Well Duke was anything but a disciplinarean and encouraged the artists to be relaxed and express themselves. All he cared about was the sound that came out their horns. Seems to me a far healthier attitude to yours... thank you and goodnight.
Cat Anderson "El Gato" has a great way to develop the upper register. Basically, you play a G in the staff as long as you can as softly as you can. Man, I've been working on that and, as boring as that seems, I can really get up there now.
Hello Jonas, I'm interested in knowing more about this technique. What part of the technique do you try to improve by playing this long soft G ? What do you gain from this that helps you get higher afterwards ? If you have some sources (videos or readings) I'm very interested :-)
@@Renaudruze larry meregillano (I highly doubt thats how you spell his name) has some good videos on it here on youtube. Just search cat anderson whisper g
A very handsome band indeed. The Telefunkens are a popping and on fire feeding the obvious Magnetofones too; may not have even been mixed feeding ONE! 1959. Acoustics of the room is PERFECTLY attuned!
OMG. Cat Anderson's face doesn't even tense up a bit when screaming the highest notes that have ever come out of a trumpet. Legend has it that he had a gap between his front teeth that he used to move a fast focused stream of air to to hit those notes. So he did have a dental advantage if you do your research. Thank you for sharing! I have only heard recordings and never seen it with my own eyes!
Cat played CORRECTLY. He was a classic "Costello" embouchure. Better known now as the "Stevens- Costello" or just the "Stevens" enbouchure. Although he probably just played that way naturally. Ditto Bud Brisbois. When the embouchure is built upon upon the principles found in the Stevens-Costello Triple C book then the student will almost always succeed. I said "almost" because during my own 56 year long career* behind the horn I found that I had to revise or rather amend the system . I needed a much larger mouthpiece than stock pieces. However ever since I made that change I've been playing like a mo/fo. Must have hit 29 double C's tonight alone! Then I played along with Cat's Intimacy of the Blues and nailed the F's ABOVE double C at the end. Took me about 8 months of squeaking high notes before they started to open up. Yet they're really coming around dude!!
@@jorgecallico9177 I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of cat anderson using a Stevens/Costello embouchure. From what I’ve heard, he uses more if a rolled out maggio style embouchure (stevens/costello is rolled in). Larry Meregillano here on youtube studied with Anderson, and that is what he says. He has a couple videos on the cat anderson style embouchure
@@datGuy0309 Anderson may have thought that he was applying Maggio principles but he was as clear of a case of a Stevens-Costello chop setting as anyone save and except perhaps Bud Brisbois. Neither Maggio nor it's eventual "daughter" system by Claude Gordon were scientific approaches.
You just don't see a classic Maggio, receded jaw type embouchure hitting triple C's. Least of all good and strong ones. Granted that what may appear to be a receded jaw embouchure actually isn't. I've been fooled twice. Once by a local pro whose horn angle would tend to suggest a receded jaw chop setting. However his lower horn angle was caused by his upper teeth curving inwards a bit. This lowered the horn a bit yet still left him with the extreme range and other characteristics of the forward jaw trumpet. And the other example appears to be Zauss. I say "appears" because I've never met this phenomenal trumpet player in person. However that slightly lower horn angle coupled with his ability to cleanly pick off notes around triple C is a dead giveaway that he certainly isn't a typical Maggio. Take note! Maggio and Gordon are not scientific approaches to trumpet playing!!. Whereas Stevens-Costello definitely is. That said? I've even found a significant shortcoming to Stevens-Costello although you'll never hear me put the system down. It was decades ahead of its time and all the rest.
It is amazing how he can play in the extreme high register with his Conn Constellation (which is a small-bore trumpet) with a really small trumpet mouthpiece defying all conventional teachings about the subject.
Check out the video “Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - V.I.P.'s Boogie/Jam With Sam” which is in color and stereo and concludes with a Cat Anderson solo.
Cat Anderson best ever… BUT please go to 1:17 cause i can’t believe what I’m seeing: IS CLARCK TERRY EATING A CHEWING-GUM WHILE HE IS PLAYING THAT MIND BLOWING SOLO??? For real????
Depending on material, if it's cloth of some sort, that hanging artwork could be a tapestry as well., as😢 opposed to a true tableau as I mentioned before. One (I) can't tell from a 64 year old film, but it's still DY-NO-MITE!
From left to right : Andres Merenguito,Clark Terry,Cat Anderson, Ray Nance - (trumpets). Decía Jelly Roll Morton que todo buen jazz debe tener un buen sabor español; este es un ejemplo.
