I took a semester with him and I barely messed with the triadic stuff. We basically worked on sound and time for 15 weeks and I improved more than I ever had before. But man I love listening to him talk haha he's such a character.
Privyet thank you so much for posting this video it's terrific. I am busy recovering from surgery for cancer and this video is really bringing me a great joy which I have discovered this Easter Sunday. It is my desire one day to go to 🇷🇺 perhaps I might visit your shop one Day? God bless and Das vidanya! Bill. UK
I do not understand sorry. I have been Italian for 48 years for now, :) I have been playing for 30 years. He is very good, he is an excellent teacher, but where do you see the "Italian style"? That is, I'm Italian and he just seems like a great musician. Moreover, he was not even born in Italy but in the USA.
@@Norman_Peterson what is not Italian about him? His way is 100% . And i know it. Look up the italian tenors 2005 on youtube. You will get it for sure. Even it s an off topic thing. The way his soul is so great.
I spent three and a half years studying with George at Berklee. What a great experience it was! My favorite story is when Medeski Martin and Wood came to town and I told him I was going to see them that night. George says " oh yeah those kids asked me to come stand in with them but I told them to go and do their own thing." That was probably 1995-96.
you are so right George when you said" you can play free but be able to to play bebop and changes first" ..which will make you a better player. I strongly believe this too.
The ligature is a wooden ring. Roberto's Woodwinds in NYC is where I got mine. The idea is that the ring holds the reed only on the edges where the table of the reed meets the sides of the reed, allowing the reed to vibrate while sealing the table of the reed to the mouthpiece. Nice tone with a lot of the lower overtones. I wouldn't recommend it for honkers or big band playing. Practicing long tones by breathing but not playing the note is not unique to GG. One of my old teachers (Sherman Irby) swore by it and had me practice long tones that way.
"The most perfect time feel I have ever heard came from..." I just KNEW he was going to say Michael Brecker. Thanks for this top post! "Perfect time will never hurt you - bad time will kill you" - I'm off to work with my metronome... slowly :-)
Great video! I was surprised when he spoke of long tones, sound and players, he failed to mention Jan Garbarek? No surprise he spoke of Coltrane, Brecker and Lovano with such reverence.
IndependentGeorge76 Not renowned for humor? Russians love humor, when it’s in Russian. I lived there for a while and sometimes they’d tell a joke, and I’d miss the point. It because I didn’t have a sense of humor, but I wasn’t in their culture and history. I started to get some of that eventually. Humor is a very hard thing to transfer across languages.
Hardly top-secret, it just requires 10s of thousands of hours of practice to approach anything like musicality as an improviser when employing these kind of harmonic techniques.
George is all the time referring to one guy at the audience that seems to be also one of the great teachers in Russia, who apparently was Nikolai teacher before George at Berkeley, the guy with the blue jean shirt leaning back and chewing gum, anyone knows his name?
@@sunlightband I when I visited Russia in 1996 (I was 17), I asked around about jazz musicians and was immediately directed to Oseychuk. I ended up going to the music school and jamming with some students there. They were great, and had a great feeling and love for the music.
Oh god, I don't remember the exact one, but it's like a ring like function, so if you have to adjust your mouthpiece, it slips around, and the reed just gets messed up.
Great video. I tried to learn and hear bebop. It doesn't suit me. It took a long time to admit that fact. Fortunately, by the time I played with Lieb, I wasn't imitating anyone.
It's a silver plated Selmer Paris Balanced Action Tenor, not "Super Balanced", but the OG Balanced Action. That is the great grand daddy of modern horns
Tells them almost nothing for 45 minutes, then looks at clock...”do we still have some time?” Then goes for another 40 minutes. Kind of a weird clinic. Still enjoyed watching it, but seems like he was making it up as he went.
I respect Mr Garzone and he seems like a nice guy but it makes no sense to first say "always play like yourself" and the proceed to talk about how to play like Coltrane for half an hour. Also, if you say "play like yourself" and don't go deeper into what it means it will only confuse the student. But I guess he's there to sell his DVD, Jody mpc and Rico reeds...
That was not what he actaully said. I think you missed the point. He was specifically speaking of the level of the player who should not be trying to outreach a level of a master but rather give what he is able to do decent
8 months later I still keep coming back to this video! Thanks George!
*Update* 2019 still watching this gold!!! 😁 George Garzone is the man! 🙏
I studied with him at New School! It was great! And he is a phenomenal player, teacher AND story teller!
I took a semester with him and I barely messed with the triadic stuff. We basically worked on sound and time for 15 weeks and I improved more than I ever had before. But man I love listening to him talk haha he's such a character.
