Woody Herman & His Swingin' Herd - Woodchopper's Ball
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2015
- Woody Herman (cl), Carmen Leggio, Sal Nistico, Jackie Stevens (ts), Nick Brignola (bars), Bill Chase, Danny Nolan, Paul Fontaine, Gerry Lamy, Billy Hunt (t), Phil Wilson, Henry Southall, Kenny Wenzel (tb), Nat Pierce (p), Chuck Andrus (b), Jake Hanna (d). Montréal, 1964
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I remember we played the hell out of this in Jazz band in middle school and here it is almost 30+ years later...still haven't forgotten a note
No way that's so cool I'm in middle school jazz and we also started playing this
We in the trumpet line loved this song-- our director wrote it up for pep band, too! It was a hit at basketball games.
As fresh sounding today as it was in 1964. Marvelous!!
Im 25 and my grandpa showed me herman and his herd and boy are they thundering! Jazz is alive and well. Just saw a young pianist and drum duo last night that put me in a herman mood. DOMi and JD Beck are the duo and quite talented.
This big band jazz that never gets old for me. Woody had one of the best group of musicians.
in school I had to read a poem to my class about Woody Herman i'll tell you one fact about him, his nickname when he was little was "the boy of wonder of the clarinet" ;)
I interviewed him for my grade school paper at an ice cream social in my small Wisconsin town in 1974 or 75. I was..11? He was... Not nice. Not mean, but not nice. Maybe he was bitter. His band was almost all locals. I should have asked him what his nickname was as a kid.
That's an appellation. A nickname is something short. His was "Woody," as his given name was Woodrow.
One of the best swinging bands ever!!
Thanks me and my sister are making a dance for our family for Christmas and this song is perfect because we’re doing swing jazz 💕
Thia band was so incredible
Bring back the big bands!
It takes a Big venue to be able to cater for a big band in today's system so just listen and enjoy
I love this ! I still think of "Gene-Gene the dancing machine" when I hear this !!!
Actually, Gene's song was Jumpin' At The Woodside by Count Basie.
Pure Musical Magic ! THANKS so much for uploading for us to enjoy !!
That trombone solo was ridiculous!!!
I enjoy listening to the music like this brings back calmer times
So this were 10 Years After and Alvin Lees smoking live version on the album” Undead “ came from. Wonderful! Still got lots of music to explore
I came here after hearing Ten Years After do it also. Both are amazing versions of the song, but radically different. Ten Years After's version was recorded in a night club called Klooks Kleek Railroad Hotel, London UK, May 1968. Only four years later, but radically different.
This was my grandfather’s favorite song!
I sww Woody in Eastbourne mid 70s, less than 200 people in a concert hall, but it was a swinging night....
In the nerdy department, for new listeners and players, the one note riff of this great blues plays the 2-3 cuban clave, it only starts anticipating with the fifth note, wich becomes the "first"
Woody was in the time period of before WWII and the big bands and he played on and I saw him at Disneyland.
MAN OH MAN ...... TO HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THESE GUYS LIVE ...... DOING THIS TUNE ....... WOW A HUNDRED TIMES !....... THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD ........
Wonderfull time's.......thanks for remember.....
Fantastic Solos !
I just watched the original Price is Right with Bill Cullen from 1959 when the bonus prize was a party with Woody Herman and his band.
No one:
The trombonist: *casual 512th notes*
thats the legendary Phil Wilson!
I say this as a brass player, he is a professional, But that thing he's doing isn't quite as hard as it sounds. Not beginner level stuff, but someone who's been playing for maybe a year or so with a decent practice regiment would comfortably be able to do it
accelerando, poco a poco.
That is just SWEET! The song has a pulse. This was great inspiration for a Woodstock display of INERTIA!
Woody's Herds always had the best musicians and they could swing at any tempo. This is music for the ages !
DEC 5th Milwaukee 2021 a live Big Band will be doing full night of his music. Dancing & all.
Bass is recorded and mixed a million times better than so many modern jazz records!!
