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  • lets sax this up!

  • I dont understand the mindset that Redman's playing is un original and outdated. Ya'll say the same thing about wynton. Good music is good music, who cares if it isnt "up to date." Go to the next major orchestra concert in your area and tell the players after the concert that they are wasting their time playing tchaikovsky. Or wait.... maybe you should just shut up and enjoy the music.

  • WOW!!! Now that's cooking!

  • holy shit this dude can swing

  • Joshua is a talented guy...he always does a great job at recycling the old, 1940s-50s, honkin', party-time sax playing. It's like testifying in church!

    But, as brilliant as he is, the poor cat was simply born 50 years too late. At least he makes it really fun! Wynton Marsalis has the same chops but seems so because that his olde tyme Ellington jazz doesn't survive outside of high school band festivals.

    Joshua is of the moment!

  • @radiokid2 You just proved that you don't listen to much Joshua Redman.

  • I really love how this was recorded a year before I was born, yet it feels so new. If it was pop, people would be commenting on how old it was and how they used to like this song.

    Instead we comment on how good the players are and the techniques they're using etc. Jazz is a way of life!

    Thanks uploader. PEACE!

  • Blade looks like Alan Dawson

    

  • It seems like joshua redman is getting lost amongst the better players now adays. his rhythmic vocabulary is not as developed as modern players and his altissimo even more behind the times.

  • Amazing from start to finish!

  • his dad was better but he still can swing

  • I love Jazz. I hate elitists. Different musicians speak to different people. So stop trying to out pretentious each other. Peace. Also this lays in the pocket real hard mhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • @PhatTenor Theres a bunch of players that could destroy Redman. Michael Brecker even in his early twenties could have destoyed Redman, Rollins when he was 24, I dont want to compare to all the greats though cuz most of them are so much older than him. All im saying is that his technique is YES, very solid and but his ideas are very plain. Theres no spunk, no creativity, if all you listen to is Redman than you wouldnt know what Im talking about. Go listen to some Charles Lloyd then come talk tome

  • @PhatTenor No his not, you must be a novice player, as you listen to more jazz music youll find out that there are much better players than this guy

  • I dont know why but I dont care too much for J.Redman. Ive listened to his cds watched his videos but nothing about his playing really captures me. Theres nothing to distinguish him from the greats. Coltrane, Rollins, Brecker, Lloyd, Berg, just to name are few are awesome. Sorry for you Josh lovers out there. Also theres a cool vido with him playing next to James Carter, you guys should watch that one and see how he gets destroyed! Ha, and yes I am a saxophone player so I know what Im talking bo

  • @chubbypuppys dude, I gotta say that in that battle Redman won hands down. It takes a lot more balls to do things simple and bluesy rather than just grunts and squeaks like Carter did. I agree that Redman isn't the most innovative sax man that ever lived, he's among the best alive today.

  • @sigmayacht I can respect that. Totally different styles but yeah your righ I cant say that hes not one ot the best living today otherwise he wouldnt be known as the musician he is today. Have you ever listened to Pharoah Sanders. Hes all grunts and squeals you probably wouldnt like him. Hes very free jazzy and plays similar to Coltrane but not so much technique but energy wise.

  • @sigmayacht eh i think joshua and james have different talents. Redman has a great sense of harmony and is very lyrical but carter has more interesting phrasing i feel n has all these elaborate timbres and just better control of his sound.

  • @chubbypuppys Same for me...Why does his playing not impress me at all? He's trying to hard to impress!

  • his tone sounds like a bunch of bbs rattling around in a soda can. Sounds like shit.

  • @aaronvespro You have hearing problems?

  • @aaronvespro LMAO

  • genioooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooo

    

  • This guy is AMAZING!!!

  • looks like 2 more people suck now too

  • I love how Josh quotes St. Thomas so much and never makes it old like at 1:59

    Genius.

  • Joshua Redman is a showman, and that's about it.... everyone else kills, but his playing pisses me off, and always will.

  • 3:33 that is easily one of the most difficult things to do on sax.

  • @gazzamuso what would you call that? I can understand why it would be difficult but if one were going to try and achieve that what would they go about doing?

  • Joshua eez da man! KG sucks!

  • My friend told me how much he loved Kenny G. I whipped this out to show him how Kenny G isn't real music, let alone real jazz, and DEFINITELY not a real saxophonist.

  • that was fun to hear.

  • My high school played this song last year. I think that we played it better.

    Just kidding.

    I flew to Denver in the 90's to sneak into a Joshua Redman concert. There was a q&a after and someone said how do you get such a great tone. He said...longtones. Believe it or not. All it takes is practice. A lot of practice. A ton of practice.

  • Redman is 25, McBride - 22, Blade - 24!

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  • 9:35 is sooooo cool :-)

    

  • He is my idol...absolutely amazing. Nobody has the tone like he does. Wow. 

  • @ARussell313 Eric Alexander might haha

  • Fantastyczna muzyka we wspaniałym wykonaniu.

    Andrzej Ś.

  • That's a comfy mattress.

  • johhny king....he praticed

  • demasia es muy poquito para estos musicos

  • at 1:40 he is just playing with the head of St. Thomas.

