I saw Thad Jones in 1974 in Youngstown, Ohio. He was a guest with the Youngstown Univ. lab band. Unbelievable concert and what a great honor for those young students! This is America’s classical music! Something to be proud of. I wonder if any future generations will ever come up with anything as real and genuine as this?
Has there ever been a tighter drummer than Sonny Payne? This version of Corner Pocket has been viewed over 54,000 times. 500 of them have probably been mine. Thad Jones and Al Aarons, --WOW what range and intonation. I saw a couple of BACH Mt Vervon Strads in the top row, just like mine, now belongs to my grandson Riley McManus in Seattle. He'll be in a similar back row some day. PP
As to Bach Model 6 Mt. Vernon Strad trombones, I've got two, one totally restored built in 1935, the other built in 36' & looks it's age but plays better than anything coming down the pike. These horns are my pride and joy & no family member who wants them except to sell.
In the 2007 performance of this tune with Bill Hughes conducting, did you catch the Monette that Scotty Barnhardt was using? His tone is absolutely incredible.
I first saw Sonney Payne in '71 at Disneyland with the great Harry James band (I was just 17). Sonny, during a 5 minute solo, stood up and began walking completely around his set and sat down, and NEVER MISSED A BEAT NOR DROPPED A STICK. The guy was incredible.
I was fortunate enough to see Basie and his band live around 1980 not long before he passed away. He had to enter the stage on an electric scooter but once he was seated at his piano all was right with the world again. I also got to see Duke Ellington and his band live around 1970. Both were once in a lifetime experiences for me. I saw Ellington in Pensacola and Basie in Tallahassee, Florida.
If I'm in the saddest, ugly, meanest mood all I have to do is turn on the Count and listen to Corner Pocket not once but it takes about 3 or 4 times to actually hear the richness of the horns, bass, drums separately and then one more time as they all come together. This song takes me to .....out of the world without any cares. If only I could have sat in the audience and surround myself with it all. Maybe in my next life!
Grew up listening to dad's Basie albums. The thing that set Basie bands apart was their amazing section work. 4 instruments in each of the three sections playing as one.
1 9 6 2. Can you imagine ? I just heard this tune on my local radio station in Worcester, Mass yesterday and I'm seeing this video for the first time and it gave me CHILLS !! Sonny Payne, what a GREAT DRUMMER !! 10.27.21
We may not ever make music like this again. But rest assured, the tradition of jazz is alive and well, both here in the US as well as many places around the world: San Juan, La Habana, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Johannesburg and more. The music may not be quite the same as it was in decades past, but it is as vibrant and powerful as ever. Jazz is an ever evolving tradition. Don't rush to judge its most recent evolutions -- leave that to future generations. Let us continue to venerate these elder masters, while at the same time let us open our ears and our hearts to what the new generations of masters are saying.
This brings back great memories...I used to see them live all the time in the 50's..+ I made out with the bassist Eddie Jones 1 evening..totally innocent.& my girlfriend was with Joe Williams..They were perfect gentlemen..we were only teenagers then..
I only got to see him twice. Once in San Francisco, and once in Santa Cruz. By the way, the album "Chairman of the Board" is the best miked vinyl album ever made.
Dig Sonny's little double time ditty on the splash cymbal at the beginning of Thad's solo. What an all star ensemble. All three solos are fabulous. Al Aarons and Frank Wess ... totally underrated talents!
Love it! You must be a drummer. Most people wouldn't know what a "splash cymbal" was. There are ride cymbals, hi-hats, crash cymbals, China cymbals, and (have I forgotten anything?) splash cymbals.
The Manhattan Transfer made a fantastic recording of this song in which they substituted all the instruments with their voices. It was amazing. Just like this rendition is.
Listening to jazz was still more fun than listening to rock/pop music at least until 1965/66. Then ten years of both, until jazz started vanishing up its own posterior, and has stayed there ever since.
In the 1970-80s, my father directed a big band orchestra and as a child he trailed me along - this is one of my favorites. Right on! Thank you for uploading. Be well within.
