Count Basie Orchestra - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Ray Charles - Live at Antibes Jazz Festival.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhythm & Blues.

Blues.

Jazz.

African American Music.

United States and Canada.

Americans.

Local Subjects:

Rhythm & Blues.

Blues.

Jazz.

African American Music.

United States and Canada.

Americans.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1961.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Captured during the famous jazz festival of Antibes-Juan Les Pins, this concert offers a magnificent flashback to a period when jazz emancipated itself from the sometimes compartmentalized circuits of experts and aficionados. At the turn of the 1950's and 1960's, Count Basie’s big-band was touring all over the USA, but also in Europe and Japan and the maestro enjoyed a reputation that was almost without equal. An explosion of swing, tempestuous brass, harmonies, instrumentalists at the service of the collective, and a drummer (Sonny Payne) who hypnotizes the audience with sumptuous style, and a litany of flaming solos. The vocal trio of Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross acts as a relay team for a superb version of a track by Basie (“Rusty Dusty Blues”). Next, Ray Charles arrives on stage, and he is quickly joined by the inseparable Raelettes group. It was the very first European date for Ray Charles whose records in France, at that time, were delivering hit after hit. In 1961, the incandescent "What I'd Say" probably resounded in almost every French home and was inevitably part of the repertoire that night. Jazz improvisations, soul reflections, bluesy laments, tonic rhythm & blues ... We can assume that the spectators were very contented witnesses to this unique performance, and spilled out of the venue in a state of pure joy once it had finished. Julien D.

Notes:

Performed Jazz à Juan

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