Take The A Train | Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy Live

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Take The A Train | Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy Live
This is a classic tune Take The A Train with Charles Mingus on the bass featuring Eric Dolphy recorded live in Norway.
Charles Mingus - Bass
Eric Dolphy - Bass Clarinet
Clifford Jordan - Tenor Sax
Johnny Coles - Trumpet
Jaki Byard - Piano
Dannie Richmond - Drums
Recorded live on April 12, 1964 in Norway.
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@ltravail 2 жыл бұрын

Really cool when Jaki Byard goes into stride mode in the middle of the piano solo.

@steinarvestli4471 2 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine music like this in 1964? I lived in Oslo at the time, and was most fortunate to experience this masterpiece of jazz music in the University Aula.. For some ys I thought no music after this was interesting. ( The backdrop was painted by Edvard Munch.)

@bioeticadagovernanca 2 жыл бұрын

Great memories!

@wertymerm 2 жыл бұрын

Great piece by Duke Ellington !

@observer1689 Жыл бұрын

@@wertymerm Billy Strayhorn wrote it.

@nannifilippone3567 Жыл бұрын

You lucky man!

@louise_rose Жыл бұрын

Very interesting! How long did it take before you noticed that there was some interesting stuff afoot within rock music? :) (I know that rock and jazz were often different communities at the time, and still are today for many people)

@les13robinson Жыл бұрын

“My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.” ― Charles Mingus

@NeverTalkToCops1 Жыл бұрын

Shut up, Mingus.

@midnightmood9144 2 жыл бұрын

9:10 I love how mingus moves the mic for jordan while playing the bass

@MrKlemps 2 жыл бұрын

Jaki Bayard, for many years on the faculty of New England Conservatory, is one of the most underrated jazz musicians of all time. Mingus was not an especially joyful person, so it is wonderful to see his face light up during Jaki's stride turn!

@coreyshafarman8918 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a shame Jaki never gets mentioned among the piano greats. He should be in every one of those conversations

@FortyHurts 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Those stride choruses had me beaming, pure joy with a little hint of the "out-ness" to come in Dolphy's solo. What a treasure.

@neilsaunders9309 2 жыл бұрын

@@coreyshafarman8918 I seem to recall that he's pretty honourably mentioned by Mark Levine (who studied with him) in the latter's "Jazz Piano Book", but I certainly take your general point about his being seriously underrated.

@billholder1330 5 жыл бұрын

How did it take me this long to discover Eric Dolphy?? My new hero!

@akmar1984 5 жыл бұрын

I know Eric is great! : )

@matheusmariz1589 2 жыл бұрын

Dolphy is like some kinda genius who doenst cares about being noticed, but has talent to be one between the greatests of all time. Certainly one of greatests soloists of ALL TIME, the proof is all the history he has with the genious madman Mingus.

@toddyampol1088 2 жыл бұрын

Check out his masterpiece of an album “Out To Lunch” w/Freddie Hubbard. He’s also on Oliver Nelson’s album Blues and the Abstract Truth, including the classic track Stolen Moments (on alto sax). Enjoy!

@IgnatiusChinaski 2 жыл бұрын

Lol - listening to Zappa's "Eric Dolphy's Memorial BBQ" as a teenager lead me to jazz!!!!!

@adawolfe 2 жыл бұрын

He's one massive cat!

@jblock41 2 жыл бұрын

Byard is one of my favorite pianists. I used to hear him in NYC with Major Holly in the 1970s. Every time he plays he tells the entire history of this great American art form.

@ignorecorporatenews 7 ай бұрын

I asked him for private piano lessons in around 1976. I was 21. He had me play for him. He told me "You don't need lessons, just keep on practicing & teaching yourself the way that you have been"! So that's what I did. At the time he was my fav Jazz pianist on the planet and is still one of my very favs. Thanks for your comment. Are you a pianist?

@jeffvirosztko5241 2 жыл бұрын

These guys took the A-Train to a different demenstion, incredible interpretation!!!

@lore.3249 Жыл бұрын

you should see the sun ra version lol

@jeffvirosztko5241 Жыл бұрын

@@lore.3249 I'm familiar with Sun Ra I'll google the version, thanks to the heads up...

