Tom is such a beautiful musician and creative genius. He’s really in a class by himself. One of the most talented and most humble of individuals on the planet!
Tom is really together here and speaking clearly and from the heart. He's an extremely intelligent and soulful person. No wonder he has always played and written his ass off. Great to see this.
No one should feel sorry for this guy. What a happy spirit and amazing musician. Just listening to "Trip" and it is awesome. My favorite trumpeter now, so creative.
Tom and I were in the same class at Stanford; that's what he means by "academic background." He's overly careful not to mention his high level education because he's always asserted his authenticity as a playa! In the 1960's Stanford gave us lot's of trouble for playing Jazz in the Music Department. Tom stayed in the Music Department but I got utterly pissed, frustrated and switched to Philosophy. Today Stanford has an excellent Jazz Program. Tom's always been a great yet humble and gentle soul! Music - particularly Jazz - has ALWAYS been his 100% spiritual faith.
I watched Tom play live last night for the first time. I was at the Village Vanguard watching the Joe Lovano Quartet. It was amazing. I was two feet from him. He played the most beautiful and inspiring lines with accompaniment, which was tenor, bass, and drums. What an amazing player and person!
...Here is a man who cannot be anything but who he is. This is a gift, not a problem. Since most other people have a choice as to how authentic to themselves they are, this makes people like Tom problematic for others. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't hang out, I come from an academic environment, I am largely rejected by my peers, and black people seem to understand me as well. Guess who MY new role model is...? Bravo, and Namaste' to TH.
I am learning to play the cornet late in life, and I love the young trumpeters like Ambrose Akinmusire and Josh Berman, but the old guys-Wadada Leo Smith, Tomas Stanko, and Tom Harrell, are taking up my listening time-such spirit and beauty. I have worked with mentally ill persons professionally, and am just amazed at what an awesome man Tom Harrell is. I want to cry, thinking of what he copes with. His genius shines through-he transforms and transcends his limitations.
Wow, this Harrell guy's OFF THE HOOK! Should've heard of him sooner, too. Now I gotta spend a good chunk of my budget to make sure his music's thoroughly represented in my ever-expanding collection. Now I see why the late, great trumpeter Freddie Hubbard thought so highly of him back in the day... :-)
Very nice and revealing interview with one of THE great trumpet and flugelhorn players. Great to hear intelligent questions from this sensitive interviewer who I think brings out the best in Tom.
No wonder Tom is a hero to so many musicians!!! This interview is beyond compliments on all counts: content, video etc!!! Bravo & Thank You!!! Wish it was longer! Please do it again!!!
yes, Tom is a marvelous guy and this interview was edited beautifully to reveal his intellect and spiritually. Kudos to Arun Rath and staff. Tom also has a delightful sense of humor and a honest understanding of the music and his position within it.
Tom is an amazing musician! Now I can see that it's a wonderful person too. He had showed us that sometimes the "crazy" people are more lucid and clever than the "normal"... So much love and good vibes from Chile, South América! :)
What an honest interview! And what a lovely man Tom is. I've met and had a chance to hang briefly with him and his kindness and humility shine thorough, even as he's a burning musician.
I first saw him in LA, with Phil Woods, amazing. A long time ago, his condition was not very pronounced, I certainly didn't notice it - I just thought he was brilliant, and talked to him after the show. Then some 20-odd years later I saw him in again, and asked his saxophone player (Dan Braden?) if I could talk to him and have him sign a CD. He said, probably not a good idea, so I didn't. But my point is... On the outside, when he speaks (I say this with compassion) he almost seems like he has severe brain damage. Then he puts his horn up to his mouth, and everything changes. Genius. Interviewer is fantastic, does it just right.
That was a joke actually. But I think he had to quit because he was getting too tired. I saw him performing a couple of time. Any time I had the feeling that he suffers a lot to stay in reality; it's an intense never ending battle and it must be really strenous.
@@immanuellasker4273 Yeah; as soon as he's done with the gig, he is 100% spent. He could've given up a long time ago but didn't. And we think we get tired etc.???
