Jochen Rueckert Quartet Plays Charlie Parker 

One of the weirdest comments I´ve read on a live jazz video.

Check this Victor Lewis interview, all the best! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oP05t28n94g.html

Why? How is this related to this video?

come on dude, really?

Never heard of Victor Lewis. Some context?

For real. Extremely powerful.

Oh hey cobo

@@robertvaron1178 hiiiiiii

You have lost your mind. You have a tin ear. She is good for a girl. She can run some nice scales. But she can't carry those guys' instrument cases.

@@lesmowhomever174 says who?? An anonymous incel hack nobody?? Nobody cares what anonymous incel hack nobodies have to say about melissa.

@@lesmowhomever174 I see, it's not that you thought I lacked skill, you're just a sexist who doesn't have a quarter of her talent and it angers you that other great musicians talk about her

⁠​⁠While your comment comes off as pure sexism, I agree with the prior post from Luis. You don’t get record labels with blue note, travel all over the world playing at multiple venues, teaching masters classes at prestigious music schools, play with Jazz at Lincoln Center, and get nomitated for Grammies just because “Your’re a girl”. If anything it’s even harder for women to do this in a male dominated field because of people just like you. Jazz has no gender, it’s all about sound. You can’t get to her level without THOUSANDS of hours of practicing, listening, and composing. For a nobody like you to try and discredit all of that and gloss over her LARGE resume of accolades is LAUGHABLE.

How can she put Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, especially in the freakin boiler, when the majority of her phrases and ideas come from her studying all the masters innovators of the art form we call jazz. Really?😢

totally agree. who cares what the starting and ending bpm are if the damn recording feels this good the whole time

She is an accomplished sax player but sounds like someone copying players of old. Nothing new.

@@lesmowhomever174 That's a rather superficial assessment of her contribution. It tells me you can't hear what she's doing in the motivic development dept.

@@effsixteenblock50 I saw it in other comments and he's just a jealous sexist

@Louis Rios I would love to hear you playing over the blues change since you k now so much about it

@Louis Rios Oof. You probably hate later Coltrane then huh? Like his version fo My Favorite Things live with Pharoah Sanders and all that. It's not licks or shit, it's musical expression. And pretty good time.

Louis Rios Melissa wasn’t even playing out. Grow some ears man

Louis Rios I mean you think that she’s playing out when she’s not

@Louis Rios ha ha playing wrong notes! Throwing licks that don't fit? But they WERE playing the changes but with a modern approach. The challenge is to be highly original and creative on a blues... or no challenge and just do it old school (which would logically sound 'right' to you but perhaps a bit boring and predictable to others) There's no muscle memory here, they're improvising! Using their musical prowess, creativity and harmonically advanced ears! I think you could grow to like it if 1) you had an overdose of the 'old school blues' vocabulary or 2) You started being a bit demanding in terms of the development of jazz. But hey, just like you said.... It's just my opinion at the end of the day.

teo alexander: A few years ago, Melissa won #1 place on tenor saxophone in the Theolonius Monk Annual Jazz Competition. She beat out a few male players for the first place spot. Melissa hails from the West Indies/Caribbean. Her father was/is a professional jazz saxophonist who competed in the said competition a few years before Melissa did. Great playing!

@@wyndhl9465 didnt Melissa say she from Chile? She is great, along with Tevon pennicot whom I prefer for dynamic reasons I think, great young players...

Kurt rosenwinkel is more killin than Lage

@@nicowohl8173 maybe during the 2000s, but not nowadays. His search for unique guitar tones have prevented him from keeping his phrasing and harmonic sensibilities at the top of the game.

@@HomoChomsky wow this was absolutely the dumbest thing ive read in a while. Im gonna go out on a limb and say you AREN’T a professional musician.

hes thinkin in coming back home play golden psp or something

I find it strange, that he looks the first 4 minutes not AT ALL to Melissa, while she is playing her solo. Looks to me, like he wasn't interested in her playing. Finally in 4:02 he turns his head, looks at her - and stops playing. Not very sympathetic.

@@corinnadanzer9534 I perceive the opposite. I feel that Lage shows big admiration and respect for Melissa's impro. We cannot judge someone by their gaze.

He is listening to the music You don't realize what he does demands in terms of attention Listen to how they communicate How he responds to the sax player

Fantastic give and take of space between the sax and guitar.

Correction, "woman".

@@TheKierensaysmaybe correction "girl"

Cal Clove last I checked shes an adult, not a child. Give her the respect shes due.

SHIT is not holy.

Nailed it. Saw her last week and that's all I could think of

Yeah, good point. I hear some Joshua Redman as well, perhaps more than Mark Turner. Either way, she plays incredible.

Oh, I get it! Because of Gay!

When I listen to Melissa I hear Joe Henderson. Joe was a small man, that's probably why she sounds a lot like him. Tall guys like Gordon, Coltrane or Rollins tend to blow louder.

@@warrenginmartini coltrane wasnt tall

abn?tes pas venu a la soiree melisse?

Yep

somewhere out there. . . .

this is why is called swing

It's what happens when the rhythm sections gets excited!!!

@@georgepoveymusic LOL!!!!!!!

