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Transcription of the clarinet and tenor sax solos on Blue and Sentimental by Count Basie, as played by the Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble at Essentially Ellington 2022. I just recently heard this recording, and both these solos are incredible. I seriously feel nostalgic about them despite having heard them very few times. I hope you enjoy the video!
Soloists:
Sean McCoy (Clarinet)
Zeb Jewell-Alibhai (Tenor Sax)
Original: • Essentially Ellington ...

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@zebjazz Жыл бұрын

Lol that's me on tenor. Pretty sure that's the first time anyone's transcribed me.

@lukasalihein Жыл бұрын

Dude, you sound great. I've been playing for 30 years and I'm really impressed with your time, intonation, phrasing, stylistic choices. Keep it up man!

@rubadub15 Жыл бұрын

Good job

@cluelesscone75 Жыл бұрын

You sound amazing man. The amount of times I keep replaying this song and having it on loop is just astronomical. I love the sound quality of that saxophone. Just absolutely beautiful. Also, congrats on your awards. That’s insane bro!

@trevinsnow6713 Жыл бұрын

yea zeb!

@peepandstitch Жыл бұрын

Oh my god that’s so awesome. I’m new to tenor and if I can even mimic a fraction of your skill and talent my life will be complete. Your playing is absolutely immaculate oml

@Ciiiroo Жыл бұрын

holy moly the tenor nailed it

@zebjazz Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate it

@quantumchaos7549 Жыл бұрын

we found him boys

@fcturner Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Totally insane for his age!!

@moussavarolgil9658 Жыл бұрын

Goosebumps

@Artic69 Жыл бұрын

@@zebjazz what mouthpiece did you use here? You sound so good on it. One of the best highschool solos I’ve ever heard

@profoundresolve Жыл бұрын

I too love the fallout series. Jokes aside, the tone on the clarinet and tenor sax is fucking IMMACULATE

@profoundresolve Жыл бұрын

@@austinsmallwood151 all the music you can play on the in game radio is 20-40s music, so very similiar vibe to what is being played here.

@700lbsripped7 Жыл бұрын

I play both the clarinet and saxophone and imo the clarinet here wasnt impressive at all but the tenor sax was absolutely beautiful

@britisharmedforcesmilsim3015 Жыл бұрын

@@700lbsripped7 🤓

@forget2bhuman993 Жыл бұрын

@@britisharmedforcesmilsim3015 a nerd face because someone was correct? zoomers have weird humour, he's not even trying to sound smart at all, its just the original comment had no clue what they were saying, the clarinet here is lame as fuck, is that more in words you can understand?

@BoredMuffin-og6kc Жыл бұрын

@@700lbsripped7 🤓

@reluctantly_anthony Жыл бұрын

damn the clarinet solo was awesome. He was a little embarrassed by the split tone at the end but had no need to be. It gave it character

@seankeegan8285 Жыл бұрын

yeah he laughed but i found it very tasteful. some of the best moments are accidental in music :D (ehh not some, most perhaps)

@pikachuchujelly7628 3 ай бұрын

Great solo, but his tone needs some work.

@Everythingever-seeing 2 ай бұрын

???????@@pikachuchujelly7628

@turbo5348 Ай бұрын

@@pikachuchujelly7628 nah that tone was on point

@joelaffolter2392 Жыл бұрын

It's a real pleasure to see all these young people rethinking the music of the 'old' ones. With good taste and sensitivity. The clarinet sounds sometimes like PW Russell in the high notes and the tenor solo is of a very high level. We are on the right track with this new generation who not only know the 'tradition' but are also able and aware to bring new things. Congratulations to all of you.😀

@alexacosta2140 Жыл бұрын

The old ones are the ones who had a pragmatic approach to music. Whenever I learn their music, I feel as if I gain better context on how music works as a whole.

@PyfeTweesen Жыл бұрын

Rethinking? No. They're custodians dusting off museum pieces. But they're really good at dusting off.

@DamnYouMadeThisJ Жыл бұрын

we’re just trying to keep it alive man

@MRios1128 Жыл бұрын

I have hope in gen z. Us millennials are morons. Remember to vote conservative.

@NoahCrawfordpostsband Жыл бұрын

@@LemonadeLiberal cool

@keananok Жыл бұрын

Holy shit this guy listens to Johnny Hodges, and you can tell in more ways than just the bending.

@JustiaFiat Жыл бұрын

And Ben Webster

@darrenmorales3885 Жыл бұрын

Less Is more. Either long bend a part of a phrase or short bends across phrases. Too much of both leads to unbalanced melody. Melody is key when playing lines like this.

