The logistics of keeping a band like this together are mind blowing.
@fernmann7 Жыл бұрын
True, but if you’re a musician, who better to work for than the great CB?
@snapfinger111 ай бұрын
@@fernmann7 Duke Ellington ?
@jeaninep.donaldson11211 ай бұрын
My favorite part of the Blazing Saddles movie❤😂
@bblegacyАй бұрын
...beginning with working 320+ gigs a year to get a sense of what a REAL band is and what it's like to play in one that's not just a bunch of freelancers that get together a few times a month, if that often.
@gabrieldjatienza6971 Жыл бұрын
Just 20 seconds of Count Basie in a hilarious scene in Blazing Saddles leading to thunderous applause and laughter in that comedy masterpiece!
@antiquedreams.6104 Жыл бұрын
We owe so much to jazz musicians from the great big bands era. They completely redefined music! Every single genre and artist ever since has been heavily influenced by jazz's charm. The orchestrated arrangements, the piano solos, even the most famous and used chord progression of all time was originally used in a jazz song. I will never get over how talented and inspiring these people were.
@Thelonious2Monk2 жыл бұрын
There was and never will be any orchestra that swings like that of the Great Count (actually King) Basie. This piece is so engraved in my brain that I am practically made out of it!!!
@martinplatt59287 жыл бұрын
This was incredible in 1965............certainly the best big band ever...................................
@blakepereira55834 жыл бұрын
@Ed Miller Count Basie and Stan Kenton were the best of the big bands
@marymichael12116 ай бұрын
And Benny Goodman.
@zolemica8 жыл бұрын
Best scene in Blazing Saddles--Count Basie in the desert playing April in Paris...
@FurrySergal6 жыл бұрын
I've seen that movie half a hundred times yet it wasn't until just now I realised why that ending always seemed _so_ familiar..
@mitchprent88306 жыл бұрын
Jeannie E. Hess I loved that scene when I was younger but watching it after knowing who Basie is gives it a whole new comedic effect
@albertopa585 жыл бұрын
I love that scene. Cleavon in the Gucci suede Cowboy suit. High giving the Count.
@Uncultured_Barbarian4653 жыл бұрын
Great movie. Watching the movie back in the 70's on TV, I asked my Dad "Who is that guy playing piano with a hat like The Skipper?" He smiled and told me about Count Basie. Basie was such a talent, and had a great big band.
@sambadojazz3 жыл бұрын
Won't ever forget the first time I saw the movie. As soon as his orchestra started playing, I'm digging it and thinking what a great soundtrack. Within seconds, the camera pans to the man AND his orchestra, right there in the desert. I lost it. :D
@Regajde3 жыл бұрын
Drummer with some serious skills. Love it.
@tiger789210 ай бұрын
I was in jazz band in highschool and we loved playing this because we got to yell "One more time!" 😂 Such awesome memories ❤
@michaelward76127 жыл бұрын
My thriteen year old is watching this. He is learning about The Count and The Duke.
@nicklh1867 жыл бұрын
Michael Ward amazing! 😄
@ClassicRocker617 жыл бұрын
thank you.....that's the answer I was looking for
@pamtebelman23213 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the rest of the royal family: the King of Swing (Benny Goodman) and the Queen of Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald)!
@paradoxicalcanons3 жыл бұрын
I hope your now sixteen year old still loves it!
@leftcoaster673 жыл бұрын
Good you are teaching royalty. :)
@raywarman2 ай бұрын
I grew up with this sound, being born in 1931 and still love it. I try more modern stuff but always return. This music will live forever.
@melissalewis62464 күн бұрын
I grew up in the 60-70s and my parents, well my dad, would blast this at home. I listen to it when I miss him.
@thoof200110 жыл бұрын
Man, Rufus 'Speedy' Jones just absolutely smokes on the Slingerlands . . . what a monster!
@davetrimble74946 жыл бұрын
thoof2001 ray anthoy
@djangorheinhardt3 жыл бұрын
I think Rufus Jones had a short but tragic career.I think his son got in trouble and was jailed under, what is alleged, trumped up charges.He was a great drummer though.
@MegaLJ3 Жыл бұрын
The best band ever! In the 1960's I played opposite Basie in Memphis when he had Harold Jones on drums.
@LordWyatt Жыл бұрын
Nice 👌
@doctorhoffman45504 жыл бұрын
Every kid should get a course in school just to be introduced to this music. Consider it a history lesson. Mandatory !!!!!!
@billdix2606 Жыл бұрын
I'm 86 years old and I constantly think of all (now generations) will never know what I have and do know. A course in school, eh? What kind of conspiracy would that be? A Rap attack?
@mrs.stinson1092 Жыл бұрын
I am an elementary music teacher, and I love to introduce my students to the music of our shared American heritage. Count Basie, with an August birthday, is the first musician to be introduced to my students this year, with many more to come.
