Harry James - Green Onions

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  • Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025

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  • @truckerbob94
    @truckerbob94 11 лет назад +8

    If we had more bands like this today, man the world would be a better place! But thank goodness for youtube to see what bands of the past played like.

    • @kennyaldrich9542
      @kennyaldrich9542 5 месяцев назад

      sadly all too true however i must add that i have not forgotten how to play this way ( drums) the really sad and horrible part is it seems im just lost on this gen of people its as if real motion isnt either heard respected or wanted anymore..so i left the scene what else could i do? beat my head against the wall? i so understand your feelings on this

  • @asgaard636
    @asgaard636 13 лет назад +11

    Mr. James and company are flat out WAILING on this! What a shame we live in such a graceless age today- no one knows how to dance anymore....GREAT Vid!

  • @rjackcat
    @rjackcat 12 лет назад +26

    This is my uncle on trombone Joe Cadena 2nd from left

    • @eightbars1
      @eightbars1 3 года назад +4

      I knew Joe! That is my dad, Red Kelly, on bass. I got to hang with the band all the time.

    • @sushirollusa
      @sushirollusa 3 года назад +2

      @@eightbars1 Red is awesome !!

    • @eightbars1
      @eightbars1 3 года назад +3

      @@sushirollusa Thanks. So was Joe. He was a good friend to me even though I was in third grade!

  • @realdeal6977
    @realdeal6977 Год назад +2

    My gawd is this some music. if this this does not make your legs start bouncing then nothing will. Harry James is Not forgotten. Love the Clarinet Solo!!

  • @donweaver5258
    @donweaver5258 Год назад +4

    This was an era of real music.

  • @speakwhnspkn2
    @speakwhnspkn2 15 лет назад +3

    That Harry James could swing like this so late in his career is a testament to what a truly great musician he was. Harry may have been the king of the high c's on the trumpet. Only one other trumpeter that probably had the range he had on that instrument and that's probably Louis Armstrong.

  • @davidburris6873
    @davidburris6873 3 года назад +10

    I can listen to this over and over...just amazing!!! Harry was such a talent...missed greatly...

  • @Agachisanilles
    @Agachisanilles 14 лет назад +19

    My grandfather told me about this song. (the clarinet player)
    The way it worked was at the end of the song, the trumpets would play that line from "It ain't Necessarily So" and then they would all compete for the highest note. Harry would let them have it for a while and he would try and hit way above everybody else and blow them away. Unfortunately, Harry didn't in this video.

    • @rockitflash
      @rockitflash 4 года назад +1

      Was your Dad the clarinet player? I was wondering what was his name,he’s great!

    • @Agachisanilles
      @Agachisanilles 4 года назад +1

      @@rockitflash He's actually my grandfather! I was named after him but he usually went by Bob. Bob Achilles www.discogs.com/artist/1790563-Bob-Achilles

    • @markhenthorn3438
      @markhenthorn3438 4 года назад +1

      I’m thankful for your grandfather’s ministry.

    • @pipers2peo
      @pipers2peo 4 года назад

      @@Agachisanilles Brilliant! You must be so proud of your grandfather. I think he's the best clarinet player and thoroughly deserved a seat with Harry James. What an honour!

    • @navyasrivastava1388
      @navyasrivastava1388 3 года назад

      Im playing the clarinet and I learnt this piece, the best piece if ever played by far its so fun and exhilarating

  • @HenQ715
    @HenQ715 16 лет назад +1

    I miss good tight arrangements you don't hear much any more. Listening to it LIVE was the the THING of the era in those days those guys had CHOPS they made it look so easy...miss them.
    Hen

  • @MadynMarin
    @MadynMarin 4 месяца назад +2

    My music teacher is the clarinet players son(the one who played the solo). He showed us this video. Amazing what he could do

