Jochen Rueckert Quartet Plays Charlie Parker

[@wammytammy]

I absolutely can't get enough her tone! Hopefully one day I'll sound something like her on tenor

[@Sandemose]

I once had a lesson with Lage. I played this song and remember the power of his time feel like a thunderous nightmare, still haunting my practice sessions till this day. I tried to end the song, but he started trading fours, and in my head I started screaming out for mommy. Great lesson though. Either way, Melissa plays nothing but amazing here. I got to listen more to her.

[@Sandemose]

One of the weirdest comments I´ve read on a live jazz video.

[@saxophonemechanic5454]

Check this Victor Lewis interview, all the best! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYGTZqdobdNsask

[@Sandemose]

Why? How is this related to this video?

[@saxophonemechanic5454]

come on dude, really?

[@Sandemose]

Never heard of Victor Lewis. Some context?

[@jvegaalbela]

I've watched this video at least several times a month for a couple years now. Honestly just impossibly good. That band was ON!!!

[@DILLINGER969]

For real. Extremely powerful.

[@robertvaron1178]

Oh hey cobo

[@zachwalgren1694]

@@robertvaron1178 hiiiiiii

[@handdancin]

aldana does a really good job listening to herself- the lines breathe and they are clear and related

[@maracuja55]

Lage on space ! umbelievable playing and Melissa what a sax player !whaoo amazing

[@mikikomurdoch5985]

Thanks for posting this! Melissa is incredible!!! Techniques, phrasing, interesting accidentals, tone, all there and then some! Great compliment to Lage's colorful solo.

[@bernardedwards5604]

😮😮😮😮😮😮 u kidding me???? Unbelievable 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🎷🎷

[@louizmumbai]

She’s put Sonny,Coltrane,Brecker and other great saxophonists in the boiler....and at the end of it ......what comes out is pure Mellisa.....wow !!!! what an incredible improviser......pure super modern linear thought process over the obvious blues changes without defining the well known blues harmonic progression........more power to you Mellisa......

[@lesmowhomever174]

You have lost your mind. You have a tin ear. She is good for a girl. She can run some nice scales. But she can't carry those guys' instrument cases.

[@TorrieSeager]

@@lesmowhomever174 says who?? An anonymous incel hack nobody?? Nobody cares what anonymous incel hack nobodies have to say about melissa.

[@guillermor.r4831]

@@lesmowhomever174 I see, it's not that you thought I lacked skill, you're just a sexist who doesn't have a quarter of her talent and it angers you that other great musicians talk about her

[@elijahshuford9769]

⁠​⁠While your comment comes off as pure sexism, I agree with the prior post from Luis. You don’t get record labels with blue note, travel all over the world playing at multiple venues, teaching masters classes at prestigious music schools, play with Jazz at Lincoln Center, and get nomitated for Grammies just because “Your’re a girl”. If anything it’s even harder for women to do this in a male dominated field because of people just like you. Jazz has no gender, it’s all about sound. You can’t get to her level without THOUSANDS of hours of practicing, listening, and composing. For a nobody like you to try and discredit all of that and gloss over her LARGE resume of accolades is LAUGHABLE.

[@lj3musicjulien855]

How can she put Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, especially in the freakin boiler, when the majority of her phrases and ideas come from her studying all the masters innovators of the art form we call jazz. Really?😢

[@coleschuster2399]

Matt Penman is crushing in this video

[@TonyAguirreJazz]

Love this woman. Incredible all away around

[@musicislifeproductions3602]

Melissa Aldana is the best!!!!!!!

[@shaomane]

This group definitely took this tune somewhere else. The guitar player is in another astral plane.

[@julneojazz]

One of the most creative improvisations I've seen over a blues! I think here are some of the concepts of modern jazz, which seeks not to be so obvious with the harmony, having the freedom to make lines that expand the sounds of the chords using big intervals jumps and choosing notes that are above of the note choice pyramid. When I listening to guitarists like Lage Lund, I fall more and more in love with their approach to harmony and the aesthetic that it adds to jazz. It's just my humble opinion! :)

[@patrickburden5416]

@Louis Rios I would love to hear you playing over the blues change since you k now so much about it

[@bulletfastspeed]

@Louis Rios Oof. You probably hate later Coltrane then huh? Like his version fo My Favorite Things live with Pharoah Sanders and all that. It's not licks or shit, it's musical expression. And pretty good time.

