Check out the first concert of bandleader/pianist William ‘Count’ Basie and his Count Basie Orchestra at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1979! ua-cam.com/video/fvHYtouG3hE/v-deo.html
I was at that concert in Holland in 1979, I'm now nearly a hundred years old and was very fortunate to see this great band with all these wonderful musicians. That was another era, life goes on and that's all but gone.
Yes. It had to have been one of the best big bands of all time. so much talent and so tight they were, and impeccably led. My thought was like everyone else that has seen and heard this incredible production, I wish I had been there. Envy rules. I was in Alaska for the first time, a young man of 24. Tell me it was one of the best live performances you ever witnessed, please?
@@markdierking9347 It was the most exciting concert at the North Sea Jazz Festival I had ever seen. The band was superb, absolute perfection. It was magical and a memory never to be forgotten.
Well, I'm back... When I want to hear a great band I ALWAYS come to Basie. My old band director said the sax section is the best in the business and as far as I'm concerned the band is beyond compare. I'm now 81 so why change when I've got a winner? Thank goodness for youtube where all the music is.. AND I come back to this concert because Butch Miles pushes the band with his awesome drumming..
All of this. As a young man (56) I would humbly like to expand. Basie wasn't just an amazing musician. That band he put together for his "second career" was absolutely amazing because of this ingenious mix of top graduate musicians with top veteran musicians. At a time when bands like The Ramones started to come up, and disco ruled all, he came with a force that even put the band into a movie (Blazing Saddles). Try and replicate this with a big band in the 1970s.
My Grandfather Count Basie Was A Good Man. Count Basie's Son Who Is My Dad Still Lives In Omaha Nebraska. My Grandfather Basie Started In Omaha as A Young Child. Please Look It Up. You'll Find Out Lot More About My Grandfather Basie. I Have A Love For Music Because Of Grandfather Basie Thank You For Showing This Take Care
@@nemo227 Thank You. My Mother Tells Me I Get And Have My Love For Music And Talent From Grand Dad Basie. Thank You So Much. I Wish He Were Still Alive.
How wonderful to hear from You! I'm going to get daddy's CDs of Basie and listen to them on my Bose!! I'll be singing and swinging along to THE COUNT!!!! God BLESS You!
@@melodyfrankenfield2158 Thank You Very Much. Enjoy Your Dad's Great Collection Of My Grand Dad's Music. I'm With You In Spirit. Again, Thanks. Take Care.
How wonderfully done ,so good that bonds generations apart ,keep at it sir I hope I get to you age and still rock theese incredible icons,God bless I'm here at 31 🙌
1:46 Sweet Georgia Brown 5:00 Blues for Stephanie 12:48 Jada 17:55 Basie Power 22:34 Lil Darlin 27:40 ????? ( Blues) 33:03 Watch What Happens 35:18 Everyday I Have The Blues 38:50 Work Song 42:52 Whirley Bird 53:38 Jumpin At The Woodside
Between the ages of 6 and 14 we lived next door to 'Uncle Bill' and I miss him very much, that smile and the twinkle in his eyes. He was not only a grate musician but a wonderful friend and a true gentleman.
As a student from India in the 50s and 60s besides what one discovered and learnt at school and Collage the most amazing and everlasting discovery in the US was JAZZ.. Satchmo The Count Duke Glen Miller etc etc.After 4 decades my son presented me with a Record Player--very fancy on and I dug out the old 33RPMs from the store room. My collection of over 200 LPs has come alive and Viva la Jazz .. Its a love nobody can take away ! No doubt one of the top 5 contributions of my brothers and sisters from Africa which make America Great and a wonderful place. Indian Classical and Jazz have a lot in common...the same Soul undoubtedly. !!!
I was lucky enough to meet The Count and his lovely wife back stage after a performance in his later years. He and his wife were so gracious and friendly to my wife and I. He was truly a magnificent musician and his band watched him like a hawk for his suttle queues. I love the Big Band jazz and Swing sound.
