It was super inspirational at the time, and still is when I listen back to this zoom recording. Muchos gracias to my good friend and great guitarists Dalhyun Lee, who at the time was so attentive to put his Zoom on. Eric going from smooth jazz to bebop in a matter of seconds and coming back. Some of the best shredding imo! The pdf for this solo can be found as an extra on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sharpeleventranscriptions Let me know what you think! Subscribe and like if you'd want to spread this great solo! :) /Jorre
His ability to play over changes, in ANY style is second to none. I’ve seen jazz guys play funk and can’t cut it, I’ve seen funk guys play bebop and can’t cut it either. Eric was smart and really and I mean REALLY shed both jazz, funk and also knows how to read on a crazy level. That’s why he gets so much studio work, he can literally play anything, and he can do it spot on perfectly. Eric once told me if you’re wanting to be a studio musician your sight reading needs to be perfect. Great transcribing Jorre!
Completely agree. I'm a great reader, I was a showband musician on cruise ships where you're reading a different show each night, and I can play solidly over funk tunes, but I struggle over complex jazz changes. You can tell the amount of work he's put in.
The articulation and rhythm in these licks is wild. It's like he's rapping and knows what the lyrics would have been if he didn't have the saxophone in front of him.
He plays smooth for the radio audience and lights it up in concert. That’s the M.O. for most of these guys. They can all play. Trumpeter Chet Baker was known for smooth easy and beautiful lines in his solos but he could 🔥 it with the best. He toured with Charlie Parker!
You are right. As a guitarist I learn much more from saxophonist or pianists or any instrument else than guitar. Did you hear this guy play with Chuck Loeb and friends ?
I forgot who I first heard it from, but as jazz guitarists saxophone is THE place for us to study. Something about sax that just feels so intuitive for phrasing and feel, “easier” to absorb that feel into your practice and playing.
@@ShermanKyle I had a teacher tell me to let my guitar playing take a breath any time I took a breath. I feel like that’s a big reason to look at sax phrasing.
@@ShermanKyle As a kid I read years ago in Guitar Player magazine that Wes Montgomery essentially learned how to play jazz guitar by copying what he heard saxophone players doing. He might have been the first to popularize the idea.
One of my favorite Eric Marienthal recordings is "Crossroads," where he plays full-blown jazz fusion. I highly recommend it, especially for fans of the Chick Corea Elektric Band and The Yellowjackets. While many of Eric Marienthal's recordings definitely fall into the category of smooth jazz (which I have nothing against; I'm a fan of smooth jazz), he is certainly capable of playing bebop and fusion.
Yes, that's a superb album indeed! With even quite a unique sound I'd say, even compared to other fusion albums. And no, it's not like he's the main reference for straigh ahead jazz, but he surely knows the ideom well. That's why it's so crazy that a lot of jazz players just dismiss him as "just another smooth jazz cat". Take his soloing over Got A Match, that is quite a unique blend of bebop idiom and shredding. How much I love the likes of Phil Woods, Cannonball, ... - the real beboppers - they'd never be able to gravitate towards what would work on fusion tunes
I've always loved that from Eric, he goes from a very simple pentatonic pattern to either super complex pentatonic pattern or outside or bop or whatever he wants, I heard a lot of the Big Phat Band before hearing him solo and there he really shreds a bit of everything, he's one of the best players to emulate if you are gigging, you'll learn a bunch of different things all good for every kind of music you'll play eventually.
yeah man, some of my favorite playing of Eric’s is actually in a large group setting, on the GRP All Star Big Band album. Perfect modern lead alto tone and phrasing, and tremendous solos on both alto and tenor. A model for my generation for sure!
He subbed for Mintzer in the Yellowjackets for a DC gig I saw around this time and totally nailed it. Killer player. I've never thought he swung very well in more straightahead contexts. But he's a monster that eats changes for breakfast.
I have been lucky to have watched him in person many times. Studio Cafe, I want to say in the late 80's. He had a standing mid week night, so did John Patitucci and Melvin Davis. My favorite time was at a Dental office open house. I walked into the friends office and noticed two guys playing background music, guitar and sax. Did a double take and it was EM and a guitarist I forgot his name.
