Bill Watrous - Spain

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @BrianFields
    @BrianFields 3 года назад +40

    RIP Chick and Bill. Together again.

  • @christopherholt9682
    @christopherholt9682 6 лет назад +93

    The title under this video is Bill Watrous-Spain and that was a great trombone solo, but what about the flute solo? That flute solo was absolutely incredible.

    • @nigelmiller5609
      @nigelmiller5609 6 лет назад +7

      Yeah hubert killed it

    • @nathanexplosionn
      @nathanexplosionn 5 лет назад +1

      If you like that you should check out Eric Dolphy and James Moody

    • @TheLychie
      @TheLychie 5 лет назад

      i play the flute and daaaaang he killed it. in 1:39 that "tongue-ing" isnt even triple its quadruple bro like dang... hard to do

    • @jacobruiz97
      @jacobruiz97 2 года назад +3

      That trombone solo was far more than great

    • @klweed8152
      @klweed8152 2 года назад +1

      Hubert Laws?

  • @tromboneJTS
    @tromboneJTS 6 лет назад +72

    best trombone solo ever played in a denim leisure suit

    • @andrewflynn6853
      @andrewflynn6853 4 месяца назад +2

      agreed

    • @KCJazzKeys
      @KCJazzKeys 2 месяца назад

      I always called that outfit the “Canadian Tuxedo”

  • @jaylewis7805
    @jaylewis7805 6 лет назад +17

    Bill was featured artist for 1977 UF Jazz Band Gary Langford conductor, me 2nd tenor. Watrous was AMAZING . We had a hot band that year. Good times. Great memories. God must love having Bill's company.

  • @spiderman917
    @spiderman917 13 лет назад +34

    Watrous is AMAZING! Its hard to tell he is playing sometimes because he blends in so seamlessly with the music. Absolutely incredible!

    • @pedaltonz
      @pedaltonz 3 года назад +3

      Agreed. I always loved that about his playing. You can't tell where his playing begins or ends b/c it's just so seamless. Not forced, just beautiful smooth tone quality even in the high range. I miss these guys! RIP Bill and Chick! (oh, the Flute solo is amazing as well).

  • @ddillon1022
    @ddillon1022 Месяц назад

    This is 🔥 FIRE!! They killed it, the best recording of "Spain" I've heard in my life!!!

  • @mikedoolin9930
    @mikedoolin9930 Год назад +2

    Stanley has the best samba feel ever! He just floats!

  • @asianformusic
    @asianformusic 6 лет назад +12

    Sad to hear, the trombonist, Bill Watrous has passed. Will be dearly missed.

  • @AGL5051
    @AGL5051 9 лет назад +17

    WOW!!!!
    6 Superheroes playing together.
    Amazing.

  • @jordanjacques8463
    @jordanjacques8463 3 года назад +7

    Man RIP Bill and Chick! First video I ever seen of both of them 💔💔💔

  • @davethomas2757
    @davethomas2757 9 лет назад +72

    Flute - Hubert Laws
    Trombone - Bill Watrous
    Guitar - George Benson
    Keyboard - Chic Corea
    Bass - Stanley Clarke
    Drums - Lenny White

    • @DorianTuba
      @DorianTuba 9 лет назад +3

      Back in the day that was one of my favorite performances of that piece. I had a great time years ago chatting with Bill when he was a guest artist for All State Jazz Band. My dad was manager or might have been president at that time and Bill told me to be a player but know that the educator is what made me what I am. It is more important than what I do. And the next year I met and hung out with my dad's friend Ed Shawnessey from the tonight show. He and I watched the Carson Show together. Two great influences as to what I do today.

    • @6789uiop
      @6789uiop 9 лет назад

      +Dave Thomas I loved seeing Lenny with Chick and RTF back in the day.

    • @ladiviniiisimagarza
      @ladiviniiisimagarza 6 лет назад

      Dave Thomas thanks a Lot!

    • @mrjamesho
      @mrjamesho 6 лет назад +1

      Flute - Lando
      Trombone - Luke Skywalker

    • @graysenwinters3027
      @graysenwinters3027 6 лет назад

      Thanks!!

  • @jacobruiz97
    @jacobruiz97 6 лет назад +4

    RIP to Chick and Bill, two of the greatest musicians of all time.

  • @andrewtannenbaum1
    @andrewtannenbaum1 7 лет назад +9

    Love those 70's outfits - the rest is unapproachable. Great to see George Benson as just one of the cats.

  • @amsedelm
    @amsedelm 8 лет назад +5

    Such a smooth trombone solo from Bill. Wow. And a young George Benson. I almost didn't recognize him.

