CBS television doc. from 1957 with Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk among others. (some hiccups included)
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@sandyjohnakin90492 жыл бұрын
I saw this live and still remember it even tho I’m now 84. So happy to have found this video!
@kennethtaylor964 Жыл бұрын
I was 7. Set my musical taste for life.
@blacsouljah Жыл бұрын
You witnessed history. You got bragging rights.
@ausbrum9 ай бұрын
I saw it: we were getting great kinescopes from US tv in Australia before videotape and satellite
@bandafenice48458 ай бұрын
Very lucky!!!
@gerfamar772 ай бұрын
Wow... I envy you. This can't be found anymore nowadays 😢
@postatility97033 жыл бұрын
After the show was over,Monk complained to his manager that Count Basie kept looking at him.Monk then said,"Next time I see him,I'm gonna look at him"...:
@hiota4510 жыл бұрын
You look at the line-up board and you realize this video is a national treasure.
@mathewmcgill6266Ай бұрын
No truer words were ever said.
@kaivrockАй бұрын
As someone else said, a national treasure. Coleman Hawkins is incredible. And is there anyone cooler than Count Basie?
@sharlafoster811610 ай бұрын
This was real talent. No autotune in sight. Just real talent and skill
@gerrythrash9 жыл бұрын
The thing that strikes me watching this is that those guys look like they're having the time of their lives in there. What a joy it must be to play the greatest music in the world with some of the greatest musicians in the world.
@joelRmontfort3 жыл бұрын
Performers and musicians were often taught to smile back in the day
@tedlesher28843 жыл бұрын
@@joelRmontfort If you think they were faking it you are very mistaken.
@MrOri622 ай бұрын
@@tedlesher2884 Forse voleva mettere in evidenza che allora, i Musicisti sorridevano di più, senza una sostanziale imposizione. Che Swing!! Tra i Batteristi che sorridono mentre suonano c'è di certo Billy Higgins❤
@jandzluvlyАй бұрын
There’s a good chance some of them were hating on themselves in true artist fashion.
@jimbrown1559 Жыл бұрын
This wonderfully produced live TV was American TV's finest hour. The one of the many lovely moments I'll never forget are Billie looking a Pres; second is Basie seated in the curve of the piano digging Monk. And of course, the clueless narrator reading from a script I strongly suspect he didn't "get."
@camofrog7 ай бұрын
Please never take this down. It's the only one with Monk. Without him it ain't right.
@MichaelTaylor-wl6ep8 күн бұрын
I would have really liked to have sat with my dad and watch it with him. He liked jazz but the part with Billie Holiday is outstanding.
@fromthesidelines9 жыл бұрын
Nobody thought Lester Young would step forward to deliver his solo at 35:43, because physically, he was in bad shape. But he DID- and Billie realized this was a final gesture to her, and their relationship. As jazz critic Nat Hentoff later recalled, watching this in the control room, "We were all crying."
@enokidake3 жыл бұрын
Honestly, some people seem to think that solo was great just because his liver was toast; but, for me, the choices he makes during that solo are some of the deepest most profound changes I have ever heard. This is my favorite ts solo of all time. It still brings tears to my eyes. I hear a whole, powerful life in that solo. I hear love and shared suffering.
@jimbrown1559 Жыл бұрын
And 65 years later, I still have the same reaction. Kudos to whoever told the director to take that shot of Billie digging Pres.
@fresuf211 жыл бұрын
I agree completely. Webster, Hawkins, and Mulligan play superlative solos, but what Lester plays is music of the gods. It sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. What a pleasure to hear music by adults for adults.
@AmyWinehouseLuv12 жыл бұрын
ohh how i love the sound of Jazz.!! Jazz is who i am , the music i was made to play, not pop and rap like all the other 15 year olds at my school, no baby i was made for the Jazz and the Blue...the SOUL!
@jazzguitar-isms17794 жыл бұрын
Jo Jones always looks so happy playing his drums. Love it!
@bealestreator8940 Жыл бұрын
At certain angles, doesn't Jo Jones resemble guitarist Kevin Eubanks?