Rarely find people who can actually SCREAM a triple C instead if making it sound like a mouse. He has complete control over his notes to the point he doesn't even look like he's even trying. It's oretty ridiculous. Allen vizzutti also has this "straight face" playing style when he screams
There is another version of El Gato on YT -- from one year previous, when the band was in Italy. In that performance, the trumpeter on the far left is Shorty Baker, Ellington's first-call section leader for approximately 2 decades. Baker is a far more skillful soloist than Merenquito, who replaced him periodically during this time. At about the 1:50 point in this clip, Merenquito does his own little high-note flourish, in a very show-offish fashion, which is out of place in a couple of ways. First, this is a feature for Anderson's high note playing, and trying to steal that part of the spotlight is unprofessional, not to mention undignified. Second, he does this during the portion of the performance that is supposed to be a trading of fours between himself and Clark Terry, a true trumpet star in his own right. The man is either very arrogant or clueless -- possibly both. Go to: Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Ray Nance and Clark Terry
jesus wept... does it really bother you, the body language of a jazz musician ? that's right, JAZZ !!! it's not the conservatoire Paris. jazz is about self expression, it came up from the red light district of new orleans and has always been low-down and greasy. i really don't think you understand about soul...
@PINCHUNO No, it's not an insult at all. And how you can call yourself a trumpet player and have such a delusional mindset is beyond me. If Duke Ellington, who we all know got his name for being so polite, didn't have a problem with him I don't see why you would. If you don't like trumpet players with a little showmanship you're either a classical player or not a very good trumpeter...maybe both.
![Duke Ellington - Switzerland '59 2/7 [Selections from "Such Sweet Thunder"]](/img/n.gif)
Cat Anderson is best trumpet player ever. Period!
This is a truly great example of the best of jazz trumpet playing. This video should be a mandatory study young trumpet students .
The amazing part is how effortless they make it look.
Eine Legende und Unikum!!!!
Well Duke was anything but a disciplinarean and encouraged the artists to be relaxed and express themselves. All he cared about was the sound that came out their horns. Seems to me a far healthier attitude to yours... thank you and goodnight.
One of the greatest bands of all time, all star brass section, as well as the rest of the band, thanks
Never heard this guy before. My favorite trumpet player of the day!
エリントンの音楽は、
ジャズの豊穣な水源、水脈。未だに恩恵を受け続けている。
Cat Anderson "El Gato" has a great way to develop the upper register. Basically, you play a G in the staff as long as you can as softly as you can. Man, I've been working on that and, as boring as that seems, I can really get up there now.
Hello Jonas,
I'm interested in knowing more about this technique. What part of the technique do you try to improve by playing this long soft G ? What do you gain from this that helps you get higher afterwards ?
If you have some sources (videos or readings) I'm very interested :-)
@@Renaudruze steady air stream
@@Renaudruze larry meregillano (I highly doubt thats how you spell his name) has some good videos on it here on youtube. Just search cat anderson whisper g
1:04 LOL " well theres that note" LOL
A very handsome band indeed. The Telefunkens are a popping and on fire feeding the obvious Magnetofones too; may not have even been mixed feeding ONE! 1959. Acoustics of the room is PERFECTLY attuned!
OMG. Cat Anderson's face doesn't even tense up a bit when screaming the highest notes that have ever come out of a trumpet. Legend has it that he had a gap between his front teeth that he used to move a fast focused stream of air to to hit those notes. So he did have a dental advantage if you do your research. Thank you for sharing! I have only heard recordings and never seen it with my own eyes!
Jon Faddis has a similar gap.
This is just phenomenal to see. I'm having a bit of a Duke Ellington love affair revival at the moment. And Cat Anderson adds a whole new dimension!
Cat Anderson has chops made of steel.
Cat played CORRECTLY. He was a classic "Costello" embouchure. Better known now as the "Stevens- Costello" or just the "Stevens" enbouchure. Although he probably just played that way naturally. Ditto Bud Brisbois.
When the embouchure is built upon upon the principles found in the Stevens-Costello Triple C book then the student will almost always succeed.
I said "almost" because during my own 56 year long career* behind the horn I found that I had to revise or rather amend the system . I needed a much larger mouthpiece than stock pieces.
However ever since I made that change I've been playing like a mo/fo. Must have hit 29 double C's tonight alone! Then I played along with Cat's Intimacy of the Blues and nailed the F's ABOVE double C at the end.
Took me about 8 months of squeaking high notes before they started to open up. Yet they're really coming around dude!!
@@jorgecallico9177 I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of cat anderson using a Stevens/Costello embouchure. From what I’ve heard, he uses more if a rolled out maggio style embouchure (stevens/costello is rolled in). Larry Meregillano here on youtube studied with Anderson, and that is what he says. He has a couple videos on the cat anderson style embouchure
@@datGuy0309
Anderson may have thought that he was applying Maggio principles but he was as clear of a case of a Stevens-Costello chop setting as anyone save and except perhaps Bud Brisbois.
Neither Maggio nor it's eventual "daughter" system by Claude Gordon were scientific approaches.
You just don't see a classic Maggio, receded jaw type embouchure hitting triple C's. Least of all good and strong ones.
