hall in Singapore on their way to Japan. I was fifteen. Never forget this most memorable concert. Peter Stone, Australia

Jack Teagarden has long been my all-time favorite trombone player, and it's a joy to get to see him in action even in this less-thal-ideal clip. He's backed by a large string orchestra through most of it, and I was disappointed that he didn't get to sit in with the Japanese jazz band that played "Shine," since they sounded edgier and more exciting than Teagarden's own group. Teagarden firs recorded "Stars Fell on Alabama" in 1934 with his brother Charlie on trumpet, Benny Goodman on clarinet and Frank Trumbauer on C-melody sax, and it was nice to hear him revisit that song. His close-to-the-vest style of trombone playing (there are seven basic slide positions, and Teagarden almost never went beyond the fourth position, apparently because he learned the instrument as a child, when his arms were too short to reach the farthest positions) and his marvelous articulation of notes (which fooled a lot of fellow musicians who heard his records and thought he was playing valve trombone) are very much in evidence here.

貴重な映像、ありがとう。ジャック・Tと日本のオーケストラが共演なんて嬉しくなる。 北村英治も若いなあ。こんなの観ると、レスター・ヤングやコールマン・ホーキンス、ビリー・ホリデイも来日して欲しかった。

Thankyou vitajazz for a most nostalgic video. I had the pleasure of seeing the group at the Victoria Memorial Hall in Sinagpore in December 1958, just before JT visited Japan on the Far East Tour. My father passed away in Singapore just two months later. It was my first introduction to live jazz but I never had a further opportunity to enjoy it with my father.

The man who was on Lawrence Welk for so many years playing bone, Bob Havens, was/is really good. I read about his a couple of years ago & Havens was a huge Teagarden fan & was thrilled to meet Teagarden in New Orleans years ago. I've noticed on the Welk reruns on PBS, Haven's plays a lot of songs that were part of Jack's material. On Burbon Street Blues, Havens even says toward the end; "I'm gonna play a trambone coda". It's on KZfaq.

I'm so happy to see Mr.Masao Kojima. This video remind me of my old memory of him. I'm thankful to you to be your follower for having such a nice finding. Thank vitajazz for introducing such a nice video,too.

MC:Masao Kojima He was a jazz trumpet player, but switched jobs to an MC.

Jazz King on trombone and singing. JACK TEAGARDEN 💪 Ronnie Greb great DRUMMER 🖐️🖐️

Wonderful, wonderful...

4:20 When someone plays something so fine it just makes you laugh Amazing playing and phrasing

It's a 4H Conn c.1957. I recently sold it to the Teagarden Museum in vernon, TX. Rex

Thank you so much for this great concert, have had a great evening listening, imagine being able to attend.

Wonderful

Ain't KZfaq grand? so many great musicians would be lost to the vast majority with out it. Your grandpa was pretty damned good and it is a pleasure to hear him

Rare footage. Thanks for sharing.

And near the beginning, Mr. Ivory has a solo at 04:52. He did a great job, especially considering that he hadn't played with the band before. When the Teagarden documentary was being put together 15 years ago they were looking for any info on Lee Ivory..

A masterful JT fill at 6:08. A lifetime of experience there..

00:00 "I Got A Right To Sing The Blues" 1:28 "That's A Plenty" 1:59 (Jack's first solo) 4:19 (Jack's second solo) 4:35 (What Jack plays here is so much fun!) 6:26 Japanese Sextet playing "Shine" (They're good!) 12:03 "Stars Fell On Alabama" 14:00 (Jack's solo) 16:28 "Diane" 20:29 "Peg Of My Heart" 23:08 "Back Home In Indiana" 26:39 "When The Saints Go Marching In" 29:50 (Jack's Solo)

Those Japanese guys were smoking,, The trumpet player had great chops! Subarashi des!

Thanks...And Don Goldie followed Hackett in those Gleason string sessions. They were all magnificent. I have the orig. charts from Tea's 1962 Think Well Of Me Verve album, and am looking for a shot with a symphony somewhere to premier them live. Later, Gate.

what a great find. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for nece one !!

That's my grandpa, Lee Ivory, on bass towards the end, in the Saints. I've never seen him perform before. Great upload!

Really great!.. Round CRT...

Before bebop there was no other Tbone player as exciting, fulfilling,& intriguing to listen to than Teagarden. Next came the great swing jazz bones of Sam Nanton, Lawrence Brown, & Juan Tizol. Frank Rosolino, J.J. Johnson, Carl Fontana, Trummy Young & Kai Winding built significantly on what Jack & Ellington's "Big Three" had accomplished. Guys like Steve Turre and Vincent Gardner continue the tradition of masters of the slide. That's not really Jack speaking Japanese is it?

I did see Jack & Max with Hines when they toured in the UK. Jack was not at his best due to a cold ( the English climate!)

Wow.

