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
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..
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.
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.
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
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 🙌
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.
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 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.
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 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!
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!
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 .
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.
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.
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 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. 🎼🎹♥️
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.
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!
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
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 )
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.
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...
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 ..
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.
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 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Interestingly, the original Teddy Reig-produced sessions that gave Lil’ Darlin’ was originally penned by Hefti as an uptempo number and during the studio recordings the playback wasn’t going well. Reig girlfriend, a dancer, suggested a very slow tempo for ‘Darlin’ and, to humor the producer’s girlfriend, gave the tune the treatment we hear today. It was a huge hit for Basie/Hefti. We covered the song in stage-band, it’s like pulling taffy with the tempo.
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.
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
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. 🌻
His bands and small groups were a rare example of a band that was super "tight" but cvould really open up. I saw them in a high school gym in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1971(?) and they were as good as their best recordings. Times wwere tough then for jazz musicians; hence the venue. They played for over two hours. Check out "The Bosses" -- Basie and Big Joe Turner. A near-perfect disc.
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 💘 😻 💜
When it comes to a rhythm section this one is a definition. I don't know where to start. Freddie Green is a rock (NOT rock and roll) on which it is built. John Clayton elevates the bass, and Butch Miles makes it all happen. What is there left to say about the Count. He can say more just playing a rest than most others can using ten fingers. Every note he plays fits and adds to it all.
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.
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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
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..
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.
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.
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
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 !
Good music, Good players,my favorite
JAZZ Band. I'm 76 years old japanese.
There is something to the Count... he walks out onto stage and I’m immediately happy.. maybe because he is amazing
Basie....Simply the best the world has ever seen as a musician and also as a human being. Respect always from me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As a Jamaicam-American, I have always loved Basie and now at 88 years old I still do. Duhaney.
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. !!!
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!!!!
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!
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!
My parents if lived born in 1924 see ya, kid. Many blessings...
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 .
We can appreciate good and wholesome music. Thank you so much! "
What a great band. And it features the greatest practitioner of the art of rhythm guitar the master of time and space, Freddie Green!
Grazie UA-cam di esistere e permettere di vivere dei momenti musicali di altissima qualità come il grande Count Basie e le sue orchestre ❤❤❤❤
what a great band! I had the pleasure of having Butch Miles sit in with our San Antonio Jazz Orchestra...he slayed everyone!😄
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.
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.
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 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
I hope people will continue to appreciate this kind of sound.
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
Absolument magistral, notamment le vocaliste est inclassable ! le top du top de la classe absolue.... Nostalgie ....
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.
I was very fortunate to meet the Count and these wonderful orchestra members.❤
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!
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
Браво ! Мастера ! Спасибо , кто сохранил и разместил ! Потрясающе !
What a pleasure to hear these musical greats performing. Thanks
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 )
Such a powerful band, as strong as in the old days. The Count of Basie!
I saw Count Basie at the Royal Albert Hall back in 1976 when he was on his European tour loved ever minute of it
Love swing. Great to see them perform instead of just hear. Have worn through my 88 Basie street vinyl. Fantastic music.
My father did. I must say, not to shabby by any means. Thankyou, so much! Michael
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.
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!!! 🤗👍🏼
Thanks for posting . Unforgettable Count Basie .
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.
La chance de l'avoir vu sur scène dans les annees 70 a Genève, au Victoria Hall..
Souvenir impérissable.
Merci.
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!
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...
Now, that’s jazz, tasteful, swinging “pat your foot” bigband, never surpassed.
Butch Miles is a beast. King of timing.
Apart from all of the unsurpassable comments below, WHAT AN OUTSTANDING DRESS SENSE HE HAS! THAT SUIT SWINGS!
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 ..
Nice1 World of Jazz...Very Glad to have the opportunity to Feel All That Jazz...
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.
It was a great world with all these people in it . . .
Great job.. especially the brass section..
That Flutist!🤩 Wowie! What an amazing ensemble!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
So subtle...humor, irony, charm fantasy a discovery for me 'pushin' 79 +...
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 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
When you say Count Basie and Jazz, you've said it all. It'll never be better than this.
This was what America was for me.
Оркестр-звезда мирового джаза.Культура, солисты, слушать одно удовольствие.Супер, браво.
Wat een geweldig orkest. Ik mocht erbij zijn in '79 en ik zal het nooit vergeten
Basie's is my favorite big band of all time. This is one of the best lineups!!!!
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.
J'ai eu la chance d'assister, une semaine après en 79, au concert Count Basie à Juan Les Pins Antibes. Quel moment !!!!!!
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.
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.
A tsunami of incredible sounds!
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
This is the music you will hear when you go to Heaven .. greatest swing big band ever ..
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
Interestingly, the original Teddy Reig-produced sessions that gave Lil’ Darlin’ was originally penned by Hefti as an uptempo number and during the studio recordings the playback wasn’t going well. Reig girlfriend, a dancer, suggested a very slow tempo for ‘Darlin’ and, to humor the producer’s girlfriend, gave the tune the treatment we hear today. It was a huge hit for Basie/Hefti.
We covered the song in stage-band, it’s like pulling taffy with the tempo.
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.
Maravilloso, grandes maestros, gracias por tener la oportunidad de verlos por este medio, mil gracias....
Such a great bandleader and band
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.
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. 🌻
Great, thank you for sharing
Wonderfull Orchestra
His bands and small groups were a rare example of a band that was super "tight" but cvould really open up. I saw them in a high school gym in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1971(?) and they were as good as their best recordings. Times wwere tough then for jazz musicians; hence the venue. They played for over two hours.
Check out "The Bosses" -- Basie and Big Joe Turner. A near-perfect disc.
Yes, and another great drummer on that--Louis Bellson!
Great share my friend‼️ Thanks so much :-)
Старый добрый джаз , здОрово , обалденно , красотища , душевно , потрясающе ! Огромная благодарность кто сохранил и разместил !
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
When it comes to a rhythm section this one is a definition. I don't know where to start. Freddie Green is a rock (NOT rock and roll) on which it is built. John Clayton elevates the bass, and Butch Miles
makes it all happen. What is there left to say about the Count. He can say more just playing a rest than most others can using ten fingers. Every note he plays fits and adds to it all.
Freddie Green a legend in The Count Basie Orquestra
Listening to that … I say to myself what a wonderful world … 🤗
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.
Thanks a ton for posting this. The Count was an American treasure.
Граф всемирное сокровище
Count Basie is Count Basie and his Orchestra is his Orchestra ❤
RIP Drummer Butch Miles. He passed away this year 2023. Feb.
Just been looking at the program for the 1981 North Sea Fest. 3 Days of Jazz heaven!
When the mic cuts out!! He just shrugs it off and keeps going.
Paully Cohen, Butch Miles!! SAmmy Nestico arrangrements
20,000 thumbs up. This is MUSIC.
puis pour finir avec Count Basie ce concert que je trouve sublime bonne écoute sans vous parler ce cet homme merveilleux que j'aime & j'adore 💕
I liked the Count since I was 16 years old.