Playing Drums with Count Basie - Duffy Jackson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- Drummer Duffy Jackson has played with everyone from Lena Horne to Count Basie, as well as leading his own swinging bands. Now based in Nashville, Duffy, the son of famed bassist Chubby Jackson, came to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in early October, 2012, for the 90th Birthday Celebration of his friend, lead trumpet legend, Pauly Cohen. This is raw video of an interview done for the forthcoming film, "Pauly Cohen, Trumpeter." For more info on the film: www.paulycohent...
DUFFY, YOU'RE LOVED AND MISSED. RIP AND KEEP SWINGIN'.
He was a great musician, not just a drummer, RIP Duffy, love you.
RIP Duffy. Glad to have known you.
What a guy and one helluva drummer. And a great story teller. I agree with all Duffy's fans here....When he tells these incredible stories, that only someone who was THERE, could tell them...whew..I can envison everything so vividly. Duffy doesn't get enough recognition when people start naming the great drummers. If you ever see this man play in person, it is a life-changing experience. You hear the history, his roots, and his passion. Love to the DuffMan! A gift to Nashville.
Absolutely! Good stories, good, good, good. Delightful!
His personality and his playing are great
Most drummers playing IS their personality
It's a big honor to me have Duffy Jackson in my Big Band too! I love you my friend!
He was a super kid! He and Funky Daddy were just the coolest dudes ever!
So refreshing to see and hear!
unforgettable Duffy. He was a real legend and I cant stop watching his perfect play on the few ids here.
A most interesting fellow and superb big band drummer.
Going to see Duffy sat and Sunday while in nashville. This guy is swinging his ass off and I love the animation....
I could listen to his recollections all day.
I met the great Duffy Jackson at SUNY Purchase, summer of 1980, I was 16, I was a young drummer working as a summer intern stagehand. The Basie Orchestra blasters through this summer arts festival, and sadly the Count himself was out sick, heart attack or something? Anyway, Duffy played his ass off and was terrific, very kind and supportive of a young cat. Tom Harrell was featured soloist & Butch Miles was in the audience. It was a positive experience I will carry with me for the rest of my life.
Hi, I saw Duffy play at Wigan international Jazz Festival in the 1980s.i wished afterwards I had gone to speak to him at the interval. But I was too shy. I think the band was called the John Coliani Trio or similar. They were amazingly good. They played a fantastic number which I did not know the name of and the memory has haunted me so since then . It was a slow sultry piece . Duffy kept rolling his shoulder suggestively through that number! Should have bought one of the CDs they had. Great guy and so entertaining that night.
Thank you for posting this video... I am sure happy to see there are so many Duffy Jackson fans. I happen to be his nephew, thank you everyone for your support of Duffy.
I saw Duffy for the first time in the eighties with Monty Alexandre at Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in London England. He was part of his trio with included Ira Coleman on bass. it was probably one of the best performances of a jazz trio I had ever heard
Duffy...best story teller of the Basie days.
Love this guy. Hearing him talk about when he was very young and getting to hang with the greats. WOW!!!
Nothing like a musician's stories!!!Wish this were a hour long! lol
This is so great!
I first heard Duffy when he was a teenager with the Monty Alexander trio in 1975. I've never experienced anything swing that hard. I felt like I was in Vedic City, IA, attending one of those services with the meditators who can "levitate," because that was that trio lifted me out of my seat. The next year--with Jeff Hamilton and John Clayton--was good, but not the equal of the previous year. My question: who was the African-American bass player with the 1975 group? (in Kenosha, WI).
We spent many nights together, played a lot of gigs together I loved him like a brother.
Great video! I use to see Duffy and Chubby just about every other weekend in South Florida back in the 70's. It's good to see he's alive and swingin.
Obviously a SWEET SOUL RIP DUFF
Hello to Duffy! Always have to tap my foot with jazz.
I like hearing stories to. One can hear his love for Jazz and the drums, in his voice...
RIP Duffy.
He said, "Clarify the musical truth of the groove". Think about that.
Glad you caught that!!!!I didn't! Maybe one of the MOST POWERFUL DRUM STATEMENTS I've ever heard!!!
Absolutely fascinating thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Marvelous!!!!!
super talent Duffy!
He lived and loved this music.
@@JazzVideoGuy To play the way he did i know he loved it, there's no other way, you can't reach the level of greatness he did without the passion along with talent and he certainly had both. Thank you!
Long live Duffy.
Great interview.
thank you
Fantastic...what history!!!
A most interesting fellow and superb percussionist.
Play the musical truth...what a profound, poetical thought.
yes!
You can tell he got it by the way he is talking.
Your SOOO RIGHT
I miss you😥
Just Beautiful........
Thank you! 😊
Love these stories.
He has many.
The bassist was Benny Nelson from Philadelphia. He played off and on with Monty Alexander in the '70's.
There's another video on TH-cam that says that Elvin Jones was playing with either the Basie band or Ellington and the band members went to whichever leader ( Count or Duke ) and said that either Elvin left or they would. Elvin was playing his own style and not what he was supposed to be playing for that particular band.
I heard him sit in with Basie as a teenager!
Most people have no idea that Duffy was offered the drum position for Led Zeppelin back in their garage band years.
Final Paradigm is that really true? Duffy is one hell of a drummer.
@@bigbreadeaterellis yes it is true
Maybe !?
Cool baby Cool
IDOL!!!!!!! Swing and groove Master! He’s in the same club with Sonny Payne, Grady Tate and Buddy.
You got that right.
a real great.
absolutely
Is that what Alex Van Halen did?
Scat like a horn player. He grew up listening to his Dad play clarinet and sax.
The background behind the speaker is making me dizzy. Great content though.
What a fantastic guy. Must confess, first I knew of him was a TH-cam video of him with a CB small group and he made a balls up ( Anglo expression ) of a break and got a filthy look from the bass player, so didn't rate him at all. Must say he's got some body motion, looks like he wants to eat the kit.
Who did Duffy replace in the Basie Band, he said he had 7 months to prepare and it sounded like Butch Miles was the one he took over for. Butch left sometime in late '79, i thought Duffy joined in the early '80's, hard to keep track sometimes.
I'm under the impression it was Butch Miles in the drum chair of the Basie band, before Duffy.
Steve Bullard, to answer your old question, Butch Miles recorded On The Road with Basie on July 12, 1979. I just watched another interview with Duffy where he stated he started with Basie in late August 1979.
He didn't read the charts first? Thats kinda weird.
But he listened. Listening is the basis for ensemble playing.
Timing is everything in music. If it's out of time or harmony it doesn't fit and sounds horrible.
and Duffy had impeccable time