Jazz recorder! Interview with Tali Rubinstein | Team Recorder

[@tigorsf]

OH MY GOD!!!!!! Sarah playing Pixinguinha!!!!! I'm on tears! Love you even more now! Kisses, hugs and love from Brazil.

[@monicak.constante5285]

Verdade Tiago, não cheguei as lágrimas de fato mas ameeeeiii elas tocando.... acho que vou olhar com mais carinho para o Pixinguinha e suas possibilidades sonoras na flauta doce! Hehehhhe

[@UkuleleSioni]

You did it, Sarah. You interviewed Tali, even though you had to come to Brooklyn to do it. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And your Choro duet with her at the end was fabulous. You two sound great together.

[@tamarapopovic3121]

Her channel is quality indeed

[@kajetansokolnicki5714]

"Troubles blending into a traditional jazz sound?" immediately: "Volume." As a jazz flutist, I felt that on a personal level.

[@Liletter]

Kajetan Sokolnicki, we brass like to overpower you on purpose because asserting dominance is fun.

[@theblackbasketball]

Lilette As a brass player, I can confirm

[@rogeriocampos5779]

This is not Brazilian jazz, but "choro".

[@butthemeatwasbad]

My two favorite recorder players in one video? I have no words to describe the sheer amount of joy in my heart.

[@chiefflyingowl]

Sarah and Tali, the true spirit of music speaks through you both -- the joy, the creativity, the intelligence, the sensitivity, the skill -- the shared fun! You are among my favorite performers and teachers to follow on KZbin, and to have you both together, talking and playing together, is sheer delight. What a treat! כל הכבוד!

[@AndromedaCripps]

I'm a jazz musician and a recorder enthusiast, so seeing both in one is really interesting!! Would love to hear her perform!

[@Michajeru]

Wonderful to hear Tali talk about her playing. Tali is such an amazing musician and fantastic recorder player.

[@jinroh516]

Years back, i was watching Tali and said i wanna play a recorder and then boom I have been a Sarah-corder subscriber then years later here they are, my two mentors in one video

[@amj.composer]

Tali is CRAZY talented. So glad you interviewed her! Also I love how you put my fav recorder solo of hers at 0:20 ("Falling", right?), I'm sure her starting that solo made you wanna pull your phone out and record lol

[@clarapalomares]

This was so cool! Her advice about writing down other solos I actually had started to do it by myself because I didn't feel confident enough to improvise, and it has actually helped me to better understand the techniques and 'cheats' of that solo. And now I can kind of improvise varying that solo. I was so excited to see this was actually a learning technique!

[@rrssna]

Welcome to New York, Sarah! I really love Tali's playing and her music. I was waiting and hoping she would be appearing on one of the pro-files.

[@SasSnow]

Randy I’m subscribe you

[@jonprudhomme7694]

Tali & her band's performance at ORDA was the high point of the event for me. It was so personal and vulnerable, very moving. Her rendition of Dido's Lament is my favorite arrangement of that piece. Looking forward to her next album.

[@AndromedaCripps]

Jon Prudhomme Am I detecting a *Jazz* Dido's Lament? Be still, my heart!!

[@jonprudhomme7694]

@@AndromedaCripps Yes! It was played on a bass recorder, so it was breathy and resonant. Imagine Aretha Franklin singing it. Or maybe Billie Holiday. Quite amazing, and I talk about it with little motivation or restraint. 😀

[@phredqwatson]

A mic! YES!! That is so much my experience! I even have been studying the oboe for the last 3 months cause the recorder was getting lost. That was very affirming!! I’m going to find a way to make my recorders work. Thank you!

[@Drewster58]

That was some serious butt-kicking recorder playing at the end of this one, fun and brilliant.

[@JorgeAlfredoSoyYo]

I saw Tali in concert in Bogotá the past year, and it was a wonderful experience. She reveled me a completly new way to think about what could be done with a recorder, and as a recorder player it was amazing. I love you both!

[@Nettkin]

Finally two of my favourite recorder masters have come together!!

[@andrericardos6554]

I follow she too, she is fantastic recorder player too.

[@ziune8]

My two favorite flutists playing a song from my country. Thanks!

