The Greatest Baritone Sax Players of All Time | bernie's bootlegs

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    : A compilation of the greatest baritone saxophonists of all time. NOTE: My personal opinion. There are many players whom I have left out. Who was your favorite? Who did I leave out? Leave a comment below!
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    [0:00] Bob Gordon - • Jack Montrose Sextet f...
    [0:45] Cecil Payne - • Cecil Payne Plays Koko
    [2:45] Charles Davis - • Video
    [3:50] Gary Smulyan - • Gary Smulyan "In a Mel...
    [5:27] Gerry Mulligan - • Gerry Mulligan Quartet...
    [7:28] Hamiet Bluiett - • Hamiet Bluiett - If Yo...
    [9:29] Harry Carney - • Solo Baritono - Harry ...
    [11:12] Joe Temperley - • "Angel In Blue" - Joe ...
    [12:58] Nick Brignola - • Nick Brignola - "I'll ...
    [15:00] Pepper Adams - • Pepper Adams, Baritone...
    [17:00] Ronnie Cuber - • Baritone Sax Trio: Nic...
    [19:10] Serge Chaloff - • Video
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  • @MrBongoagogo
    @MrBongoagogo 11 місяців тому +7

    Let's not forget leo Parker on baritone so soulfull Leo's playing was.

  • @mambojazz1
    @mambojazz1 Рік тому +20

    Huh?! This list means nothing without Leo Parker on it!! How could you forget him?

    • @Thouveninpascal
      @Thouveninpascal 7 місяців тому

      Leo Parker is an ordinary barit. sax. , as the overatted Cecil Payne, a kind of show-off crook who had a little sound and who played out of tune

    • @mambojazz1
      @mambojazz1 7 місяців тому

      @@Thouveninpascal Aint NOTHING ordinary about the first real bebop baritone sax player!!🤣🤣

  • @j.g.c.vanderiet8123
    @j.g.c.vanderiet8123 Рік тому +10

    Coming to think of it, the omission in this series is Leo Parker. He was somewhat ignored in his day, but his recordings do put him among the best baritones over.

  • @adriandelgado8709
    @adriandelgado8709 6 років тому +7

    That sound from Joe Temperley is always so delicate and elegant.

  • @paulcombs-bomuse6172
    @paulcombs-bomuse6172 4 роки тому

    Nice compilation, there are a few more, as noted, but this is a good list to get folks started.

  • @mrs.bloxx-li
    @mrs.bloxx-li 2 роки тому +3

    Sahib Shhab definitely belogs here also. Very original! Btw love all the choices here, too.🙂

  • @mambojazz1
    @mambojazz1 11 місяців тому +3

    The most amazing thing here noone is talking about is Harry Carney plays then right after him is Joe Temperly playing Harry Carney's actual saxophone with a completely different sound😁!!

  • @joshualawn8721
    @joshualawn8721 2 роки тому

    I love the Bari Sax. Even I was in highschool we played caravan. We started it off with a bari into. Brilliant!

  • @8House
    @8House Рік тому +1

    Good site. My second visit. The think the baritone sax in and of itself is underrated. Leo Parker is my favorite.

  • @bobblues1158
    @bobblues1158 2 роки тому

    Beautiful!

  • @dancelli714
    @dancelli714 Рік тому +4

    What was left out was Leo Parker and James Carter. They are bound to leave some out. I have a recording where Leo Parker plays a blues like BIRD, then after the piano solo Parker plays like a Lester Young solo, it's a classic solo. James Carter has some great Idea's and tone. As much as I like the hard tone, Mulligans playing shows off the different note tones better. too hard, the notes sound all alike. Pepper Adams my first love, then Nick Brignola has some of the best idea's on the Bari. Ronnie Cuber plays simpler, and is very pleasing to my ears. If one of those guys play a lot of notes, it better be good, our don't waste the listers time. Simple is good too, and may say more than a flurry of notes. Coltrane made a recording with Cecil Paine & Pepper Adams, check it out.

    • @Thouveninpascal
      @Thouveninpascal 7 місяців тому

      James Carter... the Mariah Carey of the saxophone

  • @j.g.c.vanderiet8123
    @j.g.c.vanderiet8123 Рік тому +4

    I feared for a while that Serge Chaloff had been overlooked, but he crowned this line of baritone masters -- rightly so, thank you Bernie, for in his hands the big horn sounded light as a feather (and Gerry Mulligan took his clue from him). On a sideline, Ronnie Cuber, now of blessed memory as well, was the only one featured in this master series to play a "low-A" baritone, and that for all of his career. That type, now the usual thing, was developed for big bands to create a firm low C in the sax section. Sadly, the definition of the entire horn became less articulate, especially in the low register and when played at full volume, as Ronnie used to. As a former addict of the baritone, I advise aspiring players to look for the old ones, Buescher and the like, then have their keys attuned (even Pepper Adams' left hand keys were open wide, to good effect though), because in general the old instruments are somewhat out of tune by the sheer size of their keys. Good luck!

