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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:16,483 --> 00:00:18,849 Once I had a pretty little girl 2 00:00:20,253 --> 00:00:23,347 I lose my baby, ain't that sad? 3 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:31,894 Once I had a pretty little girl 4 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:37,131 I lose my baby, ain't that sad? 5 00:00:42,375 --> 00:00:44,843 You know you can't spend What you ain't got 6 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:50,540 You can't lose What you ain't never had 7 00:00:56,089 --> 00:00:59,183 Well you know you can't spend What you ain't got 8 00:01:01,494 --> 00:01:04,861 You can't lose What you ain't never had 9 00:01:36,963 --> 00:01:39,693 The piano is the most important musical instrument. 10 00:01:40,066 --> 00:01:42,034 George Bernard Shaw wrote... 11 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:45,936 its invention was to music what the printing press was to poetry. 12 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,806 Bartholomeu Christophory, an Italian... 13 00:01:49,876 --> 00:01:53,141 invented the piano at the beginning of the 18th century. 14 00:01:53,446 --> 00:01:55,141 Evolving from the harpsichord... 15 00:01:55,215 --> 00:01:58,343 the piano emerged at the dawn of the industrial revolution. 16 00:01:58,818 --> 00:02:02,914 With some 20,000 parts, the piano has been able to produce a sound... 17 00:02:02,989 --> 00:02:07,050 that inspired the likes of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. 18 00:02:08,194 --> 00:02:09,923 The piano has continued to remain... 19 00:02:09,996 --> 00:02:13,329 one of the most valued musical instruments to this day. 20 00:03:02,949 --> 00:03:06,214 At the beginning of the 20th century the piano began to make its way... 21 00:03:06,286 --> 00:03:08,049 to the roots of American music. 22 00:03:08,321 --> 00:03:11,484 Becoming one of the key instruments in playing the blues. 23 00:03:11,624 --> 00:03:15,424 Piano blues could be heard in the saloons, lumber camps, brothels... 24 00:03:15,495 --> 00:03:20,432 churches, honkey talks, all the way down the Mississippi to Louisiana... 25 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:22,127 Alabama and Texas. 26 00:03:22,569 --> 00:03:24,560 Soon it settled in New Orleans... 27 00:03:24,637 --> 00:03:28,004 quickly spreading to Chicago and Harlem and Kansas City. 28 00:03:28,174 --> 00:03:30,335 From the 1920s to the present... 29 00:03:30,410 --> 00:03:33,243 Piano blues has remained a steadfast foundation... 30 00:03:33,313 --> 00:03:35,645 and the fountain of American music. 31 00:03:35,848 --> 00:03:40,114 It has embraced boogie woogie, jump blues, stried, gospel blues... 32 00:03:40,186 --> 00:03:45,283 the Spanish tinge, rhythm and blues, urban blues and all kinds of jazz. 33 00:03:45,625 --> 00:03:48,822 Many piano players have made their deep mark in the blues... 34 00:03:48,895 --> 00:03:50,453 and this is their story. 35 00:03:51,698 --> 00:03:52,824 - Hey, Ray. - Hey. 36 00:03:54,234 --> 00:03:56,134 What's up? 37 00:03:56,202 --> 00:03:59,660 - How you doing? - Here's to you old amigo... 38 00:04:00,406 --> 00:04:01,634 and all the good times. 39 00:04:01,708 --> 00:04:05,303 - That's right, you got it, brother. - And here's to all those women. 40 00:04:05,378 --> 00:04:09,280 - Here's to all the women. - That we been through. 41 00:04:09,782 --> 00:04:12,182 So set 'em up my amigo. 42 00:04:13,186 --> 00:04:14,278 Oh, man. 43 00:04:18,224 --> 00:04:20,749 What got you interested in music. How'd you start? 44 00:04:23,363 --> 00:04:25,627 When I was three years old... 45 00:04:26,699 --> 00:04:30,635 there was a man living next door. 46 00:04:30,737 --> 00:04:35,140 And he had like a little Jones' store, you know... 47 00:04:35,208 --> 00:04:39,167 where you buy carrots, candy, bread and stuff like that. 48 00:04:39,612 --> 00:04:42,775 This small village town in Florida. Well, anyway... 49 00:04:43,683 --> 00:04:46,311 when I was three, I don't know why but... 50 00:04:46,452 --> 00:04:49,319 every time when he'd start to practice... 51 00:04:49,522 --> 00:04:54,186 I was... I couldn't help myself, I had to stop and listen. 52 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,721 And he would play that boogie woogie. 53 00:04:57,196 --> 00:04:59,960 You know, and I just loved it. 54 00:05:00,033 --> 00:05:02,627 And I would jump on the stew and he... 55 00:05:03,469 --> 00:05:05,903 and he would say... No, no, no, no, no... 56 00:05:06,139 --> 00:05:09,802 and every time, every time, I mean... 57 00:05:09,876 --> 00:05:13,209 I don't care if I was playing with my buddies. Whatever I was doing... 58 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,874 when he played that piano I would stop in my tracks. 59 00:05:17,550 --> 00:05:19,848 - And so eventually... - He taught you something. 60 00:05:19,919 --> 00:05:25,721 What he did. You don't hit the piano with your full fists son. 61 00:05:25,792 --> 00:05:29,819 I'm gonna teach you how to play a melody with one finger. 62 00:05:29,896 --> 00:05:32,194 That's how he did it, I started. 63 00:05:37,437 --> 00:05:41,703 Like that. That's how I got started. And I was fascinated. 64 00:05:41,774 --> 00:05:45,073 I could hit a key and make a sound. 65 00:05:45,778 --> 00:05:46,836 I was very impressed. 66 00:06:16,509 --> 00:06:18,340 Hey mama Don't you treat me wrong 67 00:06:18,978 --> 00:06:21,344 Come and love your daddy All night long 68 00:06:22,548 --> 00:06:28,578 Come and love your daddy All night long 69 00:06:30,923 --> 00:06:32,754 When you see me in misery 70 00:06:33,459 --> 00:06:35,450 Come on baby See about me 71 00:06:35,528 --> 00:06:38,520 Now yeah, all right yeah 72 00:06:39,599 --> 00:06:43,330 Come on baby See about me 73 00:06:45,271 --> 00:06:47,364 See the girl With the red dress on 74 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:50,240 She can put it down All night long 75 00:06:51,210 --> 00:06:58,082 All night long Now yeah 76 00:06:59,719 --> 00:07:02,017 Tell your mama Tell your pa 77 00:07:02,355 --> 00:07:04,414 I'm gonna send you back To Arkansas 78 00:07:04,524 --> 00:07:06,424 That's really how I got started. 79 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,155 This guy was practicing. 80 00:07:11,230 --> 00:07:14,893 You know, the thing is Clint, it shows you about people though. 81 00:07:15,034 --> 00:07:18,629 He could've said 'Get away from me kid don't you see I'm practicing'. 