This quartet consisting of John Patitucci, Gary Novak and Bob Berg (RIP) is one of Chick Corea's best acoustic projects ever and perhaps his most underrated band of all time. Everyone here is a stellar musician in their own right and a master of their respective instrument and they bring a hard edge to their playing and unmatched virtuosity to the music. This amazing all star band sadly only made one album called Time Warp which is one of my favourites and one of the many hidden gems in Corea's long extensive catalogue, i highly recommend you check it out.
Yes- absolutely. I recently watched a video with Gary Novak, and he said this was his favourite tour with Chick as apart from a very skeletal theme/intro all of the pieces were completely improvised.
Umbeliavable...I'm feelin somehov dizzyness, like when you are high, and not sure if "things" are happenin' fast or slow...unexpectable combination, and patterns...that repetitive one on 7:20...like remembering Miles period... Happy that Chick heard all that stuf in his inner ear, and finaly gave that gold to the people. Gys we are so lucky... Goin back to listen..❤
That's Gary Novak, he ended up leaving the band because Alanis Moressette called and he became her drummer. He was great in that band too. Love that drummer !
What an incredible performance. The solos by the entire squad were incredible. I especially love how complementary Chick is when Gary (or Dave Weikle) are soloing.. He provides just the right canvas (or vamping) to lift up solo. He was a true genius
ROb glad to see a familiar face commenting on top Chick at a time like this. RIP to him and Mr. Berg. This is Jon, google got confused for some reason and wont let me take back my google account
Gary sounds great (as he always does) but this is a typical video where the drums are way too low in the mix. When will the people who mix music videos start getting a clue? The formula is simple: everyone should be heard clearly, not with anyone off in the distance. Most often it's the drums that get mixed incorrectly That being said I still enjoyed it tremendously.
As much as I love Gary Novaks playing, it seems to me he is actually playing very loud. Maybe a little too loud... Yes, it's also a mixing issue, but based on the type of sound of the drums, I would say the drum sound is leaking a lot into other mics (hence the roomy drum sound) implying that there are simply a lot of decibels flying around :)
Most of my best solos comes from the moment i fuck up the head of the tune. After i do, i try to go into kill mode like berg did with lithia. Too wholesome to handle.
I dont really get all fawning over for Novak -- he's a great drummer but typical fusion approach to swing which is too heavy handed and not enough dynamics cuz everything is dialed up to 10. Brian Blade brings more to the table for Chick these days
I actually think he's irritating the crap out of Chick. Sure, great drummer, but after a while, there is so much going on, it's desensitising. Chick's the greatest when Roy Haynes is sitting behind the drums. And if we are going to go the fusion route, well.....Steve Gadd.
@@Piratebreadstick So where was Weckyl here . He ,was playing w/ Chick alot then . I think You guys have bad hearing at times. This guy is fast ,yes but not a complete package ..He's good but I've heard dozens like Him ...
You can always tell when the soloist gets stuck. They'll play the same god-damned riff over and over and over and over while they are trying to find a suitable way out of the loop they got into. Jazz is weird. You have to be exceedingly good at playing exceedingly badly. And that is what jazz is....playing everything wrong and somehow making it sound like music. Especially those god-awful upright bass solos. They sound like the house pet strangling themselves to death. I have love/hate relationship with jazz. BTW, Wekl>Novak
