Duke ELLINGTON & His Orchestra " Bundle Of Blues " 1933 !!!
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- RARE OLDIES SHORT FILM (1933) WITH MR DUKE ELLINGTON & HIS ORCHESTRA ! Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 -- May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. In the words of Bob Blumenthal of The Boston Globe "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington."
A prominent figure in the history of jazz, Ellington's music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading his orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music. His reputation increased after his death, the Pulitzer Prize Board bestowing a special posthumous honor in 1999.
Ellington called his music "American Music" rather than jazz, and liked to describe those who impressed him as "beyond category". These included many of the musicians who were members of his orchestra, some of whom are considered among the best in jazz in their own right, but it was Ellington who melded them into one of the most well-known jazz orchestral units in the history of jazz. He often composed specifically for the style and skills of these individuals, such as "Jeep's Blues" for Johnny Hodges, "Concerto for Cootie" for Cootie Williams, which later became "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me" with Bob Russell's lyrics, and "The Mooche" for Tricky Sam Nanton and Bubber Miley. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's "Caravan" and "Perdido" which brought the 'Spanish Tinge' to big-band jazz. Several members of the orchestra remained there for several decades. After 1941, he frequently collaborated with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his "writing and arranging companion." Ellington recorded for many American record companies, and appeared in several films.
Ellington led his band from 1923 until his death in 1974. His son Mercer Ellington, who had already been handling all administrative aspects of his father's business for several decades, led the band until his own death in 1996. At that point, the original band dissolved. Paul Ellington, Mercer's youngest son and executor of the Duke Ellington estate, kept the Duke Ellington Orchestra going from Mercer's death onwards.
You can watch all my rare oldies soundies on : www.myspace.com/swingcocktail ! Many thanks , NICKY . - Hudba
Jazz will make a comeback. I guarantee it.
Just discovered that my great aunt is one of the dancers toward the end of the clip. The lady in black is Florence Hill and she also spent years as a Regalette in Chicago's famed Regal Theater. Thank you so much for posting this and giving my family a piece of historical presence. We never knew she performed in films and danced with the great Duke. She would say these things but what did we care, she was an old lady. Lol! Glad we listened anyway. I loved my Big Florence dearly. 1911-1992
God bless her, she sure could dance!
What an Enormous Treasure she'll always be. Peace
Well, you should have listened. Old ladies aren't born that way. They can do this stuff when they're young enough!! Well, done great aunt!
She said she danced with Duke Ellington and you didn't believe it? That's tragic.
@@F0nkyNinja we were children. We barely knew who Duke Ellington was ourselves. But like I said, I'm glad we listened. The seed was planted and as we got older we realized the treasure she was. Thanks for your comment.
Watching this is hard to feel like we haven’t just lost so much sophistication and elegance as time as plodded forward.. awesome clip!
Simply. Beautiful. MUSIC.... TIMELESS. Thank you Duke!
Nice to hear Ellington playing that hot piano during the dancers in that last number. Back to the stride piano days of the 1920’s.
That. Was. ACE. Ahead of their time. Duke and his band were stylistically very versatile!
WOW! how didi they get the fidelity so aMAZING on this old film!?
You only need ONE mic, y'know
The music is pre-recorded.
This is so wonderful and nicely done. Both musically and the cinematography and editing. And it´s now 90 years old! Amazing clip!
Some extraordinary performances here !
The dance number in the end looks so modern or timeless! Considering it is 90 years old!
Such an elegant man.
Formidable de voir et écouter une tel archive de plus de bonne qualité j'ai vraiment apprécié merci à vous pour ce partage.
I Love Live Bands! Duke is the Best!
I love the way he speaks
Thanks alot. You took me back to the days of jazzhour with Willis Conover!
Thats a name I havent heard for years! I uised to listen to Conover on the AFN Jazz programme in the 1950s 0n a crackly old radio and the the signal fading in and out...I think he had Armstrong's Cornet Chop Suey as his signature tune!
absolutely LOVE this❤❤❤
Yes !!! Many thanks for tour comments , best regards , NICKY .
Fantastic Soundie!!! Love the Duke!
Fabulous music! Love it.
"Stormy Weather", by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler, was introduced in the 1933 "Cotton Club Revue" by Ethel Waters.
Without seeing it in the video, I wouldn't have know there was a BASS saxophone in the arrangement.
Applause.
Real CLASS
Wonderful - much appreciated -Thank You
Wow! Just Wow!
Beautiful ❤️
Extraordinarias imágenes ❗️😃😃😃
Thank you!..
