When you are a 100% gentleman, this is how you play Jazz
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2023
- Johnny Hodges. His playing is more class than any other player, let alone saxophonist. Here is his incredible soothing take on "All Of Me", live featur with the Duke Ellington big band. I tried to capture the articulation and expression as much as I could, as this is so intricate and defining of his style. Enjoy the transcription!
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Dear lord that’s class
Well said Adam
pretty true frfr ong
No one could've said it better.
Yes Adam!
Exactly Adam, he very well could have been English.
Hodges. Johnny, Hodges.
He plays so gently and swings so hard. Wow.
Indeed. My fav sax player. So yummy! 😍
Genius…….
No need to shred when you got THAT!!!
SO true! When you listen to these great artists like Rabbit, Pres, Ben Webster, Louis Armstrong, Bix…it points out there is much different technique to strive for as opposed to the “lots of notes” path which seems to be “all the rage” and leaves many listeners cold (at least me!).
That bass player omg wtf it’s amazing
even as a novice, when i was a KID, 2 or 3 notes by this guy and I KNEW who it was!
Johnny Hodges has one of the most distinctive sounds of any alto player I know of. He can certainly make the horn swoop or moan, but all with subtle articulation and a warm, buttery tone.
You can hear him and KNOW it’s Johnny Hodges.
@@lordofthemound3890 You're absolutely right. Roughly a week ago, I heard a recording that I wasn't familiar with in a movie, but, as soon as I heard the alto sax come in, I was like "Yeah, this has got to be Rabbit." I SoundHounded the song, and, sure enough, it was him!
@1:10 anybody else got goosebumps too?
Never realized this was such an amazingly intricate solo... Love the control Johnny Hodges had over his instrument, he made it sound so effortlessly - not just here. Genius. ("Blood Count" another favourite.)
Johnny Hodges was the voice of Duke Ellington for many years.
Duke never got over his death.
I got it bad and that ain't good, and juice a plenty, are personal favorites.
Why jazz isn’t played like this anymore… this is so classy and beautiful in my opinion
It is still played like this because it's impossible to play it any other way. But the missing quality is the overall personal, masculine Confidence, Style and Taste that quite literally created the sound. A lot of recent musicians are just playing notes, they're not LIVING the Sound. Although there are many who are living the sound. The music came OUT OF the Internal condition, not the other way around. As the great ancestor Charlie Parker said it, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
That ain’t no ordinary gentleman, that’s goddamn Johnny Hodges for ya.
On ballads, this man could melt the coldest heart.
My family has always called me an old man because I've loved Big Band jazz since I was 3 years old (1989). In 6th grade I joined band late because I switched schools. I was told I had to play the trumpet because no more seats for sax were available. I went home the day I got my trumpet and turned on Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Lionel Hampton, etc... My first day at school playing the trumpet, my beginning band teacher heard me playing C'est si bon while the other kids were playing lord knows what while warming up. He walked up to me and asked how long have I been playing. I said "overnight." It was to the moon from there.
Johnny Hodges taught the young Coltrane so much!
probably, but honestly I don't find any Hodges' sign in Coltrane (I love both men, better to point it out :) )
Man, got to love both Johnny Hodges and the bassist Jimmy Woode. A kind of beautiful duet for the most part and then the subtle backings from Duke' band. Is there anything more classy than a Johnny Hodges feature? He seemed soooo composed, all of the time. Just pure sound and smoothness. Let me know what you think in the comments below!
/Jorre
Blanton died in 1942, video is from 1959. Bassist is Jimmy Woode.
Thanks Soren, I'll update that big mistake. Not sure what happened, maybe cause it was at midnight after a full days of work
huge bass sound wow
Johnny Hodges was never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but he had a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyes.
Such a unique and special voice in the history of jazz
So many of the old guard site Johnny Hodges as an early influence and yet nobody else every sounded like him. It's just not possible. Everything is as smooth as butter made of silk.
Had me going aaaa with me smiling and my head shaking every 5 seconds
for anyone like me who never learned to read music...this helps, a lot! thank you -- also for spotlighting such magnificent playing by such a great, great, great musician.
Your absolutely right about the Class of Johnny Hodges. Big influence on Stan Getz and Paul Desmond. For anyone that's interested, if you liked that, you'll love this. Paul Desmond Autumn Leaves from Desmond Blue, Stan Getz Nature Boy from Cool Velvet, Ben Webster Time After Time from Ben Webster and Associates. In that order. You will not be disappointed. Thanks.
great points about Getz and Desmond, thanks!
"Let's get to this, man"
Thanks Paul!
agree 1000%, great arrangement...like we'd expect anything else from Sir Duke? ;)
All Of Me 😍
His time, the way he swings is fabulous.
I love he's playing so soft, buttery smooth lines!
I'm melting !