82 00:07:18,704 --> 00:07:23,368 And I would've had to go. Cause I was taught to mind old people. 83 00:07:23,976 --> 00:07:27,139 But he didn't say that. He musta saw... 84 00:07:27,213 --> 00:07:32,480 I guess he felt that any kid that was willing to give up his playing time... 85 00:07:32,552 --> 00:07:36,579 to come to listen to him, he must love music. 86 00:07:36,656 --> 00:07:38,783 I think that's what he must have thought. 87 00:07:38,858 --> 00:07:40,086 Do you remember his name? 88 00:07:40,159 --> 00:07:41,820 Wally Pitman. I'll never forget... 89 00:07:41,894 --> 00:07:45,295 - Wally Pitman? - Yeah, Wally Pitman. 90 00:07:45,364 --> 00:07:47,525 - And he was a boogie piano player. - That's right. 91 00:07:48,167 --> 00:07:50,601 Those guys were great. It's funny... 92 00:07:50,670 --> 00:07:55,130 Almost every piano player I talked to started out that way... 93 00:07:55,208 --> 00:07:59,577 with something like that. Because that was the intriguing music. 94 00:07:59,645 --> 00:08:01,442 Either that or a lot of them get it in church. 95 00:08:01,514 --> 00:08:06,247 - That's right. - Gospel players that play like that. 96 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:08,378 - I grew up with. - Meade Lux Lewis 97 00:08:08,454 --> 00:08:11,548 - Oh, we said it at the same time. - The same time. 98 00:08:12,258 --> 00:08:16,058 And Albert Ammons. Pete Johnson and all those guys. 99 00:08:16,128 --> 00:08:18,858 Pete Johnson, Sears cash played the hell out of the boogie woogie. 100 00:08:18,931 --> 00:08:21,195 - Different styles. Different kinds. - Yeah. 101 00:09:03,109 --> 00:09:04,007 Going up. 102 00:09:10,416 --> 00:09:11,747 A little bit higher, a little bit higher. 103 00:09:21,928 --> 00:09:22,895 Hold it. Hold it. 104 00:09:47,486 --> 00:09:49,454 As time went on. You know as I said... 105 00:09:49,522 --> 00:09:52,013 he started me out picking out a little melody... 106 00:09:52,091 --> 00:09:58,462 with one, two finger. I became so interested... 107 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:05,469 in the sound that I was creating myself. I was so fascinated with that. 108 00:10:05,538 --> 00:10:09,269 And then as time went on... 109 00:10:09,942 --> 00:10:14,003 he was able to tell me now... 110 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,480 you know, you got two hands. 111 00:10:16,549 --> 00:10:20,508 Well, you have to learn how to use the other hand. 112 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,689 The man was so nice to me. 113 00:10:26,726 --> 00:10:29,695 The reason I appreciated him so much 'cause... 114 00:10:30,563 --> 00:10:33,999 as I became a grown man... 115 00:10:34,233 --> 00:10:39,728 I realized the one thing that impressed me... 116 00:10:39,805 --> 00:10:42,103 was that he didn't throw me out. 117 00:10:42,174 --> 00:10:45,473 He didn't say 'I'm practicing, get away from here'. 118 00:10:45,544 --> 00:10:48,411 He could've said that but he didn't. 119 00:10:48,481 --> 00:10:54,545 Now kids starting out they do blues. Because it's the easiest. 120 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,021 It's the easiest thing to play. You play two notes. 121 00:11:05,097 --> 00:11:07,258 - That's it. - Two keys. 122 00:12:36,422 --> 00:12:38,720 But then you got interested in Tatum of course. 123 00:12:38,791 --> 00:12:45,822 Well, you know, as time goes on you start listening to these guys. 124 00:12:45,898 --> 00:12:51,029 You know being in this village I listened to a lot of blues. 125 00:12:51,103 --> 00:12:55,005 There are people like Tamper Red, Lux Lewis. 126 00:12:55,074 --> 00:12:57,702 - I listened to those guys too. - Big Joe Turner. 127 00:12:57,977 --> 00:13:01,777 Oh, I've been 128 00:13:03,349 --> 00:13:06,807 Oh, look at me 129 00:13:13,993 --> 00:13:16,655 Oh, you been relieved 130 00:13:18,497 --> 00:13:21,864 Before somebody start to cry 131 00:13:28,641 --> 00:13:30,905 Everybody prays 132 00:13:32,511 --> 00:13:34,103 Lord Almighty 133 00:13:48,727 --> 00:13:50,820 Might be running free to you 134 00:13:53,866 --> 00:13:56,096 California rain 135 00:14:05,811 --> 00:14:07,506 Take it down, take it down 136 00:14:07,813 --> 00:14:10,145 Make that same theme Take it down 137 00:14:18,724 --> 00:14:19,748 Jay is playing. 138 00:14:51,223 --> 00:14:55,216 The thing was with me. I just loved the music. 139 00:14:55,294 --> 00:14:58,730 If it sounded good it was all right with me. 140 00:14:59,832 --> 00:15:02,596 And of course, in the south in those days... 141 00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:05,429 you had two kinds of music. 142 00:15:05,504 --> 00:15:07,699 You had blues in your own neighborhood... 143 00:15:07,773 --> 00:15:12,039 and if you turned on the radio you got country and western. 144 00:15:12,111 --> 00:15:13,203 - That's it. - Yeah, right. 145 00:15:13,512 --> 00:15:15,503 My mom would let me stay up on Saturday. 146 00:15:15,581 --> 00:15:19,142 That's the only time I could stay up past 9 o'clock on Saturday night. 147 00:15:19,218 --> 00:15:21,482 Because I loved the Grand Ole Opry. 148 00:15:22,621 --> 00:15:25,055 - I mean, I was fascinated. - The Grand Ole Opry. 149 00:15:25,591 --> 00:15:28,958 - The Rymann Auditorium. - That's right. You got it. 150 00:15:29,495 --> 00:15:33,261 We filmed in there one time. Kind of a classical place. 151 00:15:34,433 --> 00:15:36,993 Is all about 152 00:15:37,503 --> 00:15:42,031 If you got yourself 153 00:15:42,675 --> 00:15:47,840 That's what the blues Is all about 154 00:15:49,114 --> 00:15:52,106 You know you can't get The famous men around me 155 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:56,945 And I pray my woman Is steppin' out 156 00:15:58,223 --> 00:16:01,090 Yeah, you gotta live 157 00:16:01,493 --> 00:16:02,255 Yes, oh Lord 158 00:16:02,328 --> 00:16:06,196 So with this whole documentary were doing is sort of the history of the blues... 159 00:16:06,265 --> 00:16:09,234 with how it started and trying to find people like yourself. 160 00:16:09,301 --> 00:16:13,829 How did they get interested in and a lot of people say out of the church... 161 00:16:13,906 --> 00:16:17,069 and a lot of people say boogie woogie like what you're saying or some little... 162 00:16:17,443 --> 00:16:19,138 some kind of tunes. 163 00:16:19,211 --> 00:16:23,477 But see in the neighborhood I was in, I mean, that's what you heard... 164 00:16:23,682 --> 00:16:27,482 you know, you hear the blues all the time. Muddy Waters. 