Fifteen years later, STILL BEAUTIFUL!!

I am so proud to have played with you and it makes me happy beyond belief to call the best sax man on the planet my friend.

The best thing to do is just sit down with records of your favorite artists and just listen, and eventually play along. Transcription is a huge key to learning the jazz idiom.

the 16 that didnt like it are from another planet. my buddy anibal is the BEST ive ever seen.

excelente!! de venezuela.. el mejor saxo tenor hispanoamericano!! sonido,feeling, etc

His parkeresque licks sound like bean, and his coltrane licks smooth as getz. I love it.

My only issue with this video is that I can only give it one vote for thumbs up. In my humble opinion, this is the greatest version of Body and Soul that I have heard.

Bravo, I just can't stop listening...

What I would give to come up with something this beautiful. When you came make memories of long ago come up from just a few minutes, that when you know you have talent. And not just memories about love. Memories about depression, anger, all that.

Absolutely fantastic....

Maestro Anibal , no me canso de escucharlo , gran sonido , gran control , está dentro de los grandes del saxofón moderno . . . al final me compré una boquilla Dave Guardala MB II gran Boquilla . . . Un saludo maestro y por favor siga subiendo conciertos o actuaciones suyas en directo pues nos alientan muchisimo , gracias.

ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING! i'm a tenor player and understand that getting all those notes on perfect time is an amazing feat. well done

Great shirt.... Slominsky lives!!!

one word: epic! I could listen to this all day long!

I've been playing since the beginning of 7th grade. I got lessons with the alto in 6th but in 7th I wanted more of a challenge. I just fell in love with the tenor and am still playing it today =D

I cannot believe that I'm hearing myself saying this but The Hawk (My hero Hawkins) would have been in awe of this player. As for me, anybody wanna buy a Mk 6 tenor with an OttoLink Florida 8 star mouthpiece? Collect it after my funeral. I'm dying with a broken heart. Wonderful Mr Rojas, just wonderful. Eat your heart out Trane. All said of course under the after effects of the discovery of a new (to me) player who has simply cut my legs from under me.

practice makes perfect!

best version since Coleman Hawkins!

truly exquisite

this is so beautiful, i play myself and WOW so beautiful

he's an AN-I-BAL on that thing.. nice man.. real nice

that's part of my current struggle, being very familiar with the scales, being able to improv while making it sounding like I know what I'm doing..just like this video depicts :-)

Oh my goodness, my jaw dropped after seeing your performance. You've really inspired me to learn and play! It's amazing how you can remember such a long complicated sounding song and play with so much passion in the sound. Great job!

Wow! EXCELLENT.

VERY GOOD !thanks !

great tone and phrasing!

Anibal Rojas, that was phenomenal! You have a wonderful mastery of the Saxophone, I hope to play at your level one day. I'm going to be a freshman at UNT next year, my journey starts there.

wow, such a brilliant upper register. very nice dude.

I play the tenor sax at my school (8th grade) and it's always so fun to listen to a really great player =) makes me want to stick to playing my tenor =D thanks for the inspiration, man!

Wow!!!!!!!!!!

Damn.. Very, very nice.. I love the sound in this.

Bravo!

Just blown away!! Pretty sure I need to work out a bit !!!

muy bien Anibal,...!! nice control!

Amazing!

Really nice, Man!

Excelente!

Love it:xxxxxxx

Great playing, keep it up!

Anibal que bello sonido! saludes y muchas bendiciones!

Sweet Solo dude!!!

Super!

Muchas gracias compa!!! te deseo lo mejor en lo tuyo...

sounds good man keep it up

That's an old Guardala I have although this was one of the last times I used it. Now I play on an AMMA. The sax is an old Mark VI... thanks for watching....

Man, I never know what to practice!!!

wow, man your amazing, first the AMAZING altissimo, and now this, great controll! especially w/ the low notes, I wish I could play mine that quietly down low...

You killing daddio!

very nice...

You did WORK on this song. This is one of my favorite jazz ballads. Maybe a few too many notes (The cadence would've been more impressive if the entire song wasn't like that)but that tone and your technicality makes up for it. Can't wait till I can play changes like that. Sick job.

kayata doh!mayoha nimo da!

that was spectacular. im a fan ive been watching your vids. what kind of sax is that? do u make your own reeds or buy a certain kind? im inspired

Excelente sonido. ¿Cuesta mucho acostumbrarse a tocar con cañas duras? Pregunto porque a mí no me gustan. No me siento cómodo. ¿Creés que condiciona en algo el sonido?

Great job man how long have you been playing? and what horn and mouthpiece do you use?

