Joe Williams could have sung the phone book, starting with the A's, and I'd have listened to every page. That's the kind of soul the singer doesn't even think about. Beautiful.
Joe Williams remains one of the best jazz vocalists, and to put him out in front of what is arguably the best jazz orchestra is simply beautiful. I adore the Basie-Williams collaborations.
his voice is so uncharacteristic and not generic to most of the male jazz singers. his style is soo unique its got a certain feel that is just fricken awesome to listen to. go joe!!!
Someone asked, that was me playing drums... :) Seems like another lifetime ago... Loved Joe. He gave me the best drum lesson I've ever had the afternoon of the taping of that concert...
Aren't you the guy that once told a reporter, when he asked one of those boiler plate questions about dealing with grind of touring 50 weeks a year, or whatever, "It's a little like asking what it feels like to be the first guy on the moon," or something along those lines? It might have been on "60 Minutes"; I was in high school, also a lifetime ago. Cheers - this clip and your comment here are beautiful!
I had the honor of seeing him live in Seattle just a year or two before he died. Consummate performer. The great American fine art painter Jacob Lawrence was in the audience to see him. I knew it was a most special evening.
I heard Joe and the Count perform this song at the Landstuhl AFB Germany NCO Club in 1957. I had the honor of being Master of Ceremonies for show. I met both Gentlemen backstage before the show. One of those moments I shall never forget.
You can search from now til doomsday, and you won't find more beautiful, perfect voices than this man's, AND, Ella Fitzgerald's - no matter what types of music you prefer. They both truly enrich Heaven with their presence.
I got to meet the lovely gentleman years ago at the Jazz City Festival in Edmonton - he wandered into the "Mission Control"...i.e. volunteer headquarters wanting to know where he could get some Chinese food...we were only a few blocks away from Chinatown. Note that he didn't ask or demand someone else get it for him. He came back and visited later too...a class act and put on a great show in the ballroom. I didn't realize at the time as a twentysomething what a legend he was.
Tony C So true. It's so sad to see that you can have very little talent and still be more popular than people who have lots of talent. Autotune has killed popular music :(
+Tony C Thats not true, they just aren't popular, or rarely get a chance, to show their skill to the wide public. But people are always the same any time. Some are good, and some are bad, there are lots of talents around the world. And today there are so many different styles, so maybe you looking in the wrong places? I swear you, I saw such an amasing singer yesteday, she just smashed me. She was a university student, as I am. She studies architecture. She was just unforgettable. And I am living in a province town of Russia, not in the capital of the music history. Imagine: just a small province bar, thursday and a jam session.
I met Joe Williams back in the late 70's and he was a very nice humble guy. What a difference between him and the bullshit singers who think that God touched them with some sort of talent. Hell, Joe has a mic and and kick ass band behind him. He rules! What we have with all these new singers is a bunch of gymnastics and aerobics going on with much of the time, they're lip singing to some process shit they recorded in the studio. This music will never die!
I agree. I actually likened Joe Williams to that of Screamin' Jay Hawkins (I Put A Spell On You), but much more talented and refined than Hawkins. Williams really was more versatile than he gets credit for. In modern terms, I think Tom Waits is probably more like Screamin' Jay Hawkins with his gimmicks and lack of concern for the status quo. :-)
Its alright, its okay, it wins my soul lol. This is a song i am playing at my school and me and my friends are going to sing at the concert for this song.
Basie died in 1984, and judging from his looks and demeanor, this cannot be from more than 5 years before his death. Williams appeared on Nightline with Ted Koppel on the night Basie died, and he looked about the same that night (I saw him sing in Dallas just hours before the broadcast).
@BuckieBear Oh, I had a Johnny Mathis LP when I was a kid. I was a strange kid. I had stuff like Judy Garland, Count Basie, Mathis, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Beach Boys, David Cassidy, Neil Diamond. But big band music is still a big favourite even though I've lost interest in the others. Big band and old style jazz singers like Dinah Washington and Ella.
My Billboard book says it was originated by Count Basie with Joe Williams in 1955, on a single on Clef label #89152. Peggy hit #68 in 1959 on Capitol. Then she rerecorded it for the 1966 Big Spender LP, which I've posted.
