Count Basie - Back to the Apple - Live in Sweden 1962 (new in sync!)

The Count Basie Orchestra delivers a swinging rendition of "Back to The Apple" in Sweden, 1962.
Soloists: Frank Foster (tenor saxophone) and Al Aarons (trumpet).
Frank Foster is also the composer and arranger.
The rhythm section of this band is a powerhouse: Count Basie (piano), Eddie Jones (bass), Freddie Green (guitar) and Sonny Payne (drums).

[@giovannidimeo6604]

Non ci sono parole. Si rimane senza fiato. È musica di un altro mondo !

[@rubengreenberg2253]

The articulation of the saxophone section...out of this world! No ballet company was ever more well-oiled than this band.

[@catlubber9464]

Sonny Payne. Just incredible.

[@johnguilfoil7534]

yeah

[@rhythmfield]

One of a kind - lit the fire under that great band

[@nyterpfan]

NOBODY could swing like Sonny behind the kit!! He was incomparable!! (Greatest big band/swing drummer of all time IMHO!)

[@ModernMythMuseum]

I was born in 1949. Growing up there were no Dylan, Beatles nor Stones, yet. There was Basie, Ellington, Ella, Frank, and company.

[@stormyfeather9035]

This is history. I have no words. Simply GREAT.

[@SELMER1947]

Simply fabulous !

[@gregtrent3335]

When I was a kid, there was a grocery store in Kansas City, Mo that used to play this as background music while people shopped; and, all of his songs as well. Customers would keep time to Basie's music and we're almost be-bopping in the grocery aisles.

[@ketobabysteps4893]

Tight and swinging hard!

[@michaelscott7462]

I knew it was Sonny by the sound of cymbals. Signature sound!

[@mindisaction]

Echoes of an era... The giant's era!!

[@toddcampbell5603]

These guys are blowing the music off of their stands, but they all look totally laid back. It's amazing!! Sonny Payne !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@clarewitcomb6918]

What a joy it is to listen to Basie. Just makes the world a happier place. Such crisp sound. Just turned 90 and I love jazz!

[@mindisaction]

Like fire!!!!... The swing machine

[@MeanGeneSanDiego]

Count Basie just became my fave Swing Band! Started out comparing Basie's 'Topsy' against Benny Goodman's...Basie KILLED it, whereas Goodman just played it!

[@dwightpowell6673]

Exactly...I could have said it better.

[@SELMER1947]

By far - with Duke - the best band who ever existed in the galaxy

[@MrAitraining]

Basie at their peak! No other sound like it!

[@anthonypartridge3756]

Indeed so. Unsurpassed. Tony

[@jackwhite6030]

Played behind Sinatra early sixties...you know they were at peak

[@davidbrown9395]

Fabulous show. I saw this band at the Tivoli (Copenhagen) summer of 1962.. Sonny Payne (yeah)

[@dfraser7933]

Perhaps Sonny tipped his cap to Big Sid there at the end there with the stick twirling. What a band, thx for posting. The way Frank opens his solo always gets me...just rides the groove right in.

[@BarryBangemout]

Basie was the quintessential master of swing. There will never be anything like that era again. Thank goodness that we are privileged and honored to see and hear this stuff on YT! There will always be great musicians in every generation, however the musicianship, arrangements, performances, etc... will NEVER be replicated like this. As a drummer myself, I also agree with KZbin member SoulMan comment regarding Sonny! Amazing!

[@pamtebelman2321]

So, true. Benny Goodman is up there, too!

[@ignorecorporatenews]

The Good Old Days. before Rock'N'Roll "Culture" became big business and took over. and Don't even get me started about that Rap garbage....

[@dwightpowell6673]

@@pamtebelman2321 I knew some Caucasian person wouldn't allow the Count to have his praise...iny opinion they were 2 totally different type of Big Bands.

[@WPM_in_ATL]

@@dwightpowell6673 Let's not fight about this. If there was any White Big Band leader at that time who appreciated the contributions of Black musicians, arrangers, etc. it was BG. BG was one of the _first_ to integrate his band. BG adored the Fletcher Henderson "sound" making him a staff arranger (more or less) and even going as far as hosting benefit concerts for FH circa 1950 (which made it onto an LP-find it here on YT)) and a PBS TV special circa 1985, long after Mr. H's passing. BG was far from perfect, he had big warts and was tough to work for, but he grew up in a Jewish Ghetto not a country club setting.