    • @mambojazz1
      @mambojazz1 Рік тому +1

      I disagree. The Mark VI Low A in particular is both more focused, as Low A baritones are, and clear in the lower register. Some modern horns like the Series II are clear, in tune, and balanced from top to bottom but lack the full sound most of us that play straight ahead want to hear.

  • @ricardoayala2023
    @ricardoayala2023 2 роки тому

    Very nice selection of baritonists where some of them are new to me. I was hoping to see something from Shahib Shihab.

  • @instrumentalheadquarters7062
    @instrumentalheadquarters7062 2 роки тому +1

    Joe Temperly and Serge Chaloff, I want to have that sound.

  • @guygrundy6647
    @guygrundy6647 Рік тому +3

    Sahib Shihab should really be on this list as should Lars Gullin.Check out Serge Chaloff on his 1955 Boston Blow Out album and his definitive version of Body & Soul.Simply breathtaking.

    • @Thouveninpascal
      @Thouveninpascal 7 місяців тому

      Of course, Chaloff and Shihad, the two great boppers of the barit.

  • @coreywilcoxmusic
    @coreywilcoxmusic Рік тому +1

    Katz are asleep on Leo Parker for example check out his recording with Bill Jennings(Fine & Dandy).*

  • @kenvanlit402
    @kenvanlit402 5 місяців тому

    They left me off the list!!! 🤣

  • @paulkompanowski9099
    @paulkompanowski9099 11 місяців тому

    You are missing Ernie Caceres, Jack Washington....perhaps you could do one on the origins of bari solos. Could list Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Clarence Hutchinson, Edmond Hall, Al Cohn, Charlie Fowlkes and a few others...Heywood Henry for example, or for the obscure, Charlie Bubeck.

  • @williamedmundson6626
    @williamedmundson6626 Рік тому +1

    15:42 Pepper Adams Among Us??? 😳😳😳

  • @Worldindecline690
    @Worldindecline690 7 місяців тому

    Harry Carney, the true OG.

    • @Thouveninpascal
      @Thouveninpascal 7 місяців тому

      Of course, the first of all. The father of the jazz barit.

  • @paitenhood393
    @paitenhood393 9 місяців тому

    7:30 what is the name of his solo

  • @finnnebel4223
    @finnnebel4223 3 роки тому

    12:59 is what you all came for

  • @dancelli714
    @dancelli714 Рік тому

    Coltrane made a recording with Cecil Payne & Pepper Adams. One of the tunes was; DAKAR Something like that spelling ?

    • @Thouveninpascal
      @Thouveninpascal 7 місяців тому

      Yes and Payne was demolished in the operation.

  • @joesgotnobeans3246
    @joesgotnobeans3246 10 місяців тому

    what the name of the very first song

  • @williamrappaport930
    @williamrappaport930 Рік тому

    Ernie Caceres.

  • @paddylandreville8501
    @paddylandreville8501 Рік тому

    Chaloff should be in the number position.

  • @JohnLissauer
    @JohnLissauer 3 роки тому

    Roger Rosenberg!!!!!

  • @paulcombs-bomuse6172
    @paulcombs-bomuse6172 4 роки тому

    Jack Nimitz?

  • @bensherman1628
    @bensherman1628 4 роки тому +1

    LARS GULLIN??????

  • @TheWitchesHat
    @TheWitchesHat 9 місяців тому

    No Lars Gullin?? That’s crazy. He’s top 5. He won best saxophone player award in DownBeat 1954, without ever having been in the US.
    And Helmut Brandt should be somewhere far down the list

  • @gabrielpreston5129
    @gabrielpreston5129 7 років тому

    Great list! But where's Mark Allen?

  • @newdawg100
    @newdawg100 2 роки тому

    Fred Ho.

  • @fredsanke4070
    @fredsanke4070 3 роки тому

    Where's Gerry Mulligan?

