Hats off to Ryan Devlin for this incredible challenge of learning and playing the Steve Grossman solo on Katonah. I don't know which version this is from but the melody itself is a challenge since Steve incorporated some beautiful Harmonics, multi-phonics within the melody, itself. My favorite version of this tune is the one made in the mid-80's (I think...) with a Japanese rhythm section. Steve is one of the most incredible and creative players I've ever encountered. I first heard him on the Elvin Jones and Miles Davis records and I was fortunate enough to hear him in 1984 in Europe while on tour with Lionel Hampton. Steve was playing his ass off, as always, with an excellent quartet which included Mickey Tucker (piano), Joe Chambers (Drums) and Juni Booth on Bass. Steve is probably one of the absolute best saxophonists I've ever heard in person and that includes cats like Pepper Adams, Sonny Stitt and Stan Getz, to name just a few of the saxophone giants I got to hear in person. None of the people mentioned play anything like Grossman but they all played the crap out of the saxophone. I'm glad that folks like Ryan are studying the playing of Steve Grossman because there is a world of musical ideas, jazz vocabulary and technical mastery that Steve always produced. Along with Brecker, Bob Berg, Bergonzi and a few others, Steve is, to my taste, the most advanced and fascinating saxophonist who obviously absorbed a lot of 'Trane, Sonny (Rollins) as well as Bud, Bird, McLean and yet he always retained a distinctive individual voice of his own. I only got to know Steve by phone towards the end of his live. We had some interesting conversations about life, music, saxophone players, etc. I wanted to study with Steve but his health had been in decline since returning to the USA so it was not possible, unfortunately. I still hold the opinion that Steve is painfully under appreciated and he was possibly the most amazingly accomplished Saxophonist I have ever seen. He obviously worked very hard and practiced long hours for years to achieve the kind of crazy technical mastery and the high level of freedom, clarity and an amazing ear for playing anything he desired and transferring those ideas to the fingers and finally to the instrument. He also did a serious amount of intense listening. I think he had achieved a level of ferocity and mastery of many things, but particularly amazing is his way of playing in and out of the chord changes in addition to his uncanny ability to play all kinds of harmonics, overtones, multi phonics, similar to what Coltrane was doing on records such as "Coltrane Plays the Blues" among other recordings. I've heard many other players utilize those devices including Brecker but nobody did it to that degree and with such skill and spontaneity like Grossman. He was in a category of one, all his lonesome. Ryan, thank you for inspiring us all to try to tackle some of this legacy of Steve Grossman, a superlative master of the saxophones and one of my biggest inspirations.

@RFDSAX

4 ай бұрын

Hey @madbebopper I appreciate your compliment! First off, this is NOT a Steve Grossman transcription.....this is a transcription of MY solo on his composition Katonah off my new record "Can You Hear Me Now? " on PM Records. I agree that Steve Grossman is underappercaited. He created so much language on the tenor saxophone in the 70s! So many cats were studying him.......I've heard from Dave Liebman and Jerry Bergonzi that Grossman was THE GUY after Coltrane that everyone was trying to learn from! Gene Perla told me that Mike Brecker was obsessed with "Some Shapes To Come' in the mid 70s. Grossman is a hero of this music!!!!!

Great stuff, Gentlemen. Threw me for a loop at first thinking Bill Hader took up sax. haha Keep up the good work!

Reminds me of Got Match from Chick Corea😢

JAZZ!

ITS ABOUT TIME A TENOR PLAYER WITH SOME BALLS CAN CARRY ON THE TRADITION OF STRAIT AHEAD NO NONSENCE KICK ASS PLAYING.

I am hot tenor player and I can play same as him. What you think of that? Yes, in my dreams; but, I got something to say. I got something to say still.

@bodhidavis8400

6 ай бұрын

what

@danielabdelnour8232

6 ай бұрын

YA RIGHT O.K. WHAT EVER YOU SAY NOW TAKE YOUR MEDICATION

ONE BAD ASS TENOR PLAYER