Paul Desmond - When Sunny Gets Blue. Live 1975, Canada

Paul Desmond, live 1975, Bourbon Street, Canada. From new "Audrey" CD (originally on out of print Artist House LP). Done as a bossa, this is my favorite version of this song. Ed Bickert on guitar. Don Thompson - bass. Jerry Fuller - drums.

[@michaelcorenzwit8118]

Desmond and Getz, the sweetest saxophone sounds I ever heard.

[@user-uv5tr3df3g]

同感です。スタン・ゲッツの系統では、現役テナーサックス奏者のスコットハミルトン氏も良いですよ。甘い音色と言うよりは、落ち着いた素敵な音色です。

[@tommysfather]

I was hooked on Paul Desmond after hearing the first minute of Take Five. Smoothest sax player that ever was. He lowers my blood pressure by 20 points.

[@williamspeakmancherry4435]

Paul Desmond remains, in my opinion, the best sax player ever.

[@robertkraljii5048]

I agree

[@erforderlich5274]

Thx Heaven Jazz is not Olympics ! I love Desmond, and for sure a good handful other players like - insert names here - and I'm glad there's absolute no need to name 'the best ever' :-D

[@connorsobieri245]

I respectfully disagree, but everybody is entitled to their own opinion... I don’t think there is a need to determine who the “best” sax player is because there’s no way to actually compare “sax skills” because of how different Paul Desmond is as a player to somebody like Coltrane so I suppose true beauty is in the eye of the beholder :)

[@francescojsb]

Sure the best "voice" and sound

[@southpark1954]

@@connorsobieri245 You can say it's a matter of preference, but in reality it can be a matter of poor taste or inability to discriminate "beauty" to quote the word you used. By your logic, a high school student can be better than Coltrane, it's all in the eyes of the beholder

[@jphayward2011]

Was there ever anyone who could improvise as melodically as Desmond? Love his playing.

[@marcanderson1575]

Getz was always very melodic and had a beautiful sound like Desmond, that's probably the most similar I can think of.

[@oscargrillo9508]

Yes, Lester Young.

[@billt5410]

Sunny fortune

[@giavaro36]

@@marcanderson1575 Anche Charlie Parker,Sonny Rollins,Sonny Stitt,Cannonball Adderley,Benny Golson,e altri che non mi vengono in mente,sono straordinari in certi pezzi e arrangiamenti! Ma,il più grande di tutti,per me,è:John Coltrane!!!! Si distingue il suo suono anche 'dormendo'!!!!

[@beansntoastyt2616]

@@giavaro36 Based

[@swingmanic]

What an awesome player Paul Desmond was..I remember learning the entire album "Bossa Antigua" by ear aged 17 when I owned my first alto saxophone, a Selmer Paris "Cigar Cutter" that cost me £40 from a second hand music shop...I originally went to buy a Conn tenor that had been in the shop for a year and the day I went to buy it, the owner had sold it!...Best thing to happen really because the alto opens a whole sweet sound all of its own and I think Paul's sound was the result of playing a lot of clarinet too...I was 17 yoa then and I'm 61 now and although I don't play anymore, I still have my Selmer jazz metal mouthpiece and my Otto link 4 **** tenor mouthpiece...I used to have a white Brilhart mouthpiece that got chipped on the rail when a fight broke out in front of the bandstand...Happy days!! :o))

[@sitarnut]

Man, we are twin sons of different Moms. My pawn shop Selmer was a balanced 1940s model... played clarinet before that .. Pete Fountain started it all in 1959 with his 1st LP. When I heard Paul one rainy Friday night on the Cool School Radio show my mind snapped, and the clarinet went in the closet. Ha ha... I'm 72 this month and have a Desmond faced MP.... Have a chipped Sop. MP too...still play at home. Have that Bossa Antigua LP as well. Aren't we so bloody lucky to have grown up when there was real music out there. Yes, very happy days. Griff.

[@swingmanic]

Pleased to meet you Griff. If you haven't got to read it yet get a copy from the library of 'Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond by Doug Ramsey' it's a good read and quite amusing in parts.

[@sitarnut]

Many thanks for reply and suggestion. Never read it, had heard of it... will read soon. A fave book is also, "Bird Lives" by Ross Russell and the "Pure Desmond" LP is stellar with Ed, Ron Carter and Connie Kay.

[@swingmanic]

Yes indeed!!.."Pure Desmond" is an awesome album, I just love his take on Django Reinhardt's 'Nuages' and as for the book, I'm on my second copy having lent the first to a guitar player before I left England for Australia.

[@YouzTube99]

@swingmanic, @Jim Griffin: Thanks, chaps, for your exchange -- brought to my attention some music of which I was unaware and am now enjoying. And encouraging to see a civil discussion in YT comments.

[@michaelcorenzwit8118]

Classic all around. Beautiful

[@samuelvolrie6641]

This cutt has a special meaning. I always listen to it on Monday evenings the best. Takes me back to a time when things were a lot easier.

