Man, that's a lot of piano for Count Basie! In later years he would play only a few notes. Also, it's wonderful to see Freddy Green be featured. Great video, thank you.
@MrOldlistener that wasnt meant as an insult to any race. it's just that you have a group of people with one ethnicy except for one guy who is also playing an instrument that is the "Oddball" of the group. i guess i could be considered an "instrumentist" but certainly not a racist. even that wudnt b correct tho, u cud put any instrument up there and make a great solo with it, just as white people can be great just as black people can (or red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple people)
I don't agree that newly created music is growing worse. There's a lot of quality music around today just like there has always been a lot of crappy music. The good stuff survives, always has and always will. For the old stuff time has filtered out the shitty stuff but for the new stuff we have to look through the garbage to find the gems for ourselves. As for this song, it makes me happy and it makes me smile :) Finding songs like that is the reason I love youtube so much
Greatest Swing Band Ever. That's Charlie Rouse or Wardell Gray on tenor sax and Buddy DeFranco on clarinet,of that I am sure.The great Clark Terry is on trumpet. This is a smaller band Count Basie had in 1950. Great stuff. Count Basie you are missed ! Thanks for sharing this video bobjazz11