I grew up living across the street from Mitchell "Booty"Woods. He played trombone in Count Basie's band. He toured a lot, but when he was home I loved being over his house while he practiced. I didn't realize at the time how much of a historical musician I was in the presence of. I got to meet Count Basie as well. The tour bus was on our block and the whole band was there at Mr. Woods house. Great memories.

There's no band that swings as hard as the Basie Band. Magnificent.

Wow, what a nugget of Jazz history! That’s my Uncle Sam Jones on that Bass! Great to see this 😊

The best big band ever!!!! And still is today...

I have always liked Swing...But Count Basie made me LOVE it! This Band is soooo smokin' HOT!

It's 2am, and I'm in a zone with Count Basie and his amazing, orchestra 2024

I saw Basie and the band in Sheffield in 1974 on his European tour and been hooked on jazz and swing music ever since. He is the best!!

Oh MAN but was that great! Signature Basie and smooth as glass.

I love these short snappy solos such a dope way of getting a varied range of sounds, tremendous as always.

Mr Jones + Mr Payne = power swing! Unbelievable!!!!

My man "steady Freddie "

Killing and smoking and so damn cool swinging with swagger! And Basie doesn't even play the last note of his famed three note tag. He just raises his shoulders as he lets the band hit it for him instead. Smooth baby, smooth!

Incomparable! Everything in swing pales to this gem.

Such class and effortless swag! Basie and his band at their best!

One AMAZING trombone section!

talk about the power of great music to change your mood ❤

>>Comments from Liner Notes by Chris Sheridan: "An unusual soloing sequence unfolds. First are the trombones exchanging short sequences - Henry Coker (4 bars), Quentin Jackson (4), Benny Powell (8), Jackson (4), Coker (8), Powell (4) and Jackson with the last word (4). Then it is the turn of the trumpets-three sequences of Al Aarons (4), Sonny Cohn (4), Snooky Young (4) and Thad Jones (4). “And that was the brass section,” Basie exclaims at the end, with just a hint of pride."

Its crazy, but this band just seem to get better every time I listen to them, yes the BEST big band of all all time, genius territory

The best, the best, the best...the best players as an ensemble....one instrument...and the best arrangements!!!!

The crime is that something this incredibly perfect has so few views..... and 21 people who went out of their way to dislike it!

O mi God, what a concert, what a video and sound. Basie, man, the greatest blues jazz band of them all.

man sonny payne! Always hip and swinging!

Mi!!!!! Medicina para la cuarentena con esta Bella Musica.....

Wow...absolutely GREAT!!!!

Very crisp video and sound from Stockholm, 1962. Featuring the Brass Section. The details of this performance are an endless fascination, from the groove of the rhythm section and the way Sonny Payne plays sticks on his high hat during Basie's introductory piano solo to the way the unison muted trumpets break into harmony on the head. Piano: Count Basie Alto Sax: Marshal Royal and Frank Wess Tenor Sax: Eric Dixon, Frank Foster (arranger), Frank Wess Baritone Sax: Charlie Fowlkes Trumpet: Al Aarons, Sonny Cohn, Thad Jones, Snooky Young Trombone: Henry Coker, Quentin Jackson, Benny Powell Guitar: Freddie Green Bass: Eddie Jones Drums: Sonny Payne.

The band that I listen when Iwas a child.

Musicianship combined with showmanship makes a classy band.

can't even begin to imagine how much it must have cost Basie to keep that crew together.

THE BEST!! GREAT!! Eddie Jones on bass.

Perfection

Oh yeah, we b in school .. the original groove merchants .. & one to be … but my eyes transfixed on Freddie Green. Ed Jones, Sonny Payne, Freddie Green & the Count himself .. THE engine room of that mighty swingin' outfit. Been collecting their 50s/60s albums like .. 4ever🤗. Note Thad Jones. He'd shoot off in a coupla yrs 2 form the almost as mighty Thad Jones Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

Love this period of the Basie band, w the one and only Sonny Payne on drums!

Count Basie and his great band killed it!

Out of this world! Alan in London

Lindoo!!⭐❤️

Doesn't get any better than that!

The best Big Band, ever! Dig, toodeloo’s & Cheers!

I love how they enjoy each other. So sad music has gone the way it has. Miss this!!!

ORCHESTRA BASIE, LEGGENDA STORICA, SI NASCE CON IL SWING, NON SI IMPARA, QUESTI MUSICISTI HANNO TUTTI, IL JAZZ E SWING NEL SANGUE. Questa eccezione di talenti, non c'e' piu' !! Ognuno di questi Musicisti suona perfettamente 4 _ 5 Strumenti !!

