That is just terrifying to be honest. So far beyond anything I could ever hope to play that it seems like magic. Beast mode confirmed. What I like most is your childlike reaction and sense of awe and wonder. Glad to see that spark is still there.
Awesome jaw dropping! I'm speechless! And without a rhythm section! Stretching the boundaries of human possibility! Destroying the "boundaries" between jazz & classical sax. Thanks for posting this.
12:49 and 12:57 onwards blew my mind. I remember hearing that Chris Potter was in the Aebersold summer camp as a kid and blew the instructor(s) minds. i don't quite recall the exact anecdote (something to do with Giant Steps?) but Chris is a beast!
An entire history of the sax in one solo. I recognize Bird, Trane, Newk, Classical literature, even method book etudes. I’ll be retiring now thank you. 😂
@GetYourSaxTogether I must not forget to mention that you're awesome on the saxophones too, Jamie! You nail every one of those classic saxophone solos that you've put up, and they're every bit as good as the originals. :-)
As the saying goes "if it don't swing it Don't mean a thing". This offering goes above and beyond Chris Potter is truly a genius. Thank you Jamie for sharing this.
Chris Potter has ALWAYS been on beast mode playing. Been listening to him since I was 17-18? Almost forty years? Does also not matter what horn he plays on, he could play on the most archaic plumbed horns and STILL sound like that. He's just a BEAST!
Mind-blowing virtuosity and genius. Even though I heard it I can only just believe it. Did my ears deceive me? No! WOW! Jamie, I don't know how you could possibly keep driving while that was playing. Please tell me you pulled over & parked?
Was there a single misstep in that performance? If so, I didn’t notice it. How does one play that - or anything, really - for 12 minutes and not make at least one mistake? Like you said, truly amazing on all levels: timing, ideas, technique, sound, execution, etc. Wow.
I can't find the quote but Chris said something like, don't move on until you've squeezed all the juice out of an idea. This really struck a chord with me. Chris doesn't leave an idea until he's done squeezing the juice out of it. That's one reason that he can play 12 minute solos without being repetitive.
That’s just crazy…and that segment -14:00. And likely only one of various facets. he can show as a player… Thanks for bringing this to attention Jamie!
@@GetYourSaxTogether we all have influences and they don't come much better than Mr Rollins. The other giant from the 50's being Coltrane changed everything to the extent that for a long time, right up until the 19990's it seemed that virtually every young tenor player sounded like Trane but gradually Sonny Rollins has pointed us in another direction and we see more of his work reflected in the playing of musicians. Of course even the great Coltrane was heavily influenced by Sittt and Dexter as young Rollins was very Hawk and Bird and so it goes.
That is ridiculous. I have improved so much over the last few years from your videos but half way through I wondered what’s the point? But then I became inspired. Chris Potter isn’t going to take any of my gigs in Australia. Thanks so much for posting. Thanks to Ben for transcribing. I’m not going try it yet. I was feeling pretty happy with myself for getting close to nailing Parker’s Mood from the OmniBook
This is like one of those Bach violin sonatas or partitas, but on saxophone, completely improvised on the spot. (Mind you, Bach being who he was, you probably could have handed him a sax and he'd have ripped out something similar.) "Why do I even bother attempting saxophone" indeed.
Jamie greetings from Youngstown! I went to YSU (though not for music, physics and philo) we have a great program for sax especially. The Big Blitz saxophonists both go here, and if you want to see a fascinating video on why sax isnt in the orchestra by Composer David Bruce he draws heavily from a master's thesis written by someone going to Youngstown's Dana School of Music. Btw I have another mouthpiece I handmade I would love for you to try out if you're interested.
Very cool! If you're happy to send me a mouthpiece on spec I'm happy to try it, but don't give me something that you'd play yourself man. It's a tall order tempting me away from the Florida Link I've been playing for 20 years!!