165 00:16:28,921 --> 00:16:32,687 - We had T Bone Walker. - Yes. There you go. 166 00:16:32,758 --> 00:16:36,751 - Joe Houston. - C'mon. Well, You know what's going on. 167 00:16:37,029 --> 00:16:40,465 In fact, I was talking to Joe Adams out there... 168 00:16:40,532 --> 00:16:43,228 and I said I used to listen to you on the air all the time... 169 00:16:43,302 --> 00:16:45,327 when I was going to college down here. 170 00:16:46,638 --> 00:16:50,597 When I first came to California in 1949... 171 00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:51,973 he was the king... 172 00:16:52,044 --> 00:16:54,535 anywhere you went in the city, I don't care where it was... 173 00:16:54,613 --> 00:16:56,774 the gas station, grocery store, wherever... 174 00:16:56,849 --> 00:17:02,685 you'd go you heard him on the radio from 12 to 3. No way I'd forget that. 175 00:17:15,501 --> 00:17:17,264 I'm drifting and drifting 176 00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:22,932 Like a ship out on the sea 177 00:17:28,547 --> 00:17:31,015 Well I'm drifting and drifting 178 00:17:33,886 --> 00:17:36,286 Like a ship out on the sea 179 00:17:42,294 --> 00:17:44,762 Well I ain't got nobody 180 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:50,035 In this world to care for me 181 00:17:54,573 --> 00:17:58,009 But the blues was something that was just there... 182 00:17:58,077 --> 00:18:02,639 and of course my mom was a Baptist so I went to church... 183 00:18:02,714 --> 00:18:06,707 all the revival meetings, and BYPU. 184 00:18:08,587 --> 00:18:11,647 And the Sunday morning service and Sunday night service... 185 00:18:12,057 --> 00:18:13,786 and revival meeting. 186 00:18:15,227 --> 00:18:18,594 People love that music. I love that music. 187 00:18:18,864 --> 00:18:21,628 I used to go to them even, if I wasn't a member of the church... 188 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:23,031 I would go and sit in the back. 189 00:18:24,269 --> 00:18:28,535 In those days they didn't have no instruments. 190 00:18:28,607 --> 00:18:31,098 They just walk in and they... 191 00:18:35,314 --> 00:18:36,576 and the chorus sang... 192 00:18:38,817 --> 00:18:41,012 - Hey - Huh 193 00:18:41,086 --> 00:18:43,316 - Ho - Ho 194 00:18:43,388 --> 00:18:44,446 - Hey - Huh 195 00:18:44,523 --> 00:18:45,683 - Ho - Ho 196 00:18:45,757 --> 00:18:47,156 - Hey - Huh 197 00:18:47,459 --> 00:18:49,222 It's all right 198 00:18:49,528 --> 00:18:51,223 You know it's all right 199 00:18:51,797 --> 00:18:54,197 Baby it's all right 200 00:18:54,266 --> 00:18:56,564 It's all right 201 00:18:56,635 --> 00:18:58,899 You know it's all right 202 00:18:58,971 --> 00:19:01,565 You know it's all right 203 00:19:02,307 --> 00:19:04,571 - Hey - Huh 204 00:19:04,643 --> 00:19:06,736 - Ho - Ho 205 00:19:06,812 --> 00:19:08,006 - Hey - Huh 206 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,274 - Ho - Ho 207 00:19:09,348 --> 00:19:11,009 - Hey - Huh 208 00:19:11,116 --> 00:19:13,016 Baby shake that thing 209 00:19:13,085 --> 00:19:15,315 Baby shake that thing 210 00:19:15,387 --> 00:19:17,617 Baby shake that thing 211 00:19:17,689 --> 00:19:19,919 Baby shake that thing 212 00:19:19,992 --> 00:19:21,220 Shake it, baby 213 00:19:21,293 --> 00:19:24,729 Baby shake that thing 214 00:19:25,664 --> 00:19:27,825 - Hey - Huh 215 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:30,130 - Ho - Ho 216 00:19:30,202 --> 00:19:31,294 - Hey - Huh 217 00:19:31,370 --> 00:19:34,066 - Ho - Huh 218 00:19:34,139 --> 00:19:36,198 Make me feel so good 219 00:19:36,275 --> 00:19:38,573 Make me feel so good 220 00:19:38,644 --> 00:19:40,942 Make me feel so good 221 00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:43,379 Make me feel so good 222 00:19:43,448 --> 00:19:48,078 Make me feel so good 223 00:19:48,153 --> 00:19:50,121 Then one more time 224 00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:52,487 Then one more time 225 00:19:52,558 --> 00:19:57,018 Oh one more, One more time, baby 226 00:19:57,095 --> 00:19:59,427 Say it one more time Say it one more time 227 00:19:59,498 --> 00:20:01,989 One more time One more time 228 00:20:02,067 --> 00:20:03,898 Take me home 229 00:20:03,969 --> 00:20:08,565 Take me home 230 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:13,236 Said I wanna go home 231 00:20:13,312 --> 00:20:16,179 Baby it's all right 232 00:20:23,422 --> 00:20:24,548 Bless your heart. 233 00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:28,751 Sit down, Dave, and I'll just ask you a little bit about the blues. 234 00:20:29,695 --> 00:20:34,655 The origin, in your mind, how did you get interested in it... 235 00:20:35,067 --> 00:20:39,094 and who influenced you when you were a young guy? 236 00:20:41,473 --> 00:20:45,876 You know, the spirituals and the blues... 237 00:20:47,479 --> 00:20:49,879 are all kind of connected. 238 00:20:50,148 --> 00:20:54,551 And I had a friend from New Orleans... 239 00:20:56,121 --> 00:21:02,526 and she, when there was trouble she would say "Lord, Lord... 240 00:21:03,562 --> 00:21:07,362 what will tomorrow bring. Today... 241 00:21:08,467 --> 00:21:14,030 I felt a narrow stinging in the womb so deep... 242 00:21:14,273 --> 00:21:17,640 my eyes refuse to weep. 243 00:21:17,876 --> 00:21:23,405 And this is the blues spiritual. 244 00:24:04,142 --> 00:24:06,337 Beautiful. 245 00:24:06,578 --> 00:24:10,912 Who was your biggest influence when you were young? What piano player? 246 00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:16,486 Well, when I was a kid going to school, college... 247 00:24:17,622 --> 00:24:22,025 I got a chance to be intermission pianist... 248 00:24:22,761 --> 00:24:28,495 for a great pianist, a woman named Cleo Brown. 249 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:33,535 She's the one that gave me a note to introduce me to Art Tatum... 250 00:24:33,772 --> 00:24:38,732 the greatest pianist, one of the greatest musicians we've ever had. 251 00:24:49,921 --> 00:24:53,618 Dave Brubeck told a great story about Cleo Brown. Did you know Cleo Brown? 252 00:24:53,692 --> 00:24:57,093 - No. - Cleo Brown turned him onto art. 253 00:24:57,162 --> 00:25:00,029 And once he heard Art Tatum and of course... 254 00:25:00,098 --> 00:25:02,191 everybody else like Pat Swoller... 255 00:25:02,267 --> 00:25:04,326 everybody else said that's God right there. 256 00:25:04,402 --> 00:25:08,361 That's right. You get it. But at least it was true, man. 257 00:25:25,624 --> 00:25:27,023 You just couldn't believe. 258 00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:30,457 Piano got 88 keys and he ain't got but 10 fingers. 