Jimmy Rowles is so great, he always plays just the right thing at the right time. The same goes for super rhythm section of LeRoy Vinnegar and Mel Lewis. A lot of people don't seem to realize how important the rhythm section is. Thank God Gerry and Ben did!......
OMG - My very first saxophone album as a student of the sax back in the 1970's was Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster in a mellow tone. I gotta say - Ben Webster is so damned masterful on this thing it blows be away...I have lived and played through the 80's, 90's, 2000's and this phrasing, this melodic thing Ben does is just such a wonderful thing, a lost art. I also gotta say, I play in jazz big bands today still, and we are playing In A Mellow Tone and I literally still have this albums Ben Webster backup counterpoint line in my mind and have actually played this note for note recently like it was my idea. This is counter melody Ben is playing, I heard as a 13 year old kid, and it was still in somehow lodged in my mind NOTE FOR NOTE all these years later and I am 50 now. That is an amazing reason to listen to jazz if you want to play jazz.
This song saved someone's life, seriously. Several years back, I was on a gig with a guitarist who was driving me crazy. I almost exploded on the bandstand, but, on a set break, went to get a coffee and contemplate my life choices. I walked into a Starbucks, murder on my mind, when I heard this. Mood lifted instantly, now one of my all time favorite recordings. That guitarist has no idea how much he owes these guys.
Ben is so great. He slowly bends into the target note from either the top or bottom side. So freaking classy. He swings way more than Mulligan, never noticed before. Ben lays way back on the back side of the beat. Ben's attack on any note is so damned soft from the start. He can can do anything he wants with this type of control.
Gerry is so great. He slowly bends into the target note from either the top or bottom side. So freaking classy. He swings way more than Webster, never noticed before. Gerry lays way back on the back side of the beat. Gerry's attack on any note is so damned soft from the start. He can can do anything he wants with this type of control.
Wonderful playing of Duke Ellington's masterpiece. If you want to hear a stunning vocal version listen to Lambert, Henricks and Ross's version - In a Mellow Tone. Sheer genius. Annie Ross was the best jazz singer to ever leave the shores of Scotland.
Why? Why? Why? can't we the people in order to form a more perfect union etc etc.tune in our radios and hear this heavenly moosik. There oughtta be a law. When I become King there will be some changes made.
I get enough of pianists going nuts no thank you !!! For a change this pianist is LISTENING to what the soloists are playing.(My pianist is always fiddling with the buttons on his keyboard YIKES !!!!!
And I have experienced that: its not good to try it out beforehand, you have to be on "Your toes" and all EARS ready to do what ever offers itself. you will experience the SYNERGY.
In which album can I find this track? I know this song as the opening track from "Ben Webster & Friends/Associates" album, and longs more than 20 minutes, but this one is new for me, loved it!
GERRY MULLIGAN Meets BEN WEBSTER Make no mistake about it, the swing and bop start right here on this legendary 1959 session between baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and tenor man Ben Webster. Produced by Norman Granz as an early Verve album, this Mobile Fidelity 24-karat gold-disc reissue is sonically worth the extra bread as it feels like you're right in the control room every note of the way. The opening track, Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge" is lush and emotional and truly sets the tone for this album. With Jimmy Rowles on piano (his intro on "Sunday" sounds like a ragtimer like Willie "The Lion" Smith just pushed him off the stool before the band came in), Mel Lewis on drums, and the always superb Leroy Vinnegar on bass present and accounted for, the rhythm section is superbly swinging with just the right amount of bop lines and chords in the mix to spice things up. The ghost of Duke Ellington hovers over every note on this record (Billy Strayhorn was one of his main arrangers) and that is a very good thing, indeed. There's a beautiful, understated quality to the music on this session that makes it the perfect relaxing around the house on a rainy day disc to pop in the player.
Mulligan was my favorite as a teen. I saw him (with Bobbie Brookmeyer) in Cincinnati. In those days, Black and White didn't mean so much in the Jazz community, and music seemed to be a path to a color blind future. Too bad that promise was thrown away. Now we in the US have a stronger racist culture than half a century ago. Sad.
This is great creative powerful music that is important for the simple and important example by instrument voices, such as some have done in several ways by certain entities and / or certain details for example: Albinoni Boccherini Zipoli Debussy Milhaud Les Six Stravinsky Ives Miles Evans Coltrane Shorter C Baker Mulligan Konitz Jarritt E Spalding Brilliant Great Ulf Hellerup, Playlists example Ulf Bech MusiK 8 or Ulf Bech Musik1 YT Ceci est la grande musique créative puissante qui est important pour l'exemple simple et importante par des voix d'instruments, comme certains l'ont fait de plusieurs façons par certaines entités et / ou certains détails, par exemple: Albinoni Boccherini Zipoli Debussy Milhaud Les Six Stravinsky Ives Miles Evans Coltrane Shorter C Baker Mulligan Konitz Jarritt E Spalding Brilliant Grande Ulf Hellerup, playlists Musique exemple Ulf Bech Musik 8 Ulf Bech Musik 1 YT
horns are great, but the piano should have been going nuts over this tune to provide some contrast with the horns (ie through in some eighth notes more than once) aside from that, a good track
Glorious! Webster's riffs are pure magic! The ensemble is so cool...everyone listening and enjoying each other's music.