Also check out Ralp Bowen!!!

how are you playing this. In what order are these notes in? Is there a name for the style the notes are in.. It sounds like soul or blues? They sound like random notes but in a way fit. What is this called and how do you do it?

exellent what make is yur sax? i want your sound

I play the tenor sax aswell and im trying to find the sheet music for this song but i cant find it. :(

be you, not brecker.....

he really does...check out "Sax Summit: Michael Brecker, David Liebman and Joe Lovano". sounds just like'em

delicious!

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I wish I was half the player you are.

@bambaDisease It has to be the silver metal selmer lig.. it shouldn't squash your reeds too much.

where do you go to school?

@bambaDisease I use a selmer alto ligature on my guardala or a regular rovner ligature. Never really liked any others for this mouthpiece... all the best...

that sax set sounds just exactly like Michael Brecker's...lol

yeah! coltranissim

is guardala king or MB ???

nice usage of the scales. Sometimes a person can do too much of it, just too much of anything...well..can be too much.. But yea I can tell you meant it to be laid back yet strung out at the same time, so keep up the playing! :-)

...Kenny G did the same thing(you may already know this, but some that read these comments might not), and it was respectively considered Smooth Jazz/Pop. I guess it can be said, that it's been his cup of yea since the start, because I was thinking if he made a transition from Smooth Jazz to Pop, but since the first album he did some pop in there too. Basically, I guess he shrugs it off when he hears that people(especially trained ears) have little respect for calling himself a Jazz musician.

Great solo. Like the crazy C intro!! (Some players finger altissimo, some harmonics, the strength of the partials are dictated by the timbre of the horn)

Wow you sound even better than Dexter Gordon in that soug.

A bit of Coltrane in places...

El saxo es un Mark VI con una Guardala Brecker MK II y una caña Rico Select 4 medium o soft... no me acuerdo bien. Saludos!!

@caxassax MB

Mark VI -- no way, I would never be crazy enough to make my own reeds. I'll leave that to double reed players.

Pienso que uno se puede acostumbrar pero no es algo facil y tambien depende de tu boquilla. Si es muy grande puede ser un problema. Pero todo es posible. Es cosa de practicar y tratar de sacar tu propio sonido y para eso tienes que experimentar un poco espesialmente con cañas! Suerte en lo tuyo!

TOCAS BIEN PRIMO soy Checho el de la quena, consiguete un correo en hotmail, sabes yo tambien toco saxo pero no ta bien como tu, eres muy bueno

great player.. and great solo impro.. but i think that this is not difficult to get if you know 100% the scale where you're playing it requires practice..

Anibel to me sounds exactly like Ed Calle. He does sound amazing, but i feel he is more like Calle than Brecker or Trane or Getz.

That riff at the end sounded familiar. Stolen from Dexter Gordon, perhaps? :D

"Phantomdennis2006 Some people play tenderly on ballads. Your version seems like an exercise in dim. scales and altered dominant substitutions." My thought exactly... What is this guy trying to express? Beats me as all I hear is extroversion.

overwrought but a lesson in soundshape

Sweet solo mate!! maybe slightly too many brecker licks though.

I don't think he sounds exactly like Michael Brecker, yes they both sound great, a fine example of tenor saxophone sound, something to work towards. I agree with 1234 Jesus I hope some day I sound that good!

not quite like brecker RIP...im sure he( this sax player) would agree.....he sounds as far as tone and style close to ed calle which is probably the closest to sounding like brecker as far as "junk" if you dont know who ed calle is him and mike were really good friends he lives in miami you can check them trading out on arturo sandovals swingin.."salt peanuts" and check out eds album called in the zone and check out misty and youll hear the similarities b/w ed and this guy....but sounds great!

It sounds like Michael Brecker rubbed one out and forget to throw the napkin away. Come on man.

amazing, unfortunately i hear zero anibal and 100% Brecker.....

I would imagine, but on the other hand, I think what it boils down to, is that he discovered that many of the untrained ears for jazz, and saxophone music in general, don't particularly like Improvisation and change in style in musicians. That is a sad thing in my opinion, because you see it in a lot of popular music, such as Rolling Stones for an example. They were experimental up until they gained worldwide fanfare for their work....I shall continue in the next comment.

you think he listens to brecker?? hahahaha nice job man

lol do you like brecker?

you sound pretty good man but that 1st note was shaky.

I'll sort of stand up for Mr. G, because he earned a degree in music performance(correct me if I'm wrong), but it seems that the only reason his playing is so predictable and uneducated sounding, is because that's what makes him the big bucks. Therefore he found the zone that kept the money flowing, and got stuck in it. I'm sure he knows his stuff, but when it comes to throwing down tracks, it's all the same in my opinion.

suppose you're right. that must mean Mr G. must hate his own music by now....lol

oh, gosh, randomscales at 200bpm party of one? I wish these guys would play something more catchy and melodic Instead of those long slurs of notes that are completely uninteligable. Talent, use it!