Ben Wendel Quartet - Still Play
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- "Still Play" live at the Blue Whale in Los Angeles, CA on January 23rd, 2015
Ben Wendel - Saxophone
Taylor Eigsti - Piano
Harish Raghavan - Bass
Eric Harland - Drums
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Am I the only one who still listens to this regular basis!?
nope, still here for the still play
Nope
Eric Harland is probably one of the most fluid drummers of today.. incredible
Fascinating to hear a whole band groove in quintuplets - it sounds so natural. What a sax player Ben is - inspirational.
u-ni-ver-si-ty, u-ni-ver-si-ty lol
Already 6 years since this video came out and now we can tell how influencial il was on the next gen. It really feels like modern jazz drumming was deeply impacted on this day… On this day, Eric Harland changed the game forever, once again… What a Master he is…
Eric Harland is a monster. Period. (the whole team and tune are amazing too)
I get back to this one again and again. My god, what a recording. 2:55 actually feels like when the beat drops in electronic music ... holy cow, what a groove
You can tell the pianist was having a blast!
Eric Harland's inspiration seems to be endless...
Ben Wendel's playing is so melodic and unique! Absolutely love this!
Still gives me chills
amazing.... taylor is crazy... harland is so crazy....
So now I finally created a channel just to share my excitement about this performance with you. I love reading how a few other people are equally overwhelmed. For me, this is a perfect example for everything, that makes a good performance. Awesome timing, ideas, communication, feeling, development...just everything. There is nothing that I don't like . I love how lament-like the beginning is and how this motif is raised/lifted/elevated and becomes so powerful at 2:18 . Rather simple comping, simple drums and such a powerfull baseline. At 3:04 then Taylor varies the rhythm and a little later Ben picks it up and responds to it. Eric seems to love it, too. Then the solos show such thrilling development like the motivic and rhythmic development from 6:06 to 6:11 . After that Taylor plays pretty independent rhythms in both hands, which sounds incredibly intense. Finally he prepares the climax of the solo and ends it with a huge firework. Ben then plays of course equally good. My favourite part is where all prepare the climax at about 10:59 and then hit it at 11:16 , WOW. For me the bass player plays the most important role here. The bass line is what actually gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to it. So simple but sooo intense.
It seems like for the performers it was also one of the more satisfying gigs. They look like they really dive into the music. Just wanted to share my thouhts. To me this seems like a thing that should be taught or shown at music school, but what do I know? Just a perfect example for a exquisite professional live performance. Sorry for weird english.
Hey Furzgesicht (am German but please don't take your own name as an insult, lol) ... I am totally with you. I came back to this for the X's time. I'm a huge Ben Wendel fan but this to me (independent of Ben) is a perfect, full artistic masterpiece. It has it all and it's something I'd take on an island if needed to pick a single recording of anything.
It has all "in the moment" stuff any jazz fan could long for in one 17:00 minute take ...
You said it.
4 musical monsters amazing
Unbelievable. Listen to this often months ago and now again. Unbelievable how this is achievable, this complexity, joy, energy and concentration, truely a masterpiece of master musicians.
Keep imagining vibraphones in the mix !!! This is awesome.. Keep em videos coming !!
Yeah, like Dave Holland Quintet.
such a great tone
Wow love this! Especially how Eric plays with the time
*mind blown also....is he circular breathing during the melody? didn't hear a spot in that phrase where he would have taken a breath
Yes he is circular breathing
Yes, he is pretty proficient in circular breathing. I think he had a condition which actually made it necessary for him to play through circular breathing at one point. I was never blown away by his music the first time I heard him, but the last 1-2 years he consistently blows my mind.
Yep if you use circular breathing you can not have a break in your phrasing and STILL PLAY.
Yep he had a collapsed lung and learned circular breathing as a result to cope. Now he's turned what could be a career ending condition into a technical advantage!
@@wastedninjadude HAHA!!!
Favorito video on RUclips, no doubt
The lick is at 1:28
great engineering, Alex
DirtyBlvdSax another Chaloff masterpiece
Great music to listen to, and wonderful ensemble playing ... thanks for sharing!
I really enjoy when artists revisit tunes over the years. It gives perspective on the composition itself, but also on how band dynamics affect improvisational choices. I have a couple versions in my library (from the albums "The Line" and "Small Constructions"). Would anyone know if there are others floating around? Thanks!
O My God !!! Much Love from Indonesia
Just Amazing !!!
Unbelievable! Superb! Great band,great sound! Thank you all 4!
That circular breathing is unbelievable, great tune.
The whole tune is subdivided in 5, it seems. Like 4/4, but every beat has 5 subdivisions, so technically it's 20/16. Crazy. Reminds me of Balkan music.
Now that I think about it, writing it in 4/4 would be more of an eyesore than 20/16 since you’d have to constantly add 5s above the beams to show the quintuplet subdivisions.
I wish this was the version we got on the record.
Him and Redman have such crazy good tone. And others of course... but god his is beautiful.
And instantly recognisable.
The first note alone ... only the one long note is already incredibly beautiful sounding and resonant :)
Fantastic 4 !