@MikePostDrums You were right! It IS a pop jazz big band OF THE TIME. It is blues ONLY in it's skeletal form. Everyone is entititled to their opinion but, I see "the blues" as a LIFE LIVED. I don't see it as a just a 1-4-5 or whatever numbers you want to play. The numbers are only on the surface and that is all. Blues is way more than just a number. Ask Muddy Waters,Robert Johnson,T-Bone Walker,Little Walter,Rice Miller, Jimmy Reed,Elmore James &others. Great band in this!
hey all, joe williams is one of my favorites and as much as i like listening to him, i like watching him sing even more. he puts so much into everything he sings. i saw a video of him with count singing "5 o'clock in the morning", and it was one of the best performances i had ever seen. now i can't find it anywhere. does anybody have any idea where that might be or where i could look? i originally saw the video clip in a jazz history documentary (not ken burns).
No, @MikePostDrums was not wrong all those 2 years ago, lol. It is jazz. The style of the song is a blues (because of the changes and the form). Jazz encompasses many different styles and this is most definitely one of them. I mean, it's Count Basie and Joe Williams! On that note, this is a great little video, you really see Joe's vibrant personality, he was really something.
@dmreeoogdaq That is one of the coolest comments I have ever read on a youtube post! The man is smooooooooth like butter! THis song just makes me smile!
Its not the "Deep Blues" if the Delta but it still Blues. I am sorry Freddy Green is not there . Freddy Green was the greatest rhythm guitarist that ever lived. Thanks to whoever posted it!
That's the way it's supposed to sound! All others are trying to imitate...............excellent time and execution as only the "Count" could do. ............and that's from an amature bari player
@sugarshula64 I love Joe Williams velvety voice. He is so smooth. I have been trying to find a song he sang. I believe it was titled "I'm just an ordinary guy" I have been trying to find it for a year. Hope you all can help me out. I believe he sang it in the 90's .
My little big band does this one. I wiil try to post a video response up on this of us doing it. It's in search under Danny Vitale and Loaded Dice. Joe is my guy.
In the words of Rex Reed, "Anyone who's ever heard of Count Basie deserves a 10".
This is Carnegie Hall on March 20, 1981. Great show, appearances by Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughn, and George Benson
Joe Williams could have sung the phone book, starting with the A's, and I'd have listened to every page. That's the kind of soul the singer doesn't even think about.
Beautiful.
dmreeoogdaq Amen
Joe Williams remains one of the best jazz vocalists, and to put him out in front of what is arguably the best jazz orchestra is simply beautiful. I adore the Basie-Williams collaborations.
One of the smoothest jazz vocals of his time! Joe & the Count were quite the team.
his voice is so uncharacteristic and not generic to most of the male jazz singers. his style is soo unique its got a certain feel that is just fricken awesome to listen to. go joe!!!
Someone asked, that was me playing drums... :) Seems like another lifetime ago...
Loved Joe. He gave me the best drum lesson I've ever had the afternoon of the taping of that concert...
Aren't you the guy that once told a reporter, when he asked one of those boiler plate questions about dealing with grind of touring 50 weeks a year, or whatever, "It's a little like asking what it feels like to be the first guy on the moon," or something along those lines? It might have been on "60 Minutes"; I was in high school, also a lifetime ago. Cheers - this clip and your comment here are beautiful!
What was the lesson?
What was the lesson??? We need to know! Your playing sounds terrific.
Listening to Joe Williams in his younger days was a pleasure but he seemed to get better with age. He was truly remarkable.
Like a good bottle of Chably
@@theogoldberg8919 Chablis?
I had the honor of seeing him live in Seattle just a year or two before he died. Consummate performer. The great American fine art painter Jacob Lawrence was in the audience to see him. I knew it was a most special evening.
An unbeatable pair. Legends.
Legendary band.
This is a prime example of how a singer swings lyrics.....could not be any better!
I heard Joe and the Count perform this song at the Landstuhl AFB Germany NCO Club in 1957. I had the honor of being Master of Ceremonies for show. I met both Gentlemen backstage before the show. One of those moments I shall never forget.
I like this world, that had Bill Basie and Joe Williams alive in it, making this music.
Alright, ok I’m in love with Mr. Williams! 💕💕. Count Basie and Joe Williams up in heaven having a ball👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
One of the great 😊😮😅😊 singers who sang with Count Basie
It doesn't get any better than Count Basie and Joe Williams!
