Misty - Arnett Cobb 1982. 

Everybody: this is not 'Misty', it is 'The Nearness Of You', composed by Hoagy Carmichael.

Absolutely unbelievable !!!! The end is incredible, there is more soul, feeling, fire and passion in that old man hurt by life than in all tenors today.... A music & life lesson !

Quelle sonorité ! De la puissance, de la douceur, des nuances pleines de délicatesse et une grande inspiration. Il est parmi mes saxophonistes ténor préférés. Un monument !

Fabulous! Thanks for posting this ♥. I found a new love :)

...May by the one of the best version.Heavenly

My name is Lance Parker I'm from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania I studied with Sonny Stitt for 5 years in fact he even gave me his Selmer Mark 7 tenor saxophone which I've hadn't played all my life I traveled with Sonny off and on for five years staying in hotels with him and learning to play the saxophone I studied at carnegie-mellon classical for 4 and 1/2 Years also but my gut my jazz my chops from Sonny Stitt a1978 I was in Columbus Ohio at a place called the High Chaparral with him and he had Kenny Clarke on drums and the great Jimmy Smith on Hammond organ the gig was with Arnett Cobb and Sonny Stitt Sonny would bring me up the last half-hour to set to come play with him as always so I got to play with him and Arnett Cobb what a great night that was here I am 18 years old in Columbus Ohio with the High Chaparral with Sonny Stitt Jimmy Smith Kenny Clark and Arnett Cobb I will never forget it as I long as I lived Sonny Stitt gave me the Mark 7 tenor saxophone that I've had all my life in 1978 he cherry-picked the horn in Elkhart Indiana out of 15 or 20 hornsea set down for 4 hours and pick the cream-of-the-crop I've never sold that horn I loved it I still played to this day anyway I will never forget the setup that Arnett Cobb had he had about a 1938 balanced action with a lot of engraving on it had the picture of a cabin with a lake and ducks on a pond it was amazing he played a number 6 Otto link tenor saxophone mouthpiece what's a two-and-a-half read it is a night that I will never forget during those five years with Sonny Stitt I got to play with Jimmy Smith Don Patterson Louis Hayes Kenny Clark Abraham laboriel slide Hampton Monty Alexander Jackie fired so many great musicians that people would wish that they could have done what I did to Ray Brown on face too numerous to mention when Sonny Stitt would come to Pittsburgh he would stay at my house in Squirrel Hill my grandmother would make him meatloaf and chicken and stuffed cabbage he was like a second father to me I also have his 19:38 Biggby buescher alto saxophone I also got to play with the saxophone player Euston person with Sonny Stitt also what great memories I'm now 64 years old I've played for major shows in the old Civic Arena and Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh PA work for a lot of famous people and I still play I was with a group for 46 years call Jimmy Sapienza and five guys named Moe anyway hope you guys enjoy this as I said this is The Nearness of You Not Misty this message from Lance Parker Pittsburgh Pennsylvania actually I live in Forest Hills Pennsylvania now

What a great player and he could hold his own with the younger tenor players

Wow, beautiful

Exceptional.

You didnt see him perform, after he sat on his stool, cuz one leg was way shorter that the other, you felt it all over. TOTAL soul in his tone. it was like the horn was really part of him.Austin in the the late 70s. one of the most soulful performers I EVER saw! it dont get no more saxy than that!

Best finish in sax history

story in that sound

tout simplement sublime

I met Cobb in his later years, well aware of his reputation having so many of his LP's. I closed my eyes to listen, seeing him in pain and listened to the magic pour from the bell of his horn. A master among so many of them . We who appreciate jazz as a fine art are surely blessed

He is of the Coleman Hawkins school : The big sound.

Gob.Shite. I'd be glad to hear anything other than the bleeding sound of my sorrow! Outside of the composition at hand, played marvelously. Bon vivant!

Tender...romantic.....urgent...inspired ... Beautiful...art

Misty or The Nearness of You.Just 👍 GREAT!!!

A great musician. I used to see him in Houston in the 70s

He's playing "The Nearness of You" . It has, of course, many of the same notes as "Misty"

That man just blowed up a storm !

Wow! Just WOW!

Quel son !!! Quelle générosité artistique !! Love Arnett Cobb and Illinois Jacquet !!!

Saw this amazing gentleman at Ronnie Sotts Jazz club, London back in the early 80s(ish). At one point he stopped the whole band because he fluffed an altissimo note in the middle of a tune. It was (intentionally on his part) hilarious to watch him make the band go back 8 bars so he could go at it again (with success). Great musician and he seemed like a lovely, mild mannered guy aswell.