  • @iluzill5746
    @iluzill5746 3 роки тому

    Excuse me but where tf is Leo P? Dude makes noises that sound like aliens, c'mon bruh

  • @Thouveninpascal
    @Thouveninpascal 7 місяців тому

    Obviously the author of this video confuses "very good musicians" and "giants" of their instrument.
    Any great saxophonist is a good barit sax player.., the best example being Sonny Stitt who had never been a baritone player but recorded with.
    Give a barit sax. to young Baptiste Herbin, he will kill you, without being a barit player
    There were three baritone monsters, above everybody:
    - Pepper Adams , the "barit of the barit"
    - Nick Brignola , the total master who buries everyone in jam session
    - Ronnie Cuber , the Jazz-rock barit killer.
    Mulligan is a solist, an artist, but not a killer on the instrument.

  • @vova47
    @vova47 7 років тому +38

    Pepper Adams is one of the best jazz artists ever, regardless of the instrument.

    • @DoomerDad
      @DoomerDad 7 років тому +11

      He should be as a household name as Charlie Parker and John Coltrane

    • @christopherfischer6998
      @christopherfischer6998 2 роки тому +2

      @@DoomerDad agreed. I was transcribing some of his stuff and I am absolutely blown away (pun)

  • @zangsax
    @zangsax 7 років тому +9

    Everybody listen to the John Surman recordings with John McCloughlin. An amazing bari voice that motivated me as much as Pepper in a different way

  • @ricaard
    @ricaard 5 років тому +5

    Rest in Peace, Hamiet Bluiett...

  • @Herehear49
    @Herehear49 7 років тому +2

    Great lineup of the big horn monsters! Can't help but love Gerry Mulligan for the feeling he always had behind his playing. Technically, Pepper Adams still startles me after many listenings. Thanks!

  • @waynesteffen8459
    @waynesteffen8459 5 років тому +5

    Harry Carney is still holding that note.

  • @vestibulate
    @vestibulate 7 років тому +10

    The excerpts are well chosen. They demonstrate the range of the instrument, sometimes overlooked. And the Cecil Payne number is a knockout. Sounds like a live performance.

  • @amenentuet
    @amenentuet 6 років тому

    Thanks for Turning Me Onto Some Great Artist !

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz 7 років тому +1

    Bari Sax 1st instrument I ever took a solo on. Man, I learned some stuff this time out.

  • @lboy9889
    @lboy9889 7 років тому +29

    Dennis DiBlasio?

  • @phillipstall5622
    @phillipstall5622 7 років тому +2

    Yes the baritone! Cecil Payne! Pepper Adams! Charles Davis! I could listen all day....

  • @amenentuet
    @amenentuet 6 років тому +4

    I've Been Listening to Jazz All My Life . I Just Sampled Serge Chaloff for the First Time . I Must Admit That in My Opinion He Has The Best Tone and Improvisational Skills I've Yet to Hear on Baritone Sax . Pepper Adams, Nick Brignola , Abdul Al-Khabyyr, Mulligan Fan .

  • @UpNextWithNickLate
    @UpNextWithNickLate 5 років тому +3

    Gerry Mulligan will forever be my Baritone Sax idol and tone goal. Gotta match his smoooooooooth sound.

  • @rpkrauss1
    @rpkrauss1 5 років тому +1

    Each is a master in his own right....!!

  • @noahpettibon
    @noahpettibon 6 років тому +15

    How did you find like the only picture of Mulligan on a stainless steel mouthpiece ever? haha interesting

  • @MrBongoagogo
    @MrBongoagogo 5 років тому +1

    Hey let's not forget from the uk one of the greatness baritone saxophone players Mr Ronnie Ross and his solo on walk on the wild side

    • @billstotts2346
      @billstotts2346 4 роки тому +1

      Thank you for identifying that artist. That solo is my favorite bari solo. As I am a bari player, it is my inspiration.

  • @igordamnjan
    @igordamnjan 7 років тому

    Just Great! TNX

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz 7 років тому

    Nick Brignola released a brilliant drummerless CD with David Holland and Kenny Barron I think called "About Time" doesn't seem to be on You Tube.

  • @rpkrauss1
    @rpkrauss1 5 років тому +4

    Oh man Pepper Adams....!!!

  • @rpkrauss1
    @rpkrauss1 5 років тому

    All these cats were / are cookin' creative musicians....!! Kick ass Bari sax....!!!

  • @lwskiner
    @lwskiner 7 років тому +11

    Bruce Johnstone was a monster player and rightfully deserves to be on this list.

  • @jsem94
    @jsem94 7 років тому +3

    My favorites: Pepper Adams, Lars Gullin, Gerry Mulligan, Leo Parker. Rollin With Leo is a god tier jazz album IMHO.

