Full Concert: The Swing Era—Revolution in Rhythm - JLCO with Wynton Marsalis

hello my name is marcus printup trumpeter with a jazz at lincoln orchestra and you're about to watch the swing era revolution in rhythm originally performed in 2016 this concert was part of a season-long exploration of jazz's most formative decades i was a musical director for this tribute and the jazz edmonton orchestra when marsalis used this show to premiere a new work of mine commissioned piece called the forever swing suite i had a great time writing this for the cats the big bands that emerged during the swing era defined the sound of america bringing people out of the depression and ushering in a new sense of possibility in addition to my own composition you're going to hear arrangements of swing air classics and rarely heard works by the likes of duke gelatin fletcher henderson stan kitten benny goodman and many many more and they all demonstrate what made jazz the definitive dance music of the 1930s and speaking of dance i decided to bring in paulo lana gabby cook and the lindy hop all stars they're dancing on about half the concert you're gonna really enjoy it so wherever you're tuning in from we're glad you're here to celebrate this rich tradition of music history with us and thanks for your support for your contributions thanks for watching and one final note [Applause] thank you very very much welcome as always to the house of swing this year we're featuring the various decades of music that comprise the recorded history of jazz we opened up with victor goins take on the jazz age of 1920s different members of our orchestra are the music directors for these evenings they curate the first half which is all traditional music fulfills our victim that all jazz is modern and in the second half they write an original composition and they also can invite any guests that they want and do really anything that they want tonight we are fortunate to be under the music direction of a phenomenal trumpet player a man who lives in the pocket of soul mr marcus print up thank you very much thank you winton thank you jazz lincoln center for giving me a chance to do this it's been a wonderful two or three weeks preparing this music and um it's one of the knowledge that i play with the greatest jazz orchestra in the world the jazz links in orchestra and before we get things started about the music i want to acknowledge the presence of master in the house mr ellis marsalis put the lights on i wanted to catch a set at dizzy's early this week when i was writing music so i'll catch you next time all right we're gonna go to the swing air i'm not going to talk much about the history of this music i'm just going to play we're just going to play the tunes that we selected i had a hard time finding a selection because there are so many wonderful tunes from that era but we narrowed it down to about nine or ten tombs for the first set and we hope you enjoy it this first composition is one that will hopefully get you in the mood it was written by joe garland this is in the mood hope you enjoy so so [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] that was walter glenn on the triple saxophone sean irving kenny hampton on trumpet all right swinging we're going to go um to a wonderful composer band leader benny moulton and he wrote this next composition in 1932 and it featured a pianist by the name of william count basie who was in his orchestra and count basis recorded this song with his comp bass orchestra in 1940. we're going to play molten swing for you hope you enjoy it and keep your eyes open on this one no surprise one two three [Music] so do you [Music] um so [Music] uh so [Music] so [Music] thank you [Applause] and let's hear it for our dancers that's paulo lana and the dixie stoppers when i first conceptualized how we wanted this to go i was thinking maybe we could have the stage be like a like an open dance hall so they're gonna be coming back and forth on the stage like every other song so you're gonna be enjoying them a lot this next tune was composed by the bandleader sy oliver and he recorded this as well but also jimmy lunsford's being recorded this and this song is special to me because when i first joined the orchestra a long time ago this is one of the first songs that we ever played and we don't play it often so i decided to pull it up again so this is for dancers only one two one [Music] so so [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] on the truck we're gonna next turn to the big band of woody herman and uh he had a few names for the few generations he had uh one of the names was the band that plays the blues for this first generation and yeah they're the first herd and we're gonna play a tune entitled apple honey and bring our dancers back on the stage y'all out here already all right let's hear from our dancers again this is apple honey [Music] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] uh [Music] uh [Music] huh [Applause] wow be [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] clarinet this is garner on the trombone ted nash on the tune of saxophone let's hear for our dancers once more all right we are going to move now to the orchestra of andy kirk um he had a wonderful pianist in his band her name is mary lou williams yes marilla williams and the story um well at least i saw this in the thelonious monk documentary they said that mary um all the cats would go over to her house and she cooked for them then they hang out and she showed them how to play chords on piano as well so that was kind of cool yeah okay we're going to play her composition this is entitled walking and swinging [Music] so [Music] you [Music] [Applause] so [Music] over here [Applause] we're going to go back to the music of woody herman yeah woody herman i had to put this one in here it's one of the most beautiful ballads ever written and it's very apropos for the time it is entitled early autumn we hope you enjoy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] so [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] me [Music] um [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] piano as our dancers assemble back to the stage we're going to play a song entitled five o'clock whistle it was written by kim gannon and joseph myro count basie's band recorded this in 1940 and this was transcribed by mr chris crenshaw we hope you enjoy the five o'clock whistle one two so [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] foreign [Music] the [Applause] and our wonderful dancers my notes here it says that some of the dance styles they did on that number were the hollywood style the collegiate shag and the harlem style lindy hop yeah i like that okay we're going to what are we going to play next we're going to play another song that was transcribed by chris crenshaw this is composed by jack pettis and fats waller and fletcher henderson's band recorded this in 1927 we hope that you enjoy the st louis shuffle one two one [Music] this [Music] uh [Music] hey [Music] so [Music] which [Applause] thank you that was ted nash victor goins chris crenshaw james torillo from guitar visit garner on the tuba we always um we love the fact that winton is on the mic most of the time because man i've spilled my water here there's water all over the floor and my notes are everywhere i'm like man you do this all the time right i see i understand but the show must go on right all right we have one final tune to play in this half and this is a classic uh let's