Melissa Aldana - Presentación en Thelonius Monk Institute Jazz Saxophone Competition

Melissa Aldana - Presentación en Thelonius Monk Institute Jazz Saxophone Competition.
Host: Billy Dee Williams.
Tunes: Long ago and far away, Ask me now, Eminem.
Accompanied by a dynamic band featuring: Pianist Reginald "Reggie" Thomas, Bassist Rodney Whitaker and Drummer Carl Allen.

[@ines3171]

bobolonia: Thanks so much for posting this great music. I am a "jazz" fanatic... Melissa Aldana great musician! Health and love for you. Cheers from New Orleans the city of jazz and the wonderful "cajun" food. USA.

[@saxmanharris1]

This Young Lady is going places in the Music World, She is Beautiful with Tone Phrasing and All

[@pgroove163]

i saw her live a couple months ago and she is incredible..this video does not do her justice..

[@michaelpotter71]

WOO way to swing it lady! Beautiful tone--so smooth like butter. Fantastic subtones. Awesome

[@AverageWannabe]

cresta que estoy orgulloso! Hace tiempo que no me sentía patriota.

[@henryvelasquez3383]

Imposible quedar indiferente, excelente técnica.

[@larodmusic]

Effortless technique, I love her playing so fluid and playful. Have two of her albums, would love to her more from her.

[@MrLourins]

¡ Felicitaciones Melissa y felices fiestas patrias !

[@YanSalvadore]

Increíble Aldana como toca!!!!

[@alvarohernandezduran]

...y en Chile dándole prioridad al día del chacarero o llenando la TV de teleseries turcas, en vez de mostrar estas noticias que nos suben como país.

[@onalyd]

why is the sax the lowest thing in the mix?????

[@itegil]

Bad mixing. The sax sound is barely audible. A pity!

[@alejandrosax7094]

Fuerza Melissa!

[@oostapchuk]

Bravo Meli

[@brwnie00]

Thanks for sharing!

[@bobolonia]

Sí, es la semi...aun no es posible encontrar la final. Si la encuentro la subo de inmediato.

[@STPskate]

I wanted to say the same thing. Sound guy or whoever really blew it.

[@ersankenanov72]

I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E Awsome

[@ivangonzaleztapia7410]

Undoubtedly, the best jazz musician Chile has ever produced. And, of course, she had to be a chilean girl! Indudablemente, el mejor músico de jazz que Chile ha producido. Y, por supuesto, tenía que ser una mujer chilena!

[@DrLilimax]

Felicitari! :)

[@030957]

Me hubiera gustado que el sonido del saxo fuese más alto. ¿Ese micrófono estaba bien puesto?

[@eglc100]

El micrófono solo capta el sonido, su posición si parece extraña, aunque tambien podría ser que el problema fuera la mezcla y reproducción o amplificación...de que resulta un sonido pequeño para el sax, eso lo pudimos escuchar...desgraciadamente...

[@chovosky]

donde se puede ver la final??. esta es la semi...

[@mattissurf]

Very good saxplaying. But the mic for her is not set right.

[@59trader43]

soundman messed up ,why don't they know about saxophones

[@bombingraid1330]

Lower the volume on the sax some more...

[@Utyoubyouzer]

Too bad that sound is clipping. Loud enough isolated headphone monitoring is crucial!

[@whatthefunk11]

Not sure, but is it Nash Lewis on drums?

[@eglc100]

Fue una competencia de saxofón?...o de grupos o combos de jazz?...el vídeo dice una cosa y detrás de los músicos, dice otra!... o calificaron las 2 cosas?...

[@wtesoro]

She's not mic'ed properly, being drowned out..where's the sound engineer..Can't they hear that?

[@hercort1]

Ensayando 10 horas diarias durante 5 reencarnaciones más, interpretaré igual que Melissa; al menos eso espero. Hasta me emocioné escuchándola, cosa rara en el jazz. Melissa perteneces al mundo. Hernando Cortés C.

[@marike1100]

She won with this performance? Maybe it's a bad recording.

[@michaelabbo2779]

Who ever mixed it didn’t do a good job I can’t really hear her

[@raycallender5066]

Where the hell was the sound man? Why the hell didn't he/she turn up the saxophone mic? Ridiculous...she was playing her ass off!

[@generatrix999]

Sounds like a young sax player.

[@Blijdenstein]

Great playing by Melissa and all, piano is much to loud in the mix, tenor and drums to soft.

[@katella12]

No. Carl Allen.

[@Nupiolos]

what the hell is that sound?

[@jmelos]

que pena, Melissa es TREMENDA interprete, pero casi no se escucha el saxo

[@itegil]

Bad mixing. The sax sound is barely audible. A pity! Such a great player!

[@freddylebanon]

Disgrace can't he shhhhhiiii

[@patrickgrandon86]

Piano player way too many chords

[@HarrellEngineDyno]

Wasn't sound guys fault. She doesn't have enough experience to know she isn't close enough to the microphone. And.......she isn't playing loud enough. Partly because she's barely taller than her saxophone.

[@whatsyourstory1]

'she doesn't have enough experience' according to who, you? You evidently know nothing about her... 'barely taller than her saxophone' are you serious? I can't get over how degrading and bigoted this comment is coming from someone who seems to know little about playing the saxophone (you don't need to be a six foot man to get a sound out of the saxophone if that's what you're implying). If you watch the whole competition aswell you'll notice that for some of the other musicians the piano is overpowering too.

[@larodmusic]

She's playing at a perfect distance from the Mic. You want the mic to get the natural sound of the saxophone, if you get in too close it will mostly recover the sound from the bell, which is not the natural sound of the saxophone. If you were a musician you will notice that the Piano and bass are too loud which means that the sound guy wasn't balancing things, so bad sound guys is to blame.

[@HarrellEngineDyno]

Hog wash. I am a musician. For her to play that far away from the mic, the sound guy would have to raise the gain so much that it would pick up tons of bleed over from the stage. I guarantee you it would feed back. Any working musician knows this. ESPECIALLY with a condenser mic. Beginners mistake, not a big deal. She will learn.

[@deepkeel65]

HarrellEngineDyno Have to agree. She's playing phenomenally, just a bit softly, but mainly needs to get better "mic'd up". Too bad someone didn't step in and tip the mic down a bit for her after the first tune.

[@saxed1616]

@@HarrellEngineDyno Disagree. Definitely soundman's fault. When she is playing alone that mic is picking up nothing. All you hear is her acoustic sound. I've heard her live and she is not a forceful player anyway...more finesse and sub-tone work. She plays more in the lower register than altissimo and when she goes up there its more a sweet tone (back in style as evidenced by Seamus Blake, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Joel Frahm, etc.) than a scream. Soundman should adjust levels based on her style of playing. Also, since it is a condenser and not directional mic she is actually pretty much in the ideal spot for the mic. That mic is not hot enough or not working at all and that is the soundman's fault. Plus, he is hearing the mix and should know she is too low and I heard not one bit of level adjustment as the musicians played. Melissa has no idea what it sounds like out front. Finally, there are mics on the drummer and as you've seen in the comments I'm not the only one that thinks the drummer is also too low in the mix. You can barely hear him. Do you think he was playing too far from his mic? Sound man blew it.