Night Train Solo

Maybe this one?
Oscar Peterson Trio + Ray Brown

 

Christian McBride.

 

A bit of musical history. This very lame piece of music was written by an old friend of mine named Jimmy Forrest. He WAS musically ashamed of writing it....it did, however, line his pocket with the green for a while thanks to Buddy Morrow's hit.
IMHO, and Jimmy's, it ended up as a vehicle for strippers, where it was destined to end, with organ trios famous "Bump and Grind" renditions.
It remains, today as it should, a huge musical joke.
I do HOPE that Christian's rendition is also a good hearted joke.....If he's serious, I'm sendin' out my Boyz.

 

I played Duke Ellington's "Happy-Go-Lucky Local" with Bill Russo's Chicago Jazz Ensemble and was surprised to hear the tune I knew as "Night Train" as part of the piece.

This from Wikipedia:

"Night Train" has a long and complicated history. The piece's opening riff was first recorded in 1940 by a small group led by Duke Ellington sideman Johnny Hodges under the title "That's the Blues, Old Man". Ellington used the same riff as the opening and closing theme of a longer-form composition, "Happy-Go-Lucky Local", that was itself one of four parts of his Deep South Suite. Forrest was part of Ellington's band when it performed this composition, which has a long tenor saxophone break in the middle. After leaving Ellington, Forrest recorded "Night Train" on United Records and had a major rhythm & blues hit. While "Night Train" employs the same riff as the earlier recordings, it is used in a much earthier R&B setting. Forrest inserted his own solo over a stop-time rhythm not used in the Ellington composition. He put his own stamp on the tune, but its relation to the earlier composition is obvious.

 

Well, to be sure, it's no In the Mood... but I like it. I especially like this cover of it



hehehhee

 

Beautiful! Thanks man....love the lyric, love the note.
I do miss those good old days with that old Hitler rally vibe goin' down in the audience. HEIL!! HEIL!! HEIL!! HEIL!!!! ONE MORE TIME..........HEIL!!!!!!!!

 

I get a thumbs down for acting like a troll???? ;-)

 

Why do I have to continually explain myself to you guys????
I am JOKING!
The thumbs down, zeytoun, wasn't for you...It was for the material we're discussing here....including your link.
AND, IMHO .....blah, blah.

 

Sorry, I was joking too. I've been reading the threads, so I knew your style (and knew you were joking), but I'm new so you didn't know mine.

 

wow, how could he make a recording with this sound (string height)