New transcribing homework dropped 🔥

The Coltrane of our generation wears a splatoon shirt lol. That’s amazing

Awesome comping from William. Right in the pocket. This could be a good transcription project.

Amazing stuff! I love how you can tell Patrick is a fan of older jazz in his playing. It's very modern but seems to capture this throughline of jazz music from the ragtime to swing era, as well as the obvious bebop idiom. Not a lot of modern players do that.

Wow! Can't beleive William is only 18! You both sound amazing.

i didnt know just a sax and a piano could swing this hard

william you always drop my jaw and incredible to see you jam with a legend. even if AI eats the world, there will always be this...

@4:37 what a great nugget of vocab. There's so much soul in here. So many little nuances to grab

Yeah Patrick! You & William… Sick!!!

Just wow.

some wizardry right there

Willie dropping straight bombs in this so much. Swinging hard.

Great performance!

Thanks for putting young artist under the lights and "passing the torch".

Wonderful!!! That harmonizing at 5:24 was a nice touch too :)

When 2 instruments are more than enough...Great arrangement, spectacular!

The Splatoon shirt goes hard.

Whoa...those lights out there...I think that was the fire dept. cause y'all was BURNIN' 🔥

You guys should do a duo album

Inspiring!! Thanks for sharing that! Note- that part with sax and piano left hand only at the beginning kind of resembled the sounds of Don Byas recordings!

incredible, I just can't believe how good theses two can play and sound that good :')

You're the king Patrick! What an awesome and tight performance.

This is amazing stuff! Really inspiring! Thanks a lot for the joy of this recording!

ooooooohhhhh!!! Beautiful! Thankyou Patrick and Will!

Frickin awesome once again, greetings from France

Amazing!!!!❤

Fantastic

Great! Congratulations !

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amazing

Love it! ❤

REAL TALENT

SO good.

Wowzers

Sounding incredible! I love your hat too. Where do you get them? Thanks for the continued excellent musical content man, it's hugely inspiring.

A thrill ride!

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This is what music is all about mann 😎

The musicianship and skill is so high. It's a pleasure listening. More please...

I absolutely love doing piano duo with sax players

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So so good, Dear Patrick when are coming to europe ?

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すごい…かっこいいです‼︎ スプラトゥーンのTシャツですね👕

Where are you playing in 2024?

yyyyyyeah

Gah dam

Maybe a so little bit low some notes tone cause this soft reed? XD na so good.

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Good feeling, you sound softer reed than Parker? Is that to be more lily pons like Parker said of Hodges? Xdddd

I only eat butter.

I just listened to a 10h French podcast radio show on Sonny Rollins (yes, 10x 1h, covering 1951-2001!!!). A torture, but I'm like that, I dive into an artist and I listen to everything, or almost. To have my own opinion. My opinion of Rollins is that he seems very overrated to me. As a player/improviser First of all as a player/improviser, he does not seem to me better than Johnny Griffin, Sonny Stitt, Roland Kirk, Phil Woods, Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Hank Mobley... but enjoys a much greater notoriety... and unjustified in my opinion. Ok he plays well, but not better in my opinion than the musicians above. Listen to Eternal Triangle which puts Rollins and Stitt together. Here they are VERY evenly matched technique wise but it is Rollins who is the more famous today. There is a lot of study done on Rollins' solos and they are generally accepted to be examples of strong overall thematic construction and development. This somewhat implies that others just play randomly. I'm not entirely convinced by that argument. If you like it, its a strength, if you think its an excuse for repetition, you'd think not. As a composer At the level of the composition, he did not compose anything, everyone knows that his hit ''St Thomas'' is a Caribbean folklore already recorded by Randy Weston in 1955 under the title ''Fire Down There''. St Thomas is an example of cultural transference. It is infact originally The Lincolnshire Poacher. An old english folk tune. It was taken to the Carribean presumably on the slave ships but possibly even earlier by the pirate ships (appropriate given its title). It gets transmuted into a Carribean Folk tune and then Rollins recalls it from his childhood being sung by his mother and renames it after the Island. I had assumed St Thomas was what his mother called it, but the Ted Heath Band, a British Big Band of the 1950s had a big(ish) hit with 'The Lincolnshire Poacher' done presumably as a 'ripost' to St Thomas. His ''Tenor Madness'' is a composition by Kenny Clarke published in 1947 under the title ''Rue Chaptal''. His other compositions from the 50s... well, Oleo, Airegin etc... it can in no way be compared to the compositions of Trane, Bird, Monk or Shorter... One thing that always struck me that I've heard no one else mention is that the Alfie theme is merely a reworking of the intro to 'Singing In The Rain!' Sound and artistic vision I find this a curious aspect. Early on, in the 50s his sound was distinct enough but it became more distinctive later. It is an odd sound for tenor but its one I hear more and more players now using. I'm not quite sure how its done or if there is a physiological reason for it. I have found it to be an aquired taste. Moreover, his playing and his sound are terribly degraded after 1966 (36 years). Something happened on that bridge, he lost his mind. He seems to have been traumatized by the arrival of Ornette, Trane, Ayler... In the 60s he tried to be freer than Ayler, more calypso/blues than Ornette, and more mystical than Trane, but without succeeding because so superficial... Then in the 70s/80s he tried his hand at funk, disco... with really ridiculous and corny results... Did he want to be funkier than James Brown himself? More disco than Chic and Nile Rodgers? On ''SAIS'' from the ''Horn Culture'' album, one example among many, just picking up a random piece between 1966 and 2001....It's a shame. He plays out of tune, out of rhythm, with an absolutely disgusting sound. It is a lack of respect towards himself, the other musicians and the listener. No normally constituted musician would have agreed to let this recording be released. The problem with Rollins is that EVERYTHING IS LIKE THIS after 1966. He even said himself that he was high on marijuana when he recorded his solo album ''Soloscope'' at the Museum of Modern Art. from NYC...Also listen to the result, it's ridiculous and disrespectful towards the listeners... Ego and money Also, on the radio show, they say he was paid today's $300,000 for himself to record the Nucleus album (listen to the result!!!!), and that for his concerts, his Financial claims were unrealistic, only big festivals could afford it. He played with the Stones but didn't want to tour with them because, according to Mike Jagger himself, he wanted too much money! I am not making anything up here. In a blindfold test published in downbeat in 2006, he doesn't recognize ANY saxophonist, even taking James Carter for Don Byas! Totally mind-blowing and revealing! Conclusion In conclusion Sonny Rollins is for me the archetype of a narcissistic complacency encouraged by the fans and the milieu which has placed him on a throne since 1956 and his (very average) album ''saxophone colossus''. You have to be quite arrogant to glorify yourself as a ''saxophone colossus'' at 26 years old when BIRD had just died the previous year.

lol that intro was wild