He also has a quick mind and a sense of humor to match . Although by no Means a wealthy man he also donates 10 percent of the money he makes to St. Jude’s hospital for Children!
I am 71 and I started to feel old😂 (what a fool!) what a lesson with this saxophone 🎷 player artist. I believe his soul is playing that music, Jazz🎉 bless you, how many people you have made them happy.
I was ten years older than you are now when I first met JD two years ago. Like you I felt old and ready to come in for a smooth landing . After hanging out with Johny I pulled back on the throttle and am now taking flight ❤
Oh this is splendid. I have the ultimate respect for this gentleman's willing to share music with people. He is certainly special. The girl on the bench is his number one fan from the onset. Thanks for sharing some of the beauty remaining in the human soul. His light shines.
Thats great. I play just enough harmonica that when someone sat in with my band and used my guitar, i would be able to play a few blues riffs on whatever.
Ill be 67 and have played Harmonica almost exactly 55 years too. I play jazz and classical on the chromatic harp and blues and folk on diatonic harp. Im still gigging and have made lots of friends and great memories. Keep playing!
I am 70 this year and I try to get out and play for SOMEONE every day. I go to parks, CVS, Wah Wahs! Anywhere. I did 40 years of gigs and some high profile concerts w famous people. But playing a request on the spot for one or a few people is more rewarding; the intimacy, the bond is real. It;s the joy of my life. Keep on keeping on bro, you never know who your music will touch deeply. It is truly a medicine for a sick world.
I agree except for one thing, the world is not sick. In fact the eight billion people on this planet probably live better lives now than any time in human history. Life is a constant struggle and that’s why the magic of music is so important. It’s the musical medicine for the soul. 🎼🏹
how could anyone walk passed without honouring him with some change? Bet nobody can play like him. Takes a lifetime of practise to make jazz like that seem easy. Overtime bet he has played in some good bands. Bravo. A life well lived.
He is also a song writer ( see my video post, Kisses That Shake The World) and professional photographer back in the day, among other equally interesting things ..
Thank you for this video, I am touched, what beautiful sounds🎷🎶 I hope he can celebrate at least his 100th birthday by playing a birthday song for himself, nice greetings from Berlin😊
Che magia questo video ❤. Nell’indifferenza totale questo signore crea delle improvvisazioni bellissime. Complimenti per aver colto e donato questo attimo di poesia 🙏
Sang along to ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ and ‘I’m in the Mood for Love’ at 73 makes me wonder if I’d been better off playing sax instead of Classical Guitar, oh well, I’ll just need a place to plug in, Segovia made it to 87, Love you Sax Man! You are the Muse!
Oh Supreme God, I Applaude You!! Your a Child of 7 years old! You are Just Fantastic. great Musician! Your tone, your improvisation, all sublime!! Eternal Glory to You, my brother!!!
I hope I'm still playing at 97. I hope I'm still alive at 97. One of my old saxophone player friends on his 96th birthday told me, "You know, I ate breakfast at the diner down the street. I ordered 3-minute eggs. Those bastards made me pay in advance."
Thanks for your helpful comment. I have about 30 or so videos of Johny D on my utube channel and a few of Leo at Verdi Square, a little park between Amsterdam and Broadway at the 72 Street subway station, featured in those videos which you might also enjoy.
He has great tone. Only another musician or artist can appreciate the time, the work, the practice it takes to make one note or more sound good. It only took him decades to sound naturally.
The song he played is called "Smoke gets in your eyes". You will know how great musician he is by listening to other versions of this beautiful song 😎👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
My first love as a young lad . Her first inital is B. Second inital is f. Last name Sax.Still to this day I am 73 now.........Play on my musical friend Take Care and Be Well
Thought those young girls were going to start dancing. I’m not young anymore but I certainly would have danced to Smoke gets in your eyes! Excellent sir ❤
I believe everyone, including the animals, and irrespective of what they are doing, appreciate and connect to JD and his music. He also plays one hell of a clarinet ❤️
The sax John plays was given to him over 50 years ago by Zoot Sims after John’s instruments were stolen! And now we are the beneficiaries. How’s that for doing things the right way!
