After the show was over,Monk complained to his manager that Count Basie kept looking at him.Monk then said,"Next time I see him,I'm gonna look at him"...:
This wonderfully produced live TV was American TV's finest hour. The one of the many lovely moments I'll never forget are Billie looking a Pres; second is Basie seated in the curve of the piano digging Monk. And of course, the clueless narrator reading from a script I strongly suspect he didn't "get."
The thing that strikes me watching this is that those guys look like they're having the time of their lives in there. What a joy it must be to play the greatest music in the world with some of the greatest musicians in the world.
@@tedlesher2884 Forse voleva mettere in evidenza che allora, i Musicisti sorridevano di più, senza una sostanziale imposizione. Che Swing!! Tra i Batteristi che sorridono mentre suonano c'è di certo Billy Higgins❤
This jazz was done in Dec. 1957. I got the album for my birthday in Feb. 1958. Guess what? I have it here, am looking at it, and Gerry Mulligan's name and T. Monk's name do not even appear on the album. I never noticed that before. One would think that all the artists would be featured, but, not so. Today is Sept. 26, 2012. The record is still in great shape.
The LP recording was done a few days before the TV show. Mulligan and Monk did not perform on the LP. This was recorded a few years before I was born. I have read that Mulligan and Monk did not participate in the studio LP recording because they would not be paid to play on the record.
I have seen the Billie Holiday performance many times but tonight I finally got to watch the whole show. It was great. They sure don’t make TV like this anymore.
This is a TV gem !!! In those days, jazz shows were full part of our television culture. Unfortunately, they progressively and completely vanished, at least on the European television channels. In the 60s, my Dad and I (was in my tens) never missed one of them !!! Memorable and precious shared moments !!!
I agree completely. Webster, Hawkins, and Mulligan play superlative solos, but what Lester plays is music of the gods. It sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. What a pleasure to hear music by adults for adults.
Jo Jones (October 7, 1911 - September 3, 1985) was an American jazz drummer.[1] Known as Papa Jo Jones in his later years, he was sometimes confused with another influential jazz drummer, Philly Joe Jones. The two died only a few days apart.
Oh Lady Day even though both you and Lester would be gone within the next 2 years you still had that phrasing and sang with such emotion - love the smiles and the head nodding througout
Nobody thought Lester Young would step forward to deliver his solo at 35:43, because physically, he was in bad shape. But he DID- and Billie realized this was a final gesture to her, and their relationship. As jazz critic Nat Hentoff later recalled, watching this in the control room, "We were all crying."
Honestly, some people seem to think that solo was great just because his liver was toast; but, for me, the choices he makes during that solo are some of the deepest most profound changes I have ever heard. This is my favorite ts solo of all time. It still brings tears to my eyes. I hear a whole, powerful life in that solo. I hear love and shared suffering.
All I can say is, "Thank goodness for RUclips!!" I would never have heard these guys together if RUclips wasn't around for some brilliant Jazz lover to post them. And, why I never saw CBS' show back in the 50s I'll never know. Thank you, thank you, thank you....
+Ole Flogger Unfortunately recently this documentary (The Sound of Jazz CBS 1957) has been blocked by people who own the rights. To all the people who saw it: Thanks for giving all your nice reactions.
ohh how i love the sound of Jazz.!! Jazz is who i am , the music i was made to play, not pop and rap like all the other 15 year olds at my school, no baby i was made for the Jazz and the Blue...the SOUL!
35:43 "During the performance of "Fine and Mellow", Webster played the first solo. "Then", Hentoff remembered, "Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard, and [he and Holiday] were looking at each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and she was sort of nodding and half-smiling. It was as if they were both remembering what had been-whatever that was. And in the control room we were all crying. When the show was over, they went their separate ways." Ward and Burns.
No conocía yo estás interpretaciones que son de gran Calidad . Jazzistas Muy conocedores de sus instrumentos y muy aplicados y todo se complementa con la bella voz de Billie Holyday ; esa música es de mi agrado . Gracias .
What a pity that so many of these wonderful players probably never thought that their music woulf be so greatly appreciated so long after they departed the scene. That blues singer (male)_ wan a real ear opener to me. Absolutely loved it. Please enjoy and recommend.