[@lauriemorris9504]

Paul Desmond, THE smoothest Sax man ever 🎼🎼👌❤️

[@jazldazl9193]

When Sunny gets blue Her eyes get gray and cloudy Then the rain begins to fall Pitter-patter, pitter-patter Love is gone so what can matter? No sweet lover man comes to call When Sunny gets blue She breathes a sigh of sadness Like the wind that stirs the trees Wind that sets the leaves to swayin', like some violins are playin' Weird and haunting melodies People used to love to hear her laugh, see her smile That's how she got her name Since that sad affair, she's lost her smile, changed her style Somehow she's not the same But memories will fade And pretty dreams will rise up Where her other dreams fell through Hurry new love, hurry here To kiss away each lonely tear And hold her near when Sunny gets blue Hurry new love, hurry here To kiss away each lonely tear And hold her near when Sunny gets blue

[@davidweaver4567]

Just purchased an Alto Saxophone to go alongsside Tenor. Paul Desmond, his coolness and phrasing are beyond compare.

[@jimmullin1943]

Des had an original sound. Not unscathed by life you can hear the sadness in his ambient playing. Remember this is the guy that wrote the epic "Take 5." Enjoy this beautiful rendition.

[@papa2thdoc]

When he was a child his mother wouldn't touch him. She was a germaphobe. Imagine the impact THAT had on him.

[@virpiallen5106]

Made my day again.........

[@mennotrip5318]

Amazing combination of Desmond & Bickert

[@petewood3211]

So mellow and beautiful!. You can almost touch the music.

[@pepperwilliams4428]

Smoothest player ever!

[@kdcobra64]

Sweet Soulful Paul

[@PrashantSamlal]

having Ed Bickert comp on your solo must be the best feeling in the world. :)

[@11hoosier11]

Don's solo.......long and spectacularly beautiful. He is underrated the farther south you travel, but not Canada.

[@timrlarson]

A listening delight!

[@DANVIIL]

Love the guitar! Paul is always awesome.

[@gavilletc1]

Ed Bickert : top notes and chords so interesting

[@rickholland9203]

My favorite Desmond recording--with Don and Ed! Just great!

[@CynthieD]

Thank you for wonderful photos & terrific sound. Oh, Paul...

[@rosanaaquino5843]

É impossível ouvir Paul Desmond e não se emocionar com o seu sopro suave! ❤️

[@danielfavre7741]

e daniel: a very good chosen group ,where once more Paul Desmond is so warm,delicate and beautiful in his way of playing.

[@jimjasper6690]

One of the best alto in the World

[@tannnetto5630]

Loved the music, the conversation and the pictures following the musician's appeareances. Thanks you all!!!

[@francescoferrarese4737]

Gone in '77 After recording " You can't go home again", with Chet and all Star album. Very quite sax player and melodic.

[@rickholland9203]

Pauls statements are christine!! I always loved this record, wore it out a few times, then it went out of print. Love Paul's melodies!

[@noahvale939]

"christine"? Really?

[@fatheadthedog]

You mean pristine??

[@dancelli714]

ALL SOLO'S ARE GREAT. THE BASSIST DID HIM SELF PROUD. I'M NOT MUCH OF A BASS SOLO FAN, BUT I AM HERE.

[@hussainbakar5468]

sublime!

[@PhilHenDrums]

Wonderful solos all around.

[@virpiallen5106]

P.Desmond.---such a superlative talent ! Thanks for making my long weekend so light.

[@sharonivicevic2379]

Hard to beat this!!!!!

[@etiloyon3681]

Mind blowing jazz, not very conceptual but with a lot of feeling and groove. every musician is good there.

[@noisyfan]

These Toronto Bourbon Street live recordings in Paul's late - and perhaps most creative - phase are TMHO his unblievably beautiful and awesome contributions to everything he has done during his entire life time. I'm convinced that Ed Bickert and Don Thompson inspired him significantly for that. Ed has ever since been one of my top favorite jazz guitar players; thank you, Cooljazzr, for his excellent pictures.

[@lastknowngood0]

Outstanding performance!

[@cooljazzr]

Note the chromatic ascending lines at 3:16 and 3:38. So inventive!

[@cooberr]

theres always a song like this that's worth going out of your way to get the entire album, or until it ends up on spotify

[@laraoneal7284]

Beautiful

[@paulmartinez992]

#SWEETNESS.

[@eastonpeter1242]

My pop would say, "tasty."

[@TJGornik61]

Imagine Desmond working with Vince Guaraldi and throw in a side of Bola Sete......a melancholy paradise.

[@imbees2]

Paul Desmond. Yes. Best.

[@erforderlich5274]

This is wonderful edited video with pics and paintings - thx for great job! Above all the band sways in heavenly realms!

[@chenarch]

I figured out Desmond's solo on "Flamingo" (Newport 1958) on guitar. Hope to post it one day. Just a brilliant solo by him...

