Im 16 years old, and when I saw him last night, I was watching Ali Jackson on the drums, then I looked and Wynton was looking right at me and smiled and nodded to me. Very Awesome.
Not only can he play every style of jazz, quote the best players from every style, but he can dominate the classical field as well. Wynton Marsalis is in my opinion not only the greatest living trumpet player, but the greatest trumpet player of all time! The only argument that I could possibly think one could have against that is that Marsalis has not innovated as much as Pops, Dizzy, or Miles. That aside, skill-wise he is the greatest to play the horn and it is an absolute joy to hear him play
Wynton performed at my high school during my senior year in 1989. I was an usher and therefore got to watch the concert for free and also got to meet him backstage. He was incredible in concert and, personally, was a gentleman and a terrific guy. When I asked him to give me advice as an aspiring trumpet player he said, in so many words, that you have to practice, playing the trumpet is difficult even for him.
I just love this video. The idea of practicing excellence on the instrument whenever you play, including when warming up, is something that everyone should subscribe to.
+pious Hadebe Most everyone has days when their chops feel great and everything works and in contrast days when everything feels like complete dogshit, if you'll excuse my French.
+Samuel Plays Brass Oh yes, I thought as much. It can be very frustrating. Do you perhaps know what causes that and any tips to keep your chops intact? excuse my English i'm from Africa.
pious Hadebe Anything can, from the weather if you play outside to getting a cut on your lip. I don't know how to keep your chops intact aside from not getting frustrated and using pressure on your lips to hit high notes when those bad days come. Also, your English is very good! Keep it up!
Even his warming up sounds so effortless it’s almost beyond words. I’m going to see him and Chuck Corea tonight as an early birthday gift for my dad. Since we both love jazz, it should be an awesome treat for my dad’s 70th. Keep up the great work Mr Marsalis and thank you for the enjoyable decades of musical prowess that you have shared with us mortals
Wynton is simply The GOAL of The Trumpet. A Beast... and he is his own originality. He can play with anyone before/after his time. Wynton 1 bad musician not just a trumpeter remember that.
It's amazing to see the thought process in development of solo's.. constructing ideas flowing them together and well just made me want to practice first thing in the morning!
It’s absolutely amazing how he can play such difficult things that not only most people can’t play, but he plays them with such good of a tone and certainty in his notes, even when he’s only warming up. Wynton is nuts and deserves all the credit given to him.
Wow! I love the different sounds he gets out of the horn and the accents he puts in there is really cool too. That is really inspirational....I think I'm going to go 'shed now
He's a fantastic musician. Mouthpiece, horn, whatever! It doesn't matter. Music comes from your heart, mind, experience AND work! Plenty of hard work. That's what's inspiring, not licks, horns, mouthpieces but soul and WORK!
I agree. And a warm up is meant to find embouchure. He's probably already found his by this point. And then he's Wynton Marsalis - so that means the brain-muscle thing is mastered many times over. Sounds like he's playing extended patterns, arpeggios and other altered patterns that jazz trumpet students practice to help improvisation which makes sense because he's probably about to go on stage. He encompasses and preserves total knowledge of the styles within the jazz idiom. Great clip.
The really awesome thing about this video is that as listeners we can organize what Wynton's approach to warm up is (in this video at least) into broad categories and then apply it to our own playing abilities! Thanks so much for posting this! It helped me organize my own warm up schedule. Or at least think about some different ways to approach that all-important, ever-overlooked, and underrated beast that is the Warm Up!
This is a very helpful video and inspirational to me as a trumpet player. I've only seen Wynton performing pretty much flawlessly but it's interesting watching Wynton as any other trumpet player doing some warming up, checking the range with alternate fingerings, etc.... I really enjoyed it.
People only dislike this because Wynton can not only warm up better than they can actually play but also because his mouth piece alone cost more than the trumpet they may or may not possess.
I'm too damn lazy to use mine. I hear the note in my mind then make the note I guess, like whistling. As I told a friend who plays sax; "You gotta know where you're going, or you'll end up somewhere else!". This guy ... it's like watching Leonardo da Vinci doodle, or hearing Bach just messin' around ... a master at play.