[@wird5406]

Louis Rios Melissa wasn’t even playing out. Grow some ears man

[@wird5406]

Louis Rios I mean you think that she’s playing out when she’s not

[@lowgrowl5]

@Louis Rios ha ha playing wrong notes! Throwing licks that don't fit? But they WERE playing the changes but with a modern approach. The challenge is to be highly original and creative on a blues... or no challenge and just do it old school (which would logically sound 'right' to you but perhaps a bit boring and predictable to others) There's no muscle memory here, they're improvising! Using their musical prowess, creativity and harmonically advanced ears! I think you could grow to like it if 1) you had an overdose of the 'old school blues' vocabulary or 2) You started being a bit demanding in terms of the development of jazz. But hey, just like you said.... It's just my opinion at the end of the day.

[@MonitorSmith]

Melissa can play, wow!

[@DanieleRaciti]

I would love to take a trip inside Lage Lund no boundaries brain !

[@sbaiar]

Absolute master status. Damn Melissa, your playing is so friggin' on fire on this cut. Your harmonic and melodic initiation and development is so over the top! You are one of my top 10 favorite sax players of all time. Damn you're good. It's so cool to able to say that, seeing as you're kind of one of the new kids on the block, so to speak.

[@lesmowhomever174]

She is an accomplished sax player but sounds like someone copying players of old. Nothing new.

[@effsixteenblock50]

@@lesmowhomever174 That's a rather superficial assessment of her contribution. It tells me you can't hear what she's doing in the motivic development dept.

[@guillermor.r4831]

@@effsixteenblock50 I saw it in other comments and he's just a jealous sexist

[@clearbrain]

Very beautiful tenor sax tone.... Soft ...not over blown like majority

[@cns7139]

Go Melissa! Many will comment on performances where the time speeds up.... hey, it's a live performance. This happens even among top players. (Of course, NOT Steve Gadd :-)

[@patrickburden5416]

Amazing playing from everybody, but the drum solo in particular gave me chills ☠☠☠

[@mariagonzales4056]

que gente maravilhosa!, todos tocam divinamente bem, Eu nunca vi ninguem tocando como toca A Melissa, se os anjos tocassem sax tenor, seria assim !!!

[@alexanderpotts8425]

i really regret missing melissa and lage play here in sydney

[@jimjimsreinventionrevoluti4075]

Yup. Really creative contrasts with space, note frequency, range, nice sax woman.

[@oldpeterjazz]

Bravissimi tutti, ma Melissa MERAVIGLIOSA !!!

[@edovonvelde3194]

Incredible melissa & lage 👏❤

[@cerimccoy]

Technical facility AND soul!!! A zillion stars. ♥️

[@ifranwaisman1750]

her father was my teacher of sax in Chile! XD

[@mmkk539]

If I were only listening to lage's solo part , I wouldn't know what song he was playieg . Truely contemporary !

[@mmanoloz]

7:07 Blue in Green?

[@dorianvaughn1915]

Yep

[@cachockey]

Lage watching the crowd watching him lol

[@MuriMorello]

hes thinkin in coming back home play golden psp or something

[@corinnadanzer9534]

I find it strange, that he looks the first 4 minutes not AT ALL to Melissa, while she is playing her solo. Looks to me, like he wasn't interested in her playing. Finally in 4:02 he turns his head, looks at her - and stops playing. Not very sympathetic.

[@julneojazz]

@@corinnadanzer9534 I perceive the opposite. I feel that Lage shows big admiration and respect for Melissa's impro. We cannot judge someone by their gaze.

