Count Basie and his Orchestra: Jingle Bells!!!

[Rhys]

I found this the other day and its fantastic...its a live performance...I know we have other jazz fans here...JMJ...you heard this????

 

[Purple Haze]

I saw "The Count".

I'm not lying...

 

[Rhys]

Cool...

Count Basie right..not Count Chocula?

 

[kotori]

I saw "The Count".

I'm not lying...

Hey, I did too. About twenty years ago in Marlboro Township, New Jersey. He couldn't walk--had a little electric-cart type wheel chair, but those fingers could still fly up and down the 88.

 

[Weird Harold]

I saw "The Count".

Sesame Street Live or Muppets on Ice don't count.

I'm not a "Jazz Fan," but Count Basie's music is not just Jazz, it's "good music" -- some of the finest music ever performed.

 

[Rhys]

Very cool.

I am really digging this cd so I think there's going to be more coming in the new year

I already liked Blues and blues guitar and progressive jazz but I can see where my musicial education is lagging a bit...

 

[Purple Haze]

My dad made us all put on our best duds and go.

I was only about eight years old, so I wasn't aware of who he was at the time.

His stuff kicks ass still, I think...

 

[Rhys]

Okay help me out...my sleep deprived mind just will not function...and my memory is suffering...

Somebody and the Royal Canadians doing Auld Lang Syne....

 

[Weird Harold]

Okay help me out...my sleep deprived mind just will not function...and my memory is suffering...

Somebody and the Royal Canadians doing Auld Lang Syne....

Was that Guy Lombardo's band?

 

[kotori]

Okay help me out...my sleep deprived mind just will not function...and my memory is suffering...

Somebody and the Royal Canadians doing Auld Lang Syne....

Kids. Guy Lombardo. I remember when he was still doing the New's Years Eve show on one of the networks.

 

[Rhys]

ftttfp!

Thank you for helping my early alzehimers... WH doesn't some form of Guy Lombard and the Royal Canadians play out here for New years???

 

[JazzManJim]

Yep, I've heard the tune - great stuff! I love Christmas Swing Tunes.

I'll say now that, without anyone even in a close second place, Basie's rhythm section was the best that ever played. That's one of the main things that made his band swing so hard and tight.

 

[Weird Harold]

WH doesn't some form of Guy Lombard and the Royal Canadians play out here for New years???

I think Guy's younger brother took over the band after Guy's death, and they have played Las Vegas on New Years in the past. Where they're playing this year, I don't know.

 

[Rhys]

I keep switching back and forth between this, Vince G trio, Sinatra, and Dean Martin...

and I am so digging this stand up bass line...fucking cool

god I was just born late or something...I would have made such a great beatnik

 

[Rhys]

I think Guy's younger brother took over the band after Guy's death, and they have played Las Vegas on New Years in the past. Where they're playing this year, I don't know.

Hmm...I was thinking maybe the Orleans...have to look into it just for grins

 

[kotori]

I think Guy's younger brother . . .

Carmine.

 

[Rhys]

His name is Carmine?

I think my brain has melted...

 

[kotori]

I'm pretty sure. I guess you could Google search it to double check.

 

[Rhys]

Hmm okay...I find a lot on Guy Lombardo...

I have to go watch the 11 pm news. I wanna know if its really gonna snow...