Branford Marsalis - Giant Steps - 8/26/1987 - Newport Jazz Festival (Official) 

RIP Kenny Kirkland, the world was robbed of a jazz genius with your passing

For those interested, I've transcribed the piano solo and I will put a video up in a little while

I still think Kenny does the most melodic improv on this tricky tune of any other pianist I've heard ....miss his great playing .....R.I.P.

Mr. Branford Marsalis plays one of the greatest giant solos over this composition . He's an unsung hero in the jazz industry in my opinion.

I met Branford a few years back at the afterparty to his show he did in New Zealand a few years back. He was the nicest, coolest, friendliest guy I've ever met, and got me to go and hang out with the band for most of the night. It was such a great night. In person, Branford is hip as fuck.

Branford's "what happened," at 3:28 is hip as fuck.

If you play this at 1.25 speed, it gets close to the tempo of the original recording.

Kenny Kirklands' solo is one of the best I have ever heard on this tune... so melodic, so swinging, just hiply breezing over the changes like it's nothing

One of the most melodic versions I've heard on sax, wow. You can tell his understanding of the changes and available notes is rock solid.

Branford's Air Jordan 2's are hip as fuck.

Kenny Kirkland is just Killing !!!

Best solo by Kenny and branford . Jazzlife forever

RIP Kenny Kirkland. You are still....hip as fuck.

Kenny Kirkland's groove is amazing!

Lewis Nash has such an incredible feel. Like no other

I knew Kenny while at Manhattan School of Music in 1973-74, at a time when he was learning Giant Steps. He worked very diligently on the tune, and blossomed over time. Such a sweet guy, and his hard work really paid off.

31 years ago and still better than most today

they way that this is still cool today is hip as fuck

Giant Steps?? ....pffff piece of cake

The 12 mf'ers who gave this a thumbs down are NOT hip af.

The bokeh and then zoom out the camera does revealing the crowd and ocean at 5:26 is hip af

Branford a Master musician and saxophonist, not to mention Kirkland who is just brilliant.

DAMN the action on that bass is higher than a modern day rapper and he’s still making it look and sound so easy!?

Branford thumbs up at 3:48, so I think when he said, “What happened?” just before that he was talking to the sound guys.

The way he plays the head is hip as fuck.

Kenny Kirkland, RiP. Delbert Felix and Lewis Nash really carrying it. Branford Marsalis, saxophone. John Coltrane, writer.

Aside from the fab music, seeing the crowd reflected in Branford’s sunglasses is a great visual.

this cat never runs out of ideas! Fantastic performance, cool arrangement!

I heard the great Kenny Kirkland play Giant Steps with Branford and Kenny Garrett and KK always played the most refreshing balanced solo. I miss Kenny Kirkland, John Hicks, Ronnie Mathews...great piano players on the NYC jazz scene

Long live the great Kenny Kirkland

Tasty playing from everyone!!!!!

Robertgee..Kenny Kirkland was a great player...RIP

Those sunglasses are hip as fuck.

I was at this performance. .it was a great afternoon. .Dizzy’s big band ,and George Benson played after Branford. .and killed..

you wouldnt think this a difficult tune to impro over the way these guys deal with it!

Kenny Kirkland was so brilliant soooo brilliant.

This piano solo❤

Greatest version of GS, HAF performance

❤Kenny! Your hands are dancing!❤

The Great Kenny Kirkland - Master!

Apart from every aspect of that video being hip as fuck (which made my day btw), did anybody see that Branford wasn't happy with the backing chords during the first part of his solo? I think he wanted to improvise on these altered chords he invented for the theme, which I like very much. He looks to the rhythm section and says: "What happens?" @ 3:25 , if my lip reading skills don't fail me. He looks again at 3:43, so something is going wrong there. I don't agree that the Marsalis family is playing without the heart. I especially love Branford on the soprano sax, and I have heard Winton playing wonderful ballads with his incredible trumpet sound.

J'adore cette pianiste

all around: tight

Watching in 2017 and it's still hip as fuck

the action on that bass is so high you can see him through the strings! ha

To this day my favourite concert was Branford and Kenny in the mid 80s at Bumbershoot in Seattle.

