Maybe it's because of the insomnia, but I'm constantly thinking, "Screw electric guitar and heavy rock, I'm getting myself a saxophone even if that includes selling my mouth on Sunset Strip".
Listen, man, I agree with you that Michael Brecker and Bob Mintzer are very good sax players... but that doesn't mean she's not.
Of course, when you compare a lot of people that are pretty good to the top saxophone players in the world... they wouldn't be THAT good... but you can't compare EVERYBODY to the greatest... at least not every sax player you see on youtube because there are so many :-)
Just the first and best example I could come up with of greatness on the very same tune - a jam classic mostly performed by players with great love for rhythmic music, but with little knowledge of jazz. Just like this. Some prefer to call it whimp-ass jazz-funk noodling.
To me, this video exemplifies everything that's wrong with music culture today.
Or maybe they're not taking themselves too seriously, and they're just having fun playing music, and actually letting people enjoy jazz rather than keeping it as an in club. This isn't jazz. It's not funk. Its music... and its fun
Man Kaori is awesome. I'm not the biggest fan of saxophonists (except for the ones that are my friends) but the way she plays is just irresistible! and lol at the keyboardist with the cornrows, but he (she?) is awesome anyway.
huhu... wanna go back playing even am not that good..... too bad.... saxophones are so damn pricey....
larrenefranciscomesa 6 months ago
i like it alot
xxXemokittycatsXxx 9 months ago
@xxXemokittycatsXxx no sorry i love this song
xxXemokittycatsXxx 9 months ago
This is a huge very nice cover of "The Chicken" by jaco pastorius, awesome!
JulianLuquelli 11 months ago 3
7 dudes are chickens
VictorArayaT 11 months ago
Awesome!!!
UBETTASING 11 months ago
OMG she's cute!! I sooo miss Japan!
teslaphysics 1 year ago
OMG she's cute!! I sooo miss Japan! Or Korea.
teslaphysics 1 year ago
OMG she's cute!! I sooo miss Japan!
teslaphysics 1 year ago
i love it! ^_^
gherie2 1 year ago
Maybe it's because of the insomnia, but I'm constantly thinking, "Screw electric guitar and heavy rock, I'm getting myself a saxophone even if that includes selling my mouth on Sunset Strip".
H057IL3 1 year ago
It is indeed an alto sax and not a tenor. It just looks so BIG in her little hands:)
EyeSausage 1 year ago
deremou de mais no suigue
estou ligado na velocidade
MrMarcelocabelodosax 1 year ago
deremou de mais no suigue
MrMarcelocabelodosax 1 year ago
FUCK U ALL
wensty09 1 year ago
Kaori is a great saxophonist, bad dancer, and horrible dresser.
genehuk 1 year ago
I like hearing this while drawing, is that good?
CodyPham98 1 year ago
1:05s just perfect match !!!
ajhk92 1 year ago
Man, this band is just perfect....
ajhk92 1 year ago
the alto looks giant compared to her. she's got some chops, but everyone else blows. hard.
XfreeXskierX31X 1 year ago
now..i can sayq thass a baaaad bitch!!!
harlemshonii 1 year ago
god kaori is dancing! so hot!
igotalovestoned 1 year ago
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WTF!!! terrible versioN!!!!! she crap on this song
32188114 1 year ago
galing!
blueadam88 1 year ago
lol we played this in high school! love this song
silversoupp 1 year ago
too fast
funkrock94 1 year ago
waooooooo buenicimo
correcaminocastro 1 year ago
Kaori !!! pls try get u and your band over to the edinburgh festival next year you would all go down very very very well
MOSSGREEN141 2 years ago
7:08-7:10... take my breath away XD
kcirned03 2 years ago
Djeez. There I was waiting in great anticipation for some awesome musical snippet, only to find a picture of a (pretty) girl, lol.
Sjekster 2 years ago
I think its to fast :/
Bice404 2 years ago 2
orgasm in my ears
t3ddyshome 2 years ago
xDDDDD
punchas19 2 years ago
@t3ddyshome
hahaha i got the second orgsm now Xd kaori is amazing!
YueSir 1 year ago
wow... would be much better if listening live...
Bossiiiii 2 years ago
How i wish i could jam like this someday
JoshuaVergara2777 2 years ago
FUSION
JoshuaVergara2777 2 years ago
Impresionante.
kes7219 2 years ago
the tempo is really fast!!! but wow...!!!
KaiDune 2 years ago
napakaganda ng bokalista sana ganyan syota ko... hahah!!! lolz
jamhes 2 years ago
d nmn bokalista yan c kaori
igotalovestoned 2 years ago
ulol
palku52 2 years ago
She looked most beautiful.
I believe this video is several years old...