That part from 1:43 is crazy, I have no sense of how tricky these things on sax compared to guitar, but it can't be easy to play jazz lines at that speed
That's one of my favorite Parts, and that bar leading into it. It's like he is grooving hard, than accelerates a bit and moves into a super right double time bebop line with still rhythmic shapes in it'm. Crazy stuff!
@@SharpElevenMusic it really is scarily tight rhythmically, reminds me of stuff Brecker used to play, I'd imagine there's a fair bit of influence between them
Absolutely! Eric talked about sharing the Bill with the Herbie Hancock band including Michael Brecker and sharing the tourbus. It was in one of these Lockdown livestreams last year, very cool!
I think at this level/speed it doesn't really matter which instrument. I probably can move my fingers as fast as eric marienthal can, but not as precise. I wanna think that if you can't imagine theese shapes in that tempo it doesn't really matter what instrument I am playing. Just a thought tho.
Theres a recording of Eric playing with the Matt Catingub Big Band playing "Indian Riffs", a song written over Cherokee chords...and he absolutely tears it up in his solo. If you can find it, it's fantastic.
We here in Reading, PA have had a Jazz Fest for more than twenty years. When it started we had genuine jazz musicians including Wynton Marsalis. Same thing the next year. But… attendance went down and the slots were than filled with “smooth jazz” artists. This was done to make money. The artists were also forced to play the jazz fusion, smooth jazz to make money. However, all of these artists could play straight ahead jazz and did so in small, local venues. Never assume that smooth jazz musicians are not serious jazz artists. They just want to make living.
@@Number1Irishlad I guess it’s subjective. Smooth jazz can be formulaic. Maybe if they called it smooth fusion and left out “jazz” no one would be fussing. 😎
@@mikenoble7005 i mean maybe. But all through this comment section, apparently smooth jazz is the biggest sin a jazz musician can do. Why? (Not necessarily directed at you, i just have general confusion about this)
On the occasion I hear someone ask how extreme metal and jazz can be similar, I think of things like this. The level of dedication, technique, composition, and heart I've seen in the underground extreme metal scene has only been matched by jazz musicians like Eric and others. So much respect.
I won’t forget I saw Eric with Jeff Lorber Fusion & Randy Brecker in 2010. Eric’s playing in person just blew me away, the way he was playing over changes was so over my head with incredible nuance and surprises. It was wild going from listening nonstop to his solos in the big phat band and many of his solo albums in the 90s 2000s to experiencing that as well.
Hey Matthew, sounds like we had a very similar experience, Eric being in much ways the catalyst to pursuing a career in saxophone and wanting to reach for that kind of sound was a dream. We might be of similar age I guess, I'm 30 now. /Jorre
I have seen Eric in many groups over the years . He always smokes . They need to give all musicians room to open up . I don't mean outer space - where no one gets it . Give them their moment . Many years of hard work deserve recognition .
@@jaxonellis2995 Nothing to be sorry for. I am so thankful I saw this video. There are so many musicians and videos to watch I actually forgot how great of a player he is. He deserves much more recognition. I saw him with Corea around 25 years ago and was totally blown away.
I have no idea about any of this, but the thumbnail and title made me think this was a video about some kid coming out of the audience playing an instrument and blowing everyone away. hahahaha.The guy is good but I gotta say I was a little disapointed hahaha. anyway I'm not from around these parts but I'm glad youtube recommended me this video. have a nice day regulars.
Anyone have any idea how he gets this kind of tone on an alto? I was surprised halfway through when I realized he wasn’t playing a tenor. Really fantastic stuff.
It shows that a saxophone is a versatile instrument, because in some other band arrangement, this lead should be played by a lead electric guitar. However, I believe that this type of lead, with many 1/32 notes, overstretches the woodwind instruments - both in intonation and range issues - because the woodwinds do not have the same instant response and tone definition as an electric guitar. By slowing down the tempo to allow the instrument to articulate still, Eric did an admirable job. He has sensibility which many "saxophone shredders" do not have.
I see what you're getting at; the gesture is similar, but the intervals are different, each "cell" has four notes instead of three... So, I don't think that was his intent.