Great to have a video, of Jack T ... esp. with Max Kaminsky (on the trumpet), and the fine pianist ... Don Ewell. Maxie K is very inventive, and reminds us of both Bobby Hackett, and maybe Bix, himself! Big T is inventive, as always, and one of the GREAT jazz trombonists, of all (with Jimmy Harrison, Claude Jones, Benny Morton, Dickie Wells, et. al.)

Jack's playing suffered at the end of the FarEast tour from exhaustion and uremic poisoning, and it's hard to watch him on the Symphony broadcast crack a cpl times, lose air support and reduce his range accordingly. Re: Muzak - the arrgt behind him is gorgeously matched to his laidback style - and brings a melancholy wistfullness unlike anything before. Anyone know where I could acquire the Tokyo Symphony charts? The CONN trombone Jack's playing was given to me in 1995. Play it occasionally.

It's great to hear Big T's horn, even if he's playing in front of a Muzak-style string section.

I could imagine you playing with the lovely Tokyo Symphony charts Rex, that would be great!

japanese band plays 'shine'-they have heard some dixie-land that influences their playing....good job!!the cornet man HAS heard of baby hackett for sure!

Actually "Diane" and "Stars fell on Alabama" ARE in the KZfaq video. There have been problems with Flash and IE lately. Yes this is unique for Jack, though Bboby Hackett frequently played against a symphony. This was a busy day for Jack, I wonder how he had time to rehearse for the evening show? For charts I'd contact JOKR archives. Also any of the Japanese jazz musicans who are still alive may be able to help.

Big T,, He was the best armature ever,, Notice he just does it all at the top half of the slide.. There will never be another Teagarden! I hear if he walked in Dorsey and Miller lost their chops! T never got the recognition he deserved!

Japanese musicians here are excellent. A bit tight playing with the "great" Americans here and Kaminsky and Fuller are among the best!! But these Japanese guys are really good!!

This is a precious recording. I guess the clarinetist is Japanese. Who does anyone know is? I didn't know Jack Teagarden had come to Japan with his own band, not as a member of Satchmo’s band.

Thank you for that! I'd like to know more about the Japanese band also, we Westerners know very ittle about Japanese jazz through the first half of the 20th Century.

Thank You.

Eiji Kitamura smokin' on the clarinet!!!

Muchas gracias por compartirlo.

Reconozco atrás de Teagarden a ese excelente trompetista que tuve la ocasión de conocerlo actuando con su propia agrupación, allá por los años 80 del siglo pasado, en uno de esos lugares jazzísticos de la calle 54 de Nueva York: MAX KAMINSKY.

It may be Time For Tea, where I discussed and played examples of Jack's style. The released Far East Tour video contains Diane and Stars Fell with the Symphony, which don't appear on the youtube clip. Any idea who might have the symphony charts? - Addie T didn't have them when I acquired Jack's library and much memorabilia in 1990. Thx, Rex

Look at this mouth of Big T! If I were an unruly trombone note willing to march to a different tune, I'd look at these lip muscles and think: You better do what he wants.

One of the greatest...voice and 'bone. Thanks for sharing. Is there a "Rocking Chair" with Louis?

JOKR's general namesake is TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System).

The Japanese band is playing "Shine"

That's not Muzak, that is a very fine orchestra, the Tokyo Radio Symphony I believe, which provides a beautiful counterbalance to Maestro Teagarden's musicianship.

Could listen to Jack Teagarden sing all day long....if he was in a disney cartoon he'd DEFINATELY be a tortoise!

Do you mean "Time for Tea" or "Jack Teagarden's Far East Tour.?" Joe said the footage was lost before it ever got transferred to video, so everything from the JOKR Kinescope is here, nothing's cut.

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To see a clean version of this concert and the definitive Big T bio on VIDEO released in the 1990s (no edits) produced by Joe Showler, Steve Lavere and yours truly, check out "Tribute To Tea" video documentary: Rex Allen America Swings Again! San Francisco

Not that mixed-race bands were uncommon, what about Jack and Louis? The regular bassist, Stan Puls, had been taken ill with appendicitis two days prior to this date and talented active serviceman Lee Ivory was found locally, via the US Government agency sponsoring this tour, to do this one date. He did an exemplary job, as one can hear, and stayed for a few more days with the tour while Puls recovered.

It wasn't unheard of for the 50's, I know, but it's not that common for bands in this style of jazz to be mixed race.

Any more information on fill in bassist, Lee Ivory. All I found out is he was in some branch of the military.

Hello Rex, What type of Conn trombone is this? Greetings, Erik

I'm sure fans of "Kids on the Slope" would be interested.

Check out jt spirituals album!

DRUMMER RONNY GREB PLAYED A NICE SOLO TOO.

Black and white is king :D

Can I just say that it's remarkably progressive for them to have had a black man on bass?

The dragging Lawrence Welk tempo's of their's (orchestra) are screwing with Jack's performance. It's like trying to run in a race in a Louisiana swamp. Jack doesn't like it. His body language shows it. He hates it. What morons! Jack gets in the groove, when he's allowed to play with his on crew.