Два блестящих бопера Рыжий Джерри и Бен Уэбстер - редкий пример сотрудничества гигантов джаза. Спасибо блогеру за память о великих...✌☝️
Jimmy Rowles is so great, he always plays just the right thing at the right time.
The same goes for super rhythm section of LeRoy Vinnegar and Mel Lewis.
A lot of people don't seem to realize how important the rhythm section is.
Thank God Gerry and Ben did!......
dieser alte Jazz ist herrlich ich bin begeistert Mulligan und Webster perfekt.
da gebe ich dir recht stefan! ein purer genuss
OMG - My very first saxophone album as a student of the sax back in the 1970's was Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster in a mellow tone. I gotta say - Ben Webster is so damned masterful on this thing it blows be away...I have lived and played through the 80's, 90's, 2000's and this phrasing, this melodic thing Ben does is just such a wonderful thing, a lost art.
I also gotta say, I play in jazz big bands today still, and we are playing In A Mellow Tone and I literally still have this albums Ben Webster backup counterpoint line in my mind and have actually played this note for note recently like it was my idea. This is counter melody Ben is playing, I heard as a 13 year old kid, and it was still in somehow lodged in my mind NOTE FOR NOTE all these years later and I am 50 now. That is an amazing reason to listen to jazz if you want to play jazz.
It's fascinating and gratifying that you feel this in modern times.
Che meraviglia..!!
It's perfect how you pass the melody and make music with so much feeling.
two real pro,s making it loo k so simple and easy to play jazz, just feeding off each other and listening to each other , great to hear . Graham
This song saved someone's life, seriously. Several years back, I was on a gig with a guitarist who was driving me crazy. I almost exploded on the bandstand, but, on a set break, went to get a coffee and contemplate my life choices. I walked into a Starbucks, murder on my mind, when I heard this. Mood lifted instantly, now one of my all time favorite recordings. That guitarist has no idea how much he owes these guys.
I 'expect', assume, you also got the coffee.
@@Hidde_Blok 😂
@@Hidde_Blok Hope not, that Starbuck coffee would get him mad again. Biggest surprise of all - they played "Mellow tone" in Starbucks.
Mellow and smooth as velvet. Two masters melding the notes into a silk like tapestry of musical sublimity.
CLASSIC THANK YOU
Beautiful Jazz !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gerry and Ben blend so well
Ben is so great. He slowly bends into the target note from either the top or bottom side. So freaking classy. He swings way more than Mulligan, never noticed before. Ben lays way back on the back side of the beat.
Ben's attack on any note is so damned soft from the start. He can can do anything he wants with this type of control.
Gerry is so great. He slowly bends into the target note from either the top or bottom side. So freaking classy. He swings way more than Webster, never noticed before. Gerry lays way back on the back side of the beat.
Gerry's attack on any note is so damned soft from the start. He can can do anything he wants with this type of control.
I very much like the way you put the pictures together
Замечательный видеоряд! To say nothing of the performance - stunning!
Wow! In A Mellow Tone is one of my favorite tunes this is outstanding and amazing!
Три величайших саксофониста ; Вебстер Муллиган Лестер Янг !
grandissimo Gerry......senza dimenticare Ben!!!!!!
Sweet montage of pictures! Thank you so much for posting. This is one of my favorite duos.
Many thanks for the upload and the exquisite. compilation of images!
They makes me come back here repeatedly as far as I live. Thank U again!
un abbraccio forte da Napoli
I can never get enough of their music !!!
BEN ... NUMERO UNO SEMPRE .... ❤️🎷
They were great together. Both special in their own areas.
Veramente sublimi. Hanno una ritmica fenomenale a dire bravi è veramente poco
That is a beautiful rendition of the Ellington classic; thank you for posting.
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what a beautiful collage video. very original. 😍😍😍
Unreal! Call and response supreme.
nobody seems to be noticing the art of video provided here. I love the use of photos and music in this posting. Its very well done.
Tastefully done ✅
Excellent ! Two giant of sax.
Thanks
very good!!!!!!
Wonderful playing of Duke Ellington's masterpiece. If you want to hear a stunning vocal version listen to Lambert, Henricks and Ross's version - In a Mellow Tone. Sheer genius. Annie Ross was the best jazz singer to ever leave the shores of Scotland.
20 dieux que c'est bon ce groove profond
Bonne année à tous ; Si 2014 est mieux que prévu que ce soit pour vous. Je vous embrasse et à bientôt
They are so smooth and easy.
Why? Why? Why? can't we the people in order to form a more perfect union etc etc.tune in our radios and hear this heavenly moosik. There oughtta be a law. When I become King there will be some changes made.
Insuperáveis!