@brucescott4261 Жыл бұрын
@@bealestreator8940 ...False!
@williamschletzer4516 Жыл бұрын
I have seen the Billie Holiday performance many times but tonight I finally got to watch the whole show. It was great. They sure don’t make TV like this anymore.
@isabellefrost58729 жыл бұрын
This is a TV gem !!! In those days, jazz shows were full part of our television culture. Unfortunately, they progressively and completely vanished, at least on the European television channels. In the 60s, my Dad and I (was in my tens) never missed one of them !!! Memorable and precious shared moments !!!
@bcrafford112 жыл бұрын
Gerry Mulligan - baritone sax. Just a twenty year old baby playing great with all the legends!
@brucescott42612 жыл бұрын
B ...Jeru was not twenty years old, he was thirty.
@neilpower6011 жыл бұрын
Could you imagine feeling the creative energy in that room
@Sambieg11 жыл бұрын
This is one of those gems of the internet, deeply buried under deep layers of mud.
@lljames12312 жыл бұрын
Jo Jones (October 7, 1911 - September 3, 1985) was an American jazz drummer.[1] Known as Papa Jo Jones in his later years, he was sometimes confused with another influential jazz drummer, Philly Joe Jones. The two died only a few days apart.
@LuisFlores-xr5bu3 жыл бұрын
Love how Count Basie looks at Monk with such admiration and respect
@brustdiesel Жыл бұрын
Count is being respectful. Look at Jimmir Rushing, and you see how the boys in the band really feel about the musical horror that is Monk...
@petemeis23412 жыл бұрын
This jazz was done in Dec. 1957. I got the album for my birthday in Feb. 1958. Guess what? I have it here, am looking at it, and Gerry Mulligan's name and T. Monk's name do not even appear on the album. I never noticed that before. One would think that all the artists would be featured, but, not so. Today is Sept. 26, 2012. The record is still in great shape.
@WPM_in_ATL3 жыл бұрын
The LP recording was done a few days before the TV show. Mulligan and Monk did not perform on the LP.
@ocnoreen12 жыл бұрын
My fave line in this tune is Love is just like a faucet, it turns off and on. Lady sure knew how to sing.
@30BirdsJazz12 жыл бұрын
35:43 "During the performance of "Fine and Mellow", Webster played the first solo. "Then", Hentoff remembered, "Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard, and [he and Holiday] were looking at each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and she was sort of nodding and half-smiling. It was as if they were both remembering what had been-whatever that was. And in the control room we were all crying. When the show was over, they went their separate ways." Ward and Burns.
@gerardonoriega1309 Жыл бұрын
No conocía yo estás interpretaciones que son de gran Calidad . Jazzistas Muy conocedores de sus instrumentos y muy aplicados y todo se complementa con la bella voz de Billie Holyday ; esa música es de mi agrado . Gracias .
@ianbeddowes53622 жыл бұрын
Jo Jones always had that smile when he was playing behind great musicians.
@oleflogger68288 жыл бұрын
All I can say is, "Thank goodness for KZbin!!" I would never have heard these guys together if KZbin wasn't around for some brilliant Jazz lover to post them. And, why I never saw CBS' show back in the 50s I'll never know. Thank you, thank you, thank you....
@gigant078 жыл бұрын
+Ole Flogger Unfortunately recently this documentary (The Sound of Jazz CBS 1957) has been blocked by people who own the rights. To all the people who saw it: Thanks for giving all your nice reactions.
@TorontoIam4 жыл бұрын
Ditto :)
@coolfool6012 жыл бұрын
THE AMERICAN ART FORM SET THE GOLD STANDARD ON THIS DAY....JO JONES IS THE BOMB1
@TVPJ12 жыл бұрын
Oh Lady Day even though both you and Lester would be gone within the next 2 years you still had that phrasing and sang with such emotion - love the smiles and the head nodding througout
@NOWFREEDOMMUSIC11 жыл бұрын
i'm sure you'd comprehend why Prez is my favorite, and to me, simply the greatest
@ellenringer52363 жыл бұрын
I am glad to see Lady in action without the focus on her singing. She was a musician, too and they recognized her contribution. Lester Young was talking to Lady through his soul and horn.
