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  • well this was corny and slick

  • These two always make some great music when they're together. Some one asked who the other musicians are in the group. The guitar player is Hiram Bullock. He unfortunately passed away not too long ago. The drummer I believe is Omar Hakim. The bass, percussionist, and piano player I don't remember. I recognize them all but forgot their names. Guess I'm gettin' old. I feel bad I don't remember their names.

  • who is the bass player? and who is the other saxofonist?

  • @camarondelapeninsula The other saxophonist is David Sanborn. They've collaborated several times in the past. They're always a pleasure to hear together. Two different styles coming together to make some great music.

  • Wow

    

  • holy smokes! everything about this was sooo tight. that cadenza... OOHHH MAAANN

  • They called him Prez for a reason.

  • Holy Smokes ! I've seen Phil Woods live a couple of times but I'm still blown away by this.

  • 5:30 go Bernstein! XP

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  • this is so tight!

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  • @loveyourach Phil Woods is great but he didn't school Sanborn - he was just vibing him. Listen to him make fun of Sanborn's solo at the start of his own. The jazz police never give Sanborn the credit he deserves - he may not have the vocab of a Charlie Parker or Sonny Stitt, but the brother's playing is funky and legit as hell and he's got his own voice, something you can't say about most Bird imitators.

  • Is this the same Phil Woods that recorded with Neil Hefti back in the early '60's?

    Can it be?? Can't be more than one who plays like this. I'm 68 and went nutso over Phil Woods' playing in around 1962. He's doin' something right!

  • Nothing but props to both guys here. Willow and All Blues just go so well together. I kinda liked David's solo more than Phil, but regardless, both are monster players. Also, props to the drummer, he laid down some sick stuff right there.

  • who would you rather teach you technical saxophone skills?

    K then stfu.

  • @FreddyBear4u2hav yeah i know that lol but what is he doing exactly is it a gliss or something?

  • overdose of heroin is better than overdose of ego

  • what is that thing that woods does at 2:18-2:24? is it a gliss? how do you do it?

  • @twitchtap it's called altissimo

  • Phil is good, but he acts like a clown here.

  • @luisitosax Acts like a clown? That's called a sense of humor. The ability to have fun with a solo is part of Woods genius and part of what makes REAL jazz so great.

  • @ScottDT1 uhhmm..maybe but I see he was just watching what Dave was playing ..and when he start making his solo, he imitate the altissimo and the body movement of Dave.Not an ethic issue IMHO.

  • @luisitosax Phil is bebop player. Part of the tradition is "cutting" where you try to outdo the other players. Part of that is imitating a bit of what they just played. It is a little poke that says "I can do that too" and is usually done in good humor. Watch or listen to a lot of bebop or blues guitar jams and you will see it all the time.

  • This is why everybody loves Phil.

    Marvelous.

    xF - Rio de Janeiro

  • total ripoff of all blues? yes. same key, same feel, same basic chord progression. i would say i just lost a lot of respect for phil woods, but david sanborn is there, so.....

  • @veeecter Well, actually, All Blues is a minor blues in 6/8. All he did was combine the harmony line of All Blues and combine it with the ballad, Willow Weep for Me. It's a completely different spin on both of those standards. FYI, it may be a similar progression, but the blues and jazz blues has been done a few million times over and I doubt that will change lol.

  • @veeecter

    Did you hear the arrangement of changes on the bridge???

    That's worth hearing a tribute to All Blues in the 'A' sections.

  • love the last note

  • A whole ton of reverb, but still a superb video.

  • This was broadcast on american TV ?!!!! Holy smokes! Wow. How times (and hairstyles) have changed!! Great groove, great blowing. Thanks for posting this.

  • @tarkovsky2000

    Yeah, now we have 500 channels and can't find any show that would dare to have a great jazz musician (that most people would not even know) on. No imagination, or risk taking in the TV business now.

  • How's my hair? Is it cool like Dave's?

  • I wish he'd give credit to Miles Davis for this :(

  • shit! phil woods swings like crazy!!!

  • holy mullet @ 0:39

  • so nice & so cool!!!

  • Mr. Woods is a giant. Wow. I hope the fire department was nearby....

  • never heard this song, it has same intro as all blues, but it is earlier

  • this is asome man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 2 MASTER musicians! Thanks for posting!

  • phil's absolute love of selmer's apparently was blown to pieces by more money lol. cat used balanced tones since he was in short pants, obviously eventually switching to those mid 50's VI's that he did beautiful work on for like 3 and a half decades. i'm sure the last time he puts his horn on his stand (i hope it's not for another 100 years but i'm pretty sure he's been off and on oxygen for a couple years now) it'll have a meyer brothers mouthpiece on it.