259 00:25:31,062 --> 00:25:33,963 But he made it sound like there were two people playing. 260 00:25:34,032 --> 00:25:35,659 Like two people playing. 261 00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:56,107 And sometimes he would have his beer with him. 262 00:26:56,181 --> 00:26:59,173 And when he's drinking a sip of beer he would use his left hand... 263 00:26:59,384 --> 00:27:00,783 and you wouldn't know the difference. 264 00:27:01,186 --> 00:27:02,517 Didn't make no difference. 265 00:27:03,822 --> 00:27:05,949 We were joking about it the other day... 266 00:27:06,024 --> 00:27:07,924 saying he had the fastest left hand in the west. 267 00:27:07,993 --> 00:27:08,891 That's right. 268 00:27:16,034 --> 00:27:17,695 But my God. 269 00:27:17,769 --> 00:27:23,435 You just sit back and listen to Art Tatum... 270 00:27:23,508 --> 00:27:28,207 and you just don't believe what you hear. 271 00:28:23,034 --> 00:28:25,264 I find that pretty impressive to me. 272 00:28:25,537 --> 00:28:30,668 And the closest person that I've heard to him is Oscar Peterson. 273 00:30:12,010 --> 00:30:14,205 - Oscar can play. - Oscar can play. 274 00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:16,008 Motherfucker can play his ass off. 275 00:30:18,349 --> 00:30:19,873 Can we use motherfucker on the air. 276 00:30:21,786 --> 00:30:23,686 Of course we can. 277 00:30:26,858 --> 00:30:29,691 Play us one of your earliest blues things if you want. 278 00:30:30,061 --> 00:30:33,428 What you grew up with, something that influenced you. 279 00:32:06,524 --> 00:32:07,957 - Beautiful. Tell me about Nat. - Nat Cole was my man. 280 00:32:09,294 --> 00:32:10,522 He was a great player. 281 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:13,894 And a lot of people don't know that. They know him for his singing. 282 00:32:13,965 --> 00:32:16,456 - He was a great player. - That's right, you got it. 283 00:32:16,567 --> 00:32:19,331 That's what I wanted to be as a kid coming up. 284 00:32:19,404 --> 00:32:21,463 I wanted to sing... 285 00:32:21,539 --> 00:32:25,737 and play the little tasty things behind my singing like he does. 286 00:32:25,810 --> 00:32:27,471 That's why I tried to imitate him. 287 00:32:27,545 --> 00:32:32,983 Eat Nat King Cole, slept Nate King Cole... 288 00:32:33,051 --> 00:32:35,315 drink Nat Cole. 289 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,183 Well, those early records of his too where he played. 290 00:32:39,257 --> 00:32:43,626 Later on he became such a big singing star with Nelson Riddle. 291 00:32:43,695 --> 00:32:46,493 That's why a lot of people don't know he can play. 292 00:32:46,898 --> 00:32:48,798 But I knew he could play... 293 00:32:48,866 --> 00:32:51,198 because I heard him when he had his first group. 294 00:32:51,269 --> 00:32:54,067 And his stuff, the way he put it together with the guitar... 295 00:32:54,138 --> 00:32:55,571 and himself and the piano. 296 00:32:55,873 --> 00:32:57,135 It is better 297 00:32:58,142 --> 00:33:00,337 To be on the shelf 298 00:33:02,447 --> 00:33:05,575 Be just like a hermit Living in a cave 299 00:33:05,650 --> 00:33:09,313 You don't get much love But do you save 300 00:33:09,387 --> 00:33:10,411 It is better 301 00:33:11,456 --> 00:33:13,720 To be by yourself 302 00:33:51,129 --> 00:33:53,893 There's a story that's told By this man, mate 303 00:33:54,198 --> 00:33:57,224 With a change And I see you gig 304 00:33:57,502 --> 00:34:00,562 He works all day And come home at night 305 00:34:00,772 --> 00:34:04,139 Stare at little bit dippy All she wants to do is fight 306 00:34:04,208 --> 00:34:07,735 So it's better to be By yourself, boy 307 00:34:07,812 --> 00:34:11,049 It's better to be By yourself, man 308 00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:13,882 So it's better to be By yourself, boy 309 00:34:26,798 --> 00:34:28,425 Real tasty stuff. 310 00:34:28,866 --> 00:34:33,030 Nat Cole don't fool yourself my friend he can play... 311 00:34:33,104 --> 00:34:34,537 - He can play. - And with feeling. 312 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,504 It's not running up and down the keyboard. It's playing with feeling. 313 00:34:40,578 --> 00:34:41,670 And knowing what you're doing. 314 00:34:46,250 --> 00:34:50,016 Baby let me hold your hand 315 00:34:55,426 --> 00:34:58,452 'Till I make you understand 316 00:35:02,133 --> 00:35:03,794 Oh, baby 317 00:35:08,473 --> 00:35:11,670 Please let me hold your hand 318 00:35:21,552 --> 00:35:24,112 I wanna you to know, girl 319 00:35:26,257 --> 00:35:30,023 And make you understand 320 00:35:33,631 --> 00:35:36,259 Yeah, yeah. Thank you, Raymond. 321 00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:44,502 Piano players out of new Orleans have been continuous contributors... 322 00:35:44,575 --> 00:35:45,974 to the world of the blues... 323 00:35:46,711 --> 00:35:49,043 from it's first hero, Jolly Row Morton... 324 00:35:49,113 --> 00:35:52,276 Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Dr. John... 325 00:35:52,350 --> 00:35:55,478 the celebratory sound emanating from new Orleans... 326 00:35:55,553 --> 00:35:56,850 is a joy to behold. 327 00:36:20,211 --> 00:36:24,113 Right on, very nice, Mac. Tell me who was your first influence? 328 00:36:24,282 --> 00:36:26,876 Well, when I was a little weed... 329 00:36:26,951 --> 00:36:29,647 my aunt Audrey taught me how to play the Texas boogie. 330 00:36:30,321 --> 00:36:33,984 - The Texas boogie? - A little kid I used to do that. 331 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,527 - Two hands. - I put the whole thing together later. 332 00:36:40,298 --> 00:36:45,600 I tell you the guy I like was Pete Johnson... 333 00:36:45,670 --> 00:36:49,504 his old records with Joe Turner stuff like that. 334 00:36:49,574 --> 00:36:50,973 Rolling Pete. 335 00:36:51,142 --> 00:36:54,634 I like that, what was it? Barney Brown. 336 00:36:54,712 --> 00:36:57,909 That's the one I can remember. I liked... 337 00:36:57,982 --> 00:37:01,850 Iocal artist in New Orleans like Jake and Jack Dupree. 338 00:37:01,919 --> 00:37:05,047 I loved him he played the junkie blues. 339 00:37:05,389 --> 00:37:06,515 It was kind... 340 00:37:07,758 --> 00:37:10,124 you know, of all them local cats would be doing. 341 00:37:16,367 --> 00:37:20,235 That whole little style of that was a whole part of New Orleans... 342 00:37:20,571 --> 00:37:24,007 and it was a cat play the very same thing with whole other day... 343 00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:27,340 and I got to hear those cats as a kid. 344 00:37:27,411 --> 00:37:30,039 That's what made me what to be a guitar player. 