Wow!!! My dad would have loved this!!! May He Rest in Peace!!! He was a very Big fan of Jazz music and I love it also!! I can remember coming home from school and my dad would be fixing on things around the house and He would play Jazz all day 😂❤ very good memories!! 🎉
Broadcast "live" December 7th 1957 - must have been the best Sunday broadcast that whole year anywhere. I have an LP of the rehearsal two or three days prior to the broadcast - only Theolonious Monk was missing from the rehearsal - interestingly that document was made available on a European "budget" label in the sixties.
Sheer magic. Musicians who had a lifetime of honing their skills and now performing in the sure knowledge that their talents will shine and make them fly. There will never be any group of jazz musicians like these every again. Thank you for posting the full show.
This is really a treasure. It must be shared to current and future generations till the end of times. Also, someone has the entire list of musicians participating in this film? I can't really understand the host.
A remarkable document ...... not only the music ..... but the style of the TV presentation ..... another world, all of 55 years ago ....... thank you for posting
Cuesta creer cierto que esta constelaciòn de genios del jazz pudieran reunirse en una sesiòn de grabaciòn y dejarnos este testimonio tan elocuente de sus respectivas capacidades musicales. Todo un regalo del cielo !!!!! Gracias por permitirnos gozar de tamaña grandiosidad de la mùsica del jazz !!!!!!!!!!
What a treasure we have here! I missed this live TV show because I was living in the barracks after joining the Air Force. Gerry Mulligan, one of the kings of cool jazz is here playing the blues...!!! Philly Joe Jones, I had the pleasure of watching him in person at the NCO Club, Clark Air Base during the Vietnam War. He was part of the trio backing one of the greatest singers, non other than Billy Eckstein!!! What a wonderful evening that was!
Thank you for your reply. I have been a big fan of Coleman Hawkins for many years, but was not aware of this video recording. It is amazing! So many legends playing together, seeming to have a very good time enjoing each other.
Thanks for uploading this classic piece of jazz. I'm particularly grateful for the Billie Holiday piece 'Billies Blues' with the 'spectre like' appearance of Lester Young for eight bars... when one remembers that both Billie and Lester,once 'romantically' linked, at this point, were only months away from leaving the planet! Beautiful coincidence?
The recording was in stereo, and it was a treat to hear Billie Holiday in Stereo for she made very few recordings with the 2 channels. Yes, awesome stuff.
Close. The Columbia LP recordings were from the rehearsal, in stereo. The TV show was indeed in Mono, as it would be at least 25 years before stereo was available on US TV. You can hear differences in the performances if you listen closely.
I am glad to see Lady in action without the focus on her singing. She was a musician, too and they recognized her contribution. Lester Young was talking to Lady through his soul and horn.
This is solid gold. TV Land was simpler and better in the 50's, no doubt about it. Can you imagine a show like this on network TV today? There simply isn't an audience for it now, because our culture has become so dumbed down during the last half century. The presentation of jazz has disappeared even from PBS these days. Too bad for us.
Not forgetting that many "artists" can't actually sing live, they get found out. No on stage mixing back then, the audience could tell whether or not you were any good or if you were shit. A lot of musicians avoid live televised music like the plague because they are scared that they don't sound right. Thank fuck there was a time when people were more adventurous.
Holy mother of god...39:57 Why can't this come on television nowadays(besides the obvious ofcourse)..just makes me want to have a jam session with all my friends.
Che perla di filmato.Questo è il jazz che adoro.Visto e ascoltato da una quantità di giganti messi assieme,fa tremare le vene ai polsi.Tutti meravigliosi e tutti degni di citazione,ma una parola in più voglio spenderla per Hawk,il mio tenore preferito.E' straordinaria la naturalezza con cui soffia nel suo sax(che ha un'ancia tra le più dure,se non la più dura) dopo ben 34 anni di carriera.Un monumento.Non ringrazierò mai abbastanza chi ha caricato questo video.Cordiali saluti.