4:38 - Quote - "Charlie Parker said that he was bored with "stereotype" changes" (whatever they might be, I suppose blues, rhythm changes?.........) There is absolutely no evidence of that but there is plenty of evidence to the contrary as almost all of his compositions are based on these "standard" changes. Tom is a great player but so far he has to write anything comparable to Body and Soul, Embraceable You or All The Things You Are. These and many other so called "stereotype" changes provide endless possibilities for creative improviser as many giants have proved.
yes, Parker's compositions are based on those typical changes, but it's much more broader and a lot more advanced harmonically. that's the idea Tom is talking about. and Tom is writing more interesting music than just AABA form kind of tunes, because he is bored of playing them. it doesn't mean he can't play on them differently and beautifully every time, but he wants some change from the same patterns and same form. he writes beautiful music as well as plays as amazing as on any of jazz standard.
You have to be more specific which tunes of Tom's are more "advanced" than, say, Lush Life, or 'Round midnight. I don't know what you mean by broader. "Tom is writing more interesting music than JUST AABA form kind of tunes" - more interesting to whom? Surely it's a matter of personal preference. And what about many standard tunes with different structure than AABA? .... Being bored of great American Song Book is being bored of jazz itself, IMO and I can only feel sorry for musicians, however gifted, being bored of beautiful music. Of course one can become bored with anything - beautiful ladies, great literature, movies even life itself but surely the problem lies not with those objects but rather with the person' state of mind. Anyway, to me, being bored with a great music is a poor excuse for composing new one - being inspired by older music by wanting to create more beauty is to me a right idea. The ability of Tom's playing brilliantly standard tunes was never in question in my mind - I have worked with Tom in NY and heard him on many occasion live and on record doing just that. His ability as a jazz improviser was never in question, his ability as a composer is another matter. He has written some nice tunes (and I have played and enjoyed some of them) but so far nothing I have heard was an improvement on already existing forms and more importantly nowhere near as beautiful and interesting for improviser as tunes by Cole Porter, Gershwin, Ellington, Golson etc. The simple prove of that theory happens every day at every jam session around the world. Jazz musicians are still playing good old AABA tunes written by composers who knew how to write great tunes .Let's hope Tom will be one of these people one day. Meanwhile i will continue to enjoy his playing especially on great tunes from American Song Book and hope he will do more of that. Thank you for reading this! No response necessary.
I don't think you get it. Musicians playing swing when Bird was coming up weren't superimposing 2-5s and altering chord tones etc, they were playing the chords as they were written in the composition. Bird and Diz (and they weren't the first to do it, they learned from Prez, Hawkins and even Charlie Christian the guitarist and took it further) began superimposing 2-5s and flattening/sharpening chord tones BASED ON THE CHANGES of whatever standard tune they were playing. They then took these new improvisation ideas and wrote tunes based on them. Blues For Alice for is a good example - it's based on 12 bar blues but it is jam packed full of 2-5s and tritone subs leading around the I-IV-V chords of whatever key that blues was in. These 2-5s were also heavily altered as to not be traditional minor/dominant chords. Do you get me?
Tom is such a beautiful musician and creative genius. He’s really in a class by himself. One of the most talented and most humble of individuals on the planet!
Tom is really together here and speaking clearly and from the heart. He's an extremely intelligent and soulful person. No wonder he has always played and written his ass off. Great to see this.
No one should feel sorry for this guy. What a happy spirit and amazing musician. Just listening to "Trip" and it is awesome. My favorite trumpeter now, so creative.
What? Why would you say that. Are you sorry for him? Have you heard how he plays?
this guy is a beast of a musician and as a person
Tom and I were in the same class at Stanford; that's what he means by "academic background." He's overly careful not to mention his high level education because he's always asserted his authenticity as a playa! In the 1960's Stanford gave us lot's of trouble for playing Jazz in the Music Department. Tom stayed in the Music Department but I got utterly pissed, frustrated and switched to Philosophy. Today Stanford has an excellent Jazz Program. Tom's always been a great yet humble and gentle soul! Music - particularly Jazz - has ALWAYS been his 100% spiritual faith.
I watched Tom play live last night for the first time. I was at the Village Vanguard watching the Joe Lovano Quartet. It was amazing. I was two feet from him. He played the most beautiful and inspiring lines with accompaniment, which was tenor, bass, and drums. What an amazing player and person!
...Here is a man who cannot be anything but who he is. This is a gift, not a problem. Since most other people have a choice as to how authentic to themselves they are, this makes people like Tom problematic for others.