  • @manualvarado2212
    @manualvarado2212 7 років тому

    Sophisticated lady, i can't with this tune

  • @chrisisland7792
    @chrisisland7792 6 років тому

    Guud post!

  • @JacobSlocumMusic
    @JacobSlocumMusic 6 років тому +3

    Parker, Leo
    Paul Nedzela
    Jason Marshall
    Scott Robinson
    Bruce Johnstone
    But nice list, thanks for showing love to the Baritone!

  • @paulpenelly5564
    @paulpenelly5564 7 років тому +6

    Ronnie fucking cuber. road on the bus with him to Newport one year. what a character

  • @akitikallc6161
    @akitikallc6161 7 років тому +2

    Good list. How about Bruce Johnstone? Dennis DiBlasio?

  • @xasma
    @xasma 7 років тому +4

    Smulyan is just crazy...

  • @musimages23
    @musimages23 7 років тому +2

    I love bob gordon thanks. not too crazy about "blew it" or those players after 1970. Jack Washington & Leo Parker are terribly missed from this list. and Lars Gullin. some recordings sound like they were made from a speaker? I love when stan getz played with Gerry on tnr. let's fall in love.Chu Berry plays Baritone on 1936's Knock knock with fletcher 2 takes.charles davis, shepp things aint what they used to be.

  • @mrwruble1842
    @mrwruble1842 4 роки тому

    Have an assignment to find a soloist I like that I can use to inspire my playing. I think I'm set =)

  • @jazzydjent
    @jazzydjent 6 років тому +2

    When Nick Brignola plays everyone listens

  • @worsley1000
    @worsley1000 6 років тому +4

    NICELY Done!!! You MISSED Lars Gullin, However...

  • @nicolasblondel5501
    @nicolasblondel5501 4 роки тому +1

    Pepper Adams the killer !

  • @FCntertainr
    @FCntertainr 5 років тому +2

    Romeo Penque played a nice bari sax also

  • @rpkrauss1
    @rpkrauss1 5 років тому

    Jeru was a master...!!

  • @FCntertainr
    @FCntertainr 5 років тому

    Hamiett Blueitt!!!!, Howard Johnson, Calaire Daly.

    • @BKrystall
      @BKrystall Рік тому +1

      All of them played on selmer Low A models

  • @aburaagekojima4528
    @aburaagekojima4528 4 роки тому +1

    i like Nick Brignola's clarinet

  • @Rosenkatt
    @Rosenkatt 5 років тому +3

    Check out Joe Temperley playing "Angel in blue" on youtube ! Untoppable !

  • @vivianzorzenon9626
    @vivianzorzenon9626 6 років тому

    Todos !!

  • @JeffreySaxophoneTallNewton
    @JeffreySaxophoneTallNewton 5 років тому +1

    James Carter and Bruce Johnstone deserve a spot on this list. Check out Maynard Fergueson's version of MaCarthur Park on "Live at Jimmy's." James is on u Tube as well.

  • @SOLOSAXOHP
    @SOLOSAXOHP 7 років тому +1

    Gary Smulyan

  • @adamstein7302
    @adamstein7302 7 років тому +10

    dude. joe temperley?!?!?!

  • @rpkrauss1
    @rpkrauss1 5 років тому +1

    How about the amazing Leroy Cooper folks?!

  • @teddortch7433
    @teddortch7433 7 років тому +9

    Let's not forget Leo Parker!

    • @k.1784
      @k.1784 6 років тому

      Leo pelligini right

    • @akiya9216
      @akiya9216 4 роки тому

      @@k.1784 Parker is a different player, much older

  • @markhiggins8315
    @markhiggins8315 5 років тому

    Sonny Stitt, incredible baritone player. Pepper Adams rated him among if not the greatest.

  • @garysoucie5145
    @garysoucie5145 6 років тому

    Great list. One omission--Leo Parker--and a contemporary to consider: Joan Chamorro in Barcelona, Spain.

    • @garysoucie5145
      @garysoucie5145 Рік тому

      How could I have forgotten to mention Lars Gullin and Sahib Shihab? My BAD!

  • @chauncywashington2227
    @chauncywashington2227 5 років тому +1

    FRANCIS 'DOC' KUPKA of the Tower of Power

    • @BKrystall
      @BKrystall Рік тому

      He alway splayed the low A because the concert C i a very important note in funky and rock music.

  • @diegomunozchavez8859
    @diegomunozchavez8859 5 років тому

    ojo que no solamente los grandes exponentes del saxofón barítono están en el Jazz, y en EEUU.
    hay mas...