  • triple meter

  • i had the great pleasure of meeting phil woods when i saw him a few years ago in new england ..into his late seventees he is still amazing ..G-d bless phil hope he's around another 78

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  • It is always good to see the greats. Nice vid.

  • Comments?

  • Woods > Sanborn

  • excellent!

  • my god fathers(dad) hes great.

  • cool

  • wat kinda sax does he use? Anyone know his set up?

  • Phil Woods uses a Yamaha Custom Z with a Meyer Bros. 5M. (Though in this video he's playing a Selmer Mark VI.)

  • Man he's probably the best boper ever!!!!

  • I love the part at 1:17 where phil woods starts bending up to the 5 and then decides, no, actually I'm going back down. So good....

  • David Sanborn is an amazing saxophonist and i love his tone and everything!

    BUT WOW Charlie Parker himself would have been proud to listen to what Phil Woods does in this song! AMAZING!

  • this is what separates the man from the boys

  • Holy crap.....love David Sanborn... but he just got OWNED!!!!!!!!!

  • they're composition towards the original song is pretty bad haha

  • una mierda... suena pal orto

  • Brilliantly inspiring music! Marvellous! 5/5 Woods is the best!

  • Same tune as " All Blues' by Miles Davis

  • have you ever heard all blues? I guess the piano part is similar but this is far from Davis

  • have you?

    clearly this is a less-than-subtle tribute to davis by borrowing the horn backgrounds.

  • As a matter of fact yes, I have heard of all blues. I wasn't saying there was no similarities. I was just contradicting the opinion that this is the 'Same tune' as all. It most certainly isn't. I agree that it's similar, but there's just something about Miles Davis that makes it...well, Miles Davis really.

  • Haha man, this is so obviously derived from All Blues. Horn lines, piano lines, bassline and progression. All pretty much the same.

  • To my ear it was a concert D, so his B, but I've been wrong before.

  • haha "to my ear", you cam see the fingers lol

  • its a low C#. hahahaha and that is some brutally funny shit! havent laughed so hard in lonnngggg while hahaha.

    sounds like a foghorn or something hahaha

  • hahaha, i love when he busts out the low B (or Bb?) after killing that high fermata. Made me #3 in my pants.

  • wtf...lmfao

  • This was such a great show!!! They really need to bring something like this back. A show without flashy, commercial crap... Just real musicians doing what they do best!

  • Truth! This music is just amazing.

  • i wish phil woods would play more bebop and less crowd pleasers

  • I love when Phil plays he lets the other player set the pace for good his solo will be. What I am trying to say is he will play just good enough until he is pushed and then he will rip the keys off the horn.

    Killin 5 stars!

  • Damn, so much talent.

  • god, did people really think these mullets and mad scientist hair cuts looked good back in the 80s?

  • You had to be there.

  • drummer looks like could be Omar Hakim

  • >> drummer looks like could be Omar Hakim

    It is.

  • I'm sorry but..... David Sanborn and Pat Metheney both need haircuts. Period.

  • Lol.

  • hahahaha all blues!!!!

    quotin that shit yo...nice

  • Can anyone tell me who's playing other than woods and sanborn? Thanks!

  • Marcus Miller on bass

  • The bassist is not Marcus Miller. I think he's Tom Barney. The percussionist is Don Alias. The guitarist is Hiram Bullock.

  • God I love Phil Woods

  • Wow !!!! look at daves hair !!!! I miss this show, it use to come sunday nights. They should bring it back.

  • thank god some one talking sence

  • this is all blues by miles

  • nice version....both are great players...

  • Who cares what reeds they use? All that shit evolves during a career of playing. As your chops get stronger, you will change up reeds. Everyone that play professionally has their own evolution of artistic thought. Worry about yourself, and take in as much as you can from records, and teachers.

  • I hear ya man ! I've played on both Lavoz and Rico reeds and I like the Rico's. I think once you've reached the level that these guy at at it dosent matter !!! Remember - Bird played on a lot of crappy horns (pawn shop specials) and still played great !! ya dig !!!

  • Thats a pretty inacurate comment quinsanity Phil plays on Lavoz reeds and has ever since he saw Cannonball live along time back.

  • He uses Vandoren V16s #3. He has ever since they first came out.

  • phil rips the piss out of the end of sanborns solo at 2:17

  • Phil definitely has more "bop vocabulary" then Dave. But to say Phil rips the piss out of the end of Dave's solo is a bit exaggerant. Phil basically started where Dave left off. It's NOT a competition, those days in jazz are way over. If you don't see that your looking at the music at the wrong way.

  • @quinsanity True.

  • I think Phil is playing an early Mark VI with an old Meyer 5M.

