Tony Scott - Blues for an African Friend

[americansailorman]

:-)))))))

[Melsi1979]

I admire his playing and personality a lot! A great clarinetist!

[JazzVideoGuy]

@Melsi1979 A very very cool cat, who played with Bird and Billie Holiday, and then went on his own global musical quest. His "Music for Zen Meditation and Other Joys" is a desert island disc.

[Melsi1979]

@JazzVideoGuy Thank you! This is a very good suggestion, I had no clue he had played such music.

[nickbarcenas]

ive never heard blues played on a clarinette before damn it sounds so beautiful and awesome..

[JazzVideoGuy]

@nickbarcenas Tony Scott was a great clarinet player capable of wide range of emotion.

[accrojasss]

@ventroquilation

lapsus?

[crusellweber]

ho le son! :)

[joemac92]

CHOCOLATE RAIN

[mantasparks15]

what the?! how does he do that?!

[johnydeltablues]

in my opinion all true musicians are trying to reach perfection....this guy here reached it.

[SCORNDOGGMELACH]

Oh my . What did I just hear? In a word, BAAAWAAAHHHHH!!!!! That was amazing! Check those hands too. Like they were made for it. 

[buddha20009]

The way he blows?

[kyucka]

yes , it was correct

[cigarzan]

LOL! "American friend."

"Excuse me. 'African friend.'"

Oops!

[peerschmidtke]

"The only thing you ought to do is to find yourself!" "Not imitating - influences in terms of how they play and why they play!" Good advices even for any young player of today thanks Tony Scott and thanks Jazzvideoguy - you are a wonderful researcher of the important things in jazz!!!

[pascal62]

Square: "Blues for an American Friend"

Tony: "Blues for an AFRICAN Friend...VERY BIG DIFFERENCE"...

F*** YEAH MAN! This made my day!!!

[Nabid777]

where can I get sheet music for this?

[minutemanIV]

I this the Tony Scott who made Bladerunner ?

[Zrandrid]

IMHO the most underrated jazz musician of all-time.

[MrJimmienoone]

It's quite amazing how artists can "misread" their own works. French novelist Gustave Flaubert was an outstanding example. Bobby Hackett was a devoted Satchmo fan but his playing clearly echoes Bix and hardly any Satch. Don't crucify me but I boldly maintain that Tony Scott's playing shows no stylistic relation whatever to Ben Webster or Charlie Parker. To me, it is pure Lester Young on clarinet.

[joemaranzano]

Wonderful video, many thanks. I was Tony's piano player, here in Rome.

[Etrojazz]

Would some expert musician send me the sheet of this piece or send me the notes of it, please? (Only the beginning, from 1:57 to the 2:40 minutes...). Thanks!

[krysantemo]

A great artist, he came back to Italy in the top of his carreer and boycoted because he used to dress in black and play with Romano Mussolini. A verty sad story about stupidity of ideology. Exuse my bad english.

Tony Scott was for clarinet what John Coltrane for sax,..... a genius

[doxazosin4]

il più grande clarinettista del mondo, italiano, ucciso dalle ideologie degl'anni settanta. punto

[floppybollox3]

Who reckons that 'blues for an american friend' was really a slip up?

[royallighting7]

I didn't much care for the main melody of the piece, but Tony's improv was very sweet.

[JJRocks4ever]

GOD-DAMN THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!! Great music!!! Thanks for posting, Peace!!!

[lsdvine]

i am in love, his connection to every single note makes me come

[saxforth]

Tony Scott-without doubt the funkiest, baddest assed bebop clarinet player

I've ever heard. Screw the saxophone!!! Wait-I'm a sax player....

[caponsacchi]

Note the trumpet player--Doc Severinsen.

[Takasee1]

EXELENTEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks:)))

[pinogand]

ho avuto la fortuna di conoscere questo grande uomo......

[Alfredo57]

Is that Scott Lafaro on bass....what's the matter with the camera man? Why isn't he showing the bassist?