@lore.3249 Жыл бұрын

@@jeffvirosztko5241 on youtube

@Terribleathletes Жыл бұрын

Eric Dolphy was a genius. If you've never listened to his album "Out To Lunch" please do so.

@tomsmith522 Жыл бұрын

I just purchased" out to lunch" 3days ago.... it's amazing with Hubbard and Hutchinson 🎷🎼🎵🎶😎

@rayoosthoek4563 8 ай бұрын

I have the LP grand

@Jonocynic9 6 ай бұрын

I love the sound quality of that LP, it's like the band are in the room with you.

@Terribleathletes 6 ай бұрын

@@Jonocynic9 that's why I love the Blue Note original Plastylite LPs, they're all like that, you can hear everything crystal clear, right down to the air being blown through the woodwinds. Original Blue Note production was second to none.

@robjones2408 2 жыл бұрын

Eric Dolphy was a class act. The music he made with Chico Hamilton, Booker Little, Mingus, and his own solo career was majestic. He never got the acclaim he deserved in his short life however, it has stood the test of time.

@julianmitchell3035 Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the music he made with Coltrane!

@joebuhl7003 7 ай бұрын

Under appreciated here in the USA and tragically mis treated in his final days.

@legozentrik 2 жыл бұрын

What a ride! What a trip! What joy! What fun! This is taking it to the point where you won't sit still and start dancing, even if you are tied down to a chair with a thousand ropes. Magnificent!

@uncommonsensewithpastormar2913 Жыл бұрын

I swear, Eric Dolphy’s genius lay in being able to play all the “wrong” notes.

@frederickhill7181 Жыл бұрын

Eric Dolphy's genius lay in his not accepting any notes as being "wrong" . Listening to him with the Chico Hamilton quintet years earlier leaves us in no doubt that he knew his changes.

@robjones2408 Жыл бұрын

Charlie Parker, Lester Young, and Ornette Coleman faced similar accusations during their careers. Fellow musicians would pay Ornette money NOT to play his saxophone! He got beaten up very badly because his style was so unique. That's the price one sometimes has to pay for being original. Eric was reduced to eating a bowl of rice a day as he couldn't get a regular job. He was more welcome in Europe for his sheer brilliance.

@uncommonsensewithpastormar2913 Жыл бұрын

@@robjones2408 I can understand why Charlie Park and Ornette Coleman were ostracized for playing original music, but not Lester Young. He played such smooth, melodious jazz or am I missing something?

@robjones2408 Жыл бұрын

@@uncommonsensewithpastormar2913 I have a four-cd set of Lester's music, and the extensive sleeve notes state because he played so softly and so elegantly, many musicians of the period thought he couldn't really play. Prior to him, who was playing saxophone like that?

@uncommonsensewithpastormar2913 Жыл бұрын

@@robjones2408 Humm, that’s very interesting and also believable. It’s strange how so many musicians are resistant to change, but then, why should they be different from anyone else?

@BigParadox Жыл бұрын

Eric Dolphy's solo is just so enjoyable. I can't get enough!

@comontoshi Жыл бұрын

How’s about that piano man? Striding thru his solo . . . “Oh ye-e-eh!” As Louis Armstrong used to say. 👏👏👏👏😛

@BigParadox Жыл бұрын

@@comontoshi Sure!

@davidbryden7904 2 жыл бұрын

Jaki's piano is 🔥! 🙂✌️

@rman52 2 жыл бұрын

Fortunate enough to have heard Mingus live many times. Same with Rollins, Roach, Blakey, MJQ, and many others. Unfortunately I never had the pleasure doing the same with my heros Eric Dolphy or John Coltrane. Both so incredible and ground breaking musicians. Our home grown Beethovens writing symphonies real time up on the stage. And these geniuses would share a drink and chat with you in between sets. Beautiful human beings. Nothing but love in their hearts. I miss them all.

@bobtaylor7648 Жыл бұрын

Remarkable that this concert is from April '64 and Eric was dead two months later. Still miss him; lucky to have Coltrane Village Vanguard cd's as memorial.

