I've been a musician for 53 years. I use this video as a reminder of why I'm still basically a music lover in the first place, and sometimes music can be so spontaneous, original and soulful you feel like you may never hear anything like it again. Cory Henry is a walking clinic on excellence.
I come back to this over and over. It has been years and this still gets me. Never heard anyone play this way with skill passion and soul on this particular instrument the way this brother did. Blessed of Yah if nothing else. Righteous tribute indeed!!
Cory, It weakens my stomach to see you hide the pain as you refernce such a great man in music. Keep up the great work lil bro as you continue your journey in music. It's always good to hear you.
My God, this Guy is a Gift to the World!! He is a true inspiration to all musicians! Much respect to Corey!!! He's simply AMAZING!! So Melodic and Incredible! WoW!!!! Bless you!!
i bought a keyboard and this showed up in my suggestions. been watching it every day for a couple months ever since. just lost my mother to cancer and she raised us in the church. this is the only music that can make me sweat and have to catch my breath, while simply sitting still.
This masterpiece was my first encounter with this legend in action 7 years ago and I've been a fan ever since, learnt a lot from his approach and thoughtfulness towards music. Appreciate the inspiration Cory, from South Africa, Johannesburg
What an incredible, gifted, blessed, musician. It's like the keyboard notes are attached to his fingers. So melodic, such incredible use of every available note at his disposal. And in our generation of time we are blessed to hear this gift from God.
Can't stop watching, Cory's organ tribute took everyone to school. . .and shined light on a masterpiece of a Gospel song and songwriter, Melvin Crispell.
A church organist and friend here in SC turned me on to this. It's beautiful- the groove constantly bubbles along with real flights of cool chromatic fancy. I think the most touching thing was how you ended it- caught up in the beauty of your friend's piece, the height of your interpretation of the last moments- emotion was too strong to say anything more. Sometimes the depth of humanity hits us all like this. Or if it doesn't't, perhaps it should. The emotion is honest. You have a real gift brother. I listen to this often. Thank You.
I have seen this about 159,999 times. I'm kind of embarrassed about how much this video means to me. I can't do anything he does in this demonstration of love. But I assert that I completely absorb, understand and am literally creatively fed from it. Forever grateful to Cory and Melvin for this gorgeously sweet melody.
This blesses me EVERYTIME I hear this! whew! Never gets old. Out of all the times I've heard this video finally heard your name and looked you up. You are anointed. God bless you!
Absolutely stunning. I'm not religious, I'm not even spiritual, but this performance gets me all emotional every time I watch it (which is multiple times a week!). Amazing because its almost certainly improvised on the spot based around the original, but also because Cory manages to put enough of himself into it and still keep some of the recognisable licks and lines that Mel would have played in his music, the disbelief on some of the crowd's faces at points is proof enough of that. And everyone in the room realises what they're watching here; a genius at work. I think even some of what Cory plays actually takes HIM by surprise; that little descending run towards the end certainly comes out of nowhere! An amazing, and inspiring tribute. As a musician, watching this makes me also want to get better, but makes me also realise that Cory is a genius, and I'll never ever be on that level! What a musician! ;-)
Hey @Cory Henry, I hope you don't mind but I put together a multi-cam edit of this performance, from the various sources I found online, and also tried to clean up the audio so as to present this as well as it possibly can be. This is a performance that deserves to be seen by everyone, I hope you enjoy my video edit of it, and thank you for such a moving tribute to an obviously well-admired and much loved musician, and human being. th-cam.com/video/8NcnbjIrzTI/w-d-xo.html
Phenomenal spiritual tribute to a musician who had an awesome musical mindset and approach on so many ministering hit songs... Now shared brilliantly with yet another versatile musical mindset in the awesome, Prof. Corey Henry!! The Most High be praised, and glorified for this!!
I wish y'all would stop saying the man in the gray suit is hating lol that is PJ Morgan and he is extremely talented on the Organ and could play that arrangement just as easy I could bet that look him up
Ikr. He's probably just admiring another organists work and has a blank kind of face. He even yelled sing during the performance so idk why people have to start stuff.
It's the authenticity of Cory Henry's in this performance that touches me every time. It's not about show or technique, but a true dedication to music and Melvin Crispell. Not one not too much or too little.
I must confess that I have watched this video several times. And each time I watch it, it touches me every time as if it were my first time watching. I'm still speechless. What an anointing! God bless you!!
Every time I come back to this recording it just makes me cry. Such beautiful, joyous playing. Those last few chords gives shivers. The feeling on the last chord. Just hot damn. And the drummer laying it down so well with you, so simple but entirely tasteful. Thankful every day I get to hear your gifts, Cory. Much love man.
This is how church need to be! We need to learn how to enjoy and share our emotions to live our life with love. Thank you Cory i wish one day i can listen you live.