[@vhollund]

He is listening to the music You don't realize what he does demands in terms of attention Listen to how they communicate How he responds to the sax player

[@thebopshop9689]

Fantastic give and take of space between the sax and guitar.

[@oamkritamet2989]

Melissa Wow !!!!!!!

[@johnderose6741]

So right...Holy shit this girl is good!

[@regparham4793]

What a rich sound! Nice.

[@drlluc]

yeah melissa

[@kaisinphilippe676]

Étonnante!En tout points, composition du solo,énergie,groove!

[@teoalexander817]

For the first time in the history of music the most interesting and exciting sax player is a woman! And Lage has been the most interesting and exciting guitarist for a long time now.

[@wyndhl9465]

teo alexander: A few years ago, Melissa won #1 place on tenor saxophone in the Theolonius Monk Annual Jazz Competition. She beat out a few male players for the first place spot. Melissa hails from the West Indies/Caribbean. Her father was/is a professional jazz saxophonist who competed in the said competition a few years before Melissa did. Great playing!

[@Savantjazzcollective]

@@wyndhl9465 didnt Melissa say she from Chile? She is great, along with Tevon pennicot whom I prefer for dynamic reasons I think, great young players...

[@nicowohl8173]

Kurt rosenwinkel is more killin than Lage

[@JohnsDough1918]

@@nicowohl8173 maybe during the 2000s, but not nowadays. His search for unique guitar tones have prevented him from keeping his phrasing and harmonic sensibilities at the top of the game.

[@TorrieSeager]

@@JohnsDough1918 wow this was absolutely the dumbest thing ive read in a while. Im gonna go out on a limb and say you AREN’T a professional musician.

[@Bebopopotamus]

Sonny Rollins on the bottom, Mark Turner on the top.

[@jaredtinkham3974]

Nailed it. Saw her last week and that's all I could think of

[@Sandemose]

Yeah, good point. I hear some Joshua Redman as well, perhaps more than Mark Turner. Either way, she plays incredible.

[@vicfirthdrummer8387]

Oh, I get it! Because of Gay!

[@warrenginmartini]

When I listen to Melissa I hear Joe Henderson. Joe was a small man, that's probably why she sounds a lot like him. Tall guys like Gordon, Coltrane or Rollins tend to blow louder.

[@jazzfan2222]

@@warrenginmartini coltrane wasnt tall

[@HalethDagore]

Daaamn! Bad ass at every level.

[@mikehawk9461]

She’s really got soul, pretty solid timing too.

[@rodtrues1]

Loved it,,,,have fun,,,,

[@JerryAttric42]

great video--I felt like I was there! some complained about the rhythm and speeding up--better to speed up a little than drag the beat. but I loved it all, the rhythm section and Lage's sensitive comping behind Melissa, everything.

[@jvegaalbela]

totally agree. who cares what the starting and ending bpm are if the damn recording feels this good the whole time

[@armthealiens]

Just Amazing.

[@Bazmatronics]

Brilliant! 🎄

[@marvinwimbush5121]

Wow 🎼🎵🎈🎶🎷🔥🔥🔥

[@philippeclement1570]

Yeah.

[@sjs4711]

Great job Melissa!

[@billyblackburn864]

i liek that guitar, what kind is it? the patina is to die for. srsly i like it alot

[@chriss1152]

She has a great sound and tone 🎷🎷🎷

[@wyndhl9465]

La Chilienne saxophoniste est incroyable, et ainsi sont aussi Camille Thurman, et Anat Cohen qui joue bien aussi de la clarinette. Camille est aussi une chanteuse de Jazz Organique. Elle chante merveilleusement des "scats" comme l'ancienne chanteuse Ella Fitzgerald, celle-qui est maintenant morte. Nubya Garcia habite Londres. Elle joue le Jazz de "Funk" - non pas de pur Jazz; ce qui est aussi fantastique.

[@travelingman9763]

She is a beast!

[@Gusrikh1]

Lovely..

[@patrickburden5416]

Holy shit this woman is good

[@TheKierensaysmaybe]

Correction, "woman".