In the mid eighties I used to play in the Orange Coast College jazz band and watch Doc Rutherford bring in famous guest tenor saxophonists . Doc would then choreograph sax battles between Eric , Tom Margitan and whoever the unsuspecting guest was. The only one who took them on with no sweat was Pete Christlieb. He thought it was hilarious and loved every second of the ambush. He could not be topped.
Don't feel bad sax guy. In Miles Davis's autobiography, he records that Tony Williams didn't like playing too tough with George Coleman because he didn't play the new style Miles would specialize in later. George heard about it and deliberately played that style and blew them all away and proved( just like this sax guy--who played great) that any good player can play anything! look at Wes Mongomery, the greatest jazz guitar player ever played smooth and commercial jazz in later years and was awesome. Of course, the great Wes played in all octaves, which no one has yet to duplicate!
Did you ever talk to professional jazz players, certainly those more into acoustic jazz? 🙂 Believe me, I've been to a couple of conservatories, none of the bebop/hardbop school will consider him a good jazz player, unfortunately
Very Sorry, before, I wrote a bad coment about this. I hadn't listened carefully and blew my mind. Eric here sounds SUPERB!!!! He is playing fucking awesome here. I havent been diggin him when he was playing more like Kenny G. But here is in G SPOT of everybody that likes good music.
He’s a great player, no doubt, but how is this NOT an example of smooth jazz-or maybe we call it fusion or funk/r&b-but it’s far from bebop. That’s not an insult in any way. The closet I’ve heard him come to more traditional jazz was with the GRPmBig Band.
Eric has come much closer to straight ahead than the GRP Super. Some digging on the internet will show you some interesting big band shows. The electric thing is just what Eric likes and people have a hard time accepting that.
Hi :) I have question for You because there is a very strange mystery next door :) nobody talks about the harmonic Major/ionian b6 and modes of this scale - Why? What is wrong with harm Major that there is no books,dvds,videos on YT nobody talks about functional harmony for ionian b6 and his modes nothing about modal progressions (in context of harm Major) I don't understand why the harm Major is so .. hidden, taboo, conspiracy of silence :p Even songs list,classical pieces or... anything! There is nothing :( nowhere, that's why I have a request for you,biiiig request :) Could you recommend the appropriate literature,any books about this? Or (if not) just share your knowledge with us? At least one video on harmonic Major but in depth :)
I feel as though the rhythms of the transcription are not quite right in a few spots. Mostly exactly perfect, but some of what’s written as straight 32nd runs is clearly choppy and has some triplets or dots going on.
Ok so this is the first I've heard of this but you mean to tell me people see the guy that Chick Corea chose to be his saxaphonist in one of his most well known groups as a mere "smooth jazz guy"?
The funny thing with Eric Marienthal is that his works with Jeff Lorber and Chick Corea are awesome, but his solo career is IMHO quite uninteresting music.
It was super inspirational at the time, and still is when I listen back to this zoom recording. Muchos gracias to my good friend and great guitarists Dalhyun Lee, who at the time was so attentive to put his Zoom on. Eric going from smooth jazz to bebop in a matter of seconds and coming back. Some of the best shredding imo!
The pdf for this solo can be found as an extra on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sharpeleventranscriptions
Let me know what you think!
Subscribe and like if you'd want to spread this great solo! :)
/Jorre
But it wasn't bebop though...
@@hincapiej4 Eric play Bebop? Here you go --> ua-cam.com/video/vQcNFwhQlbI/v-deo.html
His ability to play over changes, in ANY style is second to none. I’ve seen jazz guys play funk and can’t cut it, I’ve seen funk guys play bebop and can’t cut it either. Eric was smart and really and I mean REALLY shed both jazz, funk and also knows how to read on a crazy level. That’s why he gets so much studio work, he can literally play anything, and he can do it spot on perfectly. Eric once told me if you’re wanting to be a studio musician your sight reading needs to be perfect. Great transcribing Jorre!
Thanks Jamie! Couldn't have put it better! 👌
you never heard grant green then
or benson and many others
@@DaddySantaClaus I did not say all jazz musicians, maybe I should have put “some” instead 🤷♂️
Completely agree. I'm a great reader, I was a showband musician on cruise ships where you're reading a different show each night, and I can play solidly over funk tunes, but I struggle over complex jazz changes. You can tell the amount of work he's put in.