  • @bblegacy
    @bblegacy 7 лет назад +37

    I got to see Harry's band about 5 times back in the mid 70s and the last time in 1981 when I was in high school and college, and I was learning my way around my own horns, before he (HJ) really got sick. Needless to say it was special, and I'm not exaggerating.
    People talk about bands like this and how nice it would be if they would come back. They won't. And the reason why is probably not what most people would think.
    The musicians exist to do it. There is no shortage of top flight players who could cut it.
    But being able to read and cut some charts isn't a band. A band only becomes a "band" when there is enough of a demand for it to exist, which means playing out in front of audiences 5-6-7 nights a week for weeks and months on end... enough time for guys to totally get to know each other and get used to how all 16-18 of them play, and feel a piece of music the same way, and then be able to do it with about 200 arrangements in the books, that are unique to, and were specifically written for the band playing them. They aren't playing published, commercially available jazz band arrangements that are played (and usually butchered to some extent) by just about every other band.
    What you are witnessing in this video isn't just just a bunch of guys who got together and found a way to relax their way through a (fairly simple) blues.
    What you are watching is a true legacy band and its leader, who had by this point been leading a band CONTINUOUSLY for 25 years that had firmly established "its own thing". And as the years came and went, different guys came in and others left and they were replaced. But in the process of all that time and experience and evolution, the band also built of a book of a couple thousand charts, most of which had also come and gone. Along the way an identity came into being, that was all its own.
    So, as decades of recordings and videos prove, that doesn't just happen overnight. And as easy as it looks, it's far from easy to make happen. Chaos and confusion, louder, higher and faster are easy. Simple, direct and subtle can be and usually is far more difficult to achieve.
    As one wise arranging teacher once told me, go ahead, write all you want. Get the chart done right to the last final barline. Then take a good look at it and erase about half of what you wrote. What's leftover will be the real music. Once that's done the hard part begins - getting it played by musicians who are sympathetic to what your intentions are as its composer / arranger.

    • @33Bin
      @33Bin 6 лет назад +2

      Thanks!

    • @nyterpfan
      @nyterpfan 5 лет назад +3

      OUTSTANDING post---these guys didn't just hook up one night and start jamming--it took YEARS of playing together to be able to sound this great!!

    • @billthehat6973
      @billthehat6973 5 лет назад +3

      just curious man, where'd you get to see them? I mean HJ was a truly extraordinary musician. Gotta tell ya, I envy you having seen them live! Holy Smokes!

    • @WilliamSilva-ml5nw
      @WilliamSilva-ml5nw 5 лет назад +2

      Amen

    • @The3Dsmash
      @The3Dsmash 4 года назад +2

      Thanks for taking the time to write this. As a non musician, it makes perfect sense and makes me appreciate the great bands of the past all the more.

  • @MAJORSNODGRASS
    @MAJORSNODGRASS 14 лет назад +2

    I like the way Buddy Rich twirls his left drumstick at the very, very end as if to say the whole thing was down to him and it wasy EASY!

  • @1mojo1952
    @1mojo1952 14 лет назад +3

    My Dad was in the RCAF during WW2 and I grew up listening to this music, but this is the first time I seen or heard this cut. friggin awsome!!!!!!! I love this music

  • @sharronaustin2769
    @sharronaustin2769 2 года назад +3

    Oh my goodness...if people can’t swing with this kinda music then part of their brain hasn’t been freely opened up....love Harry James music💓

  • @sherom
    @sherom 14 лет назад +6

    Unbelievable...My favorite band, and with Buddy on drums...forgetaboutit ! Thanks for posting, it is appreciated

  • @GeneTrujillo
    @GeneTrujillo 7 лет назад +25

    Harry James getting NASTY! Love it! He was a childhood hero - he could play so fast, so high. He could do it all, and all class. What swagger here!
    The clarinet solo knocked it out of the park.
    Amazing take on a classic. Thanks for sharing.

  • @AlarusOne
    @AlarusOne 12 лет назад +4

    I cannot watch this enough, it's timeless and it's a treasure. What a joy to see the musicians jam. Receding hairlines and thick glasses on make this more poignant. Some things just do NOT get old. :)

  • @murfspop
    @murfspop 14 лет назад +1

    This is almost 50 years old and it is still REAL MUSIC !! ,not like that rap crap yins listen to now. I bet snoopdog and p-ditty can't play a horn that good.

  • @techforge-1
    @techforge-1 14 лет назад +2

    Gotta love the James Bond lick at the end. The end of an era. No one will dance like that to this kind of music again, especially in suits and ties.

