Humanism by Jonathan M. Batiste/arr. Paul Murtha

Young Jazz Ensemble - Grade 3
Recorded by jazz artist Jon Batiste and his group Stay Human as the theme song for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, this energetic tune features an appealing contemporary jazz/rock flare. Saxes take the lead in the beginning supported by funky riffs from the entire ensemble. Solos are available for any combination of alto sax, trumpet, or trombone.
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[lyricbot]

Crying with happiness, this song is so good

[davidchang]

Played trombone growing up and loved it until high school, my band director just took the love I had for playing out of me and haven't played since. It's been almost a decade since I played, but this arrangement has made me want to pick the horn up again... absolutely amazing!

[zombeats]

This is fun to practice with. I play alto sax

[gabriellenicolesebastiana]

I have to learn this for my jazz band audition for school (I play alto sax)

[keokle_]

Playing this in my 8th/9th grade jazz band

[TudBoatTed]

We play these songs from this channel at my Jazz Band

[AanyaSoma-ho]

i'm playing this song for jazz and this tutorial rly helps. thanks

[LiamStrand]

This version is a good song, but it's my opinion that it kinda misses the feeling of Jon Batiste's OG version. IDK, it's still good though.

[caleb_stpierre]

I lowkey think this sounds better than the OG arrangement

[ammaleslie]

This is well arranged for what it is. But it's oddly straight ahead and stiff. There is no 16th note feel under the four on the floor. It's turned something offbeat and brilliant and spectacular into ordinary Las Vegas showgirl/Miss America pageant music. The joy-filled syncopation is missing. And it suffers from being in a lower key--the higher key is "brighter" (if you believe that keys have individual feelings to them, as I do).

Also, and this is subtle, musically something is off in the third/seventh bar of the head... The beginning of the third/seventh bar should not sound so much like the beginning of the first bar, and i can't tell which note is wrong/missing (or maybe just underemphasized). It's like a major/minor shift that fails to happen? If i was with you in person i could sing it... I'm sorry i can't explain it.

Maybe someone with better musical vocabulary than I can say what I mean. You may be able to hear it best in the repetitions when the female backing voices come in. One of them is singing the nuance note that is missing/underemphasized in your version.