[@oldboy9267]

@@TheKierensaysmaybe correction "girl"

[@TheKierensaysmaybe]

Cal Clove last I checked shes an adult, not a child. Give her the respect shes due.

[@steveburchfield5576]

SHIT is not holy.

[@metothemoon1227]

Wowwww awesome !!!!!!!!!

[@GerardBeaubrun]

This drummer is a beast

[@vanessajazz1629]

Melissa Aldana, she plays her ass off!

[@saxman3336]

She inspires me

[@tonyedwards4067]

👍 thats the way ah ha I like it...

[@josephlucianosr.5941]

Wow!

[@TheKierensaysmaybe]

Aldana... the best horn player alive RN, IMO. Not even a hot take.

[@miguelcastano3210]

Serious stuff ; )

[@DaMonster]

Where was this? What club

[@miropopradi]

Amen

[@steveellis7409]

I have an opinion on this. Thanks for sharing!

[@masonbaran7722]

Ever wonder what Lage is looking at?

[@JerryAttric42]

somewhere out there. . . .

[@danielcodon7618]

Jujuuuuu!!!

[@robdarimartin]

Bien Mel.

[@gupta76]

Interesting use of delay pedal! :)

[@JazzfireflyNZ]

Great guitar playing... his delay set so long, though!

[@Fabelnegros]

😎😍

[@jazzymaniacs]

abn?tes pas venu a la soiree melisse?

[@PaulDeemer]

#turnerhop

[@vKarl71]

You can tell she's really studied Sonny Rollins.

[@yohenson]

pretty on all accounts

[@studbagl]

ohmygod

[@sifodia306]

Brutal

[@thomasgrady3103]

4:31 Three and One

[@ragezen1706]

wow tempo goes from approx 185 to 245, lol!

[@MuriMorello]

this is why is called swing

[@ragezen1706]

@@georgepoveymusic LOL!!!!!!!

[@renepythoud1565]

Kompliment: Jochen Rueckert's Art zu spielen ist mit Roy Haynes Spielweise verwandt, Melissa ist wunderbar.

[@KrisVComm]

There is playing a song like you are covering it. Then, there is playing like you own the song and you don’t have to convince anyone. You play the song because you feel it and speak it from your own heart. Ask yourself honestly, which one is this? Feels like someone trying to cover a song. Music is more than hitting the notes. I don’t feel this but I feel Bird and he’s flown this coop

[@christophercalabrese9257]

The guitar player look doe

[@ultraparadoxical7610]

Killer tenor solo

[@tenortones2]

she also uses good head movement she does a good job avoiding the jab...

[@peterfunke7092]

wow - sax lady inspired by Chkarlie Parker ?

[@sequoyahcisneros8719]

Seriously? I don't think there is a single saxophonist alive worth their salt that hasn't been influenced by Bird

[@vierkanthofdusseldorf509]

1235

[@afxmnstr]

Lage is too advanced, and i dont know whats happen.....

[@olafjerome]

great....

[@ustwoalberts]

There is no law that makes the metronome master of the musical universe. Jazz is a living, breathing thing. This is a terrific JAZZ band , in my opinion....

[@olafjerome]

@@ustwoalberts Indeed, I don't disagree in the slightest; these musicians, both collectively and individually, are at such a high level that there's nothing to criticize, at least not from me personally and at my modest level! But I'm certainly not the only one who noticed that it took quite a few points off the metronome, and they must have noticed it themselves too... it's just significant enough to mention. Well, I'm a bit of a tempo obsessive guy.😅🤣

[@giovannilionni1195]

Great music, I only notice that the song starts at 200bpm but ends at 260. It's a shame because each speed has its own character and beauty. It seems that today you have to play everything at 260, why?

