When I first heard this piece, I was driving and I was only a couple blocks from home and got lost! This song is so hauntingly beautiful that I play it often before I sleep and I hear it in my dreams
Just astonishingly beautiful in its inventive improvisation of perhaps the greatest melody ever written for a popular song by the talented Mr Hoagy Carmichael. At 83 I sit here and wonder about how such near perfection can exist in a world so totally screwed up by humanity.
WHY make the effort to introduce hate for just some overreproduced ape species? Why not stew in your hate for all the minor irritations, mosquitoes, flies, midges, burrowing lice? Is THIS REALLY the place to introduce your hate?
Listen very carefully and you can hear Dave say "Yeah Beautiful" at the end of Pauls solo(How true).I have all nine recrdings that Dave and Paul made of this song,and still can't make up my mind which one I like best.
No has cut him yet on Cool, Tone and his MIND for improvisation. On one of the LP's he quotes 7 other tune heads during his solo... and it's always as clever as heck. He truly Sings on Sax. Peace out.
I just want you to know. I grew up on Paul & Dave cause my old man played Paul. Did gigs in his early 20’s. Sounded just like him. Carnegie Hall was my bible. I was missing him so much today and vis just crusherd me missing my Pop. Im 40. You posting this, just made my day. I thank you. Take care.
In the wee early morning hours I couldn't possibly find any better music of this recording of Paul Desmond and the rest of Dave Brubeck's group to lull me back to sleep. I have it set to loop but I'll bet I will be gone during the first go around. Thanks Paul and to whoever did the upload.
This surely is one of most impressive solo's of Paul Desmond's recordings. It is of an ethereal beauty and tells a story with such an evocative imagination and infinitive fantasy that it again and again moves me in a way that I cannot really explain. Only take the decending figure at the end of his solo (3:58) and you can only stand in awe for this lyrical genius.
I bought my first album of Brubeck and Desmond back in 1954. I have ' Jazz at Storyville 1954'. Great songs ' On the Alamo', Here Lies Love', Don't worry 'bout Me'. Also have Jazz at Storyville recorded Oct. 2, 1952 with my favorite ' Over the Rainbow'. Brubecks album 'Jazz goes to Junior College ' has what I believe is the best arrangment of ' St. louis Blues' . Just my opinion. Heard lots of changes in music over my 76 years.
From minute 2:05 to 2:43 is the music that plays when you enter heaven, it gives me chills when I listen to it, in my 18 years of life I don't think I have heard anything like it, I wish there was a Paul Desmond in my time. Thank you for uploading this beautiful piece and allowing my new generation to enjoy such beautiful music.
Desmond was an admirable soloist. His performances of great pieces of jazz art are still fondly remembered today and, I hope, will be remembered per secula seculorum. Saudades Maestro!
I was born in Brazil, land of great composers, but I am very fond about american music. Since I was a child I used to hear the best of american music in the radios of Rio de Janeiro.
Thanks for the music-rant. Desmond is the finest. Possibly because what he does is both exact and spontaneous, but never, never forced to be entertaining or odd.
Such a great song deserves the essential mastery of interpretation that is given here, as Desmond particular has a Bach touch, a sharp insight into the endless possibilities of recycling, rotating, interchanging inverting, reversing and rearranging all components...
My dad was a sax player and teacher. I have heard sax all my life, but never mistake Paul Desmond for anyone else. He was so creative, so artistic and so expressive. Not only that, he was a perfect technician. He could make the instrument do exactly what he wanted it to do. Fantastic, this brought tears to my 83 year old eyes.
Thanks and I concur with your description of Paul. If you haven't read Doug Ramsey's biography of him, you should. It describes as completely as possible how Paul was able to accomplish what he did.
This is one of my favourite songs on one of my favourite albums of all time. They were so very good. I wish I could have been there, but my mom was 5 years old when this was recorded.
This great version was unknown to me - does not happen very often when it comes to Brubeck and/or Desmond. Yet again, many thanks Frank for uploading this !!
