"Tank!" (Cowboy Bebop OP) Cover LIVE @ Liberty City Anime Con 2018 // J-MUSIC Ensemble 

Erik!

Pat's always an s tier sax player

Woahh crazy seeing one of my favorite pianists here

patrick bartley

Yeah he killed that transcribed solo, alright, lol. (this is the exact same solo, note for note, on the published version of this song)

Him and the drummer were killing it

Facts

As a bassist currently playing tank! I 100% agree, its the heart of the song

Rhythm section represent!!

More like shout out to everyone

jazz should be fun. itd be saddening if people playing jazz were not having fun even when the theme is sad and melancholic.

Thats sooo true

Nah, never enough fun

@@brandonlim3165 Nope, Cool jazz isn't fun. Jazz is Jazz. Fun or sad.

Lim Jia Shiang no he’s not having enough fun

Man came back 2 years later to justify himself. There's really no need; they'll just find something else to whine about.

itll sound amazing either way

Nailed it.

Legend

You felt fucking epic. How am I going to go back to work after that?

The sax at his feet is a tenor, the one he’s playing here is an alto

I can see why you're saying that but not quite lmao it's all good, the different saxes just have different tonal qualities, it's all based on the sound of the piece

do y'all know what a joke is

@@mathisbenard1318 fr lmao

@@kirin8735 First of all, it's a joke. Second, the saxophone at his feet is a tenor (keyed in Bb) whereas the saxophone he's playing is an alto (keyed in Eb, a perfect fifth higher)

That's the difference between amateur college bands into anime and professionally trained musicians that have practiced altissimo notes with a passion for Japanese music.

We're playing this for my highschool jazz band. Our alto sax player is freshman in college and man are his altissimo notes amazing but those notes are kinda crazy. The trumpet notes for trumpet 1 just as insane.

@@sandgaijin that and some jazz bands. Still, gotta love that sexy saxy. =w=

Ye Rim Won make sure to record it and post it.

Crowd goes wild

Dude, pretty sure its a high Ab at the end. My lead trumpet with a lead mouth piece struggles to hit that note sometimes and he's a trumpet god. You can't not play that note and not die. It's high like that the entire time too.

He knew knew he better not fuck up this legendary classic

Ye Rim Won the final note was a concert c (d on trumpet as it’s pitched in Bb), I believe the highest note he played throughout was a double g (concert f). Nonetheless, his playing sounds fantastic.

As a trumpet player, the "eyebrow raise" is code for "Aight here goes nothin."

I think I went to high school with that guy...

Lol this is the comment gold I go searching for when I scroll down.

Not like the bari sax from the 1993 version of Charles Mingus Moanin'

xCalligraph This cover is sexy as hell.

Yeah i think i just came holy shit

my pp hurt

damn, have you ever realised your sons name is the title of this video

@@oliver-04 what are the odds...

@@oliver-04Maybe your son will become a cowboy in the future hahaha

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

JAJAJASSAJA

Under appreciated and usually forgotten yet one of the most important players

@@ilikelimes6648 facts

the drummers are the backbone of the band. you might not notice them much, but they play an important role to the band

Same for the bass player, those guys are lowkey killin it

I think its the bass line that properly slaps

lol, i think at least in the environment i was learning jazz, it was frowned upon to play written solos. you were supposed to improvise and compose your own solo as you played it or people in the band gave you dirty looks

I agree with Everyone said my name was stupid so I changed it.

@@everyonesaidmynamewasstupi3713 Yea I can see what you mean with that. My teacher made us practice the written solos but they were pretty wack. The only 'written'* solo I have appreciated however was this one for it's complexity. *I do feel like Masato Honda improvised this when the studio recording of Tank! first came out.

Its jazz, you suppose to play your own,, not someone elses work

I had 8th grade beginning jazz. Don't ask.

Seen/heard too many people fuck up that part. I don't mind guys improvising during their respective solo sections but the sax guy HAS to nail the said "money notes" at the end or throw the whole performance away.

And from all the live performances of this song I've seen, this is the only one that nails it

I'm not there yet and I know exactly what it's gonna be!

Nine. There are nine people there.

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it'd actually be harder to keep it all together when there's more people.

​@@Fristytoes You're right Hence why you have conductors and such to keep the ensemble in time But it's also harder to sound 'good' or 'full' with less members, so huge props to these guys for achieving that sound with their smaller group

@@Fristytoes Actually when you have more people you can make something sound more "full". If you have a choir of 20 people and 4 or 5 sing out of tune, it will create harmonics within the rest of the voices that will give a more vivid, "live" sound.

CaptainGrue there generally are not conductors in jazz music

No way the gman

I actually dont think the bass player pulled through with this, theres a section I'm pretty sure he doesnt play right

eh, still gonna give credit to all my bass players

i'm pretty sure that's adam neely

@@explosiveturtle266 Adam Nealy is a talented player, and the part I'm referring to is at 2:40. Maybe he does play it right but it just sounds wrong, lol.

