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!
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.
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.
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
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 ?
@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.
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.
What is this show called, with that same presenter and all? We watched this in history class last year and the presenter is the same one from Caravan Palace's "Mighty" video, anyone know what it's called/what the presenter's name is?
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*****=)
@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.
I hate the drummer's playing on this. It's Bellson? Those triplets are so dorky. The Mooche was never showcased the drums in any of the many recordings the Ellington band made of it. Yuck. Nice to see/hear the other band members, though. Where was this from?
I'm sorry. Unless you haven't heard Lonnie Johnson's version, I am not going to agree with you. It says so at IMDB, and the song includes a vocalising section which doesn't resemble Duke's version at all. And I'm not tryin' to offend you...
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
@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.
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.
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!
what year was it that the races could actually make music together.....in public? i think of greats like bix...who was only allowed to play with "the greatest" behind closed doors, after hours- for those who don't know, the greatest was, of course, satchel mouth
@liche9 1. (verb) moocher, mooch, cadger, scrounger someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) 2. (verb) mooch, bum, cadge, grub, sponge ask for and get free; be a parasite
I don't know the Mafia game, but one of the early version recorded by Duke has a solo by Lonnie Johnson in it. AFAIK Lonnie never had a big band of his own, so I'm guessing that the game producers mislabelled it
1. (verb) moocher, mooch, cadger, scrounger someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) 2. (verb) mooch, bum, cadge, grub, sponge ask for and get free; be a parasite
I have just discovered this incredible Ellington, i think that his music is fucking great, but can anyone tell me some albums or songs with singers? just like "it don't mean a thing" song... thank you...
@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.
I am 82 and fell in love with the music of Duke at 16 and still love it madly! Incredible!
Good on yer, mate. I hope you are still alive and well!
Reno Raider ooof, Rest In Peace (I doubt you’ll read this)😥
@@zack2009 Surprise!
@@renoraider9817 Great!
Me too, except I'm 80, and it was around 15!
Mafia the City of Lost Heaven, Works Quarter
The coolest of cats Duke was the definition of elegance his band is still the standard 🎩✌🏽
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!
what a time that must've been
The sax part at 2:30 during the trombone solo is killer!
And the drummer is Louie Bellson
Still cannot get over this performance. I have watched this video many times, sometimes five or six times in a row.
That drummer is the front of your time look at that two drums drums, more than two dishes. Hand this is only used nowadays
And he's a badass
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. (:
If it sounds good, it is good. The miracle of music.
you must be 26 now XD
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.
1:55: What an intense interaction, it is impeccable. All of my life, my memories, my dreams can be described within this sound.
Heh, the original version was recorded by Duke's band in 1928.
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.
I came here from Mafia I : The Lost City of Heaven thank you for bringing back all my memories
I can see girls burlesque dancing off this, I love it
This is exquisite!
Louie Bellson is excellent on this! As are the clarinets, including the great Jimmy Hamilton.
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.
what? you got the same assignment i do
wait what? well I guess some teachers give out the same assignments.
i guess they do
I got all of the answers right and now these songs are stuck in my head lol
p.s. sorry for the late comment.
great that you aced the test, at least you got some good music going through your head
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
I think the trombonist is Tyree Glenn.
Trombone plunger soioist was Quentin "Butter" Jackson, who replaced Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton upon Nanton's death in 1946.
Is that Willie Smith on alto? Was he filling in for Johnny Hodges?
the trumpet is doing all the talkin here I luv it
Louis B. sportin' the double kicks!
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
Yesss 🙌
True, but I wouldn’t shame the people for not knowing him,but to just enlighten them with his music.
Shane on our school systems actually, they don't mention these guys enough. These kids think blacks always rapped
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 ?
Ellington was a legend and it's undisputable.
Working quarter theme in Mafia The City of Lost Heven
Listened to the clarinet duo like five times in a row. Can't get over it!! Who is on clarinet here?
In the clarinet duo it is Russell Procope up front taking the lead and Jimmy Hamilton behind providing the response. Wonderful.
I like the raspy sound of the trombone player with the plunger at 2:50
Bubber Miley
@@TomParmenter Bubber Miley played trumpet, and had been dead 30 years when this was recorded in 1952.
@@kirintsune Quentin Jackson
The ensemble playing, individual playing, and dynamics make this cut amazing!!!
@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.
Amazing clanetists!!! The last few measures of the piece was soooo modern. Duke was extraordinary
Wow!
I wish the audio quality was better because the guys are killing it.
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.
I enjoy every second of this. Masterpiece.
L to R: Harry Carney, Russel Procope & Jimmy Hamilton
Suwun mpun maringi pangertos reno-reno music jazz... Duke punggowo jazz band ingkang sae..
Love Duke and his band. Those plungers are amazing tools to use for trump and tromb.
THIS is how it's done!
What is this show called, with that same presenter and all? We watched this in history class last year and the presenter is the same one from Caravan Palace's "Mighty" video, anyone know what it's called/what the presenter's name is?
