The Mooche - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

[@rolfaalberg]

I am 82 and fell in love with the music of Duke at 16 and still love it madly! Incredible!

[@renoraider9817]

Good on yer, mate. I hope you are still alive and well!

[@zack2009]

Reno Raider ooof, Rest In Peace (I doubt you’ll read this)😥

[@renoraider9817]

@@zack2009 Surprise!

[@AndreaStrazzulli]

@@renoraider9817 Great!

[@GeorgeRBuck]

Me too, except I'm 80, and it was around 15!

[@henrikkjrgaard1124]

THIS IS - by far - one of the greatest music preformances... . . . EVER!!. . .. -and music IS the greast art mankind has accheved! IF? You ask me! --- and I DOOO love it every time....

[@gregarnold1696]

The coolest of cats Duke was the definition of elegance his band is still the standard 🎩✌🏽

[@NgaiOlaudah]

Thanks for the upload! The Mooche is one of the greatest classics of Jazz from the Harlem Jazz Renaissance of Black American Music... sensuous, sinewy & just plain beautiful music! Thank you!

[@Bix12]

what a time that must've been

[@SamanthaTrippy]

Iʻm 13 years old, and I love pop punk, screamo, and alternative music but, I also fall in love with this each time I listen to it. (:

[@tpxchallenger]

If it sounds good, it is good. The miracle of music.

[@Beking27]

you must be 26 now XD

[@DOAer]

The sax part at 2:30 during the trombone solo is killer!

[@qualqui]

Growin' up in SE Utah, remember hearin' Duke Ellington's name but never really experienced his music, until now, and oldies never get old, they get BETTER!!! 5*****=)

[@ernest747]

Ellington was a legend and it's undisputable.

[@bobsaturday4273]

Lawrence Brown was one of three notable trombone players in the Ellington orchestra. The other two were Joe (Tricky Sam) Nanton, known for a growling trombone, and Juan Tizol, who wrote ''Caravan'' with Duke Ellington.

[@Bati_]

1:55: What an intense interaction, it is impeccable. All of my life, my memories, my dreams can be described within this sound.

[@OthoDaFe]

I wish the audio quality was better because the guys are killing it.

[@ricardofranciszayas]

Amazing clanetists!!! The last few measures of the piece was soooo modern. Duke was extraordinary

[@zunaidijoenet4729]

Suwun mpun maringi pangertos reno-reno music jazz... Duke punggowo jazz band ingkang sae..

[@rachelreichert1966]

This is exquisite!

[@melifever]

Listened to the clarinet duo like five times in a row. Can't get over it!! Who is on clarinet here?

[@barrygardiner5446]

In the clarinet duo it is Russell Procope up front taking the lead and Jimmy Hamilton behind providing the response. Wonderful.

[@purkasz]

The greatest band ever and in their prime too!!! This is 1950-53 and we got to see Jimmy Hamilton and Russell Procope on clarinet with Willie Cook on trumpet. Not sure about the trombone...Louie Bellson drums. Wendell Marshall bass. This tune used to have a killer baritone sax solo by Harry Carney but not in this filmed performance. This tune, THE MOOCHE, can be heard in full on the Columbia recording session ELLINGTON UPTOWN...many other great tunes on this album as well...enjoy

[@Maltloaflegrande]

I think the trombonist is Tyree Glenn.

[@bonehengemusic989]

Trombone plunger soioist was Quentin "Butter" Jackson, who replaced Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton upon Nanton's death in 1946.

[@christophercanzoneri2962]

Is that Willie Smith on alto? Was he filling in for Johnny Hodges?

[@tftkadawidalle6342]

Ray Nance was on far right on trumpet during the clarinet opening refrains. He was also a wonderful singer and violinist of the highest order.

[@Nocturnal11Guy]

Wow!

[@ahmadshamir934]

I came here from Mafia I : The Lost City of Heaven thank you for bringing back all my memories

[@angelabryant8808]

The "Impeccable" Duke Ellington the Epitome of Perfection. My goodness do you hear Ray Nance on Trumpet "Inimitable" I love you Duke💖.

[@fluffshepnetwork7067]

Ray Nance is so awesome.

[@DA0K]

I enjoy every second of this. Masterpiece.

