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[Durium]

SOUND OF JAZZ

This film looks great to me.

Sound of Jazz

Keep swinging

Durium

[Sundog]

I think I may have posted this before. These guys have new release promised for later this year. Can't wait!

Stefan Lievestro 6

[Aggie87]

[Sundog]

This is a fun one...

Jaco & Sco "The Chicken"

[aparxa]

I enjoyed this one :

[Sundog]

Very nice...

[Chas]

I posted Tony Williams' drum solo from this performance earlier in this thread , but here is the complete performance of Stan Getz , Chick Corea , Stanley Clarke and Tony Williams doing Corea's " Times Lie " at Montreux July 23 , 1972 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnjakwFeTU

[(BB)]

A game for the whole family

[aparxa]

MUSICAT !!!

[Free For All]

Star Wars from Hell

Hard to say which is worse, the trumpet playing or the dance moves.

[Jim Alfredson]

[Joe G]

Star Wars from Hell

Hard to say which is worse, the trumpet playing or the dance moves.

YAOW! And just when you thought it couldn't get worse, it gets worse. I'm sure the guys in the pit orchestra carried on about that performance for months. And now Stacy's nightmare lives on, thanks to youtube.

[Big Wheel]

I thought these Steely Dan clips were pretty cool: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CH0JpBzi68E . There is also a segment on "Aja" with Wayne discussing his role in the session.

[Larry Kart]

Lockjaw with Basie:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8u6t7jWtLs

Hide the woman and children.

Also, do you know that Scottish tenorman, Lochjaw Davis?

[JSngry]

Lockjaw with Basie:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8u6t7jWtLs

The casual horn toss @ 2:04 tells you all you need to know.

[Larry Kart]

Lockjaw with Basie:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8u6t7jWtLs

The casual horn toss @ 2:04 tells you all you need to know.

You bet.

[JSngry]

A few of us tenor geeks around here have a phrase for the Jaws/Griff records, and for Jaws' playing in general - Big Dick Tenor. It just seems....appropriate.

You ever see the Swingtime video of Basie w/Leon Thomas doing "Shake, Rattle, & Roll". This is 65-66 or so, before Leon broke out. Jaws steps up front, plays a totally wicked solo, and then goes back to his seat by stepping over his music stand - backwards, and hardly looking down, if at all. It's as nonchalant a badass move as any I've ever seen.

Big Dick Tenor indeed!

[Larry Kart]

A few of us tenor geeks around here have a phrase for the Jaws/Griff records, and for Jaws' playing in general - Big Dick Tenor. It just seems....appropriate.

You ever see the Swingtime video of Basie w/Leon Thomas doing "Shake, Rattle, & Roll". This is 65-66 or so, before Leon broke out. Jaws steps up front, plays a totally wicked solo, and then goes back to his seat by stepping over his music stand - backwards, and hardly looking down, if at all. It's as nonchalant a badass move as any I've ever seen.

Big Dick Tenor indeed!

No, I never at that one. Where can it be found?

[catesta]

Larry, that Lockjaw was the shit, thanks for finding it.

[Larry Kart]

More on the "Big Dick" flourish that Jaws did in that clip and that Jim mentioned -- from

http://www.jazzwax.com/2007/08/index.html

Lockjaw Davis was a confident, no-nonsense tenor saxophonist whose sound was infused with a raw, roadhouse sense of the blues. Lockjaw knew only one way—a full, rich, exciting sound that was both relentless and soulful. He also had an entertainer's knack for the dramatic, handling his tenor as though it were made of balsa wood. As Lockjaw explained in Stanley Dance's The World of Count Basie (1980), there was a reason why he always gave his tenor a little heave after every solo:

"I deliberately handle the horn the way I do, to show I'm its master! I've always noticed how delicately so many tenor players handle it, as though it were fragile, as though it commanded them. I try to show that I have command of the horn at all times, whether I'm playing or just holding it. You take charge, it's yours, and I want the audience to feel I'm in complete command. Otherwise you can give the impression the horn is too big for you, whether you play it well or not. The visual impression is quite important."

[JSngry]

A few of us tenor geeks around here have a phrase for the Jaws/Griff records, and for Jaws' playing in general - Big Dick Tenor. It just seems....appropriate.

You ever see the Swingtime video of Basie w/Leon Thomas doing "Shake, Rattle, & Roll". This is 65-66 or so, before Leon broke out. Jaws steps up front, plays a totally wicked solo, and then goes back to his seat by stepping over his music stand - backwards, and hardly looking down, if at all. It's as nonchalant a badass move as any I've ever seen.

Big Dick Tenor indeed!

No, I never at that one. Where can it be found?

Good question.

There was a series of VHS things from the early days of same called The Big Bands, Volume XXX. The company was called, iirc, Swingtime Videos. I've got three of them, and the bands are Basie, Ellington, Lionel Hampton, & Harry James. All clips come form a TV show called (again, iirc) Meet The Bands, and all have the bands playing for Lawrence-Welk-crowd-type dancers. There is no host, at least in these clips, and the bandleaders themself do the emceeing.

This is pretty valuable footage, I think. The bands all are in top form. Ellington in particular is a trip as he pullls numbers that nobody can dance to (the selections from Timon of Athens seem to particularly baffle the crowd...), act like everything's normal, and then goes right back into something danceable. That man was the ultimate...The Ultimate, period. The Basie footage cooms from two different shows, one w/Lockjaw (and as mentioned above, Leon Thomas), and the other with Sal Nistico in the section (and featured on a few numbers). Hamp's band has Ronnie Cuber strretching out all over the place in that wonderfully badass swinging mofo way that he did back then, and James gives you Buddy Rich. an electric piano, band choreography, Uncle Fester on bass (it's really Red Kelley, but it looks like Uncle Fester) and a Thad Jones arrangement of "Tuxedo Junction".