  • @BicyclePhil
    @BicyclePhil 7 лет назад +3

    Bill Watrous...probably the best jazz tbone player that ever lived...just killin' it!!! These guys are all so laid back...a magical combo of phenomenal musicianship, composition, time and place

    • @lbird2
      @lbird2 Год назад

      Best jazz bone player ever - bold statement there my friend. What about JJ Johnson, Urbie Green, Frank Rosolino and Carl Fontana?

    • @BicyclePhil
      @BicyclePhil 11 месяцев назад

      Let’s not forget Dave Steinmeyer and Wycliffe Gordon…Wycliffe playing with Mnozil Brass is priceless

  • @leonelgonzalez5205
    @leonelgonzalez5205 9 лет назад +3

    ...... ESTE VIDEO LO VEO MILES DE VECES Y SIEMPRE ME IMPRESIONA BILL WATROUS.... UNO DE LOS MEJORES TROMBONISTAS DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS...UN GENIO!! :)

    • @6789uiop
      @6789uiop 9 лет назад

      +leonel gonzalez Yeah, one of the best trombonists ever. Agree with that verdad.

  • @JesusTrombone
    @JesusTrombone 12 лет назад +5

    Everything about this combo is amazing. It is just a pleasure to listen to these guys.

  • @canoedist
    @canoedist Год назад +1

    What a supergroup! Watrous, Corea, Stanley Clarke, Hubert Laws and more...

  • @wibli
    @wibli 10 лет назад +11

    1:23 "here, have some of my slide spit....on your shoe"

  • @rjcortez971
    @rjcortez971 2 года назад

    Had the absolute pleasure to meet and play gigs with Bill when he taught in Modesto for the Gottschalks Jazz Band when Ernie Bucio was still alive. Even have a signed poster from him. RIP! ❤️

  • @posaunist5
    @posaunist5 12 лет назад +2

    I think he was at his best here! Simply a sensation...!

  • @bressingham6
    @bressingham6 3 года назад +3

    2:40 bill watrous solo

  • @pmbauer
    @pmbauer 15 лет назад +12

    I had this conversation with the amazing drummer of our jazz band when I was in high school (I played keys).
    Walking from the parking lot to class.
    Me: Hey, Steve.
    Steve: Hey.
    [silence]
    Steve: Chick's God, isn't he.
    Me: Yeah.

  • @Noyabuiss
    @Noyabuiss 3 месяца назад

    That watrous solo incorporates all a jazz trombonist could hope for. I should know, I've played for about 42 years.
    Barry k. Whaley

  • @ultramannick
    @ultramannick 12 лет назад +1

    Good lord! What an ensemble! Laws, Stanley, Corea and Watrous!?!? Are you kidding me!

  • @samanthatoad2211
    @samanthatoad2211 6 лет назад +2

    rip bill. you gave us some of the best out there.

  • @skoops9692
    @skoops9692 6 лет назад +2

    Rest in peace Bill. Forever a legend.

  • @Ocenteno70
    @Ocenteno70 10 лет назад +93

    Ladies and gentlemen...Luke Skywalker on trombone.

  • @lazarop592
    @lazarop592 10 лет назад +3

    these great lords of music, george benson guitar
    chick corea piano and keyboards, Bill Watrous trombone total mastery of the instrument, these guys are legends of jazz

    • @rylandcook5301
      @rylandcook5301 6 лет назад +1

      Don’t forget Lenny White. Absolutely sentimental drummer in the 60s and 70s

  • @tbonenfant
    @tbonenfant 7 лет назад +1

    I vaguely remember this as being a Downbeat Reader's Poll Concert of some of the winners in whatever year this was. I'm thinking 75 or 76. Watrous played on Corea's album "The Leprechaun" right around that time as well.

  • @robertoprzybylski7773
    @robertoprzybylski7773 2 года назад

    Bill is the greatest trombonist who ever lived and still lives I hope.. PERIOD.
    Conrad Herwig comes closer.

  • @Blacksuperman-js9bx
    @Blacksuperman-js9bx 10 месяцев назад

    I heard this before on the radio a while back I like this kind of jazz music ❤❤❤❤

  • @tfronauer
    @tfronauer 3 года назад +2

    @4:51 Benson is like "I want some more heat" and the band is like "Give that man what he wants!"

  • @bayonne02
    @bayonne02 6 лет назад +1

    I love how Stanley looks over and smiles at Chick at 6:07, like "Where Have I Heard This
    Before".