Granted that what may appear to be a receded jaw embouchure actually isn't. I've been fooled twice. Once by a local pro whose horn angle would tend to suggest a receded jaw chop setting. However his lower horn angle was caused by his upper teeth curving inwards a bit. This lowered the horn a bit yet still left him with the extreme range and other characteristics of the forward jaw trumpet.
And the other example appears to be Zauss. I say "appears" because I've never met this phenomenal trumpet player in person. However that slightly lower horn angle coupled with his ability to cleanly pick off notes around triple C is a dead giveaway that he certainly isn't a typical Maggio.
Take note! Maggio and Gordon are not scientific approaches to trumpet playing!!. Whereas Stevens-Costello definitely is. That said?
I've even found a significant shortcoming to Stevens-Costello although you'll never hear me put the system down. It was decades ahead of its time and all the rest.
It is amazing how he can play in the extreme high register with his Conn Constellation (which is a small-bore trumpet) with a really small trumpet mouthpiece defying all conventional teachings about the subject.
Check out the video “Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - V.I.P.'s Boogie/Jam With Sam” which is in color and stereo and concludes with a Cat Anderson solo.
Wow your right that one guy on the trumpet was really drunk
Get a load of that mid- century tableau hanging in the back. Outta sight Man! VERY period-rustic, as the trend term went back then during that era.
Love this. How does Cat make it look so effortless.
Still the top
@Hornman64
It's on "Duke Ellington Live at Newport" as well. That same lineup I think.
Cat Anderson best ever… BUT please go to 1:17 cause i can’t believe what I’m seeing: IS CLARCK TERRY EATING A CHEWING-GUM WHILE HE IS PLAYING THAT MIND BLOWING SOLO??? For real????
Depending on material, if it's cloth of some sort, that hanging artwork could be a tapestry as well., as😢 opposed to a true tableau as I mentioned before. One (I) can't tell from a 64 year old film, but it's still DY-NO-MITE!
GRANDIOSE !!!
EXCELLENT !!!
Michel.
Theres one thing i learned from this video... I REALLY NEED A MUSTACHE !!!
show de músicas 🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺
Freire Trompete top d+ né eu toco Trompete tbm
clark terry !
Haven't heard El Gato in years. Was on a Columbia LP, Stars in a Summer Night, I think.
Cat Anderson had a beautiful sound in the middle register. A little bit of that high note stuff goes a long way with me.
So wild
the coolest men to have ever walked the planet
Fucking glorious
From left to right : Andres Merenguito,Clark Terry,Cat Anderson, Ray Nance - (trumpets). Decía Jelly Roll Morton que todo buen jazz debe tener un buen sabor español; este es un ejemplo.
CT!!
Rarely find people who can actually SCREAM a triple C instead if making it sound like a mouse. He has complete control over his notes to the point he doesn't even look like he's even trying. It's oretty ridiculous. Allen vizzutti also has this "straight face" playing style when he screams
What a poser is Cat at 2:46. CLASS 💯
He loses his balance twice, shouts out, and air strums his trumpet. I'l bet he's drunk. Probably got disciplined after the show.
♥ ♥ ♥
There is another version of El Gato on YT -- from one year previous, when the band was in Italy. In that performance, the trumpeter on the far left is Shorty Baker, Ellington's first-call section leader for approximately 2 decades. Baker is a far more skillful soloist than Merenquito, who replaced him periodically during this time. At about the 1:50 point in this clip, Merenquito does his own little high-note flourish, in a very show-offish fashion, which is out of place in a couple of ways. First, this is a feature for Anderson's high note playing, and trying to steal that part of the spotlight is unprofessional, not to mention undignified. Second, he does this during the portion of the performance that is supposed to be a trading of fours between himself and Clark Terry, a true trumpet star in his own right. The man is either very arrogant or clueless -- possibly both.
Go to:
Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Ray Nance and Clark Terry
bminorscales not to mention that a number of the notes he plays DO NOT fit the chord changes
But he still kicked some ass
Get out of the way, Ray Nance! Cat's the only one who's ever been able to play higher than Maynard!
Maynard was once quoted as saying, "Cat Anderson has played, and recorded, higher notes than I have." So has Bud Brisbois.
I don't know about played higher though. I mean im sure all three of them could play above triple c.
Clark tried to blow his chewing gum into his horn.
This comment section is about to start wwiii
yeah but listen to that bass player!! Going a hundert miles an hour on that thing!!
5/18/2018
jesus wept... does it really bother you, the body language of a jazz musician ? that's right, JAZZ !!! it's not the conservatoire Paris. jazz is about self expression, it came up from the red light district of new orleans and has always been low-down and greasy. i really don't think you understand about soul...
@PINCHUNO No, it's not an insult at all. And how you can call yourself a trumpet player and have such a delusional mindset is beyond me. If Duke Ellington, who we all know got his name for being so polite, didn't have a problem with him I don't see why you would. If you don't like trumpet players with a little showmanship you're either a classical player or not a very good trumpeter...maybe both.