One of the greatest singles of the recent past

@charlesbarry971

Ай бұрын

Singers not singles

Joe Williams tore the place up at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1962. I'll never forget.

Nobody else could sing this song like Joe Williams--he owned it, pure and simple.

@Lumalnatti11

10 ай бұрын

Nobody!

now here...this is for real. Miss Joe Williams and THANK YOU for the GREAT music.

sing it now, Joe Williams.

I listen to Joe Williams every day! His voice is amazing! Count Basie and Joe Williams, a match made in heaven, frfr.

@bobaldo2339

9 ай бұрын

Saw them together on stage when I was a young man.

Joe Willliams is gifted performer. I like the way he gave a context to the song with his albeit lengthy intro. The main thing that puts me off him a wee bit is the lack of a smooth flow to his singing. There is a good live version of this song by Jimmy Rushing with the Benny Goodman band. It is more straightforward but it shows exactly what I mean by flow of the song. And Rushing doean have a smooth-sounding voice either. I saw Joe Williams with Basie live in London UK in the early 60's. He was fine. A couple of years later Basie was back, this time with Jimmy Rushing. That was hugely memorable. The first half of the show the band seemed a wee bitty pedestrian. In the second half Rushing came on and he transformed the band which responded magnificently to him, and really started to swing. It was like a different band. Ever since then, Rushing has been the number one for me. Basie himself described Rushing as the greatest male big band singer of them all. A great Blues singer, and not only the Blues. However, I'm still going to be listening to more Joe Williams as well. He is also a class act despite my reservations.

Say it Joe!!!

"Joe Williams," Blues King!!!

I just love Joes' timbre.........his stuff with Basie is also awesome.

NYC &Chicago were that city 2 be in or want 2 get out! Today u want 2 get out of both! Personally I'm hood & love them both!OG 70ty+good classic song.

one of the best live jazz albums. Cannonball's band at Fantasy Studios with Joe Williams. groovin' hard

@bennyj.reeves1760

6 жыл бұрын

Alright okey you win Joe williams

fantastic joe w, there will never be another.

Great!!! One of the best voices ever! I have this live version (cannonball adderley at sax) on an old CD.... the intro is amazing, thank you for posting on YT

Joe Monstruo Sagrado. Espero que estes iluminando el mas allá con tu voz.

a classic don't get better than this!

Did y'all ever hear him sing the headache blues in the BC Headache Powder commercials? My teenage friends and I fell in love with Joe Williams at the moment. I even had a boyfriend named Joseph "Joe" Williams.

Love it. 👍👍

Awesome,great James!!!

Bring back the Old Greats

I think this was live at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, when Joe was touring with a quartet in the '80's.

283 views where are all the real people with taste!! Love this guy

@thomasrothers8021

3 жыл бұрын

100 000 now 😂

@DraganJazzy

2 жыл бұрын

114k now 😀

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gracias ! ; desde argentina .

Solid.

Yes.

Raise your window high.

É uma verdadeira intersecção

Compare this to the studio version he did with LH&R and Basie in '57. It's like a completely different tune here!

cool.

Around 1:08 Mr Williams sounds like Hendrix when he speaks.

Funny, the Steely Dan track "Your Gold Teeth" directly borrows the "there ain't nothing in Chicago for a monkey woman to do," line.

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Could you please tell us what album this was taken from? Thank you. I think it is the among the BEST renditions of this song.

Who are the other musicians? And when was this version recorded?

If anyone has this on 33 and a third please e-mail me back.

All I've had was monkey women, and they were not on Heroin! Games are all I've ever known! Going back to Chicago cause people have no hidden plans! Simply, Larry

a GO-RILL-AHH @ 1:20 LOL

T bone walker is wat better check it out if your into some real blue

Peerless

NY sucks