when you and your friends only practice one thing together

[@Zackapo]

Unreal coordination, they sound like a single instrument when playing together

[@Chris-ym2ow]

That’s the goal for most bands! Not to have 3 different trumpets sounds, to sound like 1 trumpet

[@Jo-un6es]

That's the Military for ya

[@cparkrun]

My dumb ass is sitting here like "wait which one of them playing"

[@flories9807]

its pretty normal for an orchestra

[@NotFine]

one giant trumpet

[@tpuggles]

How is this even possible, the unity and the tightness…

[@NickzAndMikz]

@@shipyaad This right here. Two words. Military band.

[@ParkourAxolotl]

@@NickzAndMikz fr lmao

[@highstimulation2497]

it's called practice.

[@luvyesmusici4886]

Practice, practice, and more practice. They are professional. You take pride in your playing, and in playing in a group. What it is really called is dedication, and love for music and your instrument.

[@jonburton1935]

Easy… they’ve probably spent months on it like most American bands going bar by bar

[@simonlutgens]

That double C is just so clean

[@fcturner]

Totally insane, especially after such demanding loops!

[@nathanlikesjazz]

thought this was insane then i realized that they're in the army band so that's just a given

[@counterfit5]

Air Force. This is the Airmen of Note

[@nathanlikesjazz]

@@counterfit5 ok thank you for correcting me it was very necessary

[@AltOfTiberius]

@@nathanlikesjazz 100% was - there’s a difference in band and service.

[@mountaingem6]

Huge difference in band and branch of service. Great U.S. Air Force quality since WWII.

[@nategwright]

@@nathanlikesjazz That absolutely is a necessary distinction

[@RomanNewhouse]

I love this recording so much, i went to an airmen of note concert when i was in 6th grade and my father and I watched them absolutely destroy this version of cherokee. I got home and for weeks searched for a recording for that concert and finally found it. I watched it on car rides, in the shower, and in my room when i was bored. It was the song and this very concert/youtube vid that eventually got me into jazz. Now i’m studying it in college! Thanks for the amazing transcription.

[@jazzman2516]

What a beautiful story. Jazz really is a powerful genre, I just wish more people were capable of appreciating it.

[@jeffreygordon7194]

I'm so glad young musicians like yourself have access to great music like this on the internet. I got my music degree in the 90s and half the attraction was being able to access the listening rooms at the music library. Good luck to you. You appear to have been inspired by great taste.

[@avemflamma]

i wish i actually played trumpet just so i could better appreciate how amazing this is. that high c is CLEAN

[@benjaminmedranda331]

Any brass player will understand

[@JoshuaWillis89]

Such good arranging and perfectly executed. This is how you write a trumpet soli.

[@BrodySchoonMusic]

I watched a texas honor band play this at the JEN Conference 2022 and it was one of the most impressive things I saw there, but man this is another level of just mind-blowing unity and honestly it's just satisfying to watch.

[@thatkid_derrick-3127]

i will forever flex the fact that i saw this legendary ensemble in person

[@EPG7ENS]

ive wanted to play this for so long thanks so much for this. Super epic

[@lucpraslan]

Fantastic! Makes me want to pick up a trumpet 🎺 👍🏼👍🏼

[@JohnsonSmithson]

Seeing those harmonies at 0:35 made it clear for me that instrument I heard on a jpop track (which I thought were a synth) was trumpets playing together

[@TedTrembinski]

The lads really went off on this one.

[@keiraalexander4997]

As a trumpet this is just amazing

[@jsparger]

As a music stand this is ok

[@_dan1715]

@@jsparger as sheet music this is great

[@himmel8901]

As a piano, this is average

[@jujub4553]

They sound incredible! 🎺

[@nearlyaverage9694]

Why was this so mesmerising

[@nicksunrise1334]

Here is absolutely interesting harmonies.

[@robertshrewsbury4241]

This was very well done.

[@OwenAdamsMusic]

Reminds me of the Jetsons! Those Airmen are certainly 'of Note!'

[@Richard_Nickerson]

That was absolutely amazing

[@callmejay05]

Best trumpet soli I’ve ever heard

[@luvyesmusici4886]

Arpeggios are a thing of beauty.

[@samuelzackrisson8865]

Holy frick that is beyond tight wow.

[@grzesiektg]

trumpet tuning turned into an art form :O

[@jamesf1525]

Reminds me of "Caldonia" on Encore 1963 Woody Herman. Amazing

[@wythetrumpet6419]

Absolutely Super! 🎺👍

[@mrbigg151]

They're so in sync and can PLAY that 🎺💯

[@nocluewhatimdoing4543]

Me (primarily a french horn player): Technically difficult, but not too rangy. I think If I practiced the hell out of this, I could record it. Tpt 1 in the last two bars: haha, lead goes brrr

[@audreyardrey]

Airmen of note! That's sick!