[@TootlinGeoff]

I came across her music just a couple of days ago when this popped up. Very interesting and she ain't half bad. 😍

[@leslieblumenfeld1547]

Great to see both of you in the same video.

[@filharmonix]

Awesome! Two of my idols in one screen!

[@beatesetzer2441]

Saw Tali in KZbin before and she is great!

[@ZvikaDror]

אדיר!!! שתי מגניבות כשרוניות תותחיות על. אהבתי את המוסיקליות שאפו ענק אנחנו על המפה (סורט אוף). Now I like your channel even better! If that is even possible Great Interview, loved it. Cheers!

[@monicak.constante5285]

Aaahhh... thank you for playing our brazilian music: chorinho!!! You are amazing 😃🎼

[@ralphwest8156]

Great interview' ...but that Was a scary fire truck'

[@Cysubtor_8vb]

I was wondering if anyone did jazz on recorder. There's apparently been a movement of tin whistle (or jive flute in this context) jazz musicians from the UK and South Africa, which makes it seem logical to attempt such with a recorder. Then again, while a chromatic recorder may be more versatile, a whistle in the proper key may allow faster playing. Hmm, random, but now I wonder if a New Orleans style brass band would allow a brass tin whistle like they do saxophones, lol

[@flootsky]

Try searching for Benoit Sauve on KZbin.

[@seorsamaclately4294]

There is also Nadja Schubert from Germany. I saw her in 2008 at our local Jazz Festival with her duo Recorder & Bass. She plays the Okarina too. Her other ensemble is: Nadja Schubert & The Electric Band kzbin.info?search_query=nadja+schubert

[@idraote]

Wow, this is great! Hello Sarah, this was another very interesting interview. Tali's experience (another very nice professional recorder player, it must come with the instrument ;) ) is quite interesting and unique even if her struggles to have the recorder accepted as a real instrument are far from unique, unfortunately. Personally I'm not entirely sure the normal recorder sounds good in jazz music. Perhaps the modern versions which can be amplified and have a more "electronic" sound to them? I would have asked Tali if she's ever thought of trying one of those.

[@RudiSchmitt]

My two most favorite recorder players in one video ❤️❤️

[@RommelLeiro]

Aqui no Brasil, essa canção ques vocês tocaram se enquadra em um gênero chamado "Choro", não chamamos de Jazz Brasileiro. Foi muito bonito! Estou conhecendo o canal agora e já conhecia a Rubinstein pelas interpretações de jazz na flauta. Ótimo vídeo!

[@jillgeary1313]

Thank You! I LOVE LOVE LOVE jazz on the recorder! Would love to have a course or method re: playing jazz on the soprano recorder!

[@hank1519]

Fantastic interview plus an amazing duet. Hope you enjoyed our wonderful but noisy city!

[@nolyspe]

Aaah, the good old NYC fire truck. Welcome to the city! On the first night of my visit there in 2016, I was woken up by a fire truck right outside my window at 3am. That was.. an experience.

[@westsidebilling]

Very well done ladies. Thank You.

[@MsBettyRubble]

Great interview! Love you both.

[@natalielebert1631]

I hate to ask (because at least one person does every time, right?) but where could one find a recorder arrangement of Pixinguinha - Chorei?

[@OpenmusicEs]

No recorder arrangement as such exists (or maybe it does) but most chorinhos are written for a melodic instrument + harmony. Chorei fits the range of any C recorder. You can download a Pixinguinha collection here: libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A99B994EB0FC2B57E07B8B8EC425008C Some "recorder" chorinhos: ernestoschmied.bandcamp.com/album/receita-de-samba-live Enjoy!!

[@Phloks17]

Not for recorder, but you can easily adjust it: musescore.com/wischansky/scores/2281706

[@flootsky]

Great interview and superb playing from you both. Regardless of genre, it always does my heart good to hear people who love the instrument speaking of their particular journey. I have watched Tali on KZbin and it was so good to hear her chatting with you. Any chance you could use your enthusiasm to get an interview with Tobias Reisige of Wildes Holz? Cheers.

[@DellaStreet123]

Sounds great!