  • @gy5938
    @gy5938 7 лет назад +1

    How can he be so chill when playing such hard pieces

  • @BrunoGebarski
    @BrunoGebarski 10 лет назад +2

    This is incredible! And those of you who think this is ridiculous have no knowledge of what it means to master a musical instrument: Bill Watrous: incredible and mind blowing! absolutely MIND BLOWING! amazing and out of this world! OUT OF THIS WORLD! already back then in the 70s!

    • @Jazb0ne7
      @Jazb0ne7 10 лет назад +3

      Whenever I hear say some music or musicians are "ridiculous," 100% of the time it means "extremely good." I've never heard it used to mean anything else in the context of music.

  • @Prudoco
    @Prudoco 6 лет назад +1

    Rip bill watrous. Ah the days of great jazz and the downbeat readers polls. It really meant something. Had the chance to play wirh Watrous in college.

  • @FanTrombone
    @FanTrombone 7 лет назад +4

    wow, the drummer sounds like he has 4 hands, Laws and Benson and Chics solos were classic arse Kicking! But Watrous was mind-blowing!

  • @rheafoster7346
    @rheafoster7346 7 лет назад

    great tune from an all star band!

  • @craigkendall1754
    @craigkendall1754 6 лет назад +1

    RIP Mr. Watrous

  • @djacobs880
    @djacobs880 8 лет назад

    awesomeness personified!!!

  • @kelafornia
    @kelafornia 15 лет назад

    GREAT SOLO! That was fantastic!

  • @martinanddeniseindvik9235
    @martinanddeniseindvik9235 9 лет назад +1

    For the bloke below the guitarist is George Benson. I just stumbled on this post. "Heavy weights" is a phrase that comes to mind.

    • @6789uiop
      @6789uiop 9 лет назад

      +Martin Indvik Fun to see George in RTF... before Breezin' hit IIRC. Al was fun to see with them too in the 70's.

  • @slide50t
    @slide50t 12 лет назад

    I HAVE TO AGREE WITH LONDON BILL 100!! Their just pissed because Bill Watrous is a BEAST and others cannot play like that!!!!!

  • @colinerswell3985
    @colinerswell3985 12 лет назад +3

    This is as good as it gets, all of them are masters of their instruments, love to see this line-up now 2012.

  • @petercope6666
    @petercope6666 7 лет назад +6

    5:43 Sounds like a sound effect from mario

  • @docburns1130
    @docburns1130 13 лет назад

    Hubert Laws on flute! Oh and Stanley and George in the rhythm section.

  • @alanwitton5039
    @alanwitton5039 7 лет назад

    Fabulous

  • @marioveliz205
    @marioveliz205 5 лет назад

    Bravismo 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @docburns1130
    @docburns1130 13 лет назад +1

    Hubert Laws on flute!

  • @KATHLEENDUZIT
    @KATHLEENDUZIT 12 лет назад

    love it

  • @jefframey5250
    @jefframey5250 12 лет назад

    great vid thanks for this!

  • @deepdiver3084
    @deepdiver3084 5 месяцев назад

    Dang. Bill played in unison with the flute at the end, like it was nothing.

  • @axyshay
    @axyshay 12 лет назад +3

    is that george benson on guitar?

  • @Kingtrombone100
    @Kingtrombone100 8 лет назад +1

    Stanley Clarke on Bass is a monster-wow! All are superb of course, and this is way back when you had to learn to play your instrument properly, no gadgets to aid you. It was called talent!

  • @nathanexplosionn
    @nathanexplosionn 2 года назад

    3:21 - Jesus Christ. That's why he's Bill Effin' Watrous

  • @saltinvankis
    @saltinvankis Год назад

    WATROUS EL MAS GRANDE

  • @macree01
    @macree01 13 лет назад

    @londonbill100 Amen! Watrous is my favorite to this day.

  • @ExtremeRecluse
    @ExtremeRecluse 2 дня назад

    I watched Chick playing bluegrass with Bela Fleck in 2004

  • @tbonea1dam1
    @tbonea1dam1 15 лет назад

    damn bill!

  • @FanTrombone
    @FanTrombone 3 года назад

    Damn!

  • @tbonea1dam1
    @tbonea1dam1 15 лет назад

    Man, 3:03-3:17 are golden!

  • @timothybrace5340
    @timothybrace5340 6 лет назад

    R.I.P. Bill

  • @cofla73
    @cofla73 10 лет назад +1

    The drummer is Lenny White.

    • @6789uiop
      @6789uiop 9 лет назад

      +cofla73 Yeah, truly great. Our jazz band did this tune and I didn't do it justice. I saw Lenny live as a kid and was inspired and depressed all at the same time.