I was brought up with Basie!!! Love him! Saw him many times live in Pennsylvania and New Jersey with my mom and dad. Dad was a professional musician, band leader, played 11 instruments, vocalist, arranger, and composer. I sang with his 18 piece Big Band for years and with his band within a band, "The PARKE FRANKENFIELD Dixieland All Stars." I believe I was conceived when mom and dad were listening to Sinatra! I've said all this to say how this music is in my blood! I miss the Basie- led orchestra. Jitter bugging and singing his charts with daddy's band. Daddy's gone now, but I jokingly say, daddy and Basie are waiting for their chick singer! Won't be long guys!! P.S. Basie wanted to adopt my gorgeous mother when he met her at a Bethlehem, PA DINNER club! Daddy said no!
What a legendary band.., highly gifted musicians, a clean sound and what an example of loyalty.., rythym guitarist Freddy Green., joined the Count's band as a young man and stayed with him till he turned grey. Long live the music of Basie and his wonderful orchestra.
At about 10' 10" there is some detailed close shots where we can rather distinctly see and hear Freddy GREEN acting a chord progression through his typical own way ( as some cello baritone voice ) . Rarely detailed , so very interesting .
This had to be the ultimate big band of all time. Freddie Green , the heart , Basie the Soul . The whole band just JOY personified. I was fortunate to see the band back in the day.
That beautiful rhythmic blending of piano, bass & drums with Freddie Green`s guitar was a wonderful thing. Basie`s band had it but nobody else. The way that Butch Miles tuned his Pearl drums was also really something. Thank you.
I was at Dunkirk Jazz festival and saw Butch Miles tuning his drums for at least an hour before the band arrived on the stand. The Basie band had Jimmy Forrest on tenor that day.
Went with my dear friend Wallace Bishop (ex swing drummer in the Earl Hines b/band) to this concert in the Hague. We went back-stage, where Wally introduced me and we had a kind of birthday-party with the Count, his wife Cathy and band members. This story is to illustrate how fortunate i was to meet this iconic remarkable Jazz Artist, and who lead, by far, the best ever big band! Amazing experience, folks. G’day and a swing-fest Cheers!
Basie was the best!!! Such wonderful rhythm and tasteful riffs. I remember standing in front of the band, don't even remember where or when and letting that awesome sound just wash over me. Bill from Red Bank, New Jersey was the ultimate musician to me. I am 86 now and Big Band is still my favorite sound. Right now I am listening to Bill Withers on my Bose on the house and in the car Ray Charles with Basie. Long live jazz. Jazzlover Clare Witcomb
I first became aware of the Count Basie Orchestra when they performed "April in Paris" during Mel Brooks movie "Blazing Saddles". I became a fan right there and then. I love listening to their music every chance I get. The best of the best. That's the Count Basie Orchestra.
Thank you Mr.Count Basie. What a great Orchestra , One of the Fathers of big band jazz . The Avant garde , the swinging , Count Basie Orchestra, I`m near 70 and i can still to this day ., remember listening to him on radio with my Great Uncle coming up . Thanks for the great memories. You`ll never be forgotten.
The ONLY reason anyone could legitimately give this a thumb's down is because the concert doesn't last for a few days. Otherwise, Count had the best, swinginest big band ever.
I feel I have come home. My stepdaddy loved BASIE. I treasure my love of my step-dad who held an unquestionably excellence for A HERALDED music style that is only COUNT BASIE...an era that takes me to a warmer time that was sophisticated, relaxed, and genius. RIP ARTIE, how you must be living a high life with BASIE on his 'One Note Style' in the GLORY of HEAVENLY JAZZ. Thank you, Mr. BASIE. 🎼🎹♥️
My first Jazz/Blues concert was in 1969 in Barcelona Palau de la Musica with Count Basie and just four days afterwords I attended a concert by Duke Ellington orchestra, thanks to these wonderful artists I’ve been in contact with other wonderful legends such as BBKing, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Òscar Peterson, Nina Simone, Dione Warwick, Ray Charles, etc, I consider myself soooo lucky to have seen them all in live performances!
He understood swing! Period! A man of few notes when needed an He new he didn’t need the abundance of notes to groove and swing. Others felt they did but yet he still was able to make them swing. Amazing!!! 🤗👍🏼
Just outstanding, I love Count Basie's Music, what a sound, you just don't hear this anymore in 2020...I .was fortunate to attend some of his concerts in my life, bring back Count Basie please...