🌹😚YES LORD JESUS👑FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, I WILL SERVE YOU!!THANKS FOR THE LATE MELVIN CRISPELL AND THANKS FOR BLESSING CORY HENRY TO GIVE CONTRIBUTE TO MELVIN🌹
I thank you Cory for this song you played. It's so powerful it moved me in so many ways. Again thank you. You are truly a talented gift from God for a the world to hear & be touched & moved by your great talent.
Thank you Cory, you are an amazing. Melvin will be so very happy up in heaven. This is a beautiful tribute to your friend. Thank you for sharing your talent with us all. Blessed.
You did this song justice... As a fan of both of your catalogs of work, I can say that I appreciate what you did for this song... Thank you for interpreting your friendship with him and sharing it with us... He will be greatly missed every time I see this...
This video right here, just pure fiya (my words lol) did it 4 me !!!! I stayed on You tube searching all the Corey Henry video's - not 1 disappointed, not 1. All are blessed amazing. Keep doing what u are blessed to do for the Kingdom of God.
I love watching you play besides listening and receiving the blessing it brings. When your stare goes off into the distance it shows you're in that place where the magic comes from. I can listen to this one all day and never get bored.. So looking forward to the 4th November when you play The Sugarclub here in Dublin!
OMG...CORY....you have to give use the midi...you are causing many sleepless nights for those of us studying trying to practice the phrasing and chord progressions (lol). This was excellent and exceptional artistry!
2:50 til 3:00 are some crazy chords what the heck!!!! Cory man I look up to you... And this tribute is legendary... You a beast I hope some day I grow up and be like you!!
Please make a Gospel album. I only use the word "gospel' as the starting point, much less the basic structure from which one improvises. But I recall in the Amen Corner, the son David wanted to go play songs that had never been written. That's what I imagine here. Go for it and bless us all!
I have been laughed at for trying to play the organ when other more skillful musicians were present at church. However, your music is inspiring! It encourages me to better my skills and just get into the God flow.
I keep coming back to this masterpiece.
8 years later and this is still a classic video
Yes indeed
Cory Henry is a genius. History probably won't remember his name, but it should.
This performance will always blow my mind.
I've been a musician for 53 years. I use this video as a reminder of why I'm still basically a music lover in the first place, and sometimes music can be so spontaneous, original and soulful you feel like you may never hear anything like it again. Cory Henry is a walking clinic on excellence.
I have to listen to this every day.
yeah it's the same for me
I thought it was just ME!!!🤣🤣🤣 Hell, SEVERAL times!!!😂😂😂💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
Me too!
Same
Yes its musical medicine
I come back to this over and over. It has been years and this still gets me. Never heard anyone play this way with skill passion and soul on this particular instrument the way this brother did. Blessed of Yah if nothing else. Righteous tribute indeed!!
filthy level of feel agreed....totally unique a rare level of genius. Generational imo just brilliant.
Agreed I have also spread this to so many people. Worship in its purest form. Magnificent
Yyyyyyyeeeeeeeesssssss❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Never tired of listening to this gig! And I am your dyed-in-the-wool Anglo-Catholic!
This angel brings us closer to God.
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day…”
that ending.....just tearjerking....
The first time I've seen Cory break down. Like he was talking to Melvin during his tribute.. R.I.P Melvin
I promise he was talking straight to him. I tear up everytime I play this!
Late here, but I get chills and tear up every time I hear it played by Cory. When I learn it, it's probably gonna be over for me 😂
How he ended !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Legendary.
Cory,
It weakens my stomach to see you hide the pain as you refernce such a great man in music. Keep up the great work lil bro as you continue your journey in music. It's always good to hear you.
Corey is absolutely the BEST organist is the world!!! To ME!!!💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
Cory is praising the Lord🎵 Letting the Lord saves people from the darkness through Cory's dwelling spirit music🎵❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
That was an emotional ending!
Every time I watch it I cry. Must have seen it 20 times. You are a vessel my friend and have been so very blessed
I have listened to this so many times and I promise it never gets old. what an incredible artist you are
Same, it’s a blessing
My God, this Guy is a Gift to the World!! He is a true inspiration to all musicians! Much respect to Corey!!! He's simply AMAZING!! So Melodic and Incredible! WoW!!!! Bless you!!
i bought a keyboard and this showed up in my suggestions. been watching it every day for a couple months ever since. just lost my mother to cancer and she raised us in the church. this is the only music that can make me sweat and have to catch my breath, while simply sitting still.
Such a classic
Still in my top 5 videos on TH-cam. Ever.
this!!
This masterpiece was my first encounter with this legend in action 7 years ago and I've been a fan ever since, learnt a lot from his approach and thoughtfulness towards music. Appreciate the inspiration Cory, from South Africa, Johannesburg
What an incredible, gifted, blessed, musician. It's like the keyboard notes are attached to his fingers. So melodic, such incredible use of every available note at his disposal. And in our generation of time we are blessed to hear this gift from God.
