Bob Mintzer & WDR BIG BAND - New Mambo

Billly Test’s playing is so creative! This is one monster solo… and he dances on the bench while performing it! Simply outstanding.

The pianist 👏👏👏

Definitely WDR is a World Class Jazz Big Band. The Bob's (My favorite saxophonist) arrangement, and super solos of Johan and Billy are unique and amazing..!! The sound and video are fantastic. Long life to WDR.!!

Bob Mintzer is a treasure and a legend…what a band!

Ich habe Bob schon vermisst. Gut, dass er bei euch weiter abliefert. Am 27.01.23, zu seinem 70., ist bei mir Bob-Mintzer-Tag. ;-)

One of Billy Test’s best solos!

One thing I love about watching this band (aside from their obvious musical artistry) is the joy they take in each other's contributions. The whole trombone section just grinning and head bobbing during Billy's piano solo...so cool! Just one of many examples from their many video segments.

Super cool writing by the awesome Bob Mintzer, love the harmonies on the Bones section and shout out to the super tasty solo by Billy, excellent as always!

Now this is music 🎶 👌 🙌 👏...

What a piano solo!!!!

Billy , your solos amazing .

Dear Bob Mintzer sir I've been following and carefully listening to your awesome, complex, musical arrangements and sax solos, you and the whole WDR big band group of musicians are infinitely gifted, praises would go into pages, no flattery Sir, the music is so uplifting, reminds me of the 'Mine is yours' sax solo on DMP lable nearly 4 decades ago. God bless you and the WDR band for giving us so much pleasure. Praise to the 'behind the curtain engineering group' what a capture!!!!! sounds like a philharmonic orchestra the slide trombone brass bang. Sennen Antonio Dourado, Mumbai /Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Fantastic chart Mr. Mintzer! ...and the WDR Big Band played flawlessly as always!

THEY ALL ON POINT LOVE THIS SMOOTH GROOVE JAZZ MUSIC VERY RELAXING 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

What a fantastic piano solo on this awesome chart.

Played this number in high school. Trombone 3 part. Loved it

wunderschön, vielen Dank an die Band und Bande.

Nice solo Johan, lovely tone..beautiful piano too Billy and the bongo martillo cutting through at just the right level. The sound guys always get the production spot on..

Wonderful! That’s who you are. Thank you.

My soul is just blessed with this beautiful composition, thank you so much Mr Bob Mintzer .

Such a Great Jazz Big Band WDR Is. One Of a Kind. Bob Mintzer Great as a 🎷 player and also as a Jazz Big Band Director. Honor to Dámaso Pérez Prado, the Mambo King 🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷Sound 🎶. Very nice solos by Johan 🎷and Billy 🎹 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Loved it! WDRBB is a band I'll be checking out more! Thanks!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊

I have to give a big shout out to the sound engineers, this a really beautiful soundscape, every detail captured perfectly, presented without fuss, without adding or taking anything away. Technology changes but the artistry remains, exactly as it should be. So big thanks from an audiophile.

Can we all talk about how refeshing it is to see stoic body positions instead of fake groovin, skunk face shots, or contrived moving to the music that only distracts our ears via our eyes? There's definitely a time and place for stage presence. I came here for a faithful reference recording. Thats what I got.

FIRST TIME HEARING THIS BEAUTIFUL SMOOTH GROOVE JAZZ MUSIC VERY RELAXING LOVE IT 🥁🎻🎺🎹🎸🎷🎧🎤🎛🎙🎶🎵🎼📯💃🕺

Super!!!!!!!!!

Billy's solo is killer!

Dieses Video schaue ich jetzt ungefähr zum eintausendstenmale... immer wieder sehr erfrischend! Danke! 🙏🏼

I wish I had your band behind me when I wrote that Jump Jive and Stretch Song !

Flows like silk, truly the cream of big band jazz. I love the video, makes such a difference to see the musicians playing.

Top notch and amazing....as always. Keep it up!

Hans Dekker on drums. He plays these charts so smooth and clean with great feel. Love how he pushes the orchestra.

The solo by Bill Test was **spicy!!!!**
You know that you're cooking when the horn section is dancing along with your solo in their seats!!!

Wow. Bob Mintzer must be thinking Don Grolnick has been reincarnated. This Billy Test solo is absolutely the embodiement of Don. Bless his soul.

What a pleasure to have such good sound and visual quality, and it's really subtly arranged in each piece! Superb discovery, well done to the team!