@johnhancock8107 Жыл бұрын
Music should never be mandatory. I know when I was younger I wouldn't have been interested. But I finally got here and it's great!
@robertricketts54674 ай бұрын
My parents,born in the late 1920's were much older than the parents of my childhood contemporaries,so I grew up in the 1970's listening to music that they liked and developed an appreciation for things like big Band,jazz,easy listening and classical etc. Moreover, I learned simply to love good music played or sung well.Thanks Mum and Dad...
@bruhdo38923 ай бұрын
My jazz band is performing this for our concert 😼
@ishisan20063 жыл бұрын
How elegant! How beautiful! Now, THAT is music. Thanks Count. Love ya!
@joshuaperry10679 жыл бұрын
Best band in history
@StevenC322 жыл бұрын
Count Basie was so talented, he gave the world some truly amazing music. My Father grew up listening to this kind of music. I grew up during the 70s and did not fully appreciate the type of music from my Father's generation, but now that I am older and wizer, I can fully appreciate this type of music. My only regret is that I wish that I could have enjoyed this music while my father was still alive and shared my appreciation for the music of his generation.
@NiallMor4 ай бұрын
I know the feeling. My parents were part of “the Greatest Generation” that went through the Great Depression and World War Two. They grew up on the likes of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Glenn Miller. When I was younger I thought their music was for squares, dorks, and old fogeys. After they passed away, I listened to their music again and was amazed at what I had missed. Now when I listen to music from this era I remember them and wish I could have shared it with them.
@emillinke5397 Жыл бұрын
Count Basie is for me the the very best big band
@geraldjohnson8489 жыл бұрын
Aug.21: Happy birthday jazz pianist William "Count" Basie (1904-1984) God bless...Thanks for the post. Blessings. (I still picture the Count playing out on prairie in "Blazing Saddles." Classic
@lindaperkins45215 жыл бұрын
me too --------favorite moments of all time!!!
@bkrider198 жыл бұрын
Beautiful Spanish flavor on that trumpet solo opening.
@matteowatteo12963 жыл бұрын
Listen to the record. Trumpeter does a funky take on "Pop Goes the Weasel" during his solo. Ridiculously great!!!!
@gwynenglishnielsen85963 жыл бұрын
If I had my choice as a singer, I would go back to the 1940s and sing with a band like Basie's. Simply incredible music!
@victoriacyunczyk6 жыл бұрын
This song seems like it would go with footage of streamlined passenger trains in the 1940s. I love it.
@barneshomestead1240 Жыл бұрын
It'd have to have its own special box car & adjoining dance car too.
@sylviebertran820110 жыл бұрын
All of these men were so talented with the wonderful Count Basie at the helm Does it get any better than this ?
@chuckiedimes14663 жыл бұрын
Nope
@HelloooThere2 жыл бұрын
How did Basie make them better?
@fernmann7 Жыл бұрын
Nope.
@brewsjazzclub10 жыл бұрын
Simply masterful!
@DeanJuvenal5 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the PUBLICALLY owned, advert free, BBC for preserving this great piece of musical history.
@onlyme1124 жыл бұрын
You mean, thanks to "all the British taxpayers who paid to preserve it" and "all the Google customers who pay the royalties to show it here". Nothing is ever really "free".
@aaamediamail55524 жыл бұрын
@@onlyme112 WRONG!
@rohankurani49743 жыл бұрын
@@aaamediamail5552 ok, explain how he’s wrong?
@aaamediamail55523 жыл бұрын
@@rohankurani4974 "advert free" was that which I wrote, Drongo.
@aaamediamail55523 жыл бұрын
@@rohankurani4974 Who appointed YOU to 'speak' on behalf of @onlyme?
@0SailorStar08 жыл бұрын
Got here due GTA IV :'D Awesome, I love jazz.
@yourshadow60185 жыл бұрын
Same, i loved the JNR station it had and i was ironically just now playing it and i just looked up the jazz songs. 😂
@williammacleod1569 Жыл бұрын
This rock fan loves this performance above all others. Just great Ella & The Count rule!!
@kitcatz834810 күн бұрын
I got to see the Count roll on to the stage in his golf cart, do his thing. Standing ovation, I was so proud he looked like me…
@tarheelblue92452 жыл бұрын
Absolute perfection!
@Chefjoe6310 жыл бұрын
Incredible!! I had the pleasure of seeing him about 3 or 4 yrs before he died here in Kansas City. One of the most memorable concerts I have ever been too. At his age he was still flawless and didn't miss a beat. Great concert ,great memory.
@Fred-kz5xh11 ай бұрын
I did, too, at the Uptown theater I believe. A fantastic concert. We had stage side seats and during a break I told Count Basie how I loved his music. He very simply and modestly said "Thank you".