  • @rnaldfshr
    @rnaldfshr 9 лет назад +19

    Bring back these bands please.

    • @georgebethos7890
      @georgebethos7890 8 лет назад +4

      ron fisher The Duke. Chick Webb Benny Goodman Artie Shaw Count Basie. That was some era, boy

  • @butterfingersbeck
    @butterfingersbeck 14 лет назад +6

    @gsmonks Actually it's a Wurlitzer, not a Fender Rhodes. A 100 series to be precise, as used by Ray Charles on "What'd I Say", Joe Zawinul on ""Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" and The Chantays on "Pipeline".

  • @anbellamilkbanke8692
    @anbellamilkbanke8692 12 лет назад +1

    GOOD STUFF.. this is really music.......no profanity, no violence..no perversions
    makes you feel giddy and happy....thanks
    I am only 30 and tired of this music industry pushing our youth into all sort of negative actions and horrible feelings of grandiosity, not to mention no morals!

  • @shawmcgee1531
    @shawmcgee1531 9 лет назад +20

    Booker T & his friends knocked out such a perfect classic that afternoon in Memphis. Skilled musicians like these can take it a seemingly infinite number of places. James takes it on with his trumpet with such confidence

  • @joepetch7728
    @joepetch7728 8 лет назад +16

    I've never heard this side of Harry's playing before... wonderful.

  • @joeasmythe
    @joeasmythe 13 лет назад

    We thought we were hot stuff back then, with our pompadours, peg pants, Mr B collars and such. We didn't realize we were witnessing the greatest music ever, gone but never forgotten

  • @officialhopsof
    @officialhopsof 15 лет назад +1

    Harry James embodies that Big Bang trumpet sound!

  • @scottbohe7047
    @scottbohe7047 5 лет назад +3

    Wow! Very surprising - I didn't know Green Onions could be done in this fashion. Well done! THIS is how a band jams!

  • @jackpinesavage1628
    @jackpinesavage1628 5 лет назад +2

    These dudes had it going on, back in '65, when I was 9 years old.

  • @ChuckBerndt
    @ChuckBerndt 7 лет назад +3

    Hell of a clarinet solo!

  • @mikegilbert2500
    @mikegilbert2500 8 лет назад +12

    If you can't get goosebumps to this stuff, you ain't alive

  • @tjmpiano
    @tjmpiano 14 лет назад +5

    @Agachisanilles your grandpa was what we now call a monster player.. ie; someone who has mastered the instrument... and indeed he did.... what a great band... what a legacy for you...

  • @RP50
    @RP50 18 лет назад +1

    Very interesting. Except for that weird part under the clarinet solo, they are playing the Henry Mancini arrangement of this tune that was on his Uniquely Mancini album.

  • @narutofiles
    @narutofiles 13 лет назад +1

    the muting of the trumpet is out of this world

  • @p0k7lm
    @p0k7lm 3 месяца назад +1

    cool kats ! 😎 swing on !

  • @leftchicago
    @leftchicago 13 лет назад +4

    Boy, I remember my mom always talking about Harry James. She knew him from the 40's. Pretty hip cat to have recognized this as a classic and to have come up with a killer arrangement for it. Most "serious" musicians would probably have looked down on a "pop" song such as this. Way to go, Harry.

  • @fantasyoverture
    @fantasyoverture 12 лет назад +2

    I love the ending when Buddy goes into 3/4 time. That was awesome.

  • @nyterpfan
    @nyterpfan 11 лет назад +18

    WOW--these cats are really laying a groove--awesome swing arrangement of a classic tune--it might even outdo the original if that's possible!!

    • @MackMcDonaldOfficial
      @MackMcDonaldOfficial 10 лет назад

      Why you lie about it being better

    • @nyterpfan
      @nyterpfan 10 лет назад +4

      bluesboy macman No lie dude--I think it's better, if you don't like it, tough shit!!

  • @tonytrout3784
    @tonytrout3784 9 лет назад +8

    Fantastic rendering of Green Onions by a Big Band. I never knew it existed. ! Tony

  • @bejeeber
    @bejeeber 14 лет назад +3

    Awesome indeed! Provides me with a new found appreciation for Harry James and band.