"Oh My Gosh!" WOW" "hOLY CAnolli" I'm amazed, ETC, ETC" 'Get Your Sax mind completely blown away-beast mode' Reaction: should be what the title says. I was right along with ya & I am speechless so I 'll just need a bit more practice, about 2 pots of coffee & 36 hrs playing a day till its figured out.. I got this! ..I think ..😛
All the deserving to a great mastery teacher, thank you Jamie for even the little you have provided has saved me a tremendous amount of time in learning even tho I am soo new, broke and never even thought about playing the sax ever so I am truly grateful to have such a great amazing highly skilled saxophonist providing to the public like yourself and helping so many obtain greatness is an extraordinary greatness in yourself to take your time and energies and you also respond.. I know your m-class must be amazing & want to join someday real soon and if I ever can get a set schedule in my life better, I planned to make that possible I will definitely want to.. did I say that right? lol@@GetYourSaxTogether
That was truly mind blowing although not easy listening for the untrained ear… 😱 - If AI could play sax, I’m pretty sure it would sound like this! 🎷💻🧠😆
Does anyone actually play a Chris Potter solo more than once? Is 1000 notes/minute necessarily music? Has the Bird/Trane/Brecker/ train finally run off the rails?
I’ll never forget that Elli Bennett plays this piece memorized on RUclips a few years later…. ruclips.net/video/yEW1aa6XQ4c/видео.htmlsi=k3TgKK6MfQSSItXe
For similar levels of skill in a band context, watch Chris Potter standing in with Snarky Puppy on "Lingus". I never tire of watching it: ruclips.net/video/Cx9NaCk_e1I/видео.html
It's rather like Jesus always being disappointed because his birthday and Christmas fall on the same day. Chris Potter is the only person not able to have the thrill of being blown away by Chris Potter.
Yes it's totally mind blowing. Chris Potter is like a savant, a kaleidoscopic mind a insane flow of ideas and technique... BUT... Potter lacks an artistic vision and lacks personal style of the greatest tenor saxophone players in history. It's a TON of math its and lacking in poetry and real personality.
James Carter is far better than him,ask Kenny G about Carter.There is a solo by him in youtube I can't play it at all even with the transcription in front of me.
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You click for the Chris Potter solo. You stay for Jamie's infectious enjoyment of the music.
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That is just terrifying to be honest. So far beyond anything I could ever hope to play that it seems like magic. Beast mode confirmed. What I like most is your childlike reaction and sense of awe and wonder. Glad to see that spark is still there.
Couldn't agree more!
Awesome jaw dropping! I'm speechless! And without a rhythm section! Stretching the boundaries of human possibility! Destroying the "boundaries" between jazz & classical sax. Thanks for posting this.
Well said!
12:49 and 12:57 onwards blew my mind. I remember hearing that Chris Potter was in the Aebersold summer camp as a kid and blew the instructor(s) minds. i don't quite recall the exact anecdote (something to do with Giant Steps?) but Chris is a beast!
Defo beast mode.
I was lucky to get a table 10 feet from him in a club in Toronto about 15 years ago. So good…
Amazing to think this was recorded 20 years ago. Now he’s had another 20 years to get even better!!
Who is the crazy man that transcribed this wonderful insane solo? 😂😂😂
His link is in the description.
Jamie as good as the music is you facial expressions are priceless
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OMG I LOVE Seeing you geek out like this! My brain just falls out… hahaha.
You and me both!
An entire history of the sax in one solo. I recognize Bird, Trane, Newk, Classical literature, even method book etudes. I’ll be retiring now thank you. 😂
Incredible isn't it? Ha yeh. 🤣
Utterly inspiring! Contender for greatest ever Tenor player.
Couldn't agree more!
I would say it's the true GOD MODE of sax
For sure.
That was marvellous, it just confirms what I already believed, that Mr Potter is a magician on the tenor saxophone. 😊
Indeed!
@GetYourSaxTogether I must not forget to mention that you're awesome on the saxophones too, Jamie! You nail every one of those classic saxophone solos that you've put up, and they're every bit as good as the originals. :-)
As the saying goes "if it don't swing it Don't mean a thing". This offering goes above and beyond Chris Potter is truly a genius. Thank you Jamie for sharing this.
Well said!
Thank's Mr Anderson. Very interesting melody. Never hear before.