  • Now he is playing a Yamaha 82-Z with his New York Meyer 5 and Lavoz 2 Hard reeds

  • Yes, you are correct. He now endorses Yamaha instruments and plays an 82Z with no lacquer. I heard him live at Sweet Basil in NY in June 1990 and he was playing a vintage MarkVI then.

  • Wish i had 1 of those old fashioned Meyers before all Meyers went to crap

  • You can try eBay, but you will have to pay a small fortune!

  • Yea those old Meyers were made out of 100% dental rubber, unlike the mixed material crap current ones are made out of

  • try getting a richie cole signature meyer (this is an exact copy internally of his vintage NY meyer) then have it refaced by someone and it is likely to play very well - perhaps not quite a genuine NY meyer but fairly close and a few hundred dollars cheaper.

  • I never liked to Richie Cole Meyer. Too hard to control for me. During the late 90s, Meyer made the NY Limited edition. They were in the $200s-300s. I have one and those are A LOT better than the regular meyers.

  • Both Phil and Dave play V16 reeds.

  • Sanborn now plays on Javas

  • Nope! He uses V16s #3. He used to use La Voz mediums before the V16s came out.

  • Dr. Emmitt Brown called. He wants his hair back.

  • Love that quote of "I feel pretty" from West Side Story at 5:28 after 2 quotes that I can't quite place. Plus Phill plays like a MoFo on this, and those Bb honks and the altissimo on the outchorus are just great. And Max Roach!!!!!!!!

  • I think the quote right before that is from "It Might As Well Be Spring" by Rodgers and Hammerstein: "I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm . . ." Nice "willow" theme!

  • what a fucking bummer..they pulled this video. Why?????

  • is it just me, or does sanborn's sound seem darker than usual? i dont really listen to him that much at all, but im just wondering if he cooled his sound down to fit the jazz style, rather than smooth jazz like he normally plays.

  • when he plays straight ahead or standards he just controls his edge. His Cross over and funk stuff is really bright. Dukoffs are good mouthpieces if you can control them. If not they will kill everyone in the room. I have one and I'm happy with it.

  • if you're a Meyer fan (over the Dukoff's) - try the SR Tech range - they're awesome! (especially with Alexander DC Superial reeds). I play an SR Tech Pro 115 and it screams.......and cries like a baby when you want it to.

    BTW - Woodsy can't hold a candle to Bird!!!...Stitt maybe could, and even Liebman could surpass - but Phil Woods?....oh pu-leeze - just a wannabe.

  • Phil Woods was NEVER a bird wannabe. Phil Woods has a better sound than Bird. Bird was never known for his sound.

  • @KlassyKamikaze WHAT?!

  • It's true. Bird as innovative and amazing as he was, did not have the best sound. Instead of a gorgeous sound like Johnny Hodges and even Phil Woods, Bird has a more brittle sound.

  • @KlassyKamikaze ahh git aff, ye bloody banger! bird with strings?

  • I'll agree with you on that. But that was an exception. He was off drugs and he had studied music in Paris before recording that album.

  • @KlassyKamikaze haha yeah i guess so. you have to admit though, much of the way modern saxophonists sound, including woods, is based off bird's sound

  • Not so much sound, more Bird's technique and advanced approach to jazz. Phil Woods and Cannonball Adderley listened more to Johnny Hodges and Benny Carter for sound, but to Bird for ideas.

  • @KlassyKamikaze

    uhh that wasnt smart at all.

  • @KlassyKamikaze Correct, Bird was known for his rip-tearing through arpeggios. He found that he could arpeggiate through the "cycle". Most music (especially jazz) has a harmonic structure that follows the cycle 4th/5ths. Bird found that forming arpeggios is easy if you think in intervals (i.e. each 3rd note of a scale is a chord tone). If you listen to any Bird solo, you can hear him going through the cycle and jumping in 3rds. Phil does it here and there, but adds his own touch to it.

  • i definitely agree with tone i think phil and parker styles are different

  • @KlassyKamikaze.. musician play what charlie parker created.. this include phil woods... so you can´t compare the old master with his child...there`s no sense on that....they sound different.. but there´s not a better sound... wood´s is bright.. parker´s is mid-dark.

  • @MrParangaricutirimi WTF? Phil Woods with Cannonball Adderley had one of the darkest alto sounds EVER! Parker, himself, as well as many respected jazz journalists/critics have identified his sound as a more brittle and edgy sound, especially compared to the other altoists during the 40s and 50s such as Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Dorsey, and Benny Carter.

  • saxgroovez, dont be so quick to say that. sanborn's sound in an acquired taste. i prefer the more cannonball/phil woods sound personally.