Olá, leitores! Conheci este gênero (jazz) em 2009. Deveras, foi uma ascenção na minha vida de cultura musical. Passei, depois disso, a conhecer um pouco mais, da beleza extraordinária da música americana. Devo dizer com emoção, alegria e assertividade: Gratidão!!! Esse povo é simplesmente demais. Grandes, valorosos músicos, que, trazem, aos nossos ouvidos, sensibilidade... solene diálogo sonoro, que, nos faz refletir, com serenidade, e, principalmente, sentir a emoção, da grandeza da boa música! Imortal e louvado seja o jazz (mais uma criatividade sublime do ser humano)!...
I was a high-school senior when this program aired on CBS-TV on a Sunday afternoon in December 1957. I recorded the sound track from WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. I listened to that tape so many times I felt I knew every note. I appreciate this post; however, the source ran a bit fast--so much so that the music is 1/2 step too high. Also the tunes are out of order. Probably the best sources are a 1980's VHS of the entire program and a CD that has better sound. I hope to combine them someday.
It is a shame you will never see a show like this on mainstream TV channels nowadays. Too many folks would rather listen to bottom-of-the-barrel stuff like rap and hip-hop, mostly with vile and explicit lyrics.
Has anyone noticed that the Columbia studio recording is not the same as the film? Mulligan is replaced by Harry Carney and Monk by Mal Waldron. Thats why Petemeis didnt see their names
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I saw this live and still remember it even tho I’m now 84. So happy to have found this video!
I was 7. Set my musical taste for life.
You witnessed history. You got bragging rights.
I saw it: we were getting great kinescopes from US tv in Australia before videotape and satellite
Very lucky!!!
Wow... I envy you. This can't be found anymore nowadays 😢
You look at the line-up board and you realize this video is a national treasure.
No truer words were ever said.
This was real talent. No autotune in sight. Just real talent and skill
After the show was over,Monk complained to his manager that Count Basie kept looking at him.Monk then said,"Next time I see him,I'm gonna look at him"...:
Please never take this down. It's the only one with Monk. Without him it ain't right.
This wonderfully produced live TV was American TV's finest hour. The one of the many lovely moments I'll never forget are Billie looking a Pres; second is Basie seated in the curve of the piano digging Monk. And of course, the clueless narrator reading from a script I strongly suspect he didn't "get."
The thing that strikes me watching this is that those guys look like they're having the time of their lives in there. What a joy it must be to play the greatest music in the world with some of the greatest musicians in the world.
Performers and musicians were often taught to smile back in the day
@@joelRmontfort If you think they were faking it you are very mistaken.
@@tedlesher2884 Forse voleva mettere in evidenza che allora, i Musicisti sorridevano di più, senza una sostanziale imposizione.
Che Swing!! Tra i Batteristi che sorridono mentre suonano c'è di certo
Billy Higgins❤
There’s a good chance some of them were hating on themselves in true artist fashion.
This jazz was done in Dec. 1957. I got the album for my birthday in Feb. 1958. Guess what? I have it here, am looking at it, and Gerry Mulligan's name and T. Monk's name do not even appear on the album. I never noticed that before. One would think that all the artists would be featured, but, not so. Today is Sept. 26, 2012. The record is still in great shape.
The LP recording was done a few days before the TV show. Mulligan and Monk did not perform on the LP. This was recorded a few years before I was born.
I have read that Mulligan and Monk did not participate in the studio LP recording because they would not be paid to play on the record.
Could you imagine feeling the creative energy in that room
I have seen the Billie Holiday performance many times but tonight I finally got to watch the whole show. It was great. They sure don’t make TV like this anymore.
Jo Jones always looks so happy playing his drums. Love it!
At certain angles, doesn't Jo Jones resemble guitarist Kevin Eubanks?
@@bealestreator8940 ...False!
This is one of those gems of the internet, deeply buried under deep layers of mud.
Gerry Mulligan - baritone sax. Just a twenty year old baby playing great with all the legends!
B ...Jeru was not twenty years old, he was thirty.
