Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch. BAND BOX SHUFFLE 1929
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2010
- BAND BOX SHUFFLE played by Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra written by Moten and Count Basie in late 1929. I love this jazz classic tune! It's unique in that it plays a whole chorus of pyramid chords! This was an impressive orchestral effect that came and went. . . and was out by the end of 1929. "Shorty" George Snowden dances his famous Lindy Hop in the last chorus.
Recorded 10-23-1929. Currently I am told, this video is the most popular jazz video of the month at www.20sjazz .com! Thanks to all jazz fans for making it number one!! 
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The OP is correct on the recording date. For more fun, checkout this lil Gem:
Eddie Durham was the first guitarist to experiment with proto-amplifiers, for example in the solo of Band Box Shuffle in October 1929. - Kansas City, a History of Jazz Music. So, listen again, & hear how early mic-pickup guitars played thru old radio tube amps sweeten, & give warmth to the chords in the lead. The fingerpicking could be mistaken for acoustic, but only because its clean, no overdrive pedal needed.
This is why I love Benny
To go to the OTHER end of the chronology for this pyramid chord thing. Look up Charlie Barnet's "Skyliner," recorded on Decca in on August 8, 1944. The ensemble sound, while using a modern swing rhythm section and groove, still harks back to the Henderson sound of the late 1920's. Parts of it remind me of Henderson's 1927 waxing of "Rocky Mountain Blues."
An awesome recommendation. That’s one hell of a hot song and demonstrates the pyramid chord nicely.
I just love your two reelers. Great job!
SUPER in ALL aspects: Orchestra / Tune / Arrangement / Film
and DANCERS - all TOP.
That was AWESOME 🎼🎼🎥💃🏾🎩💋
Marvellous Video and awesome tune! Bennie Moten must be heard like Big Louis and Sophisticated Duke. Thanks!
Can't get over these OUTSTANDING Videos,Biff.
Hi. Biff says thankyou for your kind words and support. He loves your channel too, and one more thing. Happy New Year!
Actually, it was guitarist/trombonist/inventor Eddie Durham, center front, who brought Basie into this Band. Basie could not read or write music, so it was the charts of Eddie Durham that changed the direction of this and many other Bands. When Moten died, Basie was voted leader and they changed the name of the Band. When Durham left, the Band flopped until Durham came back & wrote TOPSY for them. Search HITTIN THE BOTTLE & See DurhamJazz. com
Wonderful and very clever animation work!
Thanks: MY Brain enjoyed this one.
The music and vid are gems, thank you!
Thanks again: Always a treat.
OH! CRAP!!! THIS IS LOADED WITH AWESOMAGE!!!! I LOVE THIS!!! You could easly set a carpet on fire with this smokin` song!
Thanks again for thlis treat
I love this. Especially because it's one of the first electric guitar solos ever recorded. Has anyone noticed that this recording has been reproduced over the years at the wrong speed, in the wrong key? This has recently been discovered and corrected on several old blues recordings, to great effect. This recording is playing somewhere between F and Gb. It's because the original machines recorded at a different speed, and subsequent transcriptions have not corrected, so this is a bit faster and higher and less rich in timbre than it should be. Someone needs to properly bring it down to F, which is probably the original key. The sound would be even better and more important, actually what they were playing! Of course it's great anyway, as are Robert Johnson's recordings, even though they are also in the wrong key and pitched higher and faster than he performed them. Listen to the corrected versions sometime. It's fantastic.
not electric, but a resonator guitar, I have seen photos, looks like a National tri-cone the first electric guitars werre lap steel's.
ralph carney Hi Ralph! Yes, you are right. I misread the info on Eddie Durham’s website. It’s his first recorded solo on guitar. His first electric solo, and possibly the first electric GTR solo, very short, is in 1935 with Jimmy Lunceford. ruclips.net/video/klbCr8yKoZY/видео.html
L.P. of early Bennie i must have gotten in 1976 and the band photo he had a res guitar.i would love to get a tenor res guitar from the 20's!
love the animation!!
Outstanding, thankyou
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@2reeler one of their tricks is to alternate between bouncing on one foot and bouncing on two feet, both heels or both toes. very effective, because you can go from there to what ever one-foot position you wish.
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Cool musicians cool times !
Very nice !
4 stars!!!!
thllanks again
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a great dancing lesson from 2:00 onward!
Ohhhhh, Eddie Durham has a little guitar solo right before Buster Moten's accordian solo.
All these comparisons make for fun listening.
The drummer tossin' his sticks in the film clip looks like Lionel Hampton. What film is that clip from?
Quite good but nowhere near their finest records.A superb band
In view of today's crap music, it seems almost incomprehensible that this great music was the vogue in its day! Never again! Thanks, all you wonderful people from the 1920's and 1930's!
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