LanceCampeau By now almost 55 years Lance, and still swingin’ like the bloody clappers! The most saddest thing is that, for whatever reasons, we don’t have this fabulous Jazz anymore. Dig in, enjoy & Cheers!
paxwallacejazz Okay PSJ let me explain. Of course Jazz is still being played by some very talented Jazz Artists. However, the drive, the passion, the exuberance and brilliant improvisations that were part of those post WW2 years are, imo, missing these days. And yes, trends, fashions, (musical) tastes changes. Sometimes for the worse, like the fusion days in the (Jazz declining) 80’s. But those Dexter’s and their kind years are for me the best and can’t even currently, surpassed. It’s like the incredible classics from Chopin, Mozart, van Beethoven, Puccini, Verdi etc, can’t be surpassed . As a matter of fact we can’t even compose that kind of marvellous music anymore. Eventually PSJ it boils down to tastes. Good talking too you. Dig Dexter & Cheers!
"The Blues Walk" was originally released by The Sonny Stitt Octet on Royal Roost Records under the title "Loose Walk" in 1952. It was released on a Royal Roost 78 RPM single (Royal Roost 584) and ten-inch LP entitled SONNY STITT PLAYING ARRANGEMENTS UNDER THE PEN OF JOHNNY RICHARDS (Royal Roost RLP-415). "Loose Walk" was later released on a Jazztone Society twelve-inch LP entitled MODERN JAZZ SPECTACULAR (Jazztone J-1231) in 1956 and EARLY MODERN (Jazztone J-1263) in 1957. Dex and Brownie shared composer's rights.
Dexter is my favourite! He had an inimitable swing. I met him in Pescara and embraced him. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life. I will never forget it! I love Dexter!
Look at him. He''s having fun tonight. So am I. That fun will keep my tears back when I see history like this and understand the implications of life in America then and now.
SeerTrulth Get your point. In fact not much has changed on America’s hidden racism. Lots has changed in Jazz (for the worse). We just don’t seem to be able to produce/play this utterly captivating music no more! So yes, there’s something terrible wrong. But lets enjoy this fantastic DG clip. Cheers!
This was 1964, Brownie recorded it in 1955 with Max Roach as Blues Walk. I've searched online but can't find any reference to Sonny Stitt recording this song prior to 1964 in Berlin with Roland Kirk, issued on the Philology label in 1993. So I have to think that Brownie composed it and its real title is Blues Walk.
How come Jazz lovers that we don’t produce/play this sublime Jazz no more? What’s happened since those very exiting years? You tell me! Thank the gods that we have their fabulous legacy, via YT! So lets dig in, enjoy & Cheers!
People complaining about the title, the tune *is* Blues Walk, originally by Clifford Jordan and released in 1955. It was very common for simple tunes to get introduced under different names. "Loose Walk" is Dexter's joke there. (No idea whether perhaps Blues Walk was originally written by Stitt though, mis-attribution was also extremely common).
Evidently, Sonny Stitt played this tune under the name "Loose Walk" czcams.com/video/45HOUHCu3GU/video.html BTW, it's Clifford Brown, not Clifford Jordan.... great recording by Brown and Max Roach's quintet under the name "Blues Walk".
I love bass, and I play, but I know under god's green Earth that I could NEVER play with the articulation of this bassit. Just off the planet. Look at his hands move like a master.
Muito bom! Já toquei esse tema centenas de vezes pq era o prefixo do Conjunto SPALA, a maior e melhor banda de baile da Zona da Mata entre 1967/1978. Quem viveu naquela época se lembra...
Jack Kerouac loved Dexter's music. Jack has been gone for a long time now. Check out Jack's book--On The Road. Well..........Dexter and Kerouac are out there in the ether now--somewhere.
Wow, George Gruntz sounds so much like Victor Feldman on piano! I was fooled until I saw the credits. Just listen to "Cannonball Adderley Live at the Lighthouse" CD and you'll hear a very similar style and lots of the same licks!