The greatest tone that I know of.
man this channel is a revelation! I could never transcribe anything - never had the patience... but i've been playing 50 years and love following along w your vids. Plus you are picking the best shit. Thank you!
Oh thanks a lot Andy! We are with the two of us, one saxophonist and one guitarist and we've put up improvised solo transcriptions for nearly 7 years now every week.
Transcribing indeed is about patience and... coffee ;) you can start at any age, any time and improve from where you are by the way, I've seen personally people even starting late in life and making tremendous progress. And one can also pick just a couple of measures of interest to learn from, always found transcribing the most helpful tool to learn from your heroes.
Anyways, you also could just follow this channel, we'll be putting out more transcriptions and tutorials on how yto implement the stuff out of it.
All the best,
/Jorre
Effortless. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Tender Jazz: Organic, Cool, Smooth, Pretty and Beautiful 😍
simply beautiful
The clarinet player is also great
Jimmy Hamilton I think, not sure of
Thanks for the Johnny Hodges love, I've been listening to a lot of sax players this past year and I think he's my favorite overall
He took advantage of the quite dynamics and the band entering to express different moods...
Genio Johnny Hodges!!! Que swing, fraseo y sonido!!! 👏👏👏🎷🎷🎷
On my very short list of alto players I enjoy. Thanks for sharing this excerpt!
Sensibilidad y elegancia a raudales
El contra pesa domina y no parece necesitar la banda.
Pero con auriculares
Better than butter.
This cat is cookin🔥
He was so smooth with that alto. Wow!
Totally agree, 100% gentleman!!!
So smooth.
Pure class 🎶❤
The scoop up to that top D just keeps going and going
He was lovely. So were other sax players of the jazz era.
around the 0:50 mark I'm pretty sure that's actually an Db, not a C, that he's playing leading into the Bb on the Bb6 chord.
Great transcription and a wonderful solo. This clip is a favorite of mine, so glad you took the time to write it out!
I mean the whole thing is off by two tones because of the weird wood notation :)
Unique.
Johnny Hod-ges! *Johnny Hod-ges!* Johnny Hodges wants you to know that he too loves you madly.
Absolutely love this!
Thanks for this. Keep 'em coming.
Greta job with the transcription. Not a musician, don't read music but it really illustrated your points. smooth yet intricate!
So smooth
pure class
STUNNING BEAUTIFUL ❤
So musical
Absolutely stunning
Just effortless.. he makes it look so easy
Beautifull solo and great walking bass
Que bueno video con el pentagrama con su solo!!!! Gracias!!!
Like butter melting on a hot biscuit.
Nice one.
And helps to have a super swinging rhythm section.
Красавчик! Просто развернулся и пошёл сел на своё место!
A regular 100% gentleman could NEVER play like Johnny Hodges’magesty. Only could his majesty himself play a saxophone that way.
The rabbit, the class 👍
All Of Me
Damn son
A whole nother kind of cookin’
All of Me.. FOR.... All of You🌀🐝👉
This is what imagine silk would sound like.
His tone almost sounds like he's using a mute, yet he's not. Wow.
Anyone know the date of this recording? Just believable playing
Oscar Peterson once asked Count Basie what was the difference between Duke’s band and his band. Count simply replied “Class.”
retranscription without mistkes, love to see it
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OK, the title of this vid couldn't be more accurate.
Man.. that guy should play with Duke Ellington or something
There is even a little rap segment in it.
1:08
KEY of Concert Ab
Alto key F
うまい。うまいとしか言いようがない。楽器やるってこういうことなんだ、おしまい。
This is the musical equivalent of a smooth brandy...
Lips of steel produce a sound soft as a cotton tail. Same with Ben Webster 😉
Si Johnny Hodges parlait comme ça à sa femme, elle a du être heureuse. Duke Ellington avait dit : « quand Johnny prend un solo, à chaque fois un soupir énamouré se fait entendre de la part des dames, et d’ailleurs cette sensation est devenue partie intégrante de notre musique.»
Your subtitle is backwards. Jazz is impossible to play without class and edification. It ennobles.
Effortless. He could play in his sleep. 🎷
Didn't realize Johnny Hodges played on the right side of his mouth like Kenny G...
Ever see them together?!?
Common placement for a saxophonist's embouchure is to the right. Not always, but often enough a saxophonist using a well centered embouchure started playing on clarinet.
Please, let's not put Johnny Hodges and that jackass soprano player whose name shall go unspoken in the same sentence.
"Class" should take a class from this class act...
too much? 😅
I dig it 😂 nice
The definition of a true gentleman is someone who knows how to play jazz... but doesn't.
A flat. 01:14 Melody trumps chord.
Charlie Parker was not a gentleman, I guess, and I don't care about gentlemen.
I don't know if it's just the culture for music like this, but I find it super annoying and disrespectful that the audience start laughing after big man here comes in to solo.
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