Duke Ellington - Things Ain't What They Used To Be (1962) [official video]

[@rockventures]

These are superb videos of superb performances. Not a sheet of music in sight - the unison figures are so tight. On Monday 13 February 1967, as a 12 year old, I had the great fortune to hear and see The Duke and His Orchestra at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool. What a privilege it was. The brilliance of these musicians will never fade or be forgotten.

[@liamanims]

I honor you sir, hope you had a great childhood in the 60s

[@kamil_abt]

They're obviously not playing live. There's no sheet music, but there are no microphones either.

[@SylusL]

@@kamil_abtthey have played songs for years, they had them down by memory

[@russelljazzbeck]

@@kamil_abt lol what does that have to do with anything?

[@songsbyheem]

Johnny Hodge's playing is so melodic and mature. Just so elegant

[@Storyvillerecords]

Couldn't agree more!

[@musicola7371]

Things will never be what they used to be without Johnny Hodges blowing the lead.

[@bobhaspel2032]

Yes indeed

[@jacobropte5388]

Ayo

[@michaeltagor4238]

@@jacobropte5388 shit I'm ashamed at the fact that I thought that exact word lol

[@FordGreeneLawyer]

I'm not ashamed. How could one feel otherwise. Johnny Hodges is The Man!

[@ethanlander4252]

Truly one of the greatest quality recordings of jazz from back then

[@cheesesteak59]

Oh, man. The immediately recognizable and beautiful sound of Johnny Hodges on the alto sax.

[@gilangsetyawibawa185]

THAT'S RIGHT CONNIE, KEEP IT UP WITH THE TROMBONE!

[@aaaaaaaa-pe8ho]

Oh-

[@marilynstevenson865]

So sweet...Nothing else can possibly describe Johnny Hodges'' magnificent touch! What a find!!

[@MiroPribanic]

elation, admiration, inspiration, respect, awe, peace...and tremendous joy.....these are my emotions when I see the Duke at work with his boys.

[@zephaniarutlokwana2891]

The invention and development of big band jazz remains a masterpiece

[@chaplainmattsanders4884]

You said it!!🎉

[@sausas8209]

Duke Ellington in this bitch, rebellin is like an itch

[@Edsen-qm5tw]

brilliant

[@MrPabgon]

I think johnny hodges is my favorite saxophonist. Just so clean and smooth, what an astounding sound and cool articulation.

[@chaplainmattsanders4884]

A good choice for sure!

[@peterfeltham5612]

I have been a keen listener of Hodges since the lat 50s, and stylistically speaking I do think he is the best player of the alto.

[@lorraineslopek5798]

I'm right with you there.

[@Train115]

Ive heard that one leitmotif in so many jazz songs.

[@ericrumsey7180]

Wonderful alto sax solo by Johnny Hodges, starting at 0:29!

[@billfreytag7410]

When DIDN'T Johnny blow beautifully!

[@Lord_God__]

This is my favorite jazz number ❤❤❤

[@larryshaver3568]

what a treat color and stereo sound

[@martinchilvers3870]

It doesn't get much better than that! Sooooo tight!!!!

[@donkotouc8377]

One of my favorite Ellington tunes...

[@bustabass9025]

Big band showcase. Cats are sharp, tight and laying it down. The Duke and his boys were hard to beat, but never fully appreciated for what they bought to the scene.

[@musicdev]

Really? I think the entire jazz community knows these guys changed jazz forever.