[@DonCrowder]

Ok that was awesome! You've finally fully lured me in. This time I subscribed. :)

[@Fenyxfire]

i just noticed something. when i practice i lean slightly to one side or the other and i thought i was being bad but both Sarah and Tali are doing the exact same in this video. suddenly feel a little better about my playing

[@theish9]

Never heard of this instrument. This was a great experience thank you.

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

Hah listen to this talk all day, is great for recorder player. 😎

[@MrPedroHazard]

Wow! That was amazing. I follow both of you on KZbin, but was unaware of this video of you playing together. You were modest, Sarah, - “I don’t have experience with this kind of music, “ etc.) but I thought you were fantastic together. I’m now looking forward to the collective CD á la Coltrane and Rollins “Tenor Madness.”

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

4:26 "…Tali’s deployment of that instrument laid to rest the notion of the recorder as a beginner’s toy.” - Carlo Wolff 😊 ♫

[@ArcticLekar]

Thank you a lot for the video))) it’s a awesome)))

[@richiegomez2769]

That was really enjoyable. Who would have thought. Is the music you were reading from available

[@grahamhill3220]

I really enjoy your interviews with other professional recorder players, and this was great. Could you get Lenka Molčányiová on Team Recorder 'The Pro Files' sometime? She is my favorite recorder player and multi instrumentalist, (apart from you of course 😉)!

[@Fretfeeler]

Yes!!! She is amazing.

[@willemkossen]

great!. i've been subscribed to Tali's channel for years. and that brazilian piece was so cool. maybe one day I can play it with my daughter. any ideas on where to get the score?

[@Team_Recorder]

It’s from the Brazilian Real Book I think!

[@iisensei07]

@@Team_Recorder , Tali's KZbin channel should be kzbin.info . The address you posted in your info section above doesn't work. Thank you for providing a wonderful interview and enlightening content. :)

[@ThePublicTutorials]

Very nice idea to use the recorder for something unconventional like Jazz and lovely hearing you play the choro piece by Pixinguinha that was originally recorded in 1940. If you you'd like to try another really spectacular Brazilian piece, I'd recommend you one called Harmonia Selvagem by Dante Santoro. The original recording is posted here on KZbin if you search "Harmonia selvagem - Dante Santoro ".

[@nenechonlisboa4127]

Yes ! Really nice duo !! :) By the way Sarah, would it be possible to have a video about the tenor please ? It would be really interesting to discover it a little bit further ! Thank you !! :)

[@nonman3634]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5yYkKqdgrCqe7s

[@malahamavet]

Wby most people stop playing recorder? 1 frustration. Recorder is a bit complex for children and they struggle to make it sound right, good fingering, they just blow with no control and they have 0 patience. 2 being forced to do anything makes a kid hate it automatically even if with time they turn out to like it, but for that to happen they need a good teacher. 3 most teachers suck. They are two types. The serious one who makes them do fingering without actually playing and punish those who forget the recorder at home, or lose a piece of it because THEY ARE CHILDREN, care and responsibility are not a childish feature. Or you got the childish one. The one who treates everyone like kids (They are, but when they are 13 or 14 they want to feel they're not kids anymore) those teachers make a lot of games most of them unrelated to the recorder and when they focus on the recorder they still fail with... 4 the songs you learn most of the time are bad, cringey, boring or all at once. This part is key because if they chose well the songs they're forcing kids to learn, they can choose simple but good sounding pieces, everyone wants to sound good while playing something, and even if you blow too hard or too little, you still enjoy when you play a song that you know and like and that makes you want to play a bit more and you familiarize with the instrument. But that doesn't happen most of the time. Teachers usually chose songs that are supposed to be for kids. The moment I enjoyed playing the recorder was when the teacher let each student chose any song they wanted and they had a week to learn how to play it by their own at home. Surprise! Even though some kids didn't because they're kids, most of us got excited to be able to play the Lord of the rings or star wars or pirates of the Caribbean. Songs that we know, we like and we can auto correct ourselves while playing because we know how it's supposed to sound like. Conclusion, kids are not ready to play the recorder because they don't have patience and self control. I think a whistle is much more suited for kids, its easier to play, you don't have to blow with g, d,t and stuff, you just blow non stop and move fingers. Ironically, many kids play the recorder like a whistle and some want to play whistle songs to feel like forest elves. The system is bad and punishes kids for being shy to play in front of everyone, or not having patience or self control which is not their fault. If at least a teacher played a super fancy baroque piece to impress the students they might feel motivated but most teachers just play ok. I kept playing it by my own but we have to understand why most people don't. Theyr recorder memories are mostly frustration and disappointment

