I wonder what made his tone so smooth, like butter. Maybe it was his secret. I can't say he made it look easy. He appears to me to be concentrating and working very hard with his mouth. His cheeks are always blown up. Not all saxophonists do that so much.
Yeah, Getz was one of the best, of the post-WW2 tenor players! … To be honest, though, his true inspiration, and better, was the melodic genius of Lester Young, IMO.
He makes it sound soooooo easy , unrivaled technique , but in reality what he does is soooooo hard. Truly a naturally gifted musical god. Unmatched.. Thx for sharing..
Trane said that to kind! Back in those everyone had their own. Not like today where everybody try to copy sound. Alto players try to sound Like Sanborn, or G. Albright. Nobody try to sound. Look up what Stan said about Trane, Dexter, Rollins. There was no competition. Back then they copy notes not sound.
@@tomsmith9479 No he did not. Nowhere I found it well-reported. With a name of who reported it, to whom, the place where it happened, and when. Only wishful hearsays.
J'assimile souvent la musique à une nourriture (spirituelle) ou à un bon vin, mais là c'est tellement aérien et léger que c'est un parfum que l'on respire, en fermant les yeux et en s'imaginant au bord de la mer ou dans une forêt de pins odorants
Thanks for the video. I don't understand if there's only 600 l i k e s with so many views. It must clearly be the commercial in the middle of your show. Try to prevent them from putting ads in the middle of your videos I'm in the middle of an ad now. I'm trying to escape Reality by listening and watching music but the ads in the middle of the performance. Make me change my Channel you watch something without ads.
Listening to Stan's phrasing is like being near the ocean! The camera operators really captured some intense expressions on the faces of the rhythm section. Kenny's opening did not do it for me....but his solo was righteous!
would it kill people to state the melody enough to establish it firmly....once....then start playing their variations? The audience and market for Jazz continues to shrink. Call it blasphemy - but too many Jazz players long ago began playing to impress each other with blinding blizzards of notes...that's why it got harder and harder for them to see paychecks. Just sayin' ...
I know what you are saying, and it's one thing to have this complaint about 20-30 year old musicians, but this is Stan Getz! He had played this song when it was written, over 50 years prior! At this point he was a legend, and everyone is there to see Stan Getz specifically, they don't want him to play it as written, they want him to his play music at his discretion.
joejohnson043 Point taken, and it's a fair one. I didn't mean to sound like I want to censor or restrict players - just that a bit more of a lean in the direction I mentioned may have kept Jazz, generally, more accessible and welcoming to wider audiences. I love Coltrane, for example, but a non-musician friend who's actually quite bright has said of it all: "I try - but after awhile I start to feel like I'm listening to a pothead practicing how fast he can play his scales!" I don't feel that way, obviously, but perception is reality, Eh? Thanks for your time!
pyannaguy this is not Real Book. He does play the head, just that he weaves it in in an embellishes and improvised manner which is a hell of a lot more interesting musically to both him and to a listener like me than just playing the head straight. As joejohnson says, this song is an old standard and it is boring to play it like it were something no body has ever heard. I think anyone who appreciates jazz enough to get into it can appreciate this as well as playing it yet again as head, bridge, solo, head and out. I know I sure do, both in listening and in playing standards in my group.
pyannaguy Not sure what you are talking about. Getz plays the head of the song before starting his improvisation. Further, Getz was the last person in jazz who played to "impress" others. Getz is swinging beautifully here. This is jazz at its best.