[@fredericlapalus6339]

@@ignorecorporatenews rap is valuable music and song, too. According to me.

[@michaelscott7462]

This is why Frank referred to them as The Count Basie Organization!

[@popeye9475]

Basie... my favorite swing band, specially the late '30s version.

[@ChannelMaster720]

THANK YOU COUNT BASIE FOR BRINGING THIS SWING'N BAND TOGETHER. FRANK, AL & SONY JUST CRANK'N ALONG ALL TOGETHER, MAKES FOR FANTASTIC MUSIC. EVEN IF YOU ARE BED, WHEELCHAIR, OR SOFA BOUND, SOMETHING IN YOUR BODY IS GOING TO MOVE. COULD BE A FOOT TAP'N, FINGERS MOVING ON AN ARMCHAIR OR TABLE, HEAD GOING BACK AND FORTH, OR YOUR ROCK'N IN YOUR ROCKING CHAIR. WHATEVER, YOU'VE GOT TO MOVE. BE HAPPY, BECAUSE THIS MUSIC DEMANDS IT! SYLVIA - FL- 04-05-2019

[@neilhaverstick1446]

This is timeless music...the greatest.

[@user-mm1mp9wf2s]

Гиганты джаза в своей красе! Спасибо блогеру за историческую память

[@johnpulham8205]

Saw Basie 3 times back in the early 60s. It was electric. This clip brought it all back. Fabulous. Thankyou.

[@MsWochu]

Something amazing, unique !!

[@Soulman785]

Some classic "Swing" from Count Basie and his Orchestra. Pay close attention to the Genius that is Sonny Payne on drums.

[@GillCaballeroManofwar]

I love jazzy jam beautiful !!!!!!

[@Soulman785]

Gill Caballero I love it too :)

[@Johnnycdrums]

He was just, "wicked". Sonny Payne (RIP).

[@Johnnycdrums]

Papa Jo Jones (RIP) is right up there too!

[@slicaltimistic1]

3:16 I have to slow this video down just to see how did he skillfully play on those hi hat. I'm Very pleased. Buddy Rich did similar to that except he play under it.

[@johnwhitehead3360]

WONDERFUL THANK YOU

[@charlesmiller9589]

Mr. Swing, Count Basie’s 50’s-60’s Band was called The Atomic Bomb Maybe because it was explosive, it was a modernized swing band, very precise....

[@charlesmiller9589]

His 1938-40 Band was the top swing band of all time Lester Young was The TENOR SAX ....

[@Johnnycdrums]

WOW! , This is killin' me here.

[@susanelizabeth2946]

Good grief! Imagine seeing and hearing this in person!? Thanks for sharing. It’s a masterpiece.

[@CharlyAntolini-yu5eo]

Ich bin der größte Fan von count basie undvon Sonny Panne Bigband Drummer. No! One

[@fmiglio437]

un grande maestro BUON ANNO

[@toddlipira8726]

I very much like how a trumpet soloist finishes when he's done saying what he's got to say, leaving you wanting more.

[@steverotman1896]

Sonny Payne! Doesn't get any better!

[@SELMER1947]

GREAT !!!!!!!!!

[@juliomartins615]

Belesura!!

[@MaGon2009]

fantástico!

[@alanwitton5039]

Fantastic listening! This band certainly knew how to swing! The perfect rhythm section

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Wow!

[@anthzug4329]

This song is tops! Great jumpin' tune! More please

[@robertc8134]

Count Basie is my favorite band and band leader! How sad that I was raised post-big band and missed this era. (I guess the Beatles weren't all that bad, on the other hand.) He lives forever on video.😊

[@progmind4274]

Powerful & swingin' rhythm section + "wall of sound" brass + finest and cool soloist = The C. Basie Orchestra! Top!

[@alanm4184]

Thilo Wolf band swings in Germany right.

[@alanm4184]

Now

[@jansen_music]

So So So Great..deep groove deep groove.

[@curtispalmer1512]

❤️ beautiful

[@sbullar]

i have an album that is " Basie in Sweden 1962" that has Louie Bellson subing for Sonny Payne. Did something happen with Sonny that Louie had to come in and do the live record date.