Deze prachtige man, want dat is het onmiskenbaar, probeert op 7.36 minuten het gesprek aan te knopen met de jonge man die hem (ongevraagd maar dat deert hem niet...) aan het filmen is.... Meteen ontstaat er een vreselijk misverstand...tenenkrommend voor mij, want ik maakte het zelf zo vaak mee in mijn leven. De muzikant begint een verhaal aan de filmer te vertellen, een anekdote die handelt over iemand die de dag daarvoor in de ´Tonight Show´ was verschenen en van wie de broer als muzikant diezelfde dag een optreden in een zaal iets verderop zou hebben. De man is, dat zie je meteen, een enorme liefhebber van de vrije geest én dus als muzikant vanzelfsprekend ook van de Jazz-muziek. Hij zegt: ´That guy is not playing anything, he´s just playing notes´, waarmee hij vanzelfsprekend wil zeggen dat muziek moet vloeien vanuit het hart en dus zeer zeker niet vanaf papier. Het antwoord van de filmer direct daarna? ´Yeahh, that´s cool man´.... De arme man snapt overduidelijk geen enkel woord van wat de muzikant hem probeert duidelijk te maken. Het is precies dít verschil in intellect dat mijn eigen leven bij tijd en wijle ondraaglijk heeft gemaakt, ik had namelijk de pech van een hoog IQ, ik zal geen cijfers noemen. Mensen met een laag IQ zouden graag een hoog IQ hebben, en dat komt doordat ze zich geen voorstelling kunnen maken van hoe het leven dan voor hen zou zijn. Mensen met een hoog IQ proberen daarom vaak ´tegen de stroom in maar wat uit´ in hun directe omgeving, vanuit de wanhoop maar toch ook in de hoop ´een keertje raak te schieten´. En vanuit wijsheid en respect naar de medemens toe natuurlijk...
The sax was given to John well over 50 years ago by Zoot Sims after Zoot heard that John's instruments were stolen from his car. Amazing how a misfortune got transformed in a blessing.
Ah, good old "Needle Park"; at W72nd & Bwy, Manhattan. "The Panic" there had largely left my old neighborhood of 20 years by the time I lived a block east at 112 W72nd & Columbus! A further block east and you're at the infamous Dakota Apartments, where Beatle John lived (and died), and Polanski filmed most of "Rosemary's Baby". Cross CPW and you're into 'Strawberry Fields', where 'nothing is real' still, and who knows what 'ad hoc' musical adventures might await you... Follow the pathway down through the timeless Bethesda Terrace and its 'Angel of the Waters' Fountain and on to the Central Park Boathouse, (where you could once have a ride in a real Venetian Gondola), and you'd presently arrive on the 'Upper East Side'; the stately reflecting pool of Conservatory pond with its pretty little model sailboats scudding about; and finally the big psychedelic payoff: the larger than life "Alice In Wonderland" bronze statue, its gleaming patina buffed by decades of children's Osh-Kosh clad butts; famed among other things for its depiction (by photographer Linda Eastman) on the cover of Jimi Hendrix's final studio album, "Electric Ladyland". All this in a leisurely walk of approximately 40 minutes in New York City. To live there was truly to inhabit a magical Art Gallery or Museum. Ofttimes I wish I'd never left...
EXELENT , BUT SAD , I APRICIATE THE EFORT TO THIS GENTLEMAN AN TO ENTRETAINING , I JUST TO PLAY PIANO IN A BAND , I KMOW THE FEELING WHEND IT"S NO SOUPORT , THANK YOU FOR YOUR TALENT MR. SAXOPHO MAN .
I've been a street performer for 40 years. He's 30 years older than me. That's a dead spot. He's playing is no people and it's not rush-hour. I don't know if I would play there or not.
This gentleman has been professional and remains extremely versatile at improvising and general instrument fluidity. Give him $$$!
He also has a quick mind and a sense of humor to match . Although by no
Means a wealthy man he also donates 10 percent of the money he makes to St. Jude’s hospital for Children!
@ Wow, St. Jude’s is a favorite. Now I really like him!
Oh, one more thing about John. He is also a sing writer and photographer, so two things.
I am 71 and I started to feel old😂 (what a fool!) what a lesson with this saxophone 🎷 player artist. I believe his soul is playing that music, Jazz🎉 bless you, how many people you have made them happy.
I was ten years older than you are now when I first met JD two years ago. Like you I felt old and ready to come in for a smooth landing . After hanging out with Johny I pulled back on the throttle and am now taking flight ❤
it IS time for you to learn.
There are so many instruments to choose from.
Dont make excuses. enjoy!
😅 Find something you love to do and do it.
@@gugiegoldstein3613 🎷❤️👏🏻👌👍🏻🎼🎶🎵👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@mytheane yeah! Listening Rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical Music, music!
