You never saw Ray Charles play bebop influenced by Charlie Parker 

Try Hermeto Pascoal.

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Bonjour. Je suis surpris de voir Ray Charles jouer du saxophone. Et pourtant, je l'écoute depuis la fin des années 60. Super découverte. 👍🎶🥂

Some not musically educated person gave me a dislike when I said "try Hermeto Pascoal", above. Let me clarify just one point: Hermeto Pascoal is one of most genial musicians who was ever born in Brazil. In the World, as well, without any doubts. Beetween his friends were Miles Davis and Paco de Lucia, and many others. His real pitch gave him the ability to learn any musical instrument. His main are acordion, piano and acoustic guitar. But he play any. Soprano Sax, Tenor Sax. For example. Try the album "Sax e aplausos", recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival. Yea, I say again, try Hermeto Pascoal. And if you dislike it, whatever. Bye!

Flea from rhcp plays trumpet

Nice Dad joke! ✋️

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Well well well. If it isn't the top comment 🙋‍♂️

a great amount of bad taste...

Me neither!!!

I thought it was going to be a hoax, and then I heard the sax start to sing in Ray's voice.

Yes!! I thought the same thing!!

Well idk they say you should sing while playing sax so I guess it isn't that wild as your using similar techniques. Although I think lots of modern singers won't be able to play like this, ha :p

@@thomasbrown3325 0:26-0:29 I see what you’re talking about🙌🏾

Funny I was hearing/thinking the same exact thing! It does It does

Name most of the saxophonists he sounded better than.

@@skineyemin4276 he’s talking generally about most who pick up the instrument, not professional artists

Same!

Exactly, he had is own voice with a lot of tasty blues in there like we know his singing and piano playing. And these few subtle bird quotes fit in do nicely

i don't know anything about embrouchure/sax tone but to my ear his time is quite off. sounds like he is trying to catch up. but then maybe that was his intention, playing behind the beat...

@@literallyanythingelse it's his articulation. His technique isn't quite there and it's not clean. That's what you're hearing.

Agreed. No wasted notes, his phrasing is completely on point. Always has relevance. Tone wasn’t perfect, but he wasn’t a full time saxophonist. He certainly had the chops to go that route.

@@undeadJazz Which is exactly what the uploader is writing in the video description. Underdeveloped embouchure but serious bebop skills.

I thought it was a very nice solo with great feeling. Maybe he was comparing to Charlie Parker? That will make a lot of us sound underdeveloped...I rather hear somebody with great feeling then with brilliant technique any day of the week.

Whenever he had the chance, Ray often reached down and pulled out his alto!

Wowwww that's amazing!! I'm inspired by this video🎵 thanks for sharing the other instruments he played!🤯

Piano and organ are the same instrument. And if you can play one you can play all with enough practice to get the muscle memory down.

@@ceelothatmane9421 it's like telling a guitar player: you have two guitars, one plays normal but the other... no matter how hard you hit it it always plays at the same volume unless you use a volume pedal, oh and by the way you have to play music with your feet too.

@@jampoles if you're proficient in piano then you're only adding a few more steps. Just get the muscle memory down. I mean I am a guitarist, and an expression pedal is a must for me. I had to learn how to control my wah instead of using autowah. It's not as difficult as playing organ bass pedals, but it's only a few more steps. Drummers have to use all their limbs and practice limb isolation. If a drummer learned piano he could easily pick up organ. You gotta thinkin terms of neurochemistry and brain connections. What is easiest to learn? Drums, and guitar. Learn drums, take that rhythm and learn guitar. Take that theory and rhythm and now it's easier to learn piano. Then you learn organ from learning drums, piano, and guitar. This is how you hack your brain to learn instruments

He would also ride a motorbike

I just found your channel. I love that old Big Band Music. be it Classical Music, or Be-bop/Big Bands like Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Glen Miller, and so MANY others. LONG before my time. but they jammed back in the 30's, and 40's. those Big Band Leaders were Movie Stars of the Music Business back then. I LOVE watching ALL those old videos here on RU-vid.

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That’s like saying Prince on piano sounds like Keith Jarrett… Come on ,brother Ray on Sax sounds great, but don’t compare him on saxophone to Masters …it’s embarrassing… I mean if you know anything about jazz and the great saxophonists that came along it’s just an embarrassing comparison. And it’s not in my opinion…like comparing Michael in Baseball to Willie Mays…cmon

I know he played in the movie " the blues brothers" , 1980 ...

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@@skineyemin4276 milky

That’s like sayin Beethoven Was just doing that Sonata Allegro thing