This is a TV gem !!! In those days, jazz shows were full part of our television culture. Unfortunately, they progressively and completely vanished, at least on the European television channels. In the 60s, my Dad and I (was in my tens) never missed one of them !!! Memorable and precious shared moments !!!
My fave line in this tune is Love is just like a faucet, it turns off and on. Lady sure knew how to sing.
I agree completely. Webster, Hawkins, and Mulligan play superlative solos, but what Lester plays is music of the gods. It sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. What a pleasure to hear music by adults for adults.
Jo Jones always had that smile when he was playing behind great musicians.
Jo Jones (October 7, 1911 - September 3, 1985) was an American jazz drummer.[1]
Known as Papa Jo Jones in his later years, he was sometimes confused with another influential jazz drummer, Philly Joe Jones. The two died only a few days apart.
Oh Lady Day even though both you and Lester would be gone within the next 2 years you still had that phrasing and sang with such emotion - love the smiles and the head nodding througout
Love how Count Basie looks at Monk with such admiration and respect
Count is being respectful. Look at Jimmir Rushing, and you see how the boys in the band really feel about the musical horror that is Monk...
As someone else said, a national treasure. Coleman Hawkins is incredible. And is there anyone cooler than Count Basie?
Nobody thought Lester Young would step forward to deliver his solo at 35:43, because physically, he was in bad shape. But he DID- and Billie realized this was a final gesture to her, and their relationship. As jazz critic Nat Hentoff later recalled, watching this in the control room, "We were all crying."
Honestly, some people seem to think that solo was great just because his liver was toast; but, for me, the choices he makes during that solo are some of the deepest most profound changes I have ever heard. This is my favorite ts solo of all time. It still brings tears to my eyes. I hear a whole, powerful life in that solo. I hear love and shared suffering.
And 65 years later, I still have the same reaction. Kudos to whoever told the director to take that shot of Billie digging Pres.
All I can say is, "Thank goodness for RUclips!!"
I would never have heard these guys together if RUclips wasn't around for some brilliant Jazz lover to post them. And, why I never saw CBS' show back in the 50s I'll never know. Thank you, thank you, thank you....
+Ole Flogger Unfortunately recently this documentary (The Sound of Jazz CBS 1957) has been blocked by people who own the rights. To all the people who saw it: Thanks for giving all your nice reactions.
Ditto :)
the sound of jazz from '57 is on CD . I have it on old vinyl from '57 but later found it on CD
What a show. Monk sounds he dropped in from Mars for the performance. Timeless ingenuity and talent.
ohh how i love the sound of Jazz.!! Jazz is who i am , the music i was made to play, not pop and rap like all the other 15 year olds at my school, no baby i was made for the Jazz and the Blue...the SOUL!
35:43 "During the performance of "Fine and Mellow", Webster played the first solo. "Then", Hentoff remembered, "Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard, and [he and Holiday] were looking at each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and she was sort of nodding and half-smiling. It was as if they were both remembering what had been-whatever that was. And in the control room we were all crying. When the show was over, they went their separate ways." Ward and Burns.
No conocía yo estás interpretaciones que son de gran Calidad . Jazzistas Muy conocedores de sus instrumentos y muy aplicados y todo se complementa con la bella voz de Billie Holyday ; esa música es de mi agrado . Gracias .
What a pity that so many of these wonderful players probably never thought that their music woulf be so greatly appreciated so long after they departed the scene. That blues singer (male)_ wan a real ear opener to me. Absolutely loved it. Please enjoy and recommend.
i'm sure you'd comprehend why Prez is my favorite, and to me, simply the greatest
Without doubt, Basie was the greatest ever Big Band pianst.
THE AMERICAN ART FORM SET THE GOLD STANDARD ON THIS DAY....JO JONES IS THE BOMB1
Wow!!! My dad would have loved this!!! May He Rest in Peace!!! He was a very Big fan of Jazz music and I love it also!! I can remember coming home from school and my dad would be fixing on things around the house and He would play Jazz all day 😂❤ very good memories!! 🎉
Priceless jazz history !!!!!!
Broadcast "live" December 7th 1957 - must have been the best Sunday broadcast that whole year anywhere. I have an LP of the rehearsal two or three days prior to the broadcast - only Theolonious Monk was missing from the rehearsal - interestingly that document was made available on a European "budget" label in the sixties.
