Haha, they mock Bill's appearance on Arsenal Hall at the end with heart break hotel lol. Man, I was super young when this went down. I think I was like 8 yrs old. Anyways, heavy nostalgic vibes in this video
@@EvanYoungMusic mine too...followed by Tom Scott, who had a fuller warmer tone than Kenny Gorelic AND he was playing a sopranino saxophone! The brother is AWESOME!
Exceptional show, but for Will Smith. Pronouncing Our River her 'the Poto MAC' Twice!! When I thought he might have heard of it, maybe? It's actually pronounced like 'the Pototo mic'. That's why Bill & ( the youngest version I've ever seen of!!) Hillary both looked confused when he said it the 2nd time. Outstanding performance tho by all of the most legendary Sax player's!
The look that Grover gave to Kenny when he finished his solo.... Priceless!! It's like he was saying, "now go sit yo little wack ass, noodling, flat, sharp, corny, ugly ass down somewhere!" LoL
I guess Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Heath, Illinois Jacquet, Benny Carter, Johnny Griffin, Lou Donaldson, Ornette Coleman, and Joshua Redman were busy.
I adore Will Smith, but President Bill Clinton is a star too! He played in a famous Reduta club in Prague. Some live concert you can see here ;) @ Nice watching!
I remember this inauguration well, like it was yesterday. I taped it. These are the best saxophone players in the world. I really enjoyed watching this inauguration. President Clinton was a great President and Vice President Al Gore was a great Vice President. Those were the good old days. I'm not saying President Biden is a bad President. He certainly is not. He is doing the best he can with everything that's been going on in this country. Way to go, Joe. God bless Clinton and Gore and their families. Also, God bless these extremely talented saxophone players.
Before I offer my favorite, I must say that I truly dig that they let David Sanborn and Grover Washington Jr. set it off. Their solos really seemed to compliment & complete one anothers. Really unique how both of them interpret the blues in their own way. Having said all that, I really LOVED Grover's solo! He made such a strong musical statement in a matter of seconds 😍 #teamMrMagic
this is why everyone thinks america is so eccentric. other countries' elections: everyone be super professional, lets just stick to tradition. 'Murica: lets have a bunch of dudes rock out with saxophones during a presidential inauguration, just for the hell of it.
I think they are eccentric because the people there eat up these shows and don't think about the wars they're being sent to fight (over oil, lies, or territorial influence - not freedom and democracy). That a corporate lobby is allowed - something the rest of the world would call corruption: its influence is baffling. That a Trump can become President and around 30-40% don't believe in global warming and vaccination - however they do believe in space lasers (at the moment), gps in their vaccines, rigged elections, The whole difference is the US puts up an act to become popular enough to get away with all kinds of questionable policies. Usually takes 4-8 year for the magic and the act to wear off. Then your electorate swings from the left to the right and the right does exactly the same, steering the economy towards recession. The mortgage/credit/oil/bank crises, whatever. The people will just go into debt and suffer to keep those big fat businesses floating (too big to fail). Only to allow some slick dude (like a Clinton, Obama) to give you some hope - which is only awarded in very small quantities. Having a party during an election is not that unheard of - but I don't know where you are from... Perhaps it is for you. A lot of countries don't have this much global stars. At any rate, US politicians don't want you to see the truth. That's why hollywood got big during the war, as a propaganda tool - which it still is to a certain extent. A part of the populace seems to figure this all out - with a little help of the internet. Bad part is that it goes into overdrive. It's just greed, people covering for eachother. It's not well planned... Like Nixon and Trump weren't well planned. When you are popular enough you can get away with basically anything. Still, US has the traditions. Bill got impeached and nearly fired over breaking one - while it had very little to do with politics itself. It was a nice auguration though. Also cost the millions and millions most tax-payers just don't want to pay, but there we are: politicians there just do whatever with taxes. Gerrymandering, outsourcing, giving tax exemptions, And the wonderful thing is everyone seems to forget all the other crap that happened - on policy. When we think of bill, we think of this Sax, we think 'I did not enhale', we think of his winkey getting wacked, of him 'not having sexual relations' with that woman. Nothing on policy. Similar shit for Obama. Trump did it differently, but he had the dicator rulebook - not the democratic veil of silent abuse. Dictators tend to be more miserable inside, less greedy. They just want recognition, badly... And he was also very American, Trump avoided nearly all the parties because the artists in the US generally don't like him. He just did his own shows, the rallies... Sorry, I was just amazed that you think this bit of 'feel good theatre' makes the world think the US is so eccentric. I hope you are alone - otherwise US propaganda even works abroad... It's a fine country, but also very deceitful in many, many ways... Not that different from Russia and China, though they use different books too... They abuse the general populace for personal glory. The US is just a little better in putting up shows...
the show here was done well, I'd have to agree. US policies on the background and stuff people do when they think no one is watching has sort of ruined a lot for me, as you can see... US history is full of it - nothing seems to change... Only difference now is that is once again is at the level of the civil war, where one party just hates the other party's guts.
America doesn't have rich traditions the same way europe or asia does so it makes sense that they're trying to make their own traditions by concentrating on American culture - the jazz scene has always been dominated by America so it's quite literally perfect for something like this
The first song is Arkansas Traveler (Civil War tune a homage to Bill’s home state) The solos are 6-bar blues (with changes every measure to simulate a 12-bar blues) in Ab The ending is heartbreak hotel which Bill played during the campaign.
he's absolutely solid with it to be fair though. that intro was a real anchor for the entire performance and i love his quiet confidence. as well as mulligan cooling the hot atmosphere down from everyone's else red-hot solos. two prime examples of how you dont need to blow 40 notes a second while twisting your body everywhere to make a great solo
There’s a six-bar introduction then they’re playing the Arkansas traveler a Civil War era tune, a homage to Bill Clinton’s home state Each of them are soloing for six bars, so a 12 bar blues cut in half which is why there’s so many 16th notes in there And they conclude with heartbreak Hotel (Elvis presley) which Bill Clinton played during the campaign