My parents had a 78 rpm record of Hoagy Carmichaels "Stardust". Forget who the singer or band were. But it was a lovely pop song, back then. They also had Hogy Carmichael record, not sure of exact title, "I'm Giong Overboard with a Capital O", is main lyric. ❤ P.S. i couldn't relate to the interpretation, however, it is pretty Cool, . 😎
So beautiful! All of them...Paul's solo is rich, lush and full of harmonic surprize. Dave's solo is gorgeous. They were unabashedly comfortable with collectively reveling in the sheer beauty of the piece with no need for egoistic display of chops. Another time for sure....
The version is really great and the photo at 2.50 is really great too...And it's so nice to see them all smiling at 6.00-6.45 and again 7.40 - the end is wonderful...Bliss!
Actually, Fantasy, which Brubeck started, didn't even have the master tape as Dave found out years later....they had lost them! This tape of the entire concert was in Brubeck's possession, given to him by the college, after the performance and he had forgotten he had it until discovered in an old box years later.
Jan, Thanks for that tidbit, which I did not know. What someone could now easily provide, and I would love to see, is the listing of the order in which the tunes were performed at this concert. I even contacted the Fantasy complex when this was released in an attempt to find this out, but of course got nowhere.
Thanks so much. I was confusing the “Jazz At Oberlin” album with Vol. 1 of the College At Pacific. No worries now -- I have had this recording for years and didn’t even know it. Guess I need to listen to Vol. 2 more often -- : D
I hear that Paul Desmond, even that he was mainly a Jazz Saxophonist, he always had a semiclassical sound. Is that true? I love his sound and he was my main isnpiration to learn saxophone as a child.
Just one more thing. There are quite a few recordings of Stardust by Brubeck & his qurtet. All different but none come close to the beauty of this one.
@luisitosax If you really want to learn as much as possible about what made Desmond the unique genius that he was, I strongly recommend the "Take Five" biography by Doug Ramsey, who knew Paul for many years. It is packed full of fascinating details of Desmond's life.
@luisitosax Do you have the duet album he did with Gerry Mulligan from 1958 I think? "Blues in Time"...an early breakaway attempt from Brubeck, I've never heard Paul play better (when you are familiar with an artist's music, you feel that you know them and are free to call them by their first names!)...his playing sounds as fresh and alive today as it did when he played it at that midnight session 53 years ago...truly timeless...
@luisitosax Paul was the anti-Bird, just as Prez was the anti-Hawk...his laid back lagging approach, behind the beat sound, vibrato-less alto was the opposite of Johnny Hodges, Bird, and the rest...totally unique...I read somewhere that he stated he was trying to emulate a "dry martini" on alto!!! I think he accomplished this pretty well, don't you?
This is very hip. They do not state the melody in the beginning. But Paul outlines it from his first note. Hoagy Carmichael provided Jazz players with one of the few American Song Book songs that jazz players enjoy playing. The melody and harmonic structure puts it in the same class as for example Jerome Kerns " All the Things You Are.
@luisitosax His first wind instrument was the clarinet, which as you know requires a firmer, more rigid embouchure. That probably determined to some extent his approach to the alto. There is a "proper" tone for classical saxophone, but by the time Desmond got really good on alto he was not using it, fortunately, and never did thereafter. He was an original in every respect, including tone, which no one to my ears has ever replicated.
mornings have improved since I started listening to this beautiful jazz instead of the news
WOW - I am 100% with you. Cheers & Happy listening from South Africa ❤...
news?what is news?
Ya think !?!? It's all bad news. Zero good news 🗞️
@@dirkdiggler1895 depends on who you ask I guess. Lol
@@TheAmericanPrometheus it wasn't a question girl.
I was never a Jazz fan until listening to Paul Desmond.
Same! He might not be a technical virtuoso, but his sound and style is second to none. My favorite sax player.
@@musicdude1546 He was a technical virtuoso.
When I first heard this piece, I was driving and I was only a couple blocks from home and got lost! This song is so hauntingly beautiful that I play it often before I sleep and I hear it in my dreams
How long ago was that, may I ask?
Paul Desmond is so expressive and unfolds so feeling that reaches our sensibility.
