Back Water Blues - Live At Newport Jazz Festival, 1958

And with Max, Roach, Paul West, and Wanton Kelly

I'd like to do one of Bessie's most soulful tunes

It's called "The back water blues"

When it rained five days

And the skies turned black as night

Well, when it rained five days

And the skies turned black as night

You know there's trouble in the lowlands

And everything ain't right

Oh, well, I woke up this mornin'

Couldn't even get out of my door

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I woke up this mornin'

Couldn't even get out of my door

There was enough trouble to make a poor girl

Wonder where she ought to go

Then they rowed a little boat

About five miles across the pond

Yes, they rowed a little boat

About five miles across the pond

I packed all of my clothes and throwed them in

Then they rowed me right along

Well, when it thunders and lightnings

And the wind begins to blow

Can't you hear the thunder, see the lightning

And feel the wind beginning to blow

Lord, it makes you think about all those people

That ain't got no place to go

Then I went and stood

On a high old lonesome hill

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I went and stood

Stood on a high old lonesome hill

I looked down with tears in my eyes

On the house where I used to live

And that's why water blues done call me

Call me to pack my clothes and go

Yeah, yeah, the blues done call me

Called me to pack my clothes and go

'Cause my house done fell down

And I can't live there no more

Somebody, somebody, please tell me

Where is it for a poor girl like me to go

Can't you see I'm tired, and I don't feel like moving no more

But if I ever get my nerve settled down, I'll be a mean so-and-so

Dinah

Dinah Washington will return for one number with an all-star group

Wanton Kelly, Marks, Roach, and Paul West remain on stage

As we bring up first

A superb trombonist

One of his best known solos is on the

Woody Herman second recording of Blue Flame

And recently he was given a job of leading the Benny Goodman orchestra

In the absence of Benny for about three months, Herby Green

Then a man whose talents encompass the Megaphone, the vibes

The trumpet, the, uh, uh, vocal and composertorial talent

Is a all-around entertainer as well; Don Elliot

And one of the fast and furious men of jazz, Terry Gibbs