When I saw Jethro Tull preform this live he said, "This piece was written around 300 years ago, around the time I was born." I will never forget that concert. I play the flute because of him.
I was introduced to Tull as 15 year old Black kid on the southside of Chicago. I was blown away by the unique music of Tull which I found inside of my new discovery of rock music. I have been a Jethro Tull/ Ian Anderson fan ever since.
Found in college around 1970. Still have the albums I saved, got disc so I can listen to Tull while driving today. Locomotive Breath still makes me speed!!!!!
I discovered Tull recently. They're definitely original. One of those bands that you can instantly tell from any other band. It sounds to me like music Henry VIII would like if he were a rocker. Medieval Rock & Roll.
Hope you can hear as much of them as possible. Definitely original and great musicians/performers. Unlike any others then or since. Best to you from old hippie/heavy rocker.@Temulon
The 70's were truly a magical era for music. Bands like Jethro Tull, ELP and Yes brought classical music to the ears of kids who never heard it before. Ian Anderson is a gem who has never been duplicated. He can play the flute like a lover, and attack with it, like it is a deadly weapon. I tell my kids to see these giants of rock before they are gone. The music industry no longer cares about breaking new sounds and taking chances. That's who so much music today sounds the same.
As regards classical music back in the 70s, there were more teenagers listening to it then than in later decades! The music industry you talked about, which country? I get the impression you have not expanded your music sphere beyond your own country!!! If so, you need to get out more!
@MarkRectorLazyRRanch ELP is short for Emerson, Lake and Palmer! Notably, one of the best English prog rock bands from the 70s and I will go as far to say better the ELO
I love Ian Anderson, I'm myself a classical trained flute player and I tell you with his playing he would never get a Conservatory Diploma but his style is so entertaining making him a true gem. @@devilsatan2973
In 1977 or 1978 5 kids in my high school performed this song at the variety show. I have had the tune in my head since then and i hum it all the time My husband recently bought me a new tablet and there is a program on it that identifies music by singing or humming a song. I just tried humming the song and it was identified for me. So i came to RU-vid and checked the song. Oh the memories it brought back. I have always loved Jethro Tull. My favorites are Pavane, Thick As A Brick, Songs from the wood, Aqualung, Life is a Song, and Bungle in the jungle.
I was about 21 when this came out. Listened to it over and over. Found it transcribed for classical guitar and learned it. But always coming back, transfixed, to Jethro Tull. Over forty years later, it still captures and holds me.
If you care for this kind of music, think about Canned Heat with Poppa John Creach on the electric flute. Poppa John was about 60 years older than the rest of the band ... but he could rock out with the best. Or, oh, who was it that played electric flute on a couple early Elton John albums? Little help here please.
I agree and so memorable too. I was VERY fortunate to see him 4 times at my very young age , first time was 9/8/69 at Anaheim. I feel blessed in that regard.
Flutter tonguing works on the trumpet too, not to mention mammalian life forms. Living and working in New York City warps a man. Not in a bad way, in a good way. Been there done that. New Yorkers will understand this. If you're a New Yorker from 1975 on leave a comment. If not furggetaboutit.
I always put on Jethro when I'm feeling whimsical and a full moon approaches , Jethro never fails to make my steps lighter and my mood more mischievous . Tonight the fire will be lit and we'll dance wild as the wind !
@@johnevans388,, or just Tull. They've been my favourite band since around 1970 when I first heard Witches Promise. Saw Tull live in Sydney in 1996 when Ian Anderson was in a wheel chair after a tumble off the stage in Lima Peru.
Jethro Tull as a whole playing this piece is fantastic, and Ian Anderson's flute playing makes anything they play unique. There are those who try to copy his style, but they'll never REALLY be Sir Ian. ♥️
Was lucky enough to see the band live many times. Once sat behind the stage and had a great view of the back of Ian Anderson balanced on one leg playing the flute. Great band. Every member added a unique touch.