Age tries to still the magic flowing out of Cobb but fails....broken physically, on crutches, he produces sounds to gladden the heart and make your day. Hail the King of the tenor sax!.....( amongst other of course! )

So much WOOOW

those texas tenors are the best. saw this cat at the spectrum in montreal a few years ago, he was special.

Arnett Cobb I believe played with Duke Ellington in 1945-46.

Brilliant!!!

Ceci est sans aucun doute la vidéo la plus émouvante que j'ai vue sur YTube ...

This is tooo brilliant man!!!!!!!! I am in absolute awe!!!!!!!!!!!!! The feeling he puts down. He tell his story and you are in suspense as to what he’s gonna say next. Man alive dude!!!!!!!!!!!🎷😁🎷😁♥️

Arnett Cobb.....the rest is jazz history.

Absolutely great!

"The Nearness of You". Very similar chord progression (different key) as Misty. Bridge and last A is different.

wow what a player

POUR MOI: ARNETT FUT LE PLUS GRAND TENOR SAX, DE TOUS LES TEMPS !!! SON EXPRESSIVITÉ TONALE, SON LYRISME ET AUSSI, SA CAPACITÉ D'ABSTRACTION MÉLODIQUE, SONT GÉNIALES !!! MERICI POUR LA VIDEO. DIRECTEMENT DE SALVADOR-BRASIL = AUTOUMN 2023.

My God How Delicious.

I was going to mention that he's playing the changes to "The Nearness Of You", not "Misty" . . . seconding an earlier comment below.

Song is incorrectly labeled as Misty. Should be The Nearness of YOU

quelle sonorité ! velue !!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks (Y)

His sax is as expressive as Billie Holiday, naughty but suave.... .

Meu Deus, é de arrepiar! lindo demais!

beautiful

Very Big tenor sax

Now that ranks. God bles the coobler Alastair

Know you know how and why the very best players sounded like this. They had to have listen to him. Arnett was a master player and a wonderfull story teller. Just dig the way he get's down on those chords and what a cadenza!

Eine fantastische, romantische Musik gespielt von ausgezeichnetten Musiken...

This song is THE NEARNESS OF YOU

if I didn't know better, I would have thought that this was HOUSTON PERSON great sound

I like his quote from "The Peanuts Vendor"!

Уинстон Черчилль играет на саксофоне

muito bom hem!!!!!!! kkkk

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of my heroes. Beautiful.🎷❣️

Nobody has commented that the poor chap is supported by crutches. Great sound in the Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins tradition. Good to see such an enthusiastic and young audience.

Nice..... Simply

We the senior generation grew up among Giants , now the midgets are among us (rap).

a esto llamo ser un genio !!!!

Dear Admin, please correct the title of the song !!!

Sweet

The Nearness of You

Love it EVERYWAY

Cette vie, cette légèreté virevoltante en défi aux béquilles ... Rien de meilleur aux oreilles cette nuit pleine d'espoir de sommeil, les yeux déjà fermés, au loin

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Nearness of you, such a great tune.

Artista de verdade não se deixa esmorecer! ESPETACULAR!

You didnt see him perform, after he sat on his stool, cuz one leg was way shorter that the other, you felt it all over. TOTAL soul in his tone. it was like the horn was really part of him.Austin in the the late 70s. one of the most soulful performers I EVER saw!

Fantastic clip, thanks for posting. One correction: the title of this song is not 'Misty' but 'The Nearness Of You'. He played it very often at the end of his career.

What!!?!?.playing enough to wipe away the competition, and on crutches!!,good grief

gran pa

Geweldig; hij praat en zingt met z'n instrument

The guy plays superbly white on crutches . Kudos!

I am Fan and the soul and attitude is something you can not teach. Love it !

MY GOD...this is misty!!!its soo wonderful..its to different...

Это превосходно, сильный музыкант, сильный человек, с большим сердцем!

Antonio Ha 같은데...??

Cobb had a Houston connection. I saw him many times, oddly enough, at an oyster bar/ seafood restaurant called Huber's. He was always ill, but a great talent who never got his due, IMHO.

Thank you.

Kereen, smooth, elegan 👍

wow superb

Wow

mucho corazon ¡¡¡¡¡

座らせろよ！！

❤️👏👏👏☝️

Be Bop would be hated by the Country/Rock crowd...

I thought this was in f****** CASABLANCA!

Cobb was a great grandstander but he was extremely popular .Not the most photogenic guy in the world.

hoooo a sax in all his moods!

what for a Genre of Jazz is this?

🎼The Nearness of You.