SOULFULL BAND UNDER THE OTTO--LINK OF DEXTER GORDEN GOOD SWINGING BLUES TO BAD LARS DID'NT GET SOME OF THAT OH---YEAH HE TOOK THE BLESSINGS OF DEXTER GORDEN AND METALLICA WAS BORN!!! LOL
Ok This is Weird But Smokin Hot Playing Drums is Daniel Humair a Right Handed Drummer playing on a Lefties Set I heard of cats who are ambidextrous Drummers but this one cat takes the Wholew Ball Field MAN oh Man Just Killer Check this Cat out SOB he is just Killer
Michael, finger a (4th space) Eb, but lift your left ring (G finger). Use your jaw to move in between the two notes the horn wants to produce using that fingering. The more flexible you are with your jaw, you'll be able to do what you hear Dex doing. Basically, it mimics a "shake", what trp/bone players do. Can't say how quickly or how much work it'll take for you to do it, but it's a very common device that many tenor players (including myself) do. Good luck!
Was this from a movie? If so what's the name of it?? I had the great pleasure of seeing / heaRING Dexter LIVE at Sandy's Jazz Club in Beverly, MA back in around 1976.....
If there was such a thing as Racism in the jazz culture of that time, his confidence and dignity is double for that. I'd have loved to have met the man.
@@clintfalk actually, a lot of jazz was and is played by the Dutch, they absorbed it already in the fifties i.e.: czcams.com/video/Agjrc7eZOAY/video.html
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Man, the piano player was amazing
I'm impressed by the whole outfit.
How come I never heard of this drummer, he swings very, very nicely.
Born in Basel, he died a few days ago . George Paul Gruntz, jazz pianist and bandleader, born 24 June 1932; died 10 January 2013. RIP.
one of the greatest tenor guys ever. his sound was rich. we miss Dexter.
I love Dexters timing. That layedback feel is awesome. Like he’s always late but still arrives on time lol. Love it.
A wonderfully sharp recording for 1964, both the kine and the audio.... a moment truly preserved properly .... 50 years ago!!!
LanceCampeau By now almost 55 years Lance, and still swingin’ like the bloody clappers! The most saddest thing is that, for whatever reasons, we don’t have this fabulous Jazz anymore. Dig in, enjoy & Cheers!
@@ronaldunkel2681 what d'ya mean? Granted mid 60s was a high water mark in many ways but jazz still lives.
paxwallacejazz Okay PSJ let me explain. Of course Jazz is still being played by some very talented Jazz Artists. However, the drive, the passion, the exuberance and brilliant improvisations that were part of those post WW2 years are, imo, missing these days. And yes, trends, fashions, (musical) tastes changes. Sometimes for the worse, like the fusion days in the (Jazz declining) 80’s. But those Dexter’s and their kind years are for me the best and can’t even currently, surpassed. It’s like the incredible classics from Chopin, Mozart, van Beethoven, Puccini, Verdi etc, can’t be surpassed . As a matter of fact we can’t even compose that kind of marvellous music anymore. Eventually PSJ it boils down to tastes. Good talking too you. Dig Dexter & Cheers!
The GREAT Dexter Gordon..!! Man could he groove. What a superb back up group.....
The title is Blues Walk, a Sonny Stitt tune. Dexter is just joking around the way he did saying "loose walk". That was just his way.
"The Blues Walk" was originally released by The Sonny Stitt Octet on Royal Roost Records under the title "Loose Walk" in 1952. It was released on a Royal Roost 78 RPM single (Royal Roost 584) and ten-inch LP entitled SONNY STITT PLAYING ARRANGEMENTS UNDER THE PEN OF JOHNNY RICHARDS (Royal Roost RLP-415). "Loose Walk" was later released on a Jazztone Society twelve-inch LP entitled MODERN JAZZ SPECTACULAR (Jazztone J-1231) in 1956 and EARLY MODERN (Jazztone J-1263) in 1957. Dex and Brownie shared composer's rights.
I'm imagining a young Laurence Fishburne playing the lead in the Dexter Gordon movie.
It just seems always sounding great when Dexter is blowing!
Dexter is my favourite! He had an inimitable swing. I met him in Pescara and embraced him. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life. I will never forget it! I love Dexter!
Look at him. He''s having fun tonight. So am I. That fun will keep my tears back when I see history like this and understand the implications of life in America then and now.
SeerTrulth Get your point. In fact not much has changed on America’s hidden racism.
Lots has changed in Jazz (for the worse). We just don’t seem to be able to produce/play this utterly captivating music no more! So yes, there’s something terrible wrong. But lets enjoy this fantastic DG clip. Cheers!