  • @butterfingersbeck
    @butterfingersbeck 15 лет назад +1

    Booker T's version was the original; 1962. This version is a big-band cover from 1965. I love the combination of the acoustic bass and the Wurlitzer electric piano - very Joe Zawinul/CannonballAdderley sound.

  • @rockdontrun
    @rockdontrun 16 лет назад +2

    This is way cooler than I would have thought humanly possible. Who knew Harry James would be able to pull this off so well?

  • @mikegilbert2500
    @mikegilbert2500 11 лет назад +3

    Are you nuts? You don't think Duck and Steve would love this version? It swings like hell

  • @dougdanzeisen9608
    @dougdanzeisen9608 7 месяцев назад

    The power, the swing of this performance is proof positive that James NEVER left jazz behind. He enjoyed commercial success with some sweet numbers, but the man and his band could swing like very few could. A master performer at his peak.

  • @33Bin
    @33Bin 10 лет назад +9

    fantastic solo clarinet

  • @morganfjp
    @morganfjp 14 лет назад +3

    Wow - an early Wurlitzer electric piano. Priceless!

  • @jamesfirth2392
    @jamesfirth2392 7 лет назад +1

    The quality of this playing is utterly brilliant. Always thought jazz musicians were the best musicians.

  • @shawmcgee1531
    @shawmcgee1531 5 лет назад

    This was a very new tune in 1965, but James & his band make it sound like a familiar old standard.

  • @ChuckBerndt
    @ChuckBerndt 7 лет назад +1

    Harry James!!! THE BEST!!!!!!!!!

  • @klbkasdkahf
    @klbkasdkahf 15 лет назад

    guy on the trumpet is the king of this video ;-D

  • @staxmantim
    @staxmantim Год назад

    So, Booker was in high school & Steve Cropper was fresh out, and they were getting to play with Al Jackson, who had been drumming on stage since he was a child with his father’s Jazz/Swing band. Then imagine them hearing this! Must be kinda like The Beatles hearing The MGs cover them! We gotta be doing something right! Mutual admiration club.

  • @maxdujean3096
    @maxdujean3096 4 года назад +1

    very good the version green Onions

  • @lewstone1934
    @lewstone1934 7 лет назад +1

    I started to love Harry James in 1976 when I was 15. I had and still have great taste.... you can imagine what hell it is for me in 2017 musically....... If you wanna hear a great solo by HJ try and find the track "I've Had My Moments" - fab key changes.. good luck as it's rare.

  • @flamencoprof
    @flamencoprof 8 лет назад +8

    02:30 The clarinet escapes classical!!

  • @RICHIEBSQUI
    @RICHIEBSQUI 17 лет назад +1

    Sheer big band class. And, as a fan of the Booker T & The M.G's, i can state that this is definately as good in my opinion.

  • @DancingSpiderman
    @DancingSpiderman 14 лет назад

    Wow, excellent music , back in a day when a trumpet player could actually make a living on the single yob of playing gigs with an orchestra... Hairy James, tremendous expression on that horn...

  • @thepine1856
    @thepine1856 8 лет назад

    Clarinetist Reverent from San Bernardino Church Robert Achilles plays Clarinet and Sax for Harry James Orchestra passed away 2008 at 70 in Heaven among Harry James and others ...

  • @Raiwons
    @Raiwons 14 лет назад

    It is fascinating, It is fascinating, Óle Óle & Óleee!! A toast of Chanpen!!
    Martin

  • @johnvuc
    @johnvuc 15 лет назад

    Yes, How did I miss them.

  • @bobwojnarowski6997
    @bobwojnarowski6997 8 лет назад +4

    As good as it gets. Best ever.

  • @Tony-ju6yh
    @Tony-ju6yh 11 месяцев назад

    Loving Harry James

  • @michaelterry1000
    @michaelterry1000 13 лет назад +1

    I would not dance to that music. I would be to busy listening to it.

