The last moments of this video is truly amazing; a portrait in how to practice the instrument!

Finally someone who says they don't tongue all the notes when playing fast. Great stuff

Erniie Watts .. WAY before Brecker! I remember him as the solo tenor on the Tonight show band. No offense to Mike B who obviously was a giant….but I never hear tenors of that generation give credit who helped develop this sound and approach to harmony and articulation and altissimo. Here is a great example of ALL the concepts, approaches that was mimicked by Berg, Brecker, on and on

"All freedom comes from discipline." Beautiful.

👍🙂Total mutant-beast!!

thanks for the video🎉

Anyone here would know his exact website of resources of scales that he is mentioning it here ? thanks 🎉

Too much maths. There is no hope for me

Berklee professor Phil Wilson recommend Ernie when he was a student at Berklee to Buddy Rich. The rest is history.

Terrible acoustics. Sadly I can't really hear him well enough.

Super player and a classy guy too. Love his playing - in particular, his playing with Lee Rit on the Coconut Grove show from many years back.

For music venue you'd think it wouldn't be an echo chamber....sucks since any advice from Mr Potter is golden

What a horrible sounding room! God bless them.

That poor guitar player to have to take a solo after Ernie's brilliant improvisation on footprints

Heres a case of alot of notes not just being hip or cool , their inside and great. Thanks EW.

40:16

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Left off at 47:28

Uooouuuww

Ernie Watts "The living legend"!!!

35:53 Motif development

Wattsapening

Siri!

beautiful!

I saw Ernie live in SF in the early 90’s and teared up during one of his Alto solos. Love this guy for all he’s done

Excellent 👏🏽👏🏽🎷🎷

And in the End Half Nelson. Beautiful. Long live thectradition of Warne, Lee, pete and Ted

amazing clip! thanks for sharing :)

Great player and teacher. Learning all the time....thank you...

Come in late and sit in front of the camera. Nice.

Excellent masterclass, fantastic arrangements and awesome playing. Thanks so much!

What's the name of the first song they play?

I studied with Samir for a few months....the man has forgotten more about playing the saxophone than I'm EVER going to know......

I got a question: the guy at the bottom, Is he a mannequin?

great class , thank you very much to share

Love it great job!!!!!

What if this whole Jazz thingy was built on the faith in substitution(harmony/melody/rhythm) and sheer arrogance? Why should I bother about someones technical woes and an instrument's deficiencies?

Mind blown!! Thank you so much for this! Off to the ‘shed!!!

6:16

6:07 LOL that one bloke in the back

He kinda looks like Jim Colerick a bit, don't ya think?

reference 36 neck on his sx 90

Not my kind of saxophonist, too noodley! Less is more! Starting to fall asleep, terrific guitarist though!

“Clarity of articulation.” Snippet of “I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair” while trading fours on the Bird song.

Cadenza from Copland Clarinet concerto at 7:36!

There I was thinking, "this is pretty good, but what is missing is a guitar in a case leaning up against an amp". So glad that guy fixed the problem. My hero.

this is awesome! thanks

Great topics covered in this talk. Then he picks up the horn and blows the roof off the place - by himself!

I would love to hear you play Bob! You should put up a video and show us all how it's done