...C'mon now...wake up y'all...Here we have three unique & talented Tenor players, each with a distinct voice...We can learn from them all, as opposed to some ridiculous idea that ones voice/phrasing/technique is better or worse than the other...Open ears are where it's at...😎
I enjoied the improv of all of them -- three masters, three styles. Kudos to the great Kenny Washington -- one of the best jazz drummers of his generation.
Wow! George played so out man! Then Johnny come in quoting,kickin' and swinging..as usual...Then Joe...with his unreal timing...dark tone...control...very hip patterns..and his own true voice...standing still...playing like a true Master....an innovator.But...man what fun...Great!
Whether with Don Pullen or himself, George Adams is a musical impresario and completely fearless. Jazz history is fill with many talented and superb tenor saxophonists. George Adams is within the top ten.
George's time seems off here...rushing ahead of himself in places, then playing 'out' to make up for it...he does find his way back though, so obviously feels where he is in the 12 bar form. Love Johnny, oh yeah. But Joe knocks it out of the park here. And Joe played convincingly 'out', with incredible time (see youtube videos from '67 in Europe with Kenny Drew Jr. et al), just not here, where instead he gives bop, hard bop, post bop, rhythm and harmony lessons for days in the most realaxed, swinging way possible, with the greatest tenor saxophone sound imaginable, on one damn solo!
I first saw Johnny Griffin on the Jazz Mobile at Grant's tomb when he just came back from Europe, the first thing I noticed was all the Great horn players in the crowd. I took a picture of Johnny tacking a breath, I was blown away I thank God that I have ears to hear this music. After the set I got a chance to talk to him he said to me "study, practice and play what you feel and don't worry about it".RIP and thank you for the music.
Joe looks like such a G with those shades, along with his ingenious phrasing and turnarounds! Johnny as well! I also heard him busting out some licks from The Dex! Awesome! Adams added some nice variety to the solos! I He seems to use a lot of Albert Ayler's avant-garde phrasing and overtones. Its ALL good!
@@JerryAttric42 lol!!! I dont think @pyannaguy actually meant give up to the bass player for holding on lol. I think @pyannaguy was simply trying to make a joke whilst simultaneously expressing his affection for the bass player. I bet he also plays bass.
Boo Hargis, Thanks for mentioning Sonny Stitt, too ofen forgotten. Perhaps Bird overshadowed him? My second jazz vinyl was “Sony Stitt sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio”. One side alto, the other tenor. Ray Brown on bass, Ed Thigpen on drums. What a treat!!
The Afro-American art of complex improvisational instrumental music called Jazz - featuring the tenor saxophone - is on splendid display here: BRAVO!!!!!!!!
Dammmmmmmmm Joe Henderson plays like a fearless God, not a note out of place. Universal order 🙏🏿 Love George Adams and Johnny Griffin too, all are amazing 🙏🏿
amateurs? jesus. get a fucking clue. the level at which they are playing the blues is quantum levels above any amateur. you are clueless and an asshole. i don't usually play the "post some of your own stuff" card, but, really, post 12 bars of a blues, and show us you are qualified to use words like "amateur" to rate a master like Griffin. Or Adams. You obviously aren't. No matter what was played before or after him, Henderson did not "make" anybody sound like an amateur. Because they didn't. jerk off blah blah blah from a wanker. There are bits in all their solos that are astounding. Astounding. Adams played some riffs I never even dreamed of. Beautiful stuff, right in the pocket, playing off the rhythm section, as your ears would tell you if they were open to learning from a MASTER. Fucking youtube wanker blah blah. it's so tiresome.
Joe's opening statement....wow. You know it's him in a blindfold test and it just grabs you immediately and pulls you in and makes you hungry to hear his whole solo. Gotta transcribe this sometime. Legend amoungst legends.
Kids take note: Joe Henderson played a Selmer Soloist D mouthpiece (tip opening .090). Why? Because, he said, it came with the horn. Medium tip opening, medium chamber, medium strength reeds.
oh my god 3 superstars -- can't really enjoy this now the way I want to because I'm at work -- but these 3 guys are each so great and so different wow can't wait to get into this thanks
JH is just too eloquent. Wow.. Not the show and screams or effects, but melodies and intelligent ideas. Deep.. And also his sound; has lots of color.. Big master.. Thanks for sharing!!!
Taking nothing away from these 3 sax gods, (they're mezmerizing!) just take a minute to think about what it takes to burn at this tempo for 11 minutes on drums & bass, without adding or subtracting a nano-second from this raging river of precise time. By the way, respect to anybody who watches and digs this - here in the midst of the Musical Dark Ages. Where do you see dedication like what lies behind & beneath all this?
Navroze contractor You posted this 5 years ago, but I’m just now seeing it. Truly there are many, many more great saxophonist that are around these days. Just to name a few, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, Grant Stewart, Walter Smith III, James Carter, Eric Alexander, Joe Lovano,, ... Couldn’t possibly name them all. I have neither space nor time, but there are more than you could imagine.
Mark VI Tenor: FOR SALE! Recent pads & Springs Includes 2 nice Links. $Cheap... I quit!! Every time I think I can maybe play the horn, I watch this and know I'm just dreaming. Hahaha... I am so fortunate to have sat in small clubs right in front of each of these guys, in so many different situations.
don't say that its taken me half a century and only now I started practising couple of hours before a gig is coming up rock n roll and stuff but I found these inspire me more so I just keep practising nothing came easy to me but you know what..you will be surprised what a little practice can do ,,just imagine what a lot of practice will bring to you keep at it my friend and never give it up just blow...
..had the window wide open ..had my alto in my mouth.. I never had a single lesson in my life. Soo, I guess it is true when they say that "its a gift from God" to able to make something out of nothing when it comes to music, jazz imparticular And, blow! ..note for note,baby I was right there with 'em on this alto! Art Elijah
I agree 100 persent! Of course, Griff and Adams were two bad dudes without a doubt. JoeHen will always be one of my ultimate favorites! (On alto it has to be JackieMac!)
Again, the saxophone instructor charlatans here on RU-vid should take heed, THIS is the music we all love and HERE we bear witness to that music being loved and lived via TRUE MASTERS.
Funny to watch how the differences in body language reflect the playing of the Horn. This is very obvious when they start trading fours at 6;43. Adams is all over the place with both his playing and gestures, very wild. Griffin just aims for some well placed climaxes and Henderson keeps very cool placing his personal ideas exactly where he wants them.
wow looking at the comment section george adams is severely underrated, people dismiss these as "avant-garde" or "playing sound" but they failed to hear the genius in the notes and phrasings