@rman52 Жыл бұрын

@@bobtaylor7648 A jazz cat once told me Eric loved honey and used to eat it by the jar. Sadly he didn't know he had diabetes and supposedly died in a diabetic coma in Germany. Coltrane died in a hospital a few blocks away from me. My mom who loved jazz, dated hot lips page, passed away in the same hospital.

@dijonstreak Жыл бұрын

Mr. Duke: How'd in the HECK did i miss THAT. A Train. ????!!!!!

@stumarston6812 Жыл бұрын

You can tell these guys absolutely LOVE what they do.

@dijonstreak 2 жыл бұрын

LOVE that pianoplaying...tasty...elegant, cool

@1emonboyy19 Жыл бұрын

that bass clarinet is so good omggg

@takkystar130 2 жыл бұрын

凄いバージョンだね Jaki Byard好きにはたまらん A列車にこんなピアノソロ入れてくるかっていう本当に奇才天才

@Frisbieinstein 2 жыл бұрын

Never heard of Johnny Coles before. He sure is good.

@PL-rf4hy 2 жыл бұрын

Transcendent. So much creative power in one room.

@LaMusicade4 2 жыл бұрын

These guys were born with a metronome wired to their hearts and brains!

@AfterwardDeified Жыл бұрын

These days will, sadly, never return, but the material they created is immortal

@415JayTee 2 жыл бұрын

Simply splendid. Wow! Duke must've been so proud.

@Starshine777 2 жыл бұрын

If you look up the definition of "killin'", it takes you to this recording right here

@user-xm8dy8mj9y 2 жыл бұрын

エリックドルフィー、チヤーリーミンガス何度聴いても最高気分爽快

@poldidak 2 жыл бұрын

Fun to think this was happening two days before my 1st birthday!

@vannigio27 3 ай бұрын

Dolphy, un genio sottovalutato.

@likebarden Жыл бұрын

自由、理解、融和、尊敬etc.溢れる素晴らしい演奏！！　感動した！

@victorias8865 2 жыл бұрын

Each and everyone one of these Musicians are just Spectacular. Can’t take my eyes off Charles Mingus, I have a soft spot for him. I would have loved to have been there. Thank you for the video.

@leonaguilar5385 2 жыл бұрын

I had a chance to see Mingus and spoke with him back in 1977 in New Orleans. Was a great person to meet.

@victorias8865 2 жыл бұрын

@@leonaguilar5385 Thank You for sharing your experience with him.

@dijonstreak Жыл бұрын

Mr. Mingus gave Mr. D. the spotlight. !! WHOA. what a treat. !!

@didierchevenard2000 Жыл бұрын

This same year I could discover him playing with Mingus band in Lyon France. I was a student at this time and my passion for Jazz was originated here and has never dropped.

@FandenFaen 2 жыл бұрын

The trumpet solo sounds so modern. Johnny Coles is a lesser known badass

@vincentmorilla2826 2 жыл бұрын

I thought that was Dave Chappell

@jfreijser Жыл бұрын

Waiting for Eric Dolphy to come in, which he does at 4:30.... These live concerts in this line-up were among the most exciting ever! Never actually knew they played Take the A Train ;) ! Sickening to think Dolphy would die a few months later... DAnny Richmond was made to play with Mingus, that band is going places, unbelievable. I was fortunate to see Mingus in The Hague in 1976, blew me away...!

@tonywolton 9 ай бұрын

When Dannie Richmond comes back in bang on the nail at 7.28 drives me nuts. I love the stride thing Jaki Byard did on piano.

@SELMER1947 2 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely fabulous !!!!!!

@curbfruit 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible!

@williamward2472 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Seeing this masterpiece played live is such a wonderful treat. Thanks!

@nyvcr502 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@clemaire425 2 жыл бұрын

Need I say more, extra ordinary

@metphmet Жыл бұрын

Just amazing!

@paulfitterer5576 Жыл бұрын

Yay! Love it!

@charlesbarry971 2 жыл бұрын

What a great collection of musicians. I don't know how many of them are still around.

@NitosDad 11 ай бұрын

They've all passed on but left us a lifetime of music to experience!

