Blue In Green Miles Davis Tenor Sax

I just closed my eyes and played....you may wish to close your ears:-) It is a nice tune, and I tried to stop trilling so much, and keep it simple.

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• miles
• davis
• tenor
• sax
• improv
• improvised
• saxophone
• jazz
• cool
• 50's
• kind
• of
• blue

[namaste1107]

It is easy to fall in love with your tone. You move through cord changes with such grace. Are you focusing on those chord changes?

Continue to save the world a note at a time!

[crazydaisydoo]

Thanks for the feedback (redfaced). No I do not think about chord changes at all, just the melody. Sometimes I run through a tune 30-40 times until I find something I like. My brain does not work in chords, scales or even note names, just tunes. I try to get to the point where I can hear what note is coming next... does that make sense? I practice playing by ear a lot, so my fingers, note intervals and ears become "one". This is why I cannot play bebop :-)

[SaintYared]

Kind of Blue, one of the most brilliant jazz compositions by Miles Davis, singlehandedly turned me into jazz more than 15 years ago, and I haven't listened to anything else since then. Your interpretation of Coltrane's tenor is downright chilling, and it got me listening to the entire CD all over again. There's one refrain in Blue in Green (Trane's) I hoped to hear, but your overall approach is phenomenal.

[crazydaisydoo]

Thanks SaintYared, I agree, I love Tranes solo on this tune, and I can play it.I tried to forget it though, because I would have sounded like a third rate imitator, instead of just a third rate player :-))

[inverness]

Nice job! Imagine sitting on the rooftop, watching the city skyline slow down in the middle of the night..with cool, crisp air surrounding you while listening to this.

Daaaaamn!

[ceh333]

Beautiful.... I just wish I could find other SLOW songs like this. Seems what most people call slow jazz, I call smooth jazz. Do you know of any others that are this slow. Maybe I should search coma jazz.... lol I love this stuff. Just nice to sit back and let time pass with this music.

[thomaszwerger]

thumbs up, man. trying to play this piece after miles and trane and post it usually makes me overthink my attitude to death penalty..:-) but ur sound really is an inspiration and helps me to get through my life as protenplayer without spending my brain to alk and depri. love it, thanks

[soyeso999]

I listen to this often. It's beautiful, and an inspiration...

For me Jazz has to have "feeling", which you got.

Thanks so much for sharing this expression...

[FrankMuenker]

Man, this is sooo beautiful !!!

[calla4711]

so beautiful...love it

[dw1Ght01]

The only words I can think of to describe this wonderful tune is "azure blue smooth jazz". I love the tenor sax--can't beat it for relaxing or contemplation.

[ZRMDMK]

@ceh333 try searching youtube for "Jazz ballad" :)

[vladimir12377]

thanks man!:)

[irontailpikachu]

Miles would be proud of you playing this you are a fantastic Tenor Saxophone player and you portray such emotion in this more Miles Davis tracks have you tryed "So What "or Freddie Freeloader ?

[TheJazzsaxo]

I can only tell one thing. Your playing inspired me after several years to unpack my horn and start blowin some tunes again. I even bought me a tenor sax, what always was one of my dreams. And now I can't stop playing,and when I'm not near my sax I whistle my tunes!!! :) By far I'm not as good as you, but the least I can do is try!!!!

Thank you for the inspiration!!!

[paolo60333]

What a nice tenor player! Simply fantastic!