Artie Shaw - Alone Together

[@johnfury6481]

My favorite of all of Artie’s bands over the years.

[@joelok48]

Arthur Shaw. The coolest guy who ever lived. I was born in the wrong era. I really hate these times.

[@4Topwood]

Same here. In my personal life, I'm content. But I look at the times I live in and I just hate them, everything about them. The videos like this on KZbin are the only thing that make them bearable.

[@eddiereedbigband1]

Artie was finest of the big band leaders in so many ways, too many ways to mention here. His most impressive achievement was that he accomplished so much while performing miraculously on the clarinet. Any professional clarinet player will tell you, the way Artie played was nothing less than MIRACULOUS !

[@generationll]

This is so much vintage Artie Shaw.His magical clarinet and the saxophones playing here make t that way.

[@annanoli]

With a rhythm section like this you'll never miss a note,even with highly syncopated charts

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

Music of a time we will never see again.

[@profitleads]

Artie paid more than most of the big band leaders of that era and attracted the top musicians in the country. Nobody else quite like him; a real innovator who was never happy to stand still. He was always pushing the envelope. His bands were so well synchronized. Definitely several cuts above the 3-chord merchants of contemporary times.

[@robertaquilina3848]

music of today dosent come close to this masterpiece rip artie shaw you made so many people happy

[@templemu]

I love this song so much, oozes with style; the sophsiticated best; yes. wonderful surprise to have it on youtube

[@Gxyz222]

Mere words can't describe how incredible all of these men were and still are! Led by the ever iconic, strict yet soulful Arthur Arshawskie!

[@monicabella7894]

Gxyz222 best comment!

[@williamengfer2504]

My mom always played big band during the war, so I was programmed to love it. And, no one compares to Artie Shaw.I went to an Artie Shaw concert with my mom in 1984. He introduced each song. The band was great. They sounded like my LP records. He signed her copy of his book. "The trouble with Cinderella".

[@4Topwood]

What a great memory. Thanks for sharing.

[@Ingvar-qn2hz]

He mustve mellowed

[@moldyoldie7888]

@@Ingvar-qn2hz I asked for his autograph in 1999. No luck.

[@2coryman]

Buffed and refined with the unmatched flare of Artie Shaw, deserves the attention just Amazing

[@Corrie121]

Music ! Real music!! Just wonderful !! Thank you for sharing.

[@BOHEMIANMEX]

Thats what I call "Music with class"

[@elizabethwilliams7790]

Wonderful ! 💕

[@bigcity233]

This is one Schwarz and Deitz's best songs...Artie Shaw's arrangement is amazing. He recorded this on an RCA (or Bluebird) 78.

[@fiveanddimer]

This music is timeless. When I listen, I can't tell whether I'm in 1939 or 2013.

[@scotnick59]

Or 2019!

[@norisna]

@@scotnick59 Or 2020! My God. y love Artie and his clarinet and his interpretations. I love him, the best clarinetist! in 1939 or 2020 and for ever!

[@leeming1234]

Or 2022

[@bigcity233]

Artie Shaw (The "Shawman") -- One of the GREATS! Fabulous performance of a great song by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz! Hearing this live must have been sensational. Artie Shaw performed live at the NY Paramount Theater (same location as today's Hard Rock Cafe) and at Hotel Lincoln (later known as the Milford Plaza) in NYC.

[@garyrob58]

Dear Annanoli, Thank you for mentioning my Dad Les Robinson...lead alto for Shaw's band on all recordings (Begin the Beguine band) from '37-39. You're right about the high notes. Hank & my Dad blended real well on all the recordings in New York & Los Angeles. Sincerely, Gary Robinson

[@albertwgray]

My dad Jerry Gray was there also

[@albiondi4078]

Les Robinson was one of the greatest lead alto sax players of all time hands down

[@leeming1234]

Les Robinson and Jerry Gray, two legends also.

[@moldyoldie7888]

Mr. Robinson, are you still with us? I bet you have stories to tell.

[@palamambron]

Yes he had the best of everything--instrumentalists, vocalists arrangers and Artie himself.

[@ianboard544]

Yes! The major chord at the end is the happy ending - keeps it from being too melancholy. Its genius.

[@roybo1930]

Lou, Oh! This is just FANTASTIC indeed! The rhythm is just to die for. Thank You so much for sharing this masterpeice with me.

[@hudent]

this is so beautiful and I love rock and jazz and all else ,but this is the best of the best in its purity..is so good I get thrills in my whole body everytime I watch this short,call me corny I don't care..take care

[@janosdertrompeter998]

Thanks, Artie! Thanks, Halleys4th, for the upload!

[@2coryman]

hmmmmmmmm Amazing Artie Shaw

[@TheInboil]

there is a hypnotic syrup that this music creates. I love to compare this to Fats and his Rhythm, or should i say, parallel them. Those brothers tore the ass out of swing music. such different approaches, and both such a great example of this countrys past

[@valentinkuzmin9810]

Замечательный оркестр и исполнители таких сейчаснет и не будет от таких импровизаций стынет кровь в жилах хотя пршло сто лет

[@reececleaver958]

brilliant.i loved it even more when Judy sung it

[@janprimus]

The guitar holds it all together. He is very solid. I am not sure who played with Artie though...

[@ABrandsma]

This is great. Playing is great, acoustics is great. Young Buddy Rich on drums... just wow. In fact this was at that date the best big band in the business. In 1939 Benny Goodman had lost several key stars. Duke Ellington had not yet got his excellent line up together. (I mean with Ben Webster and Jimmy Blanton) On Oh Lady Be Good from this year Artie even outswings the Basie band! The only sad thing is that Artie had this for a very short time.

