Another amazing lesson, Jamie! I love Leo P. and his antics. I have just switched from the alto to the tenor. It will be great to try it out with this tune.
Thank you for this video. Been playing alto for 20 years and also teaching alto, tenor for 4 years without a formal teacher and baritone for about a month, also no teacher. Now I can set my goals high and eventually try and learn this on the baritone. Baritone is a different beast...so much to learn but loving it.
Oh I'm so grateful for you to take us through this Jamie, this one takes me to places I've never been before, so raw and powerful Thank you for breaking it down so well :)
@@GetYourSaxTogether I just finished watching this, it makes so much sense now. I have had no musical background, I turned 30, 3 months ago and I bought myself a new sax in the lockdown. I can't hire a tutor, since things in my country are very dire, but it's because of people like you I have made leaps in my progression in such a short time. I put in 2 hours every day consistently and it's your energy and love for what you do that pushes me to put in the time. Very grateful to all your work. You have a true gift for breaking things down, thank you for sharing it with the world
I think that if Pepper Adams made a mistake, Mingus would be the first to correct him. The original version sounds great to me. What do you think, Jamie? Great video, again!
Hi Jamie, great lesson (as usual). Thinking of other baritone tracks, Dana Colley plays great bari solo on "Buena" by Morphine. would love see that one covered. Thanks again for giving up your Sunday lie in!!
Hi Jamie, really loving your “learn how to play___” series :) Could you teach us how to play Branford Marsalis’ sax solo on Shanice’s “I Love Your Smile”? Thanks! You are awesome mate! 🙏🏼
@@GetYourSaxTogether Hahaha! Yeah I thought it was a really beautifully articulated solo there! Hope you will consider featuring it on your channel some day! Cheers! :)
I haven't transcribed it yet and I don't know the harmony but he may played the B natural to create an altered chord [7/9 flat/(9 sharp)/ 11/ (11 sharp)/ 13 flat]. Sorry if this doesn't make sense, as I told you I don't know the harmony but nevertheless that's an option!
I was only familiar with Bobby Timmons' "Moanin'". Listening to the original Mingus, I cannot imagine that the D natural is a mistake; with this Pepper Adams adds something which sounds very "Mingus" to me. I actually prefer it to the '93 version where the bari plays the Db.
Nice video but it made me stew a little. Pepper Adams play a wrong note? He was a master of the correct "wrong note", and him landing on a B natural instead of B flat made that riff the masterpiece it is. Landing on the B natural caused tension, a favourite trick from Pepper Adams.
Yeh, I know. I was really torn about that. Interestingly on all future recordings, even by the Mingus band, it’s “correct”, and even the rest of the band in that original take play the riff “correct”, so it was obviously written by Mingus that way. Who’s right who’s wrong? Real grey territory. 🧐
@@GetYourSaxTogether Mingus did revise his own songs. One of his trumpet players mentioned how he changed some chords in some songs. I'd say that in the first recording that was the composition. And then, later it was then the updated composition. Call it 'variant 1' vs 'variant 2' or 'original' vs 'final.' As for 'who's wrong?,' no one. There's just different versions. Maybe Mingus wanted less tension a decade later for that song (or it could even just be what he felt like on that day for all I know). Which version should folks today play? Just play the one you like better.
I also note that the trombones play that same D in the beginning matching the bari. If folks don't play that, it seems clearly revisionist to me - 'fixing' it is really simplifying it. As far as 'not making sense,' it does make sense if you think of the upper extensions of a half-diminished chord: the D shows up if you think of this as a half-whole diminished scale type of sound. Basically, Mingus is getting all the notes of that scale as the chord.
