Poutin’ – Ben Webster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgqrnvyDvWI

Is this blues? I hear a IV chord on the fifth measure, I think. This is really just an excuse for me to post another video with Oscar Peterson in it. But I paid a lot of attention to the saxophone player, thinking about the microtonal music we talked about in class. Since saxophonists can control pitch using their embouchure, they can hit those “in-between” notes that aren’t in the 12-tone scale. The saxophonist does some trills between two half notes, but he also hits some notes just below where I’m used to hearing the pitch.