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

Wow, this is so good. And a nice collection of accompanying pictures too.

[@gabri3l367]

Fantastica musica fatta da grandi musicisti !

[@pedrosanz4100]

Incredible Ed Bickert

[@grantkoeller8911]

Perfect for a jazz party

[@ralpauls9358]

Yeah, unbeatable! Perf Time, sup tone!

[@patrikvanhavere7109]

Genius!

[@Jazzinthecountry]

Sweet, like syrup!

[@caughtintimewarp]

Saw Paul Desmond live with Dave Brubeck when they toured Australia 1971. He is always so melodic. As to version of this song, my preference is McCoy Tyner Trio.

[@patrickbickers73]

Desmond on sax has a distinguished sound, much like the distinguished taste of 18 year old Chivas in the blue bottle.

[@SOLOSAXOHP]

gran saxofonista

Great!

[@medicalinterest9091]

makes a good bossa.

[@Johnflugelhorn]

Greaaaaaaaat,if you are looking for the origins of current smooth Jazz sax playing start with the smoopth wispy sound of the great Paul Desmond.

[@darudesandstorm7468]

This is nothing like smooth jazz. Smooth jazz is an abomination. Paul Desmond was a fantastic player and left a legacy. This legacy had no correlation with smooth jazz whatsoever.

[@nathan4350]

"Smooth jazz is an abomination"? What kind of disrespectful statement is that? As a jazz enthusiast you seemingly are, I believe you should have a more gracious and elevated judgment towards other genres of music, especially towards a subgenre of jazz. If I may be so bold to say that it behooves you as a jazz enthusiast to not act "musically superior" and to avoid deriding other music. I do agree with you, however, that the correlation is rather tenuous.

[@Johnflugelhorn]

You are right smoooth jazz so labled by critics has some very good practioners that I enjoy . I like Rick Braun and have several of his excellent albums and some cds he pllays with others as a trumpet player myself I appreciate good trumpet music from Louis Armstrong to Eddie Calvert to Herb A;pert,iincidentaly Herb plays smooth Jazz on lots of his cds. Herb's recent cds are very Smooth Jazz angled and Swing in the Jazz tradition. Hard to think of any music that's an "abomination"

[@usmc1917916]

Still very cool.....

[@robdekker3879]

a modest musician, ? no a great musician! but never hit the big time,, doesn,t matter for me this guy is so awsome,, Always a laidback groove,, played so well that makes you think it,s easy,, it isn,t!! paul desmond, the man of take five,, isn,t it wonderful, or strange that in that time fantastic musicians were just musicians,, now a guy can play 2 cords on what ever and scores a mega hit,,,,?? i dont get it.

[@nilsolofholst2988]

mine too

[@throckmorton3705]

is that “every little breeze seems to whisper louise? at 7’ on bass?

[@johnmartin5407]

Paul Desmond “the best”? Not in my opinion. Are there others “better”? Another no from me. He happens to be my personal favourite with his endless imagination and perfect phrasing. But there are many great players and some are still alive. Compare Paul Desmond and Charlie Parker…apples and oranges. One thing they do have in common is beautiful phrasing and melodic feel. I love ballads and West Coast Cool. Charlie is the only bebop player I can tolerate.

[@lazaroiriondo5487]

If anyone's interested in the book of Paul Desmond by Doug Ramsey I can send it to you by email or something.

[@4solepurposesonly]

Lázaro Iriondo jahborn@rocketmail .com 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@beachnut1043]

I would love to have it! [e-mail]!

[@user-fz8lc8zx3v]

一服の清涼剤のような。

[@prodromosmichailidis]

Hello everyone, I just transcribed this great solo by Desmond, so if you are interested you can watch it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKq2dJyKgNKAipo Thanks for watching!

[@jimjasper6690]

We live a in a poor music era today’

[@joshuaadelaja9996]

3:55

[@livemusiconteesside2335]

A very nice cover of "Sunny". It popped up after I watched my old pal Ray Dales who is 80 and has been a professional musician since he was fifteen years old. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJLWopKFp7Kkm9E

[@rudygtrz]

tried to play this on my b-flat alto but to high a pitch

[@cooljazzr]

Eren Fraser 😂 I think Rudolph was joking!

[@maurylucero6252]

Si, me gusta, pero...... Houston Person le da ese toque tan sensual........... Igual vale.

[@eastonpeter1242]

Isn't Bickert great? I can just "see" him chewing that gum in his own cool way of chewing.

[@franckhenryleveille6743]

Is he really better than Bird?

[@cooljazzr]

Not better, just different. As Brubeck said, he'll be remembered as not trying to copy Bird like so many others.

[@franckhenryleveille6743]

@@cooljazzr I greatly appreciate your answer

[@dennynorwood7404]

Miles Coltrane tyner bird 🐦 monk short list more melodic than mr. Desmond

[@joshuaadelaja9996]

5:53