@@explosiveturtle266 that aint Adam Neely - he played with JME for the Sakura Matsuri in BBG 2019. Bassist in the video above is Brad Miller (@bradadammiller) - Electric Bass (see description)

Thank you!! 🙏

True

@@JMUSICEnsembleOfficial You guys are the only ones who actually nailed the ending! Been searching for you for a couple of years. :D

Logan Searle was it not an upright bass? I’m pretty sure it was

A lot of other rush this song and don’t play it at the right tempo. The energy in this song is amazing

Thank you!

Gotta agree - I always wince when I see live versions go up - but you guys fuckin crushed it. Kudos especially to your drummer and the sax player who really nailed two very tough parts

@@JMUSICEnsembleOfficial what a good performance of one of my best anime series hopefully could play space lion ufff would be the best Greetings from Peru

The best one I've heard so far!

Clear and sooo precise. Indeed

Indeed

Every once in a while there is a gem 😂

You too?

Ur talking about that blessed algorithm

No truer words

The solo is the same too

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N4-9M9VqR54.html Enjoy. ;-)

DAMN! 😱 This is BAD! COLD BLOODED! I always loved T-Square, but THIS cut right here... I got even more shedding to do. Thank you for contributing to my daily dose of ass-kicking, sir. 😩

Want more ? I could go on for days with them. ;-) Same bad guys, same bad event, but twice the amount of sax. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-alBY-2JExG8.htmlm52s

You played some origional parts and then added your own personal touch. It was Amazing man.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8O5C_7oO878.html

How the hell didn't he faint?

What? Seatbelts?!?

Mr. Personal-ity OH! I MEANT THE MOST SUPERIOR COVER LOL

It's the fact that you just feel that the band has ACTUALLY watched the anime🙌🏾especially the Sax Man! Because out of all sax solos that I've seen, this is the only one that manages to elevate the already awesome track to devine heights!

@@samuelmaingi6365 I'm sure Pat has watched the anime (at least once). You should watch his TwitchTV streams where fans suggest songs for hi to improvise over - it is SO good. Last night he conversed in Japanese with a Japanese fan because most of the fans in the chat are English speaking. Pat is a legend on sax.

**Leo P would like to know your location.**

@@alienworm1999 Lenny picket would like to know Leo ps location

*Any sax player that plays altissimo and has a sax higher than an alto would like to know your location.*

@@rafagxjunglezz still awesome tho or is it not?

@@rafagxjunglezz He didnt say he did it better... Chill the fuck out.

@@rafagxjunglezz no.. he performed the original solo.

@@Snavels ?? Thats not the improtant thing.. its about the player of the solo. And Masato is the real one

@@rafagxjunglezz yes... But he's performing a transcription of the original solo. Meaning he's performing note for note the original solo, not just copying the style. Copying the style would mean he would copy the growls and bends/falls of the original, but would be playing a different solo. But in this video, he's playing the original.

That shit was right down the middle.

u mean sax out of all we mainly here him

So true.. the sax in Tank! is one of those precious few solos that don't get any more original than the original. Deviations inevitably feel like a cop-out and fall short of a true homage. Always great to find an artist who knows when to play it straight.

yeah the problem is everyone start trying to do an improvised solo, and they end up just playing up and down the standard scales, and it becomes meaningless. I'd rather hear the original

It's this solo that feels like... a guitar solo. It has the feeling of running the chords that is so full and so damn raw.

Actually I think it's pretty amazing he did it exactly as the original. It's a HARD solo. And one of those it's so iconic that when you hear a different take you're like "it's cool but it's not like the original".

As a saxophonist in my school band I wish I could sound this good

Can confirm

Can confirm by a mile. During my first year in the middle school band I had the opportunity to play with the highschool marching band and although I did pretty bad for obvious reasons I enjoyed it a lot.

Our band recently got a standing ovation, not just by parents but even by students at our Christmas concert, I guess Christmas jazz just goes hard, but definitely felt like this, even if we didn’t sound like this guys!

They change the pacing of the solo too much which really ruins the momentum of the piece

This comment right here is it!!!!! I feel exactly the same.

The notes were correct but he rushed slightly in the first few notes

Some notes are ghosted that where fully played in the original track. The original score didnt have the sax solo written out either

andri marpaung lets not get ahead of our selves here

@@darius5592 you mean what?,...

​@@togelz I fully agree with you that they put the fantasies in classical, there's no other words to say it. I'm guessing Darius is trying to get at "Put the swag in Jazz " or "Put the melodic in Metal". I kinda agree with the melodic in metal, because of the number of musicians that play, incorporate Metal into the Japanese bluesy(?) melody, but I would guess that metal fans wouldn't want to see it that way. Swag into Jazz... from at least what I know there's not too many Jazz musicians to claim the swag in Jazz quote, although I agree that there are many Japanese music in many different genres that I feel that are heavily influenced by Jazz than the music we have in the western world especially in the modern era. I dunno, that's just my view so... Anyways, whether it be over or under exaggerated, I really like your quote.