This was 1964, Brownie recorded it in 1955 with Max Roach as Blues Walk. I've searched online but can't find any reference to Sonny Stitt recording this song prior to 1964 in Berlin with Roland Kirk, issued on the Philology label in 1993. So I have to think that Brownie composed it and its real title is Blues Walk.
They say heaven is a place where we experience perfection, but we have to wait...but I found it here coming from Dexter's horn. Thanks LTD.
Guy Pedersen really amazing, Gruntz great and full sounding as Jaky Byard, Humair young and brave: His Dexterness is served.
He said it was called "Loose Walk" or "Walk Loosely".
How come Jazz lovers that we don’t produce/play this sublime Jazz no more? What’s happened since those very exiting years? You tell me! Thank the gods that we have their fabulous legacy, via YT! So lets dig in, enjoy & Cheers!
People complaining about the title, the tune *is* Blues Walk, originally by Clifford Jordan and released in 1955. It was very common for simple tunes to get introduced under different names. "Loose Walk" is Dexter's joke there. (No idea whether perhaps Blues Walk was originally written by Stitt though, mis-attribution was also extremely common).
Would that be Clifford Jordan out of Newrk?
Evidently, Sonny Stitt played this tune under the name "Loose Walk" czcams.com/video/45HOUHCu3GU/video.html BTW, it's Clifford Brown, not Clifford Jordan.... great recording by Brown and Max Roach's quintet under the name "Blues Walk".
I love bass, and I play, but I know under god's green Earth that I could NEVER play with the articulation of this bassit. Just off the planet. Look at his hands move like a master.
What a great video. Whole band is on fire. Dex was a true giant and he is fine form here. He was an all time great
In F, huh? Truly beautiful.
I heard dex back in Copenhagen at the momartre he is one of the best
Such a charismatic guy! Dexter Gordon is really one of the greats
Dexter was soooo cool!
hip and flyer than a mF
LTD is romping through that axe, telling an intricate story
Wow, Dexter Gordon and his Groovin Sound, Who could ask for Anything Better than This!!!!
improvising with eyes closed :) really feeling it this is pure GOLD !
In the zone man!!...
big sound!! I love his articulation! thanks for sharing.
DEX is the man! simple as that.
SO BRILLIANT! WHEN I TOUCH A BIG SAX LIKE THAT THE ONLY SOUND IS LIKE A MOOSE IN TROUBLE!! (AsK BABBI HOLLLAND)
Bassist is one mean cat, man !!!! I mean he nails this thing, yeah baby !!!
The highest quality and absolutely TOP DRAWER.
Great! Thanks for the comments!
Saw Dex. in 1976 awesome. performance 😎
Saw Dexter when he was much older, but WOW he was great. Thanks so much for this.
Smokin blues. Dexter IS the man!
Lady's glasses at 2:11. Awesome!
Everything was cool back then.
2:11
The piano player really stepped up to the plate as well!
Splendid.
Ed Boersema One of my favourite tenorist! Saw him several times at Nick’s Jazz Joints in the 70’s. Dig this & Cheers!
These are priceless videos! Many thanks from an old Dex fan.
A friend and gifted musician passt away, we all miss him.
Muito bom! Já toquei esse tema centenas de vezes pq era o prefixo do Conjunto SPALA, a maior e melhor banda de baile da Zona da Mata entre 1967/1978.
Quem viveu naquela época se lembra...
J E W E R L Y...JAZZ SOUND, IT IS JAZZ SHOW!!!!!
The great Gordon
To: “Today is not yesterday”, Right On!
Daniel Humair on Drum
Dexter, swinging as usual. Yeah! Dizzy and Sonny Stitt cooked on this song as well. Bravo!
Cool bass sound!!...
Absolutely incredible
PRICELESS! THANKS FOR SHARING
Right. Loose Walk for which Sonny Stitt wrote. Very nice.
thanks a lot, sublime Dexter. Always just, sensitive and inspired!
Staggeringly outstanding- what quality!
A lot of thanks !
Dex at his early periode - more bop than later on - a fantastic muscian! Jazzhistory olav bøe norway
Jack Kerouac loved Dexter's music. Jack has been gone for a long time now. Check out Jack's book--On The Road. Well..........Dexter and Kerouac are out there in the ether now--somewhere.
Wow, George Gruntz sounds so much like Victor Feldman on piano! I was fooled until I saw the credits. Just listen to "Cannonball Adderley Live at the Lighthouse" CD and you'll hear a very similar style and lots of the same licks!
