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- Posted CD version at • Paul Desmond. CD versi... Paul Desmond - "Darn That Dream", gorgeous ballad. Recorded 1975 @ Bourbon Street, Canada. From out of print Artist House LP. Beautifully crafted solo, one of Paul's best ever IMO. Ed Bickert on guitar - Sublime. Don Thompson on bass, Jerry Fuller, drums. Just posted Desmond playing "When Sunny Gets Blue" from this same concert • Paul Desmond - When Su... great bossa version of that classic jazz standard.
Paul made that sweet lyrical sound even when his lungs were giving out. Only two years later he died of lung cancer from a lifetime of heavy smoking. He left us a huge legacy and I was lucky to see and hear him play 3 concerts in the 1960s in the UK - A quiet unassuming man with a great sense of humour and genius musical talent that gave us so much.
Besides Lasse Gulin Interpretation on Barytonsax this is the most lyrical ive ever heard.
Paul willed all royalties from “ Take Five “ to the Red Cross.
I have never heard another Alto player come close to this man's tone. It's positively wide screen, romantic , cool, and hip. Ed was a star as well.
Ed Bickert's comping...wow. What a refined guitarist.
Usally plays a Fender Telecaster, too.;)
Ed Bickert, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, and Barry Galbraith. Everything you need to know about modern compin for guitar is contained in that sacred quadrilogy. Throw in Oscar Moore, Freddie Green, and George Van Eps (I mean, you kinda have to mention him) and there's little more to add to that list. Really, you could study those seven and be set for seven lifetimes.
@@pickinstone Ted Greene and now Bill Frisell…
What they said!! Agree with all the comments about Ed Bickert, Jim Hall, Barry Galbraith and Ted Greene!!
Boy Don Thompson's Bass solo stood the test of time. Really nice.
Desmond is my favorite musician.
Mine too, maybe together with Toots Thielemans.
Has been mine since 1958...saw the "Quartet" three times... Paul and Wes Montgomery tore up our teenage brains. Love Ed too...Jim Hall said, "Ed was the only guy who scared him to death when he walked into the room."
Really? You need to listen to more musicians, then.
@@skineyemin4276 Perhaps you should open that narrow,biased little brain of yours?
Intelligent ,accessible cool, sleek, swinging musical, and one of the most challanging standards to play over. I think that makes this great music beyond catagory.
Desmond..Sublime..
The FINEST sounds ALIVE forever! WOW!
One of the best recordings I've hrard with Poul Desmon.
Wow... if that doesn't bring the BP down, nothing will.Really, really good stuff. Desmond was a legend.
The cretins who gave this a thumbs down have no soul, taste or appreciation of genius. They’d be advised to go back to something that challenges them like Lawrence Welk
Charlie Parker must have been a cretin, according to you, for he liked Lawrence Welk.
But then he wasn't a musical snob.
Ha Ha !! Brilliant...
e daniel: Here Desmond plays in a marvellous way.A genius for ever.
"I am the disembodied saxophonist of the Dave Brubeck Quartet" he used to say with his legendary sense of humour. Desmond was a unique sound and a marvelous performer, recognisable and inimitable. He created a style, the desmondism. The notes he was able to get from his instrument let you still today speechless. He loved women, Pall Malls and Dewar's. He burnt his life with elegance. As he played. With no vibrato.
Thanks , Well said
The “desmondism!!”
Restrained vibrato
Paul actually did play with some vibrato, but it was very light, understated, the epitome of cool.
this is a classy bunch of great jazz players paul and ed and what about the bass genius of don thompson boy is he some player.i dont wonder he plays piano the melodic content of his bass playing almost tells you that.many thanks.
Yes, exactly. Don tries to stay in the background but his smooth bass line comes through for the thorough (bass) listener. Great.
He’s playing more piano than bass nowadays apparently, too bad!!
I agree, this is my all-time favorite ballad, Chet Baker and others have put their unique imprint on this song, but Paul's version here is my favorite. I especially love the sequence he plays at 2:08, the way he stretches it across 8 bars, just lovely, a whole new song unto itself, the true master of melody!
chet's version with solo guitar accompaniment is a work of art. best baker i've ever heard, bar none. (chet baker 79 - round'midnight album). try it on for size...
Hermosa ejecucion de
Paul. Un verdadero genio del jazz y saxofón alto.
