From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Fly With the Wind (Tyner), McCoy Tyner Big Band Live at Jazztage, 1990
McCoy Tyner, piano; Avery Sharpe, bass; Aaron Scott, drums. Earl Garner, Eddie Henderson, Kamau Adilifu, Virgil Jones, trumpets: Clark Gayton, Frank Lacy, trombones; John Clark, French horn; Howard Johnson, tuba; Doug Harris, John Stubblefield, Junior Cook, Billy Harper, Joe Ford, saxophones; Jerry Gonzalz, percussion and trumpet.
#mccoytyner #bigbandjazz #johncoltrane #jazzpiano
Another one from the Trey Anastasio Band and their October 28th, 2022 show at the Chicago Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Here is "Roll Like A River".
Buddy Guy on guitar and vocals, and Junior Wells on harmonica and vocals performing at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. Check this out.
From their recently released 5-disc live concert set at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, in 1998, here is Phish with "Divided Sky".
From a St. Patrick's Day show at The Beacon Theater in New York, New York, here are the Allman Brothers Band and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan playing a medley of Bob Dylan's "Down Along the Cove" and The Grateful Dead's "Shakedown Street". Audio on this one is not the best, and the video uploader, if you read the YouTube description, states that clearly. A fantastic performance, nonetheless. Enjoy.
From the Blizen Festival in Belgium, in 1969, here is Humble Pie playing Dr. John's "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" featuring Steve Marriott on harmonica, guitar, and vocals, Peter Frampton on guitar, Greg Ridley on bass, and Jerry Shirley on drums. Before coming together as Humble Pie, all four members had previously worked with other bands. Marriott with The Small Faces, Peter Frampton with The Herd, Ridley with Spooky Tooth, and Shirley, of Apostolic Intervention.
Merry Christmas! Instead of a traditional Christmas song this year, a guitar instrumental of epic proportions! From their November 29th, 2022 performance in Boston, Massachusetts, here is the Tedeschi Trucks Band with the instrumental "Passaquan". Enjoy this one.
Full Concert Friday this week features Fats Domino and the Rhythm & Blues Explosion.
- "I'm walking";
- "Saturday morning";
- "Jambalaya";
- "I'm ready";
- "Let me walk you home";
- "Blueberry Hill";
- "Shake rattle & roll";
- "Oh what a price";
- "Let the four winds blow";
- "When the Saints go marching in" + "Sentimental";
- "Hello Josephine";
- "Red sails in the sunset";
- "Boogie woogie".
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Maiden Voyage (Hancock). Herbie Hancock, piano; Bobby Hutcherson, vibraphone; Ron Carter, bass and Tony Williams on drums. Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival, 1987.
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Check out The String Cheese Incident playing "Eye Know Why" at their 2022 Hulaween Halloween concert, with Afro Cuban funk band Cimafunk and their horn section. This concert is from Suwanee Hulaween in Live Oak, Florida, on September 28th, 2022.
The legendary Hal Galper Quintet
Berlin
November 4, 1977
Dig this performance. It is worth a listen. This is Michael Brecker on tenor saxophone along with the Miami Jazz Band doing a tune called "Invitation" at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, on July 16th, 1977.
Here is a bonus. A Full Concert Saturday, if you will, with The Brecker Brothers.
The Brecker Brothers
July 3, 1980
Jazzfestivalen Kristianstad/Åhus, Sweden
Stereo audio added from radio broadcast
Another Full Concert Friday this week.
From the second night of their two-night run at the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, Florida, with many guest artist appearances, this Full Concert Friday features the Allman Brothers Band, in a performance taken from the festival on April 17th, 2010. There were a few surprise guest appearances along the way. Enjoy this gig. Here's the concert information, the set list and so forth.
An organ trio is a rare band combination in this day and age. However, there are some out there that still exist featuring Hammond organ, guitar, and drums, and one such band appeared in a performance at The Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant, Tuesday night. Larry Goldings on Hammond organ, Peter Bernstein on guitar, and Bill Stewart on drums. They blended original compositions with interpretations of standards from the world of jazz particularly one notable highlight being a memorable cover of Thelonius Monk's "In Walked Bud" written as a tribute to another jazz piano great, Bud Powell. The set list at a show like this, with a trio, is secondary to the talent of the players really being able to meld together and that is what makes trio bands great.
