The "Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra"-- too cool! Such a name says A LOT about the taste and humor of the leader. And they take A LOT of liberties with the tune but they are the kind of outfit that can make anything their own. It's SO GOOD to see full horn sections like this (playing Western standards? Ska style? Ah, it's California -- say no more). I particularly love the sax arrangements, sweet, sweet, sweet indeed. A Latin purist might reject such a non-clave or barely-clave rendition but the ska and big band approach is sweet and solid in its own right. "Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra" -- good one . . . . sure, by all means, let's all pile on and we'll jam . . . .
WST started out as a tribute band to the The Skatalites, so many of their songs were originally recorded by The Skatalites. You might want to dive deep into the Jamaican greats.
@@SOLDAN24 I know The Skatalites and their version of it. They're great, to be sure, but I am primarily an Afro-Latin dancer and percussionist, and swing dancer, so I am oriented to the thrust of the standard outspokenly clave-driven way of doing it. I listened to versions of it since childhood and have two sets of sheet music for it hanging on my wall. To dance it when it's done to clave, it's a mambo or salsa. An ethnomusicologist may call it a son pregunta. It's copyright 1928, meaning mambo is a lot older than most people realize. Your ska approach takes it out of mambo and moves it toward, but not entirely into, cha cha, which is what the couple dancing is doing. You folks have a great sound in how you approach it, and your distinctive WST approach may be much more original than you realize.
This should have 20 Million likes by now, true musicians!!
Took me 7 years to find this. I'm absolutely amazed at this. Well done. Incredible 🙏❤️
Great! What talent. I'd love to be just passing by and come across this 😎.
Totally joyous arrangement played to perfection by a really talented band. Thanks
¡¡Mis aplausos para esta encantadora versión. Felicitaciones para el arreglista!
The "Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra"-- too cool! Such a name says A LOT about the taste and humor of the leader. And they take A LOT of liberties with the tune but they are the kind of outfit that can make anything their own. It's SO GOOD to see full horn sections like this (playing Western standards? Ska style? Ah, it's California -- say no more). I particularly love the sax arrangements, sweet, sweet, sweet indeed. A Latin purist might reject such a non-clave or barely-clave rendition but the ska and big band approach is sweet and solid in its own right. "Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra" -- good one . . . . sure, by all means, let's all pile on and we'll jam . . . .
WST started out as a tribute band to the The Skatalites, so many of their songs were originally recorded by The Skatalites. You might want to dive deep into the Jamaican greats.
@@SOLDAN24 I know The Skatalites and their version of it. They're great, to be sure, but I am primarily an Afro-Latin dancer and percussionist, and swing dancer, so I am oriented to the thrust of the standard outspokenly clave-driven way of doing it. I listened to versions of it since childhood and have two sets of sheet music for it hanging on my wall. To dance it when it's done to clave, it's a mambo or salsa. An ethnomusicologist may call it a son pregunta. It's copyright 1928, meaning mambo is a lot older than most people realize. Your ska approach takes it out of mambo and moves it toward, but not entirely into, cha cha, which is what the couple dancing is doing. You folks have a great sound in how you approach it, and your distinctive WST approach may be much more original than you realize.
Epic🎉
How cool is this?!
If I was driving down the road and looked over, I'd crash my car. They kill. Best damn band in the land.
Agreed! Where else could you drive down the road and see something like this?
Not in Dallas Fort Worth. Ha ha ha ha!
An All White Ska band!!!! And perfectly talented too. What a joy!!!!!!!!! (Definitely my kind of scene!!!)
much less disturbing than the 1933 stop motion animation
Ha Ha. I had to look that up in order to understand your comment. Very true!
@@SOLDAN24 Yep. They did a nice job by the by, it was a cool version.
Moises Simon would be proud🎆
Very well done, but there's something missing, it just doesn't quite feel like SKA. There's a nod to Ken Stanton though.
too many in band to make money. got to be for the love of music and playing = class