PERFECTION! Just... PERFECTION! THANK YOU for posting!!! =)
,,,,,,,,, top class !!!!!
The 5th trumpet part is that most exciting and interesting one.
Foot stompin gem.
Maravilhoso muito bom amei
makes me want to dance like in the old days. shiny shoes shiny hair, don't dress like no hobo.
Have a look on UA-cam for the dance.
One of the few clarinetists who could rival Benny Goodman.
Charles, I think you're maybe forgetting one of theee *greatest*, Artie Shaw.
Nothing against Woody, Benny, or Artie, but Eddie Daniels isn't too shabby. Check him out on _Sing_ _Sang_ _Sung,_ by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, among many other places.
Buddy de Franco the most important bebop´s clarinetist
Oh joy of joys, I was thumb-up no. 1000....
Why, oh why, do we not hear new voices playing clarinet on the jazz scene? It is such an expressive instrument. It used to be popular, what happened?
Because nobody can play like Artie Shaw or Benny Goodman...
Trombone and clarinet got oversaturated 90 years ago so people decided they've had enough :(
Listen to some Anat Cohen. Plays a broad range of jazz styles. Find her on You Tube.
Biggest reason is that it doesn't project well in bands. School jazz programs typically opt for big bands and a lot of players of wind instruments start in school in their programs. I've seen many a jazz Director decide to just teach a clarinetist sax instead and sometimes use it as a double if the gig is mic's - although by then the poor reed player hasn't had much time playing jazz clarinet....
In WOODCHOOPERS BALL, a puppet-tune by George Pal, and very hard to get, Woody informally explains the supernatural origins of his magical axe. Having said that, I got to go to the Palomino Club around 1984 and hear Woody in his last year; and he still had the fire, in spite of having irs going at him, and he was gracious enough to hear my babblings and shake my hand. At the Concord Pavillion in 1977, Benny Goodman looked as absent from this world as Joe Cocker when we saw him in 2000. Mr. Goodman still played perfect, though he sat most of it out. I want a tenor sax, though; but I should have a clarinet anyhow just to look at.
Superb
Awesome stuff
He has a relation ship - 1:02 - with that saxophone!
SUPER
Those tubes were hot.
Just listen to 10 years after's version.
I think that’s my favorite Ten Years After song. Alvin Lee just tears it up.
Oh hell yeah :-)
The temperature of their playing really shows against the B&W video
A Classic SUPERB .
Bill Chase. Wow.
Thundering herd.
who else is here from music class at school?
As a retired music teacher at a junior high school for 37 years, I APPLAUD your music teacher for this assignment! =)
not exactly the subtlest record of the era but filled with raw excitement
They were still
The Band That Plays the Blues
From what TV-program?
The back cover of the DVD says "Telecast of January 2, 1964. Radio-Canada, Montréal".
Who is the trombonist?
Phil Wilson.
@@OldKingDooji Tak!
haha the bass player is attacking his instrument
hahah they knew the trick back then too. Before it gets too boring, just play the same thing up a notch 3:23
Anyone know who the trumpet soloist is?
Paul Fontaine.
I'd say Bill Chase but I could be wrong.
Bill Chase on trumpet.
Bill Chase plays the unmistakable trumpet wail at the end, but he's not the soloist with the mute.
@@peterrabbit4034 the mute is Paul Fontaine
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It's not Bill Chase or Billy Hunt. So is it Paul Fontaine, Gerry Lamy or Danny Nolan.
It's Paul Fontaine.
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@@OldKingDooji I love this song!! One of my favorite swing era tunes, btw who's kicking butt on trombone and drums? Thanks!