@alangiles2763 Жыл бұрын
Broadcast "live" December 7th 1957 - must have been the best Sunday broadcast that whole year anywhere. I have an LP of the rehearsal two or three days prior to the broadcast - only Theolonious Monk was missing from the rehearsal - interestingly that document was made available on a European "budget" label in the sixties.
@marcellisrobinson9 жыл бұрын
This is solid gold. TV Land was simpler and better in the 50's, no doubt about it. Can you imagine a show like this on network TV today? There simply isn't an audience for it now, because our culture has become so dumbed down during the last half century. The presentation of jazz has disappeared even from PBS these days. Too bad for us.
@oleggorky9069 жыл бұрын
Not forgetting that many "artists" can't actually sing live, they get found out. No on stage mixing back then, the audience could tell whether or not you were any good or if you were shit. A lot of musicians avoid live televised music like the plague because they are scared that they don't sound right. Thank fuck there was a time when people were more adventurous.
@ianbeddowes53622 жыл бұрын
Without doubt, Basie was the greatest ever Big Band pianst.
@geokaks111 жыл бұрын
Billie Holiday-simply the best! See 36:07 - watch her expression. She knows something we'll never know!!
@fromthesidelines9 жыл бұрын
Originally telecast live as part of "THE SEVEN LIVELY ARTS" series on Sunday afternoon, December 8, 1957, at 5pm(et).
@3143394rws11 жыл бұрын
What a pity that so many of these wonderful players probably never thought that their music woulf be so greatly appreciated so long after they departed the scene. That blues singer (male)_ wan a real ear opener to me. Absolutely loved it. Please enjoy and recommend.
@CarlosUPozzobon10 жыл бұрын
All the "sacred monsters" of the time. Dazzling.
@johnleggatt495314 сағат бұрын
All great artists
@Drake.Robey.9 жыл бұрын
Priceless jazz history !!!!!!
@QuintinPenola11 жыл бұрын
billie holiay is beautiful
@Amyls6411 жыл бұрын
Oh My God. This has to be the best video on youtube!
@DoctorzWhiskey10 жыл бұрын
This is really a treasure. It must be shared to current and future generations till the end of times. Also, someone has the entire list of musicians participating in this film? I can't really understand the host.
@wholzman29 жыл бұрын
The recording was in stereo, and it was a treat to hear Billie Holiday in Stereo for she made very few recordings with the 2 channels. Yes, awesome stuff.
@WPM_in_ATL3 жыл бұрын
Close. The Columbia LP recordings were from the rehearsal, in stereo. The TV show was indeed in Mono, as it would be at least 25 years before stereo was available on US TV. You can hear differences in the performances if you listen closely.
@plasteredbastard Жыл бұрын
the joy on all those players faces tells the story of musicianship
@jorymil Жыл бұрын
It's interesting to see how cymbal sizes have gotten larger over the years. Jo Jones looks like he's playing on 12" hi hats.
@Greenliongoldensun11 жыл бұрын
pffff this music is so , gangster,relaxing, smooth, everythifsgkn
@Trumpeter23459 жыл бұрын
Holy mother of god...39:57 Why can't this come on television nowadays(besides the obvious ofcourse)..just makes me want to have a jam session with all my friends.
@34skidoo19 ай бұрын
Giants of music!
@harri2626 Жыл бұрын
Sheer magic. Musicians who had a lifetime of honing their skills and now performing in the sure knowledge that their talents will shine and make them fly. There will never be any group of jazz musicians like these every again. Thank you for posting the full show.
@eduardocastro694711 жыл бұрын
Cuesta creer cierto que esta constelaciòn de genios del jazz pudieran reunirse en una sesiòn de grabaciòn y dejarnos este testimonio tan elocuente de sus respectivas capacidades musicales. Todo un regalo del cielo !!!!! Gracias por permitirnos gozar de tamaña grandiosidad de la mùsica del jazz !!!!!!!!!!