345 00:37:32,116 --> 00:37:35,711 There was a cat used to play the junkie blues. Like... 346 00:37:58,843 --> 00:38:04,748 Them styles it was all like the same thing. 347 00:38:04,815 --> 00:38:07,648 But why did you want to be a guitar player? 348 00:38:07,718 --> 00:38:09,948 I heard so many bad piano players. 349 00:38:10,154 --> 00:38:15,990 I just decided I'll never get a job playing music, as a piano player. 350 00:38:16,527 --> 00:38:20,395 There was so many cats that were... 351 00:38:20,464 --> 00:38:23,865 Like I said, there was Jack Dupree... 352 00:38:23,934 --> 00:38:28,564 there was Hughie Smith, he got famous for doing... 353 00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:31,870 that rock Rollin and boogie woogie all that stuff later... 354 00:38:32,209 --> 00:38:37,704 when I first met him he was playing the blues all that bad stuff. 355 00:38:37,948 --> 00:38:41,816 - By bad you mean good. - I mean seriously hip stuff. 356 00:38:41,886 --> 00:38:43,353 Bad meaning good. 357 00:38:46,457 --> 00:38:49,085 The thing was, Professor Long Hair was one of my all time. 358 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,526 He goes back. As a kid I got to meet him a little... 359 00:38:51,595 --> 00:38:54,155 because my father wasn't selling records... 360 00:38:54,231 --> 00:38:59,567 but doing fixings, pa systems and stuff round town. 361 00:38:59,904 --> 00:39:02,304 We'd used take old pianos like this one. 362 00:39:02,373 --> 00:39:05,672 They couldn't really put 'em together so they set 'em out on the street. 363 00:39:06,577 --> 00:39:10,206 Trash pick em up, but we'd drag 'em in the house... 364 00:39:10,314 --> 00:39:12,145 or in the alleys in different places. 365 00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:17,047 I learned how to fix pianos this way. Different player... 366 00:39:17,121 --> 00:39:20,557 get handles off of one piano and put 'em in the other... 367 00:39:21,425 --> 00:39:23,825 get the little pad that make the action down here. 368 00:39:23,894 --> 00:39:26,419 If it wouldn't work I'd tie a chord string or three in it... 369 00:39:26,497 --> 00:39:30,331 and bring it to the next notch where the action would work to get it to work. 370 00:39:30,935 --> 00:39:34,837 I'd play. Some keys work and some keys didn't... 371 00:39:35,439 --> 00:39:39,034 just with a broken piano in the house it taught me a lot. 372 00:39:39,110 --> 00:39:41,374 This is how I started cross chording... 373 00:39:41,445 --> 00:39:45,313 if one key didn't play it didn't matter to me I'd find other key to skip to. 374 00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:08,228 Tipitina tipa tipa Tipitina, little mama 375 00:41:19,810 --> 00:41:25,612 Tipitina tipa tipa Tipitina, little mama 376 00:42:05,055 --> 00:42:07,421 Who was your influence beside your uncle. 377 00:42:07,491 --> 00:42:09,288 Was it all in your family, your aunt and uncle? 378 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,554 To start with... 379 00:42:10,728 --> 00:42:14,755 and then I grew up in blues country... 380 00:42:14,832 --> 00:42:16,732 and I had piano players in my family. 381 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,327 So first, my grandmother who played ragtime piano... 382 00:42:20,404 --> 00:42:22,634 was an influence on me. 383 00:42:22,706 --> 00:42:26,870 She had a pile of ten pan alley sheet music... 384 00:42:26,944 --> 00:42:28,878 so I got hear a lot of that. 385 00:42:29,246 --> 00:42:33,307 My aunt played beautiful piano a certain amount of boogie woogie. 386 00:42:33,517 --> 00:42:37,453 So as I started exploring piano really... 387 00:42:38,522 --> 00:42:43,892 professor Longhair and the New Orleans sound playing... 388 00:42:43,961 --> 00:42:46,691 but he in particular because he was such an innovator... 389 00:42:46,764 --> 00:42:50,996 he invented and created that polyrhythmic style that... 390 00:42:52,236 --> 00:42:57,230 that so many of us do and carried on through Dr. John and James Bleeker... 391 00:42:57,975 --> 00:42:59,670 and now a whole other generation. 392 00:43:00,511 --> 00:43:03,912 Well give us a little shot. Play us something. 393 00:43:03,981 --> 00:43:07,439 Well, my favorite 'fess kind of stuff. 394 00:43:47,925 --> 00:43:50,189 I got my red beans cooking 395 00:43:51,161 --> 00:43:53,391 I got my red beans cooking 396 00:43:54,531 --> 00:43:56,396 I got my red beans cooking 397 00:43:57,901 --> 00:43:59,892 I got my red beans cooking 398 00:44:01,372 --> 00:44:03,397 I got my red beans cooking 399 00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:06,102 Then when they get done Won't give me some? 400 00:44:29,433 --> 00:44:31,594 Fabulous. 401 00:44:34,538 --> 00:44:36,631 Yeah fabulous, that was fabulous. 402 00:44:37,174 --> 00:44:40,405 Fats Domino. He was bad. 403 00:44:40,477 --> 00:44:45,278 He was playing stuff that made him famous and he was playing the blues. 404 00:45:17,981 --> 00:45:20,381 They call me Call me the Fat Man 405 00:45:20,951 --> 00:45:23,545 Cause I weigh two hundred pounds 406 00:45:24,088 --> 00:45:25,953 All the girls they love me 407 00:45:26,490 --> 00:45:28,424 Cause I know my way around 408 00:45:30,494 --> 00:45:33,156 I was standing, was standing On the corner 409 00:45:33,697 --> 00:45:36,325 Of Rampart and Canal 410 00:45:36,967 --> 00:45:38,832 I was watching, watching 411 00:45:39,203 --> 00:45:41,068 Watching those people go 412 00:46:13,971 --> 00:46:16,337 I'm going, going away 413 00:46:17,174 --> 00:46:19,768 And I'm going to stay 414 00:46:20,511 --> 00:46:24,140 Cause we be in this fast life Can't stand this 415 00:46:32,156 --> 00:46:35,956 Fats Domino is amazing. One time we took him out... 416 00:46:36,026 --> 00:46:41,464 on the plains of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming... 417 00:46:41,532 --> 00:46:43,523 and we put a huge grand piano out there... 418 00:46:44,701 --> 00:46:49,229 and had Fats Domino play and so he started playing one of these things... 419 00:46:49,306 --> 00:46:51,968 I Wanna Walk You Home, one of these songs... 420 00:46:52,042 --> 00:46:55,705 and all of a sudden everyone stopped and I look over the side of the hill... 421 00:46:55,779 --> 00:46:58,543 and there were ten elk and they were all sitting there... 422 00:46:58,615 --> 00:47:00,310 with their heads titled like this. 423 00:47:00,384 --> 00:47:02,352 And as soon as he stopped, they left. 424 00:47:03,153 --> 00:47:04,620 They were fascinated. 425 00:47:06,089 --> 00:47:09,354 - Everybody likes the blues. - No critics there. 