[@aprilshowers6752]

or simply you are told that a recorder isnt a proper instrument. I was told that. Not made any better by the fact I taught myself because as someone who coundnt sing well and was not in the school choir I didnt have an opportunity for any lessons in any music at all. When I look back and see things like this I raised myself pretty well to intermediate level and played ( with a group of others) in the school speech days - because our orchestra was rubbish and they needed some people who could carry a tune and around four of us who had learned recorder could do that!). I gave it up. That was 50 years ago. I am thinking of taking it up again , just for pleasure. I have my old recorder and may well invest in a tenor one and if there was an electric one readily available, might think about that too - for my retirement hobby.

[@acyutanandadas1326]

Vasili Stan All true! I tell parents to start their kids on keyboard. Easier on the fingers than stringed instruments and can learn chords early. Schools teach recorder 'cause recorders are cheaper by the dozen.

[@phredqwatson]

I’m sorry you had a bad experience. I teach recorder and I find most kids can have success with it. And, we have fun!

[@carudatta]

I didn't want to START playing the recorder as a kid. I had tried to play a few notes on my mum's recorder a few times, and it sounded ugly (compared to the classical music I had been hearing, and liked). My mum was a primary school teacher, and when she played simple songs on it it didn't inspire me, either. No one was forcing me; and I disliked going to lessons anyway. Also, recorders were played almost exclusively by girls, and some of them were stupid (at least I thought so). I needed to grow up and develop a liking for baroque, renaissance and medieval music, before i so much as considered the recorder. And really, it only gets good as soon as one can make use of the full range of the instrument, and consciously vary the articulation, and I think I'm getting there, but slowly.

[@malahamavet]

@@carudatta greedy, congratulations!!! 😁

[@juliestevens6931]

I really enjoyed the piece you played at the end. I do not consider myself a jazz fan, but that was so much fun!! (I like some individual jazz pieces, but am not a fan of the genre as a whole).

[@Felipekimst]

I'm not even sure we can call that "Jazz"

[@juliestevens6931]

@@Felipekimst Well, whatever it was, I liked it. :o) I have problems identifying anything other than broad categories of music. I can tell church music from hard rock, but not exactly what subcategory they belong to. LOL

[@Phloks17]

Wildes Holz Pro-Files, please!

[@kastinkas2932]

I love your personality

[@ninjaaron]

10:02 Professional musicians are so crazy with their sight reading.

[@baronvonsatan]

...okay but I need the rest of that performance. That was an incredible 20 seconds.

[@baronvonsatan]

Falling, from Memoire. Took three years but now I know!

[@walthb612]

Parabéns!

[@marksadler4104]

Maths and music....so related!😊

[@wgty]

Muito bom! 🎼🎵🎶

[@filharmonix]

Fire!!! This is fire!!!!! 10:00

[@cesarvidelac]

I'd like to hear play an Eagle recorder. Volume will not be an issue anymore.

[@dangitdoodles]

9:51 she started singing St. Thomas by Sonny Rollins 😂

[@Team_Recorder]

Haha my jazz husband was playing it all that morning

[@luscas.09]

Brasileiro aparece em tudo quanto é lugar

[@Clarionetist]

Great story about how Tali stuck with the recorder despite all the pressure to switch to another woodwind. I played clarinet in an orchestra for many years and now decided to switch to recorder, partly because I'm tired of dealing with reeds, but also because I prefer the sound of a recorder. I wonder if a louder recorder such as renaissance or Eagle or modern recorder would be good for jazz music.

[@acyutanandadas1326]

Hey, I was born in Brookyn!!

[@googlandroid176]

What instrument does she play in the video?

[@stereo123]

SARAH, COME TO BRAZIL Oh, you already did. Maybe Tali didn't, she should! Play more chorinho!