@garlandkallam84910 ай бұрын
Tearjerker is an understatement.. before there was none and after they will never be again.
@neilpower6011 жыл бұрын
The days when music was a career and not five minutes on a talent show
@eddieroberts6801 Жыл бұрын
Wow
@tromboneJTS11 жыл бұрын
Hi NIttacci, I think the trombonist is Vic Dickenson. He also plays a 12-bar blues solo with Billie Holiday just before Gerry Mulligan.
@victornazaire342112 жыл бұрын
The battery guy makes it look like it`s a cinch ! Marvellous!
@peregrine122211211 жыл бұрын
Best thing ever shown on television.
@michaelwilcox51684 жыл бұрын
Coleman and Young back to back. Twin pillars of the saxophone.
@ludimisa9 жыл бұрын
This day ( 08. XII ) should be celebrated.
@cherylrobinson1885 Жыл бұрын
They are having so much fun
@2dasimmons11 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a treasure!!
@MeelaESQ11 ай бұрын
OMG!!! To get to watch Monk play with Basie watching - priceless!
@jibsmokestack112 жыл бұрын
So many great names here. Unbelievable line-up of legends!
@57dogsbody12 жыл бұрын
Roy always has to turn everything into a cutting contest......BRILLIANT!!!
@hipcatwho10 жыл бұрын
I guess the Prez and the lady are out. working out the various riffs and raffs this and that. Well They are the star's of the show.
@latoyamcghee152410 ай бұрын
Wow!!! My dad would have loved this!!! May He Rest in Peace!!! He was a very Big fan of Jazz music and I love it also!! I can remember coming home from school and my dad would be fixing on things around the house and He would play Jazz all day 😂❤ very good memories!! 🎉
@ZootSuits112 жыл бұрын
Can't thank you enough for the upload. These guys are immortal.
@bdonnici3 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this as a 6 year old. Was in awe of Billie.
@Johnflugelhorn10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this the Greatest Jazz show ever on TV! I don't mean maybe.
@girafferythm11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this classic piece of jazz. I'm particularly grateful for the Billie Holiday piece 'Billies Blues' with the 'spectre like' appearance of Lester Young for eight bars... when one remembers that both Billie and Lester,once 'romantically' linked, at this point, were only months away from leaving the planet! Beautiful coincidence?
@robingarey11 жыл бұрын
it is hard to imagine that musicians can do this!!! Yeahhhh Y'all, here in Port Orange, please listen to this stuff, and get into your soul! Thanks
@hughn112 жыл бұрын
What a treasure we have here! I missed this live TV show because I was living in the barracks after joining the Air Force. Gerry Mulligan, one of the kings of cool jazz is here playing the blues...!!! Philly Joe Jones, I had the pleasure of watching him in person at the NCO Club, Clark Air Base during the Vietnam War. He was part of the trio backing one of the greatest singers, non other than Billy Eckstein!!! What a wonderful evening that was!
@gregthiel7318 Жыл бұрын
Love Jo Jones' smile
@trentreed112 жыл бұрын
Colman Hawkings one of my Tenner hero's
@MrRiveraRosa12 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your reply. I have been a big fan of Coleman Hawkins for many years, but was not aware of this video recording. It is amazing! So many legends playing together, seeming to have a very good time enjoing each other.
@ferdinangenius11 жыл бұрын
This was heaven and still is so
@foobird5811 жыл бұрын
what a gathering of jazz greats in a studio playing , thank you for posting this.
@postatility97033 жыл бұрын
If this were shown today on Netflix, CBS,CNN, or anywhere else,guess what....? It would be a sensation!Why? because with all the over-produced,overwhelmingly over- teched and frankly uninspiring musical choices presented in today's media,the sheer joy and spirit of this brilliant show would win the day. (And perhaps today's modern audience might get a chuckle out of the unsophisticated,slightly nervous 50's style host)Anyway,I'm writing this as I'm enjoying "Wild Man Blues" for about the 200th time
@MrRiveraRosa12 жыл бұрын
It is so wonderful when we see an artist, a white dude just enjoying the playing of Coleman Hawings.