426 00:48:29,139 --> 00:48:30,106 My own gimme. 427 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,440 Me got fire, me can't put out 428 00:49:07,110 --> 00:49:10,079 Firewater gonna make me shout 429 00:49:11,248 --> 00:49:13,739 Going down and get my squaw 430 00:49:15,285 --> 00:49:17,753 And may come well in a car 431 00:49:19,523 --> 00:49:21,923 Me big chief, me feeling good 432 00:49:23,493 --> 00:49:25,927 Me gonna do everything me could 433 00:49:27,764 --> 00:49:30,062 Me big chief, me got my day 434 00:49:31,702 --> 00:49:34,432 Ain't that the way some say 435 00:49:35,839 --> 00:49:38,467 Getting on down the 6th Avenue 436 00:49:39,910 --> 00:49:42,606 Small boy running in a battle field 437 00:49:44,147 --> 00:49:46,513 Me whole tribe having fun 438 00:49:48,218 --> 00:49:51,278 Is it going the whole night long? 439 00:50:44,041 --> 00:50:47,477 You can shake it, you can break it Hang it on the wall 440 00:50:48,545 --> 00:50:52,072 Throw it up in the little kitchen In a little ball 441 00:50:52,315 --> 00:50:53,839 You can mess around 442 00:50:56,787 --> 00:50:58,118 Mess around 443 00:51:00,057 --> 00:51:02,685 Do what you want where and when you feel like 444 00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:05,961 Everybody is doing the mess around 445 00:51:43,066 --> 00:51:44,124 Thank you. 446 00:51:44,334 --> 00:51:46,427 My name is Willy. 447 00:51:46,703 --> 00:51:48,568 - Willy. - Willy Perkins. 448 00:51:50,140 --> 00:51:51,869 We started calling me Pinetop. 449 00:51:52,576 --> 00:51:55,170 Where do you think the blues sort of evolved from? 450 00:51:55,245 --> 00:51:59,306 What do you think the beginning did it out of gospel, out of churches? 451 00:51:59,783 --> 00:52:03,048 I tell you I think what muddy said about it... 452 00:52:04,688 --> 00:52:07,521 if the blues had a baby they'd name it be rock 'n roll. 453 00:52:07,891 --> 00:52:10,621 Two things that give the man the blues. 454 00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:16,031 You ain't got no bread and love sick. 455 00:52:16,733 --> 00:52:19,201 That's two blues in one. 456 00:52:19,436 --> 00:52:20,368 I agree with you there, Muddy. 457 00:52:20,737 --> 00:52:26,073 I would do the same thing like because I know... 458 00:52:26,309 --> 00:52:29,039 If time ain't get no better 459 00:52:29,579 --> 00:52:31,342 Up the road I'm going 460 00:52:31,648 --> 00:52:34,173 The blues is like a doctor... 461 00:52:35,218 --> 00:52:37,311 it can heal you... 462 00:52:37,554 --> 00:52:40,079 and it can pull you down some. 463 00:52:40,790 --> 00:52:43,725 Where do we all get our blues from... 464 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,690 mostly, is our beautiful ladies. 465 00:52:49,833 --> 00:52:51,198 Let me sing a song. 466 00:53:03,847 --> 00:53:08,284 In the 1950 an urban blues sound came together in Chicago. 467 00:53:08,518 --> 00:53:12,352 Men like Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf electrified the music... 468 00:53:12,589 --> 00:53:14,614 that had been brought up from the Delta. 469 00:53:15,358 --> 00:53:18,020 Contributing to this life force of deep blues... 470 00:53:18,261 --> 00:53:20,559 were piano players like Otis Spann. 471 00:53:49,826 --> 00:53:51,691 Let me tell you something now. 472 00:53:53,763 --> 00:53:54,752 One day 473 00:53:57,534 --> 00:54:03,370 I'm gonna miss again And I say 474 00:54:05,108 --> 00:54:07,838 Ain't nothing to say gal 475 00:54:09,145 --> 00:54:13,707 Ain't nobody's business You hear me? 476 00:54:14,751 --> 00:54:15,911 What I do 477 00:54:23,793 --> 00:54:25,454 Me and my baby 478 00:54:27,764 --> 00:54:29,823 We fought and fight 479 00:54:31,468 --> 00:54:33,800 Just the next morning 480 00:54:35,171 --> 00:54:37,537 Are we lovin' right 481 00:54:39,075 --> 00:54:42,806 Ain't nobody's business 482 00:54:45,382 --> 00:54:46,440 If I do 483 00:55:22,352 --> 00:55:23,580 All lie 484 00:55:25,922 --> 00:55:28,083 To save a notion 485 00:55:29,826 --> 00:55:31,657 Call a gal 486 00:55:33,163 --> 00:55:36,189 Dropping older 487 00:55:36,700 --> 00:55:40,329 Ain't nobody's business 488 00:55:42,272 --> 00:55:43,603 If I do 489 00:55:52,015 --> 00:55:56,975 I give up trying To find my red rooster 490 00:55:57,454 --> 00:56:01,220 I'm telling you I've been waiting him 491 00:56:05,628 --> 00:56:07,994 If you see my little red rooster 492 00:56:10,166 --> 00:56:13,397 Please drive him home 493 00:56:19,409 --> 00:56:22,003 Dogs start barking 494 00:56:23,413 --> 00:56:26,974 And hounds begin to howl 495 00:56:31,921 --> 00:56:34,788 If you see my little red rooster 496 00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,524 Drive him home 497 00:56:49,105 --> 00:56:52,472 Well there was a lady who lived up the street from me called... 498 00:56:52,542 --> 00:56:57,206 her name was White and I got a lot of influence from her. 499 00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:01,075 Cause I couldn't play the blues in my daddy's house. 500 00:57:01,418 --> 00:57:05,548 See my mother was in church and my dad was the deacon of the church... 501 00:57:05,789 --> 00:57:10,658 and I couldn't play no blues. I had to go to her house to play the blues. 502 00:57:11,127 --> 00:57:14,426 - Sneak out. - I got a few whoopings behind it too. 503 00:57:16,166 --> 00:57:20,660 I was supposed to be in school but I wasn't. I was playing the blues. 504 00:57:46,563 --> 00:57:48,360 You know the blues 505 00:57:49,199 --> 00:57:51,963 Don't like nobody 506 00:57:54,471 --> 00:57:56,996 You know the blues 507 00:57:58,641 --> 00:58:00,700 Don't like nobody 508 00:58:02,979 --> 00:58:05,447 But you can find the blues, baby 509 00:58:06,216 --> 00:58:08,650 Only for a dollar a bottle 510 00:58:11,421 --> 00:58:13,821 You know the blues 511 00:58:14,357 --> 00:58:16,587 Hates everybody 512 00:58:19,329 --> 00:58:22,059 You know the blues, baby 513 00:58:23,399 --> 00:58:25,424 Hates everybody 514 00:58:27,570 --> 00:58:29,970 But you can find the blues, baby 515 00:58:31,207 --> 00:58:34,040 Only for a dollar a bottle 516 00:58:36,846 --> 00:58:40,907 Never for a baby would I Knock down this soul 517 00:58:40,984 --> 00:58:46,012 Cause she wants me no more Cause I had the blues 518 00:58:48,224 --> 00:58:50,215 It don't like nobody 519 00:58:52,829 --> 00:58:55,161 You know the blues You know the blues 520 00:58:55,832 --> 00:58:58,699 Blues don't like nobody 521 00:58:59,402 --> 00:59:00,733 I'm going 522 00:59:25,528 --> 00:59:28,759 Only this morning 'bout Four o'clock 523 00:59:29,732 --> 00:59:32,997 