Eliah Eliyah: I am so grateful to see your post! I used to play Tenor sax in jazz bands, and we always had a lot of The Count's music. Most arrangements were from Sammy Nestico. Followed the music almost all my life. I was going to work and had to pull over on the freeway when they announced his passing. A Great Man!!!
Greetings from Canada. Love Basie, one of the greatest bands. Period. Had a jazz band myself when in Florida. Played once at a rich people's area, included Mara Lago, featuring our Barefoot Bay Big Band, which was having a "Jazz Festival"; we were the featured band. They paid us with T-shirts only; that's how the rich get richer. Still have the shirts. John M. Hill,author.
Some years later, when Frank Foster was leading (essentially the same) band, I sat in the 3rd row center of the Greek in LA .. the compression wave when they were blowing and grooving was a lifetime experience ..
Eddie Metz, Jr is a long-time fellow musician who played in daddy's big band orchestra on some gigs. . . Anyway, he played with Basie's band as the drummer for awhile after Basie passed. He now has his own kickass trio that plays all over the world! FANTASTIC DRUMMER AND JASS GROUP. LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE.
Shook the hand of Count Basie during a UK tour in the 1970's, signed the programme along with several band members... the greatest band and I was lucky to see them live.
Eu tive a honrra de ouvir esta maguinifica banda do verdadeiro Jazz nos anos 54 58 que jamais sera imitada hoje com 83 não deicho de ouvir , agradecendo vocês OBRIGADO
Count Basie Orchestra..superb, amazing, extraordinary, phenomenal...I'm Brazilian Trumpet player, Bandleader of Dixie Swingers Jazz Band from Lindoia SP-BRAZIL 🇧🇷 November 2nd,2020 - 22:27 p.m 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
My son mentored with one of the trombonists. What a great player and teacher. He has passed on now, but one of the nicest guy you could ever meet. Greatly missed.
Remember his rendition of "Take the A Train" at the Blue Note in Chicago - 1956, I think - ( The Blue Note was one of our favorite hang-outs when we weren't studying at Illinois Tech )
I LOVE the fact that The Count didn't rate himself as a pianist. Ok, so maybe he didn't play at tornado speed but how many gigs have we been to where somebody can play at ten thousand miles an hour but it's got no feel
I have been to many Basie concerts, as I have to other Big Bands as Ellington, Herman, Hampton, - but it was only Basie who CONSISTENTLY thrilled by precision chills down the spine performances. I feel it were those incredible rhythm sections - with the amazing Freddie Green keeping that Basie beat so special. Difficult to recognize the young bass player - today holds Diana Krall's group together.
How blessed you have been "hommefriday" to go to all these concerts. I'm not sure, but I do think any of these greats are still living on this side of Heaven. Too bad. :( SYLVIA- FL
REMARKABLE DENNIS ROWLANDS. And as mentioned prev the clever person will notice the mistake the writer made re 'Nobody SEEMS To Care' Got it? Or not? Utube or not. You wont reform the people with music any more than you will by watching sport and giving money to Charites.(From Crrpt UK) Part of 1000 pp ignored
COUNT BASIE A TOUJOURS ÉTÉ UN GÉNIE DU MINIMALISME MUSICAL !!! EN PLUS DE PAR SA SIMPLICITÉ, SAVAIT AGGLUTINER D'AUTRES MUSCIANS GÉNIALES. MERCI POUR LA VIDEO. DIRECTEMENT DE SALAVOR-BRÉSIL = AUTOMN 2023
Piccolo moment at the end of sweet Georgia Brown is priceless! It’s a funny moment. Sounds like somebody flubbed it a little bit but who cares? This is the greatest big band of all time and they sound so great here in this fantastic video/concert.
In answering Oscar Peterson what was the difference between The Dukes Band and his, Basie humbly smiled 'Style'. The intro to Li'l Darlin' here is like an Albatros passing by in the Cape Hoorn mist with a twinkle in his eye. Majestic. Thankyou for this fine opportunity. 🌻
Eric Dixon, one of Canada's best exports; I played with him when Bucky Adams, he and I, did chase solos in Halifax during "BUSKERFEST", a "busker" festival in Halifax, Canada.