  • @wdchefdave56
    @wdchefdave56 13 лет назад +2

    @snuffyny
    Amen!
    I'm a chef and I use green onions every day! And, this song starts up in my head EVERY time I cut them up!
    Great version of Booker T.'s!
    Buddy Rich was the original stuff for sure.
    This is classic jazz with a touch of R&B.

  • @Agachisanilles
    @Agachisanilles 14 лет назад

    @Ty10Man This is an excellent display of musical mastership from a variety of top-players.

  • @charlie2namon
    @charlie2namon 3 года назад +1

    Nice shuffle!!

    • @charlie2namon
      @charlie2namon 3 года назад

      GREAT band, but Buddy OMG what a groove he laid down on this.

  • @JazzyBlues420
    @JazzyBlues420 13 лет назад +2

    Now this is the straight dope!

  • @seasonsasmyteacher
    @seasonsasmyteacher 4 года назад

    The clarinet player is my friend's father. Though the entire band is dope, the clarinet player is exquisite! Those lungs are unbelievable. To go that long without taking a breath and making elegant music from the challenge. I cant hold my breath that long in silence. Kevy

  • @Agachisanilles
    @Agachisanilles 15 лет назад

    My grandpa takes the clarinet solo!
    Robert Achilles
    I was named after him!

  • @erzug
    @erzug 8 лет назад

    And nobody brings it to a feverish climax like the best big band jazz drummer who ever lived.

  • @walterkersting1362
    @walterkersting1362 5 лет назад

    Grooooovy baby...
    This song is somewhere in the vicinity of jazz…

  • @tubemagpie
    @tubemagpie 13 лет назад +1

    Wow! Yet another You tube surprise...that was awesome,,,,,,,, I love the MGs version but that was something else.
    Show that to kids these days and they just wouldn't get it!

  • @johnswackyworld
    @johnswackyworld 15 лет назад

    one hell of a recording by james

  • @TJS916
    @TJS916 17 лет назад

    You know what I LOVE about this? BR... ( Buddy Rich ) ... just layin it in! Nothin' else to say... well, except that HJ's band was never better than when it had Buddy at the helm! :- )

  • @Wilsonschmitt
    @Wilsonschmitt 13 лет назад +3

    I"m a brazilian tied to swing's big bands era. This is a great song perfomance of Harry's band. Fantastic see three rhytms playing at the same time when the clarinet player Robert Achilles is doing his best. Fortunately the legacy and the name of Harry James Orchestra still remains nowadays directed by Fred Radke. By the way, what albun is this from and how can I find the CD or MP3 ?

    • @billmorehouse2324
      @billmorehouse2324 2 года назад

      Hare Kṛṣṇa
      Robert Achilles, eh!
      After several years now of returning with some frequency to this vid, finally the name of this solo clarinet player has arrived!
      Thanks.
      The keyboard fellow is also a curious talent.
      And, of course, O that Buddy Rich!
      Hare Rāma

  • @wadeharris65
    @wadeharris65 14 лет назад +1

    @Agachisanilles
    That is one of the best solos I've ever heard on the clarinet; starting off low and mysterious in the chalumeau range, working upwards until he's wailing away in the third register. Absolutely outstanding; it's what's kept me coming back to this great performance over and over again.

  • @William2434
    @William2434 15 лет назад

    Absolutly onejeffjag. It's been my experience that no matter what instrument you play or how good you think you are at it, or how long you've been playing it, theres some one out there who will smoke you. And he or she is probably 7 years old

  • @odysseuslaertiades1528
    @odysseuslaertiades1528 2 года назад +1

    This version of GREEN ONIONS is even better than Count Basie's big band arrangement of the same song.

  • @XenusMama
    @XenusMama 2 года назад

    Harry James …. My forever love.

  • @flamencoprof
    @flamencoprof 4 года назад

    When I was a lad in the Fifties, all that was left of my father's enthusiasm for Harry James was a trumpet mouthpiece in his dresser drawer among the cuff-links and old coins.
    A few decades later, I recognise this number as a classic kbd instrumental I missed as a young guitar obsessive..
    A few more decades later I find this. I am connected back through time to find out what it was my father liked.