@sonofajustfactsman7489 Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@beeftheheat 2 жыл бұрын

Magnifico!

@samsungfilament5361 2 жыл бұрын

anyone else wanna talk about how danny richmond comes in wrong at the end of the solo part of eric's solo? he was actually being very rhythmically in, really clearly delineating phrases and signposting larger divisions of the form. he just starts doing some interesting syncopation in the last A but it throws danny. look at his face when he stops playing for a few bars, he's not happy. also, this recording shows how in eric really played. he's outlining the changes very clearly the whole time. it just sounds out because of his use of wide intervals. even now people can't hear it

@williamolsson9541 Жыл бұрын

I think they starts playing at the wrong place in the song to. Well, not very easy to decide ... 🙂

@joaonaareajb4653 2 жыл бұрын

Great 👌

@patrickdrazen2031 Жыл бұрын

I've heard a lot of Mingus and a LOT of Dolphy, but this is my first time with this performance and it is WILD! THANKS!

@olatunjiogunwale834 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful talented guys

@chazinko 2 жыл бұрын

I love planet Dolphy!

@dr.chrisketo7193 2 жыл бұрын

Super! Danke!

@bioeticadagovernanca 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, marvellous...Dolphy at 4min30sec forward

@t.jackson100 Жыл бұрын

Nice!!!✨🎶🎷🎹🎺🎼💖🎵💫

@kobarijakarta 2 жыл бұрын

ありがとう😺

@waynereuben11 Жыл бұрын

Pure love of jazz

@rodrigobret3572 Жыл бұрын

This truly helped me thnx🙏

@josephbrown9076 Жыл бұрын

Thank You

@emylrmm Жыл бұрын

top shelf jazz

@markfrumkin3230 2 жыл бұрын

WOW!!!

@ScottMarc-RT1 2 жыл бұрын

A treat, indeed. Where have all these flowers gone ?

@ScottMarc-RT1 2 жыл бұрын

These artists live on and on. Thanks to the universal spirit. Just keep your hearts and ears open. Amen 🙏 🙏

@andradeopredestinadoef14-55 2 жыл бұрын

Muito muito Bom .. Um bom som INSTRUMENTAL Parabéns A TODOS AQUI .

@kensheffield343 Жыл бұрын

PURE MUSIC

@garymarkroberts5491 Жыл бұрын

Genius musician giants!

@sergiopaim7884 Жыл бұрын

O pianista ele come o piano,e saboreia. Ótimo 😊😊😊 praia grande sp 👏👏👏👏

@Bclarence765 Жыл бұрын

To r_man, Your story and experience is one that needs to be told and shared in detail! Most of the legendary cats are gone and it would be so good to hear what you have to say! Your perspective in being there and described to others would be historical MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!

@ISuperTed Жыл бұрын

Just love the way Eric copes with the band coming in at the wrong time at 7:32 - just takes it in his stride and straight back into the solo. Shows you how advanced he was that some of the worlds best players in 1964 couldn’t tell where he was in his solo! Sounds easy 55 years later but at that time must have sounded like he was on another planet!

@milesskinner3178 Жыл бұрын

I think mingus was frustrated for some reason, towards the end he shakes his head and cuts the saxophonist off I feel like they were both close to their natural end but not on minugs' time

@LennonBaksh 2 жыл бұрын

The best in music

@tidepoolbay Жыл бұрын

WOW! Eric Left Us to Early! WooF!

@luizcarlospalanca8540 Жыл бұрын

The best .

@tonywolton 9 ай бұрын

Dannie Richmond is my favourite drummer, firecrackers all the way but he hardly moved.

@tarnakahn1 2 жыл бұрын

I saw them in motion for the first time !

@jaykay1053 2 жыл бұрын

Has anyone else ever played solo jazz bass clarinet other than Dolphy? Reminds me of the first bari sax solo that showed me that it too could be a legitimate *solo* instrument when played by the right genius.

@alanmackay7303 2 жыл бұрын

John Surman!

@Frisbieinstein 2 жыл бұрын

My friend Laurence Miller plays free jazz bass clarinet. Alto clarinet too. Anthony Braxton plays contrabass clarinet.