Best thing ever shown on television.
So many great names here. Unbelievable line-up of legends!
the joy on all those players faces tells the story of musicianship
Does not get better than this. Pinnacle of talent, style, and taste.
Hi NIttacci, I think the trombonist is Vic Dickenson. He also plays a 12-bar blues solo with Billie Holiday just before Gerry Mulligan.
Sheer magic. Musicians who had a lifetime of honing their skills and now performing in the sure knowledge that their talents will shine and make them fly. There will never be any group of jazz musicians like these every again. Thank you for posting the full show.
Billie Holiday-simply the best! See 36:07 - watch her expression. She knows something we'll never know!!
The battery guy makes it look like it`s a cinch ! Marvellous!
This is really a treasure. It must be shared to current and future generations till the end of times. Also, someone has the entire list of musicians participating in this film? I can't really understand the host.
Oh My God. This has to be the best video on youtube!
A remarkable document ...... not only the music ..... but the style of the TV presentation ..... another world, all of 55 years ago ....... thank you for posting
Can't thank you enough for the upload. These guys are immortal.
billie holiay is beautiful
All the "sacred monsters" of the time. Dazzling.
Giants of music!
Cuesta creer cierto que esta constelaciòn de genios del jazz pudieran reunirse en una sesiòn de grabaciòn y dejarnos este testimonio tan elocuente de sus respectivas capacidades musicales. Todo un regalo del cielo !!!!! Gracias por permitirnos gozar de tamaña grandiosidad de la mùsica del jazz !!!!!!!!!!
All great artists
Wow! What a treasure!!
What a treasure we have here! I missed this live TV show because I was living in the barracks after joining the Air Force.
Gerry Mulligan, one of the kings of cool jazz is here playing the blues...!!!
Philly Joe Jones, I had the pleasure of watching him in person at the NCO Club, Clark Air Base during the Vietnam War. He was part of the trio backing one of the greatest singers, non other than Billy Eckstein!!! What a wonderful evening that was!
Thank you for your reply. I have been a big fan of Coleman Hawkins for many years, but was not aware of this video recording. It is amazing! So many legends playing together, seeming to have a very good time enjoing each other.
Anyone ever seen the vinyl album of these exact performances on it?
Thanks for uploading this classic piece of jazz. I'm particularly grateful for the Billie Holiday piece 'Billies Blues' with the 'spectre like' appearance of Lester Young for eight bars... when one remembers that both Billie and Lester,once 'romantically' linked, at this point, were only months away from leaving the planet! Beautiful coincidence?
Roy always has to turn everything into a cutting contest......BRILLIANT!!!
I would have really liked to have sat with my dad and watch it with him. He liked jazz but the part with Billie Holiday is outstanding.
OMG!!! To get to watch Monk play with Basie watching - priceless!
The recording was in stereo, and it was a treat to hear Billie Holiday in Stereo for she made very few recordings with
the 2 channels. Yes, awesome stuff.
Close. The Columbia LP recordings were from the rehearsal, in stereo. The TV show was indeed in Mono, as it would be at least 25 years before stereo was available on US TV. You can hear differences in the performances if you listen closely.
what a gathering of jazz greats in a studio playing , thank you for posting this.
I am glad to see Lady in action without the focus on her singing. She was a musician, too and they recognized her contribution. Lester Young was talking to Lady through his soul and horn.
This is solid gold. TV Land was simpler and better in the 50's, no doubt about it. Can you imagine a show like this on network TV today? There simply isn't an audience for it now, because our culture has become so dumbed down during the last half century. The presentation of jazz has disappeared even from PBS these days. Too bad for us.
Not forgetting that many "artists" can't actually sing live, they get found out.
No on stage mixing back then, the audience could tell whether or not you were any good or if you were shit. A lot of musicians avoid live televised music like the plague because they are scared that they don't sound right. Thank fuck there was a time when people were more adventurous.
pffff this music is so , gangster,relaxing, smooth, everythifsgkn
it is hard to imagine that musicians can do this!!! Yeahhhh Y'all, here in Port Orange, please listen to this stuff, and get into your soul! Thanks
Coleman and Young back to back. Twin pillars of the saxophone.
