Paul Desmond ~~ Wave 

Nobody plays the alto sax like he does, he's a masterclass in his craft

Pure cool jazz. Never to be heard again. A lost sound,

The most instinctive jazz alto sax player of all time. Pure Desmond is pure Desmond.

This is pure jazz romance like the thumb - total sophisticated glamour of amour ❤️ Pour the champagne 😊 Killer !

This sound, tone, this feel of improvisation. Paul Desmond - genius of geniuses.

My favorite alto player of all time...

Paul Desmond said he wanted his sax to sound the way a cold, dry Martini tastes. I think he achieved it.

paul desmond, soft so soft and so bringing it! like someone said earlier,, cool jazz, never too loud, , but taking all the notes, great

Paul Desmond, his soft, melodic approach to jazz is an inspiration..

Brilliant solo by Don Thompson on bass.

Paul desmond !!!! He is greatest Jazzer ever!!!!

Exquisite 💜

Thank you so much for posting. Chills...oh, Paul! 🎶🎷💖

Desmond has a sound a "dry martini." He truly is the master of the cool West Coast school of jazz. I have many of his records (especially with the ones with Jim Hall) and love every one. I am glad he finally left Brubeck and recorded his own catalogue.

Ed Bickert- my idol. Said more in three note than most guys can with 300. The original 'less-is-more' school.

The master of cool jazz.

aaah...take me away...I'll find my own way back.

Thanks Scifier....awesome! I have this on vinyl~~Lovely! Ron Carter was just in Kansas City last week...Ed Bickert, the best! Connie Kay, saw him as a kid with the MJQ. Paul Desmond...one of my idols.

This makes Monday's feel better.

paul alto sound is so cool.

Personnel: Paul Desmond: alto saxophone; Ed Bickert: electric guitar; Ron Carter: bass; Connie Kay: drums; Don Sebesky: musical supervision. featured in his album "Pure Desmond" recorded in 1974

❤️ una de mis favoritas, la tocaba cuando tenia 12 años en el bar del "Hotel Elvira" en Torreon, Coahuila. Que buenos tiempos!!

E incrivel estar sensível a cada nota musical de cada interpretação de cada Mestre e bom muito bom

GRAN SAX TENOR. LO ESCUCHO Y LO DISFRUTO DESDE MI PREPA.

Un de mes saxophonistes préférés

My fave alto saxophonist...

Bass Is overwhelming.

wow this is cool!

Personnel: Paul Desmond: alto saxophone; Ed Bickert: electric guitar; Ron Carter: bass; Connie Kay: drums; Don Sebesky: musical supervision.

Smooth.

wondeful!!!!

Excelente interpretação.

the best

Listening to this while watching 80's HK kungfu movies, excellent cocktail

Paul (Mr dry Martini) was one of the greats. Mort Weiss SMS JAZZ "The Mort Report" @ All About Jazz.

I wish all the instrumentalists were mentioned for this recording. The bassist (Ron Carter?) is marvelous along with Paul Desmond.

❤

He played the alto sax in a type of cool school classical way, with no bebop licks.

Ah ~~ the inimitable Paul Desmond ... Saxophone, a hybrid of brass and woodwind, its 8 types -- from the range of Eb to Bb to the rare if all but obsolete C melody -- may well be the one instrument whose variety best metes-out the many and untold intents shared by the musicians who have played it, and serves as a nigh accurate barometer of the countless experiences that one may have -- from straight musing or academically cold thought to that of fire, joy or sorrow. It is easy enough to approach yet provides infinite possibility; the styles and tones hitherto expressed, nigh infinite. Ironically, it is and was seldom if ever incorporated into European symphonic composition, of which reason I am told is, on one count it tends to ape that of string instruments, in particular the Bb Soprano, which is said seems to mimic the sound of the violin. The others, the Bb Tenor and Eb Alto, is said approximate tones thought peculiar to the trumpet; therewith, the preferred woodwinds used in European symphony typically resolve to those other famed choices, single and double reed, which supposedly bear greater distinctiveness and purity, thus do not foster confusion.

soa como uma flauta transversal

I have to research Ed Bickert!!!! This is a great combo. This is the sound I'm striving to have to accompany a vocalist.

Amazing. Waht album?

Can someone please put the year that recorded this?

His sound is really the sound of the mouthpiece chamber in a MC Gregory alto saxophone mouthpiece, It was a smaller chamber and venturi hole, causing a sweetness in the tone....I'm not trying to take anything away from Paul Desmond, but I have the same mouthpiece and it sounds exactly like this.....

Any one know who guitarist is, and other musicians for this performance?

12:51 Desmond Plays "The Lick"

Who is that woman in the video?

What is unique are his musical ideas, with no Charlie Parker language or influence at all....

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who's the guitarist?

Paul blows a smooth uncomplicated horn! Compared to Bird he is like Kenny G and I'm not talking Garrett!

ya know i walk into supermarkets today to be greeted by what i can only describe as robot voice mumbling disguising crap singing/rapping. i really do wish someone in the retail dept. would get some class like this on.

Two Thumbs down? Really. Lol.

I don't think this is Jim Hall.