  • @jeanhodgson8623
    @jeanhodgson8623 6 років тому +2

    A strong plug for Ronnie Lang. He can be heard on the first Henry Mancini "Peter Gunn" album (where he also plays alto at times). He has a nice, light tone, without that horrible rasp.

  • @IanBenedict
    @IanBenedict 7 років тому +9

    I got to meet Gary Smulyan last week

    • @IanBenedict
      @IanBenedict 7 років тому

      yea

    • @noahpettibon
      @noahpettibon 7 років тому +1

      Me too last week in Seattle. Second time. Always a monster!

    • @paxwallacejazz
      @paxwallacejazz 7 років тому

      Is he a Seattle resident? Port Towsend?

    • @k.1784
      @k.1784 6 років тому

      LUCKY

  • @adriandelgado8709
    @adriandelgado8709 6 років тому +2

    Gerry Mulligan is a really good saxophonist and really elegant in his jazz solos

  • @nylonsteel
    @nylonsteel 7 років тому +11

    James Carter as well

    • @k.1784
      @k.1784 6 років тому

      I thought he was tenor

    • @ricaard
      @ricaard 5 років тому

      @@k.1784 he plays them all, but won an award for the baritone.

  • @juni4729
    @juni4729 6 років тому +1

    mario rivera

  • @antronrearden7982
    @antronrearden7982 4 роки тому

    What about Sahib Shihab, and Leroy “Hog” Cooper.

  • @nazarosetrov63
    @nazarosetrov63 4 роки тому

    I like Bob Gordon

  • @chauncywashington2227
    @chauncywashington2227 5 років тому

    Tubby Hayes

  • @Stizzedd
    @Stizzedd 6 років тому +35

    Leo P. Is my inspiration

    • @lizziechoyce2019
      @lizziechoyce2019 6 років тому

      oml same

    • @lizziechoyce2019
      @lizziechoyce2019 6 років тому

      Can't believe they left him out...

    • @OcelotWhisperer
      @OcelotWhisperer 6 років тому +10

      If you wanna play pop.. hes trash at actual jazz, Brignola and Pepper Adams are the best inspirations for the classics

    • @billyretrogamer
      @billyretrogamer 6 років тому +1

      Leo P ain’t got shit on me. (Sorry it rhymed haha)

    • @baguette6302
      @baguette6302 6 років тому +5

      hes pretty good at improvisation, and his altissimos are insane, and it has a great tone, but this is mostly a jazz video so i understand why they left him out

  • @jannedavidsson2637
    @jannedavidsson2637 5 років тому +2

    Lars Gullin?

  • @wsegen
    @wsegen 7 років тому +1

    lars gullin to wit: ua-cam.com/video/xv6UM1-atfI/v-deo.html

  • @lildiq9989
    @lildiq9989 4 роки тому +4

    BRUHH DID U FORGET LEO P

  • @edyoung9374
    @edyoung9374 7 років тому +1

    i tend ta think of bari (flute, etc.) as more of a horn to double on - hubert laws comes to mind - so does sonny fortune, here with mongo - he is not known for his bari work, but i dig it~
    ua-cam.com/video/cP32H8RnXZQ/v-deo.html

  • @jacksonkessler3360
    @jacksonkessler3360 5 років тому

    Idk why I’m here I play trumpet

    • @akiya9216
      @akiya9216 4 роки тому

      bari is pretty good ey

  • @febreeze4677
    @febreeze4677 5 років тому

    Lol the guy in the thumbnail is puffing his cheeks

  • @BKrystall
    @BKrystall 6 років тому +6

    only two of them played on Low A horns.

    • @Kevin-ek1su
      @Kevin-ek1su 6 років тому +2

      Ben Krystall Low a is a better and cooler looking horn IMO

    • @scrammedeggs2322
      @scrammedeggs2322 5 років тому +1

      Kevin I find low a horns don’t sing as much. I’d rather have a sweeter tone than a low a.

    • @erboch7124
      @erboch7124 5 років тому

      Low A has a more airy sound and coarse tone. It's made for a rustier contrast with the rest of the instruments in their respective ensembles, and to differentiate with the generally smoother sound of a tenor.

    • @Kevin-ek1su
      @Kevin-ek1su 5 років тому

      Kenny Schultz yeah but I also like to hit a low a in a solo or a part. Plus you can still get a cool sound out of one of them

    • @BariSaxGod25
      @BariSaxGod25 4 роки тому

      I quite like a low a, but if you can make an extension to a for a Bb horn, that is the ideal solution.

  • @marselmusic
    @marselmusic 4 роки тому

    4:58 I wanna know how he did that