Thanks for keeping the chords over the improv transcription. It's always good to see how the improv works with and against them.
The only way me too to get some concepots out of it :)
The articulation and rhythm in these licks is wild. It's like he's rapping and knows what the lyrics would have been if he didn't have the saxophone in front of him.
He plays smooth for the radio audience and lights it up in concert. That’s the M.O. for most of these guys. They can all play.
Trumpeter Chet Baker was known for smooth easy and beautiful lines in his solos but he could 🔥 it with the best. He toured with Charlie Parker!
As a guitarist, i feel there is so much to learn here. Note choice...dang.
You are right. As a guitarist I learn much more from saxophonist or pianists or any instrument else than guitar. Did you hear this guy play with Chuck Loeb and friends ?
@@alcofribasnasier5089 No, I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip!
I forgot who I first heard it from, but as jazz guitarists saxophone is THE place for us to study. Something about sax that just feels so intuitive for phrasing and feel, “easier” to absorb that feel into your practice and playing.
@@ShermanKyle I had a teacher tell me to let my guitar playing take a breath any time I took a breath. I feel like that’s a big reason to look at sax phrasing.
@@ShermanKyle As a kid I read years ago in Guitar Player magazine that Wes Montgomery essentially learned how to play jazz guitar by copying what he heard saxophone players doing. He might have been the first to popularize the idea.
I love the look of these transcriptions with the videos of the players and the actual notes. It is very nice.
One of my favorite Eric Marienthal recordings is "Crossroads," where he plays full-blown jazz fusion. I highly recommend it, especially for fans of the Chick Corea Elektric Band and The Yellowjackets. While many of Eric Marienthal's recordings definitely fall into the category of smooth jazz (which I have nothing against; I'm a fan of smooth jazz), he is certainly capable of playing bebop and fusion.
Yes, that's a superb album indeed! With even quite a unique sound I'd say, even compared to other fusion albums. And no, it's not like he's the main reference for straigh ahead jazz, but he surely knows the ideom well. That's why it's so crazy that a lot of jazz players just dismiss him as "just another smooth jazz cat". Take his soloing over Got A Match, that is quite a unique blend of bebop idiom and shredding. How much I love the likes of Phil Woods, Cannonball, ... - the real beboppers - they'd never be able to gravitate towards what would work on fusion tunes
I've always loved that from Eric, he goes from a very simple pentatonic pattern to either super complex pentatonic pattern or outside or bop or whatever he wants, I heard a lot of the Big Phat Band before hearing him solo and there he really shreds a bit of everything, he's one of the best players to emulate if you are gigging, you'll learn a bunch of different things all good for every kind of music you'll play eventually.
This is unreal hands down. Those melody, dynamic and lock beat for the whole band is so perfect.
yeah man, some of my favorite playing of Eric’s is actually in a large group setting, on the GRP All Star Big Band album. Perfect modern lead alto tone and phrasing, and tremendous solos on both alto and tenor. A model for my generation for sure!
He subbed for Mintzer in the Yellowjackets for a DC gig I saw around this time and totally nailed it. Killer player. I've never thought he swung very well in more straightahead contexts. But he's a monster that eats changes for breakfast.
Great player, but he’s no Bob Mintzer.
I have been lucky to have watched him in person many times. Studio Cafe, I want to say in the late 80's. He had a standing mid week night, so did John Patitucci and Melvin Davis. My favorite time was at a Dental office open house. I walked into the friends office and noticed two guys playing background music, guitar and sax. Did a double take and it was EM and a guitarist I forgot his name.
That part from 1:43 is crazy, I have no sense of how tricky these things on sax compared to guitar, but it can't be easy to play jazz lines at that speed
That's one of my favorite Parts, and that bar leading into it. It's like he is grooving hard, than accelerates a bit and moves into a super right double time bebop line with still rhythmic shapes in it'm. Crazy stuff!
@@SharpElevenMusic it really is scarily tight rhythmically, reminds me of stuff Brecker used to play, I'd imagine there's a fair bit of influence between them
Absolutely! Eric talked about sharing the Bill with the Herbie Hancock band including Michael Brecker and sharing the tourbus. It was in one of these Lockdown livestreams last year, very cool!
