@@fishdrew1111 I agree 100%. Do you play? What instrument(s)? I had the good fortune to get paid for playing in the 1950's, 1960's, and a few years in the 1970's. But I never thought I played well enough to make a living at it. I loved being home with my family.
@@nemo227 I am one of those untrained dilettantes whose love for music left me unafraid to try any instrument (except drums). In the 1980s my three brothers and I started collecting instruments and equipment and then would push "play" on the digital recorder each weekend we'd get together. By 1991 "The Lobotomy Brothers" had all willingly "retired" due to marriages and children and we've never really picked it up since. Tons of fun but I am VERY happy to sit back and enjoy the music of other people--especially when they know what they're doing (unlike me). Also, like you, I LOVED being a dad and never regret my giving up making music.
Must admit, I've listened to this for over 30 years just on record....I'm aghast, surprised and so pleased they captured this on video too.
assignmentearth........That makes it extra special; like finding a treasure inside a treasure.
The Montreux Jazz Festival, the late Claude Nobs, and the Swiss TV are to be thanked. They recorded so many historical concerts for posterity!
I've been listening to the live album several times this week, Don's last recording. It's just excellent start to finish.We lost a great one in 1978.
If people only knew about this . . . there would be millions of views, millions of thumbs up.
Gil Rathel on trumpet!!! 🎺 awesome!
Oh, man, that is infectious enthusiasm. Many things going on there and I wish I had been playing with them but in 1977 I was working elsewhere. Dang!
It's also lyrical and joyful. The more you listen the more you hear.
I'd like to ask Ted Nash if he realized how good his first solo was on this tune.
He sounds like he'd have been able to "bring it" to anything Steely Dan, Weather Report, or The Crusaders might have asked of him!
@@fishdrew1111 I agree 100%. Do you play? What instrument(s)? I had the good fortune to get paid for playing in the 1950's, 1960's, and a few years in the 1970's. But I never thought I played well enough to make a living at it. I loved being home with my family.
@@nemo227 I am one of those untrained dilettantes whose love for music left me unafraid to try any instrument (except drums). In the 1980s my three brothers and I started collecting instruments and equipment and then would push "play" on the digital recorder each weekend we'd get together. By 1991 "The Lobotomy Brothers" had all willingly "retired" due to marriages and children and we've never really picked it up since. Tons of fun but I am VERY happy to sit back and enjoy the music of other people--especially when they know what they're doing (unlike me). Also, like you, I LOVED being a dad and never regret my giving up making music.
@@fishdrew1111 You're doing it right. Keep hugging those family members.
Don Ellis with Milcho Leviev is the peak of this band!!
Milcho isn't in this incarnation of the band. Randy Kerber is the keyboardist here.
Heh. A Firebird. That's not something you see every day.
I think we ought to dispense with trumpets and start teaching kids on *those* instead.
Everything is good on this performance.
17-year-old Ted Nash on alto...
That's Jazz at Lincoln Center's Ted Nash
Who just graduated from high school.