Impressions- Part 3 From A Tenor Supreme Coltrane Tribute

[SaxHero]

Beginning at 3:00, the half minute from hell...

[freesolo81]

wie der brecker sie halt alle in die tasche steckt

:)

[teejay5962]

They should've played Giant Steps.

[MrBop2011]

1:11...great line from Liebman (Brecker liked it too I guess...).

[decus69]

Lieberman surely knows where brecker is coming from

[theinvisiblelight]

Jerry Seinfeld on piano, everyone.

[zorrosg]

Brecker plays with consumate ease, and kudos to Redman for playing the most number of actual audible notes, as opposed to squeals and screams. Even when he transitions to the altissimo, and the fast note flurries, he approaches it in a logical way, and one can still hear him trying to make it part of the whole melodic structure of his solo. Very impressive, and I also liked the clarity of his tone (and Brecker too has a very clear sound). Shows you bigger or thicker isn't necessaily better!

[vinnievibes]

WOOOWWWWWIIEEEE!!!!!!!

I really enjoy this. 4 different saxophonists that each have their own style.

Really loved Garzone and Redman especially here. Great time and flow and sound in there playing.

BIG UP for the rythm section indeed!!!!

Greetings from Holland.

V

[lpsling]

They are ALL THE MAN.....dispense with the wimpy Berklee student arm chair critcisms. Could you get up and play alongside any of these guys ? They are all masters in their individual, influenced by John Coltrane, ways. So shut the fuck up and just listen or go away and get your rock/pop records out and rock out to some guys who truly cant play shit. It aint a competition. These are men ! and they are all GIANTS ! See, to play like this takes a lot of hard work...real work ! long years of work!

[chrisferreg]

Finally Jack Dejhonette he did his great part too. But I say too Tks COLTRANE for your gift

[bngrace]

J. Redman - overrated as hell.

[cashdollar]

Saxterbation

[bananapao]

4 kings!!!!

[sadizes]

Oh how i wish Chris POtter was here

That would rock

I would have to give Chris Potter the crown for best tenor alive today...

[hanj31]

@sadizes that would rock I think that chris potter is the best alive today.

[ogdTo]

@sadizes i think too, with chris potter that would fuckin rock...

[motherbrain2000]

brecker just sounds like he's analyzed the whole augmented scaled- multi tonic thing 10 times as much as the others. which may not be a good thing. but you can be sure a transcription of anything he plays is worth that much more

[Manuelvillamizar]

whtf theyre all crazy guys. awsome!!!

[myhandhurts2]

HOLY SHIT O.O im blown away, literally.

[Johnson6708]

Kids.. if you don't understand what your listening to..go to another clip.. this is the big boy table.. They are playing in several tonics at a time.. it's a modal piece so the beauty is based on the complexity.. if you can't hear it..it is about 12 years of practicing above your musical understanding. Btw.. these are 4 of the best tenor players on the planet earth.. add Mintzer, Potter, and Bergonzie and they would be the holy 6.

[motherbrain2000]

lovano and 7. and sometimes when i hear mcaslin i think he may make 8

[bowlingwaldo]

you forget Rollins... personally my favourite of all saxophonists

[ivarsarutjunjans]

and you all forgot charles lloyd guys.. charles is the man!

[MagicRain505]

Hahaha... nice comment. I have to say, though, there are exceptions to every rule. I'm 16, about to turn 17 in January, and I've already come to the understanding of this music, and I feel myself about to jump out of my seat whenever I hear it because of the vibrations the musical sounds send to me. Coltrane is probably at the top of my list of jazz saxophonists--yes, above a lot of the modern musicians, not to say I don't listen to them as well and that they aren't incredible musicians.

[aaronamccoy]

looks like mt. rushmore

[BenPowling]

liebman's face at 1.15.

so good.

[eatingperson]

Dave Liebman is a complete wanker.

[drummied]

Sorry to mention, Jack Dejohnette is superhuman...How long is this and at the end he's still going...full on, full force, totally mega.

Thanks for the post. All great. Such variety.....

Peace.

[edpurcodeveis]

mio Dio!!!

[importantnotes]

What a lovely loveletter to Coltrane! I hope he got youtube in heaven.