  • what is he quoting at 1:40 ? is that rollins ?

  • Jonny King thinking, "There he goes again..."

  • 3:50 take me out to the ballgame? 

  • wow redman has a lot of guns under his coat. amazing

  • great stuff

    

  • haha...i was thinking to myself, "hmm this kinda sounds like rhythm changes"...and then I saw the description. i guess my ear is getting better. yay.

  • Talk about a combo full of CATS. Hot damn they can all play.

  • I really dig the Rollins references at about 2:00 Great stuff, as always, from Mr. Redman

  • I've been hearing the name Joshua Redman for a while, finally decided to check him out. Sounds like an interesting mix of early Rollins and Kind of Blue-era Coltrane. Very good.

  • Good Gravy! This is seriously chaotic. I'm sure it takes skill to play like that, but man....

  • His technique Is nearly flawless, and his signature tonal quality is all Joshua's

  • I want to see Kenny G take a solo here. He'd get booed off the stage.... hopefully

  • @tpstrat14 nah, i actually think Kenny g after having rehearsed for a while could hold his own. he can actually play straight ahead solos if he wanted, he just doesnt.

  • @royallighting7 Uhhh,,,No,....you're joking right? Not taking anything away from Kenny G... he's good at what he does...just as Lawrence Welk was good at what he did... Liberace was great at what he did.room for everything in this crazy world..but Kenny G "holding his own" with these guys in this genre,,,maybe in another lifetime in another dimension,.maybe if he took off for a few years and had a whole overhaul, and meant to get "REALLY SERIOUS"...then anything is possible.If the WILL is there

  • @swellpropel nah, i'm dead serious. he may not show it b/c of his genre, but he can play straight ahead stuff. he may not have the same level of chops as these guys, but he can play jazz..

  • @royallighting7 Kenny G himself has said that he doesn't play jazz. He plays "Instrumental Pop Music". Even if Kenny G "held his own" in a jazz setting, nobody would recognize it.

  • WHERE THE FUCK DID BRIANS SOLO GO

    GRRRRRRR

  • He does have that wonderful tone and that great technique..The ideas are the most amazing.Can anyone imagine the ideas flowing at that speed.Loved it.

  • What ever Joshua had for breakfast I'll have the same.

  • @TheFlutevisions breakfast of champions!!! lol

  • so many rollins references... i love it. and the band behind him ain't too bad either

    

  • i loved the st thomas reference! this guy grooves like a monster!

  • A.R.T.!!!...

  • Not rhythm changes, is it?

  • He's got chopssssss!

  • 24 people suck

  • @cbmuzik Now it's 25

  • This is f***ing amazing.

  • That was out of this Earth!!!

  • good good good

  • Damn. What a good video.

  • Total command of the language. B

  • 24 people are terrorists

  • What an amazing show!

  • @croonermel What do you mean the "melody is not clearly heard until 1:40" ? He's quoting St. Thomas there; St. Thomas is not even rhythm changes.

  • wow- i might aswell quit now lol

  • Splendid sax !

  • Wonderful sax playing, very enjoyable. The melody is not clearly heard until about 1:40. I heard Sonny Rollins live in concert performing this song, St. Thomas, about 12 years ago - and I can hear a lot of similarities in certain phrasing.

  • McBride is absolutely astounding. Only he could pull off a solo like that, and the ending cracked me up!

  • I would kill to get 2 minutes with those guys. What an amazing quartet. Un-be-fuckin-lievable.

  • Holy shit! That bass solo is turning crazier every second!

  • @Kochasiech I agree, one of the best build ups on a double bass solo.

  • Increible

  • puta que pariu!

  • what is going on in that saxophone?!?!?!?

  • JE L'AI VU A MARCIAC J'ADORE..........

  • A true jazz musician can quote Sonny and still sound original. I continue to be blown away by JR. B

  • BASS SOOLLLOOOOOOOOO

  • @walsh93jazz

    Actually, that looks exactly like a link to me.

  • This IS jazz, man!

  • the sound man should turn up the contra bass volume.

  • he normally plays a link but it doesn't look like one

  • is that a dukoff or a Link?

  • @ziggysk8z Link I believe.. Shoot me if Im wrong..

  • BadAss Mofos !!

  • He is the man! His saxophone chops are amazing!

  • Whoa shit. Joshua Redman. What a sound!!!

  • 666 liked it. Hell has the best music for sure. ^^

  • This guys like a ghost from the past. Amazing! I got turned onto Redman several years ago when he first started hit'n!

  • i hate accidently pushing the vuvuzela button when i try to go fullscreen

  • All star lineup. McBride is sick.

  • HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!!

  • loose from piano I think

  • the best part is from 2:59 to 3:38

  • Joshua is a genius !

  • lol

  • He threw in Old St. Thomas!!!!!! Man knows how to get down!

  • This was recorded the year I was born. Christ, I wish I was alive then.

  • His tone is so clean, and every note is perfect.

  • that piano solo is awesome

  • you can hear all musicans enjoy and why not  good bebop.

  • My 4 y old son loves this piece!