You got it going on! Great!
Had to comment to say that Adam Neely used this footage for his video! I recognized it immediately and got giddy.
Whoa my dad would sing that… stormyyy weatherrr… I always wondered what that was from. He was born in 37.
Wonderful, thanks Joe.
That girl has impeccable time!
Thanks for uploading it
Encore une perle précieuse !
Salut Nicky et merci ! Keep on swingin'.
JP
Beautiful interpretation
Hey Nicky, Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing, All the best & looking forward to your next post.
Great nice tunes
After Stormy Weather, they play the Bugle Call Rag.
Before Stormy Weather : ”Rockin In Rhythm”
From the condition of the dance sequence, I'm guessing they axed it from prints that went to "white" theaters in the sticks (if they included this Vitaphone short at all). If so, a lot of folks missed the best part!
Love this! x :) Vera
😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
O my God....
Maravilha!
The Duke got all of Fletcher Henderson's arrangements for $ 40 when Fletch was down on his luck...
Let's dance!
America's Beethoven. Isn't Ivy Anderson off the wall GREAT? Thank you!
That's Ivy Anderson? I'm in love (but don't tell my lovely & gracious wife of 41 yrs.)!
@@ronforeman2556 YES !! she's Ivy Anderson !!
@MrRichiekaye Bessie Dudley and Florence Hill
I’m in music class
Juan Tizol in the middle with his valve trombone.
😮
The only one
Goodo
Same to you, Nicky! Just subscribed to you- swing on!
Luke Sacher
who else here for their college course lol
Still super grateful to Dennis Potter and the BBC for the Singing Detective series' soundtrack. Completely blew my 12Y old mind and introduced me to Rockin in Rhythm (and The Mills Brothers as well as many others) . Great yardstick that opened up those 20s 30s 40s and 50s for me and also kinda ruined most other music for me (cause it lacked in quality compared th THIS)
Where is the mike (or the mikes)? Or is it playback?
0:25 a like this part
Great! Who were the dancers?
(Bassist Wellman Braud)
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Any way I can find out who each of the band members is? What is that huge saxophone, bigger than the bass isn't it? Enjoyed this so much, hard to believe this was 1933.
Thats Otto Hardwick playing bass sax
Ray Nance is the trumpet player on the left. Sonny Greer on drums and percussion.
@@MGAune the trump. player is Freddie Jenkins.
@@MGAune No, it's Freddie Jenkins, a left handed trumpet player. It's 1933 here, while Nance joined in 1940.
Is the singer Ivie Anderson?
I believe so!
Yes, Ivie Anderson
Oh Hell yea
What is before stormy weather? just an intro? i've heard a phrase he uses in there somewhere else. its from 0:30 to 0:33
"Rocking in rhytthm".
Wow ¿Who sings in "Stormy Weather"?
Ivie Anderson...who was Duke's regular female vocalist in the '30's & 40's.
..... POOR GAL, DON'T BE SOO DOWN ON YOUR LUCK.....😰😥😎
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and you
Whose the singer on stormy weather?
hm... does anyone have any info on the bass sax player? I am very interested as to who he is
The bass player's name is Wellman Braud.
Otto Hardwick is playing the bass sax. And yes, Wellman Braud is playing the string bass. But that isn’t what he asked.
@@JonErikKellso It was Otto Hardwicke...who usually played alto saxophone.
@@jamesperry2322 correct
ボニーとクライド㋾イメージできるステキな楽団
Who was the guitarist?
Benny James, instead of the usual Fred Guy. Don't ask me why (illness? had to go back home to bury his great-grandfather?...).
im black
1:09 The awkwardly strumming, strangely simian "guitar player" is not Fred Guy but one Benny James. I don't know who the hell came up with that disgraceful display, but it comes to show what even a Duke Ellington had to endure in the early years of his singular path to greatness.
simian is really not a good word to use, and back for that time, the guy's hair is conked or like permed straight so his hair isn't in his natural that would help his natural looks the best.
I think he sounds great. Sure, maybe he was hamming it up for the camera, but he may have been instructed to do so.
He was the guitarist of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band who replaced duke and cab when they were travelling.
Who the hell do you think you are? Numbnuts
Get your ears cleaned, this is what pure and real sound sounds like, not refined and generic.
NO
So pretentious and boring... But I have to calm down...it´s from a very special era... Ellington is allways Ellington, one of the Top-Notch band leader!
Pretentious and boring? Like, exactly what aspect or part are you talking about?
maybe look up 'pretentious' ?