8 months later I still keep coming back to this video! Thanks George!

I studied with him at New School! It was great! And he is a phenomenal player, teacher AND story teller!

I took a semester with him and I barely messed with the triadic stuff. We basically worked on sound and time for 15 weeks and I improved more than I ever had before. But man I love listening to him talk haha he's such a character.

I've watched this tons of times, and it's like I uncover new things very single time. A true gem, even for non-Sax guys like me.

Man he KILLED it with that starbucks joke

I appreciate the tutorial George. Wish you were my teacher when I went to school 50 years ago.

George is a national treasure! Thanks for sharing this!

Thanks God, saxophonists needs so mutch guys like that! Thanks George! I felt the energy!

Privyet thank you so much for posting this video it's terrific. I am busy recovering from surgery for cancer and this video is really bringing me a great joy which I have discovered this Easter Sunday. It is my desire one day to go to 🇷🇺 perhaps I might visit your shop one Day? God bless and Das vidanya! Bill. UK

Thank you for putting this up. What a gift!:)

George has a great vibe, totally natural. Seems like a down to earth guy that you could have a beer with and talk shit. Cool guy.

Really great, thank you for posting this. Just gets better with every viewing!

Thank you for sharing this piece of art. Mr. Garzone is AMAZING!

I enjoyed this clinic very much- It made my night. Cleared a couple of doubts too. Thanks !

Beautiful! simple ,human so the big Masters are...George Garzone a name to remenber...Thanks a lot

Tq George Garzone. I very appreciate the lesson, i've learn alot just listen to you.i love to buy your DVD.

I spent three and a half years studying with George at Berklee. What a great experience it was! My favorite story is when Medeski Martin and Wood came to town and I told him I was going to see them that night. George says " oh yeah those kids asked me to come stand in with them but I told them to go and do their own thing." That was probably 1995-96.

I am very honored to have taken lessons with him at Berklee.

I love the way he smiles after expressing his thoughts on sax.

You are such an honest wonderful man! plus a great Musician;) cheers Yussef UK

wow,thank you so much for this!

you are so right George when you said" you can play free but be able to to play bebop and changes first" ..which will make you a better player. I strongly believe this too.

"The most perfect time feel I have ever heard came from..." I just KNEW he was going to say Michael Brecker. Thanks for this top post! "Perfect time will never hurt you - bad time will kill you" - I'm off to work with my metronome... slowly :-)

One of the best master classes. Wisdom on pittfalls. I love his approach en his Italian style.great soul

The ligature is a wooden ring. Roberto's Woodwinds in NYC is where I got mine. The idea is that the ring holds the reed only on the edges where the table of the reed meets the sides of the reed, allowing the reed to vibrate while sealing the table of the reed to the mouthpiece. Nice tone with a lot of the lower overtones. I wouldn't recommend it for honkers or big band playing. Practicing long tones by breathing but not playing the note is not unique to GG. One of my old teachers (Sherman Irby) swore by it and had me practice long tones that way.

Wow-excellent video!!!

Great! Loved it.

PS what a beautiful sound George. God bless. Bill. UK

i love ALL the videos on this chanel, BUT i must admit, getting some english videos is always a perk! :D I REALLY need to learn Russian...

MAESTRO PAESANO BELLISSIMO!!! GRAZIE TANTO!

So THIS is why I liked Dolphy so much lol

Great video! I was surprised when he spoke of long tones, sound and players, he failed to mention Jan Garbarek? No surprise he spoke of Coltrane, Brecker and Lovano with such reverence.

23:10 So key in improvising, creating. If jazz is the music of surprises it is no crime for the players to surprise themselves.

4:36 Garzone farts, great tone and sound.

Miss you G!!

52:30 for Spiritual

Одни тенористы! :) Спасибо, очень понравилось. Жаль, я не из Москвы.

Love George's sense of humor, and I don't think these people feel that humor.

THKS MASTER !!!

I'm a hack, not a musician. This was very cool to watch, but I feel like an ape watching aliens do something amazing.

George Garzone shares innumerable insights related to Saxophone:

well, very good lesson, let's start studying.

23:00 I am glad he said this, I have this same feeling and have always had this question of folks who have deep music theory knowledge

Afternoon trying to open this video

Anthony Garzone taught me how to play the cowbell

🔥🔥🔥

17:25 = 'Toteh-oh-teh-oh-teh-oh-teh'...LOL

❤

very very great

Be your self. Good advice .

А перевод будет когда-то?

jel postoji prevod na srpskom..., hvala

I like uncle Rocco already.

Hardly top-secret, it just requires 10s of thousands of hours of practice to approach anything like musicality as an improviser when employing these kind of harmonic techniques.

Да жаль я не в Москве.

Holly crap, that song at 1:17:00 is just so beautiful, does someone know the name?

Anyone know the black ligature he is using? Isn't it the Florian Popa lig?

Great video. I tried to learn and hear bebop. It doesn't suit me. It took a long time to admit that fact. Fortunately, by the time I played with Lieb, I wasn't imitating anyone.

Triadic concept: 46:23

Дворники зашли погреться, что за вопросы

The Italian thing. It helps.

he gave the secret to giant steps......

George is all the time referring to one guy at the audience that seems to be also one of the great teachers in Russia, who apparently was Nikolai teacher before George at Berkeley, the guy with the blue jean shirt leaning back and chewing gum, anyone knows his name?

36:00 getting up early

What ligature does he use? Thank you

Personal ref: 41:00 1:39:30

1:16:07

40:40

Weird. After analyzing what he plays I actually don’t find many instances of triads connected with half steps.

He is using tenor

32:00 long tones...

If he was Japanese, he would be designated a national treasure!

Chromatic Approach 1:07:51

What saxophone George is using?

"все поняли о чем речь?" - аудитория ничего не поняла вообще!

what sax is he playing? is that a mauriat? or does mariachi make their own saxophones?

Personal Ref 18:44 43:12 48:55

lol the Russian students are stoned faced

45:00 So woke

The audience looks lost.

Tells them almost nothing for 45 minutes, then looks at clock...”do we still have some time?” Then goes for another 40 minutes. Kind of a weird clinic. Still enjoyed watching it, but seems like he was making it up as he went.

I respect Mr Garzone and he seems like a nice guy but it makes no sense to first say "always play like yourself" and the proceed to talk about how to play like Coltrane for half an hour. Also, if you say "play like yourself" and don't go deeper into what it means it will only confuse the student. But I guess he's there to sell his DVD, Jody mpc and Rico reeds...

He has a nice sound but what a bore he is 👎☹

46:16