Count Basie: I Needs To Be Bee'd With 1965

A Quincy Jones/Count Basie classic. From BBC 'Show of the Week' London, Nov 1965 Soloists: Count Basie and Al Grey
Wallace Davenport, Sonny Cohn, Al Aarons and Phil Guilbeau (tp); Grover Mitchell, Henderson Chambers and Al Grey (tb); Bill Hughes (b-tb); Marshal Royal (as,cl); Bobby Plater (as,fl,arr); Eric Dixon (ts,fl,arr); Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (ts); Charlie Fowlkes (bar); Count Basie (p); Freddie Green (g); Norman Keenan (b) and Rufus Jones (d).

[@RolfEichenberger-q4k]

Outstanding! What a piano player - what a trombone player - what a band!

[@tonyhoran3263]

The dynamics make the hairs on the palms of my hand stand on end! Bliss!

[@krikorhadidian897]

Count Basie's piano playing is colorful. Great, Great Great performance.

[@Thursdaym2]

The great Al Grey. Have an LP cover signed by him after a session back in the late seventies.

[@samfalkenhagen3184]

I’d buy that off you!

[@alexkoh1673]

Listen carefully to the sound quality of this recording 50 years ago.! Compare with other supposed quality utube offerings. The BBC technicians are only equaled by the German and Japanese technicians, but they get very little credit . I wonder if the same genius that has transcribed some of the fantastic solos of Tatum has ever written out some of the Basie solos to sheet music. My mind boggles at this capability for Tatum's improvisation. Only by my seeing the notes that I have been truly appreciative of the skill of Tatum music. Arthur Rubinstein once said that he marveled at the key playing accuracy of the jazz pianist or words to that effect.

[@SELMER1947]

What is Tatum doing here ???

[@TheDasbunker]

There are several versions of this by the Count on You Tube, and I LOVE everyone of them!!

[@n.ff.]

Absolutely wonderful ❤ The title of this masterpiece has always baffled me grammatically 😂

[@juubtrb6182]

I have always wondered what that would mean???

[@n.ff.]

@@juubtrb6182 as far as the meaning goes, I believe that he “needs to get some” bee’d is from the birds and bees. That’s my interpretation. I’ve just never got grammatically over the “I needs”, I mean why’s the third person singular with I? 🙃

[@tonyhoran3263]

@@n.ff.whatever he needs, he just knows he needs it! I suspect it’s a Bb thing or an Eb thing

[@user417s4]

Basie was a very good pianist, at the level of any other soloist, but his spare and essential style prevailed.

[@LibuttiG]

BRILLIANT,LIKE BRASSSTARS ON THE BLACK AND WHITE SUNS DRUMMING AROUND

[@captainrichieparadise5918]

brilliant.

[@mikenychay4407]

Catch the first name mentioned in the list of musicians and you will see Wallace Davenport. Wallace played trumpet in a 5-piece combo at a Dixieland jazz bar on Bourbon Street called Crazy Shirleys in the early '80s, and man was he good. I also found a New Orleans-themed CD with him playing with Earl Fatha Hines. Good to see his name again.

[@mariseldestefanis7954]

So nice to wake up with this music. Thanks Marcelo for Sharing ❤

[@daveyboy731]

Great Basie Spreme

[@davidcarranza3204]

No tengo mucho escuchando estos temas pero m gustan mucho.alguna otra q alguien me recomiende??muchas gracias espero alguien me oriente sobre estas joyas por favor

[@jackey-p]

いいわ〜、これ何度見てもいい！ ベイシー翁とアル・グレイのチャーミングだけどファンキーなソロ。そしてクインシーのファンキーなアレンジ。トロンボーンがクィンティン・ジャクソンのバージョンもあるけど、この曲はアル・グレイでないと！

[@charlesbarry6730]

One of the great band leaders .His main rival was Duke Ellington.

[@cristianmojica9944]

Charles Barry only “rival”

[@Thursdaym2]

Not rivals!

[@leosmith105]

Al Grey.

[@松野和夫]

たまらん。この当時は投げキッスしてなかったのね。アル・グレイ。

[@reggiewhiteuncensored9825]

Is he the only one that used a plunger???

[@hugoomarlescano3094]

SWING, SWING, SWINGGGG….

[@jean-pierremantilaro8392]

Sonny Payne the great !

[@nyterpfan]

Actually--Rufus "Speedy" Jones is behind the kit on this one--(a POWERHOUSE drummer--right up there with Sonny!!)

[@vittoriocastelli2681]

One thumb up isn’t enough for what I hear but what I see is very disappointing. You can’t mess with formats. This should be 4:3 not 16:9 So I can’t but give no thumbs