You're welcome.
Holy cow! Glad you didn't run off the road listening to this in your car. That was one of the most brilliant things I've ever heard!
Totally agree.
Chris Potter has ALWAYS been on beast mode playing. Been listening to him since I was 17-18? Almost forty years? Does also not matter what horn he plays on, he could play on the most archaic plumbed horns and STILL sound like that. He's just a BEAST!
Right?! 👍
I sense a lot of Bach in this. INCREDIBLE!
Totally.
You should also hear Potter's "a capella"'s solo on cherokee ... in all possible keys !
Mind blowing.
@@GetYourSaxTogether and a bit head scratching ! It's so unbelievable that you may start wondering: is this improvised or not ? What's youre take ?
journey / struggle enhances appreciation
Thank you
You're most welcome
He's a space alien.
ha ha!
The kind of performance to inspire you...to just give up, lol
Right?
Thank you for sharing and analyzing this!
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing ! I saw him on You Tube in His Younger Years with Red Rodney playing Girl from Ipanema in Up - Tempo ! He had been great even then !!!
Right? 👍
Mind-blowing virtuosity and genius. Even though I heard it I can only just believe it. Did my ears deceive me? No! WOW! Jamie, I don't know how you could possibly keep driving while that was playing. Please tell me you pulled over & parked?
Ha! Yeah it’s awesome.
Was there a single misstep in that performance? If so, I didn’t notice it. How does one play that - or anything, really - for 12 minutes and not make at least one mistake? Like you said, truly amazing on all levels: timing, ideas, technique, sound, execution, etc. Wow.
Not that I heard! lol
I can't find the quote but Chris said something like, don't move on until you've squeezed all the juice out of an idea. This really struck a chord with me. Chris doesn't leave an idea until he's done squeezing the juice out of it. That's one reason that he can play 12 minute solos without being repetitive.
Good point.
That’s just crazy…and that segment -14:00. And likely only one of various facets. he can show as a player…
Thanks for bringing this to attention Jamie!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very strong Sonny Rollins influence on this performance. Wonderful playing. His tonal and rythmic approach owe so much to Newk.
Yeh, I agree. And I'm sure he would too.
@@GetYourSaxTogether we all have influences and they don't come much better than Mr Rollins. The other giant from the 50's being Coltrane changed everything to the extent that for a long time, right up until the 19990's it seemed that virtually every young tenor player sounded like Trane but gradually Sonny Rollins has pointed us in another direction and we see more of his work reflected in the playing of musicians.
Of course even the great Coltrane was heavily influenced by Sittt and Dexter as young Rollins was very Hawk and Bird and so it goes.
Amazing! Im without words. Thanks for sharing Jamie. 🤓🎷
Anytime!
That is ridiculous. I have improved so much over the last few years from your videos but half way through I wondered what’s the point? But then I became inspired. Chris Potter isn’t going to take any of my gigs in Australia. Thanks so much for posting. Thanks to Ben for transcribing. I’m not going try it yet. I was feeling pretty happy with myself for getting close to nailing Parker’s Mood from the OmniBook
Right? Yeh, keep at it and good job!
This is like one of those Bach violin sonatas or partitas, but on saxophone, completely improvised on the spot. (Mind you, Bach being who he was, you probably could have handed him a sax and he'd have ripped out something similar.) "Why do I even bother attempting saxophone" indeed.
Good point!
This sounds very much like the next Innie Challenge of the Month. Lol.
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Challenge of the millennium more like!
Jamie greetings from Youngstown! I went to YSU (though not for music, physics and philo) we have a great program for sax especially. The Big Blitz saxophonists both go here, and if you want to see a fascinating video on why sax isnt in the orchestra by Composer David Bruce he draws heavily from a master's thesis written by someone going to Youngstown's Dana School of Music.
Btw I have another mouthpiece I handmade I would love for you to try out if you're interested.
Very cool! If you're happy to send me a mouthpiece on spec I'm happy to try it, but don't give me something that you'd play yourself man. It's a tall order tempting me away from the Florida Link I've been playing for 20 years!!