I think at this level/speed it doesn't really matter which instrument. I probably can move my fingers as fast as eric marienthal can, but not as precise. I wanna think that if you can't imagine theese shapes in that tempo it doesn't really matter what instrument I am playing. Just a thought tho.
Theres a recording of Eric playing with the Matt Catingub Big Band playing "Indian Riffs", a song written over Cherokee chords...and he absolutely tears it up in his solo. If you can find it, it's fantastic.
Awesome 2 minutes and 38 seconds of music. Thanks
I had the great pleasure of seeing him in concert with the Electric Band back in the early 90's. He's great. Thanks for the video.
We here in Reading, PA have had a Jazz Fest for more than twenty years. When it started we had genuine jazz musicians including Wynton Marsalis. Same thing the next year. But… attendance went down and the slots were than filled with “smooth jazz” artists.
This was done to make money. The artists were also forced to play the jazz fusion, smooth jazz to make money.
However, all of these artists could play straight ahead jazz and did so in small, local venues. Never assume that smooth jazz musicians are not serious jazz artists. They just want to make living.
Just curious, whats so bad about smooth jazz? Why so much hate?
@@Number1Irishlad I guess it’s subjective. Smooth jazz can be formulaic. Maybe if they called it smooth fusion and left out “jazz” no one would be fussing. 😎
@@mikenoble7005 i mean maybe. But all through this comment section, apparently smooth jazz is the biggest sin a jazz musician can do. Why? (Not necessarily directed at you, i just have general confusion about this)
@@Number1Irishlad exactly- what's wrong with making music that everyone can enjoy? and not just for heady jazz cats.
I heard Eric in Elektric Band first, I love his smooth stuff too but I always recognized him as a total beast because of his work with CCEB 🔥
Good lord! There's a channel named after my favourite interval of all time. FUCKING A! Keep up the good work.
Haha 😂 thanks man, we Will!
On the occasion I hear someone ask how extreme metal and jazz can be similar, I think of things like this. The level of dedication, technique, composition, and heart I've seen in the underground extreme metal scene has only been matched by jazz musicians like Eric and others. So much respect.
Who actually EVER said he couldnt play anything but smooth jazz? They were half right. He can play anything AND smooth jazz.
But can he play the bagpipes?
Insecure musicians say the darnedest things lol
BURNING
Absolutely! Like you guys! Love your stuff 🔥👏
Holy shit, this is one of the best sax solos I’ve ever heard!
I won’t forget I saw Eric with Jeff Lorber Fusion & Randy Brecker in 2010. Eric’s playing in person just blew me away, the way he was playing over changes was so over my head with incredible nuance and surprises. It was wild going from listening nonstop to his solos in the big phat band and many of his solo albums in the 90s 2000s to experiencing that as well.
Hey Matthew, sounds like we had a very similar experience, Eric being in much ways the catalyst to pursuing a career in saxophone and wanting to reach for that kind of sound was a dream.
We might be of similar age I guess, I'm 30 now.
/Jorre
His guest appearances w/ The Rippingtons is 🥶🥶🥶.
I have seen Eric in many groups over the years . He always smokes . They need to give all musicians room to open up . I don't mean outer space - where no one gets it . Give them their moment . Many years of hard work deserve recognition .
first I heard him was 1977 in Boston. he was playing bop and sounded like he had learned the entire Charlie Parker vocabulary
Those B7sus chords hit
Smooth Jazz feels so smooth because the guys plaing it are so skilled, they can do everything effortlessly and totally relaxed.
0:45 this gave me so many ideas for a improv solo im doing soon
Guys... great channel. Thanks for existing. Lots of luck and inspiration.
Thanks man for the comment, really appreciated! Also much inspiration and having fun in music to your 🙌
Eric's energy and movements are so important. Lots of students forget that it is what jazz is about!
Bruh: 1:20 with the drum is just perfect 🤩
The amount of head bobbing in the audience could rock the Golden Gate Bridge
He played in the Chick Corea Elektric band, enough said!!!
Thanks a lot for the transcription with the chords on top ! A lot to learn here
Nice smooth jazz solo.