I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't hang out, I come from an academic environment, I am largely rejected by my peers, and black people seem to understand me as well. Guess who MY new role model is...? Bravo, and Namaste' to TH.
I am learning to play the cornet late in life, and I love the young trumpeters like Ambrose Akinmusire and Josh Berman, but the old guys-Wadada Leo Smith, Tomas Stanko, and Tom Harrell, are taking up my listening time-such spirit and beauty. I have worked with mentally ill persons professionally, and am just amazed at what an awesome man Tom Harrell is. I want to cry, thinking of what he copes with. His genius shines through-he transforms and transcends his limitations.
What a wonderful wonderful artist and man...He is a power of example. Loved this...
Wow, this Harrell guy's OFF THE HOOK! Should've heard of him sooner, too. Now I gotta spend a good chunk of my budget to make sure his music's thoroughly represented in my ever-expanding collection. Now I see why the late, great trumpeter Freddie Hubbard thought so highly of him back in the day...
:-)
I Love this man! What a beautiful and amazingly talented & humble human being!
Very nice and revealing interview with one of THE great trumpet and flugelhorn players. Great to hear intelligent questions from this sensitive interviewer who I think brings out the best in Tom.
This is the best interview I have ever seen. Thank you.
No wonder Tom is a hero to so many musicians!!! This interview is beyond compliments on all counts: content, video etc!!! Bravo & Thank You!!! Wish it was longer! Please do it again!!!
yes, Tom is a marvelous guy and this interview was edited beautifully to reveal his intellect and spiritually. Kudos to Arun Rath and staff. Tom also has a delightful sense of humor and a honest understanding of the music and his position within it.
Tom is an amazing musician! Now I can see that it's a wonderful person too. He had showed us that sometimes the "crazy" people are more lucid and clever than the "normal"... So much love and good vibes from Chile, South América! :)
I’m glad I stumbled upon this. What an interesting and beautiful person Tom Harrell is. No wonder his music is so moving.
"Music is drinking too, music is a food." I LOVE IT
What an honest interview! And what a lovely man Tom is. I've met and had a chance to hang briefly with him and his kindness and humility shine thorough, even as he's a burning musician.
wise words, incredible musician, great interviewer.
Saw you Tom in DC in 1992. You were AMAZING! Absolutely brilliant!!
Short interview, but very inspiring, thank you!
Best interview I've ever seen him give. A true genius and an inspiration!!
Thank you for this!!!!! What an inspiration Tom Harrell continues to be.
He plays a beautiful full tone and superb melodic innovation.
Loved the ending! What a beautiful cat in so many ways. Glad I found this one, thanks.
To know he is loved and creates in peace. He is so self aware too, incredible 🙏
This was the best interview I have ever seen, thank you very much, I had tears in my eyes...
Great interviewer and GREAT Tom Harrell. What a hero
What a lovely gentle soul and a Master of a musician
Harrell raises the vibration.
He has the most beautiful Fluglehorn tone. this is such an inspiring interview ,
thanks
Thank you Tom Harrell.
thank you Tom for your wisdom
He's so real. The best in an artist!
What an absolutely lovely man (and a great musician).
Cool and love the interviewer!!
I wanna hug that guy, so he's music
Top class video! What a soul!!
Amazing interview. Thanks so much!
Thanks for sharing this. Great interview!
Amazing musician, a real treasure...
Saw him at the vanguard last night with Mark Turner. Inspiring to say
the lease.
I first saw him in LA, with Phil Woods, amazing. A long time ago, his condition was not very pronounced, I certainly didn't notice it - I just thought he was brilliant, and talked to him after the show. Then some 20-odd years later I saw him in again, and asked his saxophone player (Dan Braden?) if I could talk to him and have him sign a CD. He said, probably not a good idea, so I didn't. But my point is... On the outside, when he speaks (I say this with compassion) he almost seems like he has severe brain damage. Then he puts his horn up to his mouth, and everything changes. Genius. Interviewer is fantastic, does it just right.
Love this guy.
Great interview(er). Truth!
Fantastic!
Wow!
Very good..
He's the BEST.
You're more than cool Tom !
Very cool
Gran músico y ser humano!!
hahaha i think you're right and i think that's really funny how he said that
What a giant.
At the very end of the interview tom says " you have enough to blackmail me now so I'm going to go ". He said it because of his illness. Cheers.