Amazing performance with the great minserian sounds from the ensemble and superb soloists

Bob Mintzer and the WDR Big Band. "New Mamba" with solos by Billy TEST, and John Holern on alto saxophone. All these musicians are excellent in all this music of Jazz. I congratulate you all for I understand the years of hard work to create such exquisite music 🎶 🎵 ❤️

Maestro Bob Mintzer, wonderful author and fantastic arranger! Spectacular orchestra! Amazing soloists! I felt a great emotion from the beginning to the end of the song! A thousand thanks !

😳 Oh My… in the famous words of ‘Lawerence Welk’ “Wonnerful Wonnerful” Thank You Boys…👍🏻😎

Bob is a perfectionist. 👏

Piano solo was aweeeeesome!

Beautiful from the first seconds!

It's the two-handed licks with the parallel lines and the polyrhythmic chords (which reminded me of Lyle Mays) that got me in Billy's solo. Great tune and amazing playing by all.

Bob... Are you sure you weren't born in Brazil?
I felt at home! hehehe 🤩
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Bob... Você tem certeza que não nasceu no Brasil?
Me senti em casa! hehehe 🤩

vibrante 😍👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘

¡Bien sabroso! ¡Vaya Bob & the WDR Big Band! So great to hear your "New Mambo" in the hands of this fantastic band. EVERYONE sounds so terrific. Tremendous solos by Johan and Billy - and, as always, the superb ensemble playing. Postings like this set such a high standard for everyone!!! In the end, I'm just a fan like all those who consistently visit these pages. Bravo y'all!!! - Steve - New York, NY

Gorgeous!!

Very clean ;)

Essa Banda é simplesmente MARAVILHOSA....!!!!!!!!

Oh my, Mr. Test is killing the piano, again!!! Brava!!

Total clave! 🔥🔥🔥

Simply wonderful!

The Ultimate Jazz Band Machine!

AAA such a beautiful piece! By coincidence it was posted on my brothers birthday, 20 OCT!

This makes me want to dance! 🥰💃🏻

Thank you all!!!!!

Bob + WDR = Amor eterno

Amazing, team!❤

Solid.

Outstanding as usual , really enjoyed it.And of course played my drumming to it .Thanks guys !

Eargasm!

Great! Made me feel good!

Qué arreglos, qué solistas, qué belleza!

Ahh brilliant! I miss that Yellowjackets lineup with Mintzer, Haslip, Ferrante and Kennedy. Seriously enjoyed Yellowjackets with WDR BB, the performance with Nguyen Le.
WDR musicians are absolutely top of their craft, it never ceases to amazed me that such a large number of high calibre musicians can exist at one place at one time!

Love this arrangement 🎹🎹🎹

Sweet, would love to hear this live!

So Kool man YEAH!!!!!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

❤Awesome!

It’s killer, fellas. Would be lovely to see a female in the band someday.

That piano solo is something else...

Meravigliosi!!!❤️❤️❤️

Very Nice !

Yeah, Johan & Billy! 👌

Probably as good a chart as you can get,my personal favourite 'Thanks Hank' John La Barbera.

💝

super!

Exceptional, brilliant solos by Billy and Johan help bring us up into the clouds, to what is already the peak of perfection! Totally fab!

God, that was good!!

🤩🤩🤩 please for the next session play Slo Funk by Bob 😈😈😈😈👊👊👊👊

Gracias por este fantástico contenido!

Is this the best big band in the world or what?❤ I’d like to see a video from the sound crew. About the preamps and whole idea of recording this. Because it sounds amazing!

Una Big Band fantastica 👏👏👏🎶

Highlight of high school was playing Mintzer’s “Computer”

Dazzling solo by Billy Test.

Billy Test is a bad ass.

I noticed they look at the music sheet while soloing ' is the solo written out or are they just looking at the sheet to keep track on where they are?

Smooth latin jazz! Who's on congas?

Background music for documentary films!

Andy Hunter - silver trombone?

Who is this drummer?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I miss Karolina!

Test is the best.

Cool 😎😎😎

SO DRY...AND STIFF....NO FEELING

Shame that after all these years, Bob hasn't figured out what a mambo is. Apparently has no clue what clave is. Stop writing "Latin" charts if you have no idea what Latin music is.

An entire big band playing Jazz, and not one single non-white musician ?!?
🤔

There is not enough compression on everything in this mix. Unlistenable.

*What happened to this cute lady on alto sax, flute, and everything else ..... !!!!!*