@zebjazz Жыл бұрын

It's funny I actually don't listen to much Hodges at all. The main inspiration for this solo was Herschel Evans. I've checked out a lot of Ben Webster in the past, but if I'm honest not much Hodges!

@kunta4892 Жыл бұрын

@@zebjazz i enjoy listening to you play

@keananok Жыл бұрын

@@zebjazz that’s interesting. I hear a lot of his all of me solo in this recording especially.

@LowReedExpert1 Жыл бұрын

Tenor has been doing his Johnny Hodges homework! Those bends are smooth as butter

@peterjrmoore3941 Жыл бұрын

in a reply above the tenor says who influenced him more

@someguy9295 Жыл бұрын

and some Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young bits here and there

@dananthony6258 Жыл бұрын

I’m a guitarist but man do I love the saxophone.

@absolutezeroist11 Жыл бұрын

sax is a great thing

@spinach6122 Жыл бұрын

Why not do both?

@dananthony6258 Жыл бұрын

@@spinach6122 I would probably pass out. I dont have the lungs.

@claytongreenlee7808 Жыл бұрын

@@dananthony6258 Saxophone is actually more of a laid back and easy going instrument, its more so about the quality of the air than the quantity, if you ever feel like passing out while playing you are probably doing it wrong. You should give it a try! Its definitely not easy, im in college and my air control definitely still needs some work, but your lungs shouldn’t be a problem if you’re interested in learning it

@TruSteezus Жыл бұрын

@@claytongreenlee7808 how much are they normally

@Saxologic 3 ай бұрын

That is a PHAT gorgeous tenor sound oh my!!!

@zebjazz 2 ай бұрын

Thanks man!

@jacksonv.1410 Жыл бұрын

that clarinet dude was at my all state clinic in may! he was the first chair alto sax and his tone was absolutely amazing

@SeanMcCoyMusic Жыл бұрын

jk yes

@peeveeveejay6588 Жыл бұрын

bro all state gang i was there too, bro i forgot ur guys names but im the indian 3rd chair guy. and bruh ur insane on clarinet

@jacksonv.1410 Жыл бұрын

@@peeveeveejay6588 i was the guy that did the story

@peeveeveejay6588 Жыл бұрын

@@jacksonv.1410 what instrument were u, u were the flute guy

@James-yy2wl Жыл бұрын

The clarinet. Holy shit. Like wow. That was probably one of the best jazz clarinet performances I’ve ever heard.

@pinkedw Жыл бұрын

this was my exact reaction. It sounded literally so good

@gamingwithmangoandrrr8304 5 ай бұрын

Artie Shaw better

@pikachuchujelly7628 3 ай бұрын

It's a great solo, but his tone is really bad.

@CC-gm9cb 3 ай бұрын

@@pikachuchujelly7628bro are you ragebaiting or smth ur reply is on every comment

@pikachuchujelly7628 Ай бұрын

I just don't like his tone. Sorry.

@idhott Жыл бұрын

That tenor solo is one of the most beautiful solos I’ve ever heard

@brodrick406 Жыл бұрын

And hes just as good on trumpet

@MrPlant597 5 ай бұрын

Reminded me of Ben Webster. You might like it.

@SeanMcCoyMusic Жыл бұрын

THATS ME WHATTTT THANKS DUDE WHATTTT

@SeanMcCoyMusic Жыл бұрын

the 2 1/2 rico reed did me nice

@7khon731 Жыл бұрын

good stuff bro 😎

@shtupidmate Жыл бұрын

dude your tone is waaaay ahead other HS players dude crazy you get that tone out of a basic rico

@piotrek9255 Жыл бұрын

Congrats bro

@leafymeadow9811 Жыл бұрын

holy hell you did amazing dude, amazing control

@sigmaclass Жыл бұрын

Tenor sounds straight out of the Harry James band. Killed it!

@barrington2716 Жыл бұрын

What is tenor?

@sigmaclass Жыл бұрын

@@barrington2716 The tenor sax

@MortyElMaloteehuehueheu Жыл бұрын

This is beautiful to me. I don't feel it like nostalgic, I only feel a soft sense of love and cuteness between a special person.

@All-ze9cl Жыл бұрын

Feels like a Disney song

@henryjarnigan Жыл бұрын

thats such a fun lovely way to describe it

@desiree7633 Жыл бұрын

@@All-ze9cl there we go

@nicolasribeiro7914 Жыл бұрын

0:17 my boy on the back DID feel the stank tho

@scurfle938 Жыл бұрын

whoooo, i love the clarinet player. wicked tone, i hope i have the opportunity to play jazz clarinet this year in high school. we did a late 40s style musical and i was playing for the pit, it was my first real exposure to playing jazz, it was the most fun ive ever had playing clarinet easily.

