Phil Woods Just Friends

Phil Woods with Strings Just Friends

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[joebandana]

if you think phil woods is good, you should hear francesco cafiso play, he's a young 18(?) year old alto player from Italy who plays similarly to a bird aswell, on his website francescocafiso dot com he plays Just Friends with Wynton Marsalis at age 16!! he plays with staggering confidence and stage presence, if you love the alto sax and jazz, you will love this guy

[Andrea2904]

I love alto sax becouse i play alto sax. I know Francesco Cafiso becouse i am Italian. He is a very good player. I hope you wont mean that Cafiso is better than Phil Woods. Phil is a great master and the original is always better than a copy.

[joebandana]

I LOVE Charlie Parker's intro to this song in the original, word's can't describe how good it is

[jazzgent]

wirhout question the greatest living alto player.  Who is better? No one.

[Littlewhitelephant]

@joebandana At the time of the recording Phil Woods was 69 in age.

I think it is unfair to compare any sax player below 50 with Phil Woods. I know Phil Woods did play better when he was younger but what would you expect ? I'd love to play half as good as him !!!

[nonamenanone]

Bird lives !

[bcnjazzorquestra]

Phil sensibility is unique. I love his music. Thanks, master!

[zootsax84]

The conductor screwed up during the intro by speeding up almost one bar before he was supposed to...maybe he hasn't heard the original recordings by Charlie. You can notice that Phil was shocked by the sudden increase of speed in that very bar but he managed to fix the situation...

However, I still prefer Cafiso's version of this arrangement, as compared to both Phil's and Charlie's versions. But don't get me wrong, all 3 of them portrayed their own styles perfectly in their own recordings!

[thisisntpeter]

@jazzgent miguel zenon and myron walden are equals in my eyes

[lvferraripilot]

Brecker was at a jazz camp Phil taught at in the late 60's. They were dear friends to the end. My bone marrow was not compatible with mike's, but I checked and would have done anything for him. Rest in peace.

[lvferraripilot]

The same Lee Konitz gettin cut up at sessions by Berklee and Manhattan school of music students? That's almost as laughable as when they had the Monk school in LA for 5 minutes, then the students quit because they outplayed their teachers there lol.

[scomdnz9]

ha! it seems Woods tried to get the conductor to speed up it at 2:01. i kind of like a change of pace tho.

[jazzgent]

Very well said!!!