Hi AMMstudios.. Gary Sugal here! .. Gerald is playing on our KW II 18kt Heavy Gold Plated Pure Copper Metal Mouthpiece I personally for him a number of years ago. You can confirm this by taking a close look half way through the video you'll notice our ligature that has a recessed blue insert. Our ligatures work only on our SG and KW models..Enjoy GS
albright is in another level, i have been for many year studying him, and transcribing his solos for the alto,one thing stand up on him always,is the diction in every note he plays , no matter how fast or slow, or high or low. Every phrase have a clear punctuation, like when playing a classical music from shit of paper.(please listen to dream come true solo,i think is one of his best.
I love me a smooth jazz player whose solos aren't comprised of just playing scales up and down with a blues scale every now and then. You can definitely tell that this guy has checked out some of the older jazz cats from the swing, bebop, and hard bop eras based upon his note selection. And same for that piano player!! YESSIR! Killin stuff right here.
One of my first tapes for Sax Gerald Albright, ya he's all Right! My music is so old, it was just the next step up from from vinyl :) still works fine for listening to .
Time for one of my favorite ones from Gerald - Bermuda Nights - definitely what I need listening to it rain once again the last 3 days! Beats snow:) TY so very much - Music is the oxygen that should make us all breathe better, turn sadness into a smile🎼🎤✨ 🎶 The very best
I love this my I get up and go for a walk in my state park on a bright and sunny morning with my ear bugs plugged in my ear's what a way to start my day worry and care free with the very best sound's of my favorite jazz I love it ....
My only complaint with this video is that Gerald wasn't mic'd properly. I know that its a difficult duting a live performance but its a missed chance to record Gerald's music as clearly as possible. Its awesome when you can play back a track so clear that it sounds like you're there.
Great sulful tenor playing solid rhythm section the tune has a Jazz Crusader feel to it Jeff Lorber use to rehearse with me in my house in 1971fourty yerars ago .saw him 6 years ago and said he did not know me Gemini sax
@JonovskiJ you can hum while you're playing. i've been growling for years and that's how i do it. you can look online for in depth directions on how, but trust me. hum while you're playing. you'll get it. loud loud loud and on the upper (not altissimo so much, but certainly not lower) register.
@Edwardkor98 thanks for the info =D i just started playing alto 3 weeks ago so im still figuring out the different sounds between the alto and the tenor i ment to ask tenor or alto i dont know why i put soprano in there
@JonovskiJ I am able to do this on the alto on a few notes, and I've noticed that I lessen the pressure that my lower lip exerts on the reed just slightly and blow really, really loud.
@JonovskiJ - He is using a multiphonic. I played all though college and big bands and never could do this, but for some reason this year, I can break up my high register like this. It is a multi-phonic and I create these I think by using my throat and vocal chords slightly to break the note.
Just fyi, most guys that do like the sound they get out of a beechler or ottolink usually lower the baffle and expand the chamber. This enables them to get a really big sound, I myself, modified my dukoff. But yeah, Links tend to choke out. I used to use one for years, I could get the same type of sound but as a dukoff, but then i found myself blowinng super hard and destorying reeds. this is with good techinque and ligature and all.
@AMMstudios I'm pretty sure he uses a Sugal Kirk Whalum II. I have neither seen one nor heard of anyone else who uses them, but I'm pretty dang sure Gerald Albright does.
@rasenganpimp Just my thoughts, yours are welcome as well of course. I'm familiar with Albright's style, I just thought. I enjoy discussing stuff like this. Thanks for posting, btw
@rasenganpimp mmm i personally knows his sounds since his 80s, hes been using beechlers on Alto, on tenor is some other story,off course he will be so smart to find a mouthpiece a mouthiece for the tenor that matches with his alto,to reduce the drastic change in the shows. i have try so many combinations with beechlers until i got the close to his sound.
@JonovskiJ Important note: 99% of times when you wonder about how someone does something, it most likely has nothing to do with the setup. Just a quick note my friend xD
@AMMstudios @rasenganpimp I think it's a link. You could hear some parts where he tried to push it to go louder. A high baffle/small chamber (Beechler, dukoff) would have gotten louder and maybe thinner, too. The Link can't handle all that air and it almost chokes on it. My analysis, anyways.
Uno de mis favoritos de Gerald Albright... Ricki Lawson en los Drums... fantástico , lastima que el video tenga baja resolución para apreciar mejor la genialidad..,
Hard rubber Beechlers don't have any baffle I think, maybe the metal ones, but dukoffs certainly do! But yeah you're right, thats why a lot of people use links for straight ahead jazz and stuff. Here I think Geralds using a Sugal KWII but now he uses a Theo Wanne HR piece.
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