How old is she in this video, and now in 2009 ?
hspnew 2 years ago
Kaori and her band are just brilliant. I can't get enough of them.
aartman01 2 years ago
El Féretro en bajo
OscarPetersonFan 2 years ago
Wow! Never heard Kobayashi-san before, but WOW!
projectmolcos 2 years ago
Wow..her techniques have been improved a lot.
panajazz 3 years ago
DAMN i love the lick at 2:10. you can tell she's into bebop at heart haha
evangelionxgen 3 years ago
DAMN SHES A REAL STAR !!!!!
st1anley 3 years ago
shes a real jazzer
ibos222 3 years ago
Play some fusia'!
bahalvorsen 3 years ago
kaori..please come to java jazz fest.
please..please..please.... hehehe
scilladitha 3 years ago
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People, check Jaco Pastorius - The Birthday Concert. With Michael Brecker and Bob Mintzer. Now there's sax playing for you!
It's an amazing world, 's just too bad so many people don't know TRUE greatness.
bahalvorsen 3 years ago
Listen, man, I agree with you that Michael Brecker and Bob Mintzer are very good sax players... but that doesn't mean she's not.
Of course, when you compare a lot of people that are pretty good to the top saxophone players in the world... they wouldn't be THAT good... but you can't compare EVERYBODY to the greatest... at least not every sax player you see on youtube because there are so many :-)
NeilKalman 3 years ago
Just the first and best example I could come up with of greatness on the very same tune - a jam classic mostly performed by players with great love for rhythmic music, but with little knowledge of jazz. Just like this. Some prefer to call it whimp-ass jazz-funk noodling.
To me, this video exemplifies everything that's wrong with music culture today.
bahalvorsen 3 years ago
Or maybe they're not taking themselves too seriously, and they're just having fun playing music, and actually letting people enjoy jazz rather than keeping it as an in club. This isn't jazz. It's not funk. Its music... and its fun
joeljjison 2 years ago 2
why can't you just appreciate music without criticizing others? Those guys are great but this girl definitely has her own merits as a sax player
limtot 3 years ago
She is really good technically. but her music seems very feeling-less. if thats a word.
MusiciansDelight 3 years ago
worst vid ive seen of her - love this song though - weckl does it better
effrum12345 3 years ago
Good? She's got a lot of problems on instrument,
her tecnique would be good just for a 2 nd year student.
pandadance 3 years ago
bro who gives a fuck about technique shes fuking good lets see you pull something like that out of your ass
asianpom 3 years ago
Remind us all what the hell you know? I've been playing for 16 years and recognize that she has incredible technique and unusual power.
vaughndrix 3 years ago
Great band!
Please come to Java Jazz Festival!!!
ponkster828 3 years ago
This is just a completely different song .. !!
HucSao 3 years ago
In my opinion, not good played Chicken, but the girl with sax is really good,
Bass suxx
DJmanasek0 3 years ago
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japanease cant play jazz...
ShtotaKoya 3 years ago
the sax players good,the rest of the band is looser than paris hilton on meth
05rsx 3 years ago
keyboard is a gangsta
sushlet 3 years ago
keyboard is a gangsta
sushlet 3 years ago
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They totally butcher this tune. It's supposed to have a relaxed, funky groove. This is like nails on a chalkboard!
janelso33 4 years ago
まさにそうですね!
generalarbiter 3 years ago
I agree with snipedsniper18. Unfortunately, some people sometimes go to concerts just to be part of a social scene.
pandemonium06 4 years ago
Man Kaori is awesome. I'm not the biggest fan of saxophonists (except for the ones that are my friends) but the way she plays is just irresistible! and lol at the keyboardist with the cornrows, but he (she?) is awesome anyway.
Thatguy301 4 years ago
This is what music's all about!
jonjonjonmw 4 years ago 10
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Cut out the guitarist and this'd been real awesome. His tone is yucky and his accompanying is in the way at so many places. Just, BLEH.
bananamusician 4 years ago
damn.. your such an idiot!
wackyshredder 4 years ago
It is called the bearish?
chimalk 4 years ago
this is god like tener playing :O
squirrelbasha 4 years ago
It's an alto sax, not a tenor sax.
cookiecookie123 4 years ago 12
how come the audience doesnt look like they came to hear jazz.
Seems like the band got invited to some really lame talk show.
snipedsniper18 4 years ago 2
P.S it's asian, they got other culture and other view point for music in culture and life...
That band got level but i dont find it interesting cuz world already got one Candy Dulfer.
True musician must show his own unique style.
blindromeo 3 years ago
Candy Dulfer of Japan, wow, amazing
pranzfumaren 4 years ago 2
Awesome...this girl is unbelievable...the jazz cats are jamming!!!
Does she give lessons?...I'll gladly drop everything and follow her!!
dazolt 4 years ago 3
this inkreidible ;es super esta chava genial me enkanta esta rola !!!!!!!!!! ea ea ea ea
chimalk 4 years ago
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Didn't know David Sandborn had undergone a sex change operation !Still playing as well as ever!
KonsortEise 4 years ago
I liked the diminished stuff that keys player did during his solo
JoF00l 4 years ago
WOW! I can't wait to play sax next year!
GracieElric 4 years ago
if only the bass line was the original
Johnjy2 4 years ago
I don't think the original bass line would sound great considering this up tempo
lou2cv 4 years ago
yay ^-^ <333
Shinicha 4 years ago
fantastic
Lxnaruto 4 years ago
Great Saxophonist. Excelent Mouthpiece LE BAYLE. Excelent musicians.
GILVANDO 4 years ago 2