[stanpaulartzoot]

dur dur et pourtant que des bons ! je suis incapable d'écouter jusqu'au bout !!!

[MSmithjazz]

gabrielpatricknava has to probably be the most remarkable idiot in youtube history. What amazes me most is how his type looks identical to people who have a clue. Maybe youtube can create a smaller font for these kinds of people. Amazingly, you can visit his favs and within his trash bin he calls music, discover decent Stan Kenton and Tower of Power. Perhaps scientists could do a case study.

[modmusik]

That's nothing. I've seen Rick Astley's "rick-rolled" sites at 20 million Views. We should take a YouTube poll to see who knows any of these sax clowns compared to Rick Astley: Let's see, it would be 50,000,000 "rick-rolled" to 5,000 for any of these sax players. At least all the "chicken-chokers" on this site would know these guys. LMAO

[dyantre]

Oh and to modmusik:

Just LOL.

I hope this is a joke cause that's really funny.

[gabrielpatricknava]

Ha! Ha! And you wonder why the Majority of people think jazz is crap. Just listen to this solo. When I see Coldplay and Maroon 5 getting 15 million hits on YouTube and jazz sites getting only a few thousand, I don't have to wonder about the word "Popular Music". Ugh... This stuff doesn't make me feel good, there are no lyrics and it doesn't get me emotional....well, maybe I want to slap someone on top of their head when I hear this squealing. All my friends think this is trash.

[saxoshout]

I'm a saxophonist (I'm sure like most of the people watching this video) & I like what they did. Yes, at times it sounds like a war zone - IT'S ART!

Music is life & life isn't always pretty. Some of the best artists in history painted stuff I think sucks & looks ugly, but it challenged the norm. If you can look at it from that point of view perhaps you can understand why we dig this aural representation of the world. There's no need to slate it cuz you & your friends don't understand it.

[HiL1KuS09]

first, you don't even know whats going on. so you've just introduced yourself as an ignorant cock. you have to understand what they're doing before you criticize. go listen to your nirvana. music that doesn't require more talent than that of a three legged guinea pig must be pleasing to you because it requires NO THOUGHT.

[danapp90]

The Majority of well trained musicians (or simple music lovers) agree in saying that there are only two kinds of music: good music or bad music. If music gives you good feelings then it's good music, doesn't matter if it's classical, jazz, blues, rock, pop, funk, soul, hip-pop, latin ecc....

[danapp90]

There is of course personal taste, but that's another matter, if you don't like jazz maybe the problem is not jazz but You who doesn't know how to appreciate it. Listen to Ella Fitzgerald singing It Don't Mean A Thing or Benny Goodman doing Sing Sing Sing, if you don't move to that music check your pulse beacause it means your dead!!!!!!!!!!

[kendeeni]

You're not only inarticulate, you don't even realize that all this comment demonstrates is your abject ignorance ...

But, I'm guessing you're about 12 years old, so maybe we can cut you some slack.

[Jazzsaxman1]

Well your friends are uncultured

[sadizes]

@gabrielpatricknava You are the biggest ignorant idiot I have ever come across on youtube... go educate your self, so that people more intelligent won't have be in your dumb ass presence.

Fucking idiot!

[altrane40]

The Selmer Gods are appeased.  You may all rest...

[youbiedoobiedoo]

I love it! This is some history- making stuff here. All it needs now is Steve Grossman, Jerry Bergonzi, Chris Potter and Rick Margitza. MB sounds great. Lieb starts out AMAZING but fades on me, Garzone perhaps plays the best...gosh, they all do and then Josh steals the cake. What if Grossman were there or Bergzoni? Oh, and Chris Potter or Gitza.

[rhumbaphone]

yeah, and eric alexander, mark turner, lew tebakin, and rich perry...but yeah, potter or grossman for sure. that many tenors would sound horrifying, but the solos...oh, the solos.

[Koooose]

it's really funny when they play a solo all together!

[flamingkunai]

he sucks

[Pickpocket86]

just like ur mom...... shes pretty good at to

[idoclarinet]

wow this rhythm section has chops!!!

[jazoff0]

It's fairy clear:  Four well-healthed sporting sax players don't make one Trane... the music-truth doesn't live in this earth, actually. Patethic succession of "giants".