[@simonadz1754]

the trumpet is doing all the talkin here I luv it

[@racializedkanadian]

I'll hand it to my exNAVY music teacher who made us do Glenn Miller's 'In the Mood' in junior high band class, which then ultimately launched my love of Big Band Jazz. I think it was later in high school that I found my way to the DUKE and his marvellous work. The Mooche is quite frankly one of the most amazing pieces of music EVER. For context, I was born in the 60's. As well, Its wonderful to see such an integrated audience, together, enjoying one of THE best bands in music history. Wish I could've been there!

[@BMurdaDaSteppa]

Living in New Orleans, I grew up around music like this. I love this city.

[@melimelo4311]

And the drummer is Louie Bellson

[@melimelo4311]

Still cannot get over this performance. I have watched this video many times, sometimes five or six times in a row.

[@davidamaral1519]

That drummer is the front of your time look at that two drums drums, more than two dishes. Hand this is only used nowadays

[@cascara2801]

And he's a badass

[@thendrjazz]

From the 1955 film. Rock n' Roll Revue. The mc is Willie Bryant who had led a band in the swing era and was the mc at the Apollo Theatre for much of the 1950s. This is when Jimmie Lunceford alumnus, Willie Smith, was playing lead alto in the band. He doesn't solo but you can see him over the heads of the soloists in the middle of the front row of the orchestra.

[@franznarf]

1st useful comment

[@fromthesidelines]

This was originally filmed as a Snader "TeleScription" in 1952.

[@PaulieVideos]

Mafia the City of Lost Heaven, Works Quarter

[@sgmt1974]

Yeah !! Great sound !! This tune drive me !!

[@JeraldRJ1]

Love Duke and his band. Those plungers are amazing tools to use for trump and tromb.

[@elizabethfarrington5018]

The ensemble playing, individual playing, and dynamics make this cut amazing!!!

[@mitzyfied546]

Wow😍 this song came out on The Addams family movie , how awesome!!

[@xquavius]

I like the raspy sound of the trombone player with the plunger at 2:50

[@TomParmenter]

Bubber Miley

[@kirintsune]

@@TomParmenter Bubber Miley played trumpet, and had been dead 30 years when this was recorded in 1952.

[@1hemulen]

@@kirintsune Quentin Jackson

[@vanessacerda9611]

I love this!!!

[@yannickloger7012]

In my past life i was there for sure....

[@thehurricanekingsandsomebo5736]

heck of a clarinet player amazing stuff

[@gwenredding9760]

I'm playing this song for Sue Brown in the hospital. The physical therapist wants her to walk, so I'm playing Duke, Basile and Lunceford. This music is for Dancrrs Only. Mrs. Brown was married to NFL Legion Jim Brown. We are strutting out of the hospital today.

[@xquavius]

I have to listen to this as my homework and I actually like it lol it's pretty good music, I understand why people liked it, for my test I have to listen to: Glenn Miller-"In The Mood" & "Chattanooga Choo Choo" Benny Goodman-"Sing Sing Sing" Duke Ellington-"The Mooche" & "Take the A Train" I love it and wish me luck on my listening test.

[@AkiKimura07]

what? you got the same assignment i do

[@xquavius]

wait what? well I guess some teachers give out the same assignments.

[@AkiKimura07]

i guess they do

[@xquavius]

I got all of the answers right and now these songs are stuck in my head lol p.s. sorry for the late comment.

[@AkiKimura07]

great that you aced the test, at least you got some good music going through your head

[@naruino123]

That trombonist is just.;o mind blowin.;D

[@fluffshepnetwork7067]

Louie Bellson is excellent on this! As are the clarinets, including the great Jimmy Hamilton.

[@michaelgatheringdust]

THIS is how it's done!

[@bronwynecg]

If you pause at 2:16 , that's my Uncle Wendell! :P

[@marlondavis1000]

1:53 - 3:04 listen the sound of Duke's piano...AMAZING!...2:41 look Duke,he is very IN,see is face,he touch the divine just 4 a short moment!!

[@jwentzien]

Louis B. sportin' the double kicks!

[@realkingofantarctica]

Still brilliant to this day.