Honored to hear this man play his saxophone 🤗 🎷
Oh this is splendid. I have the ultimate respect for this gentleman's willing to share music with people. He is certainly special. The girl on the bench is his number one fan from the onset. Thanks for sharing some of the beauty remaining in the human soul. His light shines.
She epitomizes the effect that JD has on living things ❤️
Sweet old man.
We never know how many layers of experience and memories a person has until we seat with him to listen and learn.
Thank you Johnny !!
I will be 70 my next birthday, and have been playing harmonica since I was 14, for 55 years. Thus, my moniker. This fellow is wonderful!
And you’re not doing too bad yourself ❤
That’s a long time to be playing and a lot of music to have created. And a lot of joy!
Got to post and share your talent, c’mon !
Thats great. I play just enough harmonica that when someone sat in with my band and used my guitar, i would be able to play a few blues riffs on whatever.
Ill be 67 and have played Harmonica almost exactly 55 years too. I play jazz and classical on the chromatic harp and blues and folk on diatonic harp. Im still gigging and have made lots of friends and great memories. Keep playing!
Still got the chops and joy of life. Priceless performance.
Yes, yes and yes ❤️
I am 70 this year and I try to get out and play for SOMEONE every day. I go to parks, CVS, Wah Wahs! Anywhere. I did 40 years of gigs and some high profile concerts w famous people. But playing a request on the spot for one or a few people is more rewarding; the intimacy, the bond is real. It;s the joy of my life. Keep on keeping on bro, you never know who your music will touch deeply. It is truly a medicine for a sick world.
Amen❤
I agree except for one thing, the world is not sick. In fact the eight billion people on this planet probably live better lives now than any time in human history. Life is a constant struggle and that’s why the magic of music is so important. It’s the musical medicine for the soul. 🎼🏹
Maravilloso
how could anyone walk passed without honouring him with some change? Bet nobody can play like him. Takes a lifetime of practise to make jazz like that seem easy. Overtime bet he has played in some good bands. Bravo. A life well lived.
He is also a song writer ( see my video post, Kisses That Shake The World) and professional photographer back in the day, among other equally interesting things ..
Thank you for this video, I am touched, what beautiful sounds🎷🎶 I hope he can celebrate at least his 100th birthday by playing a birthday song for himself, nice greetings from Berlin😊
I hope to be there when it happens💯
I would love to be there to record number 100 💯
Ich wäre dabei.
@@kingkongprimpinella774 ...prima, schöne Grüße aus Berlin😊
❤🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
This is what it’s’ all about.
Love it!!!!!!
It feels great playing any instrument..is healthy healing fir the mind heart..
Right on the money
I love this. Made me cry.
Maravilhoso. Puro talento.
Me too 😢 a Musical Hero
This the wonderful Johnny D. Always great!!! A New York treasure !!!!!! Go ! Johnny Go!!!!!!!
Che magia questo video ❤. Nell’indifferenza totale questo signore crea delle improvvisazioni bellissime. Complimenti per aver colto e donato questo attimo di poesia 🙏
Happy to be able to do it 🎥🎼🏹
Il brano è "Smoke gets in your eyes"
😊thanks to all of you ank your caring
And thank you John Dentato for making beautiful timeless music that connects us to our humanity ❤️❤️❤️
Such a precious talent. I could hear every year of experience in his playing.
Sang along to ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ and ‘I’m in the Mood for Love’ at 73 makes me wonder if I’d been better off playing sax instead of Classical Guitar, oh well, I’ll just need a place to plug in, Segovia made it to 87, Love you Sax Man! You are the Muse!
God bless young man 97 and still playing ,my heart is filled with praise to God for you.
Stupendo bravissimo la musica non ha età .
Also, vitality has no age ❤
How Beautiful ❤
Oh Supreme God, I Applaude You!! Your a Child of 7 years old! You are Just Fantastic. great Musician! Your tone, your improvisation, all sublime!! Eternal Glory to You, my brother!!!
Let me tell you this. I don't like a saxophone,,, but I am full of respect for this old lion. Continue doing this and have a healthy and long life.
You don't like saxophone?
You must be a fool
What a ridiculous thing to say
Russian troll comment
@Zxx459 be quiet
buy some coltrane music
Johnnie D I salute you !
Respect sounds great. Do it a long time…
Still got his chops.
The world needs more music. Good to see that there's still a lot of good around. God bless you sir.😊 ❤
I can't imagine just walking by, unless I was late somewhere. Can't imagine not tossing in some cash either. He's amazing.
As we used to say, Right On!!!