Yeah. Good, old sound & time. Original and his own notes=> New way by the making of the melodies🎺. The classical studies can be also hear💎. Congratulation🤗❤!
guys he not trying to play perfect he trying to get the whole mind body connect in a completely relaxed way....his fingers are working on their own accord. I think he is doing what Kenny Werner does all the time.
Wynton Marsalis Plays very congratulations manow, tha ta congratulations, your show is improvised, I'm from Brazil, adimiro much their sound, congratulations man, wanted to one day play with tha, apreder some of his jazz;)
@MrMrsCorvette Ok. To clarify: Wynton is improvising while throwing in a few good practice techniques like, arpeggios, scales, lip trills, etc. I think what you are referring to is what he's doing while he's still playing in the A-6 mode towards the beginning. A-6 means "A" Minor 6. The minus sign means a minor quality to the chord or altered tension. If I wrote A7-9 that would mean "A" Dominant 7 with a lowered 9th scale degree. Remember, he is improvising when playing his warmup. It's not
That's the dumbest comment anyone has ever written on one of my videos... Wynton LOVES those cats that you mentioned and plays music by them very often and even has put on tribute concerts in honor of them. I've spoken with him and heard him speak live and in interviews and he discusses every style/era of Jazz and mentions every player from Buddy Bolden to Jonathon Batiste. I do agree with you that he is one of the best Jazz performers of our time though! :-D -Austin
@BirdDizCC You may be right about the airy sound, but maybe because he is trying to play some of the high notes softly and I am pretty sure he is styling some of those notes, can't be certain though. In any event, all I do is I just watch listen and learn. This was an excellent video to do just that. I am going to try and take some of what he was doing and incorporate that into practice.
@skillfrombrazil C Locrian scale - all the same notes as Db major. At 4:14 he plays a Bb minor idea into a Db major sound (all of which is still really within the key of Db major.)
The term 'warm up' is just an academic phrase. The trick is to never cool off. The horn is never off the lip long enough for the mind to lose the memory of the placement of the mouthpiece on mouth.
hi, i went to a jazz camp last year and had private lessons with Claudio Roditi and his playing is outstanding. His style is very different from Wynton's though. But they both hold to the same principle. Play trumpet to play. Be great. They are both equal in musical talent.
@swmita I think the airy sound is from his equipment. I was talking to my teacher Darren Barrett yesterday about my B2S3 prana mouthpiece (I play on a Monette LTJ too) and how I sometimes get an airy sound when I dont want it. Its a great sound but I dont want it all the time. So yeah.
@sparkyak213 7c is the beginner's mouth peice. I sometimes have trouble getting out a double f out on that, but I use a 3a. That's a typical high schooler's mouth piece.
@BirdDizCC You're correct, but I think it was just strictly during warmup. Maybe with the camera's microphone being that close and in a small room has some to do with that.
I love the guy in the background messing with his fanny pack, I mean is he not completely oblivious to the virtuoso in the room ?! Hes like, yeah whatevs, I need to straighten my fanny pack, thats what I need to do, Im out!
"man you ever hear ryan (kisor, one of the longstanding members of the LCJO plays 3rd tpt i think) do that, boy he can play (unintelligible) unbelieveable... slurin'"? (continues with) "man you gotta hear when he does that shit its like, hip" (then vocally imitates it)
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Im 16 years old, and when I saw him last night, I was watching Ali Jackson on the drums, then I looked and Wynton was looking right at me and smiled and nodded to me. Very Awesome.
AsianTarzan94 so ur 24 now how does it feel bro
I wish you're good now
@_maxcaulfield_4672 He's 28 now😐
so ur 29 now how does it feel bro
His warming up is better than my peak performance... Oh the joy
you perform warmup exercises?
Does it make you feel better to know he's also left-handed?
OF COURSE HE IS WYNTON FUCKIN MARSALIS HIS FEEL IS ABOVE ALL JAZZ HAHAHAH
Not only can he play every style of jazz, quote the best players from every style, but he can dominate the classical field as well. Wynton Marsalis is in my opinion not only the greatest living trumpet player, but the greatest trumpet player of all time! The only argument that I could possibly think one could have against that is that Marsalis has not innovated as much as Pops, Dizzy, or Miles. That aside, skill-wise he is the greatest to play the horn and it is an absolute joy to hear him play
Excellent + Famous does not necessarily make someone the best ever. Who's to say there's not an instructor with no fame, but is a true master?