@@GetYourSaxTogether Gotcha. This is another alto mouthpiece made to take a tenor reed ala Bostic.
@@gangofgreenhorns2672 like I said, I’ll give it a whirl if you can afford to or are willing to let it go!
Recorded on the phone in 2003 ? What kind of phone did you use in 2003 ? 😉
Yeh, I thought that after I said it! Maybe it was a portable recorder. You could record things on 2003 phones but maybe not with that quality. 😜
"Oh My Gosh!" WOW" "hOLY CAnolli" I'm amazed, ETC, ETC" 'Get Your Sax mind completely blown away-beast mode' Reaction: should be what the title says. I was right along with ya & I am speechless so I 'll just need a bit more practice, about 2 pots of coffee & 36 hrs playing a day till its figured out.. I got this!
..I think ..😛
Ha! Great comment!
All the deserving to a great mastery teacher, thank you Jamie for even the little you have provided has saved me a tremendous amount of time in learning even tho I am soo new, broke and never even thought about playing the sax ever so I am truly grateful to have such a great amazing highly skilled saxophonist providing to the public like yourself and helping so many obtain greatness is an extraordinary greatness in yourself to take your time and energies and you also respond.. I know your m-class must be amazing & want to join someday real soon and if I ever can get a set schedule in my life better, I planned to make that possible I will definitely want to.. did I say that right? lol@@GetYourSaxTogether
Epic.
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So I decided that practicing is ALL about the journey and not so much about progress …. AFTER I heard this some years ago.
Great philosophy
That was truly mind blowing although not easy listening for the untrained ear… 😱 - If AI could play sax, I’m pretty sure it would sound like this! 🎷💻🧠😆
If AI could play sax I'm sure it would be NOTHING like that actually! lol
I think it can take time and familiarity to hear the underlying changes. Chris is from Jupiter, ain't no human that good.
Ha! Yeah, interstellar fits the bill.
Does anyone actually play a Chris Potter solo more than once? Is 1000 notes/minute necessarily music? Has the Bird/Trane/Brecker/ train finally run off the rails?
I'll just leave those questions hanging in the air!
I’ll never forget that Elli Bennett plays this piece memorized on RUclips a few years later….
ruclips.net/video/yEW1aa6XQ4c/видео.htmlsi=k3TgKK6MfQSSItXe
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For similar levels of skill in a band context, watch Chris Potter standing in with Snarky Puppy on "Lingus". I never tire of watching it: ruclips.net/video/Cx9NaCk_e1I/видео.html
Another fabulous exhibition of Potters sax skills.
Yeah that's a classic.
That was my gateway into Potter. It me hard.
God almight !
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Wow, you bring great content.
Have you heard of the other NY giant. Eric Alexander. Like to hear what you think?
Yeh he’s great.
Two words: Phee-Nom.
Ha! Totally.
Yes, ok, but can he play Wonderwall?
the ultimate test.
Irrational hatred for CP is a real thing for saxophonists.
Yeah, that's a head scratcher!
Sounds like what Sonny Rollins would throw down.
Yeah, I know what you mean!
It's rather like Jesus always being disappointed because his birthday and Christmas fall on the same day.
Chris Potter is the only person not able to have the thrill of being blown away by Chris Potter.
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Yes it's totally mind blowing. Chris Potter is like a savant, a kaleidoscopic mind a insane flow of ideas and technique... BUT... Potter lacks an artistic vision and lacks personal style of the greatest tenor saxophone players in history. It's a TON of math its and lacking in poetry and real personality.
An interesting thought. 🤔
James Carter is far better than him,ask Kenny G about Carter.There is a solo by him in youtube I can't play it at all even with the transcription in front of me.
Okay, well, it's not a competition anyway I guess.
Chris Potter is not of this world.
Ha! True.
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Is that a puking emoji, I couldn't tell?
Not my kind of music.
Sure. It's pretty intense.
it's perhaps incredible but it's unlistenable for 99% of the poeple
I suppose you have to take into account the context - a seminar for young jazz musicians. Maybe he'd play different for a different audience.