@nrdo1179 Жыл бұрын

Check out Bob Mintzer with Jaco

@philoche5071 Жыл бұрын

Et des musiciens européens : Michel Portail, Louis Sclavis ou Lucien Dubuis

@RonCarterBassist 2 жыл бұрын

👏🏾👏🏾

@GuyDestin Жыл бұрын

🔥 🔥 🔥

@overweightactor 2 жыл бұрын

Bass clarinet solo 😍

@EthanHyland 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! 🤩

@claudiocerioli729 Жыл бұрын

Personally I consider the best sextet af all time. I admit that a lave Charlie and Eric but note the jorks of Coles, Byard, Danny and Jordan. At the end all. I'm very sad that I had no opportunities to listen live I'm only 40 years old but I love jazz

@warrenbartlett6405 Жыл бұрын

Never seen a wailing solo played on a bass clarinet before. What a group of musos

@alexiscollignon8729 Жыл бұрын

I’m the 1000th subscriber 😄 congrulations !

@shealinbanta4169 2 жыл бұрын

Eric Dolphy died on June 29, 1964 and this video was April 12, 1964

@AljoniMusiCo Жыл бұрын

Well Dayum!@!

@senemorcaykalyoncu6369 Жыл бұрын

MOST PEOPLE MAY THINK ABOUT THE INSTRUMENT WHICH MR. DOLPHY PLAYED IN THIS VIDEO...THAT INSTRUMENT IS NOT A SAXOPHONE, THAT IS A BASS CLARINET, THE BIGGEST MEMBER OF THE CLARINET FAMILY ....

@marselmusic 5 жыл бұрын

ha like the rag jaki!

@SELMER1947 2 жыл бұрын

Stride not ragtime

@petetinca4624 2 жыл бұрын

@@SELMER1947 we must have been listening at the same time! stride huh? okay, something else to find out about

@XIIMonkeysMusicGroup Жыл бұрын

Eric Dolphy made Bass Clarinet cool!

@cburns3256 2 жыл бұрын

Out to Lunch !

@ThatDumbDoge 2 жыл бұрын

idk how I found this but this is the demo song my older keyboard/synth plays (casio mt-640)

@user-wf4xf6rb8h Жыл бұрын

ドルフィーえっぐ

@chazinko 2 жыл бұрын

10:35 Jaki's comping, yeah!

@donaldraby2892 Жыл бұрын

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

@arthurfleiss 2 жыл бұрын

i love how mingus leaves the stage

@JohnBlutarski 2 жыл бұрын

To go to the toilet?

@415JayTee 2 жыл бұрын

Really auspiciously cool how he's the only cat w/o his jacket on...lol

@lesgoe8908 2 жыл бұрын

10:56 & 11:22 -- Sounds like Booker's been listening carefully to Eric!

@RobertAppleton 2 жыл бұрын

i think that was mingus arrangement for the soloists - present, history, future and something else

@hetmanjz Жыл бұрын

Isn't that Clifford Jordan?

@rouelibre1 Жыл бұрын

Like the perfect migration from Swing to Be-bop.

@pvolt7 Жыл бұрын

According to my calculations (don't question them), Eric Dolphy is the coolest cat of all time. .........saying hey bass clarinet? you don't even know in a sense; and this and alll the rest........?

@markroberts171 2 жыл бұрын

THis is as good as it gets. Wow. Why are they not standing up and whooping?

@marselmusic 5 жыл бұрын

i didn't know he doubled!

@Nikosi9 2 жыл бұрын

He triples: Alto, bass clarinet and flute...

@AndrewBarsky Жыл бұрын

I played baritone saxophone when I was in music school, I must say….Bass clarinet is a bitch and a half of an instrument to play even on an “okay” level, this cat is straight making the the thing his bitch. Bravo 👏

@shealinbanta4169 2 жыл бұрын

The trumpet player is the only person that’s alive still today in 2022

@alaindrillon9226 Жыл бұрын

No,hé is dead in december 1997

@shealinbanta4169 Жыл бұрын

@@alaindrillon9226 oh he did? I liked him up and I did ‘t see his death date.