Count Basie (feat. Lockjaw Davis) The Kid From Red Bank (But really Whirly Bird)

[@hommefriday]

On the "Atomic Basie" Album - the greatest tenor solo I ever heard was Lockjaw on "Whirly Bird".

[@PhilipposPappas]

Eddie Lockjaw Davis=the absolute tenor sax monster.

[@nwilczyn]

great lick to start the solo too... he was really inventive...

Now this is Jazz, big band style! Count Basie and his orchestra, were so underrated, often living in the shadow of Duke Ellington and his orchestra. When Count Basie, Quincy Jones, and Frank Sinatra hooked up that was really something!

[@kayjazz09]

I love Lockjaw. Wow.

[@liorfito]

YEEEEEEEEEAH BABY I LOVE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA

[@zeemann]

JAW"S HAD A r&b TONE WITH ADVANCED JAZZ IDEAS, HE ALWAYS SATISFIED

[@jolson111]

@fduggan1 the Basie album ' A-tomic Basie' came out in 1957.All charts comp. and arr. by Neal Hefti.This here version is faster than the original.Lockjaw is amazing but then they all are.LH,Tampere,Finland

[@customkey]

The swingingest band in the land.

[@mwdrums]

The best medicine...

[@PepperWilliams_songcovers]

Lockjaw had some SEEEEEERRIOUSSSSS chops!!!Getting on stage with him is like committing suicide.

[@dreamkev]

THIS IS WHAT AM TALKING ABOUT!

[@SC515]

A View from the left. COOL!!!!!!!

[@rmo52]

Who is the lead trumpet player? I can't place him.

[@mikeromano2219]

better late than never. gene goe.

[@idolewensberg3843]

Great

[@PsychedelicLSD]

I dont even understand how he gets that tone so naturally

It is not natural. It is proper technique, practiced for decades.

[@Paajtor]

man, I wish I was born earlier ! :D)

[@bobjazz11]

I had this up as Whirly Bird til yesterday when I watched the clip and saw the 'title' - thought I'd got it wrong due to old age and changed it ........ shit!

[@vanderbiltsax]

"sweets" edison maybes?

[@b4midnightscholar]

Harold Jones on drums! And he's still alive and well. It was so nice to see him (seriously) on American Idol, backing up Tony Bennett these days -- bit.ly\I8nBCp

[@UriBorodin]

Drum solo by Harold Jones is much more shorter than one by Rufus Speedy Jones in this number, in Basie's live 1965. Although, nice and fruity!

[@givemetoast]

Great Lockjaw history...too bad the big ending was cut off.

[@peterfeltham5612]

So I'm allowed to take 2 Big Band records into heaven with,not difficult.......(1) Carters Kansas City Suite by the Count and (2) The Atomic Basie written by Hefti. Ret London Cop,

[@Laurenzatto54]

Not The kid from red bank but Whirly Bird !!! Not the same tune...

[@GryptpypeThynne]

Too bad the ending is unforgivably cut!

[@philpryor7524]

You cannot play tenor sax like that.., at all.., but, driven by this great Basie band, Lockjaw did it...