I've watched this tons of times, and it's like I uncover new things very single time.
A true gem, even for non-Sax guys like me.
blacklonggadogg I’ve been watching this for 5 years Lol 😂
@@coltoncrawfordjazz, cheers, Bro!
George is a national treasure! Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you for putting this up. What a gift!:)
Really great, thank you for posting this. Just gets better with every viewing!
Privyet thank you so much for posting this video it's terrific. I am busy recovering from surgery for cancer and this video is really bringing me a great joy which I have discovered this Easter Sunday. It is my desire one day to go to 🇷🇺 perhaps I might visit your shop one Day? God bless and Das vidanya! Bill. UK
I appreciate the tutorial George. Wish you were my teacher when I went to school 50 years ago.
Thanks God, saxophonists needs so mutch guys like that! Thanks George! I felt the energy!
Thank you for sharing this piece of art. Mr. Garzone is AMAZING!
I enjoyed this clinic very much- It made my night. Cleared a couple of doubts too. Thanks !
Man he KILLED it with that starbucks joke
Beautiful! simple ,human so the big Masters are...George Garzone a name to remenber...Thanks a lot
One of the best master classes. Wisdom on pittfalls. I love his approach en his Italian style.great soul
I do not understand sorry. I have been Italian for 48 years for now, :) I have been playing for 30 years. He is very good, he is an excellent teacher, but where do you see the "Italian style"? That is, I'm Italian and he just seems like a great musician. Moreover, he was not even born in Italy but in the USA.
Очень некрасиво видеть то, как тов. Асейчук в вальяжной позе, сидит и что- то жуёт... ( Ну конечно, он же профессор, ему всё можно...).
@@Norman_Peterson what is not Italian about him? His way is 100% . And i know it. Look up the italian tenors 2005 on youtube. You will get it for sure. Even it s an off topic thing. The way his soul is so great.
I spent three and a half years studying with George at Berklee. What a great experience it was! My favorite story is when Medeski Martin and Wood came to town and I told him I was going to see them that night. George says " oh yeah those kids asked me to come stand in with them but I told them to go and do their own thing." That was probably 1995-96.
Tq George Garzone. I very appreciate the lesson, i've learn alot just listen to you.i love to buy your DVD.
I am very honored
to have taken lessons with him at Berklee.
You are such an honest wonderful man! plus a great Musician;) cheers Yussef UK
I love the way he smiles after expressing his thoughts on sax.
George has a great vibe, totally natural. Seems like a down to earth guy that you could have a beer with and talk shit. Cool guy.
you are so right George when you said" you can play free but be able to to play bebop and changes first" ..which will make you a better player. I strongly believe this too.
wow,thank you so much for this!
The ligature is a wooden ring. Roberto's Woodwinds in NYC is where I got mine. The idea is that the ring holds the reed only on the edges where the table of the reed meets the sides of the reed, allowing the reed to vibrate while sealing the table of the reed to the mouthpiece. Nice tone with a lot of the lower overtones. I wouldn't recommend it for honkers or big band playing.
Practicing long tones by breathing but not playing the note is not unique to GG. One of my old teachers (Sherman Irby) swore by it and had me practice long tones that way.
Wow-excellent video!!!
"The most perfect time feel I have ever heard came from..." I just KNEW he was going to say Michael Brecker. Thanks for this top post! "Perfect time will never hurt you - bad time will kill you" - I'm off to work with my metronome... slowly :-)
Haha! Well time's important, and I can understand your enthusiasm, but I feel you might be getting your priorities a bit mixed up here :-)
Pat Metheny has said exactly the same thing.
Great! Loved it.
i love ALL the videos on this chanel, BUT i must admit, getting some english videos is always a perk! :D I REALLY need to learn Russian...
PS what a beautiful sound George. God bless. Bill. UK
MAESTRO PAESANO BELLISSIMO!!! GRAZIE TANTO!
23:10 So key in improvising, creating. If jazz is the music of surprises it is no crime for the players to surprise themselves.
Great video! I was surprised when he spoke of long tones, sound and players, he failed to mention Jan Garbarek? No surprise he spoke of Coltrane, Brecker and Lovano with such reverence.
Miss you G!!
Одни тенористы! :) Спасибо, очень понравилось. Жаль, я не из Москвы.
So THIS is why I liked Dolphy so much lol
Love George's sense of humor, and I don't think these people feel that humor.
russians aren't exactly reknowned for it...
