Wayne Shorter- Fee Fi Fo Fum

[GentlemanBass]

He kinda looks like Denzel Washington.

[cbmuzik]

Wayne KILLS on this tune! I'm sitting here doing a spreadsheet right now and I can't tell you how much more intricate this tune is over doing a formula in Excel. Simplistically beautiful yet more complicated than a politician. Wayne is that dude!!!!

[skoolboi109]

this melody is so beautiful and simple.. thank God or who ever it is you worship for the beauty of music.

I heard some Michigan State Univ. students playing this at a jam session and i've never forgotten it!! they played with such beauty and emotion. Much respect to Diego Rivera, Rodney Whitaker, Wessel Warmdaddy Anderson, Etienne Charles, Randy Gillespie, and the new jazz studes profs for producing some great future leaders in the jazz world. Im proud to be a spartan

[zbalder14]

personnel???

[saketorasan]

WAYNE SHORTER／Fee Fi Fo Fum このヒトを喰った様なタイトルの曲に、何故か魅き付けられるのだ­。

[saketorasan]

WAYNE SHORTER／Fee Fi Fo Fum このヒトを喰った様なタイトルの曲が、どうにも好きなのだ...­。

[Rodgebi]

Wow, 4 deaf people dislike that song... :-(

[SuperYouGerT]

so many trolls. but some tight cats make it all cool.

[aaronamccoy]

wayne a bit like monk but he is very subtle

[mantatnam]

jazz sucks

[FrankBugZappa]

@mantatnam no it doesn't!

[lilnaters49]

obvious troll is obvious

[petopalaj]

@mantatnam you suck

[GodzRicko]

@Sunderlanding If you don't know me don't tell me what I can and cannot do. Simple as that. Makes you the "pretentious douche". Arrogance pollutes youtube.

[anguianoloops69]

Thankyou! i canplay along w/ my real book.

[vastusinternus]

Music of utmost beauty and distinction.

[wonderbaby100]

i recon fee fo fum is simialar to hey diddly dee but not rat at tat tat or mmbop

my nana used to tell me in a spooky kind of funny ..... fee fi fo fum i smell the blood of an english man (she was Irish but anyway) be he alive or be he dead i'll grind his bones to make my bread.

[brenplummer]

yo dizzysyrynx

...that's what the giant said,

"fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an englishman,..I'll grind his bones to make my bread," etc...

yo dizzysyrynx

...that's what the giant said,

"fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an englishman,..I'll grind his bones to make my bread," etc...

[brenplummer]

...that's what the giant said,

"fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an englishman,..I'll grind his bones to make my bread," etc...

[stonedgolem037]

I really get a Giant Steps vibe in 0:20, but maybe that's just me

[HendrixcommaMartin]

i definitely agree. There is some matrix-like motion in this song, like the B to D7 in the third measure. I often am reminded of Giant Steps while listening to it.

[McDutchy]

@HendrixcommaMartin Yeah, Giant Steps had been out for a few years when he wrote this, so the chain of minor thirds going from Abmaj7 to D7 wasn't unheard of. It's definitely a really odd & interesting progression- I just immediately said "what." the first time I tried to analyze it.

[0xXNirvanaXx0]

@McDutchy except giant steps is major thirds

[McDutchy]

@0xXNirvanaXx0 Yeah, but the precedent is moving chords by thirds. Functional jazz harmony to that point had mostly been fourths or steps- deciding "oh hey, thirds" was pretty important.

But this theory stuff doesn't matter so much. Music comes first.

[jazzbass1969]

One off my favorite Bands of the time, hell of all time. What a line up Ron Carter, Freddie Hubbard, Herbbie Hancock, Elvin Jones.

[MrXoror]

thanx for uploading

[pretorious700]

damn, it don't get better than this

[gustosax66]

lol..... nice....

[MreMusicmannn]

ahhah really? is that true? well its funny to me that you are here looking at the videos...

[bassramos]

WHy? Because the musicians can't play? Is the music weakly composed? Is there lack of fire and emotion? What? Is the music over your head? Tell me oh musical master of all music, Why does Jazz suck big dicks? We all want to know your highness? Everybody Prick233 knows something we don't know! Let's all gather round and learn from the enlightened Prick 123!

[MrMisab]

I biggest reason I dislike jazz is that it hasn't gone anywhere in like the last 40 years nothing new has happened other than crappy jazz fusion or smooth jazz.

[elimenohpee182]

You obviously haven't listened to anything for 40 years...

[MrMisab]

ok why don't you give me some suggestions of people pushing the envelope?

[elimenohpee182]

The fact that you would ask a question like this shows you are completely ignorant on any topic relating to jazz. But to humor you, cats like Steve Lehman are creating a whole new direction for the music.