[@bustabass9025]

@@musicdev Perhaps so today. But, they were never fully appreciated as equals, as were their white counterparts during the same era. America was a much different place back in the thirties, forties, and fifties. The Golden Age of Big Band Music did not inure itself to the plight of African American performers, anymore than did the Woolworth in downtown Greensboro, or the transit system in New York City. I would argue, it's hard to be fully appreciated for what you do, when you can't enjoy a steak dinner or relax in a suite in the same hotel as Harry James, Glen Miller, or Benny Goodman and their guys. Or, for that matter play the same venues, and take a whiz between sets standing in front of a urinal, next to a white busboy. Liking their music is one thing. No question that it was ever anything other than spectacular. Moreover, it has been enjoyed for many generations, and will greet new generations of jazz enthusiasts for many generations to come. The operative word here of course being "generations". Because, that's what it took for many inside and outside the jazz community to realize the sheer greatness of their artistic impact on jazz in particular, and on music generally speaking. However, treating them with the same level of dignity and respect worthy of such recognition, was, and in many cases still is quite another thing entirely... Really!!

[@musicdev]

Busta Bass Okay, I see what you’re getting at here. Historical context is very important, I would certainly agree with that. In that case, it is unfortunate that some of the best jazz musicians of that time weren’t treated with the same dignity as their white counterparts, a trend I worry has still continued to this day outside of the jazz community

[@reginaldjackson4173]

The master at work, with support from the greatest saxophonist ever Johnnie Hodges.

[@ericandersen6163]

Perfect solo.

[@MarcusGMay]

🇺🇸☮️🗽🌎🎼🎞️🌎🎼🎞️🌎🎼🎞️🌎🎼🎞️🌎❤️❤️❤️🌎🎼🎞️🎼🎞️🇺🇸😎💯💯💯💯 Awesome Jazz!

[@eddieroberts6975]

So smooth. Superb!

[@PabloVestory]

Amazing, thank you so much! It's play-back, though pretty profesionally done, not easy with this music. And taking in account that we know that the band live sounded exactly the same, (these guys didn't make overdubs or track by track recording or something... ) we can forgive. The only thing that did not age too well is Duke's haircut 🙂

[@janlindvall2639]

Tack bäste kusin. Still going strong

[@domcorrieras7565]

Quelle classe... monumentale !!!

[@blackjack-ks8zn]

The one and only DUKE ELINGTON!

[@vicki2706]

very superb of everything. Amazing.

[@GiselleCGomez]

This song you can listen too in a stupendous scene of the movie CABIN IN THE SKY (1943) performing by Mr Ellington and his band💖🎶

[@russellochoa7679]

Soul

[@xsrracoco1077]

here before soul comes out

[@LandOfPhilosophy]

Pretty sure one of the trumpets is using a trombone bucket mute as a hat mute.

[@nickyblack5913]

LandOfPhilosophy

[@Fuse0]

Yes they are

[@worldofimagination5328]

Wow! Just wow I love this.

[@timoh4767]

1:08 what is the guy on the left doing?

[@faketrailermaker64]

Tim Oh Jimmy Hamilton was scratching his nose

[@bigrig9716]

everyone who didnt come here from the movie soul, youre awesome. keep it up

[@Dani-xz1uw]

Johnny Hodges, MAN WHAT A PLAYER!!!

[@fdftffftftjcfccgccg2737]

i just heard a terrible middle school band playing this. the music teacher was pretty good on the keys tho

[@OhsnapitzAshQ]

Soul?

[@Agentrock47]

True but one of the trombone players was actually really good

[@mrchristian0457]

Hmm... same here, coincidence?

[@dabadc]

That's why I looked this up😂😂😂

[@sarahlueth6421]

@@Agentrock47 dsghhgggvvb

[@cflo1023]

JOHNNY HODGES!!! Yes, all of this is wonderful to me! Duke and his amazing band!

[@dandyline4787]

Who’s here after noticing the song written on the chalkboard at the beginning of Disney Pixar’s Soul?

[@Janosik_Janosikowy]

no sh*t sherlock

[@manakin5]

Awesome.

[@GliArchimedi]

Great Duke!!

[@bear9295]

I came here from James Morrison’s multiphonics version

[@wendelllima5871]

The movie "Soul" brought me here!!