This number is also called "Until I Met You". Music composed by Freddie Green and with lyrics by Donald Wolf, it was recorded by Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughan, among others.
I first played this tune over 40 years ago and have always wondered if it really WAS supposed to be the same as Until I Met You. Today I was actually in a position to ask Google the question and - sure enough! - same song. I can die now.
Basie said one time in a documentary, what did he want on his tombstone, he said, "Two words, 'Nice Guy'". Basie and Kenton. A touch of Woody. You can have all the rest.
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And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, was the master class in big band swing. If I had a big band, I'd want it to swing and play like Basie. Everyday.
Randall, it doesn't get any better than this!
So true! This is a clinic!
shaw as well
Good one. The crescendo of brass at 3:58 brings on sonic shivers. Thanks for this post of timeless gold.
Here's a bunch of young people giving it a good go:th-cam.com/video/3xmkhPNOfC8/w-d-xo.html
Be careful. This music is addicting. Its also has wonderful anti-aging properties.
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@@leowolf8916 hello ong.
@@ephre Ong
Ironic that a good amount of the greatest jazz musicians died early deaths 😂
@@360fishingadventures8 True. Lifestyles peppered with bad vices ensures a shortened lifespan.
This is perhaps the best interpretation ever of anything in music.
Siii me tiene inclusive destruyendo esa máquina del tiempo
Exactly
@@tmanjivoThanks, I am still as fascinated with this performance as the first time I listened to it.
In my opinion one of the best big band of Jazz.
'Only the best of the best worked with The Count........ like The Duke !!
Count and Duke far ahead
One of the best swinging,jumping,grooving , jitterbuging tune ever on my old frame¡¡.🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😆
I saw Thad Jones in 1974 in Youngstown, Ohio. He was a guest with the Youngstown Univ. lab band. Unbelievable concert and what a great honor for those young students! This is America’s classical music! Something to be proud of. I wonder if any future generations will ever come up with anything as real and genuine as this?
My first ever tune I played in a big band. I have my school group play it every couple of years. I call it on gigs all the time. Magic.
Has there ever been a tighter drummer than Sonny Payne? This version of Corner Pocket has been viewed over 54,000 times. 500 of them have probably been mine. Thad Jones and Al Aarons, --WOW what range and intonation. I saw a couple of BACH Mt Vervon Strads in the top row, just like mine, now belongs to my grandson Riley McManus in Seattle. He'll be in a similar back row some day. PP
As to Bach Model 6 Mt. Vernon Strad trombones, I've got two, one totally restored built in 1935, the other built in 36' & looks it's age but plays better than anything coming down the pike. These horns are my pride and joy & no family member who wants them except to sell.
sonny payne is the fencer of the swing!
Not that he compares but buddy rich is pretty good too
I see that Thad Jones and Snooky Young are playing on Connstellations but can't really make out what the others are playing on...
In the 2007 performance of this tune with Bill Hughes conducting, did you catch the Monette that Scotty Barnhardt was using? His tone is absolutely incredible.
I first saw Sonney Payne in '71 at Disneyland with the great Harry James band (I was just 17). Sonny, during a 5 minute solo, stood up and began walking completely around his set and sat down, and NEVER MISSED A BEAT NOR DROPPED A STICK. The guy was incredible.
One of my favorite songs by "The Count" and the solos were all on fire!!!
Sonny Payne is one bad man to swing that hard..bless him.
And great to watch too, flashy as hell. I can see where Keith Moon got some of his stage prescence from.
You can tell how much Sonny Payne loves playing, The piece is one that the entire band seems to enjoy.....as it should be. "Fun" playing at its best.
That was the cleanest sax section I've ever heard.
I was fortunate enough to see Basie and his band live around 1980 not long before he passed away. He had to enter the stage on an electric scooter but once he was seated at his piano all was right with the world again. I also got to see Duke Ellington and his band live around 1970. Both were once in a lifetime experiences for me. I saw Ellington in Pensacola and Basie in Tallahassee, Florida.