Giant Steps is a brain song, better than sudoku or chess .I play that song every morning to wake up my brain,practicing in many ways ,one is, remember the chords and substitutes and improvising all over the backing track, the other way is feeling the chords and improvising over.

I met him at Mariners game he's cool very warm very hip one of the times I wasn't disappointed by those I respect.

Those shades...hip AF.

Wildly creative lines

Very good, not rushed. You need not be fast to be good. Savour it.

sick ass dancing in the background starts at 5:12

The weather on that day is hip as fuck.

I am 57 and if I fuck too much I tend to fuck my hip.I once saw Django B ates play this and he went up a semitone after every chorus.The bass player looked at him and said fuck that and fuck you.We all shared a house and the bass player forgot to wash up so that was his punishment.Nice touch though.

Kenny Kirkland!!!!! man

Not bad made it his own... very good example to take something Great and put your own twist on it.

TOP CLASS MUSICIANS

Branford is amazing! And he is cool!

Listening to this, all I can think is Kenny was READY

Branford's socks are hip as fuck.

Felix on 6:00 is like - oh here he goes again..let`s go get some walk

Kenny one of my fav!!!!

Guy in shorts dancing at 5:15 is hip as fuck.

Personnel: Branford Marsalis - tenor sax, soprano sax Kenny Kirkland - piano Delbert Felix - bass Lewis Nash - drums

killer track

Great.

he took it and remade it well

Bravo!!!

Is Marsalis pretending that they have had mistakes? 'Cause if he is, then that's just amazing.

I'm not hearing the drummer's high-hat. With all the mics used on drums these days, don't engineers know enough to put one on the high-hat? All a drummer needs is an athletic left foot, one that never misses an offbeat. Branford is refreshingly melodic. He doesn't "overplay," like some guys trying to prove they're Roland Kirk reincarnated. He's playing the same carefully phrased melodic lines even when the piano lays out. I may have been in awe the first time I heard Trane's cadenza on "I Don't Want to Talk About You" (the later Birdland '63 album more than the earlier one with Red Garland). But having admired its sheer brilliance (the same for Getz's incredible solo on "Shine"), I don't need to listen to it every day. Hank Mobley and Tina Brooks are the players who never wear out their welcome. And returning to the digital version of "Ellington at Newport '56", it's clearer than ever why the most famous solo in Newport history is Paul Gonsalves' 28 choruses on "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue." The band came on 5 hours late, after midnight, but what transpired was timeless. Paul stays right in the groove, listening to himself, making minimal changes with each chorus--and Duke's piano accompaniment pushes him to play like a man on a mission (which he was--as was Duke's band--being written off as academic and unswinging--not after this night).

BURNIN!!!!

Delbert!

wow

どうにも懐かしい。♡

Pure jaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzz.

3:26 did he say "what happened?"

Flat 5th or sharp 11th? I ain't asking

Does anybody know what shades Branford is wearing? They're hip as fuck.

Holy fuck, that head out🙌🏼

Do you see how they feel it? Its insane!

Branford Marsalis Quartet play Giant Steps in 1987 Newport Jazz Festival Official 268,296 + 72 views since September 23, 2014 Jazz on MV 87.6K subscribers More Branford Marsalis at Music Vault: www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault on RU-vid: goo.gl/DUzpUF Personnel: Branford Marsalis (tenor and soprano sax), Kenny Kirkland (piano), Delbert Felix (bass), Lewis Nash (drums)

He ate Giant Steps.

guys take off ur sun glasses when u walk on a stage pls hahaha

nomercy

Apollo Creed on bass!

Truth

Jay Leno's original band leader. Like Hendrix playing in a bar band.

wow! i didn't even know wynton had a brother... turns out he has a few!

A test piece for modern jazz players.Donna Lee is the test piece for bebop players.

Hey guys! You need listen this shit in X1.25! Trust me.

The lick 3:49

さすがにうまい🍴😆✨。

arrasou

"What happened?"

This reharm is hip as fuck.

Wow...I never saw the phrase "hip as f..." used so many times as in these comments. Is that hip??? Sometimes hipness is what ain't...

いやいやいい音してる。😃🎵😘

little faster lollipops

Isn't it that famous screaming sheep @ 0:03 ?

恐ろしい曲だ。誰が演奏してもコルトレーンのようにしかならない。