how right you are😊

Nothing can't beat or will beat them.

I have to say that Jess Stacy at the piano was truly touched by the angels on the night of January 16, 1938 at Carnegie Hall. I could listen to his solo on Sing Sing Sing a dozen times in a row and still be amazed. Where that inspiration came from is an unexplainable mystery. One of the all-time great moments!

@@brucekuehn4031 Too bad he didn't get a solo here.

It’s Jess Stacy on piano.

Zakia Hart I do not have words for him

I saw Hampton at the 1996 New Orleans Jazz festival. Wynton Marcellus and several of the Neville's did a huge ensemble as a tribute. What an afternoon that was. The man was in his 80s but he still rocked

Yeah

My parents took me to see Lionel sometime in the ‘60s with a big band in a local steakhouse that occasionally booked bands. He gave me a ‘45 and signed the cover. Still have it. Great night!

That wasn't a good choice.

It’s a vibraphone

@@garyfoster3854 fact still stands

I thought that’s who that was!

Ed McDowell Playboy after Dark?

Jess Stacey should have been in "The Benny Goodman Storey" but pulled out when he discovered he was restricted to one short number

It was actually a program called, "The Big Party", sponsored by Revlon cosmetics, and aired on the CBS Television Network.

you are right!

Yes and sitting next to Peggy Lee.

Carol Channing: was she passin' back then?

Also Sir John Gielgud.

Stacy's solo was cut out....

The Peggy Lee Show

That "ho-hum pianist" is Jess Stacy, pianist with the Goodman orchestra in its late '30s heyday, including the legendary 1938 Carnegie Hall concert, where he played a memorable solo in "Sing Sing Sing".

@@postscript67 ho-hums occasionally shine - I mean it is "ho-hum" in relation to the aforementioned 3 greats, isn't it? Quality journeymen musicians ARE needed.

Jess Stacy a "ho-hum pianist"??? What planet are you from?

@@Gennettor-nc8kx Obviously not the pasty whitebreed world you are from - anyways, I don't go on reputation, but on what I hear. You should try it sometime. Anyways, Goodman and his bunch were all designed for that nice white middleclass of the 40s and 50s. A far cry from the cutting edge.

Listen to the end of "Sing Sing Sing (with a Swing) on the 1938 Carnegie Hall Benny Goodman concert. There is a fantastic, dreamy solo by Jess Stacy. He takes you into something just sublime.

I agree with you about Teddy Wilson. He's in a category all his own with those wonder cascades of notes. I'm spellbound by him. This solo by Jess Stacy, I think, must have been a peak moment for him. I haven't heard much of anything else by him, but what I have heard is nowhere near this ending solo, which I just get lost in. Thanks for your comment.

