Ari Hoenig Quartet - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise 

So much sublime brilliance in this video... from the depth of interaction to the unabashed daring group interplay to the risk-taking story-telling narratives on display. AND -- Tivon is no joke. Beautiful -- thanks for posting Jonah!

What a great performance!

Jean-Michel Pilc is one of the craziest pianists ive ever heard! And self taught!

love this... true risk takers

i notice something new every time i rewatch this i love it

That was the best first two choruses to a drums solo I EVER HEARD

That left ride when crashed, sounds like an active volcano spitting out lava

Ari is out of this world... and a genius, but, he really is the Joe Cocker of jazz drumming...

Brilliant, beautiful deconstruction of a tune that's been played gazillions of times. Technically, musically, tonally and improvisationally fascinating. Listen once and move on.

I like this. These young conservatory trained guys have chops and haven't played many general business gigs because they don't exist anymore. So they just take rhythms and harmonies way out there because it's fun and they can. I don't knock this at all like the guy a little further down on the thread did. It's just music!

Dude Tivon is NUTS! Sounds dope, so fresh and rhythmically active, but still so melodic and free... agh young lion!!!

amazing, great rendition of a timeless standard.

Stunning!

Just awesome !!!!!!

i love it!

Mind Blowing

Pennicott's run at 4:42 is stunning

super coooolll!!!!!!!! 最高！

The jazzers have made crazy things with this standard....for decades ! . My standar of the standard is Abbey Lincoln version.

Awesome!!!

Éste chico Ari, llegó al Olimpo de la batería, allí lo reciben, Morgan Agren y Hubb Hansen. Definitivamente este tipo se le tiene respeto, está en otro nivel.

j'adore !

great sound! :')

wonderful solo

Thanks for this video, great stuff. Nice camera as well. Ari's groups always kill it !

Amazing. Wouaou

This is some next level shit…. Damn.

outstanding!

TIVON!!! We played some stuff like two years ago. You killin it!!! amazing video. I gotta get in touch with these guys more.

Muito bom... Vary good!!!

synchronized to my heart !

your welcome

Thanks man

gaaaah i love this so much

killin!!

softly as in a morning supernova

Lords of time

GREAT shot or shoot I dont know what is the exactly word but,, you know. Smalls at first seat! really great. Greetings from Chile

top top top fantastic

my braaaaaiinnnnn

WOoooo! Nice quote (almost, but rhythmically exact) of "A Night In Tunisia" at 01:05!

dude..... Ari @ 10:50 - 11:00.... so awesome.

thank you jonahjonathan, very nice upload

so swingin!

AABA, 4/4. Won't sound like it at first, but it is. They don't have cues written into the music, but they cue the audience once in a while, which is nice!

Your welcome..stay tuned for more from this concert

crazy man ！

wooooooohhhhhhh

Wow

balsam for the ears, top

Thanks Jonah Jonathan!

That break at 10:50 !!!

Pretencious! Bad.Less,less.(The song is so beautiful).

They vamp in the beginning and the end, but from 2:22 onward it's just the regular form, 4/4 AABA

Holy fuck this hops

кайф !!!

Cool Men !!!

Am I hearing a lot of A Night in Tunisia?

Que rico!

Softly as in a morning sunrise huh...

great timing to the person who opened a can at 0:30

Ari reminds me of Jon Grudden. The Chucky expressions are great./

7:28 jean michel pilc solo

3:02 Bassplayer: "let´s walk this shit!" 3:10 "Hey guys, what are you up to?!"

4:08 Now's the time

so who is in the band? Besides Ari and Tivon.

Is this the 125St. Smalls?

gosh people ! do you know why is billies bounce by ari hoenig from smalls not available anymore? I wanted to listen to it after long time and I cannot find it! :((((

canon mark d2 i suppose? :)

Man.

Taking a leaf out of Jeff Hamilton's book - Now's The Time quote at 4:09

10:50 so cheeky lmao

Db Lyn +

nice piece of tape man. those cats can play.

JMP is really out of space

what's the form of this tune? can't figure it out! i think i'd appreciate it more if i knew!

10:40 - 11:00 ... my god.

The buildup to 6:10..... unbelievable.

The bartender's cleaning up at first then way digs the thing at around like 7 minutes.

This is very impressive yet I remember Art Blakey saying "Soloing and playing music is about telling a story".

No vibration for Pilc's playing . I much prefer Eden Ladin on that fabulous version of Billie's bounce ( Hoenig 5tet Live at Smalls too)

Mmjgh

22 people that dont know how to listen music.

does anybody know what the fuck happened to the form?

Oh man, I don't know. I'm just not a believer. I've watched dozens of Hoenig vids on the recommendation of friends, and I just don't feel it. Maybe if I heard Mr. Hoenig live, maybe if I were there, I'd dig it more. But this just leaves me cold. It's a lot of technique with absolutely no musical center at all. They all sound like they're reaching for something profound but not getting there. In other words, it sounds like really well executed bullshit. Worse, it's all stuff we've heard before and done much better by Coltrane, Tristano, Monk, Haynes, etc, etc, etc. Someone earlier mentioned "conservatory trained", and that's what I think the issue is for me. NONE of these guys have any identity whatsoever. Or interesting ideas. Or the ability to interact with each other in any meaningful way. Anyway, not a fan.