Not only no other drummer...but no other human alive could swing like Sonny Payne!!

4:19 second trumpeter from the right hahahaha

The greatest - all of them - not a single weak link

Una de la más maravillosas bandas de jazz que hubo, para mí que soy fanático de Basi la mejor de todas.

Cool number! Nothing like the ole' time Jazz hits. This new stuff today the songs sound convoluted!

Once I met a young couple who had just got married. I had been walking for a while so I said congratulations.

Thanks for uploading! The Golden Age!! Smoooooth!!

Look at Sonny Payne at 0:50 !!!!!! Great !

What a great recording of a great assemblage of musicians!

Казалось бы ничего особенного - просто блюз в умеренном темпе... Но невозможно оторваться!!!

Odd thing about Basie....every time I hear a tune, I hear something new and different in it...

Real deal musicianship, no fools.

70 Years ago swing -- NEVER OUTDONE. Shook Basie's hand at the Regis Roof in NYC -- what a gentle gentleman.

If you hit the Mute button eight times in a row this is the video KZfaq recommends.

Greatest swing rhythm section ever: Basie, Jones, Green, Payne.

Ever trilling, so mind blowingly cool. Toot those horns winds a freaking gale,LOL.

Yeeeeeeeah Step step triple step

Thank you so much for sharing this!! Love this period of Basie and the "Atomic Band"!!

When single-handing a yacht up the Irish sea to Scotland I had The Count as company and swung all the way.

Butter! (Quentin Jackson) The men on top. Check Snooky out while they are out front.....thats how it should feel. And Sonny.....sheeeeeeeeiiit. I have it on good authority that Sonny once took the "O" off the count basie banner and pissed in count's brief case because he wanted a raise. Buddy had chops.....Sonny had it all and then some...he invented the "falling down the stairs" fill. (see live at newport and corner pocket at the sands).

I was fortunate to see them live in the early seventies. Not certain, but believe it was the same drummer. He blew us all away.

Another time I saw a magpie worrying a pigeon. On the way back the magpie was feasting upon pigeon heart and howling too.

Now that boys and girls is how the swing gets swung!

Can not believe the gorgeous sounds

So smooth they make it look as tho the only thing easier is breathing.

Incredible, and with humour...!

For a long time Black bands had to travel abroad to get a fair hearing and be appreciated. It caught on later in the US when Europeans began to show the US what was missing.. Thank God.

Classic Swing!!!

What people don’t realize is that when this band gets going it’s rock concert loud, and nothing’s plugged in, not even the guitar.

Hold on a minute. I can hear the chopper about to land in my back garden. They are professionals and we are in the air in no time.

Admit it. You want more. You want Basie.

Love the melodic tweaks and the the facial salutes! 3:57

One of the best Jazz Sax.

Count Basie and Duke Ellington had full stages of the best musicians, incredible band leaders and innovators. 0:50 drummer had the whole audience laughing

Super!!!

You know when somebody says to somebody you are beautiful and the prognosis is questionable in both minds? I think enough of lies. Off to the charity shop for a frock I can rock. Beautiful.

Magnificent!!!!

Love the Basie Band !!

thank you❤️ありがとうございます💻

Impressive!!

Stupendo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love em.

I am available for Strictly Come Dancing as long as Basie plays.

It's funny how we see things differently. Atwell read the end of 1984 and thought it all ends well. I say that was the nearest Orwell got to a prayer in the written word.

All Star TRumpet team feat. the one and only Thad Jones!

Some sharp notes and some pitter patter.

Jag gillar verkligen hans musik

What a band.

Open the broshure for a holiday with the people you imagine you love.

I hear Noel Edmomds amongst the chopper blades.

super swank!

With Basie, it was always the little things...like Sonny Payne, at !:03

They don't put this on the phone whilst I await.

It's like a confession.

Getting better though. I can't dance. Somehow this gets my bones moving.

Wow! Tremendo...😍😍😍

The swingingest of all absolutely - I tried to sit still during a Basie number and failed outright. They must take Basie to the moon and beyond to be enjoyed by the entire universe.

We all have to fall from a great height. Why not.

I know a guy who was bummed when The Count ditched Papa Joe for Sonny. I love Papa, but Sonny was The Man too.

Music is for everybody.

countin' the spaces.