Saw these amazing gentlemen in London about 1962...best night of music ever.....
A handsome man and a velvety voice. Oh, my!
They don't make 'em much like that any more.
So right Moonfaze. He preserved his voice much into the latter years of his life. A first rate class act!
What a voice Joe had! You don't hear anyone like him now. He was one of a kind.
I had a mad crush on this man back in the day! I loved going to anything jazz & big band. Saw him a few times.
He was the dude - no doubt
Nancy Carol Hickman cn
Incomparable singer, great arrangements, and great band! I miss him.
You can search from now til doomsday, and you won't find more beautiful, perfect voices than this man's, AND, Ella Fitzgerald's - no matter what types of music you prefer. They both truly enrich Heaven with their presence.
he has such an incredible range. so relaxed. i love it.
Great singer and all class.
I got to meet the lovely gentleman years ago at the Jazz City Festival in Edmonton - he wandered into the "Mission Control"...i.e. volunteer headquarters wanting to know where he could get some Chinese food...we were only a few blocks away from Chinatown. Note that he didn't ask or demand someone else get it for him. He came back and visited later too...a class act and put on a great show in the ballroom. I didn't realize at the time as a twentysomething what a legend he was.
Swing it, Joe!!! Wow - the Count and his band - the best!
There isn't one of these so called singers today who could even tie Joe Williams' shoes.
Tony C So true. It's so sad to see that you can have very little talent and still be more popular than people who have lots of talent. Autotune has killed popular music :(
+Tony C Thats not true, they just aren't popular, or rarely get a chance, to show their skill to the wide public. But people are always the same any time. Some are good, and some are bad, there are lots of talents around the world. And today there are so many different styles, so maybe you looking in the wrong places? I swear you, I saw such an amasing singer yesteday, she just smashed me. She was a university student, as I am. She studies architecture. She was just unforgettable. And I am living in a province town of Russia, not in the capital of the music history. Imagine: just a small province bar, thursday and a jam session.
So right!
I've met several singers who knew how to tie shoes of all varieties
Your profile Pic is freaky. Show some dignity...
this is so awesome. what a voice.
Magnificent voice, great song!
Wow. Playing this in jazz band. Such great song!
Fabulous!
Wonderful!
He has got a simply amazing voice!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT
WELL DONE
I met Joe Williams back in the late 70's and he was a very nice humble guy. What a difference between him and the bullshit singers who think that God touched them with some sort of talent. Hell, Joe has a mic and and kick ass band behind him. He rules! What we have with all these new singers is a bunch of gymnastics and aerobics going on with much of the time, they're lip singing to some process shit they recorded in the studio. This music will never die!
To me, Joe Williams is the best male jazz singer ever.
Como ele houve poucos no mundo, com aquele jazz swing na voz.
Pena que o perdemos. Mas suas canões ficarão para sempre!!!
just heard this on radio 2 had to listen to it again
Ah, yes, like a fine patina! It seems like he got more recognition for his talent as time went on. Beautiful...
I think Joe Williams was the best male jazz vocalist of the 20th century.
actually Joe Williams was more in the realm of a blues shouter like Jimmy Rushing or Joe Turner . but he he certainly was awesome with Basie
I agree. I actually likened Joe Williams to that of Screamin' Jay Hawkins (I Put A Spell On You), but much more talented and refined than Hawkins. Williams really was more versatile than he gets credit for. In modern terms, I think Tom Waits is probably more like Screamin' Jay Hawkins with his gimmicks and lack of concern for the status quo. :-)
Man! Now THAT'S music! I love it!
God is love, and bless you Mr. Goreed!
Utterly outstanding.
If you don't move to this one you need a pair of ears. Solid was Basie. Blues was Joe Williams.
Thats music!!
So wonderful.
What a wonderful show!
I Love These Men!!!
Its alright, its okay, it wins my soul lol. This is a song i am playing at my school and me and my friends are going to sing at the concert for this song.
I agree with you. Tony!!
Thanks so much! Great version...
Anybody remember Joe Williams on the Cosby show as Claire's father?
Count i Joe super pieknie
Bravo!
Love this song :)
i've been looking for this for a long time. thanks for posting it carlosmayfastjumpers
gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!
God, i wish i could have played with basie.
