Hitting those altissimo notes is not necessarily that hard to do on their own but his articulation of those notes is insane. You don’t really hear anyone that can do it on that level on the upper end of the range. Crazy stuff.
Thank you Danilo Blanco for this video that I have hunted since the 1980’s to get recorded. Saturday Night Live always seemed to cut it short. I don’t remember how many times I worked my cassette tape deck or reel to reel recorder to get it. Lenny, like any one knows, is a master musician. I think he was a music professor at New York University. He was truly a gift to Saturday Night Live. The waltz he composed is the only piece in my musical collection that I can play over and over again at one sitting and never grow tired of it. I tell you this waltz draws you in . The haunting notes of his sax with that deep bass still can make me tear up. I love you Lenny Pickett. You are the MAN ! There is no one out there like you at all.
Anybody know the highest note Lenny hits in this solo? I'm thinking it's well above Concert C2, but I could be wrong. But he gets way the h--ll up there!
😁🎶🎶🎶👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🏴 [BEATS#PER#MORNING] Das ist [UPLIFTING#TRANCE] vom Feinsten [THIS#IS#MAGIC#MUSIK] !"X"! ABSOLUTLY AMAZING TUNE !"X"! THIS IS THE MASTERPICE OF UPLIFTING TRANCE !"X"!😁🎶🎶🎶👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🏴
Stephen Colbert has a question on his questionnaire - if you had only one song to listen to for the rest of your life, what would it be? My answer is SNL closing theme, Waltz in A, without question. What a beautiful piece of music. It never gets old.
There's only one Lenny Pickett and when the greatest sax solo ever played lasts the entire song, it just doesn't get any better than this. This is the most soulful song ever recorded. IMO.