[@hamzek3981]

Who came from the movie soul. 😔

[@CMproductionssike]

I came here from big mouth

[@diegoolivercontreras2693]

Yo

[@hamzek3981]

@@diegoolivercontreras2693 u just watched the movie aren't you

[@madydarby7825]

Me 🤚🏻

[@marthavandort8386]

I have just seen the title on the board Joe teaches in the third time i've seen this movie =))

[@mariannejacot1668]

that year i saw the duke in leicester at a concert when i was twenty and wokring a an au pair at dr espiere house

[@zickyhart1348]

I posted a transcription of Johnny Hodges’ solo on this on my channel👍🏻

[@cortezdahgreat]

Soul Brought me here lol

[@arielsterling2614]

Hey man wow 🤩💪🏽❤️

[@andreanikolli7854]

GG you are so good man

[@woodie9682]

Dancing❤

[@gvi341984]

Soul brought me here

[@fresamouse]

i love the video length

[@privatelprivacy]

dreamer

[@JuanBernardoIrigoyen]

Una orquesta única en el Jazz, "Things Ain´t what they used to be" (Las cosas no son como solían ser), el solista de la orquesta de Ellington, Johnny Hodges en Saxo Alto, la hermosa orquesta de Duke y el sonido Ellingtoniano en el año 1962. Quién conoce las grabaciones desde el "Cotton Club de Harlem" hasta la década del 70 sabe como esta músico hizo historia en el Jazz.

[@ccaammiinniiito2]

+Juan Bernardo Irigoyen De donde escribe? Le pregunto eso porque su punta de visto es muy interesante: "una orquesta unica [ como no habra otra igual -- palabras mias] en el Jazz."

[@JuanBernardoIrigoyen]

Jay Young​ Soy de Buenos Aires, Argentina y le agradezco su comentario, le aclaro que conocí a Mercer Ellington y nos hicimos amigos porque soy músico de Jazz y admiro a su padre, gracias y saludos.

[@ccaammiinniiito2]

Juan Bernardo Irigoyen Gracias por su respuesta. Y naturalmente Vd. ha pasado muchas temporadas en los EEUU, no es cierto? La musica del Cubano Bebo Valdez, que tal? Sus pensamientos sobre ella, cuales son? Desde mi juventud he dicho, tengo ganas viajar a Buenos. Y vea como no ha pasado nada!

[@JuanBernardoIrigoyen]

Jay Young​​ Me gusta Valdez , Paquito D'Rivera, Tito Puente y demás músicos de origen Latino, pero prefiero a Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Jim Hall, Freddie Hubbard y está clase de intérpretes, Buenos Aires ha tenido a Piazzola, Schifrin, Gato Barbieri, Daniel Barenboim y otros que han sido de conocimiento mundial, gracias Jay y saludos.

[@ccaammiinniiito2]

Juan Bernardo Irigoyen Valgame! Vd. es un verdadero estudiante del jazz! Saludos. Gerry Mulligan, si. Pero Chet Baker es un clasico.

[@elizavetacarlsen7374]

БРАВО!!!

[@charlessmith6777]

I could watch the Duke play that piano for days. The band was tight, but this rendition was to structured. I wish they have cut loose.

[@bluesisgold]

Whoever gives this a thumb down doesn't deserve to live.

[@hezigler]

Wonderful alto sax solo by Johnny Hodges on his customized Buescher 400 Top Hat and Cane saxophone.

[@SaxJockey]

Seems that the customised TH&C, added some features from the Aristocrat Series II/III (over slung neck, flat plate key guards). I have seen many videos/photos of Johnny Hodges playing various Saxes, seems mostly to be Buescher Aristocrat Series II (Big B engraving) and Series III (Post Big B), some with Big Bell. It can get mightly confusing because the Series III Model 141 also has the B/Bb cups at the rear of the bell (like the TH&C and Super 400), but with an over slung neck and flat plate key guards...similar to in this video. He would have played many other variants in the earlier and latter years (Conn 6M, Buescher True Tone, Vito/Leblanc). He always had his unique sound, a true master.