@@nettoyante2074 hello there, the reason why i say about Japanese musician puts melodic in Metal because there are a bunch of Japanese metal band / singer which their music are so melodic, such as Jupiter, Unlucky Morpheus, Light Bringer, Tears of tragedy, Baby Metal etc compared to your usual american metal band with your usual open E power chords and / or minor pentatonic scale and the reason why i say Japanese musician puts swag in jazz is because not only because the music is great, but also because through various medias like anime or game, they helps introduce / re-introduce jazz to younger generation and makes it cool for them, makes them want to learn it, i think that's happen not only in jazz, but also classical music as well, i won't surprised at all if a youngster says that he / she started to love Jazz because of Cowboy Bebob or Barracano and love claasical because of Shigatsu wa Kimi no uso (your lie in April)

@@togelz I personally agree with your comment on melodic in Metal, as I am a fan of Black Mages and the great game music that they create with the mix of metal, classical and fantasy. (Not so much of Baby Metal, I love the music, not so much the vocals and the young children dancing.) I think metal has evolved and has had a long lasting popularity within the Japanese music scene, so I really do agree with you. However, that being said, I do think that American and European Metal fans would be angry if we said that Japanese composers have put the melodic in metal, and that's all I wanted to say in the above comment. In terms of Jazz, I think Japan still has a long way to go. So Yes, I agree that the Japanese composers incorporate Jazz and spread them in various medias that younger generations will learn to may be start to love Jazz from. But No, because from what I have seen, majority of the Japanese audience has Jazz, Ska and Bossa Nova confused. (Jazz was very popular during my parent's generations, so I think the older generations are aware of the difference and are actually fans of Jazz, but in terms of the younger generations, we have a long way to go.) There are new animes like Kemono Friends 1 and 2, which the music is composed by an artist who is Jazz influenced, so I'm sure many things are changing in the Japanese music scene on a daily basis. And hopefully one day, we can proudly say that Japanese composers have put the swag in Jazz, but at this point I would sadly have to disagree with you on that part. I think you have the Japanese culture slightly confused, but in terms of classical music, Japanese children have far more knowledge of classical music than children in... let's say North America, because Europe is a whole another story when it comes to classical. But from what I have seen, Japanese people recognize and know the names of various classical compositions, when compared to North Americans. Most Japanese children do not go into classical music through Anime, it's more from the education system and from after school programs. (Piano ranks in the top 3 most popular after school learning for young children) I'm certain that many children would be inspired and learn to love classical music from Animes like Shigatsu wa Kimi no uso, or Nodame Cantabile, but that's not really their entry point to classic music, as most children already have the basics down. Anyways, I apologize for the long response, but I just want you to know that I do love your quote, I just can't fully agree with you on everything that you said. Thanks

Yeah man

EVERY FUCKING TIME

toby is the man!

He is a bit too quiet tho

I’m guessing the crowning achievement of music to play on saxophone is this.

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Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.

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*SAXY

That sounds like a terrifying way to get splinters in the mouth. Never heard of a single reed splitting from play before, I thought only double reeds like oboe and bassoon did that. But anyway, from experience, the highest and lowest notes on alto sax can be really temperamental.

Luis Lopez You're toying with my DREAMS, Luis. 😭 Seriously, thanks! -Pat

I second this! I would go even though I was taking a break from cons until 2020 JUST for y’all!

Especially would love to see shiki no uta.

@@ChronosVthousand Completely agree! Would totally rival my love for the Nujabes cover.

@@samnoodlethang Shiki no Uta is originally by Nujabes. I assume you're thinking of the JBird cover*. The title to that one says "(Nujabes cover)", but they mean that it's a cover of his song, not a cover by him. I could understand the confusion though, if you're not familiar with Nujabes. * ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8PsG3ycLx3o.html

Who's Theme!!!!! That Trumpet would do wonders!

nicodrums Thank you so much! We've been trying to get this one up for at least 4 years now lol 😃

yikes, really?? That's a shame lmao

Well, this guy clearly was running out of chops, likely before this song started

@@davidricart1395 long gigs are tough for us leads

@@-5249 high tenors in a Cappella groups feel the same

They were there, the mic just barely picked em up

adelatuna casual bongos

That’s the only thing you can say in response to this majestic performance? For shame

Tbey turned into drums

Is that a VA-11 HALL-A profile pic I see?

Anything can be played on any instrument if you do it right

Everyone on that stage seemed to pour their very hearts and souls into this cover.

Wouldn't that be a dream! We need more people like you helping to spread the word! 🙏🙌

ComicCon pls