Make Me Smile - Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra

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Make Me Smile - Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra

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Mel Lewis (drums); Joe Lovano (saxophone); Tom Harrell (trumpet); Bob Brookmeyer (trombone); Dick Oatts.

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@jimmcneely2605 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! What a bunch of young whippersnappers we were! Not a gray hair in the band! Saxes: Joe Lovano, Kenny Garrett, Dick Oatts, Gary Pribeck, Gary Smulyan. Trombones: Earl McIntyre, Douglas Purviance, John Mosca, Ed Neumeister. French Horn: Stephanie Fauber. Trumpets: Tom Harrell, Earl Gardner, Joe Mosello, John Marshall. Piano: Jim McNeely. Bass: Dennis Irwin. Drums: Mel Lewis

@expassionate 4 жыл бұрын

Love you Jim! T Xiques was my roommate at Berklee!

@jonwikan3986 3 жыл бұрын

Jim, what a great concert! I bought the original Smithsonian VHS and they had Marc Johnson listed on bass. Obviously thats Dennis on bass. Is there a back story? Last minute sub?

@dominicalati4946 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic Band!!! Loved you guys!! I played Dolphin Dance when I was at The University of Akron. I also played several of Thad's charts.

@SedonaMTB 7 ай бұрын

I love how Mel integrated percussion into the whole ensemble. Great innovator! I played in jazz bands.

@johnasti7429 6 жыл бұрын

I love the Mel Lewis Band, now the Vanguard Orchestra. What a cast here, but the solo by Dick Oatts who is beautiful. Dick is a player that has his roots in Sonny Stitt and Coltrane and yet he's come up with own voice. Loved Dick's sound on the Berg Larsen mpc, had great edge, depth... Incredible player.. And Joey Lovano when he played Otto Link mpc, my favorite sound of Joes....

@thebreathalyzer 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, man. What an awesome band they were at that time. Looks like this was shot around the same time as the Montreaux recording where they did Mintzer's arrangements of Herbie Hancock. 1980 I think.

@expassionate 4 жыл бұрын

Bob Brookmeyer was a artist in residence at UMKC so he basically taught me how to play big band drums in 1987, how Mel approached it. We would be in the practice room, him yelling the chart out to me, where to set up and where to lay off.

@arkadymusic 11 жыл бұрын

Dick Oatts!!! Great and Inspiring playing as usual! He is a hero to countless sax players, to say the least! Thanks for sharing this video! Please add the background Info on this performance - where, when, who etc!

@Ichiban001 3 жыл бұрын

Owesome! Dick rules! Thanks for sharing this.

@stevenalexander7413 10 жыл бұрын

In my opinion, one of the greatest big bands of all time.... Just listen to "All of Me" and tell otherwise.

@leerobertsiv447 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Definitely most musical.

@rhythmfield 5 жыл бұрын

Incredible performance by Mel and the band - beautiful

@stpd1957 5 жыл бұрын

Oh wow! that is gorgeous music-making by Dick Oats

@NinjaOtocinclus 9 жыл бұрын

Love the percussion intro, its just so unorthodox, its amazing. But then again, jazz is pretty much unorthodoxy in liquid form played through horns.

@russellesimonetta3835 3 жыл бұрын

Mel was my favorite big band drummer. Very musical and used colors

@limzog9 4 жыл бұрын

This is amazing

@vladislavpsaruk671 8 жыл бұрын

Is it Kenny Garrett playing 2nd alto?

@masondavidmason 8 жыл бұрын

+Vladislav Psaruk yeah!

@wyndhleodumegwu253 8 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is Kenny Garett.

@yoc4444 10 жыл бұрын

最高やーーーーーーーーー！！！！！！！！！！

@gavinwaters1092 4 жыл бұрын

That bass bone player though.. Even the guy at 1:17 was like woah.

@moukenbaubau 4 жыл бұрын

最高やー！

@trane1959 11 жыл бұрын

Bob does not play trombone on this video

@jeancourtioux1311 6 жыл бұрын

Bob Brookmeyer était Directeur artistique de l'orchestre, après la disparition de Thad Jones mais il ne participait pas à ce concert à Montreux en 1980, par contre le bon pianiste-arrangeur de l'orchestre était Jim Mc Nilly

@bassman4632 5 жыл бұрын

Huh?

@ericschultz6539 4 жыл бұрын

@@bassman4632 Well Mr. Bass, if y'all don't understand French use Google translation! The cats just sayin': BB was the artistic director of the band after Thad Jones passed away (N.B. actually after he left t direct the Danish Natinal jazz orch…)but he wasn't with the band for this concert in Montreux (Switzerland where da MFs speak French…) . On the other hand, the pianist arr. of the band was Jim McNeeley(spelling couldda been better!) .

@jiyujizai Жыл бұрын

良いソロだなぁ。

@AUMOTmusic 8 жыл бұрын

god damn

@TonyAguirreJazz 10 жыл бұрын

Someone needs a new neck cork. Great band.

@RivieraByBuick 7 жыл бұрын

nah. this could be a mouthpiece he borrowed for testing, which is a bit loose.

@brianratekin6821 6 жыл бұрын

Hmm. I put some paper on my neck. How come I don't sound like that?

@paxwallacejazz 5 жыл бұрын

I used to wrap paper to make a seal I forgot that

@elrabbimusic 9 жыл бұрын

Man, where did you find the video for this concert? I need to find where you can get the whole thing.

@timfaber2245 6 жыл бұрын

Chick corea steps is the song. Type it in youll find it

@chrisbruya2313 6 жыл бұрын

Live at the Smithsonian is the DVD. Hard to find.

@chrisgreive870 6 жыл бұрын

Mel Lewis And The Jazz Orchestra ‎- Jazz At The Smithsonian

@hobongsaxophone2406 2 жыл бұрын

🎷🎶🌻👍

@wyndhleodumegwu253 8 жыл бұрын

1st.altoist Dick Oatts? Dick is a "wicked" saxophonist - as in Creator-like.

@Thouveninpascal 7 жыл бұрын

Hi, don't you think it is unfair to mention only the "stars" of the band? This is orchestra , in wich everyone counts.

@rhythmfield 5 жыл бұрын

Yes - if you’re going to illegally post music that isn’t yours you should at least name each player

@soundsandsoul6421 5 жыл бұрын

Or let's just enjoy this video, and the fact that it's available for our eyes to see.

@webstercat Жыл бұрын

I don’t care who they are. No one does…

@xavierperez3368 6 жыл бұрын

It looks like Smulyan in bari. Who’s on tenor 2?

@miphka66 6 жыл бұрын

Gary Pribek

@djangowww 5 жыл бұрын

1:44 the licc (almost)

@NajerP 4 жыл бұрын

djangowww congrats

@geoffnelson4777 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry, the sax soloist sounds off key.

@michaelmullmusic 4 жыл бұрын

apology accepted

@DaDarkGuy 4 жыл бұрын

you're nuts if you think he's off

@zangsax 2 жыл бұрын

That’s very funny. 99% of the saxophonists on the planet wish they sounded that “off key”.

@davidscott1052 Ай бұрын

Alto solo sounds fine and totally in tune to me ?????