I saw the Count with Frank Sinatra back in 1968 -- best concert ever.
Freddie Green was a Time Machine .
sonny...he steals the show...so much talent
I wish I was born in the golden period for jazz like this
If I'm in the saddest, ugly, meanest mood all I have to do is turn on the Count and listen to Corner Pocket not once but it takes about 3 or 4 times to actually hear the richness of the horns, bass, drums separately and then one more time as they all come together. This song takes me to .....out of the world without any cares. If only I could have sat in the audience and surround myself with it all. Maybe in my next life!
Grew up listening to dad's Basie albums. The thing that set Basie bands apart was their amazing section work. 4 instruments in each of the three sections playing as one.
Whenever I hear this I Stop in My Tracks wherever I am. It is That Powerful❣Thank you Count❣
Beautifull orchetra.Good Jazz
This recording is a treasure chest fully of diamonds and gold.
My my my !!!
Masters of the game !!!
Still amazed 50 years later .
Still not rivaled.
God bless !
That's how you do it. Doesn't hurt having the lineup include Thad Jones and Sonny Payne.
1 9 6 2. Can you imagine ? I just heard this tune on my local radio station in Worcester, Mass yesterday and I'm seeing this video for the first time and it gave me CHILLS !! Sonny Payne, what a GREAT DRUMMER !! 10.27.21
Ace-in-the-hole, sexy as hell big band classic from the great Count Basie! Thank you for posting this! My, my, my......!
The greatest band ever !!!
We may not ever make music like this again. But rest assured, the tradition of jazz is alive and well, both here in the US as well as many places around the world: San Juan, La Habana, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Johannesburg and more. The music may not be quite the same as it was in decades past, but it is as vibrant and powerful as ever. Jazz is an ever evolving tradition. Don't rush to judge its most recent evolutions -- leave that to future generations. Let us continue to venerate these elder masters, while at the same time let us open our ears and our hearts to what the new generations of masters are saying.
Check out the Sant Andreu Jazz band from Barcelona, Spain.
Twenty-five people with perforated eardrums down-voted this fine performance.
Ellington fans lol
I love the Big Band Era, Count Basie was Wonderful and I play his Music all the time, on TH-cam.
This brings back great memories...I used to see them live all the time in the 50's..+ I made out with the bassist Eddie Jones 1 evening..totally innocent.& my girlfriend was with Joe Williams..They were perfect gentlemen..we were only teenagers then..
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You saw the Count ? That’s amazing ! I’m 28 and a huge jazz fan ! You’re so lucky !!
Wow, so did you have cocktails and dinner before? What a life.
Phyllis tagg-bovino lucky you ❤️
@@ko6128 no ..they were mostly live concerts at jazz festivals..
This is musicianship at it's best .
This is my favorite Basie line-up. You can't go wrong with any of them though.
Sonny like a heavyweight boxer jabbin and jivin in the pocket ....fantastic musician love this video
God Damn!!! I wish music was still made by musicians. That trumpet player was awesome!!!!!!
Which trumpet player? Yes.
I Love Freddie Green.
Freddie Green is best Guitarists in the world.
And for the record, Freddie composed this piece!
Amazing to watch such phenomenal talent
Sonny! Count Basie-one swingin' band!! Great shout chorus, and as always, those great dynamics!
That Tenor solo! Tssssssss! And of course that ridiculous tight rhythm section with Freddie Green adding that magic touch.
That is so freaking AWESOME! Perfection with soul (if that makes sense). I'm so glad I got to see the Count Basie at least 15 times.
I only got to see him twice. Once in San Francisco, and once in Santa Cruz. By the way, the album "Chairman of the Board" is the best miked vinyl album ever made.
WHAT A GROOVE!
Love this !! There is also a version by The Manhattan Transfer. The lyrics are great. Count is the King of Jazz!!!!
Qué música, qué compás, qué coordinación todos excelentes músicos, la mejor orquesta que ha habido
Basie, Jones, Green, Payne; greatest rhythm section ever.
IMO
Incredible!