[@filharmonix]

8:45 there's a sax player I know. I help him score songs and phrases this way.

[@cajoyandfriends6007]

Wow... Is that wood recorder?

[@AMPProf]

THIS ONE SHOULD REPEAT

[@diedbrijs2263]

🙏

[@SasSnow]

I write a Sonata for Recorder Alto, Recorder Tenor and violin, Viola, Cello Doublebass (I don’t remember The name of this instrument family)

[@DellaStreet123]

They're called "the strings".

[@SasSnow]

Anneke Sieck ok Thanks

[@ceticobr]

February 2020. We were so naive. We had no idea what was about to happen. 😥

[@Team_Recorder]

I knooow 😭😭😭

[@gonikassif8527]

איזה מלכה וואי

[@Y9266707]

נפלאה

[@jairovianna1555]

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!! But please: thats is Brazilian Choro -not jazz! - let's call it by the right name. Choro was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil alongside of Samba. Both have more than 100 years of history. Both are beautiful and very important. And yes, we Brazilians are delighted by your perfomance of our beloved Pixinguinha!! That was beautiful indeed!!!

[@jimbrownza]

zen and the art of recorder tuning: don't fuss about it....

[@zingingcutie2364]

Im a math person who recently got into recorder.

[@jaxmarty]

this made me want to play a super mario game

[@acyutanandadas1326]

St Thomas by Sonny Rollins (yeah, I heard that)

[@Team_Recorder]

😄 I was singing it all week..

[@acyutanandadas1326]

@@Team_Recorder The hippest jazz musicians/composers started with Baroque (that can be taken both ways)

[@justabaritone845]

oh my gosh she’s so pretty

[@Mrnevertalks]

5:29 That was adorable. I tend to forget there are people in the world who aren't used to NYC noise. Honest question: what the heck do fire trucks sound like in the UK? I can't imagine fire trucks not being that loud XD

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

"Honest question: what the heck do fire trucks sound like in the UK?" Honest answer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppitlYdulqp0jqs

[@Mrnevertalks]

@@christophertsiliacos8958 They don't sound different at all, they just don't honk as much. Am I missing something? Why was Sarah surprised?

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

@@Mrnevertalks Not at all! I was thinking the same thing. 😲

[@Team_Recorder]

They don’t sound line that!!!! It’s more like two tones going “neee naaaw neee naaw”.. in a third I thiiink. in NL they used to play a broken chord too!

[@vomanna]

Okay I always thought it was called a flute

[@Felipekimst]

You said Brazilian Jazz :(

[@deldia]

Calm down.

[@MsBettyRubble]

What is it?

[@Felipekimst]

I don't think we can call it Brazilian Jazz

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

I've always referred to "Brazilian jazz" as the sounds of the bossa nova. 😊 ♫

[@Felipekimst]

@@christophertsiliacos8958 I don't think it's bossa nova buddy... it's more like a choro

[@jardindivers8584]

Good morning Sarah, I loose many of yous videos because I don't understand well enough ! May I ask you to write under title ? I guess you cannot. Well sorry, and have a very good life, thank you for yous videos.

[@Team_Recorder]

There are subtitles, in every language! Click on the cog icon, then you can put subtitles on in your language of choice ❤️

[@jardindivers8584]

@@Team_Recorder Thank you very much, I see the subtitles in french now !! You're very kind ! Even if I didn't seen the "cog" icon, nevermind , because of the subtitles now. Happy happy new year !!

[@deldia]

Tali's a babe

[@AMPProf]

Idk man Jazz.. Can we dj cut it and hip hop londan uk Dub step it

[@andyrantshumanphilosopher7571]

Am I the only one thinking sandwich?

[@redcowcat8705]

Wish i could be pro recorder player... I can play, but I'm so unlucky I'll just make a joke out of myself like always.

[@Fretfeeler]

If you can play, and you know you can play, you need to get rid of that low self-esteem! Play, they can't!!!

[@luckybarrel7829]

Sarah, were you the sort who said you were unprepared for the exam only to end up acing it???? Huh??? Huh????

[@resetfabula7765]

Ok, I ship them