Yes, he's a wonderful flute player. If you like flute, you could listen to Roland Kirk and Harold McNair. Kirk is jazz not rock but he makes a flute talk, and Anderson obviously listened to him when he was younger. Kirk was a blind, black American who rocked before rock was a thing.
@@RootlessNZ - Ian Anderson, leader/flautist of Jethro Tull recorded a version of Roland Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo" on their first album This Was (1968). Kirk made Anderson think he could bring a flute into rock music. AFAIK Anderson was pretty well known with the jazz repertoire and must have been aware of other jazz flute players. In order of YoB (wiki inspired): Eric Dolphy - Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (1928..1964) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Primarily an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and flautist, Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence during the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the unconventional instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists. Eric Dolphy also is the godfather of jazz bass clarinet! Famous Dolphy collaborators include Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard. “Herbie Mann “, born Herbert Jay Solomon (1930.. 2003) was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Rahsaan Roland Kirk (born Ronald Theodore Kirk; 1935..1977), or Roland Kirk, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments. Hubert Laws (1939..) is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 50 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues genres, moving effortlessly from one repertory to another. He has three Grammy nominations. The idea of using a flute in the pop/rock realm was not new, when Anderson turned to that flute, so here is a pop/rock list of recordings that used the flauto traverso by date of release. Tull/Anderson’s “Living in the past” is on row 9: Performers - Title - Released - Flautist Moe Koffman Quartette The Swingin’ Shepherd Blues 1958 Morris “Moe” Koffman The Beatles You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away 1965 John Scott The Mamas & The Papas California Dreamin’ 1965 Bud Shank Traffic Hole In My Shoe 1967 Chris Wood Donovan There Is A Mountain 1967 Harold McNair The Moody Blues Legend Of A Mind 1968 Ray Thomas Canned Heat Going Up The Country 1968 Jim Horn Manfred Mann Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 1968 Klaus Voormann Jethro Tull Living In The Past 1969 Ian Anderson King Crimson I Talk To The Wind 1969 Ian McDonald John Mayall Room To Move 1969 Johnny Almond The Guess Who Undun 1970 Burton Cummings Genesis Dusk 1970 Peter Gabriel Chicago Colour My World 1970 Walter Parazaider Blodwyn Pig Variations On Nainos 1970 Jack Lancaster Focus House Of The King 1971 Thijs van Leer Caravan Love To Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly) 1971 Jimmy Hastings Jade Warrior A Prenormal Day In Brighton 1971 Jon Field Firefall You Are The Woman 1976 David Muse Camel Air Born 1976 Andy Latimer Heart Dreamboat Annie (Reprise) 1976 Ann Wilson Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg Tell Me To My Face 1978 Tim Weisberg Steve Hackett The Virgin & The Gypsy 1979 John Hackett
Each and every time I hear this song I like it more and more. Ian and the band are just freaking awesome musicians. I think they are better musicians now than in theirgolden years of the late sixties and early seventies. They just ROCK, don't they?
I always loved Jethro Tull. I got to thinking about them yesterday when I was reading that they are from Blackpool. I never realized how awesome they were in concert. Made me appreciate them even more. Fantastic memories of fantastic music.
This is one of the best pieces of music, a perfect compilation of Classical music by J.S. Bach and rock/ jazz modification (not improvement) by such a clever man I. Anderson. Great and beautiful.
I saw you performing live in Madrid, Spain, somewhere around 1977. Memorable. I was very close to the stage. Impressive. Seems like ages ago, but your music has passed the test of time, with honors. Bravo
bouree is a generic term for a type of dance, there were lots of bourees. But The thing with Bach which makes him unique I feel is that timing is everything,its that which gives the unique ''feel'' and you just cant mistake him for any other composer. If you err one nano second on the timing you have lost what Bach was all about.. I HATED playing Bach for that very reason and was VERY unsuccessful in each and every piece because it never allowed for expression or individuality.....and here is Jethro doing just that...........and hats off!..................but its lost Bach's soul in so doing.....and put in a little of his own. Which do I prefer? Well as a lover of Jethro Tull................I still prefer Bach.