Just brilliant, thanks
By far the best Big band in history
Dig Sonny's little double time ditty on the splash cymbal at the beginning of Thad's solo.
What an all star ensemble. All three solos are fabulous. Al Aarons and Frank Wess ... totally underrated talents!
Love it! You must be a drummer. Most people wouldn't know what a "splash cymbal" was. There are ride cymbals, hi-hats, crash cymbals, China cymbals, and (have I forgotten anything?) splash cymbals.
Freddie Green sets the pace with this band
Smoother than silk - or satin! In a word - beautiful!
I have returned here many times in recent years - thanks so much for the upload.
The Manhattan Transfer made a fantastic recording of this song in which they substituted all the instruments with their voices. It was amazing. Just like this rendition is.
A star in his own right, Sonny Payne nevertheless entirely supports the ensemble throughout. Knows the arrangement. INCROYABLE!
Que maravillosa orquesta. No puedo dejar de sonreír mientras la escucho.
Jump-start my heart- scattered rhythm schaswing delight, such joy pulsing in veins!!
Basie was BOSS. The best!
Listening to jazz was still more fun than listening to rock/pop music at least until 1965/66. Then ten years of both, until jazz started vanishing up its own posterior, and has stayed there ever since.
In the 1970-80s, my father directed a big band orchestra and as a child he trailed me along - this is one of my favorites.
Right on! Thank you for uploading.
Be well within.
Crisp sound...
Love it.
Le chef d’œuvre de Sonny Payne !
Wonderful
Simply wonderful!
1:08 how Sonny Payne follow the trumpet awesomeee genius
Loved the Count
My man and idol Mr. Sonny Payne!!!
One of the pioneers of black musical excellence. So classy and sophisticated
Sonny Payne is incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That ending drum lick is FUCKING SICK !!!!
My grandpa showed me this banger
my father said it was music that made him believe in God, I hear this I know what he meant
Frank Wess on tenor sax
Thank you. I am 76 in Oct. - still in a dream.
Hope you liked the track.
Tony.
'Yes, Frank Wess on tenor sax!
O sax tenor é Frank Foster.
Standing applause from me!
Sonny's leading the band on this 1.
Fantastic listening! This band could out swing most of the other bands
Still does, heard them in Chicago December 2021 and there's none better.
DAMN. This is IT. Spectacular.
Greatest Big Band tenor solo of all time…
love it
FANTASTICOOOOOOOOOO
THE COUNT ..........THE BAND .........ALWAYS MAKE U SMILE ......... OUTSTANDING
Uma escelente orquestra
TOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOL
Ed Jones on Bass.
I'm pretty sure that the trumpet soloist is Thad Jones.
'Yes!
Who was the other?
@@jinx4598 Al Aarons
Absolutely ''thad'
This number is also called "Until I Met You". Music composed by Freddie Green and with lyrics by Donald Wolf, it was recorded by Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughan, among others.
It's also based on "Satin Doll"
Goosebumps! What Randall said.
I first played this tune over 40 years ago and have always wondered if it really WAS supposed to be the same as Until I Met You. Today I was actually in a position to ask Google the question and - sure enough! - same song. I can die now.
3:24 that cymbal technique?
Tanmay Marwah I literally have no idea
Great Music !
beautiful solo by frank wess on tenor
If you can’t swing to that groove, then you’re dead.
The greatest jazz band ever!
Basie said one time in a documentary, what did he want on his tombstone,
he said, "Two words, 'Nice Guy'".
Basie and Kenton. A touch of Woody. You can have all the rest.
beautiful
And today you pay hundreds of dollars to watch some pop star dance to a CD recording on a stage.
Sony Sizzling Smooth Payne )))
Smooth as silk!!
I love Fredie Green's guitar !
The Count was one of the best!
Sonny Payne!!!! Hitting the skins out of the drums !
Thanks Pandora.
Man listen to those up beat accents. The whole second chorus is ghost notes by the whole band.
Sonny Payne is my favorite drummer.
Mine too--for big-band and swing--IMHO he was the best!!
Holy Good Friday. RIP Count.