Elad Sobol, professional musician, music educator, composer, arranger, creator. Professor of music at Sichuan Conservatory, Pop Music Academy, Jazz Department in Chengdu, Sichuan. Debut Album "Vicissitudes" coming May 2021!
Is there a name for playing in this style of out of the key improv that isn’t just like free jazz😂 I’m trying to find more examples of stuff like this to transcribe.
Yeah a lot of people would just call this "playing modern" or "playing out/outside" (as opposed to inside). But as you can see from my analysis, he's quite inside for the vast majority, just using very sophisticated modern note choices. You will find other players like Eric Dolphy and Michael Brecker play a lot more chaotically than that, reharmonizing changes on the spot and purposefully creating dissonance on chord changes to achieve a particular effect. You could try transcribing Dolphy on the classic "Blues & The Abstract Truth" album. Straightforward changes on there and he takes it quite far out. Brecker plays a lot of standards and does quite a lot of modern transformation of the changes, but sometimes he plays very straightforward and inside, depending on the context. Plenty of his transcriptions and accompanying analyses out there.
This is how I understand it: Funking tired, So fucking tired So so fucking tired, Long day, lots to do, fucking tired. But it was good. Fucking tired. And tomorrow ill do it all again, give it 100%, until I am fucking tired again.
I dont get the video , I dont get the comments........... jazz musicians are some kind of theoretical quantum scientists , it all makes sense to them. For the rest of us it's noise
contemporary art is all about making the listener uncomfortable, pushing the boundaries so that they get confused and ask: is this art (music) or isn't it? Then if you persist, you start to go down the rabbit hole of asking questions like: why don't I get it? What is really the difference between music and noise? Does all music have to be pleasant or immediately understandable in order to qualify as music? If music is expressive of the human condition, then what music should humans make that express complex feelings of confusion, alienation, self-doubt, inner turmoil, etc? Hope that helps a little.
This is what the majority of musicians lack in modern music. A perspective in a song, an unusual direction. Jazz already has these unexpected turns, and these other musicians around the professor shouldn't be this surprised, but still impressed nonetheless. Very rarely will it occur that you hear such wonderful execution of an unconventional sound in modern music, that's based on the composition and arrangement itself, not relying on modern-day technology for your complex "music-thought" to be expressed.
Actually seeing the notes on the page as you're listening somehow makes it sound even more masterful than when I first heard it. It is such a perfect interpretation and the emotion Sanborn can evoke really proves his command of the sax. Thanks for transcribing.
i took a jazz appreciation class in art college (long before i played sax) and i never forgot what the instructor said the very first day of class. jazz is not about the notes you play but how you play them. i didnt really understand at the time but when i listen to david sanborn it all makes sense.
@@MaestroSobol Yeeeeeeeeeeah, thank you so much Maestro! Two weeks ago I was listening this wonderful album and so I realized that transition of Virgo had inspired Blanding :D
If you check the other comments, you will see that some people believe he made a mistake and some believe it was intentional. I personally think it’s the latter but there are some who won’t be convinced no matter what.
I don’t know what exactly you mean by videos like this one, but I have a number of sax and jazz transcription videos on my channel which you can check out by clicking through.
Some people think it was unintentional, the controversy is quite juicy. Dexter Gordon was a lot more of a straight ahead player. This is 100% a nod to Wayne Shorter’s style, and aptly so as Shorter himself is on the stage for the tribute concert, and the song is his composition.
@@MaestroSobol Oh, I didn't know Wayne was there. Whether intentional or not, that note certainly created a lot of tension before the release. If it was unintentional, then I would assume this was the case only at the very beginning and that he decided to run with it and make it seem intentional, a strategy that can be a double-edged sword. :) Whatever the case is, he's no slouch.
Great solo, but the ironic thing is he got sick of playing it, as he had to play this exact solo at every gig instead of improvising something new, as that’s what the public expected.
Sure, but this performance was from the early days when it was really fresh to everyone's ears, and a great example of the transition from jazz to RnB as popular music.
The complete concert was taken off the JLCO RU-vid channel several months ago, for reasons unexplained. I had downloaded the entirety but then deleted it after editing the transcription video, then I found I had saved a low quality snippet of only "Teru," which is what you see here.