[@ovepayne]

Sonny was in a car accident and unfortunately could´t make that tour and that´s why Louie Bellson subbed for him while he recovered.

[@brianwells2380]

Basie, 'Simply the best'.

[@Polsini]

So smooth, starting from the 3.25 mark: the classic Count Basie trademark. Great dynamics and discipline

[@robertrivar1962]

Du grand Count Basie en 1962

[@ab7zv]

Swinging so hard.

[@maurylucero6252]

Maravilloso!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!💖💖💖💖

[@concordmilitia3471]

When he lets them loose about 3:50 it's incredible. Tour de force of swing.

[@rma3_3_3]

OOH YESS! 🙏🎼🎤📟🎺🎵🎷🎸🎶🥁🙏

[@peterfeltham5612]

After listening to big band music for 60yrs i still think Basies recording of Neil Hefti's 'Kansas City Suite' (the Columbia session) is unsurpassed.If you can find it on vynl it is so superior to the CD issues.

[@jackwhite6030]

Superb

[@sergeypozdnyak7021]

Спасибо.

[@chrislobster1120]

Hot ***** Swing, Mister Frank!

[@nyterpfan]

As great as this version of 'Back to the Apple" is--the Ed Sullivan performance (which is on KZbin) is just SPECTACULAR!! My all-time favorite filmed performance of Basie's orchestra--the band absolutely BURNS through that chart! A must view if you're a Basie fan. (And Sonny Payne's at his hard-driving swinging best--holy smokes he drove that band like a turbo-charged Ferrari engine!!)

[@TerranceNgassa]

Wow

[@jocknarn3225]

There he goes again ... guitarists, check out Freddie Greenego to work ... 4-2-the-floor- o-cheating’ is very hard Work!

[@agnusize]

Maravilha!

[@reecenanfito4330]

Geez look how big their songbooks are!

[@kenlewis3333]

My wife (now of almost 54 years and I used to go hear the Basie Band at the Prom Ballroom on University Avenue in the Twin Cities in the early 70's. I remember being blown away with the band. ONE microphone used only for the vocal soloist and Basie's understated, classy announcements. The band was totally acoustic beyond that and sitting in the 6th row they'd BLOW you away. Talk about a wall of sweet, powerful SOUND! Basie would begin playing the piano leading into whichever song he wanted to play next and the orchestra members (unseen in this video) would begin going through their stack of music as thick as a Sears catalog, but they ALWAYS found the number just before they were needed. Synchronization! Perfection! (At around the 2:35 mark one CAN see the significant stack of muisc on the Trombone section's music stands and that's just the way I remember it.)

[@tara5138]

Oh my god would you look at that drummer!

[@peterchoe]

sonny payne had a really unique swing, kind of like Blakey but even more swung, delaying that eighth note until it almost sticks to the next. What really made him sound good is his impeccable sense of the quarter note beat. He sets that offbeat definitively and you can feel the whole band swinging off it.

[@daviddoyle1158]

Man, look at all those Neumann M49s!

[@adriancalin8688]

Vous rirerez ce hit i recorded on tape 4 traks from radio short waves

[@inaraseffere8343]

Kaunt besia orķestris bija plate Jurim kalijevam pašam maijas viņš ar natasu sievu dzīvoja kopā

[@inaraseffere8343]

Grinam patika klausīties džeza mūziku ko darīja grīņa pats mans labs draugs

[@AbbeB]

The Kid from Red Bank

[@soapbxprod]

YEAH BABAY! NJ, the cradle of BIG BAND SWING

[@jb5music]

Fantastic band. It still picked up at least 20 metronome markings before it even got to the Tenor solo

[@jb5music]

It could also be a digital sabotage ploy to fit more content in a smaller time space and take up less memory space. Content providers have the known to do that. Or a combination of both

[@erforderlich5274]

I can't hear that. Yes, Basie's Intro is somewhat slowish and you can see him grinning at Sonny - complaining?. And you can see Sonny giving hints to Eddie to pick up. However that slight tempo shift towards the end of Foster's arrangement is pure *Intensity*!

[@johnguilfoil7534]

is there anything more hip than hats and plungers?