Stopped by her house Feeling really low 524 00:59:33,503 --> 00:59:34,765 Cause the blues 525 00:59:36,239 --> 00:59:39,333 And the blues don't like nobody 526 00:59:40,810 --> 00:59:43,472 You know the blues You know the blues 527 00:59:44,247 --> 00:59:46,875 Blues don't like nobody 528 00:59:49,252 --> 00:59:50,480 You know the blues 529 00:59:52,455 --> 00:59:54,116 Hates everybody 530 00:59:57,060 --> 00:59:59,722 You know the blues 531 01:00:00,463 --> 01:00:02,431 Hates everybody 532 01:00:05,034 --> 01:00:07,559 You know the blues You know the blues 533 01:00:08,571 --> 01:00:10,937 The blues don't like nobody 534 01:00:29,359 --> 01:00:31,691 You know the blues You know the blues 535 01:00:32,261 --> 01:00:34,559 The blues don't like nobody 536 01:00:40,970 --> 01:00:45,202 Today is very much influenced by blues and... 537 01:00:45,274 --> 01:00:49,472 but then before that it seems like music and rock 'n roll... 538 01:00:49,545 --> 01:00:50,910 is getting less complicated... 539 01:00:51,414 --> 01:00:55,544 while blues had more gospel and soul in it. 540 01:00:55,785 --> 01:01:01,690 I never draw any difference between... 541 01:01:04,293 --> 01:01:06,318 blues and any of that stuff. 542 01:01:06,729 --> 01:01:12,827 I thought it was all related first cousin, second cousin, third cousin. 543 01:01:13,169 --> 01:01:16,764 All those jump blues guys they all sort of like rockers... 544 01:01:16,873 --> 01:01:19,865 - Joe Houston all those guys. - Those jump rockers... 545 01:01:19,942 --> 01:01:25,642 they would once in a while would veer off and go off into what we call jazz. 546 01:01:25,715 --> 01:01:28,912 That's what we called jazz back then. 547 01:01:30,386 --> 01:01:34,220 They'd go into jazz, jazz, jazz. 548 01:01:34,557 --> 01:01:39,460 Then so that way I never did know what it meant... 549 01:01:39,696 --> 01:01:42,221 to say this was that, that was that. 550 01:01:42,465 --> 01:01:44,729 Everybody trying to play everything. 551 01:01:45,034 --> 01:01:50,666 I just made it one thing. This was the blues. 552 01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:56,637 Well it can be fast blues, slow blues, that was the only difference I knew... 553 01:01:56,713 --> 01:01:58,180 slow, fast. 554 01:01:58,648 --> 01:02:01,378 What's the tempo your playing it in and let it go. 555 01:02:01,451 --> 01:02:02,577 Right. 556 01:02:08,791 --> 01:02:10,452 This is very beautiful. 557 01:02:42,658 --> 01:02:45,126 Hello little girl 558 01:02:46,162 --> 01:02:48,596 Don't you remember me? 559 01:02:51,801 --> 01:02:54,793 Hello, hello, little girl 560 01:02:55,605 --> 01:02:57,766 Don't you remember me? 561 01:03:01,344 --> 01:03:03,904 A lot of time It's been so long 562 01:03:04,580 --> 01:03:07,071 But I had a little break You see 563 01:03:10,253 --> 01:03:13,017 Well, I'm doing alright 564 01:03:13,823 --> 01:03:17,554 Well, I found a little cupid doll 565 01:03:19,462 --> 01:03:22,090 Yes, I'm doing alright 566 01:03:22,932 --> 01:03:25,924 Yes, I found a little cupid doll 567 01:03:28,671 --> 01:03:30,935 When she loses three flags 568 01:03:32,141 --> 01:03:34,837 Then she sends me with a smile 569 01:03:37,847 --> 01:03:40,714 Well, she calls me her lover 570 01:03:41,083 --> 01:03:43,574 Yes, and her beggar too 571 01:03:46,689 --> 01:03:49,487 Well, she calls me her lover 572 01:03:50,059 --> 01:03:52,755 Yes, and her beggar too 573 01:03:55,565 --> 01:03:58,261 Now ain't you sorry little girl 574 01:03:59,001 --> 01:04:01,936 That my new little girl ain't you 575 01:04:40,309 --> 01:04:41,537 Very good. 576 01:04:43,412 --> 01:04:45,141 Beautiful... 577 01:04:45,214 --> 01:04:47,978 - thanks very much, Jay. - Thank you. 578 01:04:48,050 --> 01:04:52,919 Thanks for talking a little bit about your life and the blues. 579 01:04:53,890 --> 01:04:55,118 That was splendid... 580 01:04:55,725 --> 01:04:59,320 "She called me her lover, she called me her beggar too." 581 01:05:01,297 --> 01:05:04,198 I know those words, I've used them many times. 582 01:05:10,139 --> 01:05:12,937 Piano blues embraces all modes of jazz. 583 01:05:13,542 --> 01:05:18,002 The solitary player of the night club, the sophistication of Duke Ellington... 584 01:05:18,247 --> 01:05:22,741 and the energy of beep bob. The blues is the basis of everything. 585 01:08:02,812 --> 01:08:04,871 So Pete, tell me how you started out. 586 01:08:05,081 --> 01:08:09,450 My father brought home these records of like Meade Lux and Albert Ammons... 587 01:08:09,685 --> 01:08:11,778 and that turned me on immediately. 588 01:08:12,588 --> 01:08:16,957 It seems like I had a natural ability to improvise... 589 01:08:17,393 --> 01:08:20,885 for some odd reason, like a gift. 590 01:08:21,730 --> 01:08:24,631 People say how to play jazz. I say well... 591 01:08:24,967 --> 01:08:26,901 you want to learn how to play your instrument... 592 01:08:26,969 --> 01:08:30,871 and then if your fingers go there, whatever you hear comes out. 593 01:08:31,107 --> 01:08:34,543 Did you learn by reading or by imitating? 594 01:08:34,777 --> 01:08:38,713 Well I imitated the records and then I took piano lessons. 595 01:09:50,319 --> 01:09:53,447 I've always felt that jazz and blues... 596 01:09:53,689 --> 01:09:55,987 were a true American art form... 597 01:09:56,292 --> 01:09:59,750 maybe the only real original American art form we have. 598 01:10:32,161 --> 01:10:34,755 I just have always been fascinated with the music... 599 01:10:34,997 --> 01:10:38,228 I grew up listening to that rather than pop tunes. 600 01:10:38,467 --> 01:10:42,494 My mom thought I was kind of crazy. But it's her fault. 601 01:10:42,738 --> 01:10:45,866 Because she brought home a bunch of Fat Swaller records and said... 602 01:10:45,941 --> 01:10:50,810 This is what I call real piano playing and I thought well that's the way it is. 603 01:10:51,113 --> 01:10:54,708 I'd tried to play stride piano but it didn't come out... 604 01:10:56,185 --> 01:10:58,119 it didn't come out very stridy... 605 01:10:58,187 --> 01:11:02,214 so I kinda played a three cord beat thing. 606 01:11:02,458 --> 01:11:06,121 But I've always been interested in it and later on jazz, beep bob. 607 01:11:06,562 --> 01:11:10,293 Society sort of dictates what people start playing. 608 01:11:10,332 --> 01:11:13,267 Like Beep bop in the 40s came out of... 609 01:11:13,502 --> 01:11:15,595 people searching for something... 610 01:11:15,838 --> 01:11:18,966 something new or some new way to go after things. 611 01:11:19,241 --> 01:11:24,873 You had to open up some doors. 