[@49kasey]

@sonomabob There is a fantastic album called Ellington Uptown that was released around this time that has this tune, Take The A Train (great scat vocal) Perdido and a long tune called Skin Deep that features Louis Bellson in what has my vote as the most musical and exciting drum solo ever recorded. Towards the end he's flailing away while using double foot pedals! I would have liked to have seen a drum battle with Buddy Rich.

[@bennyjazzful]

WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan.

[@Corrie121]

Just awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[@santicraft8]

I love that he freaks out when they start clapping at 3:06, and then when the song finally ends he's like "NOW you can clap."

[@Largo64]

Louis Bellson was one of the greatest drummers of all time. Or I should say IS, unless he has died since I met him a couple of years ago. He was still playing. His drumming style was what ya call "tasty." A really nice guy, too. A gentleman.

[@Maltloaflegrande]

In his autobiog, Ellington claimed not only to not know anybody who didn't like Bellson, but also to not know of anybody that Bellson didn't like. Perhaps that's the key to it?

[@michaelgatheringdust]

Sadly he passed at 84 years old in 2009. He definitely personified "smooth"!

[@DA0K]

FANTASTIC

[@umbrellashotgunman]

Heh, the original version was recorded by Duke's band in 1928.

[@Bandit-Darville]

Anton Lavey made a very nice cover of this on his organs and keyboards. Love the video, awesome!

[@eodan8490]

I love it! Thanks for the upload.

[@alwitt3094]

This music is called traditional jazz. It's so soulful usually no lyrics are necessary.

[@awsome1605]

This is swing, traditional jazz is a European term referring to New Orleans Jazz and I agree, incredibly soulful

[@OthoDaFe]

Nah, this is swing music.

[@fluffshepnetwork7067]

However, this piece, which is swing, has some very innovative avant-garde elements.

[@hefenzy]

Working quarter theme in Mafia The City of Lost Heven

[@chriscorman734]

A man that insisted on writing music even on his deathbed can only be called an icon shame on anyone who doesn't know him

[@rolom3]

Yesss 🙌

[@mchenrymaney262]

True, but I wouldn’t shame the people for not knowing him,but to just enlighten them with his music.

[@Hubtones1]

Shane on our school systems actually, they don't mention these guys enough. These kids think blacks always rapped

[@bobsaturday4273]

why shame on "anyone" , is it their fault somehow ? like the other guy said SHAME ON THE SCHOOLS ! for indulging the children in the low grade trash the companies push out today , instead of EDUCATING them in our proud history ! anything any anybodys gonna look back at these pimps and whore crap and rap proudly for ?

[@JuanFecit]

Muchas gracias por compartirlo.

[@Super24karat]

I can see girls burlesque dancing off this, I love it

[@ADURG1]

THANK YOU for posting this beauty! !

[@jrock0789]

@rolfaalberg I was about the same age when I discovered jazz and have loved it since!

[@luizdemarco99]

what a f******* incredible video

[@LovePotion_]

@jrock0789 I guess you are right. BioShock is what got me into this kind of music. Now, i aquired a taste for Jazz and Swing... And it's AWESOME. Don't know why it took me so long to enter this world.

[@HEADSUPBERKELEY]

GREATEST CLARINET best band! Love it Thanks

[@TheloniousCube]

The tune was first recorded in 1928, but this version is from the early 1950's. Louis Bellson was only in the band from ~1950-53 (maybe not even that long).

[@rothirigoyen]

Belleza!!!!!

[@davidamaral1519]

Mafia 1

[@MotherBenn]

Louie Bellson was married to the great entertainer and U.S. goodwill ambassador Pearl Bailey.

[@williamcooper182]

James Benn I met Louie and Pearl at the DC Zoo when I was young.

[@saeho90]

I Heard this song in 'Works Quarter'...

[@kaalima]

Ray Nance on trumpet !

[@personthewat]

MAFIA MUSIC FTW!!!!! fun game

[@DmitriyK12]

Ughhh, darn it, 04 videos of this playlist are completely blocked in the U.S. of A. ... sometimes life isn't fair !?

[@adstocklad]

@vpmitchell The magnificent Jimmy Blanton died in 1942 from tuberculosis. He was with the Duke for only two years during the outstanding period in the orchestra's history which is remembered as the Blanton-Webster band. I would guess that the bass player is probably Wendell Marshall who held that slot from '48 to '55 (he would have been 35yrs) - assuming the recording is in 1955. I believe Jimmy Woode took over from him. He was in the line up at the '56 Newport Festival.