Can't stop watching, Cory's organ tribute took everyone to school. . .and shined light on a masterpiece of a Gospel song and songwriter, Melvin Crispell.
He is one of the best if not the best musician of this generation. He's so humble.
I can't stop listening to this. Perhaps, the sound will get stuck in my head and I'll play better. Beautiful!! RIP Melvin Crispell.
I literally cry everytime I watch this.. Salute
Seen this video so many times and it still gives me the chills every time! God Bless You man!!
For all those with the thumbs down TRY TO KEEP UP FIRST ! Cory u truly bless !!! I can't stop listening to this pure heavenly song thank u ! Amen
2:51 I damn near stood up out of my seat
A church organist and friend here in SC turned me on to this. It's beautiful- the groove constantly bubbles along with real flights of cool chromatic fancy. I think the most touching thing was how you ended it- caught up in the beauty of your friend's piece, the height of your interpretation of the last moments- emotion was too strong to say anything more. Sometimes the depth of humanity hits us all like this. Or if it doesn't't, perhaps it should. The emotion is honest. You have a real gift brother. I listen to this often. Thank You.
Dude you are making me smile today. keep playing...
He would have been proud to hear this!
I have seen this about 159,999 times. I'm kind of embarrassed about how much this video means to me. I can't do anything he does in this demonstration of love. But I assert that I completely absorb, understand and am literally creatively fed from it. Forever grateful to Cory and Melvin for this gorgeously sweet melody.
Especially 3:07 on... Sweet Jesus
This blesses me EVERYTIME I hear this! whew! Never gets old. Out of all the times I've heard
this video finally heard your name and looked you up. You are anointed. God bless you!
Absolutely stunning. I'm not religious, I'm not even spiritual, but this performance gets me all emotional every time I watch it (which is multiple times a week!). Amazing because its almost certainly improvised on the spot based around the original, but also because Cory manages to put enough of himself into it and still keep some of the recognisable licks and lines that Mel would have played in his music, the disbelief on some of the crowd's faces at points is proof enough of that. And everyone in the room realises what they're watching here; a genius at work. I think even some of what Cory plays actually takes HIM by surprise; that little descending run towards the end certainly comes out of nowhere!
An amazing, and inspiring tribute. As a musician, watching this makes me also want to get better, but makes me also realise that Cory is a genius, and I'll never ever be on that level! What a musician! ;-)
Hey @Cory Henry, I hope you don't mind but I put together a multi-cam edit of this performance, from the various sources I found online, and also tried to clean up the audio so as to present this as well as it possibly can be.
This is a performance that deserves to be seen by everyone, I hope you enjoy my video edit of it, and thank you for such a moving tribute to an obviously well-admired and much loved musician, and human being.
th-cam.com/video/8NcnbjIrzTI/w-d-xo.html
Yes yes yes yes and yes!!! Cory was born to praise the Lord and share the life to the world 😄❤❤❤❤❤
YES LORD!!!!! If you could embody the life of Melvin with music, you just did! Nice tribute!
Phenomenal spiritual tribute to a musician who had an awesome musical mindset and approach on so many ministering hit songs... Now shared brilliantly with yet another versatile musical mindset in the awesome, Prof. Corey Henry!! The Most High be praised, and glorified for this!!
I am totally speechless, I threw everything I had at my computer, Cory is a monster hands down
Awesome I'm a fan Corey for life
Wow, i have no words for this. So many beautiful moments in this clip. The run at 02:51 especially blew my mind.
Uncle Mel would be proud dude, Be Encouraged!!! ~Dre
So nice tribute...Melvin smili´n...RIP
This changed my life. I just took music so much more seriously because of this.
I have watched this over and over. Love it.
I wish y'all would stop saying the man in the gray suit is hating lol that is PJ Morgan and he is extremely talented on the Organ and could play that arrangement just as easy I could bet that look him up
Ikr. He's probably just admiring another organists work and has a blank kind of face. He even yelled sing during the performance so idk why people have to start stuff.
2:28 now I hear where Chance got inspiration for his lyric in the song "Blessings" "When the praises go up, the blessings come down"
It's the authenticity of Cory Henry's in this performance that touches me every time. It's not about show or technique, but a true dedication to music and Melvin Crispell. Not one not too much or too little.
I must confess that I have watched this video several times. And each time I watch it, it touches me every time as if it were my first time watching. I'm still speechless. What an anointing! God bless you!!
Historic! This guy constantly shows that they're no boundaries in music. Classic!
Every time I come back to this recording it just makes me cry. Such beautiful, joyous playing. Those last few chords gives shivers. The feeling on the last chord. Just hot damn. And the drummer laying it down so well with you, so simple but entirely tasteful. Thankful every day I get to hear your gifts, Cory. Much love man.