What has ever been better, (I imagine, said Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Berlioz and all the others...) for here is musicianship, instinctive teamwork, cameraderie, the whole heart and guts of very great art...
Love The Man, Count Basie. Saw him years Back to in Hollywood,Ca. Zardies. Amazingly So awesome, just About 16 or 17. Duke Ellington Would come too, Not together. Times werr so Much simpler 😪 😞 And so wonderful. Wonderful 👏 Memories. Thank you 😊 💓 ☺ Editorial genius. Love 💘 😻 💜
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Check out the first concert of bandleader/pianist William ‘Count’ Basie and his Count Basie Orchestra at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1979! ua-cam.com/video/fvHYtouG3hE/v-deo.html
World of Jazz yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
You did not!!
They were awesome
amazing
I was at that concert in Holland in 1979, I'm now nearly a hundred years old and was very fortunate to see this great band with all these wonderful musicians. That was another era, life goes on and that's all but gone.
Wow! God bless you warnerbeachful!!
I wish I was able to see him before he died :(
Yes. It had to have been one of the best big bands of all time. so much talent and so tight they were, and impeccably led. My thought was like everyone else that has seen and heard this incredible production, I wish I had been there. Envy rules. I was in Alaska for the first time, a young man of 24. Tell me it was one of the best live performances you ever witnessed, please?
@@markdierking9347 It was the most exciting concert at the North Sea Jazz Festival I had ever seen. The band was superb, absolute perfection. It was magical and a memory never to be forgotten.
@@warnerbeachful Thank-you. Just as I suspected. I will definitely come back to view again. cheers and good health to you.
Well, I'm back... When I want to hear a great band I ALWAYS come to Basie. My old band director said the sax section is the best in the business and as far as I'm concerned the band is beyond compare. I'm now 81 so why change when I've got a winner? Thank goodness for youtube where all the music is.. AND I come back to this concert because Butch Miles pushes the band with his awesome drumming..
All of this. As a young man (56) I would humbly like to expand. Basie wasn't just an amazing musician. That band he put together for his "second career" was absolutely amazing because of this ingenious mix of top graduate musicians with top veteran musicians. At a time when bands like The Ramones started to come up, and disco ruled all, he came with a force that even put the band into a movie (Blazing Saddles). Try and replicate this with a big band in the 1970s.
My Grandfather Count Basie Was A Good Man. Count Basie's Son Who Is My Dad Still Lives In Omaha Nebraska.
My Grandfather Basie Started In Omaha as A Young Child.
Please Look It Up. You'll Find Out Lot More About My Grandfather Basie.
I Have A Love For Music Because Of Grandfather Basie
Thank You For Showing This
Take Care
Wow
Your Grandfather was a national treasure.
@@nemo227
Thank You.
My Mother Tells Me I Get And Have My Love For Music And Talent From Grand Dad Basie.
Thank You So Much. I Wish He Were Still Alive.
How wonderful to hear from You! I'm going to get daddy's CDs of Basie and listen to them on my Bose!!
I'll be singing and swinging along to THE COUNT!!!! God BLESS You!
@@melodyfrankenfield2158
Thank You Very Much.
Enjoy Your Dad's Great Collection Of My Grand Dad's Music.
I'm With You In Spirit.
Again, Thanks.
Take Care.
At the age of 89 still love this eras music, I feel privileged.
Keep going Ray. Keep listening and youll hit 150 !! God Bless.
How wonderfully done ,so good that bonds generations apart ,keep at it sir I hope I get to you age and still rock theese incredible icons,God bless I'm here at 31 🙌
Mee too!....at the age of 81... no matter how old are you: jazz is jazz
I'm 82 but when I hear great jazz I feel a lot younger. Keep listening!
Me Too 89 ! Luck to have seen the band several times , once with the divine Sarah !
1:46 Sweet Georgia Brown
5:00 Blues for Stephanie
12:48 Jada
17:55 Basie Power
22:34 Lil Darlin
27:40 ????? ( Blues)
33:03 Watch What Happens
35:18 Everyday I Have The Blues
38:50 Work Song
42:52 Whirley Bird
53:38 Jumpin At The Woodside
17:55 Basie Power
42:52 Whirley Bird
@@michelsosnin5306 Thank you!