Just astonishingly beautiful in its inventive improvisation of perhaps the greatest melody ever written for a popular song by the talented Mr Hoagy Carmichael. At 83 I sit here and wonder about how such near perfection can exist in a world so totally screwed up by humanity.
What a lie
WHY make the effort to introduce hate for just some overreproduced ape species?
Why not stew in your hate for all the minor irritations, mosquitoes, flies, midges, burrowing lice?
Is THIS REALLY the place to introduce your hate?
I'm grateful to TH-cam for making this masterpiece easily available to me.
From Paul’s horn to God’s ears. How lucky for us to be in the audience!
WELL SAID ❤...
I think Dave agrees - "Yeh".
Very nice combination of the cut with the photo montage.
Listen very carefully and you can hear Dave say "Yeah Beautiful" at the end of Pauls solo(How true).I have all nine recrdings that Dave and Paul made of this song,and still can't make up my mind which one I like best.
Right on, friend.... me too.
I'm guessing no two of them were the same.
What a wonderful conundrum for you!
Paul Desmond was, is and will be the greatest cool jazz alto-sax player. Unbelievable genius!
I like him too, but them's fightin' words!
Johny Hodges too but no competition as you say he is great beyond belief
don't forget art pepper
@@alvaro5805 and lee konitz
No has cut him yet on Cool, Tone and his MIND for improvisation. On one of the LP's he quotes 7 other tune heads during his solo... and it's always as clever as heck. He truly Sings on Sax. Peace out.
I just want you to know. I grew up on Paul & Dave cause my old man played Paul. Did gigs in his early 20’s. Sounded just like him. Carnegie Hall was my bible. I was missing him so much today and vis just crusherd me missing my Pop. Im 40. You posting this, just made my day. I thank you. Take care.
Astonishing. Paul Desmond and Chet Baker, those two... The album they made entitled "Together" is deep soul too.
I could listen to Paul all my life. I love Paul Desmond.... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
What a beautiful solo by Paul. No one else sounds like this, Wow
This piece is the perfect first song for the bride and groom to dance ♥️♥️.
haven’t heard this since high school. chills the entire time. utterly genius
In the wee early morning hours I couldn't possibly find any better music of this recording of Paul Desmond and the rest of Dave Brubeck's group to lull me back to sleep. I have it set to loop but I'll bet I will be gone during the first go around. Thanks Paul and to whoever did the upload.
Listening to this 71 years later on a miserable rainy day at home in France. Perfect.
this is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard in my entire life. how i wish i could play like dave did here, i hope i can, someday.
This surely is one of most impressive solo's of Paul Desmond's recordings. It is of an ethereal beauty and tells a story with such an evocative imagination and infinitive fantasy that it again and again moves me in a way that I cannot really explain. Only take the decending figure at the end of his solo (3:58) and you can only stand in awe for this lyrical genius.
Artie Shaw was one of Paul Desmond's heroes, and Shaw's version of Stardust is commemorated here.
I bought my first album of Brubeck and Desmond back in 1954. I have ' Jazz at Storyville 1954'. Great songs ' On the Alamo', Here Lies Love', Don't worry 'bout Me'. Also have Jazz at Storyville recorded Oct. 2, 1952 with my favorite ' Over the Rainbow'. Brubecks album 'Jazz goes to Junior College ' has what I believe is the best arrangment of ' St. louis Blues' . Just my opinion. Heard lots of changes in music over my 76 years.
We don't have anyone close to this today.
You are close to this.
Be there.
@@briseboy Haha. Not in this life!
This is the ONE.
This is Desmond and Brubeck at their elegant best.
Of you wake me in the middle of the night I'll recognize this beautifull unike sound
The sound of Paul Desmond should be on every radio station in the world on a daily basis
I was 14 DAYS old when this was made ! 61 years later, still good !!
MASTERPIECE - Elegant, sublime, and beautiful.
Thanks TH-cam for a commercial in the middle of this masterpiece. Classy
Beautiful RIP Paul
Dave, you best songs, ambolive songs.
From minute 2:05 to 2:43 is the music that plays when you enter heaven, it gives me chills when I listen to it, in my 18 years of life I don't think I have heard anything like it, I wish there was a Paul Desmond in my time.