Who, I ask, could ask for anything more?

Now here's the thing - damn near everything has either been YouTubed or DVD-ed by now. But I've never seen this footage anywhere else. Gotta be a story here somewhere, both about the source and the videos. But damned if I've been able to find it.

[marcello]

There was a series of VHS things from the early days of same called The Big Bands, Volume XXX. The company was called, iirc, Swingtime Videos. I've got three of them, and the bands are Basie, Ellington, Lionel Hampton, & Harry James. All clips come form a TV show called (again, iirc) Meet The Bands, and all have the bands playing for Lawrence-Welk-crowd-type dancers. There is no host, at least in these clips, and the bandleaders themself do the emceeing.

This is pretty valuable footage, I think. The bands all are in top form. Ellington in particular is a trip as he pullls numbers that nobody can dance to (the selections from Timon of Athens seem to particularly baffle the crowd...), act like everything's normal, and then goes right back into something danceable. That man was the ultimate...The Ultimate, period. The Basie footage cooms from two different shows, one w/Lockjaw (and as mentioned above, Leon Thomas), and the other with Sal Nistico in the section (and featured on a few numbers). Hamp's band has Ronnie Cuber strretching out all over the place in that wonderfully badass swinging mofo way that he did back then..

Now here's the thing - damn near everything has either been YouTubed or DVD-ed by now. But I've never seen this footage anywhere else. Gotta be a story here somewhere, both about the source and the videos. But damned if I've been able to find it.

I have both the Ellington and the Hampton on VHS. If I remember correctly, they were made at either The Blue Note or Mr. Kelly's in Chicago.

Thanks for pointing out the music on the Ellington. It has always stuck in my mind.

In the middle of the set, Duke pulls out a couple of his most progressive 60's songs to the total bafflement to the dancers in front of the band. The guy sure had balls! It's great music.

The Hampton is memorable to me because it has Vinnie Ruggiero playing drums, and swinging like mad!

I'll try to find them in the archives.

[marcello]

I see, they are on one cassett:

SWINGTIME VIDEO. No. 101, Meet the Bandleaders--Basie, Hampton,

Ellington.

Copyright Collection

Swingtime Video, 1984.

Producer: Wally Heider.

46 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette. VAC 9041

Filmed in 1964, Count Basie and his Orchestra perform their theme,

"April in Paris," "Big Brother" (with Marshall Royal), "Git" (with

Leon Thomas), "I Can't Stop Loving You," "Jumpin' at the Woodside"

and "This Could Be the Start of Something Big." Lionel Hampton and

his Orchestra play "Airmail Special," "Broadway," "Cute" and

"Hamp's Boogie Woogie." Duke Ellington and his Orchestra give

their renditions of "Do Nothin' `til You Hear from Me" (introduced

as "Amato" and featuring Lawrence Brown), "Prowling Cat," "Rockin'

in Rhythm," "Satin Doll" and "Take the A Train." The last two

orchestras were filmed in 1965.

EDIT: This is the one!

SWINGTIME VIDEO. No. 108, Meet the Bandleaders--Ellington, Basie,

Hampton.

Copyright Collection

Swingtime Video, 1984.

Producer: Wally Heider.

47 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette. VAC 9047

A compilation and re-editing of previously filmed performances from

1965. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra play "Afro Bosso," "Fly Me

to the Moon" (with Cootie Williams), "Never on Sunday" (with Jimmy

Hamilton), "Step in Time" (with John Lamb) and

"Supercalifragillisticexpialidocious" (with Paul Gonsalves). Count

Basie and his Orchestra play "Blues for Ilene" (with Al Aarons and

Eric Dixon), "I Needs to Be Be'd With" (with Al Gray), "Shake,

Rattle and Roll" (with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Leon Thomas) and

"Shiny Stockings" (with Phil Guilbeau and Rufus Jones). Lionel

Hampton and his Orchestra perform "Georgia on My Mind" (with

Pinocchio James) and "Flying Home" (with Ronnie Cuber and Billy

Mackel).

Edited October 13, 2007 by marcello

[marcello]

And lastly:

SWINGTIME VIDEO. No. 111, Meet the Bandleaders--Basie, Ellington,

James.

Copyright Collection

Swingtime Video, 1984.

Producer: Wally Heider.

50 mins., black & white, 1/2" videocassette. VAC 9050

Count Basie and his Orchestra perform "All of Me," "Corner Pocket"

and "Pleasingly Plump" in a 1964 excerpt. Duke Ellington and his

Orchestra play the numbers "Banquet Theme," "Cottontail,"

"Caravan/I Got It Bad Medley," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore,"

"I'm Beginning to See the Light," "Mood Indigo," "Skillipoop,"

"Sophisticated Lady" and "Tutti for Cootie." Harry James and his

Orchestra play "Don't Be That Way," "Prelude to a Kiss" (with Corky

Corcoran), "Rainbow Kiss," "Sunday Morning," "Two O'Clock Jump" and

"Walk on the Wild Side" (with Red Kelly and Buddy Rich).

See this page

Edited October 13, 2007 by marcello

[Aggie87]

Here's a

that someone took and set to Porcupine Tree's "Collapse the Light Into Earth", that (I think) fits the song perfectly. It's simple, but I can't stop watching it.