@@pilgriminyourbody Jess Stacy was a brilliantly swinging and incredibly inventive and nuanced jazz pianist who, for my money was even better than Teddy Wilson and actually beat out Teddy Wilson on several Downbeat Magazine polls. And Jess Stacey did play for many years with Bob Crosby's Orchestra and his smaller Bobcats and played many fantastic solos, despite the fact that the 1938 solo was his best. They're on KZfaq and the Bobcats had amazing all star musicians, like the legendary Ray Bauduc on drums, whom even Gene Krupa said was the best Dixieland drummer of all time. They had Eddie Miller: tenor sax Matty Matlock: clarinet, Billy Butterfield: trumpet, Warren Smith: trombone Nappy Lamare: guitar Jess Stacy: piano, Ray Bauduc: drums, Bob Haggart: bass. You seem to trivialize that absolutely historic, unbelievably creative solo in Sing Sing Sing in 1938, as if it's a one of a kind for Jess. EVERY jazz solo, by definition, is one of a kind. The fact that Jess Stacy played the best solo of his life that night, can possibly be said about Gene, Benny, Hamp and Harry James. Although it was the best solo of his entire career, he played many truly great solos with the Bobcats and other bands. Here's a brief summary of Jessy Stacy's career at its height, although there were much later revivals of his great playing. Thought you might find it interesting. Stacy's big break came in 1935 when Benny Goodman asked Stacy to join his band. Stacy left Floyd Towne, moved to New York, and spent 1935-39 with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. He reached a personal peak when he performed with Goodman band at its famous 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert on 16 January 1938. The Carnegie Hall performance was elevated in part by Stacy's unplanned piano solo during "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)", around which a great modern legacy has grown. Following a Goodman/Krupa duet, Stacy received a nod from Goodman to take a solo. "At the Carnegie Hall concert, after the usual theatrics, Jess Stacy was allowed to solo and, given the venue, what followed was appropriate ... Used to just playing rhythm on the tune, he was unprepared for a turn in the spotlight, but what came out of his fingers was a graceful, impressionistic marvel with classical flourishes, yet still managed to swing. It was the best thing he ever did, and it's ironic that such a layered, nuanced performance came at the end of such a chaotic, bombastic tune", wrote David Rickert." Btw, Jess Stacy said in an interview that his Carnegie Hall solo took him by surprise because Goodman never told him he'd be taking one, but then suddenly pointed to him. Jess said that he was glad that he didn't know about it in advance because: " I would have been so nervous I probably would have screwed it up !". LOL. That's why, after just three terrific blues bars, you hear Lionel Hampton kind of laugh and call out: " Yeeaah, Jess!" and the audience cracks up. A 1939 review of 'Jess Stacy' (Commodore 1503) stated: "These two five-minute blues are probably the finest solos ever recorded by Jess Stacy and the best coupling ever issued by Milt Gabler on his Commodore label. When this most sensitive, intelligent and polished of piano players goes to work in the simple, traditional blues form, the result is likely to be more individual than authentic; and that was the case here. On the slow blues, "EcStacy", and a faster one named "The Sell Out", Stacy has lavished all his musical sincerity, his harmonic invention and delicate melodic ideas, all performed with uniquely fine touch and really incisive phrasing. "EcStacy" is quiet, and the chords ring out like chimes; in "The Sell Out", Stacy's foot acts as bass drum and the swing is very easy and sure. Instead of the sterility which afflicts so many of the "advanced" jazz players, there is the sincere, personal emotion, and integrity, of a uniquely talented musician. Much intellect went into this music, and in places you can almost hear Jess' rapid thinking". After leaving the Goodman Orchestra, Stacy joined the Bob Crosby Orchestra and his famous small jazz group the Bob Crosby Bobcats. During his period with the Bob-Cats Stacy received yet wider acclaim. He won the national Down Beat piano polls in 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943. Teddy Wilson did not win. In addition to the Goodman and Bob Crosby orchestras Stacy played with Bix Beiderbecke, Eddie Condon, Bud Freeman, George Gershwin, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden and, later, Horace Heidt. Just to put Jess Stacy in proper perspective. Check out the "Bobcats " on KZfaq. Some are live videos and they show Jess Stacy's wide swinging Dixieland range. Cheers.

Thanks, @@Marathonracer, for all the Jess Stacy lore. Trivialize his SSS solo? Hardly, it's one of the best things I've ever heard. I'll check into other music by him that you are pointing me to. All the best.

@@pilgriminyourbody Cool, Jim. I really didn't mean to imply that you were literally trivializing that incredible solo itself, since you had clearly said "There is a fantastic, dreamy solo by Jess Stacy. He takes you into something just sublime.", which is a great way to describe it. But only in the sense that it might have been the only great thing he'd ever done. Actually, I was struggling to find the right words, so it wouldn't leave the wrong impression, and perhaps I shouldn't have said it that way to begin with. Btw, I do have tremendous respect for Teddy Wilson, who's a legendary figure in jazz history and a tremendous pianist. I remember, as a kid, my parents, both classical musicians, ( my mother was a pianist), pointed out Teddy Wilson as part of that great Benny Goodman quartet.

About 1:44 he picks another up, but he still had the first one a couple of seconds earlier. Did it go over his shoulder?

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