Im 16 years old, and when I saw him last night, I was watching Ali Jackson on the drums, then I looked and Wynton was looking right at me and smiled and nodded to me. Very Awesome.
Not only can he play every style of jazz, quote the best players from every style, but he can dominate the classical field as well. Wynton Marsalis is in my opinion not only the greatest living trumpet player, but the greatest trumpet player of all time! The only argument that I could possibly think one could have against that is that Marsalis has not innovated as much as Pops, Dizzy, or Miles. That aside, skill-wise he is the greatest to play the horn and it is an absolute joy to hear him play
+pious Hadebe Most everyone has days when their chops feel great and everything works and in contrast days when everything feels like complete dogshit, if you'll excuse my French.
+Samuel Plays Brass Oh yes, I thought as much. It can be very frustrating. Do you perhaps know what causes that and any tips to keep your chops intact? excuse my English i'm from Africa.
pious Hadebe Anything can, from the weather if you play outside to getting a cut on your lip. I don't know how to keep your chops intact aside from not getting frustrated and using pressure on your lips to hit high notes when those bad days come. Also, your English is very good! Keep it up!
I just love this video. The idea of practicing excellence on the instrument whenever you play, including when warming up, is something that everyone should subscribe to.
Wynton performed at my high school during my senior year in 1989. I was an usher and therefore got to watch the concert for free and also got to meet him backstage. He was incredible in concert and, personally, was a gentleman and a terrific guy. When I asked him to give me advice as an aspiring trumpet player he said, in so many words, that you have to practice, playing the trumpet is difficult even for him.
It’s absolutely amazing how he can play such difficult things that not only most people can’t play, but he plays them with such good of a tone and certainty in his notes, even when he’s only warming up. Wynton is nuts and deserves all the credit given to him.
Even his warming up sounds so effortless it’s almost beyond words. I’m going to see him and Chuck Corea tonight as an early birthday gift for my dad. Since we both love jazz, it should be an awesome treat for my dad’s 70th. Keep up the great work Mr Marsalis and thank you for the enjoyable decades of musical prowess that you have shared with us mortals
Wynton is simply The GOAL of The Trumpet. A Beast... and he is his own originality. He can play with anyone before/after his time. Wynton 1 bad musician not just a trumpeter remember that.
It's amazing to see the thought process in development of solo's.. constructing ideas flowing them together and well just made me want to practice first thing in the morning!
Wow! I love the different sounds he gets out of the horn and the accents he puts in there is really cool too. That is really inspirational....I think I'm going to go 'shed now
He's a fantastic musician. Mouthpiece, horn, whatever! It doesn't matter. Music comes from your heart, mind, experience AND work! Plenty of hard work. That's what's inspiring, not licks, horns, mouthpieces but soul and WORK!
The really awesome thing about this video is that as listeners we can organize what Wynton's approach to warm up is (in this video at least) into broad categories and then apply it to our own playing abilities! Thanks so much for posting this! It helped me organize my own warm up schedule. Or at least think about some different ways to approach that all-important, ever-overlooked, and underrated beast that is the Warm Up!
I agree. And a warm up is meant to find embouchure. He's probably already found his by this point. And then he's Wynton Marsalis - so that means the brain-muscle thing is mastered many times over. Sounds like he's playing extended patterns, arpeggios and other altered patterns that jazz trumpet students practice to help improvisation which makes sense because he's probably about to go on stage. He encompasses and preserves total knowledge of the styles within the jazz idiom. Great clip.
People only dislike this because Wynton can not only warm up better than they can actually play but also because his mouth piece alone cost more than the trumpet they may or may not possess.
This is a very helpful video and inspirational to me as a trumpet player. I've only seen Wynton performing pretty much flawlessly but it's interesting watching Wynton as any other trumpet player doing some warming up, checking the range with alternate fingerings, etc.... I really enjoyed it.
guys he not trying to play perfect he trying to get the whole mind body connect in a completely relaxed way....his fingers are working on their own accord. I think he is doing what Kenny Werner does all the time.
I'm too damn lazy to use mine. I hear the note in my mind then make the note I guess, like whistling. As I told a friend who plays sax; "You gotta know where you're going, or you'll end up somewhere else!". This guy ... it's like watching Leonardo da Vinci doodle, or hearing Bach just messin' around ... a master at play.
That's the dumbest comment anyone has ever written on one of my videos... Wynton LOVES those cats that you mentioned and plays music by them very often and even has put on tribute concerts in honor of them. I've spoken with him and heard him speak live and in interviews and he discusses every style/era of Jazz and mentions every player from Buddy Bolden to Jonathon Batiste. I do agree with you that he is one of the best Jazz performers of our time though! :-D -Austin
@BirdDizCC You may be right about the airy sound, but maybe because he is trying to play some of the high notes softly and I am pretty sure he is styling some of those notes, can't be certain though. In any event, all I do is I just watch listen and learn. This was an excellent video to do just that. I am going to try and take some of what he was doing and incorporate that into practice.
The term 'warm up' is just an academic phrase. The trick is to never cool off. The horn is never off the lip long enough for the mind to lose the memory of the placement of the mouthpiece on mouth.
Yeah. Good, old sound & time. Original and his own notes=> New way by the making of the melodies🎺. The classical studies can be also hear💎. Congratulation🤗❤!
Wynton Marsalis Plays very congratulations manow, tha ta congratulations, your show is improvised, I'm from Brazil, adimiro much their sound, congratulations man, wanted to one day play with tha, apreder some of his jazz;)
@sparkyak213 Smaller mouthpieces WILL help. But the the other comment on your post is also true, that its about a good air flow, tongue placement and what not. But the smaller/shallower mouthpiece DOES help play high notes. It's just not the only thing that helps.
I love the guy in the background messing with his fanny pack, I mean is he not completely oblivious to the virtuoso in the room ?! Hes like, yeah whatevs, I need to straighten my fanny pack, thats what I need to do, Im out!
@MrMrsCorvette Ok. To clarify: Wynton is improvising while throwing in a few good practice techniques like, arpeggios, scales, lip trills, etc. I think what you are referring to is what he's doing while he's still playing in the A-6 mode towards the beginning. A-6 means "A" Minor 6. The minus sign means a minor quality to the chord or altered tension. If I wrote A7-9 that would mean "A" Dominant 7 with a lowered 9th scale degree. Remember, he is improvising when playing his warmup. It's not
@skillfrombrazil C Locrian scale - all the same notes as Db major. At 4:14 he plays a Bb minor idea into a Db major sound (all of which is still really within the key of Db major.)
