"Pretending to understand" is one of the mose relatable things as a musician

Hey! I just wanted to say that your improv shorts where you made up solos on the spot really inspired me to practice improv! Just a few weeks ago, I performed a solo using the new skills I obtained when I was learning, and it was great! Love your channel! P.S: I’m in 8th grade

Big band is one of my favorites

LOVE the gig vlogs! Greetings from Germany

Sat in the front row at this show! Absolutely amazing band! These are the people that make me want to do music in the future! Being in high school, the experience of seeing the professionals in person is always life changing! Fantastic concert!

One of my biggest dreams is to play in a big band - the sound of the 20s 🙏🏼

It's actually so epic to see the whole big band experience from the point of a player! Thanks Frank!

Love your gig blogs, especially big band

CLINT THE GOAT!!!!!! Saw this live, and genuinely loved it! Everyone sounded really crisp and great!

the trombone section is soooooo together it makes my trombonist self happy

Glad to see that I'm not the only one to use the flute as a mouthpiece cap holder.

Sax harmonies are stunning!

I really love the editing on your gig vlogs, it's low-key but somehow has a lot of character too. Big fan of the joined explanation clips and their corresponding music parts, really engaging! (I get the impression that you do your own video editing, though I could be wrong?)

Great video as always Frankie! Geat stuff! The title tune on Jason Kush's recent CD Finally Friday is absolutely smokin'!! I played the hell out of that tune on my show.

love the editing style!

I love Clint! He wrote the Septopus for my Jazz band and it was such a fun chart to play. Definitely always pretended to understand the 7/4 stuff 😂

Lot of trust it seems in a big band. Trust between arranger and performers, what’s written, band members, trusting yourself to know where you are at in the song and where the band is. Too stressful to think about but what you shared sounded great and you fit in just right so you’re doing right!

Love this! Thanks for showing the journey!!

I love how your flute becomes a reed cap stand!!!

DUDE this is an epic video!!! Words cannot describe how well you put all this together. Phenomenal job man!!!

another great gig dude...Clint looks like a good guy...your laugh is so infectious!! :)

Wow - what a great gig! Too Cool!

best sax player there is 😈

amazing just amazing

Omg you are my dream saxophonist! With all the gigs, and the talent is insane! Wish I could be as good as you bro!

You've been a great inspiration to me! I'm in 8th grade andnplay alto and tenor. I love your videos and now I am going to Allstate this April! Thanks so much for the vids😊

Amazing job Frankie ❤

Love this big band sound. Thanks for sharing this.

"I used to be pretty good at clarinet; now I'm the absolute [honk]"

Doc, Kush, Frankie, Clint and the others that I can’t see… I definitely should’ve stopped by!!!

Literally the coolest person ever

Great job! The soli sounded amazing!

I just wanna say thank you so much for inspiring me to learn saxophone

I love this!

I love these Frankie - could watch one every day!

Love these videos playing alto in a jazz band is the best

When you film Clint from down low, he gets this amazing early Giamatti thing going. 😂 Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing!

Mike Tomaro was on Tenor 1?!?!? I’ve met him before, crazy player

yippy it's Frankie!!!

Those of us from around Western PA who know of the other amazing sax players that were in view..... Both Mike T and Jason K both being great players and educators around here.

I play bari for a big band, and love it!

Clint!! He helped us perform The Septopus at our highschool.

Dude's comedy hits hard. Love that explanation of Septopus.

Y does frankie look like shaggy now 😂 love the stuff man keep up the quality comtent

Bro, is so lucky. This is an amazing opportunity to have.

I like that Bleil guy. "This is next to impossible so go slow" "17 musicians that are better than me".

loved the vlog once again!

Amazing! I love that kind of music.

“im gonna go get wings with some friends” is perhaps the most understandable and relatable thing to say after a long gig

'Imposter'? No, definitely the real deal here. Always my dream to play bari in a big band!

Amazing video, great job editing!

Not a Sax fan, but you are giving me a good exposure to the instrument 🎷. 🎉❤

Love this music.. I’m getting Bullit sound track with shades of Steely Dan (in the earlier but anyway!).. wish I could learn!

Love the RuneScape sounds at the end 😂

I play in a youth big band in Detroit and we just played at orchestra hall Detroit a few weeks ago

Amazing!

Small world. Played with Clint in PA All State Jazz Band and pretty sure you were in my nine o’clock lab band at UNT. Cheers!

GOOOOD SOUNDS

At first the under camera seems weird but it actually takes me back to sitting in a section like that.

Good job Frankie ^_^

I hope it wasn't lost on you that Danny Devito's (The Trash Man's) character's name on It's Always Sunny is Frank 😄

My friends can't imagine me on a stage these days, but I was in a community band for years and I loved all the music, but I hated dressing up for concerts. Doing it in a suit and tie felt a little like work.

"pretending to understand" ajhajhaja

Great vlog loved the music. Was there a recording of this concert?

You played with Mike Tomaro???? We play his tunes and arrangements constantly in my college jazz band! Seeing his name in the description was wild.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people don't apologize for being late. I just wanted to send some appreciation for respecting their time even if you weren't the last one there.

Soli was badass!

Mike!!!

I love playing alto but it’s always the scariest to play in a big band, you’re second in pitch only to trumpet

I inspire to be as good as you

Frankie, great vlog! Let's see how long it'll take you notice what I'm doing though 😂

“pretending to understand”😭

Sounds great Frankie 👍 Where did you get the recording for the opening “You Don’t Know What Love Is”?

yoyo frankie! been subbed for a long while, need ur advice: im a functions/session bass player and wanted to start doing vlogs in the future of gigs: how do u capture audio/video at gigs? ive seen some options for zoom recorders and i have a fairly decent camera on my phone. any info for like, audio capture, mounting stuff etc would be really appreciated! ps: love ur channel and videos, always inspiring seeing a master at work in a field im in/ aspire to as well! pps: im based in the UK, been looking into agencies to expand myself, any thoughts on how much a bass player would need to read (im relearning reading atm) and what opportunities this might bring to me? obvs i realise as a winds/brass player its essential. wondering about what sort of gigs would be helped/more available if i read? i got my grade 8 20 years ago, and am reasonably competent at the majority of genres and been gigging as a session/function player for about 15 years or so

Noice!

Thanks for taking us along. I miss playing trombone in big band.

Cool drummer btw:)

W vid

What's the song you had playing at the beginning?

Is there any recording from the whole gig?

Wait, you also play the flute?

I have a question, can a 13 year old do jazz gigs?

Honestly just wanna know the wing order lol

whats that song in the intro?

where is this?

Most relatable comment: “I gave up the clarinet years ago.” I’ve played sax since 1980. Picked up flute in early 1982 and flute may be my most audience impressed instrument even though I’ve never put much work into it. Clarinet however, OMG me and that instrument just do not get along. I’ve tried since about 1985 and while I’m able to do what I do decently, I can’t do a lot and am nowhere near as proficient on clarinet as saxes or flute. Clearly I should have given up the clarinet years ago!

Ok, tell the truth. You just don't want to play clarinet, right? There's no way someone as talented as you are cannot play that just as well as you play all these other woodwinds. Just wondering. Awesome vid.

Dude know how to play flute too???? , this is unfair

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