Night Train - Jimmy Forrest with Count Basie

Awesome version of Night Train performed by Jimmy Forrest and Count Basie's orchestra.

[@OrchestrationOnline]

Damn, Count Basie makes everyone sound like they are gods from outer space! Forrest really rocks here, showing the fine line between early 50's swing, R&B, and rock. I consider this to be where rock and roll starts, leading from Louis Jordan and then on to the Memphis sound.

[@StixH]

Played to perfection in they way the arrangement was intended. First class!!

[@mcragwe]

I have the video, Last of the Blue Devils...could watch that tape over and over and over and never get bored. All giants of their times and still untouchable today. THIS IS MUSIC..and Count Basie is just too cool....oh man this is pure heaven!!!

[@vincentbarbeau3031]

Superb. Sonny Liston inspiration song when he was training.

[@Sacto_Dave]

Such a slow nasty sound. Just perfect. No rushing perfection.

[@oldguy3255]

Crazy, man! So many tunes, so little time.

[@jellyfishj1]

crazy man! Maynard G Krebs would have said exactly the same thing.

[@AmericanShia786]

I met Jimmy Forrest when I heard the Basie's Big Band at the old Prom Ballroom in Saint Paul Minnesota, now torn down. It was 16 and it was 1976. My father had taken us to see the Basis Band at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis maybe a year earlier. Forrest was very friendly.

[@woodencardboard]

I love Freddie Greene's face, haha. He looks like he's waiting at the line at the DMV or something, hahaha.

[@valericamarinica4935]

Am ascultat inmai multe iterpretări NIGHT TRAIN .Cea originala mi se pare cea mai tare ,desi toate sunt exceptionale ! Mii de mulțumesc !La multi ani ,2016 !

[@Bertram_D]

Holy sh!!!

[@johnwhitehead3360]

PRIVILEGED TO HAVE SEEN JIMMY FORREST AND OF COURSE THE COUNT THANKS FOR POST

[@andyfariss]

Saw this Basie lineup live in 1975, I was an 18 year old college freshman, haven't been the same since😎😁🎷

[@scottstuit9305]

Met Jimmy Forrest and Al Grey in Grand Rapids, Mi where Jimmy lived and performed during his later years.

[@Divine6]

... eine der besten Night Trains ever - thanx Count & Jimmy

[@philipheermann7925]

so passionate and intense!

[@StixH]

Yeah soulful!

[@mrpeebee1]

Love his screaming high G at 03:25, great video!

[@timmotel5804]

3/2023: Great. Thank You

[@mpo1107]

It doesn't get any better than this.

[@cierakitty]

Am I the only one wanting to shed some clothes here to this tune

[@GregoryAlper]

fantastic. Thanks for posting this. Alper's Young Musicans Big Band plays this tune and they'll love it.

[@valericamarinica4935]

COLOSAL !

[@Skynet_the_AI]

Great word!

[@charlesmiles5828]

Early 1975. What a band!

[@henryholloway1132]

Great band, but too much soloist to really appreciate the band! Best to Butch always! Henry Holloway

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

Jimmy Forrest, Charlie Rouse, Illinois Jacquet, Ike Quebec, Arnet Cobb, Clifford Jordan...

[@philipheermann2165]

Listening to this since 2015

[@Skynet_the_AI]

Nov 12, 1955

[@strongtim72]

Marvin Berry!!

[@rockandrollsax]

YES!!!

[@shirleyfrancis4515]

I love the cadenza too

[@MJWilde]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!

[@TheAncientsumerian]

Thanks for this great piece. Anyone see the version by Louis Prima?

[@francescakray233]

Thank you. Is, this the Song/track favoured by Sonny Liston? Great track. The Bull of Lewisham.

[@jabulanimadli9012]

yay

[@Manfredo2208]

Where are the good music as that nowadays?

[@antechinus100]

Manfredo Jorge Right here, man.

[@marquissoles9371]

Money is more important these days it seems. Good music can't be sacrificed with anything

[@cord8529]

Manfredo Jorge und

[@venessabell5462]

I love 1952 the 2000 suck but 2016 didint

[@Nickeditp]

I play this song for a jazz group I'm in.

[@mayrafuenmayor3602]

❤

[@angelagreener6519]

4:18 when you forgot your homework

[@ronholm7547]

Sultry, big band blues supreme. And nobody channeled gritty sax better than Jimmy Forrest. He got some of the inspiration from his days with Duke Ellington, where part of "Night Train" originated kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnenmJ6siN6VZ6M I wonder if there are any video clips of Jimmy's solo on Ellington's "Deep South Suite". Regardless, this clip is a treasure. Thanks for posting it.

[@vitkolousek9540]

Cool

[@claphamchris]

Great stuff. Remember this from Last of the Blue Devils on TV about 15 years ago - terrific to see it again. Don't suppose the uploader has got Jumping at the Woodside too? Many thanks for the upload anyway

[@butch755]

SMOKEN' HOT! And would that be, could that be Buddy Rich rappin' the traps?

[@Longshotsblues]

That is Butch Miles and he was fabulous!

[@butch755]

Thanks for clearing that up for me! Powerful and on with the whole mood and pace of the piece. My favorite version of Night Train.@@Longshotsblues

[@George_Pueblo]

so great! Can I find this on any record??

[@antechinus100]

georg wilhelm It's from an old film 'The Last of The Blue Devils'. Big Joe Turner is in it, Jay McShann and others. Done in a club long gone in Kansas City.

[@aldoarmstrong]

LOL !!! Look at basie's face, at the end 4:18 !!! Btw: you call that awesome? I call that RAW!!!!

[@RomeKG471]

This song was played in Back To The Future, only a little faster.

[@DrJekyll38]

a little FASTER? At least use the proper term, Up-Tempo.

[@VanWinger]

This song was played in Back To The Future, only not swing.

[@Skynet_the_AI]

@@DrJekyll38 wow, what your problem?

[@tadgerdavidson5377]

Sonny Liston.....

[@TheVd101]

this used to be stripper music. lol

[@volemole]

Slow n' sleazy......

[@antechinus100]

'The Last Of The Blue Devils'

[@bin3703]

音が揺れてる😏これもswing じゃ❗😄

[@raefblack7906]

Damn , he didn't !

[@VanWinger]

Oh, no yeah, he didn't.

[@Skynet_the_AI]

Where's that punk, Calvin Klein?

[@bubbaries]

I like Jimmy's song Bag of Dreams better

[@alexhenderson8356]

The killer version of this is done by Louis Prima and Sam Butera. Way more sexy and powerful than this version. Look it up and judge for yourself.