THE Big Band

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Count Basie - piano

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No info ... Sorry ... Oh Yeah, it's a trio ... bass ... drums ... and guitar at Rutgers University.

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Arnett Cobb, tenor sax; Ellis Marsalis, piano; Chris Severin, bass; John Vidacorich, drums

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Concert in Europe

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San Remo Festival. Brian Auger - a great Hammond player - reminds me sometimes of Larry Young. Here playing Eddie Harris's Freedom Jazz Dance

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I forgot to put these back up!

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TV gig in Berlin

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Jimmy Smith -organ; Quentin Warren - guitar; Billy Hart - drums.

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1978 Germany. Ornette Coleman - sax, violin; Ben Nix - guitar; Charlie Ellerbee - guitar; Albert Arnold - bass; Shannon Jackson - drums; Denardo Coleman - drums

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TV gig Tokyo "Is it really Jazz?" I ask myself. Quickly followed by,"Do I care?" .........(sigh)

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Another one I forgot to put back up

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BBC TV Jimmy Smith - Hammond Organ; Quentin Warren - guitar; Billy Hart - drums

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I think this was a Swiss TV job.Anyone know who bass player and drummer are? Some breaking up on last chorus but that's on my original copy :)

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German TV gig late 1980's I think. This shows his band stretching out on this R and B classic - Frank Wilson is the drummer; anyone know who the tenor sax and the guitarist are?

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TV from Stuttgart, Germany

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Benny Goodman, clarinet; Lionel Hampton, vibes; Teddy Wilson, piano; Gene Krupa, drums. With George Duvivier on bass. Hey, that Lionel Hampton's gotta be the King of Swing!

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With Stan Tracey - piano; Ricky Laird - bass; Jackie Doogan - drums

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Tokyo TV gig. Herman Riley - tenor sax; Carl Lockett - guitar (anyone got any info in this guy?); James Levi - drums.

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With Steve Novosel on bass

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Larry Carlton - guitar; Rick Jackson - Keyboards; Chris Kent - bass; Moyes Lucas - drums.

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Billy Cobham - drums; George Duke - keyboards; Carl Orr - guitar; Stefan Rademacher - bass.

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Montreux. Randy Brecker - trumpet; Joe Farrell - saxophone; Jimmer Knepper - trombone; Roland Hanna - piano; Aladar Pege - bass; Billy Hart drums

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Rare clip of legendary guitarist Johnny Smith at (University?) gig in Mobile Alabama in 1984

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Live, Vienne, France, 1993. Jimmy Smith - Hammond; Kenny Burrell - guitar; Herman Riley - tenor; Grady Tate - drums

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Count Basie Orchestra 1972 with Joe Williams

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Cutting edge stuff. Andy Milne - piano; Gregoire Maret - harmonica; Carl Walker - vocals - Richard Brown - bass; Sean Rickman - drums.

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From my favorite Messengers album, 'Ugetsu'. this is Wayne Shorter's 'One By One'.

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Benny Goodman, clarinet; Lionel Hampton, vibes; Teddy Wilson, piano; Gene Krupa, drums. With George Duvivier on bass. Hey, that Lionel Hampton's gotta be the King of Swing!

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Switzerland 1997. Larry Carlton - guitar; Rick Jackson - keyboards; Chris Kent - bass; Moyes Lucas - drums

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You know - this looks better to me than the WDR Big Band ever did - even with Maceo! Features Anne Mae Winburn and also Tiny Davis. She's Crazy With The Heat Do You Wanna Jump Children? How'Bout That Jive? Round & Brown Blues

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Hampton Hawes - keys; Bob Cranshaw - bass; Kenny Clarke - drums

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Frankfurt TV gig. Sonny Sharrock - guitar; Bill Laswell - bass; Peter Brozman - sax; Ronald Shannon Jackson - drums. No 'II-V-I's' here I'm afraid ...

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German TV

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Montreux 1978

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NOTE: Why is there no decent footage of Larry Young and Grant Green anywhere? This clip of Lifetime could be Ted Dunbar on guitar Warren Smith and Don Alias on percussion, and bass could be Juini Booth. The guy in the Rudolph Valentino outfit on Hammond is the incomparable Larry Young

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Japanese Club Date for TV with Bob Magnuson on bass and Sherman Ferguson on drums

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UK TV concert -featured Paul Gonsalves

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German TV

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This shamefully under-rated and largely ignored tenor-sax giant delivers a lesson here on how to play,and swing,the blues.

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OK! let's have the band details please!

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One of the great pioneers of jazz trumpet, Red Allen suffered from comparisons with 'Pops' but in truth was a superb stylist himself - one of the great New Orleans trumpet players. Band includes: Al Cay - tenor sax; Fred Hunt - piano; Lennie Hastings - drums; Jim Douglas - guitar. Bass? Trombone?

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UK TV gig. 'Skillipoop' features Sam Woodyard - drums; 'Rockin'' features, "the whole gang," (of course!).

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Richard Tee and Dave Weckl - Zurich TV gig 1986

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Mike Stern - guitar; Bob Sheppard - sax; Lincoln Goines - bass; Dave Weckl - drums;

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