[@andyrob44]

hot damn its the soggy bottom boys! oh wait its the greatest band to ever live.

[@chizzeln.t.w.k1920]

Found it , now im bavk 8n time folks 😮

[@progangster24]

~Thanks~ ich liiiiiebe diese Muuusik ~~~

[@melooolem]

nehadajme sa...aj tak je v mafii najsoundtrack aky kedy bol ku hre zlozeny...tu hru hram 3 roky a len kvoli muzike....a myslim ze niesom jediny

[@colonelolrik4447]

Mon frère Duke tu étais un roi!

[@Thelonesometraveller]

The version in Mafia is the Ellington's original version of the 1927.Vocal by Baby Cox

[@54spiritedwill54]

i love the clariiet solo

[@Expectadorable]

Gracias. Lo comparto.

[@romanbas7450]

Doble bombo!

[@fizola88]

that´s great

[@estoniaman]

I should get somewhere this sheet and start practising with my clarinet :D .

[@meuhey]

mannn i love mafia game and this song is the best in the game, omfg

[@xwxwxwxw3231]

0:24 ...Tommy?

[@ABrandsma]

I'm sorry to correct you, but the trombone solo is by Quentin Jackson. He also did the muted trombone solos with Ellington in a legendary concert in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Trumpet solo is by Ray Nance.

[@flipoarnold]

no. it is really quentin jackson. watch the movie "Duke Ellington - VIP's boogie" on youtube. There you see him playing and duke calls his name.

[@billydee4272]

Solo trumpet is the personification of a hep cat’s cat if a hep cat’s cat was a person.

[@Matezak]

I want to live in 30's :-/

[@Largo64]

I didn't hear that before. That's a shame. He was a fine man, and probably the greatest drummer.

[@melimelo4311]

L to R: Harry Carney, Russel Procope & Jimmy Hamilton

[@rogeriosousa9474]

The Mooche. See too on the movie The Family Addams.

[@AndrewJohnson238]

r.i.p. louie.

[@MrSwingGuitar]

@BluelightSpike That's Willie Bryant the :"Mayor of Harlem" doing the intro.

[@fenderman615]

were playing this song in my jazz band. i guess theres a banjo used for this song. so i have a day to learn how to play banjo for tomarrows concert. lol

[@janlabij7302]

In the original version, there was a banjo, so look for Duke's 1928 version.

[@MattMurdockCZ]

Muzika v exteriérech - městských čtvrtích a na venkově jsou originály od Djanga Reindardta a Dukea Ellingtona... Zbytek jako úvodní znělka, hudba k honičkám v autech apod. je už Pražský orchestr

[@davidamaral1519]

That drummer is the front of your time look at that two drums drums, more than two dishes. Hand this is only used nowadays

[@RichardPhillipsDJ]

@54RossB I'm pretty sure Gene Krupa never played in Ellington's orchestra, the drummer is in fact Louis Belson as the uploader says (and thanks jrock, while I'm about it!). Evidence - look at the names on the drums at 1:15... The one behind the Duke's head has "Louis Belson" on it. :) Loving this recording.

[@liptonikx344]

I love mafia 1 😫😫😫😫😫

[@PauliPPariah]

Does anyone know the soloists? Might be Cootie Willams on trumpet, but the clarinet player?& the great trombonist? Who played drums? Who's on first? What's on 2nd.I dunno on 3rd!

[@melimelo4311]

Pauli PPariah I believe the clarinetists here are Harry Carney, Russel Procope & Jimmy Hamilton (from left to right)

[@melimelo4311]

***** On drums is Louie Bellson. Isn't he grand?

[@ATHIL118]

The clarinets are indeed Harry Carney, Russell Procope, and Jimmy Hamilton. The trombonist is Quentin Jackson, who started playing plunger after Tyree Glenn left Duke. The trumpet soloist is actually Ray Nance, the successor of Cootie Williams.

[@aintthatsomeshit2920]

***** Louie Bellson is also the husband of Pearl Bailey.

[@mr.lijahkthe1st112]

...and Who's on first, What's on second, and I dunno is on third.