[@wadecottingham]

outrun Covid

[@fullmoon7192]

Is this M.Brecker female reincarnation or what ??? I'm lost, amazed, confused..., and... fucked up... This young lady is meant to take it up and carry on what some great guys left... I don't really know what to say... ♫♫ ♥❀(~‿~)❀♥ ♫♫

[@josephrader1006]

Haha I don't really hear much Mike B in Melissa's playing, but she's absolutely killin! I get more of a Mark Turner vibe for sure

[@marksaxcain]

Watching this, without previously knowing anything about the musicians, at first I absolutely didn't like it, especially the guitarist's attitude, but as I scrolled down down the comments and stopped watching and just listened I started to appreciate the musicianship more. Obviously excellent, accomplished and well-studied musicians. My expectations subsided and I enjoyed the music. Then I started to watch the video again and the guitarist staring into oblivion just to prove he could do it without watching the guitar was a real turn off. I'm a guitarist and saxophonist - on the sax you can't see a single note you play so it's no big deal.... he's a great player but his efforts are extremely contrived to me. And she's great every day of the week.....

[@jonathanrossmusic2509]

Mark Cain I can see why you’d be scratching your head. Lage Lund always stares off into space when he plays.

[@jonathanstewart5269]

Holy shit. I just gave the ignorant comment of the year way to someone above you, but I may have to rethink my vote.

[@JohnsDough1918]

What I don't get is musicians ranting about elements of a performance that don't bear any direct relation to the sounds, like stage presence. Most of this industry is already overly obsessed with theatricality, musicians should know better.

[@rileytanner4476]

Dude he’s not staring into oblivion to prove he doesn’t haven’t to stare at the neck. He’s just trying to focus like if u see someone close their eyes when they solo (I think he’s just kinda zoning out his vision). When u play the guitar as much as he does u really don’t have to look at the neck. That would be really silly if he was trying to prove he’s so great because he doesn’t look at the guitar neck bc like I said most guitarists at his level don’t really need to look at the neck (it’s really just not impressive to anyone). I just ... idk dude

[@carlosjazzpick]

Talking about attitude? have we any idea how heroic jazz musicians are to get up on a double stage, their life stage and the concert stage, to play in a style that is relegated in the midst of so much "modern" commercial garbage? Jazz musicians are especially sensitive human beings who have intense lives of their own and who struggle a thousand times more to carry their message in this rotten society that lacks creativity, good taste and musical elevation. BTW, as a jazz guitarist myself I sometimes play without watching at the fretboard at all and with my eyes closed, I earned that right and ability with years of practice and no one has ever told me I'm a show-off for that. I remember those GRP times with those monumental musicians smiling, dancing and looking at each other, supported by an organization that had stage managers and millions of dollars for promotion. But not everyone is so lucky today! with its exceptions like the amazing Snarky Puppy or DirtyLoops and a few more. I see and listen to Mellisa, Lage, Matt and Jochen, and I can only thank the universe that their attitude is so honest, free and evolutionary. Even though it may seem unimaginable by today's standards, they are writing history in these sometimes dark, smokey and even shadowy but magical scenarios! Thanks to BlueNote for supporting and believing in Mellisa Aldana. Bravo @EliteMusic Mentor as well for this.

[@JMOLIVES]

Without denying the musicianship present here, i confess that it is not what i expect. Jazz musicians learned the hard way to respect the nature of the song. As all great musicians said you are here to make the song beautiful with your own tools. I am afraid it is not what is happening here. Billie's bounce is a blues. It is not a postmodern outside thing. That does not mean that you cant create some outside statements but gosh underline the chords changes ! This tendency is unfortunately present in some modern day jazz schools where narcissism is the rule and i deeply regret it.

[@gktde9874]

JMOLIVES...get a time machine and travel back. Bye !

[@researcher5528]

if you don't like the food then change the restaurant

[@johnlindstrom9994]

Is it possible she's NOT improvising but reading a prepared score?