[@romanbemolin]

thanks

[@Tubulous123]

Yes!!! Thank you!!!! 1Nation4Life

[@McMahonGary]

This is a simple but catchy blues written by Duke's son Mercer Ellington.

[@Twentythousandlps]

First recorded by "Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra"

[@awsomehog1]

Oh wow the band in soul really is that bad lol

[@adriancalin8688]

Un morceau de jazz que Carlos le chanteur Aimait bien

[@luckyford22]

I hope this song plays in Pixar's Soul

[@kayleeyee9855]

This song was written on the chalk board in the first scene in Joe's classroom

[@mozesaeroe1434]

I hope so too

[@yourmum1074]

It is thankfully!!

[@u686st7]

The opening theme from "The Harley Show" on WBAL.

[@parii8723]

Came here after watching SOUL 🥰

[@JJW556]

Johnny Hodges was a bad, bad man.

[@IndependentGeorge76]

A bad Rabbit, even

[@Laurenzatto54]

Why are you saying that ????

[@ChicagoMel23]

I finally got curious after hearing this song was playing when the Kansas City Hyatt had its skywalks collapse

[@usmc1875]

A fake book brought me here:) so grateful:)

[@62chucky]

Love this! Play sax Johnny Hodges!

[@jalstair]

Is that a conn?

[@SoCal_619]

Is that Sam Woodyard back there on drums? Loved his style.

[@migue_toledo]

Quien mas vino a ver porque la vio en el pizarron de "Soul"?

[@Cheezie]

Who came because of jazz band???

[@davidgonzalez6738]

All rigth¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ The master DUKE¡¡¡¡¡

[@anailone1235]

0:51

[@anailone1235]

0:49

[@anailone1235]

0:52

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

The 1997 movie Metro brought me here

[@modernholyblues]

This is so hip and modern it's almost nauseating. Johnny Hodges

[@Nocturnal11Guy]

Cabin in the Sky brought me here.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Is that a Lionel Bart compostion? Or is it just the name from the original stage play by Bristol UK born Frank Norman?

[@musicola7371]

Mercer Ellington, Duke's son.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

@@musicola7371 TY.

[@lorraineslopek5798]

Nope. I lived it. This is what they played in grocery stores when i was a kid. After a murderous morning in Walmart i had to look it up to get my blood pressure down.

[@brookeellis850]

Who is here after watching Pixar’s movie Soul?

[@noreenjackson4377]

Talkin' about Christ's Millennial Rule.

[@roberthill799]

Never heard of 'em.

[@ramonguadalupe9726]

Johnny Hodges is "Iceberg Cool 😎"

[@seikasai4625]

好きだな~この曲 前世上海で散々聴いたのかな⁉️

[@micamojo]

Everyone is here from Soul, I'm here for the Big Gig

[@jiyujizai]

🌱🙄🌾💛

[@SpikePrivate]

"You know trombones can't play 2 notes at once, right?"

[@beepisboopis5342]

@1:00

[@AllBobsAllTheTime]

Ken Rexroth turned a lot of people on to this one decades ago.

[@AllBobsAllTheTime]

As did Mingus ...

[@markstover8848]

The theme of the Harley Show out of Baltimore

[@BrandonCuringtonOfficial]

This shoulda been in a Fallout game tho

[@ohmorieiichi7470]

相変わらずのジョニー節。 さり気なくクール。 秋葉原の大森栄一より eiichi ohmori akihabara from tokyo japan

[@jiyujizai]

🍎💞🏵️

[@seriouspenguin2785]

[@mug3621]

who came from james morrison’s 2009 ensemble video?

[@bofadeez4802]

Who’s here after watching Dave Chappells speech on Netflix?

[@omni-impotent9278]

Why does Johnny Hodges look like Duke but younger?

[@ets160]

Not racist or anything, but the soloist looks a heck lot like duke.

[@donyellallen4047]

Right

[@vitoriacunha6464]

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