Stan Levey is one of the unsung heroes of the world of jazz music. Starting as a drummer at the age of 16 in Philadelphia with Dizzy Gillespie, who dubbed him "the Original Original", he was an eyewitness to the birth of bebop music on 52nd St in NYC in the late 1940's. He tells fascinating tales of his playing days with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton and the West Coast Cool school of music with the Lighthouse All-Stars in this series of short jazz documentaries featuring commentaries from such jazz greats as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Charlie Watts, Hank Jones, Bill Holman, Lee Konitz, Howard Rumsey, Bill Henderson, Lalo Schifrin and many others. I sincerely hope that you enjoy these videos as much as I did making them and the wonderful comments provided by our viewers - Arthur Shelby Pritz.
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This should be a part of every school curriculum! What a great lesson in so many things! I will watch this over and over
TY for the knowledge !!
Thanks for the awesome vid. 🎶🔥
That was awesome!
Boy Stan seemed like kind of a hard ass. Maybe he was just annoyed as though he really didn't want to be bothered meeting Charlie Watts. Actually I think Levy was jealous of Charlie's wealth and fame. He seemed bitter. Notice how the video ended?
Now I see what Walt Disney was doing; he was creating a world of mindless people. What a joke. Disney created a secret fertile bed of homosexuality.
The best jazz documentary I've seen. The last thing there, Hank Jones saying how elegant these players were. I totally agree as I got to play with Ben Tucker and became friends with Yusef Lateef, Sam Rivers and others. These guys had a class about them. Also they had a mind that was beyond any personal ego . They had an elevated consciousness. Now I've played with lots of famous rock sidemen but there's too much ego, too much greed and selfishness with them. Even with so many of these college guys, they are all into drinking and pills. Just childish. Anyway, this video brought back a lot of great memories. I don't know, the future doesn't feel or look right to me. Gotta keep growing.
Great doc!! Thanks
I miss my old friend Howard Rumsey, he opened the door introducing me to a lot of the guys. Stan Levey was kind to me as long as I didn't bug him too much haha. We were both Aries, right handed playing left handed ride. What times!!
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I wish I could be as objective as Stan Levy.
Enjoyed this video very much !! peace to all.
oy vay Gypsy Rose Lee. . I guess that bullfighter blouse with ridiculously big hat look and a Lucille Ball face was considered hot stuff. Showing stockings, garters and panties. Wow. HOT STUFF!! How times have changed. Not sure which is more ridiculous and cringey. Karshadian Pam Anderson Paris Hilton straight up buck naked blowjob sleaze or the old strip tease.silly fan dance stuff.Jazz dudes! you used to have to play "the stripper" and "night train" for hours, for days to make a living. Even Tatum and Hanks Jones. Working for assholes, killers that would break your fingers and face if you gave em any lip. Italian, Jewish, German even DUTCH gangsters. the "good old days" yeah sure. Great stuff. thanks for posting.
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I remember Morris Levy (Levar) of Tico and Roulette Records buying a chicken parlor IN THE FIFTIES and converting it into BIRDLAND.
Cool is cool then there's Stan.
Really enjoyed that.
and a hunchback.
I remember Chick Webb. Chick was very short!
Get with the program. Black people invented jazz, taught caucasians how to play jazz. Don't get it twisted.
Bebop is my favorite... Lots more to hear before I know a thing about it. 💫
I watched a Documentary about him and the start of bebop. It was narrarrated by Stan ,himself !! . Those Cool Cat's took young Stan in and the rest is history. He had a great career.
Well done
I just started watching this. I saw the wonderful doc about Charlie Watts and Stan Levy's time together a couple years ago. Now both of them are gone. Thanks for letting me find this film as well!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video !!
My mouth was agape through the entire video. I recognize each and every name because music historians and journalists noted these players in the late 70s and 80s and 90s. What I think I know - lucky enough to have Amiri Baraja as a musicology tutor once a week for 5 or 6 or 7 weeks - was confirmed here. I even recognized the name of the subject. Seeing and hearing Charlie Watts was the cherry on top. Seeing and hearing Miles Davis was Thanksgiving dinner.
thanks for sharing💙
Watching this film, I felt the soul of jazz. It's just a brief look at some of the musicians who transformed jazz back aways. I've been listening to jazz since the American Forces Network radio broadcasts in 1950; no universal music media then. Now, that exciting time has gone, as music taste changes with the passing generations...but, thanks to the mighty recording industry, all that world is with me now. My collection is like an old friend I visit frequently! Some artists like Charlie Parker I have played repeatedly over decades.......I simply do not tire of musical geniuses like Parker, Armstrong, Webster, Gillespie, Bud Powell, to name but a few....paradoxically..I love a bit of Progressive house!
The look on Bird's face at 16:00 is timeless (guess maybe Dizz did smoke a little weed, I knew Bird did?)!
That’s right. Black music comes from white players
Don’t make sense at all except cracking a divide among us. Sad
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Wow…. This is what America should be. 💯
One didn't read anything about the white guys playing bop when I got into "modern jazz" in the 60's. One did hear complaints about "crow Jim".
This is a great video shoot i feel like im a fly on the wall..two brothers finally met !
Is Steve Ley still alive? Love to see his stories in a book.
I hope my Father is up there Smoking a Ft. Long Cuban. Listening to these guys all of whom he loved and taught me thru stories of their performances. RIP DAD
Just wonder how many times Benny played Stealin Apples? Also wonder where the parents had parked the kids for the evening😅
Always liked Stan Levy. Tasteful supportive musician.
Absolutely fantastic and heart warming documentary!
the Black community never rejected white folks but................White community has always rejected Blacks folks
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Priceless historical records of the jazz scene. Bebop. Amazing examples of human relationships in the era before woke and the rise of ignorance that got a voice. Thank goodness for this record.
What a drummer musician man legend never forgotten for sure thank you for video I've seen it before never tiring
I find it little sad that Stan never wrote a book himself. It could have been a Bestseller.
Que bueno video lastima que mi pobre inglés sea tan pobre ❤😊😊😅❤❤❤
im amazed they let a white drummer play w them although ive always suspected there was less black racism in those days than now. i wonder y benny goodman fired him?
I enjoyed this doc hugely. Added a bunch of new records mentioned here to my Spotify list.
OMG! Fantastic cannot begin to describe this gig. I shall repeat with oen and paper to take notes ad I did when I first saw Ken Burn's Jazz documentary when Napster first came out. Man oh man what a fabulous jazz education that way baby! So here we go again 30 years later and I now own a bar and restaurant where this music really helps us swing and sell good food and booze and good times. God bless the greats of jazz and thank you so much for your beautiful contribution to the world of music and my success as a restaurantuer.
It appears that this was made in 2004 (timely since Stan Levey passed away in 2005). Thank you @TubeworksVideoChannel for uploading this superb documentary.
I became familiar with Stan Levey on a two record set of Stan Getz and his quartet at Storyville in Boston, which George Wein operated. I think that the date was 1951. The set was called "The Stan Getz Years". I purchased it as a very young drummer in the early 1970s. The tempo on "Parker '51" was extremely fast, and I immediately respected his endurance. It's a great collection of songs if you can find it... at all tempos.