612 01:11:26,548 --> 01:11:32,953 Everybody is like, if your listening to some of the things. 613 01:11:35,624 --> 01:11:37,524 That little thing. 614 01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:40,354 There something else in soft peanut. 615 01:11:40,663 --> 01:11:42,494 There was something in there... 616 01:11:42,564 --> 01:11:45,829 if you are listen at it and slow it down a little bit... 617 01:11:46,101 --> 01:11:50,765 if forget, I can't think of it right now. But it's like it... 618 01:11:51,006 --> 01:11:54,464 really sounds like something Louis Armstrong played way back... 619 01:11:54,543 --> 01:11:57,444 in the game like one of them Call thing. 620 01:11:57,646 --> 01:12:01,844 Beside that famous melody of that piece. 621 01:12:02,117 --> 01:12:04,813 You heard, I mean, you heard... 622 01:12:05,087 --> 01:12:09,353 to me it took something like that... 623 01:12:09,591 --> 01:12:13,652 and he took it to a whole other place and kept rolling stuff like that. 624 01:12:36,585 --> 01:12:38,951 My first time I heard Thelonius Monk record... 625 01:12:39,054 --> 01:12:43,354 I thought he was local cat. I almost turned that off. 626 01:12:59,141 --> 01:13:01,234 I didn't know Monk was from Carolina. 627 01:13:01,510 --> 01:13:04,775 You just heard music and it reminded me of stuff I heard. 628 01:13:05,047 --> 01:13:07,242 Well, everybody is influenced from somewhere. 629 01:14:40,442 --> 01:14:44,572 Back when we did that very last record he did. And he said so you know... 630 01:14:44,980 --> 01:14:48,381 play me some old, this old tune. Old cousin Joe's song... 631 01:14:48,717 --> 01:14:52,380 a guy from new Orleans. A guy he always recording with from new Orleans... 632 01:14:52,654 --> 01:14:56,351 all these bebop cats. I thought he was jibbing... 633 01:14:56,625 --> 01:14:59,321 the fact is I remembered this line of this song... 634 01:14:59,394 --> 01:15:04,093 I didn't know the words, and it ended with... 635 01:15:04,399 --> 01:15:07,061 If you get your hands On some money 636 01:15:09,037 --> 01:15:11,733 You can buy everything You can get 637 01:15:17,012 --> 01:15:20,709 If you get your hands On some money 638 01:15:21,517 --> 01:15:24,975 You can buy everything You can get 639 01:15:30,192 --> 01:15:32,285 You know You can't take it with you 640 01:15:33,462 --> 01:15:37,796 I ain't never seen no armored car Follow a funeral yeah 641 01:15:38,867 --> 01:15:42,769 That line never seen an armored car follow a funeral yeah... 642 01:15:43,005 --> 01:15:45,439 was all that Art remembered of the song. 643 01:17:05,554 --> 01:17:09,854 You want to play a little of Pinetop's boogie for us. 644 01:17:09,958 --> 01:17:13,325 I can't play it like I used to because... 645 01:17:13,795 --> 01:17:17,231 I got stabbed in this arm here and I can't get the base... 646 01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:19,593 rolling like I want. 647 01:17:19,868 --> 01:17:23,395 I can't play it like I used to and I didn't even get stabbed. 648 01:17:23,639 --> 01:17:25,732 I used to play that thing. 649 01:17:27,709 --> 01:17:30,269 Give us just a little taste. 650 01:19:43,345 --> 01:19:44,710 Very good. 651 01:19:44,980 --> 01:19:46,447 - It was nice. - Thank you. 652 01:19:46,515 --> 01:19:50,349 This guy is wonderful. He's still got it. 653 01:19:50,786 --> 01:19:52,344 Beautiful. 654 01:19:57,025 --> 01:20:00,483 Playing the blues evokes joy, sorrow happiness... 655 01:20:00,762 --> 01:20:04,163 despair and truth in a timeless fashion. 656 01:24:12,580 --> 01:24:14,946 Hey mama Don't you treat me wrong 657 01:24:15,517 --> 01:24:18,486 Come and love your daddy All night long 658 01:24:19,020 --> 01:24:20,578 Tell me what'd I say 659 01:24:22,290 --> 01:24:25,782 Tell me what'd I say, baby 660 01:24:27,929 --> 01:24:30,124 - Thank you, Ray. - That's alright, man. 661 01:24:31,633 --> 01:24:35,160 Even patriotic songs can become the blues. 662 01:24:46,481 --> 01:24:48,244 Oh beautiful 663 01:24:51,286 --> 01:24:54,687 For heroes proved 664 01:24:57,092 --> 01:24:57,990 In 665 01:24:58,860 --> 01:25:01,658 Liberating strife 666 01:25:07,168 --> 01:25:08,965 Who more than self 667 01:25:12,540 --> 01:25:15,941 Their country loved 668 01:25:19,247 --> 01:25:24,310 And mercy more Than life, life 669 01:25:26,054 --> 01:25:27,885 What am I singing about tonight? 670 01:25:30,058 --> 01:25:37,157 This America Sweet America 671 01:25:41,136 --> 01:25:44,731 May God thy gold refine 672 01:25:51,045 --> 01:25:53,172 Till all success 673 01:25:56,918 --> 01:25:58,909 Be nobleness 674 01:26:00,889 --> 01:26:02,117 And 675 01:26:03,591 --> 01:26:07,618 Every gain divined 676 01:26:07,862 --> 01:26:10,387 And you know, when I was a little boy... 677 01:26:10,465 --> 01:26:12,899 I remember we used to sing it like this... 678 01:26:15,603 --> 01:26:17,696 Oh beautiful 679 01:26:20,341 --> 01:26:23,708 For spacious skies 680 01:26:25,613 --> 01:26:26,705 For 681 01:26:27,415 --> 01:26:32,114 Amber waves of grain 682 01:26:36,124 --> 01:26:43,929 For purple mountain majesties 683 01:26:47,835 --> 01:26:53,467 Above Above the fruited plain 684 01:26:55,009 --> 01:26:56,135 Listen to me now 685 01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:00,672 America 686 01:27:04,619 --> 01:27:06,211 America 687 01:27:11,626 --> 01:27:15,084 God Done shed his grace on thee 688 01:27:17,198 --> 01:27:19,928 Yes He did 689 01:27:20,168 --> 01:27:22,363 And He crowned thy good 690 01:27:23,137 --> 01:27:25,071 Oh don't you remember? 691 01:27:26,207 --> 01:27:28,471 Singing brotherhood 692 01:27:29,944 --> 01:27:31,070 From 693 01:27:31,379 --> 01:27:32,744 Sea 694 01:27:32,914 --> 01:27:34,279 To 695 01:27:34,882 --> 01:27:37,077 Shining sea 696 01:27:37,252 --> 01:27:41,348 You know, I wish I had somebody to help me sing this. 697 01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:46,759 America 698 01:27:48,363 --> 01:27:51,526 Oh America 699 01:27:55,003 --> 01:27:56,402 My God 700 01:27:56,638 --> 01:27:59,869 He shed His grace on me 701 01:28:00,708 --> 01:28:04,041 I love you America, cause He 702 01:28:04,612 --> 01:28:07,172 He crowned thy good 703 01:28:07,482 --> 01:28:09,507 He told me he would 704 01:28:10,485 --> 01:28:12,749 With brotherhood 705 01:28:14,455 --> 01:28:15,683 From 706 01:28:15,857 --> 01:28:16,881 Sea 707 01:28:17,158 --> 01:28:18,182 To 708 01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:21,954 Shining sea 709 01:28:24,098 --> 01:28:26,328 Yeah, listen 710 01:28:26,901 --> 01:28:31,668 I wanna thank you, Lord 57854

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