Bill Evans, pianiste (1929-1980) Bill Evans (William Evans) is a saxophonist (tenor and soprano) of American jazz, born on February 9, 1958 in Clarendon Hills (Illinois).
Great "band". Toss Panos makes the rhythm section blossom, he is just great. Bill Evans plays monster jazz funk licks and Robben Ford is second to none. Incredible that we can just go on You Tube and within a click can hear all these great live concerts.
TOSS PANOS is a Greek-American drummer who has played or recorded with Dweezil Zappa, Sting, Steven Stills, Paul Rodgers, Michael Landau, Robben Ford, Toy Matinee, Jude Cole, Mike Keneally, John Goodsall, Steve Vai, Mark Hart, Mel Torme, Peter Himmelman, Andy Summers, Cliff Richard, Vonda Sheppard and Eric Burdon.
Ive known Robben since 78 when my buddy bassist George Hawkins Jr introduced me to him....yes he has come a long way but as you know he was always "special" Cheers
monster music....Robben is officially part of the Dick Clark People Who Never Look Older club....I saw him when he was 16 years old, his brother´s band featuring Robben opened up for Chuck Berry....they also backed Berry and when Chuck magnimously gave young Robben a solo, Robben took 2 rounds of blazing rock riffing, Berry got all bent out of shape..
Yes its surprising Chuck let someone else take the spotlight. He was difficult to work with apparently. He had a run in with Keith Richards as well. I think punches were thrown
Great tone on Robben's part, even without his beloved Dumble. I like the less compressed, slightly amp distorted tone, so much more expressive , to me anyway.
Blues is so f'n amazing... the basis for so much music, from a cheap old harmony guitar payed with the neck of a broken wine bottle to what we see here with the tones of Robben Ford and the all-out jazzerness of Bill Evans. So exciting. Thanks for posting this!
1:40 - Bob had always knew he could play, but tonight, he went onstage with just one string and became a jazz bass legend. :) Best Regards and Best Wishes!
These pin heads that say Sax doesn't belong in a Robben Ford band obviously don't know that their blues idol played with Miles Davis as a kid, so did Bill Evans who is a great sax player. Geeese get a life.
Big fan of Robbin Ford however regarding Saxophone player I'm not keen. I'm a modern jazz and blues saxophone and harp man and in this set up it can work great. Just takes a little thought process that's all, This horn player is doing what a lot of guys do when their jazzers in this setting. You can still lay a lot a line down with a good bass player that knows what he's doing BUT and its a big BUT you still have to speak in other words phrase off the line. This horn player isn't aware that his lines are going nowhere. As a result he becomes or to the average punter, it sounds dull and repetitive in the wrong context.
Pudsy440 he has very sweaty hands and it gets in the way so the silk gloves absorbs the sweat so he can play comfortable.. the gloves do not interfere with the playing nor does it harm the tone.. wish i can figure out whats that huge watch he's wearing! I want one! lol
This is really great, I was always into Robbin blue line etc but never focussed on this band before. It's Blues harp these days for me, I was a Bebop and hard Bop, and blues sax player until serious injury struck but Bills work here with Robben and the band is terrific. It holds down well and within everything, the blues is always hovering all the time. it just shows in 2020 I discover this and really dig it. Thanks for the post
What's with the red bass strings and the black gloves? Why does the "banjo" sound like a cheap keyboard? Why hasn't the YT algorithm put this great show on my feed until now?
Amazing music, and just to mention something outside the show, the camera man, or camera crew, are doing an AMAZING job! showing all aspects of techniques, great variations, and respects all players efforts and touches during the whole show! wish all video to be take this way in all great shows like this!
This is really entertaining, I like the saxophone and yes I also thought I saw Al Pacino playing drums, .. This is wonderful, thank you for the upload...
Robbens first tune solo reminds me of some of the tones and licks in Buzzy Feiten’s solo with Paul Butterfield on “Everything’s Gona Be All Right””at woodstock
Yes, the saxophonist is also Bill Evans, and if that's not weirdly coincidental enough, he also played with Miles Davis, many years after pianist Bill Evans. Not sure if he was with Miles when Robben was...they are a little different in age.
+JazzKeyboardist1 I was one of them who thought this might have been Piano Player for a couple of seconds. I thought it might have been a one off concert back in the early 70's or something. (Like a weird bootleg or something) Sax player Bill Evans will have to do something other worldly like Piano player Bill Evans to shake the Jazz world. IMHO. I'm not saying Sax Player BE is anything but an amazing Sax player but BE Piano player was in a different category all together.
The guitar player with the long hair only running up and down the blues scale sounds so frustrated and constrained. Like a toddler not quite having the vocabulary to express himself. There’s more meaningful information and expression in the saxophone between 14:19 and 14:30 than what the guitar guy manages during the whole show.
Toss Panos is a monster. I saw his a decade ago at a little club on Ventura Blvd called La Ve Lee Jazz Club. He murdered the drum! Excellent well rounded drummer. Definitely one the world's best drummers.
