Harry James "Ultra"
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Trumpet virtuoso, Big Band and Jazz legend, Harry James, performing one of his swingingest and most requested instrumentals, ULTRA, a James composition. This tune, written and first performed in 1948, in the middle of the Be Bop era of Jazz, reflects the versatility of the James band in covering all genres of music; Ballads, swinging Big Band Jazz instrumentals, Blues and Be Bop. This particular recording is from 1959. Harry James died in 1983 at the age of 67 after leading an all star Big Band for 44 years.
Been listening to Harry James for about 55 years now. I'm 66 now. This man and his orchestra were awesome live at Disneyland!!!!!!
I had the pleasure to actually play in the big band as a featured act in 1974 @ The Frontier Hotel in Vegas with Phil Harris, Harry James, and Frank Sinatra, Jr. I was drumming with The DoGooders on the same stage with Harry's band. We did a few #'s together. He was a great guy and an awesome player.
Ain’t nobody sounds and swings like Harry James !
One of my fav Harry cuts!
H.J. - Absolutely the greatest trumpet ever.
The greatest trumpet player not named Doc Severinsen.
@@artvandelay8090 Doc once said he wasn’t worthy to carry Harry’s trumpet case.
@@danielscuiry2847 So what! That's just Doc being humble. Doc has also said some very flattering things about Maynard Ferguson, that weren't even true. It's really the other way around, Harry was not worthy of carrying Doc's trumpet case or even his dirty laundry bag. The truth is in the facts. Here's the truth: If you take the most impressive and difficult things that Harry has ever played and ask, "is Doc capable of playing that," the answer always comes back a resounding YES." Doc could play anything Harry ever played, he's demonstrated the ability to do so. Then if you ask the same question in reverse, there are MANY things that Doc has played that Harry could not play and hasn't ever demonstrated anything close, not even close. For instance, listen to Doc's live performance on the Tonight Show of "Ode to Billy Joe" and listen to the lick that Doc plays TWICE that comes right in on a double-high Bb and forays down into the extreme low register and continues - what complete control of the horn from the top range to the bottom Doc demonstrates here. And he does that SEVERAL times on this chart with lots of playing in the low and middle registers before and in between. I've never heard Harry James do anything like that - and he didn't have the range above a G. Listen to the solo Doc plays on "Open the Gates of Love" on his "Night Journey" album. Harry James could never touch anything like that. Watch Doc's video playing "Malaguena" live in Edmonton, watch the whole thing from start to finish. FACT: Harry James couldn't touch that kind of playing with a 50-ft pole, not in a million years, and there's really no denying it. Just from the range standpoint alone - I've never heard Harry James play anything above an F# - although it's likely he could play a G. But I've heard Doc play live in concert, an F above double C, almost an entire octave above the top of Harry's range. Aside from range, Harry might have had a few good years when he could double and triple-tongue pretty well, had good technique, but his playing declined very quickly. His hard living lifestyle caused him to lose his teeth and wear dentures and that was the end of his playing - he became a mere caricature of himself after that and sounded like just what he was, a washed-up schmaltzy, syrupy, circus performer with an overbearing vibrato. So while Harry had a few good years, Doc played at an even higher level for much much longer, which is further testament to his greatness. Harry's drinking and drugs sent him to an early grave, meanwhile Doc has still done things that are seemingly immortal, playing in public at the age of 95 up to high Fs, something which some high school and college players in their physical primes can not even do. So an objective examination of the facts can only yield one truthful and sane conclusion, and that's that Doc is the greatest trumpet player ever. Harry wasn't even close. And by the way, if you're going to use quotes from Doc as your measuring stick as to who is the greatest, I've also heard Doc say that Ray Crisara was the greatest trumpet player he's ever heard. Other people have quoted Doc as saying that Jerry Franks was the greatest trumpet player he had ever heard. The fact is, Doc used to say things. He'd flatter all kinds of people by saying that they were the greatest, but that's because he was too humble and classy to tell the truth and crown himself the greatest. It's more like a true pro to leave those assessments to other people, and those in the know, who are not biased by some kind of hero-worship complex. Those in the know all say that Doc is the best ever.
@@artvandelay8090 I never argue with a true believer 🎺
Como siempre extraordinario Harry James!! Es fabuloso no soy de la generación de esa época...pero escucharlo no tiene edad ni tiempo, es gratificante y muy fresco, vital, apasionante😍😍
A Masterpiece I think ! Beautiful tune ! Amazing and perfect arrange and performances of everybody !!! Fantastic trumpet solo !! No word more I have to say what I think listen this nobel song ! Thabks Dick Bobnick !!
Played this tune in High School Jazz Band in 1957 & 1958...Loved it !!!And still do !!!!!
This song has haunted me ever since I heard it many, many years ago. Just awesome.
One of the Greatest! Whew!!!!
The impossible solo of Harry James !!! Amazing ! ULTRA, a James composition.
One of my many favorites
very harry james, excellent in every way, beautiful, what can I say??
Thank you Mr. Di k for this tune
Perhaps,I heard about 40years before,
I found this song at my friend's home,
Virtuoso de la Trompeta el Sr. Barry James......excelente melodía...🎺🎺🎺
Waoh! Ｔｈｉｓ ｉｓ ｒｅｃｏｒｄｅｄ ｓｔｅｒｅｏ ｓｏｕｎｄ!
The applause was added. It’s not a live performance
Composed and Arranged by Jimmy Mundy ca. 1948. James first recorded it in 1949 for Columbia in a severely cut / shortened version to fit on a 10-inch 78rpm record. Mundy composed and / or arranged many of Goodman's most famous arrangements from 1936-1939 including BG's "Sing, Sing, Sing"... Mundy began as a violinist as a child and began doubling on saxophone in the 1920s and became known as a saxophonist and arranger for Earl "Fatha" Hines famous band in Chicago in the 1930s and then Chick Webb in Harlem (New York City). Artie Shaw commissioned a few pieces from Mundy in 1944-45, among them is Shaw's great record of Mundy's original composition "Lady Day" written in honor of the great singer Billie Holiday (who had worked as Shaw's band Vocalist in 1938).
Amazing music.Many thanks amigo.
I was Harry James Fan.
Because,I was played trumpet.
This song is anything but differrent.
But, Harry's mind appers,
So,I think.
En los años 80's ....la escuché ...en una estación k ya desapareció.....
IN PERU THE STATION OF DANTE CAPELLA AND ROY MORRIS BEATIFUL, SOY YO CHARLIN Y NO CHARLIN
This swings like a gate.