  • q loco toca phill woods!

  • Willow Weep for Me over All Blues.

    Killer

  • I caught this show a few times back in the late eighties. Now THAT is what we need: A showcase for such COOL music as this! Most everything on TV now is COMMERCIAL CRAP! VIVA JAZZ!!!!

  • Is this available on cd?

  • Phils current setup,heath93 is a old style sandblasted yamaha 82-z, a meyer 5m new york model mouthpiece, a normal meyer lig, and La Voz 3 Medium reeds.......

  • My favorite part about this video is Sanborn's hair!

  • the white cannonball

  • Anybody knows which is Phil's setup?

  • Well, here in this show Phil is playing on a Selmer series 80 and a Meyer N.Y 7. But Phil now is playing on a Yamaha Custom EX and the same mouthpiece.

  • A Meyer 7? it is an open mpc, about 0.081" I think . I want to try a 6 maybe. Thanks for the info

  • No problem.

  • isnt it a VI?? looks very much like a VI front F key to me, didnt the 80s have a spatula sort of thing and the VIs a pearl

  • lol...sorry to say...but its a Yamaha 82-Z....not the EX....with his standard ligature...and its a Meyer New York 5.....back then Meyers tip opening for 5 is the equivelent of the modern day Meyers 7

  • Phil plays a NY Meyer 5 with V16 #3s and a Yamaha Z, NOT a Custom EX.

  • Two badass saxers, doin' what they do best. Nice altissimo transition...and Phil got a bit bluesy at the end there. awesome stuff.

  • lol listen to phill woods make fun of sanborns squeeling funny shit PHILL WOODS WINS

  • Does anybody wins in music??? I didn´t know music is a kind of SPORT!

  • Unfortunately in todays pop culture. Music isn't really a "culture" like jazz, blues, soul, funk, even latin. That's CULTURE not just music and image. Look at american idol... its image. it has no real roots or soul. I my opinion.

  • All Blues + willow weep for me?

  • Don't you love seeing two masters at work? What a treasure! I echo "emtube"'s appreciation. "Thanks for uploading this" for all of us to enjoy.

  • Why the neck of Sanborn's sax look so straight?

  • ...because it's an alto neck.

  • I know it is an alto neck. I mean in comparison to Phil's alto neck.

  • its because he has his sax so high on his strap so it makes that illusion.

  • Why can't I find the song "Willow" by Paul McCandless it's in 7 a great song in the All New Real Jazz Book 2 if anyone has any idea please help me

  • geant! deux altissimo!! quel son!!

  • Seems David Sanborn got "spanked" on his own show.Back to the WOODShed.

  • Great clip. It was fun to hear this again. You know that Phil love David, don't you?

  • two monsters of sax! two terrific tunes makers!

  • Love the hair

  • I've always said Sanborn was a brotha and now with this new found video proof (the afro) I can no longer be disputed. These earlier years of Sanborn played a huge role in my style. Sanborn for president!!!

  • LOL . . .I totally agree! I heard Sanborn's music long before I knew what he looked like and just knew he was a brotha. Playing like he does, how could he not be? Imagine my surprise to find out otherwise. It's that St. Louis blues from the 50s/60s that he grew up with that shaped his phenomenally soulful sound.

  • They play together like a younger and older photo of the same man superimposed -- phenomenal!

    Thanks for uploading this.

  • This is my first time hearing this done by them and I love it. They are amazing together. This is a great song

  • Gazing into Phil's eyes, David says "Let's do it." hahahaha

  • lol did any1 else catch em quote "I feel Pretty" from West Side Story towards the end? cool video.

  • Lovely! :D

  • you know where "all blues" came from?--"Willow Weep for Me!" many jazz standards and be-bop "borrowed" the chord progressions from dixieland and showtunes from the early 1900's to the 1940's

  • you are joking, or trolling right?

  • suberbe phil woodos et david samborn

  • What a shame that Sanborn's TV show didn't last longer.Where,before or after could you see anything like this on live TV.Great to see Sanborn stretching like this and Phil-what can you say?Great stuff.

  • It's a natural point of departure for Phil's solo since that's were Sanborn ended. Phil has an affinity for Sanborn among modern players as in 1. he's playing with him, and 2. he once was quoted as saying about Sanborn..." I hope he leaves some soul for the rest of us!"

  • Phil Woods was guest artist at UNT One O'clock concert and After the sax professor got done playing his solo phil would carry on the previous solo almost, its really old skool i loved it

  • Was it just me or was Phil Woods making fun of Sanborn when he did his intro for his solo?

  • Yeah. I think he was making fun of him. I like to play like that; screaming. I listened to too many guitar solos in the 70's.