@@pacificcoastpiper3949 That would be the great Jake Hanna on Drums and the legendary Phil Wilson on Trombone. Unfortunately Jake died relatively young a few decades ago. I played sax in Phil's big band at Berklee for a year and a half ... in the early-mid 80s. At a memorial service held at the school for Herb Pomeroy back in about 2008 I asked Phil about the WH band of the early-mid 60s. I had also played in Herb's "B" band because the only rule in the school was that nobody was allowed to play in Phil's band and Herb's "A" band at the same time because they were the top large jazz ensembles in the school. Phil never talked about Woody's band when I was a student other than occasional passing references in a rehearsal - plus, we were young and full of trying to figure out our own thing and everyone knew what kind of history and resume a lot of teachers had, but nobody really ever talked about it. John LaPorta was another one like that. I think more than anything a lot of us were intimidated by it and as far as being performing musicians and teaching were concerned, they were more about what was going on right then or just thinking about what was coming up next. But in 2008 at one point in our conversation Phil said "you know", (then he glanced off into space for what seemed like an eternity as he thought about what he was going to say next) ... "ten or maybe I think 11 of us in Woody's band were all students of Herb and we all played together in Herb's band here. Woody hired all of us within about a year after we had all finished up, so it was pretty much a ready-made band. Woody could put anything in front of us and because so many of us already knew each other so well we just knew how we all played together so it just came out that way." As for my thoughts, Paul Fontaine was probably the best lead trumpet player I've ever gotten to play with in the decades since - absolutely stunning with a sound as big as a house and SO on top of everything and consistent it's scary. But needless to say that whole generation of players around Boston who obviously aren't in this - were all PHENOMENAL players. Too many of them are gone now and it's up to us to attempt filling such monstrous shoes, and we aren't exactly young kids ourselves now any more either; and the lack of any kind of big band "scene" these days, even in a city like Boston, is what it is. But the music of those giants lives on.
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Did someone put steroids in the trombone players tongue
With a few exceptions (Getz, Desmond, etc.) saxophone is just not as listenable as a solo instrument compared to clarinet. Saxophonists make up for the tonal deficit by playing great musical lines.
This doesnt sound like the one from this is jazz #24
Wow. Nistico actually took an articulate solo. Didn't know he had it in him. Carmen takes him to the cleaners every time.
You clearly have listened to very little of Sal’s work. He was a MONSTER of cleanliness. He could play clean, articulate double-time like no one else. Check out literally ANY of his work with Woody.
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That's all I've checked out. We have a different definition of articulate. Carmen Leggio destroys him on Woody Herman:1964, specifically during the trading eights on Hallelujah Time, as well as the slower Deep Purple immediately following Hallelujeh Time where Carmen takes one of the most melodic tenor solos ever, only to be followed by Nistico's trademark bull-in-a-china-shop, one-dimensional playing. But Woody liked to feature Sal because he was a crowd pleaser with his firepump, stocky appearance and his double-tongueing playing. Since Woody was a great showman he gave the people what they wanted. An even finer example of Sal being blown off the stage is from Woody Herman:1963, where the quiet, unassuming Bobby Jones starts a run from the low B-flat of his axe all the way past the entire range of it that I challenge anyone to find a solo more articulate than he plays on the super-fast, last track Caledonia. And Woody only acknowledges the latter solo at the end of it ("Sal Nistico! Sal Nistico!") Did you even know there was a different soloist on that track? And Nistico had a monkey on his back that negatively impacts anyone's ability to function. That said, who would have thought I'd be having this debate 50 years after discovering these albums. I think it's great. I'm glad you feel as strongly as you do. It's refreshing. And have a good Christmas. Maybe Santa will bring a Woody album that you've never heard before.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 Nuanced, and detailed, what I like.
This will show you how Unique & Great SAL NISTICO was: "19 Sal Nistico Solos with Woody Herman 1963 & 1964 Tenor Sax” ua-cam.com/video/a8Gml5uK-YI/v-deo.html
And, of course, CARMEN LEGGIO was Unique and Awesome too: "3 Carmen Leggio Solos with Woody Herman Big Band 1963" ua-cam.com/video/Eup1Xtr8744/v-deo.html
Did you know they pre-recorded the song and they were just faking in the video?
A Random Content Creator. If so they made a pretty good job of it
No. They're playing
Ha ha. Auto tune. Lol.
That was a silent movie with a Laurel & Hardy soundtrack added.
This was when people actually MADE music!!