  • @charleswinokoor6023
    @charleswinokoor6023 Год назад

    The drums seem a bit loud, and the Fender Rhodes could be louder.
    But the rendition of what essentially is a modern standard is excellent.

  • @SweetSpotGuitar
    @SweetSpotGuitar 12 лет назад +1

    Oh, and intro is Quincy Jones. ;)

  • @draeke8080
    @draeke8080 4 года назад +1

    Wow, he showed the flutist it ain't just you. I mean he puts the flute guy to shame! They look disappointed after his solo, I hope they didn't jump him lol

  • @simãocampoz
    @simãocampoz 10 лет назад

    ouuu... muito bom

  • @H4ppynot3
    @H4ppynot3 12 лет назад

    Who would dislike this?

  • @milesofdavis28
    @milesofdavis28 9 лет назад +11

    Wow, Luke Skywalker is pretty great at playing the trombone.

  • @ladiviniiisimagarza
    @ladiviniiisimagarza 6 лет назад

    does anybody know who the flautist and bassist are?

  • @charleslongshanks
    @charleslongshanks 12 лет назад

    so we all managed to name the line up - except the drummer!
    who is as amazing as everyone else in this clip....for 10 points who is it?
    (i think i know) & for a bonus who introduces??
    :-)

  • @Bigandrewm
    @Bigandrewm 11 лет назад

    What concert/album is this from?

  • @Fatomsk420
    @Fatomsk420 12 лет назад

    holy shit

  • @draeke8080
    @draeke8080 10 лет назад +2

    That trombonist was sick, reminds me of old school Dave Brubeck

  • @rodyon72
    @rodyon72 12 лет назад

    G.B. - of course

  • @tbonea1dam1
    @tbonea1dam1 14 лет назад

    @orichalcum1 obviously the whole group is great! Im just a bone player, so most of the time thats what a listen for. I didnt mean disrespect. peace

  • @ladiviniiisimagarza
    @ladiviniiisimagarza 10 лет назад +1

    does anybody know who's the guitarist?

    • @6789uiop
      @6789uiop 9 лет назад +2

      +ladiviniiisimagarza George Benson (remember 'Breezin,'?)

    • @ladiviniiisimagarza
      @ladiviniiisimagarza 9 лет назад +1

      thanks billytheweasel!!!

  • @themightyquinn94
    @themightyquinn94 6 лет назад

    This whole rendition is unbelievable, but Lenny White is the winner. Not that it's a competition.

  • @wolverine843
    @wolverine843 13 лет назад

    @londonbill100 Who in his/her right mind would dream of criticising Bill Watrous?!?!?!?!

  • @SeanTylerismyname
    @SeanTylerismyname 3 года назад

    Gods among men

  • @sergiohenrique9593
    @sergiohenrique9593 8 лет назад

    George Benson destruindo tudo...kkkkkkkkk

  • @nickbell8353
    @nickbell8353 3 года назад

    Guys... we lost Chick Corea today. :(

  • @SweetSpotGuitar
    @SweetSpotGuitar 12 лет назад

    Drummer must be Lenny White (RTF).

  • @chrismarbrey9678
    @chrismarbrey9678 Месяц назад

    He always sounds like he has a mute in or something. he just has the weirdest sound

  • @NathansRing
    @NathansRing 12 лет назад

    sound is only one aspect though :\ I mean I don't really enjoy listening to Watrous, not saying he is bad at all, the man can play! but just because I don't enjoy listening to him doesn't mean I don't like those guys, I could listen to Fontana till the cows come home!

  • @ExtremeRecluse
    @ExtremeRecluse 2 дня назад

    George Benson?

  • @Dorgannn
    @Dorgannn 12 лет назад

    But they all have completely different and unique tones...

  • @rwpsmith
    @rwpsmith 12 лет назад

    What would someone complain about? If you don't like Watrous, chances are you don't like Frank Rosolino, Carl Fontana or Dave Steinmeyer. They all have the same pure centered tone, unlike the currently popular sound which spreads too much and sounds harsh to me.

  • @JDubbs1965
    @JDubbs1965 10 лет назад +5

    totally ridiculous

  • @jonathanreyes-tt7ws
    @jonathanreyes-tt7ws 5 лет назад

    The fact that I was complimented by bill personally holy crap man!

  • @powerpc127
    @powerpc127 4 года назад

    5:43 Mario eats a mushroom.

  • @orichalcum1
    @orichalcum1 14 лет назад +1

    what about the other players? he's not playing on his own...