Thank you for uploading this beautiful piece and allowing my new generation to enjoy such beautiful music.
Desmond was an admirable soloist. His performances of great pieces of jazz art are still fondly remembered today and, I hope, will be remembered per secula seculorum. Saudades Maestro!
Dave’s solo sounds like something Rachmaninov would write. So beautiful. The whole piece.
feeling like lying deep in the mountain looking at the starts in the night sky with absolute darkness
absolut - underbar jazzmusik - ju äldre ja blir desto skönare klingar den här musiken ,,,
Everything Paul Desmond played was GOLD!❤
I was born in Brazil, land of great composers, but I am very fond about american music. Since I was a child I used to hear the best of american music in the radios of Rio de Janeiro.
glob globobox I’m raised in America & I love Gal Costa. Brazil has fantastic music.
This takes me back to my childhood in NY and listening to Dave ?brubeck just great
I have been a fan of Dave and Paul for some 60+ years. Never heard this superb number before but so happy I now did. Thanks !!
A feast for the ears! Genius!
Thanks for the music-rant. Desmond is the finest. Possibly because what he does is both exact and spontaneous, but never, never forced to be entertaining or odd.
This is beautiful a nice escape from the world 😇🙏🏽
Such a great song deserves the essential mastery of interpretation that is given here, as Desmond particular has a Bach touch, a sharp insight into the endless possibilities of recycling, rotating, interchanging inverting, reversing and rearranging all components...
Paul knew how to blow his horn, this is supreme!
This is the tune composed by Hoagy Carmichael? He's not playing the melody, only using the chord progression to improvise, Charlie Parker style.
Brubeck and Paul Desmond are on my playlist also. Never left a comment here. GREAT JAZZ MUSICIANS. Really? I THINK SO.❤️🔥
My dad was a sax player and teacher. I have heard sax all my life, but never mistake Paul Desmond for anyone else. He was so creative, so artistic and so expressive. Not only that, he was a perfect technician. He could make the instrument do exactly what he wanted it to do. Fantastic, this brought tears to my 83 year old eyes.
Thanks and I concur with your description of Paul. If you haven't read Doug Ramsey's biography of him, you should. It describes as completely as possible how Paul was able to accomplish what he did.
So Training, Performing, and Ambitions became Legends!
I love this piece from the first note to the last♥️🔥.
In a word, sublime...
I always loved this tune by Dave and Paul ... I have not heard this particular version ... Thanks so much for posting it .. it is wonderful ...
grande Paul Desmond- una voce stupenda e inconfondibile con il suo sax contralto-
Most inventive and captivating. Thanks for sharing.
This is one of my favourite songs on one of my favourite albums of all time. They were so very good. I wish I could have been there, but my mom was 5 years old when this was recorded.
I come back to this most frequently. What a piece; emotion transmogrified.
This great version was unknown to me - does not happen very often when it comes to Brubeck and/or Desmond.
Yet again, many thanks Frank for uploading this !!
Two geniuses together
thanks ever so much for posting this beautiful rendition of an already beautiful creation they and Paul do it so much justice
The Time Out album is still fresh sounding to this day by the Dave Brubeck quartet.
Makes me think of my dear dad reggie ❤
My parents had a 78 rpm record of Hoagy Carmichaels "Stardust". Forget who the singer or band were. But it was a lovely pop song, back then. They also had Hogy Carmichael record, not sure of exact title, "I'm Giong Overboard with a Capital O", is main lyric. ❤
P.S. i couldn't relate to the interpretation, however, it is pretty Cool, . 😎
A truly wonderful book, a must for Desmond fans, or Jazz fans in general !!
So beautiful! All of them...Paul's solo is rich, lush and full of harmonic surprize. Dave's solo is gorgeous. They were unabashedly comfortable with collectively reveling in the sheer beauty of the piece with no need for egoistic display of chops. Another time for sure....
The version is really great and the photo at 2.50 is really great too...And it's so nice to see them all smiling at 6.00-6.45 and again 7.40 - the end is wonderful...Bliss!
JOE MORELLO de gran aporte , cuando formaron el cuarteto famozo y triunfador, del jazz eterno que tanto nos gusta
El baterista en esta pista es JOE DODGE.
