I once had to pay Mel Torme for a concert he sang for me when I was producing shows for public television. I remember meeting Mel in his hotel room and asking him to sing "shiny stockings" for me before I gave him his check. He obliged.

Nobody could swing like Basie......NOBODY

2:30 2:33

When they asked Basie what did he want on his tombstone, he said "two words, Nice Guy". Basie, as Nick Cruz would say, BASED. Playing Banger after Banger after Banger.

Marshall Royal was great!Looks like he isn't reading the music, he remembers his parts by heart. I believe he did, take after take he plays perfectly!...But at the sax section solo fingers are not sync with audio🧐

This song always sounds better and better each time I listen to it!!!

1:12

Bravo+Wonderful

Absolutely wonderful listening! Simply sublime

Amazing

Count Basie King of swing and big band!

If you've never heard the live recordings of Basie at the Famous Door, check em out!

Doesn’t get better than this !!!! My my my!!! Swing on Count!!!

Wonderful. Nothing better

Больше такого джаза никогда не будет(((

Numero Uno!🙌🏼

This song was played on an episode of The Cosby Show. It was Grandma and Grandpa Huxtable's 50th anniversary.

Oh my gosh man this is too good! TOO GOOD MANE.

1:05 honestly the balance and tone seems kind of off compared to modern stuff. Let's be honest, they weren't actually that good technically. The feel is 10x better than modern times though

'This Foster/Basie jazz standard would have also worked well for comedy genius, Mel Brooks closing scene in "Blazing Saddles"...

Thing is, everyone compares band leaders but Count Basie as well as being a maestro (not the best mind) was also just about the nicest Guy by all accounts. Xxxx

Niks seffers busa rīga devinpacmitaija augustā viņš busa šaveijas darba darīšanās viņš brauksa ar Aigaru parmu

Eccezionale !!! Cout basie non ha rivali !!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing like a Big Band clicking together and just kicking it. My Dad played drums for Basie in late 40's, 50,s and 60,s

😃💙🌼🌱

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2:39 The man. The action.

certainly one of the best version si tu the version from Alba Armengou, Scott Hamilton et Joan Chamorro

I don't know who is doing this trumpet solo, but my guess would be Red Rodney, because that is his sound. I'm not sure what he would of looked like in the 1970's.

Goosebumps 🥰🤩😁

Kan ikke gøres bedre, kun anderledes. Can not be done better, only differently.

I get to play this for my Jazz Band this year, great song

Source: dippermouth.blogspot.com/2014/01/75-years-of-jeepers-creepers.html ...from an April 30, 1958 episode of the Timex All Star Jazz Show, a show that featured Pops’s chops in positively Herculean form. On “Jeepers Creepers” he (Louis Armstrong) sat in with a Jack Teagarden All Star group with: Tony Parenti on clarinet and a rhythm section made up of former All Stars, Marty Napoleon on piano, Chubby Jackson on bass, and Cozy Cole on drums. Teagarden’s trumpeter is Ruby Braff, a lifelong Armstrong follower and a good friend of Pops. Braff starts with some Armstrong-inspired blowing before he’s joined by an unseen, but definitely felt Armstrong. Pops strides in to lead the ensemble before singing two choruses with Teagarden, one of his best friends. There’s some confusion in the second chorus as Pops looks like he wants to scat and Teagarden forgets a world or two, but Armstrong doesn’t let it show and in the end it’s yet another great Satchmo-Big T duet, Pops cracking Teagarden by asking, “How’d you get so lit up?” But vocals aside, the true highlights involve the horns. Braff is wonderful and so is Teagarden but Armstrong is a force of nature, going for broke, taking chances and hitting all the high ones.

A great man not to mention his band, miss this music.

BPM= 164 a brighter version....

Great but the versions with Sonny Payne were better..

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Those clipped notes: typical Basie. Count Basie's band used a lighter texture than that other great band : The Duke Ellington orchestra. This is a typical swing band.

The Bass Player and Drummer are fabulous!!!

I saw Count Basie and his band several times and even opened for him once with our piano trio. Each time I listened to the band was a great experience... All the great players, swingin' charts but what amazed me most was that the band never opened their books the whole night!

They ask me what my taste in music is...this

Kudos to the late George "Sonny Cohn" for the magnificent solo. For 25 years he played lead trumpet in the Basie band. He also was the road manager. He was a dependable class act all the way. He was 81 when he passed in 2006. I was 16 y/o when I first saw the band. Sonny seeing that I was the youngster of the audience came and said hello during a break. As a young trumpeter myself I was in 7th heaven at his gracious act.

I absolutely love this! 💝💃

GREAT !

and I oop sksksks

who plays the trumpet solo in this?

This Swing is reaching me to my Fibrous porous.

The man was the greatest

Count Basie could say more just playing a rest than most guys could using ten fingers.

Grant Green with guitar on his knees !!!