I am also a fan of Melissa. Everybody is always talking aboiut the influence of Rollins. I don't know, I was never interested in his sound. Yes, she has his big sound. But for me the sound of Melissa is recognized by her bending notes! Here she only is playing those notes once in a while. Lately I hear it more often in her solo's. Lover her endless ideas in her improvisations....
INDEED... we were very happy to have Melissa Aldana in Chicago for a saxophone clinic last May. Here's "But Not for Me" from that session. ruclips.net/video/zpZzdUg7pfQ/видео.html
Every jazz solo in the world now is an exercise in harmony, licks and running the changes as fast as possible with as many substitutions you can cram in .... Give me one note from Stan or Stan (Getz/ Turrentine) ... Just my opinion ... I appreciate technique and all but I can't listen anymore ... There is no restraint ... It's all about ME ...
obergsson If you think every solo is just patterns then you aren’t listening. What Melissa and Jure are playing is what Stan and others played, but taken a step further
@@wird5406 No...obergsson is right. This is a complete bastardization of I'll Be Seeing You. Most "jazz" musicians today don't even try to understand about a song like this and what it meant to people. Melissa Aldana is overrated
@@navymusician822 Just because they might stretch the harmony or play more modern concepts over a song doesn't mean they have no idea what it means. They're just exploring the sounds they're hearing to express whatever they want to express. Artists are entitled to be creative and find new ways to approach old songs. And I would say the opposite is true. Melissa and so many saxophone players of their generation spend hours studying the tradition and learning what these old songs mean. You can hear Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Don Byas in her playing along with her modern influences. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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I am also a fan of Melissa. Everybody is always talking aboiut the influence of Rollins. I don't know, I was never interested in his sound. Yes, she has his big sound. But for me the sound of Melissa is recognized by her bending notes! Here she only is playing those notes once in a while. Lately I hear it more often in her solo's. Lover her endless ideas in her improvisations....
Love Melissa's tone. Super nice stuff. That Sonny Rollins influence.
@9:32 Monk's trinkle tinkle reference lol. Melissa's tone is to die for as well.
Unbelievably great. Two incredible tenor sax artists.
this is such a great tune, and a great take on it.. thanks for sharing!
Been absolutely enchanted by this, thanks for posting!
Great tenor saxophone performance.
Joel
Yes!!!
The tone of Melissa......c
INDEED... we were very happy to have Melissa Aldana in Chicago for a saxophone clinic last May. Here's "But Not for Me" from that session.
ruclips.net/video/zpZzdUg7pfQ/видео.html
They both sound good, but its crazy how much a bigger sound she has.
She told me she practices 8 hours a day, so that might be why.
@@i32504 it definitely is. My sound was way bigger when I was playing all the time too.
Very soulfully too! A huge impact with few notes.
I hope she also listens attentively to Sonny Stitt
nice!!! :)
mundo melissa
MundoNo
!m!!!!!!!!!
Every jazz solo in the world now is an exercise in harmony, licks and running the changes as fast as possible with as many substitutions you can cram in .... Give me one note from Stan or Stan
(Getz/ Turrentine) ... Just my opinion ... I appreciate technique and all but I can't listen anymore ... There is no restraint ... It's all about ME ...
obergsson If you think every solo is just patterns then you aren’t listening. What Melissa and Jure are playing is what Stan and others played, but taken a step further
Ironically at 3:15 there's a classic line that Getz would have played. It's on his version of Pennies from Heaven with Oscar Peterson Trio
haha and again at 6:30
@@wird5406 No...obergsson is right. This is a complete bastardization of I'll Be Seeing You. Most "jazz" musicians today don't even try to understand about a song like this and what it meant to people. Melissa Aldana is overrated
@@navymusician822 Just because they might stretch the harmony or play more modern concepts over a song doesn't mean they have no idea what it means. They're just exploring the sounds they're hearing to express whatever they want to express. Artists are entitled to be creative and find new ways to approach old songs. And I would say the opposite is true. Melissa and so many saxophone players of their generation spend hours studying the tradition and learning what these old songs mean. You can hear Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Don Byas in her playing along with her modern influences. They aren't mutually exclusive.