Seriously? I don't think there is a single saxophonist alive worth their salt that hasn't been influenced by Bird

There is no law that makes the metronome master of the musical universe. Jazz is a living, breathing thing. This is a terrific JAZZ band , in my opinion....

@@ustwoalberts Indeed, I don't disagree in the slightest; these musicians, both collectively and individually, are at such a high level that there's nothing to criticize, at least not from me personally and at my modest level! But I'm certainly not the only one who noticed that it took quite a few points off the metronome, and they must have noticed it themselves too... it's just significant enough to mention. Well, I'm a bit of a tempo obsessive guy.😅🤣

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Haha I don't really hear much Mike B in Melissa's playing, but she's absolutely killin! I get more of a Mark Turner vibe for sure

Mark Cain I can see why you’d be scratching your head. Lage Lund always stares off into space when he plays.

Holy shit. I just gave the ignorant comment of the year way to someone above you, but I may have to rethink my vote.

What I don't get is musicians ranting about elements of a performance that don't bear any direct relation to the sounds, like stage presence. Most of this industry is already overly obsessed with theatricality, musicians should know better.

Dude he’s not staring into oblivion to prove he doesn’t haven’t to stare at the neck. He’s just trying to focus like if u see someone close their eyes when they solo (I think he’s just kinda zoning out his vision). When u play the guitar as much as he does u really don’t have to look at the neck. That would be really silly if he was trying to prove he’s so great because he doesn’t look at the guitar neck bc like I said most guitarists at his level don’t really need to look at the neck (it’s really just not impressive to anyone). I just ... idk dude

Talking about attitude? have we any idea how heroic jazz musicians are to get up on a double stage, their life stage and the concert stage, to play in a style that is relegated in the midst of so much "modern" commercial garbage? Jazz musicians are especially sensitive human beings who have intense lives of their own and who struggle a thousand times more to carry their message in this rotten society that lacks creativity, good taste and musical elevation. BTW, as a jazz guitarist myself I sometimes play without watching at the fretboard at all and with my eyes closed, I earned that right and ability with years of practice and no one has ever told me I'm a show-off for that. I remember those GRP times with those monumental musicians smiling, dancing and looking at each other, supported by an organization that had stage managers and millions of dollars for promotion. But not everyone is so lucky today! with its exceptions like the amazing Snarky Puppy or DirtyLoops and a few more. I see and listen to Mellisa, Lage, Matt and Jochen, and I can only thank the universe that their attitude is so honest, free and evolutionary. Even though it may seem unimaginable by today's standards, they are writing history in these sometimes dark, smokey and even shadowy but magical scenarios! Thanks to BlueNote for supporting and believing in Mellisa Aldana. Bravo @EliteMusic Mentor as well for this.

JMOLIVES...get a time machine and travel back. Bye !

if you don't like the food then change the restaurant

Is it possible she's NOT improvising but reading a prepared score?

"Billie's bounce is a blues. It is not a postmodern outside thing." Whyever not? I fear you may have missed Ms Aldana's constant references to the melody in her improvisation - a solo in which I as a listener was in no doubt as to her position in the form or the relationship of her lines to the underlying harmony. By my lights there's no particular requirement that Jazz be one thing or another - it's an evolving art form not a repertory music to be revered and reproduced as originally intended or recorded. To do that is to turn the music and the musician who play it into mere functionaries, musical automata blithely only making the music which sounds like Jazz removed from the context of their time and without reference to Jazz's deep and rich history. I feel that Jazz is something to be encountered - it is after all a music that exists on and in the moment of its own creation. Don't get me wrong, I adore the recordings of Parker and his cohort, but I am also aware that those monumental recordings, which I have poured over and know intimately, are only a snap shot of one moment - not a dictionary definition to which all who follow must subsequently adhere. Nonetheless, I also acknowledge that, as with any art form, our own ever-changing tastes and preferences play a large part in our response to the music we encounter. As Duke Ellington said: There's only two types of music - the good stuff, and the other stuff; and who cares about the other stuff? Give it another listen - you never know what you might find! :D

Did you hear all great musicians say that? You didn't, here are some great musicians, listen to them!

shut the fuck up

How you really going to say that. Melissa if ANYTHING comes with heavy inspiration from Rollins not Coltrane. Super melodic and super phat sound. Had a lesson with her once and she is insane. Even if she was more influenced by Coltrane how can you imply that is a bad thing. Bird, Coltrane, Rollins, Stitt, Potter, Aldana. All different. All killing.

AWE SUM Don’t listen to Coltrane? Wtf... you don’t know what you’re talking about

Ignorant comment of the year goes to... AWE SUM! Yayyyyyyyyy!

you don't know what you're talking about ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JYfhUH-9gbI.html

You don't know the first thing about tongueing. The vast majority of some of the major players on the scene use a ton of legato. Especially when they're playing fast. They tongue certain parts of the phrase, certain notes they want to accent and others are going by at lightning speed and being slurred. There are some players the tongue more than others but Melissa's playing is gorgeous and crazy clean. And, her thematic development is over the top!

And to think people like you are sometimes in the audience, man. Go fuck yourself.

Ricardo Urquiza be nice and grow up.

you dunno what you're talking about ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JYfhUH-9gbI.html

Wow, who are you to judge her playing like that? And then tell her what to do? Did she hurt your feelings someday??