  • This is great! Thanks for posting it. It reminds me that I need to get back to the shed :) Love the Take Me Out to the Ball Game reference in the upper register...

  • sagaz até o caroço! xD~~~~

  • Love his technique, artistry AND sound.

  • Sabe tudo esse cara !!!

  • superb

  • Mesmerizing!

    VERY BEST MUSIC ARTISTS OF ALL CONTEMPORARY TIME . insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Regards from Mexico, City.

    R

  • Jonny King's solo is super underrated. Great development, strong phrasing... it's just overshadowed by Redman. And his comping throughout, especially during McBride's solo, is laying in the pocket really hard. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • 4099aj65~good stuff

  • @theorygeek00 can't have no groove if you ain't got no pocket!!!!!!!

  • dieu que c beau!!!!!!!

  • this is great

  • that's great!

  • Yes but this "Eternal Triangle" bridge's.

  • is this tune "rhythm changes"??????????

  • yea like dizzy atmosphere

  • Lord almighty...

  • if jazz is a religion ..then those guys are kind of gods aha

  • @frankjazz12345 yea man. it's crazy how much jazz has evolved.

  • @Feluuula o

  • This is so good! What a performance!

  • Wow!

  • fuckin awesome!!!!!!!

  • @zappysax57 and Jordainio

    Sometimes the iii7 is interchanged with III7 as well as the vi7 with the VI7, even thought its not diatonic.

    Kind of like how the I and IV are dominant chords in the blues even if they shouldn't be

  • I remember his gig at the Barbican a few years ago.. he was pretty DAMN GOOD then, but this performance???

    OMFG!

  • they are all dom7's

  • Absolutely Amazing

  • che swing!

  • i was exaggerating but i meant he didn't do well there

  • that pianist died there

  • @ShablulZoem What?

  • but he was so in the pocket in the beginning...

  • it's amazing

  • Redman cant definetly play alright, but im not a big fan tbh. He just doesnt move me...

  • I love me some jazz <3

  • and take me out to the ballgame =)

  • Muitoo bommmmmmmmmm!!! Nota 10 Sandro - Florianopolis - Santa Catarina - Brasil

  • wow, amazing! What a gig!

  • The bridge is the same as the one in Dizzy Atmosphere.

  • @asax93 It's just rhythm changes

  • esto si es un buen jugo de aguacate en leche bien bien bien.....

  • Once again...Christian McBride's Intonation is sickeningly accurate...scary stuff...

  • Yeah, I saw him perform with Pat Metheny's group a couple years ago and he was so precise in pitch it was ridiculous. Not only that, he was playing Charlie Parker licks verbatum at nasty tempos. Never heard anything like it.

  • He's actually quoting a couple of tunes - "Straight Ahead" - by KD (hence the title) & St. Thomas..

  • I`m in love with his music!

    Brilliant! :)

    Great improvisation!

    Aaaaaaaaaa :)))))

  • is the bridge the eternal triangle bridge?

  • These are referred to as "Rhythm changes," which means they are the same chord changes as the ones in the George Gershwin song "I've Got Rhythm." A lot of composers use them to write songs with new melodies the same way the 12-bar blues is used to write songs with new melodies. "The Eternal Triangle," "Dizzy Atmosphere," "Good Queen Bess," and "Lester Leaps In" are such standards that use the rhythm changes.

  • actually the eternal triangle has a different bridge, which is what Joshua redman is playing over on this song.

  • Does it really? Well in that case, never mind, but I'm pretty sure about those other songs. Actually, now that I think about it, I believe "Lester Leaps In" uses the same changes as "The Eternal Triangle" as well.

  • wot bout Sho nuff, anthropology, da flintstones theme, rhythm-ing, alto-itis and moose de mooch. is dat rhythm changes ?

  • Anthropology is one, Moose the Mooche is not, and I don't know the other ones.

  • wot iz moose the mooche then?

  • Anthropology is one, if by one you mean rhythm changes. So is Moose the Mooche though. Others are Oleo, Eternal Triangle (altered bridge), Dexterity, there are plenty of others...

  • Jackindabox is right. The changes are chromatically falling from a tritone away(this case its D7 to Ab,) which is also done in Eternal Triangle and Dizzy Atmosphere. I got rhythm uses a III7 VI7 ii7 V7 for a bridge. I'm not sure what playing the i got rhythm bridge would sound on this.

  • @ocguitar90 What? Is up with those chord symbols?...III7 mean IV?

  • ssssssssssssssss

    ...........pura crema

  • Is the tune from 1.38 to 1.45 a quotation? I can't remember what it is but I swear I've heard it before

  • Yes, it's from the Sonny Rollins theme S:t Thomas.

  • St. Thomas- Sonny Rollins

  • Haha. You can hear people cheering in the background because they recognize that. so cool...

  • Blade holding it down!

  • joshua redman, ONE OF MY FAVORITE SAXOPHONISTS!!!!

  • Jaa!!! Det här är grymt!!!! Bra solo med Joshua Redman

  • Que boquilla usa? alguien sabe? ¿? parece una dukoff?

  • Osea,es una DUkoff,si