Wynton playing Knozz Moe King on a 1984 video

In this old video (1984) Wynton plays with his quartet the tune: Knozz Moe King.
Larry Willis played the piano, Jeff Watts was on the drums and Charnett Moffett on the base.


6 Comments so far »

  1. careba said

    on January 29, 2007 @ 8:01 pm

    GREAT!
    J.T.Watts is the drummer……who are the pianist and bass player?.. I can´t identify.
    Is this video a part of “Trumpet Kings”?.
    Any idea about what does it means “knozz moe”???.
    Thanks in advance to any answer.
    C.

  2. Marshall Fant said

    on January 29, 2007 @ 10:22 pm

    Knozz Moe comes from the word

    NO SMOKING
    put it together

    NOSMO KING

    The story goes, a woman was giving birth and saw that on a door, the break in the door being at the MO and KI. her last name was king. She thought they had named her baby for her. So she wrote down NOSMO as her Baby’s first name.
    :)

  3. Trent said

    on January 30, 2007 @ 10:56 am

    Isn’t this the Blues “Later” ?

  4. careba said

    on January 30, 2007 @ 5:22 pm

    An interesting “playing phonetics” story, and so…..really musical.
    C.

  5. Sonalii said

    on February 6, 2007 @ 12:00 pm

    Smooth. Check out the original version on Wynton’s first album and again on Live at Blues Alley.

  6. Franko said

    on June 17, 2008 @ 8:40 pm

    great video, but this isn’t Knozz-Moe-King.
    as Trent said, this is the blues “Later” recorded in the same album as Knozz-Moe-King, “Think of One”.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8WpEPkRj7Y

    that’s Knozz-Moe-King.

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