Thanks for posting!
Dexter put cool and mellow in jazz
This Cat is still very impressive 🎷
Cool man
Magnífico!!!
👏🏾👏🏾
great
5:08 piano solo
I cant be better!
Rock'nRoll!
Agreed! "Loose Walk" it is :-)
SOULFULL BAND UNDER THE OTTO--LINK OF DEXTER GORDEN GOOD SWINGING BLUES TO BAD LARS DID'NT GET SOME OF THAT OH---YEAH HE TOOK THE BLESSINGS OF DEXTER GORDEN AND METALLICA WAS BORN!!! LOL
Sonny Stitt was as great a composer as he was soloist, made clearly evident herein.
Loose Walk or Walk Loosely man!
Clifford Brown recorded it as 'Blues Walk'.
Ok This is Weird But Smokin Hot Playing Drums is Daniel Humair a Right Handed Drummer playing on a Lefties Set I heard of cats who are ambidextrous Drummers but this one cat takes the Wholew Ball Field MAN oh Man Just Killer Check this Cat out SOB he is just Killer
Pretty close to the great Coltrane!!...
As high as he is, he sounded great on this!!
How do you know he's high? and on what? I quest you were backstage getting high with him.
@@michaelthompson6452 He was a junkie in so no secret.
@@alexeriksson3618 So !
@@michaelthompson6452 Kanker high al the time....
how does Dexter Gordon do that trick he did at 4:49
Michael, finger a (4th space) Eb, but lift your left ring (G finger). Use your jaw to move in between the two notes the horn wants to produce using that fingering. The more flexible you are with your jaw, you'll be able to do what you hear Dex doing. Basically, it mimics a "shake", what trp/bone players do. Can't say how quickly or how much work it'll take for you to do it, but it's a very common device that many tenor players (including myself) do. Good luck!
thank you I really appreciate it
No problem! Have fun and be patient.....you'll get it!
"Cortázar" posting a Dex Gordon video. Heady stuff.
Was this from a movie? If so what's the name of it?? I had the great pleasure of seeing / heaRING Dexter LIVE at Sandy's Jazz Club in Beverly, MA back in around 1976.....
4:16 the dex surge
Please correct the title. It's "loose walk", not "blues walk". Many thanks for the upload anyway.
the tune is Blues Walk written by Clifford Brown
Yeah Dexter was trolling
But This theme isn't Blues Walk, is it? I've read below that Loose walk is a joke of Dexter, but I don't know, just asking.
💚😀🌼🌳
This shit so swingin
He said "Loose Walk", why that change?
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The tuneless applause from the audience really spoils the vibe.
1:50
I think Dex did some of his best work with these Dutch, Swiss and Danish groups. He looks relaxed and at home away from that rascist Americaan culture
If there was such a thing as Racism in the jazz culture of that time, his confidence and dignity is double for that. I'd have loved to have met the man.
Okay then, so why aren't the Dutch, Swiss and Danish known for producing their own jazz, but known instead for hosting American jazz musicians?
@@clintfalk actually, a lot of jazz was and is played by the Dutch, they absorbed it already in the fifties i.e.: czcams.com/video/Agjrc7eZOAY/video.html
Imagine all the blondie euro girl when saw Dexter on stage.. much more charming than Elvis
Wrong title - LOOSE WALK not BLUES WALK.
Why is a right handed drummer playing a left handed drum setup?
A Heineken night at the bar.
zenbooter Not really, probably Amstel! Cheers, anyway!
muy bueno eh
He's sweating the coke out.
Wasn't he addicted to heroin in the 50s?
We'd like to do "an original" by sonny stitt lol
way out daddy-o
"Loose Walk " or "Walk Loosely"
wasnt blues walk by clifford brown
Blues walk dizzy and stitt
clifford brown has the earliest recording on brown and roach
Blues Walk is by Lou Donaldson.
Lou Donaldson's is a different composition, they just share the same name by coincidence
They don't share the same name. This is loose walk. The guy posted it has given the wrong title..
A ccon
Loose Walk not Blues Walk
it's blues walk, he was messing around. listen to sonny stitt and dizzy play blues walk. it doesn't matter, it's all so fucking great
Sonny Stitt recorded it as Loose Walk, but the original is from Chris Woods "Somebody Stole My Blues".
nosmelc1001 How right you are! Cheers!