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Author: Ed
Date: 2014-09-07 23:16
Classic performance from 1961. It features the famous performance of Isaac Stern and Jack Benny. At about 15 minutes in Benny Goodman plays with his sextet and really burns. It also features Van Cliburn, Eugene Ormandy, Roberta Peters and the Philadelphia Orchestra. (It was misidentified by some sources as the NY Phil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9egHl7lLew
Post Edited (2014-09-09 04:10)
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-09-08 01:12
Thanks for posting that!
I think it's even truer of jazz music that musicians just seem to give their most vital performances in front of a live audience.
Benny Goodman and his Sextet were simply great.
...........Paul Aviles
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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2014-09-08 17:10
Looking at this TV concert I felt a bit like an „old world“ inhabitant would have 50 years ago: Horror! Diese Amis! A Carnegie Hall concert mixed with little Sara Lee baker's Apple and Spice cake and Motorola's „molecular electronics that revolutionize the world we are living in“ (how right they were, bearing in mind stereo hifi and military electronics!) and a top artist fooling around with Saint Johann Sebastian and marvellous Jack Benny (whom I hadn't known till now), and, as I suppose, not only for fund raising reasons but really having fun like the highbrow audience.
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2014-09-08 20:39
Issac Stern played an outstanding straight-man to Benny. And watch the orchestra player's faces; they were loving it.
HRL
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Author: Bruno
Date: 2014-09-09 00:59
Onstage guest to Jack Benny: "Is your violin a Stradivarius?"
Benny; "Well if it's not, I'm out three hundred bucks!"
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Author: BobD
Date: 2014-09-09 01:05
Jack Benny quip I like best: He's being held up at gunpoint and the robber says, "Your money or your life". After a pause Jack says, "I'm thinking, I'm thinking".
IMO the Jack Benny radio show was even better than the tv one because you had to use your imagination. Benny going down to the "vault" was a riot due to the alligators. Love In Bloom ....I can still hear it. Rochester. Wonderful memories from an era when the economy was worse than now.
Bob Draznik
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Author: BobD
Date: 2014-09-09 01:22
I thought Stern said "Philadelphia Orchestra"
Bob Draznik
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