The start is the source of this Sift: The Lee Evans Trio.

This is a 25 year old Nat King Cole!

"excerpt#1 from the movie "Killer Diller"(1948).
In this excerpt, see the great 25 years old Nat King Cole & his Trio. Nice and smooth, always cool as he never take a look at his fingers while playing and singing. Classy !
"Killer Diller",About 70 minutes of astonishing and extremely talented jazz musicians, tappers and vaudeville comedians playing live."
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Thanks Lucky, commenting and editing working now :-)

I play my Trio album on regular basis.


This song was featured in a Pepsi ad I posted not long ago. That version is a little more conventional in the ad.


http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=2341

That guy is the best in the business at "DOING" funny. It's pretty obscure, but see him in Funny Bones with Oliver Platt and the King of "DOING" funny, Mr. Jerry Lewis. Most people, though, have seen him as one of the trio of stalkers in "There's Something About Mary".

It's not on the soundtrack CD. I looked it up on Amazon.com.

In college I had fraternity brother who loved Trio and encouraged me to get the album. The song "Boom, Boom" had a music video on MTV in the early days. There are some other amusing songs on the CD as well.

I love what was done with Trio's "Da Da DA I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha." The song title sure is a long one.

I found this clip through reddit.com, suspecting from the title that the player might be Jake. It was. We're lucky to live in Honolulu, Jake's home, so we've seen him countless times and he's always amazing. If anything, this video shows only a sliver of what he does so well. The instrument is an ukulele, which is as big in Hawaii as surfing and shave ice. However, if you like ukulele, please explore Hawaiian music, for you'll find all sorts of great players, from jazz soloists to Hawaiian groups. A typical ensemble might have a uke or two, guitar(s), and bass--all acoustic--with all the players also singing in close harmony, often in Hawaii's very distinctive falsetto style. My personal favorite group is Maunalua, a trio. Jake plays live in Hawaii, tours Japan, and probably the Mainland.