[@T.H.W.O.T.H]

"Billie's bounce is a blues. It is not a postmodern outside thing." Whyever not? I fear you may have missed Ms Aldana's constant references to the melody in her improvisation - a solo in which I as a listener was in no doubt as to her position in the form or the relationship of her lines to the underlying harmony. By my lights there's no particular requirement that Jazz be one thing or another - it's an evolving art form not a repertory music to be revered and reproduced as originally intended or recorded. To do that is to turn the music and the musician who play it into mere functionaries, musical automata blithely only making the music which sounds like Jazz removed from the context of their time and without reference to Jazz's deep and rich history. I feel that Jazz is something to be encountered - it is after all a music that exists on and in the moment of its own creation. Don't get me wrong, I adore the recordings of Parker and his cohort, but I am also aware that those monumental recordings, which I have poured over and know intimately, are only a snap shot of one moment - not a dictionary definition to which all who follow must subsequently adhere. Nonetheless, I also acknowledge that, as with any art form, our own ever-changing tastes and preferences play a large part in our response to the music we encounter. As Duke Ellington said: There's only two types of music - the good stuff, and the other stuff; and who cares about the other stuff? Give it another listen - you never know what you might find! :D

[@crimiludovic2585]

Did you hear all great musicians say that? You didn't, here are some great musicians, listen to them!

[@jkshdakjshfjkdlahfgkjldsah6201]

Dunno why they name the quartet after the drummer noone cares about the drummer

[@jvegaalbela]

shut the fuck up

[@MrJazzohjazz]

I just don’t get Melissa. Nice tone and technical skills are excellent but what she is saying is garbage to me. Sounds like she is practicing.

[@RicardoUrquizaMusic]

And to think people like you are sometimes in the audience, man. Go fuck yourself.

[@MrJazzohjazz]

Ricardo Urquiza be nice and grow up.

[@CharlieHoliday369]

I would be much happier seeing her play alto....a d have her work a few hours a day for a year on her tonguning/articulation too much legato -YUK ! ( she could take a quarter of what she played spread it out and articulat - phrasing phrasing phrasing!!!! LISTEN TO PARKER N O T COLTRANE!!!!

[@jasparkedcar8761]

How you really going to say that. Melissa if ANYTHING comes with heavy inspiration from Rollins not Coltrane. Super melodic and super phat sound. Had a lesson with her once and she is insane. Even if she was more influenced by Coltrane how can you imply that is a bad thing. Bird, Coltrane, Rollins, Stitt, Potter, Aldana. All different. All killing.

[@wird5406]

AWE SUM Don’t listen to Coltrane? Wtf... you don’t know what you’re talking about

[@jonathanstewart5269]

Ignorant comment of the year goes to... AWE SUM! Yayyyyyyyyy!

[@dylanloew]

you don't know what you're talking about kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIrJmYh-Yp6amKs

[@sbaiar]

You don't know the first thing about tongueing. The vast majority of some of the major players on the scene use a ton of legato. Especially when they're playing fast. They tongue certain parts of the phrase, certain notes they want to accent and others are going by at lightning speed and being slurred. There are some players the tongue more than others but Melissa's playing is gorgeous and crazy clean. And, her thematic development is over the top!

[@muchacho56]

Melody, puhleeeeeze... 😐

[@SimoneOrtisi]

🤢

[@tomscott1741]

I would like to give Melissa some constructive criticism from my thought process. I think her playing here is over intellectualized! I feel that the best music is natural first, and intellectual second. I can actually see her thinking about clever ways to leave the chord progression, which is something you should do when you're practicing! Not performing. I think that your default playing should always be what you hear naturally. And then if you want to intellectually add some extensions to that that that is fine. But if you make the intellectual approach your default position, the music immediately becomes less warm and less human. Those are just my thoughts! She's obviously a great musician playing some very hip stuff so congratulations to her!!!

[@CharlieHoliday369]

She’d kill it if she switched to Alto ! just hasn’t quite got it in the top range on the Tenor like she runs out of road... also STUDY PARKER!!!

[@dylanloew]

you dunno what you're talking about kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIrJmYh-Yp6amKs

[@andrewei609]

Wow, who are you to judge her playing like that? And then tell her what to do? Did she hurt your feelings someday??

[@danielabdelnour8232]

Bad aSS Tenor Player THATS REAL TALENT

[@ragezen1706]

wow tempo goes from approx 185 to 245, lol!