They are having so much fun
Thank you so much uploader!
Thanks for this the Greatest Jazz show ever on TV! I don't mean maybe.
Holy mother of god...39:57 Why can't this come on television nowadays(besides the obvious ofcourse)..just makes me want to have a jam session with all my friends.
Love Jo Jones' smile
Che perla di filmato.Questo è il jazz che adoro.Visto e ascoltato da una quantità di giganti messi assieme,fa tremare le vene ai polsi.Tutti meravigliosi e tutti degni di citazione,ma una parola in più voglio spenderla per Hawk,il mio tenore preferito.E' straordinaria la naturalezza con cui soffia nel suo sax(che ha un'ancia tra le più dure,se non la più dura) dopo ben 34 anni di carriera.Un monumento.Non ringrazierò mai abbastanza chi ha caricato questo video.Cordiali saluti.
Sono pienamente d’accordo, Luciano invernizzi
Originally telecast live as part of "THE SEVEN LIVELY ARTS" series on Sunday afternoon, December 8, 1957, at 5pm(et).
Colman Hawkings one of my Tenner hero's
begining at 24:30 , Monks set with Basie sitting at the other end of the piano is some interesting people watching...cheers
I love this music and the bass playing. Divine!
This is great! Thanks to whoever posted this!
This was heaven and still is so
I remember watching this as a 6 year old. Was in awe of Billie.
I guess the Prez and the lady are out. working out the various riffs and raffs this and that. Well They are the star's of the show.
What a masterpiece!!. Grettings from Spain
Tearjerker is an understatement.. before there was none and after they will never be again.
Thanks for sharing! GREAT!
A Christmas gift! Thanks!
The days when music was a career and not five minutes on a talent show
Wow
que sentimiento al interpretar!
It's interesting to see how cymbal sizes have gotten larger over the years. Jo Jones looks like he's playing on 12" hi hats.
Olá, leitores!
Conheci este gênero (jazz) em 2009. Deveras, foi uma ascenção na minha vida de cultura musical. Passei, depois disso, a conhecer um pouco mais, da beleza extraordinária da música americana.
Devo dizer com emoção, alegria e assertividade: Gratidão!!!
Esse povo é simplesmente demais. Grandes, valorosos músicos, que, trazem, aos nossos ouvidos, sensibilidade... solene diálogo sonoro, que, nos faz refletir, com serenidade, e, principalmente, sentir a emoção, da grandeza da boa música! Imortal e louvado seja o jazz (mais uma criatividade sublime do ser humano)!...
Historic!!!
I was a high-school senior when this program aired on CBS-TV on a Sunday afternoon in December 1957. I recorded the sound track from WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. I listened to that tape so many times I felt I knew every note. I appreciate this post; however, the source ran a bit fast--so much so that the music is 1/2 step too high. Also the tunes are out of order. Probably the best sources are a 1980's VHS of the entire program and a CD that has better sound. I hope to combine them someday.
It is a shame you will never see a show like this on mainstream TV channels nowadays. Too many folks would rather listen to bottom-of-the-barrel stuff like rap and hip-hop, mostly with vile and explicit lyrics.
So many idiots!
Timeless awesome stuff!
Thanks so much for posting this!
This day ( 08. XII ) should be celebrated.
This is such a treat ! Thank you very much for uploading ... Lady Day at min 34 : awesome! :)
Original broadcast 12/8/57, host is John Crosby.
This is incredible, thank you so much!
Has anyone noticed that the Columbia studio recording is not the same as the film?
Mulligan is replaced by Harry Carney and Monk by Mal Waldron.
Thats why Petemeis didnt see their names
if you exclude the presenters, who dont fit, this is magnificent and thank you gigant07 for uploading it up, so we could see it.
Greetings from Greece
MIKY and I was visiting your country April 20 1067 I saw tanks I felt fear
Their faces are great!
...found this because of a post on Instagram. It said, "Repeat for life" Agreed.