GRANDIOSO! Condenada mi Alma a oír esta bellísima versión, y a repetirla incansablemente en mi cabeza
Thank you for posting!
this is a great tune with a great melody and chords a classic jimmy vanhuesen. the only thing that makes it even better is paul. not many people could improve on a great song like this but here it is... sublime!!!
mpcguy
So tue, the song itself is already magic; then Desmond finds so many brilliant notes to pull out its inner meaning. Joyful
Don Thompson is on bass. In his liner notes, Desmond said Thompson could also play piano similarly to Keith Jarrett. Talk about multi-talented! I haven't heard him on piano though.
Check out Don’s record with John Abercrombie titled Witchcraft. He plays bass for half and piano for the other!
Excellent session!
Thanks for posting these memorable performances. There is no reissue of this album unfortunately. If you could post more I'd appreciate it.
What we hear is Desmond's mind as deep phrasing makes its way out of it.
Just great..
Nice profile pic!
Genial Paul desmond, gracias por tu arte imperecedero
Check out Hank Mobley's version with Pepper Adams, Art Farmer, Sonny Clarke, another brilliant track. 1957
¡Que no habré dicho ya! ¡Que no diría! ¡Que espléndido temazo! ¡Que exquisito!
That comping tho!!!!!
A departed master
Best melodic bass solo i've ever heard.
El alto de Paul Desmond sabe a gloria para los oidos.
This guitarist, Ed Bickert. Where did he come from? Where did he go? He's really quite amazing.
Canadian
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert
@@binface9 Thank you. Very helpful andn interesting.
Ed Bickert was a MONSTER, incredibly tasteful musician.
Nice ! 🔥
Desmond sounds like several dry martinis
Desmond on the top!
ff chille! Glaasje wijn... achterover leunen ..... laat het 'binnen komen'.... NICE!
Cudne
Paul Desmond is "american player from BOSSA NOVA"!
So this isn't released on cd?
Yes, I posted it here th-cam.com/video/1_AAPRJxhvU/w-d-xo.html It's on a new CD titled "Audrey".
What beauty Mr. Desmond, ha ha 'Desmond said to Molly, girl I like..." God is Love. Thanks for the wonderful post, cool cooljazzr. Lee Konitz, Paul Desmond, what giants they all were, the 50s through about Trane's death, 1968? You're in all of my sax solos (available here -TH-cam), yes you and Bird, some wild Sonny Rollins freedom zeal! be bop. a full opening measure of the conception of a new song. rhythmic melody most stately and firm sounding seemingly. For sure, fersusure...where's my g.d. bottle at? Huh? What the...? Uhm Bop Sha Bam is a Diz tune, ya no?
I'm a sax player but what is the big deal about single note lines anyway? Desmond is the best horn player at it but you cannot compare what he is doing to Ed Bickert playing 4 notes or more at a time and running them all together. It is total mastery of musicianship. Just think how hard it must be to play like Ed. Improvising like he does with four notes at a time. Wow!
it's not the amount of notes you play but how you play them. I think it's easier to memorise fancy patterns/licks than it is to 'sound' the way Paul does; he can entrance you with just a couple of notes, that's the signature of a real master right there
or the amount of "m"s.
Apples to oranges
I was trying to be humorous 11 months ago but now I forgot what I meant, Help...anyone?
Most jazz players of any instrument have 10 fingers (excluding Django). You could say piano is the most difficult because you can be using all 10 fingers. But the sax player uses his fingers on the sax keys even though he only blows one note at a time. Each musician must practice many, many long hours to master the instrument they’ve chosen. Comparisons between instruments is not really fair.
Absolutely beautiful!!!
(the 3rd beat of the 6th measure hurts, though)
You mean at 0:29 ? I don't hear anything wrong there. Which instrument hit a bad note?
@@cooljazzr Don't know which number.
Third beat of measure 6 is an E...technically F flat.
(It's a B flat diminished chord)...moving down to an E flat melody note on top of an E flat chord (inverted twice).
Pet peeves of mine...common mistake.
I realize it takes nerve to comment on Bickert/Desmond (my gods)...but that's the truth.
@@biscutsdad So?
At 5:38, Ed quotes the Looney Tunes Theme, deftly.
And again at about 7:05, but differently. It may be another tune with the same note sequence as the Looney Tunes theme, but I know the cat had a sense of humor..., so it could be....!
He changes the quality of the second chord in bar 1 to a diminished chord to accommodate the quote.
If you enjoy Tenor Sax too, listen to this version by Dexter Gordon! th-cam.com/video/8s8rHrLcSts/w-d-xo.html