27:40 Random Blues
I believe the 27:40 is Bootie's Blue
27:40 Good time blues
Rip Butch Miles on drums. One of the best!
Indeed
Good music, Good players,my favorite
JAZZ Band. I'm 76 years old japanese.
What a rhythm section - Count, Freddie, John Clayton and Butch. Every time I listen to music I miss Count.
Between the ages of 6 and 14 we lived next door to 'Uncle Bill' and I miss him very much, that smile and the twinkle in his eyes. He was not only a grate musician but a wonderful friend and a true gentleman.
Basie....Simply the best the world has ever seen as a musician and also as a human being. Respect always from me.
There is something to the Count... he walks out onto stage and I’m immediately happy.. maybe because he is amazing
As a guitarist myself, I'm in awe of Freddie Green just sitting in the pocket OWNING the pocket!!! My gosh what a great show to see live!!!!
As a student from India in the 50s and 60s besides what one discovered and learnt at school and Collage the most amazing and everlasting discovery in the US was JAZZ.. Satchmo The Count Duke Glen Miller etc etc.After 4 decades my son presented me with a Record Player--very fancy on and I dug out the old 33RPMs from the store room. My collection of over 200 LPs has come alive and Viva la Jazz .. Its a love nobody can take away ! No doubt one of the top 5 contributions of my brothers and sisters from Africa which make America Great and a wonderful place. Indian Classical and Jazz have a lot in common...the same Soul undoubtedly. !!!
I was lucky enough to meet The Count and his lovely wife back stage after a performance in his later years. He and his wife were so gracious and friendly to my wife and I. He was truly a magnificent musician and his band watched him like a hawk for his suttle queues. I love the Big Band jazz and Swing sound.
As a Jamaicam-American, I have always loved Basie and now at 88 years old I still do. Duhaney.
I was brought up with Basie!!! Love him! Saw him many times live in Pennsylvania and New Jersey with my mom and dad. Dad was a professional musician, band leader, played 11 instruments, vocalist, arranger, and composer. I sang with his 18 piece Big Band for years and with his band within a band, "The PARKE FRANKENFIELD Dixieland All Stars."
I believe I was conceived when mom and dad were listening to Sinatra! I've said all this to say how this music is in my blood! I miss the Basie- led orchestra. Jitter bugging and singing his charts with daddy's band. Daddy's gone now, but I jokingly say, daddy and Basie are waiting for their chick singer! Won't be long guys!!
P.S. Basie wanted to adopt my gorgeous mother when he met her at a Bethlehem, PA DINNER club! Daddy said no!
Love your anecdote, Melody. it gives added life even now to The Count.
love this! Thank you!
What a great band. And it features the greatest practitioner of the art of rhythm guitar the master of time and space, Freddie Green!
What a legendary band.., highly gifted musicians, a clean sound and what an example of loyalty.., rythym guitarist Freddy Green., joined the Count's band as a young man and stayed with him till he turned grey. Long live the music of Basie and his wonderful orchestra.
At about 10' 10" there is some detailed close shots
where we can rather distinctly see and hear Freddy
GREEN acting a chord progression through his typical own way ( as some cello baritone voice ) . Rarely
detailed , so very interesting .
This had to be the ultimate big band of all time. Freddie Green , the heart , Basie the Soul . The whole band just JOY personified. I was fortunate to see the band back in the day.
At age 84 I enjoy this Music still very Much ! Pim Eijgenstein from Holland
Congratulations, I hope that you are still enjoying it at 100 years.
That beautiful rhythmic blending of piano, bass & drums with Freddie Green`s guitar was a wonderful thing. Basie`s band had it but nobody else. The way that Butch Miles tuned his Pearl drums was also really something. Thank you.
The way he played his drums was even more amazing!
I was at Dunkirk Jazz festival and saw Butch Miles tuning his drums for at least an hour before the band arrived on the stand. The Basie band had Jimmy Forrest on tenor that day.
I was 5 when this show took place. Am 49 now and love it. Thanks to my father 4 teaching me the world of original Jazz.