In a trio, musicians are really able to bring space into the music as an element and allow a listener to be sent on a journey because there aren't so many instruments or so many voices that things get lost in a sea of instrumentation. The organist, so, Larry Goldings, in this case, is playing bass lines and lead phrases at the same time, thanks to the magic of the bass pedalboard common to many Hammond organs. Some have them and some don't. It is based on a player's skill level or preference whether they might learn the bass pedals. But all of that aside, Larry Goldings has to be one of the best jazz organists today, in the modern lexicon.
Goldings, Bernstein and Stewart, have been playing and recording together for 30 years and in that length of time, a band is able to form and hit a pocket for knowing how to swing, how to groove or whatever you may want to call it. They did all of this and more and the fans in attendance at The Dakota for the one show, the group played, loved it. The Hammond organ is capable of so many timbres and textures of sound through not only the player's touch on the keys, but also their ability to manipulate the drawbars that work just the same as stops on a pipe organ, and how to manipulate the speed (fast or slow) of the Leslie speaker that amplifies the organ and gives the Hammond it's distinctive tone.
Peter Bernstein on guitar had a fluidity in his playing to match Goldings' touch on the organ and also showed his clear influence by some of the other great modern jazz guitarists of this current era in a tone he was using on the instrument, his tone being his own interpretation of some other well-known jazz players that have been on the scene and in similar trio groups, but at the same time, being cultivated certainly through his work with Larry Goldings and Bill Stewart in this trio for the past three decades. As for Bill Stewart, well, he hit the pocket right off the bat being able to syncopate and swing the tunes in a way only he can.
All in all, a very entertaining evening of instrumental improvised jazz jams for the crowd who came to the Dakota to hear and witness it. Go check out yesterday's video post of the band, and you will certainly find out what I mean. A very cool gig.
Larry Goldings on Hammond organ, Peter Bernstein on guitar, and Bill Stewart on drums, performing at Jamboree Dance & Jazz Club.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack. Cantaloupe Island (Hancock) at Live Under the Sky, Tokyo, 1991 featuring Herbie Hancock, piano; Wayne Shorter, soprano saxophone; Stanley Clarke, bass and Omar Hakim on drums.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Orrin Keepnews had a close relationship with Cannonball Adderley Keepnews producing seventeen of Cannonball's best recording, including The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York, recording live at the Village Vanguard in 1962.
Today is the day, and Phish's five CD box set "The Gorge '98" from The Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington, hits the stores. Check out this track from the recording. This a medley of "Makisupa Policeman" and "Ya Mar".
On what would be Gregg Allman's 75th birthday today, December 8th, 1947.
“Will The Circle Be Unbroken” from 'All My Friends - Celebrating The Songs And Voice of Gregg Allman'.
Featuring: Brantley Gilbert, Derek Trucks, Devon Allman, Dr. John, Eric Church, Gregg Allman, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Hall, John Hiatt, Keb' Mo', Martina McBride, Pat Monahan, Robert Randolph, Sam Moore, Susan Tedeschi, Taj Mahal, The Allman Brothers Band, Trace Adkins, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes, Widespread Panic, Zac Brown #GreggAllman #WillTheCircleBeUnbroken #AllMyFriends Music video by Gregg Allman performing Will The Circle Be Unbroken. © 2022 Blackbird Production Partners, LLC. Under Exclusive License Rounder Records., Distributed by Concord. http://vevo.ly/LtLsLz
Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack, in an excerpt of an interview with jazz record producer Orrin Keepnews.
From the award-winning podcast series, Orrin Keepnews, Producer, the famed producer, who founded Riverside Records, discusses working with McCoy Tyner.
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
Trumpet Legend Roy Hargrove played a memorable concert with the WDR Big Band before his untimely passing. MIke Abene wrote the arrangements. In this episode of his "Arranger's Notebook," Mike discusses working with Roy. Here, they play Roy composition, "Bop Drop."
Joe Bonamassa on his "Tour de Force" tour at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, England, playing the Willie Dixon blues tune "I Got All You Need".
From an October 10th, 2022, concert in Bologna, Italy, here is Eric Clapton and his band playing Joe Cocker's "High Time We Went" with special guest and brilliant blues guitarist, Robben Ford, with keyboardist Paul Carrack on lead vocals. Robben Ford was Eric Clapton's opening act in Italy during the recent tour in Europe. The full band lineup is:
From Bret "Jazz Video Guy" Primack.