@retired42002vz4 ай бұрын
It’s one of my rotating ringtones along with Misty by Richard “Groove” Holmes. Been listening to him since childhood (early 50s & 60s) thanks to my late dad. ❤
@bruceunwin22188 жыл бұрын
Dare I say it, but: "One more time, please, gentlemen?" ..,
@theodorewarthen60617 жыл бұрын
Dare, dare
@alphonsedalessio71186 жыл бұрын
Love the kid from red bank
@samh30295 жыл бұрын
And “one more, once”
@alunjohndavies56555 жыл бұрын
"One more once !"
@jamescastillo24057 күн бұрын
Can't believe this made me cry it's so beautiful pure class.😢
@bkrider1912 күн бұрын
The magnetic intonation and articulation of Harry Sweets Edison on trumpet draws everybody in.
@gilsondevliegerferreira72752 жыл бұрын
Melhor orquestra de todos os tempos, divino e maravilhosa, simplesmente exuberante e fenomenal, todos seus componentes eram virtuosos.
@MCham525 жыл бұрын
Just does not get any better than this!!
@chachaman4980 Жыл бұрын
What a Master! … What a band !!!
@pepperwilliams44287 жыл бұрын
Probably the #1 swinging band ever! Love this arrangement with that great 'sax' section of players: Marshall Royal, Bobby Plater, Eric Dixon, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Charlie Fowlkes! 6 'thumbs down' people thought that they were here for Kayne West
@Darrell10197 жыл бұрын
Hear, hear!
@tedturner17535 жыл бұрын
P. Ipi
@dondonatelli53793 жыл бұрын
The BEST of all time..
@garychapman42946 жыл бұрын
I love April in Paris :-)
@JML2727 күн бұрын
Simply wonderful - a complete master piece.
@Nigelrathbone12 ай бұрын
God that's georgeous
@jamesemerymusic8016 Жыл бұрын
Overwhelming Grace, Power and Cool. Thank you, Count!!!
@reggiejay17732 жыл бұрын
TRULY A CLASSIC!!!!!!!!! I played this tune in the stage band quite a few times(drums).
@ohsnapitspat62708 жыл бұрын
Count Basie was a gem in jazz music.
@johnwhitehead33602 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece Thank You
@janwintz83728 жыл бұрын
I used to get ready for work in 1965+ listening to this FABULOUS, JUMPIN' SOUND!!! My FAVORITE FROM COUNT BASIE!!! (Maybe someone will post the "One More Once" version!) What a jumpin' way to start the day way back then!!! KBCA in Los Angeles (105 FM) used to play it at getting-ready-for-work time! LOVE IT!!!!
@METALITHrevetments Жыл бұрын
The Basie Band.....the Band that SWINGS!!!
@jarrodlacy985610 жыл бұрын
Stunningly beautiful.
@madbebopper5 жыл бұрын
Greatest big band of them all .... for me! Nothing beats the Count, Bill Basie from Red Bank, NJ. I'm not a fan of Rufus "Speedy" Jones, although he could sure play. I really dug Jo Jones and Gus Johnson the best , then Sonny Payne and loved Harold Jones, too. I was too young to see those guys but I saw Basie in 1978 at the Belmont Raceway in NY with Tony Bennett guest vocalist. Greg Fields did a terrific job after Butch Miles left. Quiet as it's kept, Buddy Rich did an unbelievable job driving that band in 1944 filling in for Papa Jo and Basie loved the way Buddy played that band.
@heruilin7 жыл бұрын
That staccato Bolero opening riff of the trumpet solo always blows me totally away ..
@Greenjeeper9993 жыл бұрын
Smooooth! No one on this plant today that can groove a melody like the Count!
@joseantoniolopesdasilva69142 жыл бұрын
Um músico e maestro fantástico, com uma magnífica orquestra!!!
@LibuttiG Жыл бұрын
BRILLIANT,LIKE BRASSSTARS ON THE BLACK AND WHITE SUNS DRUMMING AROUND
@noreenjackson65906 жыл бұрын
Great Sweets Edison trumpet solo. R.I.P. Basie Alums.
@tomculver38375 жыл бұрын
I don't think that is Harry Edison at the feature trumpet solo.
@terrytorres5026 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding. Big brass of the 60s.
@daniellenaerts5750 Жыл бұрын
Farmers market barbeque release was my introduction to Count Basie.! in the 70ts Since then my collection has been increasing. just so enjoyable to listen to.
@gregdark5203 Жыл бұрын
That drummer is amazing!!
@bkrider193 жыл бұрын
Rufus "Speedy" Jones is driving this band. Beautiful.
@leftcoaster673 жыл бұрын
Awesome Jones more like.
@ronflatter1235 Жыл бұрын
I saw the Count and the big orchestra in Chico, Calif., not long before he passed. Still one of the five concert experiences of my life.
