Wynton On Hearing the WORST Band EVER

I was eight and my daddy said man I want to take you out to me the old jazz musician named Danny Barker and I want you to play in this band that he has of all young musicians and it's called the Fairview Baptist Church marching band so like that's fine with me whatever you say you know it's your daddy so we go to this lot and there's this old man in the lot and he was teaching people I'd never seen anyone teach people the way he taught because it was apparent he couldn't read music because there was no music out there now this is New Orleans and it's hot it's like 99 degrees and the humidity is 99 percent so you got to want to be out there to be out there and we're all out there with our horns eight nine ten years old and the old man starts talking to people he says oh okay son you look like a drummer you're gonna play drums [Music] so the kid starts to play the drum he said not a drum is the key to learning about jazz music Nikita jazz is communication now with that left hand I want you to go boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom so the kid starts playing that he says not with this other hand I want you to talk to that bass drum so it's gonna go boom boom he said now on one beat both of your hands are going to say the same thing at the same time they're going to agree he says do you have a conversation and then you reach a point where you understand what both of y'all are saying he said it goes punch so the kids start playing you know it wasn't quite what the man saying when he started to play at the old man but it made us feel like it was beautiful so he turned to the tuba play he said now son you you you weighed 200 pounds you play the two book see now what I want you to do on the tube is [Music] gonna call YouTuber and since you fat we're gonna call you two Buffet so we call him tuba fat and he start playing boom boom boom boom boom but it didn't sound like that really is from like a kid playing when the kid finished playing he said boy that's I knew you were too but player you are natural turns to the trombone player and he says you play with the tuba but stay out of his way sounded terrible but he listened to he said man that's beautiful turns to the kid with glasses on and said you have glasses on you're a clarinet player now what you do is you play high and you play a lot of figurations like but he started singing stuff so the kids stopped me squeaking it was terrible he just did he said man how did you get a tone like that that's a beautiful tone now of course the kid knew that it was a terrible tone but he said Chad I do get a nice tone out of this if the old man is saying it's a good tone it must be good he said now the one thing that you have to do is stay up high and whenever you can play a little Trail or something that looks cute it sounds like it's gonna be cute play that so he turned to me he said well you look like a trumpet player because you have a big head and big ears he said now you gonna play the melody I said what is the melody he said I'm gonna sing this tune to you so he started singing the song He said [Music] so listen to it I said okay I hear that he said man you really can play he said I want all of y'all to play together and we all started playing together and it was the worst thing you ever heard in your entire life we just played for like some amount of time you know while we were playing he was stand up going and when we finished playing he said y'all sound great I'll sound great all of those musicians that played in that band when we were eight and nine they all still play New Orleans Jazz today a lot of them are the best musicians you ever heard in your life and that old man could hear that then and none of us could hear it and he's the one that made us understand what the music was about and he taught us what it meant to hear and to listen [Music]

Channel: OLD SCHOOL-Wynton Marsalis TV

Views: 138,703

Keywords: wynton marsalis, jazz music, jazz education

Id: Yt2BEpTs2i8

Length: 5min 22sec (322 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 09 2023