Got mine!

Masterpiece👌💪🎷

Excellent song choice for this experiment, what's it called???

Thank you Dave, This was very informative. I look forward to the upcoming Jazz Standards course.

I think also the Captain Obvious would be, one must be listening to a variety of jazz and blues. This certainly has helped me. Congrats on your 30 Sep launch!

C 's are so beautiful, thank you.

why does it kinda sound like an oboe to me

Great!

Dave, this is an incredibly interesting and productive guide! I'll try it (with Autumn Leaves) and see how it work out ... I'm excited to try this approach!

Huge. Thanks! (and yes the drag racing adjustment was on point) Have a great day.

Hoping this is the course for me. Recently a monthly jazz jam session started up in my home town. Last month was the first one and I was amazed at how someone just called out a song and all the participants just knew how to fold in. I have a lot to learn about the protocols of the genre coming from a rock b

Thats was so nice and smooth!!! That's what I would like to learn--Ballards. Smooth jazz was so relaxing and your tone was unbelievable. I have purchase your Jazz Standards and so far I love your idea of breaking it down step by step. I think its going to be the best course ever!!! Thanks so much Dave!!! Wayne Pharo

See you on September 30th!

I love you dave

"A few degrees of separation" - reflects the complex web of influence, collaboration, and shared musical language that connects musicians across time, space, and genre. Just ask Kevin Bacon!

When I was 11 years old, I heard Quintette du Hot Club de France for the first time, and I loved it. However, I had no idea who I was listening to, so I went to a local store and bought myself an MP3 CD with jazz music on it. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out it was predominantly smooth jazz on that CD.

Thank you Dave!

This is why Jazz police need to stop hating on Kenny G! He's just doing his thing playing the sax, making his music, and also being pretty nice and humble about it! Let Musicians do their thing! He's pretty successful at his!

Great you're not talking about jazz you're talking about music.He is so good as educator I wish he'd been my sax tutor 4 decades ago.

I hope you post more ballads! That was beautiful! I really love your methodical approach to everything and it works well with the application to ballads. Thank you for sharing your thoughtful and disciplined techniques with us. <3

Um you earned my subscription

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Superbe! What tenor are you playing there please?

Super cool to hear Don’s drumming reacting to what us soloists recorded!

Excellent! Thank you!

Another edition of Dave's quality educational entertainment. Much love, man!

Record a live album: you guys + acoustic bass and drums

Outstanding suggestions! Thanks!

I was fully prepared for joke playing. Instead we get lines with some real vocab. Tasty

Pro tip: don’t only look for recordings on your specific instrument. You’re a horn player? Find recordings from a vocalist, pianist, other horns, etc.

Poor you 😅

dave pollack u my hero 😁😁

Great video and psychology exercise 🙂 But all in all it does sound really really good ! Thanks ! PS: I did subscribe ;-)

Beautiful

This is so helpful, I'm pretty new to Jazz and this is making a lot of sense. Do you know a good resource to look at more complicated chords, such as 6/9 or where you have a chord over a chord (ie f#/c)? I'm hitting a bit of a roadblock.

I did not get how to change the embosuhure.

Excellent points my Jersey friend! Go Yankees! I have been incorporating many of these points over ballads for a good while. I am currently studying the chord progression to the ballad "I'm Thru With Love". I found a fabulous version, sung in Ab Major, by Diana Krall. She does adlib parts of the lyrics. However, she sings as smooth as silk so I have been paying attention to her phrasing and nuances. I play it over and over to ingrain that into my head. I usually do an additional step and that is I play along with the vocalist on my tenor then do some fills.

Spot on!

Ben Webster always learned the words. Isn't there a story about him stopping mid-song because he forgot the lyrics... something like that.

Great suggestion - I'll give this a go. Your alto playing is so beautiful I almost want to switch from tenor! Almost. :)

Jazz vocalists try to imitate brass section while they try to imitate the vocalists.. That's what I love most about music. They get hints off of each other's sound

Thank you, Dave! Your videos are always really helpful. I’ve been wondering how to practice playing ballads, so this video is just what I needed! I’d be really happy if you could also post videos about tips for improvising in Latin and bossa nova!

In my experience, a lot of the improvisation and language we study is geared towards medium or up tempo tunes. A lot of that goes away when you sit on a chord for a long period of time and students struggle to create something melodic. I love working on ballads as a pianist because it allowed me to hone in my legato technique for melodies and bust out my big brain reharms 😈

I saw Ella...i came in...and no Ella...i went out

Autumn Leaves is the perfect song to use this approach with lots of 251's and use of Dorian and Harmonic minor scales.

Excellent as always, and thank you for introducing me to a beautiful tune. You'd think in all my many years that I'd have heard it before, but no, it's new to me!!

Beautifully presented melody, and lesson; thank you as always. Two questions, which vocal recording was your own reference originally? And, is there a version of this (of yours) somewhere at this tempo? Third question, when is the Dave does ballads album coming out?!

I loved the fill-ins by Dave Ii 😊

Nailed it! OMG - See what happens when you just play the right notes... kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZeqkKiBh712atksi=6vvC1nAPAFo5DGYZ

Good method. I've noticed that on some ballads some musicians show off their chops and the embellishments become overpowering and one loses the feel of the original melody.