Emmet Cohen w/ Patrick Bartley & Bruce Harris | Little Willie Leaps 

These tunes with Harris and Bartley are great. Please get them back as many times as possible!

I will never, ever get tired of one guy picking up the last phrase of the previous soloist. Magnificent all around.

Of all the gems in The Emmett Cohen Collective's Lockdown Lexicon of Jazz, this version of Miles' bop masterpiece must rank in the top ten. It should count as one of the very best versions of "Little Willie Leaps" since it was first recorded by Miles and Bird. Just outstanding from start to finish: the concise bop piano intro provides the impetus for this inspired quintet performance a la bebop and beyond. Every solo builds, develops and swings beautifully: Bruce Harris evokes Art Farmer and early Miles with strong lines that incorporate the high intervals beloved by the Bop masters; Patrick Bartley reminded me of Gigi Gryce and Lou Donaldson with some John Handy seasoning in a singing solo of joyful saxophony, so full of feeling; Emmett Cohen dazzles again with a solo that brought to mind Bud Powell and Monk plus some George Cables-like passages; Russell "The Rock" Hall as ever maintained a deeply swinging groove throughout adding a solo reminiscent of a young Paul Chambers with some "Eastcoasting" Mingus in the tone and drive of his lines; Joe Saylor's strength of drumming nourishes the band performance, protects the groove without grandstanding or swamping the solos with just great sound on every part of his drumset. "Little Willie Leaps"? I'm jumping for joy.

Good for the ears and the soul.

Harris's faces through the solos were iconic. Loved it

This is the best of the sessions I've heard so far. So in the tradition it's tempting to put together a list of timestamps and all the different classic quotes in here. Clifford Brown, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk....

wow, best bass solo

Bartley and Harris............daaaaaayyyuuuummmmmm - so glad I’ve discovered y’all!! The rest of you cats are just playing at your same old level of AMAZING!

Bartley is phenomenal!!

Such a nice transition from the trumpet solo to the sax solo!

Pat. Your playing single handedly made me buy and learn the saxophone. I can hear the fun of playing in every note of yours. Playing pokemon tunes as standards is my new breakfasts now. Thanks man.

This performance is truly one of the baddest things I've ever heard!

storming!

This bass solo is awesome!!! I dont normaly hear bass solos that amaze me but... (,:

These guys are kick ass

3:32 bird lives !

This is why we call it "Playing"!

Sempre in gambA!!!!!ci date vita e vigore di cui abbiamo veramente bisogno!grazie

MY BOIS PATRICK AND RUSSELL YEAAA! Always love when they're in the same group. Russ is killer Bass. Pat always brightens any band he's in, dude is just a sax icon hahaha

Have to admit I'm on about of a session and this just makes it a whole lot better!

Russell Hall!

Loved the mayreh quote, all gods children is such a nice tune to listen to.

Patrick Bartley quoting Bird's Embraceable You. Nice.

4:11 !Quote

wow !!! Good!!!!!

this is amazing

Great rendition of Miles and Parker version (Parker on tenor btw).

Outstanding ✨⭐️✨

Awesome

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.........

BeBop lives

👍

4:05

i think Harris should use more wide range. Sometimes he can's find the new ways and materials.

Wow🤣omg, yeah 😅🤣

My mans is dressed like Andre 3k

Nah.

Without partitions, the tunes, not obvious, and the chords changes, not obvious too. Not a real standart.