[JazziJBC]

I love how he corrected the host... African friends are definitely different from your white friends haha...

[Alfredo57]

@JazziJBC No I don't know the difference other than color so enlighten me.Since your comment is so imature and rediculous tell, what is the difference if you can comment in an intelligent way.

[alontas]

I like his approach to blues more than those of Jimmy Giuffre & Buddy De Franco. He retains something of the old traditional flavor of early Jazz, but also very much in the fifties "Cool" trend. Him and Edmund Hall, my favorites, though I like many other, including Jimmy Noone, Frank Teschemacher, Benny Goodman (especially in his small 30s combos), George Lewis and Johnny Dodds. Those who throw me out of the room: Mezz Mezzrow, Woody Herman, Paquito De Rivera, Albert Nicholas, et al.

[pipersnakis]

Blues for an African Friend...Oh my God! I cannot believe what I just saw and heard. No one I have heard has ever played the clarinet like that. I almost pissed myself listening to his powers of attack on the altissimo register! This is surely one of the best examples of why the clarinet is king in my books! And Tony is the emperor! I have to listen again! I can't believe my ears!

[mpcguy]

@pipersnakis he's amazing isn't he? and underrated as well.... you should hear his baritone playing equally outstanding!!!!

[einupasivaiksciot]

Tony is the man! i almost fell down from my chair.. want to buy a clarinet

[Stonecoldepivot]

People still say today the clarinet is not a jazz instrument! :O

[PiotrLatoMusic]

Horrible isn't it.

I'm applying for colleges right now and it's either classical clarinet or I do a jazz sax audition.

[TheSlideslide]

ron burgundy

[ivanhorvath]

he is the greatest clarinetist ever lived. check out an LP (cd from spain) both sides of Tony Scott. a track called Counterpoint Pleasant. you'll shit in your pants. a genius from morristown, NJ!

[Zrandrid]

In my book, Tony Scott is the most underrated jazz man of all-time.

[JagrrrTV]

WOW!!! I never heard clarinet like that!

[joetighe]

Tony is good. Try Buddy Defranco, Ken Peplowski, Don Byron, Paquito D'rivera and Jimmy Giuffre.

[jpcannavo]

All brilliant musicians - but as a meat and potatoes modern jazz clarinetist, none of them can touch early Tony Scott. He was the only one to break entirely free of the Goodman/Shaw mold and find a true bop voice for the clarinet. In this regard I feel he surpasses Defranco, Daniels, Giuffre and Byron. Maybe perry Robinson comes close, but he lacks the sheer power and force of phrasing. Listen to all Scotts early stuff - esp w/ Bill Evans. Its too bad he didn't inspire a generation of players.

[AeroplanoModello]

Beautiful.

[fiddlercrab3]

I just about died at that "Very big difference." HA!

[brian777999]

oh my goodness. I was so busy listening to the music that I only just noticed the length of his fingers....that is amazing !

[ingwazVL]

EXELENTEEEE!!!!!!!!!! nunca hbia un clarinete sonar asi. 5 star.

[FlamingoReaper]

Play that $%#* Tony!!!

that's what I'm talkin bout

[NZdodobird]

The clarinet has arrived at a new place for me. Incredible. I love it.

[valvetrom]

Tony has the longest little fingers I ever encoutered

[conguera]

Very soulful clarinet.

[luiz8790]

wooow!!!! oii me di cuenta q tipo de musica vale en realidad la pena!!!

[chimpink]

WOW

[4205lr]

He actually died in 2007 aged 85.

[donotclickonthis]

You know, I hope not. the fact that he didnt try to correct himself scares me

[emmiban]

ohh.. and how old is he today?

[JazzVideoGuy]

Tony Scott passed away several years ago.

[medal8]

@emmiban : A jazz musician is ageless and Tony Scott even less!

Un jazzman n'a pas d'âge et Tony Scott encore moins !