Basie died in 1984, and judging from his looks and demeanor, this cannot be from more than 5 years before his death. Williams appeared on Nightline with Ted Koppel on the night Basie died, and he looked about the same that night (I saw him sing in Dallas just hours before the broadcast).
Class Class Class...and SOMKIN', too!
Listen and learn.
Class act right there.
@BuckieBear
Oh, I had a Johnny Mathis LP when I was a kid. I was a strange kid. I had stuff like Judy Garland, Count Basie, Mathis, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Beach Boys, David Cassidy, Neil Diamond.
But big band music is still a big favourite even though I've lost interest in the others. Big band and old style jazz singers like Dinah Washington and Ella.
awesome
Way, way. way cool !!!
divinoo.
classic!
Yeeeeeeeeeeee
YEAH!
1973, I have this DVD
Saw this show a couple times.
Thanks brutha.
OMG !!!!
Simplesmente um hino,Aroldo de sp.
Wow..that was hot! (smile)
My Billboard book says it was originated by Count Basie with Joe Williams in 1955, on a single on Clef label #89152.
Peggy hit #68 in 1959 on Capitol. Then she rerecorded it for the 1966 Big Spender LP, which I've posted.
@mdg964 Thank you for the compliment! I've loved Joe Williams since I was a teenager, and I'm only 41.
Great tempo! Someone gave Joe a shot of caffeine before he counted this one off...cookin!!
@susan8163 I bow to your great experience! Thank you for sharing that. :)
I'm 52 & wish I'd been there.
well alright , ok you win ,,,
@MikePostDrums You were right! It IS a pop jazz big band OF THE TIME. It is blues ONLY in it's skeletal form. Everyone is entititled to their opinion but, I see "the blues" as a LIFE LIVED. I don't see it as a just a 1-4-5 or whatever numbers you want to play. The numbers are only on the surface and that is all. Blues is way more than just a number. Ask Muddy Waters,Robert Johnson,T-Bone Walker,Little Walter,Rice Miller, Jimmy Reed,Elmore James &others. Great band in this!
smooooooooooooth, thats all
Happy birday
The DVD "Count Basie At Carnegie Hall" is on Kultur.
hey all,
joe williams is one of my favorites and as much as i like listening to him, i like watching him sing even more. he puts so much into everything he sings. i saw a video of him with count singing "5 o'clock in the morning", and it was one of the best performances i had ever seen. now i can't find it anywhere. does anybody have any idea where that might be or where i could look? i originally saw the video clip in a jazz history documentary (not ken burns).
No, @MikePostDrums was not wrong all those 2 years ago, lol. It is jazz. The style of the song is a blues (because of the changes and the form). Jazz encompasses many different styles and this is most definitely one of them. I mean, it's Count Basie and Joe Williams! On that note, this is a great little video, you really see Joe's vibrant personality, he was really something.
@dmreeoogdaq That is one of the coolest comments I have ever read on a youtube post! The man is smooooooooth like butter! THis song just makes me smile!
i like this song and im 13
@MikePostDrums I strongly agree with you and there's far too much of it. What should we do?
Its not the "Deep Blues" if the Delta but it still Blues. I am sorry Freddy Green is not there . Freddy Green was the greatest rhythm guitarist that ever lived. Thanks to whoever posted it!
Just about swings, alright ! lol
That's the way it's supposed to sound! All others are trying to imitate...............excellent time and execution as only the "Count" could do.
............and that's from an amature bari player
@sugarshula64
I love Joe Williams velvety voice. He is so smooth. I have been trying to find a song he sang. I believe it was titled "I'm just an ordinary guy" I have been trying to find it for a year. Hope you all can help me out. I believe he sang it in the 90's .
best big band era male singer?
...does anybody else even come close? maybe al hibbler
My little big band does this one. I wiil try to post a video response up on this of us doing it. It's in search under Danny Vitale and Loaded Dice. Joe is my guy.
my first of firsts, bing crosby; second, joe williams
1:43
If you don't like this clip, then you have no soul.
💖 Merci " carlosmayfastjumpers" pour cet ajout musical magnifique ♪ ♫ 🎸🎷 🎻🎹🎺🌺🎧
does anywone have that recording with aura rully and joe williams?
0:26
Do you know if this is available on CD or DVD? Or anything else from that concert.