@Skyflairl2p Жыл бұрын

1:08 my body melts from these bends

@mabzzzzz Жыл бұрын

There are no words to describe how beautiful this is

@19Lqueen17 Жыл бұрын

Amazing tenor tone, amazing phrasing, articulation and VIBE. The guy nailed it

@Dylonely42 Жыл бұрын

I listened to this several times non-stop, what a great music.

@tianarmas1665 Жыл бұрын

HEHEHEHA

@Dylonely42 Жыл бұрын

@@tianarmas1665 put your d away Waltuh

@Figurebutgaming Жыл бұрын

@@tianarmas1665 waltuh I'm not having sex rn

@shouzhebg Жыл бұрын

i found you on a non classical music video wassup

@blanchae Жыл бұрын

That blew my mind! Wow, I haven't heard such smooth playing in years. Beautiful.

@Guinneissik Жыл бұрын

Marvelous performance...also trumbone guy in the back 0:16 I hope your life is filled with beautiful nasty feelings and events as much as you enjoyed at that moment

@HahnJames Жыл бұрын

That was impressive! It was really cool. I played tenor sax in high school. When I graduated, I left it behind. I always kind of regretted it. After what seems like 100 years, I started to learn the soprano sax. It's amazing what comes back to you after a long lapse of time. I fotgot how much fun it was.

@medabotsb Жыл бұрын

This is fire ... Wow I really hope generations continue to give jazz it's deserved place!

@admiredemonz_yt6156 Жыл бұрын

The amount of times I've watched this video... I've memorized how to play the solo on my clarinet and tenor sax lol. I'm constantly playing it during my band period and I CAN'T STOP! It's so good

@wickedwarrior5782 10 күн бұрын

That music just hits hard. the swings and the tone are ABSOLUTLY INCREDIBLE!

@ethanl.1699 Жыл бұрын

0:31 the lick: double lick variation

@Josh-bp1km Жыл бұрын

The clip just got better and better 😂 superb musicians and heck audience too, their applause was timed beautifully.

@robertshrewsbury4241 Жыл бұрын

Excellent playing.

@NatureHeadSupreme Жыл бұрын

I just melt watching these. So young and talented, my goodness.

@ItsChxrlie Жыл бұрын

I love music that you can absolutely feel, something that just makes you want to move and shake to the rhythm. I can’t explain the amount of times I replayed this, it was AMAZING.

@MrJazzi-or6dy Жыл бұрын

I really adore this kind of music, I think it's above any other kind of music

@sly9566 Күн бұрын

You are all brilliant! 🎷🙏🎷🙏🎷🙏🎷

@nairdazitro7460 Жыл бұрын

Gorgeous tone, god blessed you.

@evanbyrd5750 Жыл бұрын

I’m a proud alum of this group. Gotta give it up for the director Dr. Gregg Gelb

@epapazian Жыл бұрын

If anybody wants to listen to the original version this is based on, it’s the Count Basie orchestra recording in 1938 of “Blue and Sentimental” with Herschel Evans on tenor and Lester Young playing a rare clarinet solo.

@amargou Жыл бұрын

life is worth living because i got to listen to this guys' solos

@Aidan13547 Жыл бұрын

Holy crap that clarinet solo was so insane!

@gracielacasamian2541 Жыл бұрын

Maravillosa interpretación, felicitaciones!!!

@johnaustinkaohelaulii8224 11 ай бұрын

I forgot where I heard this, but it’s very rare to hear a “Smoky Tenor”. And my God this Kid knocked it outta the park. Got the right slurs of bright notes down lock-and-key! Brilliantly done, and well executed. “Not too Smoky that you can’t make out the Speed Limit, but just enough to make out the Town you’re in…” -- Someone In My Memory

@KateCarew Жыл бұрын

Every cell in my body wept with sheer joy hearing such EXCELLENCE and knowing the love of such beautiful music didn’t end with the previous generations 🙏🏻

@bacchus1234567 Ай бұрын

Very nice! Well played!

@SPC49 11 күн бұрын

Holy crap what a sound, great work man

@Ilovekanyewestsm Жыл бұрын

As a fellow tenor saxist, this dude gives me chills. He’s so good at playing his solo.

@kiaruna Жыл бұрын

That tenor sax dude is awesome. Well done !

@nonapplicable6619 Жыл бұрын

Oh my god that was beautiful. My guys out here killing it.

@rudyvasquez9343 Жыл бұрын

Beast, on the tenor man. Sounds amazing!

@fenderbetterscream 3 ай бұрын

I love this chart, one of my favorite Basie tunes

@diminuendo7525 Жыл бұрын

im literally in tears this is so pretty 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@miashaffery 8 ай бұрын

this is absolutely excellent

@scotteckart1401 7 ай бұрын

To be so good, so young!