Énorme, respect à presque 100ans
And an inspiration for the rest of us 😊
I hope I'm still playing at 97. I hope I'm still alive at 97. One of my old saxophone player friends on his 96th birthday told me, "You know, I ate breakfast at the diner down the street. I ordered 3-minute eggs. Those bastards made me pay in advance."
John's mind is as well tuned as his sax 🎷
Old New Yorkers, you gotta love em.
They are my inspiration.
We are on internet - and not everybody knows where is the Verdi Square - thanks for more details - congrats to this excellent musician
Thanks for your helpful comment. I have about 30 or so videos of Johny D on my utube channel and a few of Leo at Verdi Square, a little park between Amsterdam and Broadway at the 72 Street subway station, featured in those videos which you might also enjoy.
forgot to mention, on planet socalled earth, haha❤@@gugiegoldstein3613
Thank you for sharing, very inspiring! 🙏
He has great tone. Only another musician or artist can appreciate the time, the work, the practice it takes to make one note or more sound good. It only took him decades to sound naturally.
And Johny says he’s happy with his sound and with his progress
John says he’s happy with both his sound and progress .
The song he played is called "Smoke gets in your eyes". You will know how great musician he is by listening to other versions of this beautiful song 😎👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
❤❤❤ wonderful.improv.music keeps you young..
Frank Sinatra’s song, Young At Heart, comes to mind ❤️
Wonderful and thanks for posting this!
Beautiful.
nice tone.. 👍
Love the way you play that machine, Johnny D!
Lay it down, Baby! Then stand it back up! God bless you.
My first love as a young lad . Her first inital is B. Second inital is f. Last name Sax.Still to this day I am 73 now.........Play on my musical friend Take Care and Be Well
Lucky to have the passion. It’s a great way to travel ❤
Complimenti.
Oh I just love listening to you! So relaxing! Thank you for sharing
your talent. I’m very impressed!
Admirable and Simply Wonderful
Thank you. I miss hearing the saxophone. You just brought my dad back for the afternoon.
🎷👌
Smoked in your eyes......la escuche por primera vez en 1958 con los Platters cuando yo tenía 12 años de edad.
Me too. The golden years of Rock and Roll. 🎥
Thought those young girls were going to start dancing. I’m not young anymore but I certainly would have danced to
Smoke gets in your eyes! Excellent sir ❤
Yes, sometimes they do dance 🎼🏹
@ wonderful 🥰
Congratulation!!🎶🎵🌟✌🏼"dear mister fantasy " make us happy...
Wonderfull!❤
Wonderful xx❤❤
Best bass player I’ve seen live is in his 80s.
He’s just a kid 👌❤️
The man's music and spirit are heavenly even if the passerby's are deaf, dumb and lifeless. The bell tolls on and on.........
I believe everyone, including the animals, and irrespective of what they are doing, appreciate and connect to JD and his music. He also plays one hell of a clarinet ❤️
Bless his heart, rock on sir😎
looks like an old Conn or Selmer Tenor. Sounds great for a man who landed here on earth in 1927!🙏😮
The sax John plays was given to him over 50 years ago by Zoot Sims after John’s instruments were stolen! And now we are the beneficiaries. How’s that for doing things the right way!
Selmer model 26 by the look of it
Once’s a muso always a muso ❤
He stays along with the healthy breath of his sax !
And just as sweet on his clarinet 🎼
I'm hearing some Paul Gonsalvez in that tone, Great sounding horn Mr. Johnny D
Simplesmente, magnífico!! Viva a sabedoria desse senhor.
Oh wow! Imagine the stories Johnny D could tell! 🫶🫶🫶
I thought i was doing ok at 77.....a brilliant true musician...👌👌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
You probably are doing Okay. So keep doing it and you’ll stay okay 👍 That’s the lesson I learnt from Johnny D
Lovely man !
Vejo as pessoas passando e nem um olhar para esse senhor que com seu sax mostrou seu talento.
What a sweetheart.❤❤❤
I love sax and he kens how to play it🙏thank you so much for sharing this❣
From my 💚n Scotland🌈🐬 Gabriele 🐉🌺
Lucky and happy to be able to document JD❤
Fast swing standup bass with that...whew, nice
Que maravilhoso ❤
Thats great that he playing good on him the music lovely.
Excellent. 🇺🇸.