[coolerdude111]

@MrMisab definitely not you

How about Rosenwinkel, joshua redman, christian mcbride, wayne krantz , ben wolfe, chris potter, ben monder, jaleel shaw, or vijay iyer

[kfdisawesome]

@MrMisab robert glasper

[pretorious700]

don't go away mad...just go away

[MrMisab]

I like how the only reason you'd say that is to make someone mad

[StringTheoryMusic409]

You couldn't be more retarded with that comment...

[MrMisab]

why? it's true

[benthesaxman]

your an idiot.

[MrMisab]

you're an idiot

[novecentoC]

@benthesaxman

yeeees! It's true! All the SPEAK NO EVIL ALBUM is about popular stories!!

[SeriousPieEnthusiast]

@MrMisab then you don't live in the right place or you aren't going to any of the right clubs.

[jassbo]

Ultra cool! Nice harmony, what else ?

[Erikolson99]

I like wayne's writing more than his playing.

[kwakky]

you're not alone. although i love both.

[alexmoxon]

They're on par for me. Such space, so relaxed, and he always seems to find "the note"

[soulfullyanointed]

I like wayne's playing better than joe henderson's...but I like joe henderson's playing better than his writing.

[ricisrock]

If you are starting a jazz collection, SPEAK NO EVIL is downright MANDATORY to have. Shorter is a king!

[eskimoposh]

Speak no Evil is such a hauntingly beautiful album!!! I've been playing this thing to death for years.....i'm so pathetically in love with it I got Shorter to sign it at a gig a bunch of years back. He was nice about it.....

[pretorious700]

I was in Thailand last year on the beach at koh phi phi...every morning my girl and I would go down to the beach and sometime during the day I would relax with this album in my ears and watch the Andaman Sea in all of it's aqua glory. Now when I hear these songs I'm back there with a cold beer Chang and my beautiful Thai lady.............ahhhhhhhhh

[lahavshani]

Perfect!

[dizzysyrinx]

beatiful...

but why this tune have this name?

what does this mean?

[tayottt]

In an interview Wayne said he  named it Fee fi fo fum because while he was writing it he was thinking of mythical creatures and the like.

[taconip]

@tayottt I think it also has something to do with the fact that a few of the chords mirror those used in Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

[rah0070]

@tayottt 

[bethellodge]

Read a book on Coltrane recently by Ben Ratliff... in it he makes a connection to a chord exercise in this song that picks up on Coltrane's Giant Steps (Giant - fee fi fo fum)

[jazzmunky]

Haha, I love Wayne's imagination! Just like him to be enigmatic

[Lottolearnstrings]

"Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an english man!"

Sung a giant form a popular story

[VIProfessor]

@dizzysyrinx Because of the chords' relationship to 'Coltrane' or 'Giant Steps' changes. It's an oblique reference to Trane and 'Giant Steps'.

[noirtriptyline]

@dizzysyrinx as in the statement made by the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk.

[ninwithwes]

@dizzysyrinx because its based on giant steps changes. a giant makes the sound... fee fi fo fum, i smell the blood of an englishman... or something

[rah0070]

@dizzysyrinx I've always heard it's a play on Giant Steps. It has some loose harmonic connection with that tune and Fee fi fo fum is what the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk said.

[jumpsteady1]

@dizzysyrinx

Nah man it got its name from Giant Steps, Fee Fi Fo Fum is what the giant says:

If you look at the chord changes, every other chord (in other words any chord on beats 2and4) are the changes to Giant steps, and he writes approach chords to the Trane fundamentals. then the two sections are divides by a backwards blues.

Shows Wayne's genius. He's a wonderful musician through and through

[theBUZer]

My combo played this in the Berkley Jazz Competition. We would have come in second however, we went over the time limit by 6 seconds...

[GodzRicko]

Time limits on jazz? lol. Wow. I guess those cats don't know 'trane.

[pretorious700]

lol...good one

[Sunderlanding]

@GodzRicko If you're not black and born in 1930 you shouldn't call people cats. It just makes you seen like a pretentious douche.

[sheafous92]

this is a difficult, yet beautiful tune

[sonwamac]

why do you think its difficult?

[dec10]

changes every 2 beats that often don't follow normal conventions for harmonic progressions (i.e. ii-V-I).

[agocaligiuri]

they are MODAL progression tough

sure that they dont follow tonal progression!

[Lot2learn]

Yeah, one of my favorite group of musicians, album, and individual song all in one post. Thanks.

[ragtimest8]

Herbie's solo is absolutely excellent!

[esanders999]

so

so

sweet

[Walib]

one of my favorite songs on one of my favorite albums EVER

great post

[dstack]

freddie hubbard

[Azdb123]

Who's on trumpet?

[zaxakis]

a classic

[snowfxz]

Good Stuff.