Billy Taylor Explains Cool Jazz

[Ijustleavecomments]

yeeeeeeeeeeees, omg jazz mellophone.

[sigmayacht]

lol at the tenor basically trying to sound like getz.

[92ninersboy]

@sigmayacht Ridiculous statement. Warne Marsh was his own man all the way - a great, great player who actually went deeper harmonically than Getz (not taking anything away from Stan, who is a giant). What you probably hear is that both Getz and Marsh came out of a generation of tenor players who fell deeply under the Lester Young influence - others would be guys like Zoot Simms and Allen Eager. Prez made a great impact, but these younger players took it in different and indivual directions.

[whitefeet1]

I used to listen to Billy Taylor every night on WLIB when I was doing my high school homework.... He had awesome taste and sanction to play whatever he wanted to. He taught me and a lot of other people how to use their ears.... Nothing but thanks to BT....

[homeworkupload]

I'm gonna ask me to teach me piano in heaven :) I'll have all eternity to learn...

[gessed]

Billy Taylor died this morning 2 Jan 2011Hewas 89 years old. Sad for all of jazz,especially his fans.Reported by CNN

[JazzVideoGuy]

@gessed He passed away on December 28, 2010.

[gessed]

@JazzVideoGuy Thanks. They probably got the news late.He was a great educator and a great pianist as well.He will be missed by one and all.

[manuFUNKture]

WHY is the bass player standing on a table?

[KadorCitizen]

@manuFUNKture why asking?

[TheWye]

@manuFUNKture 'cos he's Cool...

[thechildandhiscam]

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[krullebol4]

@DaNorthernLight that guitar is a d´angelico with a DeArmond Rhythm Chief 1000 pickup.

[pickinstone]

@krullebol4 I love those DeArmonds, they give just the right tone with just the right bite. I studied with a great musician who used one on his Guild Blonde, great tone. That's the only floater I would use, but my in body Zoller pups work just peachy now.

[pipotherium]

Amazing !

[theinvisiblelight]

Man Lee Konitz swings.

[anitadavideduo]

YES!! Jazz is cool!! And this is cool jazz!!!

[SuperGamer87]

Cool.  :)

[Jutisan]

give us something to love and you get this guy one of the greatest musicians of his time and even today

[excelsiorcornetband]

Don Elliott -- what a monster -- plays the head beautifully on trumpet, then swings his ass off on mellophone. Also a bad mofo on vibes; composer, jingle writer, singer, producer, multi-track recording pioneer... his talent deserved wider recognition. The mello blends beautifully with this ensemble. It's time we heard more of it. Any takers?

[BlikeNave]

Hahahaha so sickkkkkk. Definitely gunna use this in some of my stuff

[Polishjazzman]

Guitar sounds awesome, hate the mellophone.

[musicman95]

I love the tone, melody, harmony, rhythm, and coolness of "Cool Jazz." I grew up listening to "Cool Jazz" in the 1950s when I was a child thanks to my late Father who loved West Coast "Cool Jazz"; I still love "Cool Jazz" as a sixtysomething man.

[superninja109]

you tube fucking sucks with the new layout

[GrafPsychofarmaca]

@superninja109 oh word....

[ComicSaxProductions]

im a floater not a pusher.

[IrrepressibleGuile]

absolutly beautiful, I've always loved this kind of jazz but never knew it was actually called 'cool' jazz.

[Johnnathun]

The pianist was so well spoken and informative. He even gave discriptive examples to explain the musical dialogue such as "Floating on the melody" and "Riding the beat". Very compelling piece.

[CadillacL]

love that jazz guitar!

[mussman717word]

Jazz guitar is soo prime.

[macflyfilm]

It's the American version of Sir Patrick Moore! All is missing is the monocle.

[HuggumsMcgehee]

That's a very unusual mellophone. Pretty cool.

[sotonemuel]

I particularly enjoyed the guitar solo the most! But everyone is great! Don't know why more artists don't play cool more often.

[novasco55]

I like the examples very informative Where is the mellophone?

[upsm4sh]

its the trumpet with the big bell pointing up

[novasco55]

thanks

[bluesky810]

love that jazz mellophone!

[loren1283]

What a sweet style mundell has. A great voice on the instrument.

[untergrunt]

Mundell is still alive and gigging...

[loren1283]

I was lucky enough to meet Mundell after a gig, we talked for hours about music. He still has his chops too. Hes a great guy.

[Sepharite]

Very very interesting. This is helping me study...

[b1970b]

That Warne Marsh solo is one of the best I've ever heard .

[communistmusic]

i have never seen a mellophone that looks like that one

[Saxyman14]

You've probably seen marching mellophones.

[GozTheGreat]

it's was a special mellophone (with the bell pointing up) made by Conn for Elliott. I don't know if this model was selled at that time or it was only a "prototype". Don Elliott was a "Conn endorsed artist" and made advertissement for Conn products (for example, the 16E mellophonium... witch was a "normal" mellophone).

[excelsiorcornetband]

@GozTheGreat Conn apparently made only three of those reversed-bell mellophones, all for Don Elliott, who requested Conn make him a bell-up mello, at the suggestion of Dizzy Gillespie. I own the only one in private hands; Elliott's estate owns one, and the third is lost. Here's mine, at web.a-znet.com/~jstockham/Phot­os/ElliottMello1.jpg

[GozTheGreat]

@excelsiorcornetband

Beautiful photo & beautiful instrument.... Lucky man to have it !!!

I'm trumpet player (Conn instruments "addict") but had never played mellophone.

In France, we have not a "mellophone culture" (nobody use it. sometime, but rarely, you can find F french horns or Eb saxhorns in bands... but never mellophones).

It's sad cause it's a really interesting instrument. I love the sound of the mellophone... And in the hands of a great musician as Don Elliot, it's really marvelous.

[joebandana]

whoa that mellophone is so cool! it's got the tone of a trombone but the speed of a trumpet so it just sounds like an amazingly good trombonist haha! great video. go Mundell Lowe

[ferdinangenius]

My God, this is superb high maths....!!!

[pnebenzahl]

That's "Ladybird" by Tadd Dameron...

[joebandana]

it's a contrafact (same changes, new melody) of Ladybird. It's called Half Nelson, and it was written by Miles Davis

[Saxyman14]

The tune they are playing is Ladybird.

[nerhe07]

wow, music like this is so timeless.

[dodecopus]

these videos are excellent, too bad this series doesn't exist today

[greatersiren]

dig that mellophone!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Why, cuz its yellow mellow?

[greatersiren]

no, b/c it is an unusual interesting instrument with a cool sound

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Quite right.

[MagicRain505]

Yo... anyone else notice Warne's constant jaw movement. Almost like it's not being done on purpose. Anyone care to explain?

Great vid as always. These musicians are always so clean...

[greatersiren]

It is definitely off-putting. He sounds great, though.

[Jazzman303]

All I know is that it's creepy... haha it looks like is jaw is dislocated from the rest of his face.

[N7eightyeight]

It looks uncomfortable. Haha.

[dawgdrum]

I think it's part of how he gets the sound of his phrasing which has constant almost vocal timbral changes. No one else sounded like him except possibly Konitz, but he plays alto of course. If you check out the movements with his phrasing they seem lined up.

[jazzbox111]

I think you are pretty close at describing this. I love it. I been trying to play this on my guitar for ages, I think I have it figured out. Its: quick change in the microdynamics of the line, figures that sound very rubato and smooth changes in range. And of course the sound itself gives it the gorgeous medium; the 'almost vocal timral changes'.

[adamsvideos1]

his embouchure is so loose - I think it looks very comfortable, actually.