@lennty19134 жыл бұрын
I freaking love this song
@carlmonico8 жыл бұрын
WOW ! As always a class act!
@scottburgle2169 Жыл бұрын
My stereo can’t play this loud enough!
@jerryferko83092 жыл бұрын
WOW .........INCREDIBLE ............THANKS MATTHEW ......
@debbieheilner96572 жыл бұрын
This is amazing.
@georgeparreno Жыл бұрын
awesome!!!!!! thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much!
@charlesliles29666 жыл бұрын
That is the BEST rendition of this tune I'VE EVER HEARD. Thanks very much for posting it.
@stafoonja9 жыл бұрын
This number by the Count opens up my book of memories to 1955, those pages are great memories.This song keeps them alive as this is my favorite of all time.
@leonardpolito25989 жыл бұрын
My all time favorite since 1955
@stafoonja9 жыл бұрын
A great video showing the Count at his best and it's now a classic.
@leonardpolito25989 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear others share the same feelings.
@codaues6 жыл бұрын
Leonard Polito Saw Birdland All Stars 1955 in St Louis Sonny Payne and Joe Williams recently added to the band Sarah sang with Basie. Wow it was Divine!
@michaelscott74624 жыл бұрын
The only Big Band which can make a grown man weep!
@daglowcruz1607 Жыл бұрын
I miss Count Basie
@chal3t5 жыл бұрын
Wow!!! Nice!!!
@corazonbeso10 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite jazz tune of all time besides 'In The Mood'. :D
@muiro5 жыл бұрын
You should hear Artistry in Rhythm by Stan Kenton
@denise9479 жыл бұрын
heard this on GTA 4. Awesome!
@wallybell32553 жыл бұрын
Just, WOW !
@KirsyRouge3 ай бұрын
Working in New York City for Seven years.... Again... Thanks Maria Rosa's Son 😊l
@fusejockey9 жыл бұрын
So smooth & incredible
@JohnMHill-oi6rb2 жыл бұрын
Eric Dixon is a Canadian from Halifax, N. S., I played with him with his friend and neighbour, "Bucky" Adams. Great fun! John M. Hill,author.
@cbs2don3 жыл бұрын
I made sure I enjoyed the Basie Orchestra at the Disneyland Big Band nights in the 60's.
@bbvenusian19607 жыл бұрын
HAPPY BIRTHDAY COUNT!!
@betodrums211011 жыл бұрын
Awesome!.
@merylfox60716 ай бұрын
An incredible mixture of brass and fury!
@Rob_Kates9 жыл бұрын
Classic jazz at its best, wow.
@DeanJuvenal5 жыл бұрын
Jazz??
@Rob_Kates2 жыл бұрын
@@DeanJuvenal Yes, this would qualify as jazz.
@tomlusty83762 ай бұрын
My all-time greatest.....
@wattheheck60105 ай бұрын
Perfection
@axxissww11 Жыл бұрын
love that drummer! Shorti
@MTaxiSheep7 жыл бұрын
Who remembers listening to this song on JNR in GTA 4?
@AmmA13087 жыл бұрын
me
@rockenoontothemoon70177 жыл бұрын
MTaxiSheep me
@PokeABrain7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting!
@drummer66y10 жыл бұрын
I was lucky to see this cat on my 21st birthday, 1971. They wheeled him in, set him on his throne, he moved me and my people. A highlight of American music.
@jeffreybass54793 жыл бұрын
I suspect that you meant 1981.
@alfredoremus44098 жыл бұрын
La más grande big band en la historia del jazz, todo el swing del estilo Kansas City, Count Basie un referente absoluto que a dado de mamar jazz a generaciones enteras!
@raimycamacho9565 Жыл бұрын
¿Quién es el trompetista?
@cryptsub5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant.
@thomassoue23323 жыл бұрын
Thank ypu.
@cannabis1490 Жыл бұрын
Timeless!!!
@karenc2192 Жыл бұрын
Fabulous
@jerryboynton47803 ай бұрын
Truer works were never spoken!
@davidsheriff89892 жыл бұрын
Best jazz band ever...
@vitoralbanodasilva2830 Жыл бұрын
Fidelis, simplesmente Fidelis!!!
@BGTuyau Жыл бұрын
Chicago's late, great jazz announcer, Dick Buckley, used a Basie recording of April In Paris as his intro theme -probably an earlier, studio version.
@robertboney44936 жыл бұрын
rufus jones,great drummer
@Lolabelle593 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting. I was born in the wrong era.
Everyone had the book memorized, no need for charts.
@stevesmith66858 жыл бұрын
I'm posting this on my Facebook page because, heck it is April 29 in New York (and Red Bank, N.J., but it's April 30th in Paris, France. All hail the Count, who passed away April 26, 1984. The music, and thankfully the band that is still very good, lives on.