@tast_ Жыл бұрын

The clarinet player is a doctor now, Dr. McCoy

@nbrown6648 Жыл бұрын

May not be perfection (which is sometimes overrated), but they are feeling the music (which is sometimes underrated) - Behind these guys is a good teacher.

@ryanhelmbold2288 Жыл бұрын

Its jazz, if youre playing it "perfect" youre doing it wrong

@dorianl3788 Жыл бұрын

Dr. Gregg Gelb, the best

@trevor246 Жыл бұрын

this sounds amazing

@jaydengilmore7387 Жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME

@christopheredwards8219 Жыл бұрын

God damn playing so relaxed his spine could fall out.

@samucaeosmano9207 2 ай бұрын

man ever since ive found this video i cant help it but rewatch it everytime i open youtube

@SuperJox Жыл бұрын

Yo that was so good

@SirCommoner Жыл бұрын

I think I just listened to the tenor solo like 7 times. Those were some SEXY licks

@shyamthandullu1994 Жыл бұрын

You wouldn’t believe how incredible it was live.

@grantmccoy6739 Жыл бұрын

Classic! So good

@peepandstitch Жыл бұрын

Really new to jazz and tenor (played alto before) and I have a goal now: IF I CAN MIMIC EVEN A FRACTION OF HIS POWER MY LIFE WILL BE COMPLETE.

@nekotizimo1156 Жыл бұрын

gave me chills man

@hopefulbloom Жыл бұрын

DAMNNNN, that sax is friggin stunning.

@bookenjoyer3970 Жыл бұрын

Holy shit I could watch this on loop forever ❤

@Damsel_In_Distress_528 Жыл бұрын

Man, that Violin player played perfectly. *[Just A Burning Memory starts playing]*

@Lucas-pd2hk Жыл бұрын

What is Just a Burning Memory? It sounds familiar but i dont seem to remember what it is.

@Damsel_In_Distress_528 Жыл бұрын

@@Lucas-pd2hk Hmm... I can't seem to remember what it is either.

@saladmashups1310 Жыл бұрын

@@Lucas-pd2hk self describing comment

@stealthmermaid40 Жыл бұрын

LOL FAM I WAS THINKING AN EMPTY BLISS TOOOOOOO

@bradjohnson9671 3 ай бұрын

That was SAWEET! Both soloists were fantastic, the tenor had fantastic tone. I've always loved a smooth smokey tenor sax, this one had it all over the place.

@pablonavarro4290 8 ай бұрын

This performance literally made me cry before it was so beautiful

@kodav.9412 Жыл бұрын

Amazing ❤❤❤

@HairBilly Жыл бұрын

Great solos

@DevotedGamer1 7 ай бұрын

lovely

@caaahlos5932 Жыл бұрын

This is incredible.

@delaiskandar4937 4 күн бұрын

The Tone so great with vintage Tenor saxo.👍

@profilen5181 Жыл бұрын

didnt know I needed to hear this, that was fucking awesome

@stephenwhitney2666 Жыл бұрын

I can’t get over the tone it’s so soft

@clementjarno717 Жыл бұрын

Los Angeles, 1964 Night is dark, so is my heart. Whisky ain't making things better..

@KindofKid Жыл бұрын

love this

@supersoup4672 Жыл бұрын

They’re so good

@spudly70 Жыл бұрын

I’m so jealous. I’m very very amazed by these players and I hope one day I’ll be as good

@user-bx3uf4fv7l Жыл бұрын

I wonder if this piece would induce nostalgia/melancholy in someone who never before knew of anything related to european/american culture, like a monk in tibet or maybe congolese tribesmen. Is it something intrinsic in the music that makes us interpret it this way or is it just our own life experiences?

@GoriIIaTactics 11 ай бұрын

This kinda just sounds gay to me

@Canned_Peaches Жыл бұрын

Very well done.

@JamesSpeiser Жыл бұрын

fantastic

@Nikushimi.000 Жыл бұрын

That tenor, I want to be able to produce that sound

@nairdazitro7460 Жыл бұрын

Genetic is a b*tch my friend.

@DanielJimenez-oc1rm Ай бұрын

Impresionante!!!

@GUmbolyaa5112 Жыл бұрын

This made me nostalgic for a song I have never heard before

@user-xc6wd3hb4s Жыл бұрын

Beautiful sound on the tenor sax. For some reason, very few sax players seem to be able to get a great tone like that today.

@SureBuddy Жыл бұрын

I knew so many kids like these that were incredible and then dropped playing after high school for one reason or another, and it's heartbreaking. I really wish schools put more into music programs. I got lucky, but a lot don't.