The mc is Willie Bryant
The "Impeccable" Duke Ellington the Epitome of Perfection. My goodness do you hear Ray Nance on Trumpet "Inimitable" I love you Duke💖.
Ray Nance is so awesome.
Louie Bellson was married to the great entertainer and U.S. goodwill ambassador Pearl Bailey.
James Benn I met Louie and Pearl at the DC Zoo when I was young.
Ughhh, darn it, 04 videos of this playlist are completely blocked in the U.S. of A. ... sometimes life isn't fair !?
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*****=)
-Paulie! turn that music off, I can't hear myself thinking
-sure thing, don
(ok that dialogue never ocurred)
@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.
Solo trumpet is the personification of a hep cat’s cat if a hep cat’s cat was a person.
@LazyBastard69 If you've played Bioshock, you might acquire a taste for the music the game is set in ;-)
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."
This music is called traditional jazz. It's so soulful usually no lyrics are necessary.
This is swing, traditional jazz is a European term referring to New Orleans Jazz and I agree, incredibly soulful
Nah, this is swing music.
However, this piece, which is swing, has some very innovative avant-garde elements.
Who's on bass? What year is this? Plexiglass on the music stands and thinnner ties, I'm guessing later 1950s.
Yeah !!
Great sound !!
This tune drive me !!
Wow😍 this song came out on The Addams family movie , how awesome!!
I hate the drummer's playing on this. It's Bellson? Those triplets are so dorky. The Mooche was never showcased the drums in any of the many recordings the Ellington band made of it. Yuck. Nice to see/hear the other band members, though. Where was this from?
I'm sorry. Unless you haven't heard Lonnie Johnson's version, I am not going to agree with you. It says so at IMDB, and the song includes a vocalising section which doesn't resemble Duke's version at all. And I'm not tryin' to offend you...
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!!
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.
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?
Sadly he passed at 84 years old in 2009. He definitely personified "smooth"!
actually your wrong. it was recorded in 1928. you should be imbaressed im a 14 year old school girl and even I know when this was performed.
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.
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This was originally filmed as a Snader "TeleScription" in 1952.
I love this!!!
If you pause at 2:16 , that's my Uncle Wendell! :P
heck of a clarinet player amazing stuff
ja viem ze su to skutocne skladby ale neviem ci su to aj povodne nahravky...lebo napriklad taky Caravan mi nepride taky ellingtonovsky....
Nope - he's going for the Krupa look, but it's Louis Bellson. Krupa was much more manic, too.
who's the sax guy in the middle looking left out?
That drummer is the front of your time look at that two drums drums, more than two dishes. Hand this is only used nowadays
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!
Pauli PPariah I believe the clarinetists here are Harry Carney, Russel Procope & Jimmy Hamilton (from left to right)
***** On drums is Louie Bellson. Isn't he grand?
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.
***** Louie Bellson is also the husband of Pearl Bailey.
...and Who's on first, What's on second, and I dunno is on third.
"If these walls could speak, eh, old man?"
v mafii su vsetky veci nahravane prazskym filharmonickym orchestrom takze tam nieje nic original myslim...
MAFIA MUSIC FTW!!!!! fun game
Found it , now im bavk 8n time folks 😮
Anton Lavey made a very nice cover of this on his organs and keyboards. Love the video, awesome!
That trombonist is just.;o mind blowin.;D
@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.
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.
Ray Nance on trumpet !
This song is so evil >:)
Louie Bellson
I want to live in 30's :-/
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!
Living in New Orleans, I grew up around music like this. I love this city.
Weis jemand von welchen Künstlern die anderen Mafia-Lieder stammen ???
"Hey guy gals and bumbs...."
Una pena . Sonido deficiente.
Still brilliant to this day.
what the fuck my comment don't appear? !!!
Mafia 1 downtown vibes
Muchas gracias por compartirlo.
Que pena. Mal sonido.
who's the drummer?
Louie Bellson
what year was it that the races could actually make music together.....in public? i think of greats like bix...who was only allowed to play with "the greatest" behind closed doors, after hours- for those who don't know, the greatest was, of course, satchel mouth
He died about 2 weeks ago. Sorry..
thank you will toledo
Works quarter
@liche9 1. (verb) moocher, mooch, cadger, scrounger
someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
2. (verb) mooch, bum, cadge, grub, sponge
ask for and get free; be a parasite
I don't know the Mafia game, but one of the early version recorded by Duke has a solo by Lonnie Johnson in it. AFAIK Lonnie never had a big band of his own, so I'm guessing that the game producers mislabelled it
Mafia 1 Remastered
1. (verb) moocher, mooch, cadger, scrounger
someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
2. (verb) mooch, bum, cadge, grub, sponge
ask for and get free; be a parasite
I have just discovered this incredible Ellington, i think that his music is fucking great, but can anyone tell me some albums or songs with singers? just like "it don't mean a thing" song... thank you...
No, in Mafia is original Duke... Not this version but it's Duke's band
@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.
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.
@ancailindana1 You are incorrect, yes, the original was recorded 1927, this is probably from the early to mid-50s.
I didn't hear that before. That's a shame. He was a fine man, and probably the greatest drummer.