God, I always forget how much of a MONSTER Eric is. Fantastic.
Sick content man! 1st video I’ve seen of yours. Subbed
Thanks Stacy!
Anyone who's had the chance to see Eric play live with the Gordon Goodwin band is not surprised with this. Dude shreds.
This is definitely smooth jazz sax playing 😆
The slickest...🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
EM tore that solo UP!!! BRAVO!!
Now I gotta watch this everyday
Simplemente hermoso … un nuevo sub… saludos desde chile 🇨🇱
Thanks man! All the best from Belgium 👍🇧🇪🇨🇱
@@SharpElevenMusic thanks!!!!!
Anyone who saw Chick Corea when Eric was with him knows Eric can play anything.
Didn't see your post and posted the same. Sorry.
@@jaxonellis2995 Nothing to be sorry for. I am so thankful I saw this video. There are so many musicians and videos to watch I actually forgot how great of a player he is. He deserves much more recognition. I saw him with Corea around 25 years ago and was totally blown away.
Absolutely love how rhythmical he is
I have no idea about any of this, but the thumbnail and title made me think this was a video about some kid coming out of the audience playing an instrument and blowing everyone away. hahahaha.The guy is good but I gotta say I was a little disapointed hahaha. anyway I'm not from around these parts but I'm glad youtube recommended me this video. have a nice day regulars.
Amazing, sensational, unbelievable
Likely, Eric Marienthal belongs to the crispest cats out there. Taste & tone all the way. Chapeau!
Great tune, thanks for sharing!
Jimmy Haslip on the bass.
Yeah! And I loved Gary Novak on the drums as wel! So groovy and dynamic
@@SharpElevenMusic and Jeff on Keys
@@thejazzman4591 i think that he was Larry Goldings 🤔
@@Newambientmusic I think it's Jeff lorber
@@Newambientmusic Definitely Jeff Lorber.
Anyone who says Eric can’t shred bebop has clearly never listened to the That’s How We Roll album
I think I heard him on a George Duke album, I had to look him up it was so good.
Anyone have any idea how he gets this kind of tone on an alto? I was surprised halfway through when I realized he wasn’t playing a tenor.
Really fantastic stuff.
WOW! Fantastic!
It shows that a saxophone is a versatile instrument, because in some other band arrangement, this lead should be played by a lead electric guitar. However, I believe that this type of lead, with many 1/32 notes, overstretches the woodwind instruments - both in intonation and range issues - because the woodwinds do not have the same instant response and tone definition as an electric guitar. By slowing down the tempo to allow the instrument to articulate still, Eric did an admirable job. He has sensibility which many "saxophone shredders" do not have.
Looks like Haslip, Lorber and possible Gary Novak on drums??
Correct Kris!
Love the backing track. Has anyone found something similar?
MASSIVE MASSIVE STUFF!! Especially after like 1:50!❤️
his phrasing is so good
Not sure who the drummers is but There's Jeff Lorber on Keys , Eric Sax, and Jimmy Haslip on Bass.
0:45 did he quote Bozza's Improvisation et Caprice!??
I see what you're getting at; the gesture is similar, but the intervals are different, each "cell" has four notes instead of three... So, I don't think that was his intent.
Hell yeah, he sounds great here
Those are the guys! Not only Eric, but Jeff Lorber on keys, and Jimmy Haslip on bass! (I can't make out who the drummer is.)
Yes! Drummer is Gary Novak
In the mid eighties I used to play in the Orange Coast College jazz band and watch Doc Rutherford bring in famous guest tenor saxophonists . Doc would then choreograph sax battles between Eric , Tom Margitan and whoever the unsuspecting guest was. The only one who took them on with no sweat was Pete Christlieb. He thought it was hilarious and loved every second of the ambush. He could not be topped.
Is that drumming legend Gary Novak on drums?
Yes!
His attention, time, articulation and style amazing. Need..to…..practice…like…Eric!
Ough so sharp man
Loved this. Too bad there’s only a “like” button.