[@thesaxman714]

Good ol' Brian Macdonald ripping a double C like it's nothing

[@Jleslie2011]

I was waiting for the other 3 to come in until I realized😮😮😮

[@JCFoster]

unbelievable

[@NoahShiley]

The Trombones made me smile

[@pottsproductions2522]

this was great

[@williamlopes91]

gorgeous

[@leman1275]

I have never seen a piece of sheet music with 330 bpm. As I trumpet player, i could never

[@q12aw50]

That’s not that bad

[@charm9741]

Been waiting years for this

[@Gromby1]

Some things want to make you practice, others want to make you give up and never play again. HOW AM I EVER GOING TO DO THAT?!?

[@themusicman2800]

Yooo, I love this song, didn't know about this performance, as I found it from the "1 O'clock Band" with that fucking mad man of a trumpet soloist, but it's always nice to see other performances of the same song

[@kyla4049]

what sharing one brain cell really looks like

[@_Gabriel_Ferreira_]

CHEROKEE!!!

[@barbecuesauceeyebrows8254]

Amazing

[@bird5119]

0:26 im losing my mind

[@harriw98]

most controlled dub c ive ever heard

[@Sparlock42]

That should definitely not be notated in 4/4 at 330. More like cut time at 165, but I feel it more as 4/4 at 165 with all the not values halved. EDIT: Maybe not 4/4. Not sure if all the hits line up right, but I would have to do more work than I'm willing to right now to figure it out lol

[@benmckay4004]

Cherokee is normally in 4/4

[@Sparlock42]

@@benmckay4004 Fair enough. But isn't it also usually much slower? At the very least, you might notate the tempo as half = 165. I guarantee you they are not feeling it at 330 bpm.

[@benmckay4004]

@@Sparlock42 yeah they're definitely not feeling it that way. Whenever I played super fast stuff in big band I had to feel it in 2

[@jaqthetrombone]

@@Sparlock42 Personally I feel it in 4 instead of 2, mostly because of the bass and set playing. I could understand where you're coming from though.

[@JohnHaslamMusic]

double time swing is always in 4, rare to see cut common in jazz

[@TheHulkSLC]

So damn awesome 😎 PHAT

[@barbj672000]

Nice!

[@Fetrovsky]

Wiiilmaaaaaaaaa!!!!

[@seasonspierre1527]

Dude there was one line thought it was one instrument did not see 1-4…holy shit

[@miskaflixazoxy8792]

the percussion tho???? goddamn

[@Yossus]

Amazing execution. Bet you 100 bucks they started rehearsing this at half speed at most, and very slowly worked their way up from there! That's the way to do it.

[@xthatghomiex2939]

Honestly, players at this level probably sightread it only a little below tempo and probably haven't spent a lot of rehearsal time on it

[@nathandrian]

For the first half in unisson i was only looking at the notes so i thought that there was only one instrument then i saw 4 lines of trumpet and i knew

[@danielwinkler2891]

I didn't even realize the first section was all four of them until I read the comments

[@whowhowhowhocomeon]

Finally… good trumpet players

[@trumpetguy13]

It’s so unfair that an effortless Double C like that can come from someone’s face. 🤤🤤

[@jakeswann4369]

when everyone refuses to play unless they play first

[@Bubble_gum0400]

They were about to play the speed racer theme

[@frogfacts8091]

Really did think it was only one trumpet

[@stereoreservoir]

This is giving me penguins of madagascar XD

[@lokir]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@saintbees2088]

That's all the further they could get before it all fell apart

[@ryanpeplinski1884]

Buh, buh, buh, buh… Buh!

[@catconfirmed1896]

anyone have the pdf of this?

[@kinggoober3]

bruh the rthym section is going crazy rn bruh

[@quilloneal]

…ARE THEY ALL PLAYING? IM SO LOST

[@solemnwaltz]

I'm used to rock music in which the band follows or plays on top of the drummer's beat In this style, it's like everyone, including the drummer, are following an unheard beat It's weird to me that they don't quite sound like they're following the drums Not bad, just different

[@tomsayer5186]

Generally the bass controls time within the rhythm section, horns follow rhythm section for time and the drummer’s specific job is giving cues and fills to set up entrances and phrases and stuff, and also to control dynamics of the ensemble. But it’s more complicated than that, really everyone does a bit of following and a bit of leading, there’s a constant conversational push and pull that is just absolutely thrilling to participate in. It can make your brain hurt sometimes but once you get in that comfort zone and can really take off, it is unlike anything else in the world

[@JohnHaslamMusic]

in jazz, everyone feeds of everyone else's energy, everyone is as important as everyone else. I have to say I'm not sure what you mean by 'they don't sound like they're following the drums'. what does 'following the drums' mean?