[@ggforeigner]

whao..I think I remember my Dad had this vinyl soooo long ago...thanks!!

[@sarahknight5249]

What a dream! xx

[@Exilatus]

I love the ending so much

[@cannonballblues]

Artie`s tone is beautiful.Sounds similar to my favorite clarinet-group OK-Dreamband. CD "Clarinet-Dreams" is available for download (iTunes, amazon).

[@farmerjbird]

I like Hank's sax, he does some really great solos and gets to shine in Glenn miller's Army Air Force Band!

[@ABrandsma]

I was more discussing the bands they had at that time. Although I'm not too impressed by the commercial recordings, the Artie Shaw big band in live broadcasts and on these soundies to me plays better then any other band in that year, 1939. But if we compare the players I can go along with you for a large part, except of course the most upper register. What Artie achieves there, I mean the ease and melodic logic, was never equalled. I prefer his sound as well, but that is just personal. BB

[@hudent]

so much fluidity is amazing...and Buddy Rich is not too bad either really beautriful

[@annanoli]

well.Lead Alto was Les Robinson. this is a matter of records.Then look at their hands on top notes. Les is always playing the higher one. I say this because i am a sax player too. Loved Hank as well,especially for the big work with aaf band

[@trudylocke1191]

How many miles did my darling and I dance to this? One of our favorites.

[@w.a.coster1411]

Dit is pas muziek waar melodie in zit, geweldig.

[@dimitarstoev1364]

WUNDERBAR!!! WIE IN PARADIESD

[@XE1GXG]

Saludos desde México!

[@ernestofalzone]

el pasaje parte b tiene la misma melodía que Petite Fleur de Bechet, ahora vemos en donde se inspiró....

[@annanoli]

well. Petit fleur was composed after 1949 in France...Schwartz and Dietz introduced Alone Together in 1932.. what Sidney Bechet could have said???

[@bigcity233]

@mokacode Yes...that would be a classic scene...also, Bogie was very good at portraying heartbreak in these types of scenes - since he had first-hand experience with it in real life.

[@DeweyMaxx]

@lagaviaswordfish Yes. Georgie Auld is the other tenor. One of the greats.

[@valentinkuzmin9810]

Один из непревзойденных оранжировщйков 19 столетия таких оркестров такого состава такой интерпретации не было и не будет

[@jazzgirl1986]

From 0:58 to 1:13, it sounds like Petit Fleur :-)... Oh, oh, what would Sidney Bechet think about it? :-) But maybe, the question is, what was earlier...

[@garyrob58]

A lot of the musicans became studio musicians (movies, tv, antimated music) after the Big Band era. But, once rock started in the 60's, it became tougher for them to make a living. But, in the late 30's and early 40's, the musicians did rather well withy Shaw, Goodman, ect.

[@bblegacy]

Don't kid yourself. Many of the Swing Era band veterans from the top bands like Goodman, Shaw, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey were working hard in the Hollywood and New York movie, television and record label recording studios as very highly in-demand studio musicians, from the real birth of TV by 1950 well into the 1970s and even 1980s. They were among the free-lancing "Wrecking Crew" stand-bys when "someone" needed horn players, etc. on record dates, and many others spent the rest of their lives working in the big showrooms in Las Vegas that still had the 15, 20, 25+ piece bands in the casinos backing up all the entertainers (as well as in smaller bands in all the cocktail lounges). Among Shaw's crew here - Johnny Best and Les Robinson in LA and Hank Freeman and Harry Rodgers becoming mainstays in many Broadway orchestra pits throughout the Golden Era of 1950s-1970s Broadway. Some ended up being among the highest respected and paid studio musicians in history, raking in six-figure pensions when they retired in the 1980s, earned from the thousands of hours they spent working where they made most of their career living for 30+ years, for which a many did well for themselves... provided they stayed where the action was - in Hollywood, NYC and from the 50s onward, Las Vegas.

[@78MILT]

Bonjour, C'est dans l'autre sens qu'il faut juger desdits faits. Cet enregistrement date de 1939 plus de dix ans avant le BECHET ne "compose" petite fleur. Celui qui a pompé, il était coutumier du fait, c'est BECHET et non l'inverse.

[@TheAlexbasse35]

2:39 = petite fleure, Sidney Bechet!! Pas très créatif de la part du trompetiste mais c'est quand même excellant!....

[@2coryman]

That's Bufddy Rich!

[@schoschdecologne]

That's just the melody, written in 1932 by Arthur Schwartz. Plappermäulchen.

[@annanoli]

we play it with our own big band. check the post "Artie Shaw alone together by NP Big Band" thw transcription is ours. I hope yyou'll like it. leave comments,please!

[@Exilatus]

@ErnieHollerhagen Hell yeah.

[@LaurasLastDitch]

I've just listed some out of print Artie Shaw and other swing clarinet sheet music on Etsy. etsy.com/shop/lauraslastditch?section_id=7952918

[@annanoli]

check our own version Artie Shaw Alone Together by NP Big Band

[@78MILT]

Grosse erreur! cet enregistrement date de 1939 BECHET ne composera PETITE FLEUR que plus de dix ans plus tard. Donc celui qui a pompé, il était coutumier du fait, c'est BECHET et non l'inverse. Ce qui ne retire rien au talent de BECHET. En JAZZ en général on finit toujours par copier quelqu'un.

[@redshark618]

i like your username.

[@annanoli]

please,friends,i'd like a comment on this version,performed by my orchestra.

[@valentinkuzmin9810]

Этому Элтону нет равных и не будет вот что такое джаз а что вы никогда не узнаете так сказал великий луи сего кристал хоус не сравнится ни с чем

[@annanoli]

al avola

[@elizabethwilliams7790]

So Smooth ! 🎶💕👏