Benny Goodman/Teddy Wilson-"Body and Soul"; "Lady Be Good"

Here's Benny in 1980, still playing well-but the real treat is his old Quartet partner Teddy Wilson's piano playing, with all its elegance and swing. I wonder how many thousands of times these guys played "Body and Soul" in their careers?

Lionel Hampton, of course, was the last living member of the classic Goodman quartet....Hamp died in 2002.



UPDATE: Here's Benny showing off his stuff a little more, on "Lady Be Good". Funny how he pauses to get the audience, which may've been holdovers from the Lawrence Welk Show, to stop the mindless clapping.

Which reminds me of the Buddy Rich joke about Welk-"Welk decided he'd get a little hipper one night, so he decided to play some Ellington. But his intro was a little dicey: 'Now we are going to play the Duke Ellington classic, 'Take a Train'".