[@247hdjazz]

YES!

[@247hdjazz]

MOST THINGS!

[@austinhernandez2716]

Pixie

[@cjgaddy]

Incredible Sax Section Run @2:10 (SAXES: A: Marshal Royal/Frank Wess, T: Eric Dixon/Frank Foster, B: Charlie Fowlkes) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqmlgI1mZpdsna8

[@adriancalin8688]

Éloym the count it swing

[@inaraseffere8343]

Kaunt besia orķestra plate maijas bija Jurim kalijevam pašam viņš nekāda nedeva plates uz maijam klausities cilvēkiem

[@adriancalin8688]

Ca vole haut tres haut ....

[@WPM_in_ATL]

From the US: Is the audio a form of pseudo-stereo? I am definitely hearing the "hole in the middle". I seriously doubt it was recorded in true stereo, given the age of the recording.

[@kindngentle]

Stereo recordings were routine by 1962. For example, Van Gelder started recording stereo for Blue Note in1957, and he was a relatively small operator. Records were often released in mono and stereo into the late 1960s, with stereo releases costing $1 more.

[@WPM_in_ATL]

@@kindngentle Yes, but this was done for TV. As an old TV engineer, I can assure you that mono was all that they did in the early sixties.

[@inaraseffere8343]

Varbutas es tikšu uz maskavu Krieviju pie tēva varbutas iesa lūks ekspres uz maskavu krieviju

[@adriancalin8688]

De la antonescu la causescu

[@inaraseffere8343]

Es par nožēlošanu es netieku uz maskavu ciemos pie mana tēva ciemos kur viņš mani maskava gaida kad es atbraukšu maskava

[@angelvallitomoralesrossi9074]

Y tan atacados racialmente, Besie y su banda marco la diferencia en la musicalidad universal, pasando por encima de la colonización musical Europea , nada que ver, tienen mucha que our ver y aprender, la verdad es otra dimension verdad

[@karinelegall6910]

🤣

[@Egbert1957]

... und wie das läuft, völlig locker und unstudiert-unakademisch. Einfach Könner von Natur und Erfahrung von Kindesbeinen aus.

[@erforderlich5274]

man, be sure they studied their popo off!

[@Egbert1957]

@@erforderlich5274 ... ja, damit Po-ecke ich immer an, wenn ich im Semi-Musikerdasein, meinen Mitspielern die reine Klassik studiert haben, vergeblich versuche ihnen eine (u.a.) Basie-Spielweise gefühlt zu vermitteln. Scheitere seit Jahrzehnten. Leichtigkeit kann man nicht erlernen, wenn man nicht damit aufgewachsen ist und an den starren punkierten Beamten-Notierungen klebt.

[@erforderlich5274]

@@Egbert1957 Die Problematik ist mir bekannt. Mein Lösungsansatz - durchaus mit hörbarem Erfolg, ok, let's say teilweise - ist: Weg vom Papier, Lauschen, (Scat-) Singen und Artikulieren, Spielen, Repeat. Es stimmt einfach nicht, das Swing unlehrbar oder angeboren sei. Freilich nicht always for anybody. Doch anfänglich steht die sehr simple Erkenntnis, daß Musik eine Sache der Ohren ist, auditiv. Nicht optisch, eine Sache der Augen oder Notation.

[@erforderlich5274]

@@Egbert1957 Klar, man sollte nicht vergessen: Hier 1962/3 spielt eine der besten Bigband of all times. Der Vergleich mit Amateuren muss da crushing ausfallen. Doch letztlich heißt das: Hier sind 17 Musiker mit sehr gutem Gehör, viel Geduld und Disziplin beim woodshedding, und einer nicht unerheblichen Prise Glück Woche für Woche mit guten, oft besseren Kollegen spielen zu dürfen.

[@adriancalin8688]

Ce neau lasat to listen to Jazz ,swing?????nu nu neau lasat +era interzis

[@jacobdawson9916]

mid

[@drummerboy2521]

Sonny Payne was tough and had nice left hand snare skills

[@dfraser7933]

Perhaps Sonny tipped his cap to Big Sid there at the end there with the stick twirling. What a band, thx for posting. The way Frank opens his solo always gets me...just rides the groove right in.