see we're gonna bring our dancers back on the stage y'all coming back [Applause] they told me to stall there we go they got ready okay this is sing sing sing we hope you enjoy it two three [Music] so so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] [Applause] uh [Music] so so [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you very much do you want to take a brief relationship [Applause] as i look around america this music the music of duke ellington has actually changed the face of jazz education in the last 22 years jazz education is different now than it used to be because of the music [Music] [Music] and then i think is it possible that the culture the spirit the goodwill of the country is in some way improved by this and at times we question that but when i'm in this room with you people there's no doubt in my [Music] mind [Music] we're all affected by duke ellington [Music] powerfully [Music] me [Applause] so i hope you had a fruitful break in the back all right here we go we're gonna open this set up with a tune that was written by the great king joe oliver and okay let's give him a round of applause king over when i was asked to do this swing show i couldn't i could not include well let me let me rephrase that i had to include the great lewis armstrong in this so this is one that king oliver recorded first in 1923 and louis armstrong recorded this as a duet with the pianist earl heinz in 1928 and we've added a bit of a twist we have the two trumpets and piano and we added drums and banjo this is a classic weather bird [Applause] one two you do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] hey louis armstrong king joe oliver and some of you may be wondering wait a minute this entire first set i didn't hear any of um who many people consider the master myself included duke ellington well we have duke ellington now this is a song that's written by andy rozaff benny goodman chick webb and edgar sampson and there's a record that i purchased when i was in college way back in 1912 and um it was a live cd of duke's band playing and duke says so for the final number we're going to play and then there's like murmuring going on in the background he goes okay so we're going to play a new one and then they kicked this tune off so i couldn't find an arrangement of it so i decided to transcribe it for us and the band is swinging and we got our dancers back here let's have a good time to stomping at the savoy oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] so [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] me [Music] so [Music] so [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] uh [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] let's hear from our dancers victor gohan winton marsalis on the trumpet paul manziello on the baritone saxophone and walter blanding on the turn of saxophone and also you can't forget sherman irving on the alto saxophone all right here we go man that's swinging right glad we got that one so now the final piece of music that we're going to hear is a suite that i composed for this orchestra and first and foremost i want to thank my wife riza who's in the audience for the past two and a half weeks she's tolerating me being up until eight o'clock in the morning writing clanking the piano keys and making crazy noises and stuff so thank you baby so we're gonna let's see this this has three movements the first movement actually the title was i actually don't like to to make titles or to create titles because i think the music speaks for itself but we have to have titles and everything that we do so i asked my wife what she would call this and she said when she hears a melody it makes her think about a cat that you may see on 125th street or you may see him at 59th street you may see him in dizzy's he's always dressed he's always clean even though his suit may be cheap he's he's still clean and he you know he just makes people feel good so this is what this tune is about you may see him walking on the sidewalk so this is called sidewalk swagger we hope you enjoy [Applause] one two [Music] so [Music] so [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Applause] [Music] so uh [Music] huh [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] thank you that was dan nimmer on the piano sherman irby on the apple saxophone and let's hear it for our surprise dancers down here as well dancers what's that all right it is wonderful they sound great we are going to continue with a ballad that i compose against him two weeks ago when i started writing this and this is for our brother our band mate our father our grandfather mr joe templey funny um i actually when i when i started writing this i tried to find something that joe would play so i kind of channeled joe's energy in his spirit which is very much alive by the way um into me and he goes hey print up how are you this is a true story asked my wife about this and i said hey man i'd like to write a ballot for you on this show that i'm hosting and he and so i i asked him to play some melodies for me so he started playing this really happened he started playing and i heard a single pill of rose i heard sophisticated lady but i couldn't find anything to write that was my own so joe's spirit said print it up just write some chords and i'll play a melody on top of them and this is what happened and right away this tomb was born so this is called great love for joe [Applause] the templey saxophone [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now [Music] um [Music] uh [Music] uh [Applause] [Music] um foreign [Music] ah [Music] bow [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh me [Music] [Applause] [Music] so foreign [Music] so [Music] so [Music] um [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] this is garner mr ball joe tripley and we spoke to joe's wife laura and she's watching us on the live stream so we love you lord god bless you [Applause] all right now we're gonna end the concert with a the final movement it's a bit long there's three parts to it it's called here there and back again the first part is the here part and then the second part which is different from the first part is the dare part and we're going to end with back again and go to the first part but with you know a few surprises for you so we hope you enjoy this here there and back again one two one two three four [Music] uh [Music] uh [Music] so do [Music] uh [Music] ah [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] uh [Music] uh [Music] huh [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye [Music] me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] um [Music] so [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] hello [Music] uh come on [Music] um [Music] huh [Music] oh [Music] this [Music] uh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] jennifer barnett samuel coleman rachel mccullen brandon barker and akini kanikala thank y'all [Music] victor goins lieutenant saxophone chris crenshaw the trombone elliot mason of the trombone walter blanding of the tenor ollie jackson on the drums carlos enriquez on the base 10 nash in the alto saxophone sherman irving paul netzella vincent gardner kenny rampton greg gizberg [Applause] on the guitar and our leader winter marsalis and the trumpet thank you very much we are the jazz at lincoln center orchestra thank you you

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Length: 95min 33sec (5733 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 09 2020