IndependentGeorge76 Not renowned for humor? Russians love humor, when it’s in Russian. I lived there for a while and sometimes they’d tell a joke, and I’d miss the point. It because I didn’t have a sense of humor, but I wasn’t in their culture and history. I started to get some of that eventually. Humor is a very hard thing to transfer across languages.
Lost in non-translation my friend. Maybe they were expecting a word for word translation on everything..
They laughed at things they understood.
George is not a comedian but a couple of laughs is better than none.
THKS MASTER !!!
4:36 Garzone farts, great tone and sound.
Gotta hate faux leather.
John Jepsen G#
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well, very good lesson, let's start studying.
jel postoji prevod na srpskom..., hvala
Anyone know the black ligature he is using? Isn't it the Florian Popa lig?
i think its robertos winds wood ligature
23:00 I am glad he said this, I have this same feeling and have always had this question of folks who have deep music theory knowledge
52:30 for Spiritual
Holly crap, that song at 1:17:00 is just so beautiful, does someone know the name?
"My one and only love"
Check out Coltrane and Hartman's version, if you haven't already.
Took your advice, thanks, very beautiful version of the song. Cheers!
here's how I know Coleman Hawkins version soundcheck.ru/track/2735463/Coleman-Hawkins/My-One-And-Only-Love-116
Anthony Garzone taught me how to play the cowbell
А перевод будет когда-то?
very very great
17:25 = 'Toteh-oh-teh-oh-teh-oh-teh'...LOL
Afternoon trying to open this video
Hardly top-secret, it just requires 10s of thousands of hours of practice to approach anything like musicality as an improviser when employing these kind of harmonic techniques.
❤
🔥🔥🔥
I'm a hack, not a musician. This was very cool to watch, but I feel like an ape watching aliens do something amazing.
George is all the time referring to one guy at the audience that seems to be also one of the great teachers in Russia, who apparently was Nikolai teacher before George at Berkeley, the guy with the blue jean shirt leaning back and chewing gum, anyone knows his name?
His name Aleksandr Oseychuk
@@sunlightband I when I visited Russia in 1996 (I was 17), I asked around about jazz musicians and was immediately directed to Oseychuk. I ended up going to the music school and jamming with some students there. They were great, and had a great feeling and love for the music.
What ligature does he use? Thank you
You're welcome.
Oh god, I don't remember the exact one, but it's like a ring like function, so if you have to adjust your mouthpiece, it slips around, and the reed just gets messed up.
I like uncle Rocco already.
Great video. I tried to learn and hear bebop. It doesn't suit me. It took a long time to admit that fact. Fortunately, by the time I played with Lieb, I wasn't imitating anyone.
Да жаль я не в Москве.
Be your self. Good advice .
36:00 getting up early
Дворники зашли погреться, что за вопросы
he gave the secret to giant steps......
Weird. After analyzing what he plays I actually don’t find many instances of triads connected with half steps.
The Italian thing. It helps.
Triadic concept: 46:23
He is using tenor
Personal ref: 41:00 1:39:30
40:40
46:16
32:00 long tones...
What saxophone George is using?
It's a silver plated Selmer Paris Balanced Action Tenor, not "Super Balanced", but the OG Balanced Action. That is the great grand daddy of modern horns
Merf1195
Thank you.
what sax is he playing? is that a mauriat? or does mariachi make their own saxophones?
michaelsin1968 George endorses RS Berkeley saxophones HOWEVER he plays a Selmer handed through his family
michaelsin1968 Selmer Balanced Action
"все поняли о чем речь?" - аудитория ничего не поняла вообще!
If he was Japanese, he would be designated a national treasure!
Chromatic Approach 1:07:51
The audience looks lost.
of course they're lost... most of them don't understand English! LOL
That's hilarious.
What he was saying would go over the head of many English speakers.
ummm.... over your head?
No, I studied with George Garzone at Berklee.
Personal Ref 18:44 43:12 48:55
lol the Russian students are stoned faced
45:00 So woke
Tells them almost nothing for 45 minutes, then looks at clock...”do we still have some time?” Then goes for another 40 minutes. Kind of a weird clinic. Still enjoyed watching it, but seems like he was making it up as he went.
I respect Mr Garzone and he seems like a nice guy but it makes no sense to first say "always play like yourself" and the proceed to talk about how to play like Coltrane for half an hour. Also, if you say "play like yourself" and don't go deeper into what it means it will only confuse the student. But I guess he's there to sell his DVD, Jody mpc and Rico reeds...
That was not what he actaully said. I think you missed the point. He was specifically speaking of the level of the player who should not be trying to outreach a level of a master but rather give what he is able to do decent
He has a nice sound but what a bore he is 👎☹
and you it's stupid
1:16:07