@hugo Thats the most idiotic quote i have ever heard xD
Ali Jackson is a beast.
Woody Shaw had incredible facility and expression 🐬
Be wary of idolization. Wanting us an excellent trumpet player, but to say he dominates as a classical player is naive to say the least.
I heard Wynton missed a note August 6th, 2004, but no one was there to hear it!. He absolutely amazes me everytime I hear him.
Switch the 4 and 6 and you got my birth day
Wynton performed at my high school during my senior year in 1989. I was an usher and therefore got to watch the concert for free and also got to meet him backstage. He was incredible in concert and, personally, was a gentleman and a terrific guy. When I asked him to give me advice as an aspiring trumpet player he said, in so many words, that you have to practice, playing the trumpet is difficult even for him.
I just love this video. The idea of practicing excellence on the instrument whenever you play, including when warming up, is something that everyone should subscribe to.
Damn. I don't play anywhere near like that on my best days, and he's just warming up. A true virtuoso.
I like how you mention on your "best days"... tell me more about it
+pious Hadebe what do you mean?
+pious Hadebe Most everyone has days when their chops feel great and everything works and in contrast days when everything feels like complete dogshit, if you'll excuse my French.
+Samuel Plays Brass Oh yes, I thought as much. It can be very frustrating. Do you perhaps know what causes that and any tips to keep your chops intact?
excuse my English i'm from Africa.
pious Hadebe Anything can, from the weather if you play outside to getting a cut on your lip. I don't know how to keep your chops intact aside from not getting frustrated and using pressure on your lips to hit high notes when those bad days come. Also, your English is very good! Keep it up!
Even his warming up sounds so effortless it’s almost beyond words.
I’m going to see him and Chuck Corea tonight as an early birthday gift for my dad. Since we both love jazz, it should be an awesome treat for my dad’s 70th.
Keep up the great work Mr Marsalis and thank you for the enjoyable decades of musical prowess that you have shared with us mortals
yes. and the greatness of marsalis is that he acknowledges and celebrates the greatness of all his "rivals" . which you have to appreciate.
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It kills me that he can't resist mentioning how good RK is at that slur exercise. What a class act all the way, always loved Wynton for 25 years now.
Man that low F# comes out smoother than butter
Wynton is simply The GOAL of The Trumpet. A Beast... and he is his own originality. He can play with anyone before/after his time. Wynton 1 bad musician not just a trumpeter remember that.
I love how he just goes into phantom mode at 3:21, SHEESH!! Back to woodshed I go!
It's amazing to see the thought process in development of solo's.. constructing ideas flowing them together and well just made me want to practice first thing in the morning!
I first saw this as an iTunes music video. I've probably watched this 200 times. Legend in flesh.
Finally a video of this great player (Wynton Marsalis), by himself. No drums, ect. Now for a guy my age (26), this is real music to the ears.
I'm your age now when you posted this 11 years ago. What's it like being 37?
It’s absolutely amazing how he can play such difficult things that not only most people can’t play, but he plays them with such good of a tone and certainty in his notes, even when he’s only warming up. Wynton is nuts and deserves all the credit given to him.
I love hows he's doing this all while laying back in a chair...
IT'S A MONET MOUTHPIECE WYNTON IS USING.
YET, IT'S NOT THE MOUTHPIECE BUT THE MAN.
Tom Ato monette* I’m a monette horn player so I know he owns one aswell
If the internet existed and I knew how to use it,we me everybody would benefit from people like this man.
Thank you Mr Marsalis for the lesson. Thank you Mr Casey posting.
wow, he is human. what a relief.
Wow! I love the different sounds he gets out of the horn and the accents he puts in there is really cool too. That is really inspirational....I think I'm going to go 'shed now
He's a fantastic musician. Mouthpiece, horn, whatever! It doesn't matter. Music comes from your heart, mind, experience AND work! Plenty of hard work. That's what's inspiring, not licks, horns, mouthpieces but soul and WORK!
awesome! love the mixture of the bronze trumpet and gold mouthpiece.
That half valving is so damn smooth
I play trombone, I love Wynton, I transcribe his solo into my trombone repertoire. And I liked this video
Right. Learning is a never-ending process for every body.