You may like Saint Andrew Jazz band
Grazie UA-cam di esistere e permettere di vivere dei momenti musicali di altissima qualità come il grande Count Basie e le sue orchestre ❤❤❤❤
Went with my dear friend Wallace Bishop (ex swing drummer in the Earl Hines b/band) to this concert in the Hague. We went back-stage, where Wally introduced me and we had a kind of birthday-party with the Count, his wife Cathy and band members. This story is to illustrate how fortunate i was to meet this iconic remarkable Jazz Artist, and who lead, by far, the best ever big band! Amazing experience, folks. G’day and a swing-fest Cheers!
Basie was the best!!! Such wonderful rhythm and tasteful riffs. I remember standing in front of the band, don't even remember where or when and letting that awesome sound just wash over me. Bill from Red Bank, New Jersey was the ultimate musician to me. I am 86 now and Big Band is still my favorite sound. Right now I am listening to Bill Withers on my Bose on the house and in the car Ray Charles with Basie. Long live jazz. Jazzlover Clare Witcomb
Pure heaven
what a great band! I had the pleasure of having Butch Miles sit in with our San Antonio Jazz Orchestra...he slayed everyone!😄
I first became aware of the Count Basie Orchestra when they performed "April in Paris" during Mel Brooks movie "Blazing Saddles". I became a fan right there and then. I love listening to their music every chance I get. The best of the best. That's the Count Basie Orchestra.
Thank you Mr.Count Basie. What a great Orchestra , One of the Fathers of big band jazz . The Avant garde , the swinging , Count Basie Orchestra, I`m near 70 and i can still to this day ., remember listening to him on radio with my Great Uncle coming up . Thanks for the great memories. You`ll never be forgotten.
At the grammys in LA, years ago, he asked me to sit next to him whilst conducting that fabulous band. I'll never forget that. ❤
La chance de l'avoir vu sur scène dans les annees 70 a Genève, au Victoria Hall..
Souvenir impérissable.
Merci.
I realize how fortunate that I was to be there for this.
Exceptional and historic performance.
What a feeling!
How long did the actual concert go on for ? This show as it appears here was likely edited to fit the constraints of network TV.
My parents if lived born in 1924 see ya, kid. Many blessings...
The ONLY reason anyone could legitimately give this a thumb's down is because the concert doesn't last for a few days. Otherwise, Count had the best, swinginest big band ever.
@@MyRackley We enjoyed Basie on 78 rpm discs.
My father did. I must say, not to shabby by any means. Thankyou, so much! Michael
Браво ! Мастера ! Спасибо , кто сохранил и разместил ! Потрясающе !
Now, that’s jazz, tasteful, swinging “pat your foot” bigband, never surpassed.
Thanks for posting . Unforgettable Count Basie .
I feel I have come home. My stepdaddy loved BASIE. I treasure my love of my step-dad who held an unquestionably excellence for A HERALDED music style that is only COUNT BASIE...an era that takes me to a warmer time that was sophisticated, relaxed, and genius. RIP ARTIE, how you must be living a high life with BASIE on his 'One Note Style' in the GLORY of HEAVENLY JAZZ. Thank you, Mr. BASIE. 🎼🎹♥️
Да эти исполнители и великий Каунт достойны славы небесного джаза
I hope people will continue to appreciate this kind of sound.
We can appreciate good and wholesome music. Thank you so much! "
My first Jazz/Blues concert was in 1969 in Barcelona Palau de la Musica with Count Basie and just four days afterwords I attended a concert by Duke Ellington orchestra, thanks to these wonderful artists I’ve been in contact with other wonderful legends such as BBKing, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Òscar Peterson, Nina Simone, Dione Warwick, Ray Charles, etc, I consider myself soooo lucky to have seen them all in live performances!
Such a powerful band, as strong as in the old days. The Count of Basie!
He understood swing! Period! A man of few notes when needed an He new he didn’t need the abundance of notes to groove and swing. Others felt they did but yet he still was able to make them swing. Amazing!!! 🤗👍🏼
Just outstanding, I love Count Basie's Music, what a sound, you just don't hear this anymore in 2020...I .was fortunate to attend some of his concerts in my life, bring back Count Basie please...