[ianayers]

i like redman the best out of all of them. i think the others guys sounded just like eachother and just like coltrane. redman personalized coltranes style i think and made it his own. although the others sound great none the less.

[gilouseb]

I agree.

[rhumbaphone]

ps i still think that if you're gonna have that many tenors on stage, they should be marching around melding into different formations,

[KeichiTsuchiya]

friggin loser, this aint marching band, punk!

[rhumbaphone]

well, maybe if they had 10 more tenors...maybe then they could march around?

[rhumbaphone]

redman can really play a rhythm section.

[koenmobiel]

I think this is the most fucked up idea since Abraham Lincoln said lets go to the theatre..man wat an awful idea, this tribute..leave Coltrane and his music alone, should't been done more than once! Sorry if I insulted somone, but if I did you need to see a doctor..

[gigglepet]

are you saying it shouldnt have even been played once, or it looses its effect after that first time?

[olivierbarjot]

Finally! someone who agrees that this tribute event is awful!..damn,I was beginning to wonder if anybody out there remembered Coltrane at all...I hate to be supportive of a negative,but thanks,man.

[ilikespying]

if you don't like the idea of a tribute thats one thing but....come on man...you don't have to be so hard on them....they're honoring their musical inspiration by completely ripping on this music. no one should have to leave coltrane's music alone....its too beautiful to let sit.

[Jazzman303]

Those Liebman Brows... Out of Control... I agree japanjazzman.... I don't often recognize him in that light.

[japanjazzman]

Well, I'll comment here that the remarkable thing for me is Joshua, among all these other great players, capturing the Coltrane "spirituality" sound in his solo, the sense of really reaching out, a yearning upwards, going somewhere on a psychic level. That really struck me. The late great Mike Brecker seemed to do his Mike Brecker thing, Liebman and Garzone are terrific players, but Redman captured the moment. Never heard him do that before. I was moved.

[Dakrah]

I completely agree with you sir, Redman stole the spotlight with his absolutely brilliant soloing.

[mambojazz1]

I agree I like Redman as well however noone sounds more like Trane than Brecker

[olivierbarjot]

I love Coltrane's music.I don't like Trane-trippers.

[pniiice]

that was a acknowledgement, not an insult

[LeonLeonheart5422]

If you are talking about olivers comment, he said crap. You don't say the word crap in the same sentence with Coltrane, free playing or modal.

[pniiice]

no, I was referring to that 'condescending' motion' he referred to.

[olivierbarjot]

..Liebman's condescending motion to Redman at his solo's end is baffling.  In the end,it is this kind of crap Trane tripping that makes the average listener hate Coltrane or modal playing or free playing.This really does Jazz a disservice.Go buy an original copy of" Meditations "and blast it to clear this foul stench.

[ClickRec]

>Liebman's condescending motion to

>Redman at his solo's end is baffling.

What are you talking about? He moved his hand a little. Hardly a "condescending motion".

[olivierbarjot]

I call it as I see it.....

[LeonLeonheart5422]

Then I would call you needing an eye check.

[olivierbarjot]

Thanks for your concern.Eyes are fine.God bless.

[coverkill]

rest in peace brecker..

[mambojazz1]

this is one of the baddest things I've ever found on YOUTUBE

[KDFrieds]

Thats Jack Dejohnette, not Brian Blade

[padleynj]

thnx!!!!!!!

[padleynj]

Redman's embrouchure and mouthpiece gave him a different sound from the other masters. the others were playng Link or Morgan mouthpieces ******? anybody know?

[standrick]

well, Josh is using a Slant Sig. Hard Rubber Link, Brecker is using his Guardala custom piece, not sure about Leibman or Garzone...

[Francozen]

I think Liebman is playing a custom metal Link (by Ken Barry, if I don't make a mistake)

[pianoanimal09]

joshua redman's solo took me to euphoria

[JDillaYO]

brian blade.

He was born good.

[bcolborn]

found it, sorry. this shit is nasty

[bcolborn]

where's garzone's solo at??!!!

[tonyfreejazz20]

Yeah...wow...I love the sounds of the wailing saxophone.  This is what I call music.

Awesome.