Masterful quartet! Branford Marsalis has a propensity to make the most difficult compositions sound facile! I have virtually all of his cds. God bless the memory of and the stellar musicianship of the late, great Kenny Kirkland. There will never be another! Blessings to all. Thank you for posting this wonderful performance!
good lord this blew my mind. my jaw stayed dropped for the entire time. when the bass and piano dropped out i couldn't stop laughing especially with how the drums just caught on fire after that point. true mastery
Such a sweet and smooth sound it's making me fall in love with jazz again. I remember the first time I saw the documentary"Jazz Seen" and I cried it was so beautiful. I was around 16 at the time and have loved jazz ever since although I must admit I've fallen out of it slightly.
To be fair, Flanagan didn't have a chance to rehearse, at all, while Caltrain worked on it for months before the recording. Also the rumor is, Flanagan was "told" that it's supposed to be a ballad......., so when John counted it in he was naturally in a shock :)
@@MabookaMabooka This is the encore at end of the show and with Kenny's strong percussive attack the upper register needs a tuning. It didn't detract from the stellar playing, though.
He repeated a lot of licks though (he did 1235, 1235 on the first 2 chords at least 3 times). Don’t get me wrong, he was a beast and left our world far too soon. Not too many cats can cut those changes and at this tempo like he did here!
it is called DECADENCE. Let's face it: we live in MEDIOCRE times. Not saying Corey is mediocre, but if the jazz audience was small in the past, now it is pretty much invisible.
Brandford just destroyed this tune which is one of jazz most difficult songs to learn to play over ..this guy is a jedi master of the Saxaphonist john would of been very proud of the marsalis family
Amazing really but I just kind of don't like the form of the lead instrument playing only the head and playing the solo later. Rarely seems to work for me. In iconic tunes it's especially obscure. Mess with everything but not the form.
Well they were already messing with so much of the song, at that point, I'd say it's ok to mess with the form. I was thrown off guard too, but I was NOT disappointed by the piano solo (better then Tommy Flanagan jkjkjk) They were doing their own take on it and i thought that was cool
@@mr.shepherdspie7958 obviously he sounded very well. When someone refers to Kenny Kirkland as the "piano player" you know he doesn't know what he is talking about. Also, the kid probably didn't understand that Branford Marsalis created a version for Coltrane's melody. It is beyond his comprehension that a jazz musician can change some of the notes of the theme, specially when such theme is played twice.