Don't feel bad sax guy. In Miles Davis's autobiography, he records that Tony Williams didn't like playing too tough with George Coleman because he didn't play the new style Miles would specialize in later. George heard about it and deliberately played that style and blew them all away and proved( just like this sax guy--who played great) that any good player can play anything! look at Wes Mongomery, the greatest jazz guitar player ever played smooth and commercial jazz in later years and was awesome. Of course, the great Wes played in all octaves, which no one has yet to duplicate!
That BAND though!
Killing’ it!
I like this video. I love jazz
Was that the satin doll motif I heard?
No one I know has EVER put Eric down. He kept up with Chick, for Christ's sake!! To underestimate him would be folly on a grand scale.
Did you ever talk to professional jazz players, certainly those more into acoustic jazz? 🙂 Believe me, I've been to a couple of conservatories, none of the bebop/hardbop school will consider him a good jazz player, unfortunately
Oh and by the way, just read the comment of X V and you'll get the idea
@@SharpElevenMusic they are perfectly within their right to be *grossly wrong*
There's a video of him in japan with japanese players burning cherokee at breakneck speed. I've never heard anyone play lines that cleanly.
Very Sorry, before, I wrote a bad coment about this. I hadn't listened carefully and blew my mind. Eric here sounds SUPERB!!!! He is playing fucking awesome here. I havent been diggin him when he was playing more like Kenny G. But here is in G SPOT of everybody that likes good music.
He’s a great player, no doubt, but how is this NOT an example of smooth jazz-or maybe we call it fusion or funk/r&b-but it’s far from bebop. That’s not an insult in any way. The closet I’ve heard him come to more traditional jazz was with the GRPmBig Band.
@Zbigniew G Yeah, that’s true in many cases. I’m thinking more of the style and the tune itself. But he’s an incredible player.
Eric has come much closer to straight ahead than the GRP Super. Some digging on the internet will show you some interesting big band shows. The electric thing is just what Eric likes and people have a hard time accepting that.
Check out anything by Gordin Goodwin's Big Phat Band, where he is the lead alto player in the big band. As they say... Cat can play.
He has played with Chick Corea, All Big Band as well as Gordon Goodwin's big phat band. He's way experimented in jazz.
Is that Jimmy Haslip on bass?
“Archimedes was alone in the bath”
Mike Brecker on Alto???
Hi :) I have question for You because there is a very strange mystery next door :)
nobody talks about the harmonic Major/ionian b6
and modes of this scale - Why?
What is wrong with harm Major that there is no books,dvds,videos on YT
nobody talks about functional harmony for ionian b6 and his modes
nothing about modal progressions (in context of harm Major)
I don't understand why the harm Major is so .. hidden, taboo, conspiracy of silence :p
Even songs list,classical pieces or... anything!
There is nothing :( nowhere, that's why I have a request for you,biiiig request :)
Could you recommend the appropriate literature,any books about this?
Or (if not) just share your knowledge with us?
At least one video on harmonic Major but in depth :)
Jeff Lorber and Jimmy Haslip
Marienthal has been silencing mouthes for decades
Dude is a monster.
Jeff lober on keyboard
It sounds like he's referencing Rhythm-A-Ning a lot
I feel as though the rhythms of the transcription are not quite right in a few spots. Mostly exactly perfect, but some of what’s written as straight 32nd runs is clearly choppy and has some triplets or dots going on.
Wow!
Interesting, the actual key is in F- but the transcription is 3 semitones lower
It's transposed for Eb instrument
@@JMajor97 Oh right yes, thank you
Nothing he plays here sounds important. There are many words, but he doesn’t sound like he knows what he is talking about.
Ok so this is the first I've heard of this but you mean to tell me people see the guy that Chick Corea chose to be his saxaphonist in one of his most well known groups as a mere "smooth jazz guy"?
just look a bit through this comment section and you'll get the idea ;)
The funny thing with Eric Marienthal is that his works with Jeff Lorber and Chick Corea are awesome, but his solo career is IMHO quite uninteresting music.
And let's not forget Jimmy Haslip holding down that bottom.
This literally sounds like 99 percent of the sax solos I heard at Berklee.
Ok then luigi
Who is the keys player ?
That's Jeff Lorber, who's band this actually is with his composotion "He Had A Hat". Gary Novak on drums, Jimmy Haslip on bass
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Jeff Lorber on piano. In my opinion smooth but not only music masters 😊