You Don't Know What Love Is - Al McLean & Lex French

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In this instalment of Jazz, Period., we find saxophonist Al McLean joined on stage by Montreal based Lex French for a trumpet feature. Lex is playing a 101 year old presentation grade trumpet, and he cuts a beautiful ballad on the small bore horn.
Both French and McLean are playing into vintage ribbon microphone, French a 1950's RCA 77-DX, and McLean on a 1953 Toshiba Type A (RCA 44-A clone).
The two are backed up by drummer Jim Doxas, bassist Adrian Vedady and pianist Pierre Francois.
Filmed at Diese Onze Jazz Club in Montreal, April 7, 2017. Audio and filming by Randy Cole.

Пікірлер: 54

@Matraka2000 3 жыл бұрын

I will play the trumpet like that someday. I love it. I just have 5 months going but I practice everyday all days.

@NeoManoscaMusic 3 жыл бұрын

hey man just wanna say ofcourse you will. keep on going!

@jwmc41 Жыл бұрын

Progress report?

@Matraka2000 Жыл бұрын

@@jwmc41 I am reaching it but practicing every day. I love trumpeting.

@jwmc41 Жыл бұрын

@@Matraka2000 thank you, and wish you well. Are used to do eight hours a day on the clarinet so I know what it’s like, but rewarding in the end! The difficult to bit is having up there, or near, you Gotta keep going!

@rik-keymusic160 5 жыл бұрын

damn, that trumpet sound is so damn nice!! awesome performance!

@BrownmanAli Жыл бұрын

Lex is such a monster... lines and tone for days. So killin.

@jeremydavalosmusic 7 жыл бұрын

What a sound from Lex!

@djuneconley5569 3 жыл бұрын

trumpet player is so smooth and sure beautiful sound

@joemusic13 3 жыл бұрын

YOU GENTLEMAN LAID THIS OUT WITH A EXCELLENT RECORDING THAT TOOK ME TO A MILES DAVIS AND SONNY ROLANDS SOUND THAT CALLED TRUE CLASSIC JAZZ. ALL PARTS SINK IN A PLEASURE OF THE HUMAN EAR. --DUNMORE MUSIC OF MONEE IL.

@jamesadams80 7 жыл бұрын

Love that small bore trumpet sound!

@chickberth 7 жыл бұрын

This is insanely good. Came for the microphone, stayed for the playing.

@dizzyfritz596 7 жыл бұрын

Nice. Interesting bit about the vintage small bore trumpet, too--the original builder probably never imagined it would playing this well after more than a century. Great stuff.

@ar73wilson 5 жыл бұрын

WOW There's something about that combination. Miles is Smiling

@RogerNordling 7 жыл бұрын

Al, what a fantastic tenor sound you got! Very expressive, very much in the Coltrane vein.

@BebopHardRock Жыл бұрын

I hear quite a bit of Bergonzi in his playing.... but I may be wrong.

@aleksandarstojceski3139 10 ай бұрын

His tone is really Coltranish.

@DihelsonMendonca Жыл бұрын

This Al McLean is simply fantastic. He reminds me Coltrane so much. And this is good. 🙏🙏☝️❤️❤️❤️

@romansax355 3 жыл бұрын

Coltrane sound, love it ❤️

@mkjazz 3 жыл бұрын

Great quintet, smooth version of my favourite ballad! The pianist is a great listener too... thanks for 12 minutes of ear candy !

@jsphotos 7 жыл бұрын

Superb!

@lawrencemuller8972 5 жыл бұрын

This is incredibly good... Thanks for the performance.

@LCGone 7 жыл бұрын

Nice..Nice...smooth nice!

@willbalkovec2631 8 ай бұрын

Stunning! Absolutely Stunning. Been here before, but would have loved to be sitting in the room for this.

@daveyewart4289 6 жыл бұрын

great playing mate

@jazzforJamie 7 жыл бұрын

Hi! Al, Very smooth and relax playing, Great! // Johnny D bergh

@Seanjazzman98 5 жыл бұрын

Great sound and ideas. Keep it up, man!

@Emotionnewsoul 3 жыл бұрын

Love that horn! Nailed it. Awesome performance!!

@user-yl1fe5lv4o 4 жыл бұрын

Very good!!

@pascal62 7 жыл бұрын

That's the closest to Coltrane's sound that I've ever heard... damn!

@msudlp 2 жыл бұрын

Thank You

@guennadikisselev6289 4 жыл бұрын

This is my music! Wow!

@gerard8174 Жыл бұрын

Wow, I didn't know Lex French but I'm going to check him out more for sure. I really enjoyed this, lovely done. Thank you.

@effepuntoeffe 3 жыл бұрын

Geniale!!

@claassen334 3 жыл бұрын

Wauw, this is so great, what an intro, what a sound, how many notes ??? Love this !

@etaylor2k 2 ай бұрын

🙌🏾

@saxmen4604 3 жыл бұрын

Trumpet👍🏼🔥🎺

@maxperov 2 жыл бұрын

nice))

@MrBongoagogo 2 жыл бұрын

Lex French from nz ex roger fox big band trumpet player.

@user-mj1ng5tj4u Жыл бұрын

Yo quiero ser así

@cwslai 7 жыл бұрын

Great music. Is there a reason to put two extra microphones into the soundboard of the piano?

@wideangleman 7 жыл бұрын

The mics laid in the frame of the piano belong to the club, for the PA. They're not used in the recording.

@filipdinevmusic 5 жыл бұрын

04:50 bass.

@joedown962 3 жыл бұрын

Randy, what horn does Lex play on? Thanks!

@BobDoherty 5 жыл бұрын

What’s a presentation trumpet? Says that in the description.

@dachanist 5 жыл бұрын

It means a good one (as in this trumpet is presentation grade). The make and model aren't specified but basically its a quality made and maintained 100 year old trumpet that is worth more in restoration costs than the 2-300 bucks or so that pre ww2 trumpets go for on ebay because it has been properly restored. Realistically though you could get 80-90% of the same performance out of a good vintage ebay horn so long as the compression was halfway decent and the valves didn't stick horribly. Those old horns have a range from heavy and dull sound to narrow and bright and are pretty finnicky. The music comes from working around those quirks, that's why people like the good condition rare vintage horns. They aren't better than modern ones and are in many ways harder to play, but those limitations breed creativity... or frustration. You won't see many classical musicians digging deep into the vintage horn scene but jazz musicians do while searching for a new sound... then again classical trumpeters can go all the way back to the valveless natural trumpet from the baroque era and no jazz trumpeter I've ever seen has gone that far down the vintage hole while looking for new ways to play old songs, or old ways to play old songs... you know what I mean.