The depth of mulligans Barritone Sax is truly Goose Bumpy { if there is such a word ]
What a combination - legends
amasterpiece, not loud not fast not high,just mellow all round
Hermosa musica para soñar.
Brilliant
In a mellotone can bring out the best, even from the best.
Smooth as silk.
Phenomenal.
Very very cool !
Thanks
Фантастично!
Walk it out and back home, Leroy.
Leroy could walk it to the damn moon and never miss a step
Merci ! ♥
Хочется рыдать от счастья! I'm about to cry with tears of happiness!
I get enough of pianists going nuts no thank you !!!
For a change this pianist is LISTENING to what the
soloists are playing.(My pianist is always fiddling with
the buttons on his keyboard YIKES !!!!!
combinacao perfeita suavidade esonoridade
I soooo agree with you!
Браво гиганам джаза!
Big Ben, OMG!!!
coooooooool
These guys were really really good. Any young voices coming through? Please state yout giew here now
gold
And I have experienced that: its not good to try it out beforehand, you have to be on "Your toes" and all EARS ready to do what ever offers itself. you will experience the SYNERGY.
Thanks for the upload, Gio Co. 'In a Mellow Tone', also known as 'In a Mellotone' was composed by Duke Ellington (1939?)
nice
...Putaquiopariu! Sem palavras dois Mestres só poderia dar essa coisinha aí! 😱 😨 😰 🎷🎷🎼🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🙌🙌🙌😀😁😂👏👏👏👍
tone!
webster der schmuser am sax.
Wish this was a video of the actual performance, and not just a bunch stills.
GOA GUBBAR.
Est-ce que vous parlez francais? C'est bon!
oui, je parle français, belle journée ♥
i think u forgot about Dexter Gordon (: how can u even choose? i've never been able to make up my mind about an eventual fave' !
In which album can I find this track? I know this song as the opening track from "Ben Webster & Friends/Associates" album, and longs more than 20 minutes, but this one is new for me, loved it!
GERRY MULLIGAN Meets BEN WEBSTER
Make no mistake about it, the swing and bop start right here on this legendary 1959 session between baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and tenor man Ben Webster. Produced by Norman Granz as an early Verve album, this Mobile Fidelity 24-karat gold-disc reissue is sonically worth the extra bread as it feels like you're right in the control room every note of the way. The opening track, Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge" is lush and emotional and truly sets the tone for this album. With Jimmy Rowles on piano (his intro on "Sunday" sounds like a ragtimer like Willie "The Lion" Smith just pushed him off the stool before the band came in), Mel Lewis on drums, and the always superb Leroy Vinnegar on bass present and accounted for, the rhythm section is superbly swinging with just the right amount of bop lines and chords in the mix to spice things up. The ghost of Duke Ellington hovers over every note on this record (Billy Strayhorn was one of his main arrangers) and that is a very good thing, indeed. There's a beautiful, understated quality to the music on this session that makes it the perfect relaxing around the house on a rainy day disc to pop in the player.
Mulligan was my favorite as a teen. I saw him (with Bobbie Brookmeyer) in Cincinnati. In those days, Black and White didn't mean so much in the Jazz community, and music seemed to be a path to a color blind future. Too bad that promise was thrown away. Now we in the US have a stronger racist culture than half a century ago. Sad.
This is great creative powerful music that is important for the simple and important example by instrument voices, such as some have done in several ways by certain entities and / or certain details for example: Albinoni Boccherini Zipoli Debussy Milhaud Les Six Stravinsky Ives Miles Evans Coltrane Shorter C Baker Mulligan Konitz Jarritt E Spalding Brilliant Great Ulf Hellerup, Playlists example Ulf Bech MusiK 8 or Ulf Bech Musik1 YT
Ceci est la grande musique créative puissante qui est important pour l'exemple simple et importante par des voix d'instruments, comme certains l'ont fait de plusieurs façons par certaines entités et / ou certains détails, par exemple: Albinoni Boccherini Zipoli Debussy Milhaud Les Six Stravinsky Ives Miles Evans Coltrane Shorter C Baker Mulligan Konitz Jarritt E Spalding Brilliant Grande Ulf Hellerup, playlists Musique exemple Ulf Bech Musik 8 Ulf Bech Musik 1 YT
Soplado melódico.
I'm cold on my backside
Gerrit Jonker
Thailand
You have to give credit to DUKE Ellington, to know what makes a good vehicle for Solos. Rose room was anther one,but from whom?
Hermann Otto "Rose Room" was written by Art Hickman & Harry Williams in 1917. Duke Ellington used the same chords for "In A Melotone."
Joe Carbery P.S. Personally, I prefer "Rose Room" to "In A Melotone." I find the melody of the latter a tad boring and monotonous.
Hermann Otto
In A Mellotone is based on the chords of Rose Room, which was written in 1918 by Art Hickman.
horns are great, but the piano should have been going nuts over this tune to provide some contrast with the horns (ie through in some eighth notes more than once) aside from that, a good track
Get some ears