76 years of listening to good jazz then you must know some stuff
Oh to have been in the audience that winter night in Stockton.
Sheer perfection. God bless Dave, Paul, Ron and Joe.
The nightingale tells his fairytale
A paradise where roses bloom
Excellent tune!
Beautiful
brilliantly
best version!
you can just hear the emotion behind the playing at 3:35
Batiful Jazz❤❤🎉😊
Yeah beautiful...!
wish i could project the gentleness of this tune on my trumpet
Stardust - Clark Terry 1967, on TH-cam. This composition was inspired by the improvisations on cornet of Bix Beiderbecke.
Actually, Fantasy, which Brubeck started, didn't even have the master tape as Dave found out years later....they had lost them! This tape of the entire concert was in Brubeck's possession, given to him by the college, after the performance and he had forgotten he had it until discovered in an old box years later.
Jan, Thanks for that tidbit, which I did not know. What someone could now easily provide, and I would love to see, is the listing of the order in which the tunes were performed at this concert. I even contacted the Fantasy complex when this was released in an attempt to find this out, but of course got nowhere.
magical
Thanks so much. I was confusing the “Jazz At Oberlin” album with Vol. 1 of the College At Pacific. No worries now -- I have had this recording for years and didn’t even know it. Guess I need to listen to Vol. 2 more often -- : D
I still treasure a jazz album pressed red from my Oberlin teacher, Arthur Dann. He taught classical but his jazz playing was wonderful!
I hear that Paul Desmond, even that he was mainly a Jazz Saxophonist, he always had a semiclassical sound. Is that true? I love his sound and he was my main isnpiration to learn saxophone as a child.
It is very true.
Just one more thing. There are quite a few recordings of Stardust by Brubeck & his qurtet. All different but none come close to the beauty of this one.
@luisitosax If you really want to learn as much as possible about what made Desmond the unique genius that he was, I strongly recommend the "Take Five" biography by Doug Ramsey, who knew Paul for many years. It is packed full of fascinating details of Desmond's life.
Watta beauty
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very very nice tnxalot
@kocn53 Thanks so much for your input! I also think that Desmond is unique.
I was expecting to hear Stardust being executed by this admirable "quartet" but .................. they played something else. !
@luisitosax Do you have the duet album he did with Gerry Mulligan from 1958 I think? "Blues in Time"...an early breakaway attempt from Brubeck, I've never heard Paul play better (when you are familiar with an artist's music, you feel that you know them and are free to call them by their first names!)...his playing sounds as fresh and alive today as it did when he played it at that midnight session 53 years ago...truly timeless...
@luisitosax Paul was the anti-Bird, just as Prez was the anti-Hawk...his laid back lagging approach, behind the beat sound, vibrato-less alto was the opposite of Johnny Hodges, Bird, and the rest...totally unique...I read somewhere that he stated he was trying to emulate a "dry martini" on alto!!! I think he accomplished this pretty well, don't you?
Hah hah hah
I don't think Paul was the anti-anything. His musical concept was all about melodicism and beauty.
2:20 to 2:35... incredible.
Good morning good night good life vibes. Paws up
Time to get a Bluetooth speaker for the kitchen. My phone will work for now. Another cold beer is in order for this song .
Hands, heart valves and faces
bfizzledizzle, the drummers use brushes, which they drag across the drum head to get that effect, as opposed to striking the head.
2:28 Glorious.
This is very hip. They do not state the melody in the beginning. But Paul outlines it from his first note. Hoagy Carmichael provided Jazz players with one of the few American Song Book songs that jazz players enjoy playing.
The melody and harmonic structure puts it in the same class as for example Jerome Kerns " All the Things You Are.
¡Yeah!
@luisitosax His first wind instrument was the clarinet, which as you know requires a firmer, more rigid embouchure. That probably determined to some extent his approach to the alto. There is a "proper" tone for classical saxophone, but by the time Desmond got really good on alto he was not using it, fortunately, and never did thereafter. He was an original in every respect, including tone, which no one to my ears has ever replicated.
thanks
wow 76 years then you know some stuff
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Two geniuses together