I'd pay money just to watch and listen to him warm up!
oh shit he split a note at 4:53.....he is human!
lol he is human.
Barely.
+Josh Roberts no he is just trying to make it seem like he is human so that people don't question him
XD!
He did it on purpose....
I agree. And a warm up is meant to find embouchure. He's probably already found his by this point. And then he's Wynton Marsalis - so that means the brain-muscle thing is mastered many times over. Sounds like he's playing extended patterns, arpeggios and other altered patterns that jazz trumpet students practice to help improvisation which makes sense because he's probably about to go on stage. He encompasses and preserves total knowledge of the styles within the jazz idiom. Great clip.
How the hell does he slur like that?! Lol
Wynton and Ryan Kisor both have tremendous flexibility
joe740544 practice
That drill starting at 3:20 and ending at 3:47 was crazy good
The really awesome thing about this video is that as listeners we can organize what Wynton's approach to warm up is (in this video at least) into broad categories and then apply it to our own playing abilities! Thanks so much for posting this! It helped me organize my own warm up schedule. Or at least think about some different ways to approach that all-important, ever-overlooked, and underrated beast that is the Warm Up!
This looks like it's right before a show. He'd probably been playing all day by that point. More of a mental warmup than anything, I'm sure. Love it!
This is a very helpful video and inspirational to me as a trumpet player. I've only seen Wynton performing pretty much flawlessly but it's interesting watching Wynton as any other trumpet player doing some warming up, checking the range with alternate fingerings, etc.... I really enjoyed it.
how can you dislike a warm-up
1:54 - first time I've ever heard him split a note. And he was warming up. Wow.
$20,000 trumpet ...
Priceless talent
I found the exact same trumpet at a yard sale for $5. Name a price and I'll sell it to you lol
No you didn't.
Grossly overpriced
Please tell us more about your understanding of what it costs to build a horn like that.
Thanks for sharing this! Fantastic-
At this level of musicianship, there are no better or worse. You can have your preference!
astounding!! words fail ....and me likes to tell it as it is man? Wynton is a ftyer ....up and out of the stratosphere!
As a trombone player, I like this video.
I also play trumpet, so that may be why.
Likewise. On both points (although I wouldn’t say I can really ply trumpet…).
Ryan Kisor: trumpet player
+David McRae I'll say! I didn't catch his comment about Kisor's slurring until the second viewing. Interesting.
David McRae Kisor has a new short video of him & lip slurs
His low notes are so beautiful.
what a great compliment for Ryan Kisor
This is how it's done🔥
Clifford, Lee Morgan and all those other cats would appreciate this
People only dislike this because Wynton can not only warm up better than they can actually play but also because his mouth piece alone cost more than the trumpet they may or may not possess.
those low lips slurs though!....wow!!!!
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I love arpeggios, I can mess around all day playing nothing but arpeggios. And that day will be a full and complete productive day in my eyes LOL :)
I must have watched this 25 times
💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕....I love Wynton..🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
It doesn't get any better than that.
I could list to the 1st half of that all day. In fact I will.
wynton is the best hands down tone i flawless just a great player
damn, he's not even kicking his 1st/3rd slides, what a beast
its because his trumpet is perfect
I don't believe his trumpet has a 1st valve slide ring/trigger mechanism.
really dude? It's called having an ear and hearing the notes before you play them.
I'm too damn lazy to use mine. I hear the note in my mind then make the note I guess, like whistling. As I told a friend who plays sax; "You gotta know where you're going, or you'll end up somewhere else!".
This guy ... it's like watching Leonardo da Vinci doodle, or hearing Bach just messin' around ... a master at play.
Thanks for sharing... cool it has been filmed from the side so that one can see the valving (-:
this video is gold!
Yeah.
Good, old sound & time. Original and his own notes=> New way by the making of the melodies🎺.
The classical studies can be also hear💎. Congratulation🤗❤!
guys he not trying to play perfect he trying to get the whole mind body connect in a completely relaxed way....his fingers are working on their own accord. I think he is doing what Kenny Werner does all the time.
The GOAT!
Wynton Marsalis Plays very congratulations manow, tha ta congratulations, your show is improvised, I'm from Brazil, adimiro much their sound, congratulations man, wanted to one day play with tha, apreder some of his jazz;)
now this is how you warm up!