I'm learning to play flute starting last year at 60 years old and if I can ever play this piece half as well as Ian Anderson, my life will be complete Bravissimo!
@@angelaglover6540 I’m 70 and my daughter left her flute here after she ran away to college and got married. I’m going to have it cleaned, oiled, and adjusted. Then I’m going to learn Happy Birthday and I really want to learn the rudimentary form of Bourree. From there, who knows.
@@justicegusting2476 Good for you. I am not 67! I still can't play Bouree, well parts I could but not really like him. Good luck. I suggest getting a good teacher. I have a good one who doesn't mind an old lady. He said I have progressed further than any of his adult students.
Ian has been the first to join classic and rock music and additionally he's done it at master level. Just great music. And great fun to listen him entertaining the crowd.
Thank you so much,, many years of joy... much love , never thought of my special music as cocktail lounge jazz... Lol.. Wish you all well and hope you and yours are safe and well...x
After dreaming and waking up with this in my heart and mind, I only know growing up with Jethro Tull albums being played over and over by my parents as a child. I know the songs and relate them to another time long ago, but their music is timeless.
Both my kids loved this music as babies. In their 40's now, they both have decent music tastes. I still remember them in their jumpy seat, ("Johnny jumpup?) It clamped onto a sturdy doorway, suspended with a sturdy spring. They'd start and stop jumping as the songs played, laughing and cooing. Good times 😊 Hope you have a great day!
He is so perfekt, great musician. See Jethro Tull live in Frankfurt am Main Germany, he flew with his flute on the ceiling of the hall and play! This was great and the whole concert was fantastic (early 80s) Greetings from Germany
One of my idols. I play flute, saxes and Clarinets. I told my 4th grade band director flute and heavy metal mix she laughed me off 30 years later playing flute in the bars as a rock musician I would love to jam with Jethro learning his flutter
I can still smell the cocaine and taste the mushrooms from those wondrous years.. Crazily talented musicians were everywhere you look and these guys are an OUTSTANDING chapter of that book. There is some crazy energy that emerges between and around these guys when they do their thing. Anyone who’s ever seen them live knows EXACTLY what I’m talking about..
Great artist Jan, there is little to say. I am still happy to listen to this immortal music today. One day it will be said that the magic flute really existed, thanks Jan
Ian was a unique talent. He gave us something timeless, that cannot be duplicated by anyone ever. Jethro Tull is my all time favorite musical experience.
@@Andrew-fs6wd Or it is a reference to something that happened in the past. Ian was a unique talent in the world of music when he arrived on the scene. That is what I am talking about. Please stop with the semantics lessons.
Elton John said in an interview some time back that there were three great bands that came out of England. Now I am not sure of the time frame in which he referred but he mentioned The Beatles...The Rolling Stones & The Dave Clsrk Five. I can't argue with that selection BUT...there so many more. The Who...The Hollies...The Kinks...& of course JETHRO TULL who in my opinion were one of the greatest bands that ever came out of England.
One of the bands those of us playing gigs admired as they’re the real deal, classically trained, able to do a rare mix of classical, jazz and rock & roll
this live amazing performance has stroke up many questions in my mind , one of them is how did he make a barouque melody sound like a jazz one , what an astonishing musician he is
I fucking love the Bouree by these guys! Love it! I was a vivid hard rocker some 45 years ago when someone made me listen to this piece by Jethro Tull. At first I couldn't stand it. Couldn't believe anyone can listen to such "soft" crap. But they made me listen to it several times, and it... grew on me. This is my favorite ever since. Had no clue it was Bach till today! Thank you Jethro Tull. Thank you !!!!!!!!!!