@raymondchorneau8891 Жыл бұрын
begining at 24:30 , Monks set with Basie sitting at the other end of the piano is some interesting people watching...cheers
@rudolfrotnase5290 Жыл бұрын
when music was a handmaded soul
@MrPoupard12 жыл бұрын
A remarkable document ...... not only the music ..... but the style of the TV presentation ..... another world, all of 55 years ago ....... thank you for posting
@Twentythousandlps7 ай бұрын
Columbia Records made a record, but from sessions the day before the telecast.
@brustdiesel10 жыл бұрын
go to The Greatest Jazz Film Ever Part 2 to see the whole thing....amazing
@santiagofernandes41302 жыл бұрын
Olá, leitores! Conheci este gênero (jazz) em 2009. Deveras, foi uma ascenção na minha vida de cultura musical. Passei, depois disso, a conhecer um pouco mais, da beleza extraordinária da música americana. Devo dizer com emoção, alegria e assertividade: Gratidão!!! Esse povo é simplesmente demais. Grandes, valorosos músicos, que, trazem, aos nossos ouvidos, sensibilidade... solene diálogo sonoro, que, nos faz refletir, com serenidade, e, principalmente, sentir a emoção, da grandeza da boa música! Imortal e louvado seja o jazz (mais uma criatividade sublime do ser humano)!...
@nfcstudios23069 жыл бұрын
...found this because of a post on Instagram. It said, "Repeat for life" Agreed.
@denisnoelsmith2 ай бұрын
Billie Holiday one of the great female blues singers and I include Bessie Smith, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga - contentious I know but there it is
@terrryc12 жыл бұрын
This is as it should be--Everybody digging everybody else's contribution, regardless of any other factors like age or race...
@1947Rollo12 жыл бұрын
Che perla di filmato.Questo è il jazz che adoro.Visto e ascoltato da una quantità di giganti messi assieme,fa tremare le vene ai polsi.Tutti meravigliosi e tutti degni di citazione,ma una parola in più voglio spenderla per Hawk,il mio tenore preferito.E' straordinaria la naturalezza con cui soffia nel suo sax(che ha un'ancia tra le più dure,se non la più dura) dopo ben 34 anni di carriera.Un monumento.Non ringrazierò mai abbastanza chi ha caricato questo video.Cordiali saluti.
@lucianoinvernizzi5027 Жыл бұрын
Sono pienamente d’accordo, Luciano invernizzi
@jenvienna12 жыл бұрын
Historic!!!
@Pearlbitch2 жыл бұрын
28:25 Mr 5 by 5 ❤
@rodolfovegaatoche65429 жыл бұрын
que sentimiento al interpretar!
@2dasimmons11 жыл бұрын
I love this music and the bass playing. Divine!
@fraserhayes1541612 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much uploader!
@bonmot785011 жыл бұрын
Man, Joe can play that Red Allen tune in his sleep...
@marianofranciscogarciazaba83824 жыл бұрын
What a masterpiece!!. Grettings from Spain
@orchidlilly75184 ай бұрын
Tops !!!! Thank-you*
@Kingddd33312 жыл бұрын
Their faces are great!
@pianopappy11 жыл бұрын
I was a high-school senior when this program aired on CBS-TV on a Sunday afternoon in December 1957. I recorded the sound track from WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. I listened to that tape so many times I felt I knew every note. I appreciate this post; however, the source ran a bit fast--so much so that the music is 1/2 step too high. Also the tunes are out of order. Probably the best sources are a 1980's VHS of the entire program and a CD that has better sound. I hope to combine them someday.
@himesilly12311 жыл бұрын
The year I was born! Good stuff yeah!!!!
@intao2349 жыл бұрын
This is great! Thanks to whoever posted this!
@Kredeidi12 жыл бұрын
Timeless awesome stuff!
@Soix12 жыл бұрын
half-way through "the literary obsession" by the host of this great serie, john crosby.. what a leyend