This was EPIC standing ovation. Truly a Favor Anointing from God on high. I listened 7 times.
I think this is the best thing I'heard in my all life (52 years old, 40 passed listening to jazz!). You are a genius!
Wow Cory, this was by far one of the most emotional musical experiences of my life.
Thanks a bunch, lots and lots of love!
This is how church need to be! We need to learn how to enjoy and share our emotions to live our life with love. Thank you Cory i wish one day i can listen you live.
I'm really glad people can appreciate the musicality he pulled off around 3:56, especially if you know the song. Beautiful.
That will always bring chills to my spine. That’s from another place in the universe...
you can see the guy in the glasses realize that something weird just happened right away, love it.
4:45. Goosebumps. Every. Time.
Nah fr
🌹😚YES LORD JESUS👑FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, I WILL SERVE YOU!!THANKS FOR THE LATE MELVIN CRISPELL AND THANKS FOR BLESSING CORY HENRY TO GIVE CONTRIBUTE TO MELVIN🌹
Boy oh boy I tell you !!!!!!!! Here I am yet again watching and thoroughly enjoying being blessed this anointed ministry.
You, sir, are a blessing.
I thank you Cory for this song you played. It's so powerful it moved me in so many ways. Again thank you. You are truly a talented gift from God for a the world to hear & be touched & moved by your great talent.
I loved to see you on the documentary playing at the age of 4 and never looking on the keys, just playing.
What a genius...
Absolutely amazing
Thank you Cory, you are an amazing. Melvin will be so very happy up in heaven. This is a beautiful tribute to your friend. Thank you for sharing your talent with us all. Blessed.
You did this song justice... As a fan of both of your catalogs of work, I can say that I appreciate what you did for this song... Thank you for interpreting your friendship with him and sharing it with us... He will be greatly missed every time I see this...
2:49 is the best part to me. Dude is gifted
Years of practice allows us to witness greatness
I am without words. Off the charts great!
This video right here, just pure fiya (my words lol) did it 4 me !!!! I stayed on You tube searching all the Corey Henry video's - not 1 disappointed, not 1. All are blessed amazing. Keep doing what u are blessed to do for the Kingdom of God.
How could you dislike this?
I love watching you play besides listening and receiving the blessing it brings. When your stare goes off into the distance it shows you're in that place where the magic comes from. I can listen to this one all day and never get bored.. So looking forward to the 4th November when you play The Sugarclub here in Dublin!
This was the first video I saw of this young man playing years ago….Been watching every since.
Coming back 6 years later......it still hits 👏🏽
Love to come back to this song. So good.
God bless you Cory, for what you are and for the beauty that you give.
My God your are a "BEAST" can't stop watching...God Bless
Great Job Cory Henry your my favorite organist!!! And i almost busted out in tears at the end you sounded just like Melvin Crispell
3:58 sends me every single time!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Nothin but God.
Thank You Corey.
I dont much about music... But I know that what I heard and seen you do was really beautiful... God bless
That organ rumble at 2:33 though...
Yea
I don't know what say? He do everything what he want, just great musician!
Thank you Cory and glory to the Lord for you!
this inspired me to get back into playing! I have to hear this daily. I thank God for your gift...AND YOUR CREATIVE EAR!
PJ trying to play it cool while Cory puts on a clinic!
OMG...CORY....you have to give use the midi...you are causing many sleepless nights for those of us studying trying to practice the phrasing and chord progressions (lol). This was excellent and exceptional artistry!
2:50 til 3:00 are some crazy chords what the heck!!!! Cory man I look up to you... And this tribute is legendary... You a beast I hope some day I grow up and be like you!!
I liked it, so much!
Very musical ideas in this solo... great Cory!
No doubt Randi! !!!! hehe
Thank God for the gift of this young man
I have to listen to this every time I get on TH-cam and that's every day so yeah lol... I love this u did your thing
RIP Melvin Crispell
Men smh love what you do Corey your the men great music
Our Lord deserves nothing less than the best. And that's what Cory did this day.
Duuudee... 🤯
My brother you made him proud, just be encourage, and know that he is with us in spirit. God bless!
And this is where I fell in love 🥰 "sorry honey" 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️ to hubby 😂
This brought tears to my eyes. What an amazing tribute to an awesome vessel of the Lord. God bless you!
Please make a Gospel album. I only use the word "gospel' as the starting point, much less the basic structure from which one improvises. But I recall in the Amen Corner, the son David wanted to go play songs that had never been written. That's what I imagine here. Go for it and bless us all!
I have been laughed at for trying to play the organ when other more skillful musicians were present at church. However, your music is inspiring! It encourages me to better my skills and just get into the God flow.
LoL i know that feeling