5 stars *****

[iEatyourYoung]

@emmiban i played with tony while he was in the far east, and he played other reed instruments, and played them well.

[jazzmusic1937]

this guy was drafted into the army later after this and wound up in okawana a guy i was in the 113th army band at ft knox had the luck to be shipped there a piano guy who had the good luck to play with scott damn i cant recall his name seems like it was ronnie something or other he was from ashland ky

[dperag]

I first met Tony in 1958 at the Bankers Club in W New York NJ.He was playing with Bill Evans and Jimmy Knepper.Again in Torino,Italy playing with Romano Mussalini. He told me that this song was dedicated to a young African musician who had followed him to London and was later deported..Tony had married a Jaoanese lady and was living in Paris, I think.He was a great guy.

[janicaquadros]

I have 2 cds, Music for Yoga Meditation and Other Joys, 1968, and another called only Tony Scott, 1967, both recorded in New York, so today i found this video and he is the same guy for sure, nobody plays the clarinet like him. In the inner sleeve, we can read "in 1959, jazz-clarinet great Tony Scott left the USA for the Far-East searching for other musical cultures" .

[MagicRain505]

Haha, yeah. You can sorta tell, you know? In that day, at least...

[SnuffGunnion]

I met Tony in Basel in the late 80's and had the honor of playing with him when he sat in on a gig with "Jon Otis & The Boxx" at the Atlantis, a club which I loved to play with my own band "Afrodisia". Playing with Tony can only be described as a impressive highlight to one's own musical experience.

Thanks Tony,

Darnell Stephen Summers

[bootmikeCZ]

great man!

[FaitClub]

I feel lucky, I've met him few times in Italy!

[Etrojazz]

It is great!I cannot find the sheet for this blues anywhere! Could somebody help me, please?

[xkw847]

Try to listening and Play..after write the sheet music..its a great exercice...

[MagicRain505]

Yeah, man... Blues ain't about reading it, it's about feeling it. But if you're still having trouble, I'll just forward some music to you when I have time to transcribe it.

[h2so4jazz]

blues for an american friend lololol

[BBTenor]

Tony (Sciacca) Scott was/is the greatest of the clarinetists. He explored while others copied, and there was no freer being out there. He would sit in with street musicians, and then go to Greenwich Village to sit in with Clark Terry or Memphis Slim or Lou Donaldson. I was along for the ride, in those days (1983) and it was always non-stop, for Tony had no brakes on his love for playing, anytime, anyplace. I have recordings of those events, and they're pure Tony Scott. He was a oner.

[MagicRain505]

As Cannonball would say to him like he said to Joe Zawinul, "He's the blackest white guy I EVER heard!"

[caroconga]

Beautiful!

[Aljazz67]

Tony Scott,grande jazzista e grande artista.Una personalità straordinaria ormai rarisima oggi.GOOD MUSIC.

[SeriousPieEnthusiast]

good save

[TomGreble]

Man, I love that moment at 2:38, where everything just drops right down and the mood just changes completely. Beautiful! :D

[jazzvibes251]

Fantastic! What ever happened to him? I saw him last at the Metropol in NYC in 50's?

[chriskardos]

He passed away in March '07.

[rebel2rebel]

He also played with the "Greatest Jazz singer Ever" Miss Billie holiday. Bless them all...

[sclogse1]

nice tie.

[jamie9890]

you can tell he was influenced by ben webster!!!

[sclogse1]

lester young

[jamie9890]

also

[clarinetroad]

To mbannistermbannister1: Herman, you were a lucky man. Tony, wherever you are, you were right. Everybody's full of shit. I miss you so much these days. Hey Bruno Nobody gives a fuck, least of all the spirit of Tony Scott.

[vanea99]

God Bless you!

[mbannister1]

Tony Scott "blew us away in Johannesburg, South Africa, in about 1957" ... it took weeks to realise what this clarinet phenomenon was about.

One word ... GREAT!

Herman in KZN

[lilbits]

Sounds wonderful