Eliah Eliyah: I am so grateful to see your post! I used to play Tenor sax in jazz bands, and we always had a lot of The Count's music. Most arrangements were from Sammy Nestico. Followed the music almost all my life. I was going to work and had to pull over on the freeway when they announced his passing. A Great Man!!!
Greetings from Canada. Love Basie, one of the greatest bands. Period. Had a jazz band myself when in Florida. Played once at a rich people's area, included Mara Lago, featuring our Barefoot Bay Big Band, which was having a "Jazz Festival"; we were the featured band. They paid us with T-shirts only; that's how the rich get richer. Still have the shirts. John M. Hill,author.
I saw Count Basie at the Royal Albert Hall back in 1976 when he was on his European tour loved ever minute of it
Some years later, when Frank Foster was leading (essentially the same) band, I sat in the 3rd row center of the Greek in LA .. the compression wave when they were blowing and grooving was a lifetime experience ..
What a pleasure to hear these musical greats performing. Thanks
When you say Count Basie and Jazz, you've said it all. It'll never be better than this.
One of the best drummers in US history-Butch Miles
I totally agree with you dear Robert !!
Let's not forget Rufus "Speedy" Jones who played with Count Basie and did the solo
"Whirlybird". SYLVIA - FL 11-7-2018
Joey Audino says Butch is one of the KINGS. That’s right he’s that amazing
right- and a nice guy...
Eddie Metz, Jr is a long-time fellow musician who played in daddy's big band orchestra on some gigs. . . Anyway, he played with Basie's band as the drummer for awhile after Basie passed. He now has his own kickass trio that plays all over the world! FANTASTIC DRUMMER AND JASS GROUP. LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE.
Love swing. Great to see them perform instead of just hear. Have worn through my 88 Basie street vinyl. Fantastic music.
I was very fortunate to meet the Count and these wonderful orchestra members.❤
Shook the hand of Count Basie during a UK tour in the 1970's, signed the programme along with several band members... the greatest band and I was lucky to see them live.
Butch Miles is a beast. King of timing.
Thanks a ton for posting this. The Count was an American treasure.
Граф всемирное сокровище
Wow! The best big band ever.......along with Buddy Rich and Rob McConnell of course but these guys are just amazing. And yes, they swing!
Nice1 World of Jazz...Very Glad to have the opportunity to Feel All That Jazz...
Apart from all of the unsurpassable comments below, WHAT AN OUTSTANDING DRESS SENSE HE HAS! THAT SUIT SWINGS!
Eu tive a honrra de ouvir esta maguinifica banda do verdadeiro Jazz nos anos 54 58 que jamais sera imitada hoje com 83 não deicho de ouvir , agradecendo vocês OBRIGADO
Simply the best. No other way to say it.
Count Basie Orchestra..superb, amazing, extraordinary, phenomenal...I'm Brazilian Trumpet player, Bandleader of Dixie Swingers Jazz Band from Lindoia SP-BRAZIL 🇧🇷 November 2nd,2020 - 22:27 p.m 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
Absolument magistral, notamment le vocaliste est inclassable ! le top du top de la classe absolue.... Nostalgie ....
My son mentored with one of the trombonists. What a great player and teacher. He has passed on now, but one of the nicest guy you could ever meet. Greatly missed.
This is the music you will hear when you go to Heaven .. greatest swing big band ever ..
Remember his rendition of "Take the A Train" at the Blue Note in Chicago - 1956, I think - ( The Blue Note was one of our favorite hang-outs when we weren't studying at Illinois Tech )
J'ai eu la chance d'assister, une semaine après en 79, au concert Count Basie à Juan Les Pins Antibes. Quel moment !!!!!!
Оркестр-звезда мирового джаза.Культура, солисты, слушать одно удовольствие.Супер, браво.
A tsunami of incredible sounds!
It was a great world with all these people in it . . .
Wonderfull Orchestra
So subtle...humor, irony, charm fantasy a discovery for me 'pushin' 79 +...
Maravilloso, grandes maestros, gracias por tener la oportunidad de verlos por este medio, mil gracias....