He's schizophrenic
I see it as a humour, he has a great sense of it! :)
That was a joke actually. But I think he had to quit because he was getting too tired.
I saw him performing a couple of time. Any time I had the feeling that he suffers a lot to stay in reality; it's an intense never ending battle and it must be really strenous.
@@immanuellasker4273 Yeah; as soon as he's done with the gig, he is 100% spent. He could've given up a long time ago but didn't. And we think we get tired etc.???
"Music is drinking too. Music is food."
excelent
素晴らしい
"Music is Food"
whats the song played in the begining?
Habanera from the CD "first impression"
Tom Is simply amazing! Can anyone please help me out with the title of the piece at 2:56?
What a comedian
TREASURE.
He looks like another person when he is playing the horn
What is the name of the first song he plays?
He said "I'd better stop, you've got enough to blackmail me on" (I think)...
he is a great man! i cant understand what he say on very end. if somebody can tell me! thanks!
" I better stop, you've got enough to blackmail me with"
Scott Baio did a great job interviewing Tom.
Good one!
Wah wah wah Chachi!!
wise cat
4:38 - Quote - "Charlie Parker said that he was bored with "stereotype" changes" (whatever they might be, I suppose blues, rhythm changes?.........)
There is absolutely no evidence of that but there is plenty of evidence to the contrary as almost all of his compositions are based on these "standard" changes.
Tom is a great player but so far he has to write anything comparable to Body and Soul, Embraceable You or All The Things You Are. These and many other so called "stereotype" changes provide endless possibilities for creative improviser as many giants have proved.
yes, Parker's compositions are based on those typical changes, but it's much more broader and a lot more advanced harmonically. that's the idea Tom is talking about.
and Tom is writing more interesting music than just AABA form kind of tunes, because he is bored of playing them. it doesn't mean he can't play on them differently and beautifully every time, but he wants some change from the same patterns and same form. he writes beautiful music as well as plays as amazing as on any of jazz standard.
You have to be more specific which tunes of Tom's are more "advanced" than, say, Lush Life, or 'Round midnight. I don't know what you mean by broader.
"Tom is writing more interesting music than JUST AABA form kind of tunes" - more interesting to whom? Surely it's a matter of personal preference. And what about many standard tunes with different structure than AABA? ....
Being bored of great American Song Book is being bored of jazz itself, IMO and I can only feel sorry for musicians, however gifted, being bored of beautiful music. Of course one can become bored with anything - beautiful ladies, great literature, movies even life itself but surely the problem lies not with those objects but rather with the person' state of mind. Anyway, to me, being bored with a great music is a poor excuse for composing new one - being inspired by older music by wanting to create more beauty is to me a right idea.
The ability of Tom's playing brilliantly standard tunes was never in question in my mind - I have worked with Tom in NY and heard him on many occasion live and on record doing just that.
His ability as a jazz improviser was never in question, his ability as a composer is another matter. He has written some nice tunes (and I have played and enjoyed some of them) but so far nothing I have heard was an improvement on already existing forms and more importantly nowhere near as beautiful and interesting for improviser as tunes by Cole Porter, Gershwin, Ellington, Golson etc.
The simple prove of that theory happens every day at every jam session around the world. Jazz musicians are still playing good old AABA tunes written by composers who knew how to write great tunes .Let's hope Tom will be one of these people one day. Meanwhile i will continue to enjoy his playing especially on great tunes from American Song Book and hope he will do more of that.
Thank you for reading this! No response necessary.
Since you say we've worked together, do you mind telling me who you are?
I don't think you get it. Musicians playing swing when Bird was coming up weren't superimposing 2-5s and altering chord tones etc, they were playing the chords as they were written in the composition. Bird and Diz (and they weren't the first to do it, they learned from Prez, Hawkins and even Charlie Christian the guitarist and took it further) began superimposing 2-5s and flattening/sharpening chord tones BASED ON THE CHANGES of whatever standard tune they were playing. They then took these new improvisation ideas and wrote tunes based on them. Blues For Alice for is a good example - it's based on 12 bar blues but it is jam packed full of 2-5s and tritone subs leading around the I-IV-V chords of whatever key that blues was in. These 2-5s were also heavily altered as to not be traditional minor/dominant chords. Do you get me?
vova47 pretentious lies