Well done that Man 💯
Deze prachtige man, want dat is het onmiskenbaar, probeert op 7.36 minuten het gesprek aan te knopen met de jonge man die hem (ongevraagd maar dat deert hem niet...) aan het filmen is.... Meteen ontstaat er een vreselijk misverstand...tenenkrommend voor mij, want ik maakte het zelf zo vaak mee in mijn leven. De muzikant begint een verhaal aan de filmer te vertellen, een anekdote die handelt over iemand die de dag daarvoor in de ´Tonight Show´ was verschenen en van wie de broer als muzikant diezelfde dag een optreden in een zaal iets verderop zou hebben. De man is, dat zie je meteen, een enorme liefhebber van de vrije geest én dus als muzikant vanzelfsprekend ook van de Jazz-muziek. Hij zegt: ´That guy is not playing anything, he´s just playing notes´, waarmee hij vanzelfsprekend wil zeggen dat muziek moet vloeien vanuit het hart en dus zeer zeker niet vanaf papier. Het antwoord van de filmer direct daarna? ´Yeahh, that´s cool man´.... De arme man snapt overduidelijk geen enkel woord van wat de muzikant hem probeert duidelijk te maken. Het is precies dít verschil in intellect dat mijn eigen leven bij tijd en wijle ondraaglijk heeft gemaakt, ik had namelijk de pech van een hoog IQ, ik zal geen cijfers noemen. Mensen met een laag IQ zouden graag een hoog IQ hebben, en dat komt doordat ze zich geen voorstelling kunnen maken van hoe het leven dan voor hen zou zijn. Mensen met een hoog IQ proberen daarom vaak ´tegen de stroom in maar wat uit´ in hun directe omgeving, vanuit de wanhoop maar toch ook in de hoop ´een keertje raak te schieten´. En vanuit wijsheid en respect naar de medemens toe natuurlijk...
Guy plays great. Nice sounding instrument as well.
The sax was given to John well over 50 years ago by Zoot Sims after Zoot heard that John's instruments were stolen from his car. Amazing how a misfortune got transformed in a blessing.
❤❤❤❤ Desde España
Great musician!
My favorite instrument trumpet and saksaphone.
Ah, good old "Needle Park"; at W72nd & Bwy, Manhattan. "The Panic" there had largely left my old neighborhood of 20 years by the time I lived a block east at 112 W72nd & Columbus! A further block east and you're at the infamous Dakota Apartments, where Beatle John lived (and died), and Polanski filmed most of "Rosemary's Baby". Cross CPW and you're into 'Strawberry Fields', where 'nothing is real' still, and who knows what 'ad hoc' musical adventures might await you...
Follow the pathway down through the timeless Bethesda Terrace and its 'Angel of the Waters' Fountain and on to the Central Park Boathouse, (where you could once have a ride in a real Venetian Gondola), and you'd presently arrive on the 'Upper East Side'; the stately reflecting pool of Conservatory pond with its pretty little model sailboats scudding about; and finally the big psychedelic payoff: the larger than life "Alice In Wonderland" bronze statue, its gleaming patina buffed by decades of children's Osh-Kosh clad butts; famed among other things for its depiction (by photographer Linda Eastman) on the cover of Jimi Hendrix's final studio album, "Electric Ladyland".
All this in a leisurely walk of approximately 40 minutes in New York City. To live there was truly to inhabit a magical Art Gallery or Museum. Ofttimes I wish I'd never left...
Lucky people who can hear this live.
Bravo
People just don't get it anymore. It's become so available like air people forget how precious it is to breathe in.
They get it, sometimes unconsciously, but they get it. 🙂
well done ❣
Tremendo artista....
ブラボー！🤩
Execellent
brilliant!
Verdaderamente hermoso ser musical
Por lo que veo pasará de 100 años.....le deseo salud !
🙏
Smoke gets in your eyes.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes , Stardust lindo maravilhoso .
EXELENT , BUT SAD , I APRICIATE THE EFORT TO THIS GENTLEMAN AN TO ENTRETAINING , I JUST TO PLAY PIANO IN A BAND , I KMOW THE FEELING WHEND IT"S NO SOUPORT , THANK YOU FOR YOUR TALENT MR. SAXOPHO MAN .
❤❤❤
Arpeggio 🌞
Lord, bless him.
Awwwwwe some 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Looks like he’s about to play chess against himself in the park
💜
Nice video!😮 New subscriber as a gesture for friendship now😊❤❤❤❤
The pleasure is mine to be able to share it ❤️
Swing, sir.
rhythm🎉
Get down Grandpa!
I've been a street performer for 40 years.
He's 30 years older than me.
That's a dead spot.
He's playing is no people and
it's not rush-hour.
I don't know if
I would play there or not.
I am still trying to master my triangle...
😍🎼