I LOVE the fact that The Count didn't rate himself as a pianist. Ok, so maybe he didn't play at tornado speed but how many gigs have we been to where somebody can play at ten thousand miles an hour but it's got no feel
This was what America was for me.
I have been to many Basie concerts, as I have to other Big Bands as Ellington, Herman, Hampton, - but it was only Basie who CONSISTENTLY thrilled by precision chills down the spine performances. I feel it were those incredible rhythm sections - with the amazing Freddie Green keeping that Basie beat so special. Difficult to recognize the young bass player - today holds Diana Krall's group together.
Bass player is John Clayton, who now co-leads the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and has for quite a while, with much less hair as he might say.
How blessed you have been "hommefriday" to go to all these concerts. I'm not sure, but I
do think any of these greats are still living on this side of Heaven. Too bad. :( SYLVIA- FL
@@rmo52 He's an incredible musician too.
There really is something about HIS sound... You're right, the others are great, but the Count is special.
Such a great bandleader and band
Wat een geweldig orkest. Ik mocht erbij zijn in '79 en ik zal het nooit vergeten
I remember...I was there too ! And it was unbelievable !
REMARKABLE DENNIS ROWLANDS. And as mentioned prev the clever person will notice the mistake the writer made re 'Nobody SEEMS To Care' Got it? Or not? Utube or not. You wont reform the people with music any more than you will by watching sport and giving money to Charites.(From Crrpt UK) Part of 1000 pp ignored
Sem palavras. Count não deixa pra ninguém.
That Flutist!🤩 Wowie! What an amazing ensemble!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Great share my friend‼️ Thanks so much :-)
COUNT BASIE A TOUJOURS ÉTÉ UN GÉNIE DU MINIMALISME MUSICAL !!! EN PLUS DE PAR SA SIMPLICITÉ, SAVAIT AGGLUTINER D'AUTRES MUSCIANS GÉNIALES. MERCI POUR LA VIDEO. DIRECTEMENT DE SALAVOR-BRÉSIL = AUTOMN 2023
Great, thank you for sharing
Piccolo moment at the end of sweet Georgia Brown is priceless! It’s a funny moment. Sounds like somebody flubbed it a little bit but who cares? This is the greatest big band of all time and they sound so great here in this fantastic video/concert.
In answering Oscar Peterson what was the difference between The Dukes Band and his, Basie humbly smiled 'Style'. The intro to Li'l Darlin' here is like an Albatros passing by in the Cape Hoorn mist with a twinkle in his eye. Majestic. Thankyou for this fine opportunity. 🌻
Count Basie is Count Basie and his Orchestra is his Orchestra ❤
FANTASTIC!!!!
20,000 thumbs up. This is MUSIC.
Wonderful !!!
Great job.. especially the brass section..
j'adore c'est magnifique bravo quel talent
Eric Dixon, one of Canada's best exports; I played with him when Bucky Adams, he and I, did chase solos in Halifax during "BUSKERFEST", a "busker" festival in Halifax, Canada.
Just been looking at the program for the 1981 North Sea Fest. 3 Days of Jazz heaven!
I liked the Count since I was 16 years old.
What has ever been better, (I imagine, said Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Berlioz and all the others...) for here is musicianship, instinctive teamwork, cameraderie, the whole heart and guts of very great art...
Basie's is my favorite big band of all time. This is one of the best lineups!!!!
I was at that concert. Met and spoke to the Count in the lobby of the Bel-Air hotel. Shook his hand.
Amazing
Lucky you.
Everything I've heard about him says he was nice man.
Я вам завидую белой завистью вы благословенны
Me: Enjoying this immensely... Just wow
UA-cam: "Let's throw in some obnoxious mid-tune commercials and see how much you like it now"
Count Basie e os seus sapatos preto e branco. A cor da Terra e dos Céus.
Muitas saudades Count. Obrigado!
Love The Man,
Count Basie.
Saw him years
Back to in
Hollywood,Ca.
Zardies. Amazingly
So awesome, just
About 16 or 17.
Duke Ellington
Would come too,
Not together.
Times werr so
Much simpler 😪 😞
And so wonderful.
Wonderful 👏
Memories.
Thank you 😊 💓 ☺
Editorial genius. Love 💘 😻 💜
Hello Elaine