[@tomsayer5186]

@@JohnHaslamMusic i think he’s saying that in rock and other genres, the drummers job is usually to give clear and unmistakable time for the band to follow. If the drummer speeds up, the band speeds up. In jazz, like you said, everyone feeds off of the drummers energy, and some times it’s not his job to provide time for the whole band at every moment. In this particular recording it’s difficult for some listeners to follow the timing of the drums because 1) the song is really fast and 2) the trumpet are locked in with themselves in this moment, not necessarily to the drummer specifically. The drummer is really following them for time, while doing a good job of supporting their phrasing and setting up entrances for them.

[@SteveCrozier]

As brilliant as the horns are here, I feel like the drummer is lagging.

[@solemnwaltz]

Steve and Tom, yes, that's it. Thank you. I couldn't quite figure out how to say it clearly. The performance is great - I'm not criticizing at all. Different than what I'm used to, but great in its own way.

[@girioola]

the guy playing saxophone on the bottom right sure does look like simon miniminter tho

[@aaronleblanc9276]

Leaving off the slur markings in the transcription actually makes this look much harder on the page than it was for them to produce this (admittedly excellent) recording.. They’re fantastic. But Al Hirt clones, they aren’t (at least not for these specific bars).

[@xthatghomiex2939]

It's Jazz... articulations are understood without being written verbatum

[@q12aw50]

This is such a wrong take in so many ways

[@TrompetaArturo]

I feel like mariachi trumpet solis are more flashy and cooler than jazz trumpet solis in my opinion

[@q12aw50]

That’s cuz trumpet solis barely exist. I honestly could not name another one. Sax solis are what gets arranged

[@Kostadin_Arolski]

It sounds better when everyone is a bit off imo

[@GA-gd3wi]

Very nice but why do they look like cops?

[@davidyoung353]

wait... what?

[@Xayuap]

I though it was just one playing

[@danielstigers5558]

He doesn’t even add the slurs in the

[@jonburton1935]

I candidly have no real love for cherokee but this isn’t smart it’s more smart arse. It’s really an attempt to improve on the GRP big band version

[@xthatghomiex2939]

No. Not at all. Alan Baylock based it on a completely different arrangement. And he's wayy to mature a writer for that to be the sentiment

[@jonburton1935]

I bet he didn’t.., the GRP version was around long before baylock did this…. It really just bring a smart arse with what is not exactly a great tune to begin with.

[@q12aw50]

@@jonburton1935”I BeT hE dIdNT” Alan: hey I did this You: no you’re wrong actually cuz I said so

[@jonburton1935]

Cherokee isn’t exactly a great tune in of itself…. But this isn’t clever writing And probably was written for this band. They spent months learning it

[@q12aw50]

@@jonburton1935 ignoring everything I said. If you don’t like the song don’t comment. Nobody wants to hear your ass whine like a baby

[@franklee1550]

Sounds like an old Mighty Mouse sound track. Good technique but it swings like a rusty gate.

[@sweatu9364]

BRUH I BETTER

[@sweatu9364]

THEY AINT GOT NOTHING ON ME

[@maxpowr90]

Why I hated jazz band as a trumpeter that sucked at soloing...

[@Phlatpop]

If y'all like this, go check out some DCI

[@q12aw50]

Ew no

[@secretname8587]

Not as hype as the comments say it just sounds like a regular jazz band

[@aidanobuck5779]

“a regular jazz band”. Buddy this is THE airmen of note. Crazy coordination, world class playing. They’re the top notch of jazz bands

[@awreckingball]

Easy key and 1 and 2 fingerings. Boring.

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

World cops. Downvoted.

[@jonburton1935]

It’s really a lot of nonsense. Playing a lot of notes whilst really saying nothing at all..

[@Stymerro]

Still Impressive

[@jonburton1935]

Actually in one respect it is. In another…. Anything is possible given long enough time on it. You seen that bob Mchesney trombone quartet?

[@liammcelroy2265]

I think for a section that is almost exclusively meant to just be a show off sequence, it pretty darn musical

[@beanz3436]

it's fast, which is one thing on its own. but what's the most impressive is how tight they are playing together, and how they sound like 1 instrument. there is alot more than just playing fast

[@jonburton1935]

The point is you can do practically anything if you spend enough time at it. Anyone heard that unison line in rob McConnell scrapple from the apple? Would anyone give a crap if it wasn’t fast?