@MrMrsCorvette Ok. To clarify: Wynton is improvising while throwing in a few good practice techniques like, arpeggios, scales, lip trills, etc. I think what you are referring to is what he's doing while he's still playing in the A-6 mode towards the beginning. A-6 means "A" Minor 6. The minus sign means a minor quality to the chord or altered tension. If I wrote A7-9 that would mean "A" Dominant 7 with a lowered 9th scale degree. Remember, he is improvising when playing his warmup. It's not
gorgeous tone
When you can play like Wynton, you can diss him... Yeah, that's what I thought.
That's the dumbest comment anyone has ever written on one of my videos... Wynton LOVES those cats that you mentioned and plays music by them very often and even has put on tribute concerts in honor of them. I've spoken with him and heard him speak live and in interviews and he discusses every style/era of Jazz and mentions every player from Buddy Bolden to Jonathon Batiste. I do agree with you that he is one of the best Jazz performers of our time though! :-D
-Austin
wynton is the best trumpet player on the earth. period.
@BirdDizCC You may be right about the airy sound, but maybe because he is trying to play some of the high notes softly and I am pretty sure he is styling some of those notes, can't be certain though.
In any event, all I do is I just watch listen and learn. This was an excellent video to do just that. I am going to try and take some of what he was doing and incorporate that into practice.
The greatest trumpetist of the world
ウォームアップもカッコイイ！
That trumpet he is holding.... It's one of my most famished dreams to have that trumpet.
bob m marley Brand is Monette as far I know
love his eyebrow movements :D
Wynton vc nao existe. é o melhor da atualidade.
I have a friend in my school that got to play a duet with Wynton Marsalis
Stay Woke where/how
@skillfrombrazil C Locrian scale - all the same notes as Db major. At 4:14 he plays a Bb minor idea into a Db major sound (all of which is still really within the key of Db major.)
Nice warmup! Horn Players Rock!
The term 'warm up' is just an academic phrase. The trick is to never cool off. The horn is never off the lip long enough for the mind to lose the memory of the placement of the mouthpiece on mouth.
True Virtuoso! EL Maestro del Trompeto!
hi, i went to a jazz camp last year and had private lessons with Claudio Roditi and his playing is outstanding. His style is very different from Wynton's though. But they both hold to the same principle. Play trumpet to play. Be great. They are both equal in musical talent.
Living legend! That's all I can really say him.
Beautiful
Wynton/Skain is a BEAST!!!
Just" thank you" for music !!!
@swmita I think the airy sound is from his equipment. I was talking to my teacher Darren Barrett yesterday about my B2S3 prana mouthpiece (I play on a Monette LTJ too) and how I sometimes get an airy sound when I dont want it. Its a great sound but I dont want it all the time. So yeah.
omg we have a master here... everebody be quiet and cool!
wow, just amazing flexibility and sound.
@sparkyak213 7c is the beginner's mouth peice. I sometimes have trouble getting out a double f out on that, but I use a 3a. That's a typical high schooler's mouth piece.
Stop comparing best trumpeters and what not please. They're all amazing, and it's no use comparing them.
@BirdDizCC You're correct, but I think it was just strictly during warmup. Maybe with the camera's microphone being that close and in a small room has some to do with that.
@Vitruvian42 Or rather (as a rough approximation): Concert A# Locrian, Concert G# Aeolian, Concert B Major.
the only thing i dislike about Mr Marsalis's warm up is not being able to do it myself!
I love the guy in the background messing with his fanny pack, I mean is he not completely oblivious to the virtuoso in the room ?! Hes like, yeah whatevs, I need to straighten my fanny pack, thats what I need to do, Im out!
"man you ever hear ryan (kisor, one of the longstanding members of the LCJO plays 3rd tpt i think) do that, boy he can play (unintelligible) unbelieveable... slurin'"? (continues with) "man you gotta hear when he does that shit its like, hip" (then vocally imitates it)
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ladies n gentlemen, Wynton marsalis (applause)
monette sounds great
impressionante a facilidade e dominio sobre o instrumento....
@BirdDizCC He is definitely doing it for style. haha He has an amazing full dark tone when he does classical stuff.