I took a semester with him and I barely messed with the triadic stuff. We basically worked on sound and time for 15 weeks and I improved more than I ever had before. But man I love listening to him talk haha he's such a character.
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I do not understand sorry. I have been Italian for 48 years for now, :) I have been playing for 30 years. He is very good, he is an excellent teacher, but where do you see the "Italian style"? That is, I'm Italian and he just seems like a great musician. Moreover, he was not even born in Italy but in the USA.
@@Norman_Peterson what is not Italian about him? His way is 100% . And i know it. Look up the italian tenors 2005 on youtube. You will get it for sure. Even it s an off topic thing. The way his soul is so great.
I spent three and a half years studying with George at Berklee. What a great experience it was! My favorite story is when Medeski Martin and Wood came to town and I told him I was going to see them that night. George says " oh yeah those kids asked me to come stand in with them but I told them to go and do their own thing." That was probably 1995-96.
The ligature is a wooden ring. Roberto's Woodwinds in NYC is where I got mine. The idea is that the ring holds the reed only on the edges where the table of the reed meets the sides of the reed, allowing the reed to vibrate while sealing the table of the reed to the mouthpiece. Nice tone with a lot of the lower overtones. I wouldn't recommend it for honkers or big band playing. Practicing long tones by breathing but not playing the note is not unique to GG. One of my old teachers (Sherman Irby) swore by it and had me practice long tones that way.
you are so right George when you said" you can play free but be able to to play bebop and changes first" ..which will make you a better player. I strongly believe this too.
"The most perfect time feel I have ever heard came from..." I just KNEW he was going to say Michael Brecker. Thanks for this top post! "Perfect time will never hurt you - bad time will kill you" - I'm off to work with my metronome... slowly :-)
Great video! I was surprised when he spoke of long tones, sound and players, he failed to mention Jan Garbarek? No surprise he spoke of Coltrane, Brecker and Lovano with such reverence.
IndependentGeorge76 Not renowned for humor? Russians love humor, when it’s in Russian. I lived there for a while and sometimes they’d tell a joke, and I’d miss the point. It because I didn’t have a sense of humor, but I wasn’t in their culture and history. I started to get some of that eventually. Humor is a very hard thing to transfer across languages.
Hardly top-secret, it just requires 10s of thousands of hours of practice to approach anything like musicality as an improviser when employing these kind of harmonic techniques.
George is all the time referring to one guy at the audience that seems to be also one of the great teachers in Russia, who apparently was Nikolai teacher before George at Berkeley, the guy with the blue jean shirt leaning back and chewing gum, anyone knows his name?
@@sunlightband I when I visited Russia in 1996 (I was 17), I asked around about jazz musicians and was immediately directed to Oseychuk. I ended up going to the music school and jamming with some students there. They were great, and had a great feeling and love for the music.
Great video. I tried to learn and hear bebop. It doesn't suit me. It took a long time to admit that fact. Fortunately, by the time I played with Lieb, I wasn't imitating anyone.
Oh god, I don't remember the exact one, but it's like a ring like function, so if you have to adjust your mouthpiece, it slips around, and the reed just gets messed up.
It's a silver plated Selmer Paris Balanced Action Tenor, not "Super Balanced", but the OG Balanced Action. That is the great grand daddy of modern horns
Tells them almost nothing for 45 minutes, then looks at clock...”do we still have some time?” Then goes for another 40 minutes. Kind of a weird clinic. Still enjoyed watching it, but seems like he was making it up as he went.
I respect Mr Garzone and he seems like a nice guy but it makes no sense to first say "always play like yourself" and the proceed to talk about how to play like Coltrane for half an hour. Also, if you say "play like yourself" and don't go deeper into what it means it will only confuse the student. But I guess he's there to sell his DVD, Jody mpc and Rico reeds...
That was not what he actaully said. I think you missed the point. He was specifically speaking of the level of the player who should not be trying to outreach a level of a master but rather give what he is able to do decent