Love the sound😅
Mind blowing piano, sax 'duet'.
utterly fantastic!!!
fantastic
Sick ..next level!
wow mind blown!!
Super
Outrageous pushing the envelope
Yeah!
Just sensational
Damn Ben!!
Ben's short paragraph of circular breathing is a welcomed departure from a one-note sustaining feat.
James Carter has a knack for doing wonders during his circular-breathing showmanship.
Great tonal quality...
Oh maaan that was good
AMAZING!!!! Man, love what you're doing!! Such great playing guys!!👏👏👏
this is realy soulbuilding. thank u so much
incredible
holy heck this is stellar. thank you so much
i discover your work and I love. thanks for that. I am fan of your sond. Can I know the reference of your mouthpiece ? thanks a lot
🖤
ドラムのイケオジさんの汗を拭きたくなる😂
Yeaaaaaaaaa
Sick!
this play sounds like ornette or his harmolodics.
bottom of two are cool n piano nice supports.
sax is waving n twisting
amazing!
wow!
So damn good!
2:03 is Eric Harland surprised by the tempo that is called for the tune? :D
I think he was surprised at the circular breathing
@@JackBeatenhead1337 Nah, he wouldn't be. Eric Harland plays with heaps of saxophonists who have amazing circular breathing technique like Chris Potter and Mark Turner.
I like the pianist
This is fucking amazing
absolutely savage
Holi shit, awesome!
This band kinda reminds of what Shorters Quartet. Sounds great!
that be taylor earning some extra cookie points from me for that solo there. also eric. but then again, ok, fine, it's all of them. it's just so much excellence in this one video.
17 minutes of pure shred
soul food sounds!
nice
Love it :)
Anyone else hear "a thousand miles " @5:15?
good catch. Eigsti has a knack for those quick references
ha! it's so subtle that i wonder if it was a conscious decision. either way, to paraphrase jonah hill, "his references are the sickest."
🔥
This is some of the hippest shit I’ve heard in years.
Man, I don't care for sax in any music except Jazz, and holy $#!t if it isn't the most exquisite voice! What a band, choon!
Wow !!
Bradley Cooper is a superb jazz pianist, and John Krasinksi is great on sax!!
Who would've guessed ???!!!
What a monsters...
Does anybody know where I can buy this rhythm section? Amazon? Ebay?
If you get the instruments they magically pop into existence in your room.
this 2 over 5 sounds amazing
Is this based on quintuplets or?
Yes!
Someday I'll fully transcribe the head
It shouldn't be too hard. Luckily the bass is super clear, that's usually my main problem when I'm transcribing.
This is fabulous! As always with something new and original, I made connections with stuff that I was familiar with, and it was Bennie Wallace who came to mind, both in his stance when playing, and with the heft and angularity of the music - but Wallace is far more raw and gutsy, an almost completely overlooked genius who in the early 1980's forged a new jazz language that was never picked up by others - to jazz's great loss. His album 'The Free Will' is a true masterpiece. And try this live performance ruclips.net/video/spOriCvEUxU/видео.html.
Not to take anything away from Ben Wenel's really extraordinary work here !!
Will there be an album recording of this gig available to purchase?
I'd love that.
Would someone give me a link to some familiar standard tune that Ben plays. Everything I've found is unfamiliar to me an oldtimer. Thanks for any info.
is that Gary Smulyan in the audience at 47 secs in?
Taylor Eigsti should be a household name. That solo was bitchin'.
He performed his first concert when he was 8 and became a faculty member of the Stanford Jazz Workshop when he was 15.
Doom fan :)
is it just a fast 5 or does the meter have more going on than that? brilliant stuff.
Wooooow? Great. Awesome. Amazing. Please! Whats is your mouthpiece? omG? I'm subscribed to your channel. Virtuoso Saxophonist. Bravo! My sincere respect and admiration. You look like Michael Brecker. Bravo! Greetings from BRZ.🇧🇷 Santos City. Success!
Les Esprits de John Coltrane et de Elvin Jones sont fortement vivants a la maison; n'est pas?
:)
Hi Wendel, I'm Brazilian and I would love to know what is your mouthpiece in the tenor sax?
Misael Freitas The mouthpiece he is playing is the d’addario select jazz. I couldn’t tell you the tip opening but most likely a 7
@@votaveri thank you very much. you helped a lot!
@@misaelfreitassax No, he's playing an Otto Link Reso Chamber and moved from a 7 version to a 7* version. They are refaced for him and to his specs - so you won't find his exact piece anywhere but a Reso / Otto Link brings you closer.
crack boum Boum tschak Tschak
Cero swing
why?
2:01
2:18
2:54
3:00
3:04
3:08
Aha Eric's face at 0:44
The melody reminds me to the jazz version of this: ruclips.net/video/F8Op7TPCotg/видео.html
what??
I don't want to see that music sheet at all. Nope. Not me. Thanks
Ooh aren’t they clever.
Whats new about circular breathing....its an age old technique...Ive been able to perform this for a long time? Check out George Coleman, he uses it to enhance melodic ideas!
sure beats The Smile.
Not Jaco. This time.
than moonshaped pool.