  • @blujay1337
    @blujay1337 13 лет назад

    I have been loving this song 24/7 from both booker t's and this band

  • @pocketjedi
    @pocketjedi 16 лет назад

    your right. it looks like a custom hammond organ to me. in 1934 the hammonds were bigger then that. maybe a chord organ? great stuff indeed brother, thank you very much

  • @InBy9OutBy5
    @InBy9OutBy5 15 лет назад

    Wow, that's a great blues trumpet solo.

  • @TheEldoradoKid
    @TheEldoradoKid 14 лет назад

    @smartguy5000 Wow sounds like a fun time, happy birthday and enjoy yourself! You will be delving into some real classic American song material. The Jazz Age of the 20s gave way to the Swing Era of the 30s and 40s. To the trained ear, there is quite a difference, and often people lump them together into one genre, but it is all good. Your great grandparents in their youth were just as energetic in that time, perhaps more so, as dancers are today. Remember it was all pure talent.without computers!

  • @BookofRiffs
    @BookofRiffs 14 лет назад

    @rolex427sc - The clarinet player? He was on about four hours of practice a day plus at least seven gigs a week. He was certainly sitting in the "pocket" and playing beautifully. The whole band has a feel. It's relaxed, understated and the solos are flowing. I didn't think this tune had a life before booker t and the mg's.

  • @MrRJDB1969
    @MrRJDB1969 9 лет назад +6

    Smooth....

  • @W5KVV
    @W5KVV 14 лет назад

    @DGC019 Dont forget about Hugh Masekela. I played trumpet all through school & still do. You never forget how.
    Good luck!

  • @oscarandgroucho
    @oscarandgroucho 6 лет назад

    Great version of a great blues song that grooves along with no discernible melody to get in their way.

  • @William2434
    @William2434 15 лет назад

    I thought it was great to hear an old band leader do a classic version of an old southern blues organ tune. While playing music in Lake Tahoe Nev. I'd go to hear the old master perform

  • @sherom
    @sherom 18 лет назад

    BRAVO!! Harry, Buddy & The Band.

  • @Hyslop65
    @Hyslop65 14 лет назад

    Red Kelly is the bass player on this video. He was with james. Kenton and Herman
    and a character.

  • @crtune
    @crtune 14 лет назад

    Interesting because of Buddy on drums, and the use of the small electric piano (probably a Wurlitzer, with a wood case), and Harry's interesting wah-wah work.

  • @mikesoundcity
    @mikesoundcity 12 лет назад +1

    A true showman. :-)

  • @lewstone1934
    @lewstone1934 9 лет назад

    loved Harry since I was 14.....

  • @TheEldoradoKid
    @TheEldoradoKid 14 лет назад

    Fantastic! A great Big Band take on the The Booker T and the MGs classic. 'Ol Harry James still has the chops at this relativley late date in his career. some pretty wild improv work by the horn and woodwinds sections. Almost makes it kind of sound in the style of Sing, Sing Sing, the Benny Goodman classic. And check out all those "squares" dancing, showing all the kids, hey we can be hip too!

  • @TheTruthResearchers
    @TheTruthResearchers 2 года назад

    WOWPOW!!!!!!
    RARE GEM!
    THANK YOU!

  • @Raiwons
    @Raiwons 14 лет назад

    It is a marvel!!!. A million stars for this video!!
    Martin

  • @Cuchifrito
    @Cuchifrito 13 лет назад

    That was so remarkable that it's sexy. Where are the maestros of today?

  • @maureen1938
    @maureen1938 15 лет назад

    AWESOME.....Thanks for posting.

  • @championm1
    @championm1 15 лет назад +1

    estupenda interpretacion de harry james uno de los mejores trompetistas del mundo,diseñando y tocando una melodia ,que despues de 50 años sigue en mi gusto muy particular,siendo de las mejores,incluyendo a booker t mg's,en donde se filmo este video?gracias.

  • @fab66100
    @fab66100 13 лет назад +1

    Grande classe Harry, merci beaucoup, thanks a lot

  • @pap4456
    @pap4456 15 лет назад

    Yes, this is the Mancini arrangement from the Uniquely Mancini album, but the band did a great job with it and sung it.