@@markbridwell8972 Are you that fucking sensitive that you must reply to a 7 year old comment about their vocabulary? Valuable contribution to the thread right here
Kenny is just incredible, his sound is just fantastic, the saxophone section is actually one of the best ever..... Just listen to the sound with only one chord they just blow your mind...... I'm gonna transcribe Kenny's solo!
2nd from the right in trumpet section is a friend of mine from NJ - Joe Mosello. We played in several big bands together. He also played in Maynard's band. He's a great player.
I got a John Mosca story… In the mid 80’s I used to go to Barry Harris’s group lessons at the Jazz Cultural Theatre in Manhattan. It would be 6 to 10 horn players on different wind instruments and Barry would compose a bop tune on the spot by singing 2 bars at a time and the group would have to play back what he just sang. Each time Barry added 2 more bars, we replayed his tune from the beginning and then just added the next 2 bars he just sang. And they were real bop lines man! We’re about 40 mins into a lesson one day and John Mosca walks in, sits down, apologies for being late so Barry says, “I’ll tell where we’re up to”. Barry then sang the head 2 bars at a time, John played back each 2 bars that Barry sang without repeating the beginning each time. In less than 60 seconds, John had the head memorized and was playing it better than virtually everyone in the room who’ve been sitting there for the last 40 minutes. It was so impressive how quickly Mosca learned the tune, I was absolutely astounded. One of the beautiful things about jazz is you’re always standing on the shoulders of giants. But on that day I realised one of those jazz giants was sitting in the chair next to me, and his name was John Mosca.
SO nice to see this. I had it on VHS many years ago when I was playing sax. Hung up the horn 3 years ago, but seeing this again has whet my appetite. Kenny Garrett's alto solo is nothing short of perfect in this tune. Truly inspirational. I recommend any young sax players wanting to learn how to build a solo in a big band scenario they watch this time and time again! Fantastic!
OK- an old memory- WYRS out of Stamford Connecticut, before they became WJAZ and then went away- I always remember this song as their station break theme music. Maybe even this version- but quite some time ago. I listened to them when I was in college- 1982-1986
Mel's harmonic ear was simply genius. To be able to hear and write these heavenly charts are things us mere humans can only imagine writing. Also, much respect to Herbie for birthing this great tune.
Kenny Garret's resume was impressive before he was 30. I mean, he played with Duke's band, Mel Lewis's group and Miles. How many of us can say they've done something comparable before the age of 30?
Tout le disque enregistré à Montreux en 80 sur des thèmes de Herbie Hancock, orchestré par bob Mintzer est une pure splendeur. Écoutez particulièrement "Speak like a child"; un ravissement.
holy crap. Talk about a collection of influential sax players. Has there ever been this caliber of grouping of sax players before they influenced the sax world like this. You have arguably the most influential alto and tenor player of the last 30 years and then Dick for lead alto playing and Smulyan for bari players. Just wow.
Que se puede decir del jazz; se ha dicho todo o casi; los grandes generos del siglo XX; nacieron en America; el tango; el bolero; la rumba y el son; el samba; candombe; conga etc etc etc; el blues y el buen rock n roll; America crisol de razas ha dado estas maravillas; a cuidarlas y desarrollarlas.
Cannonball, Woods, Garrett, Oatts. I really cannot think of any other alto players who carry the individual, unique intensity any of these 4 do with their pure sound alone.
It's a Herbie Hancock composition that originally came out on his "Maiden Voyage" LP in quintet form in 1965. It's a great track but of course not a big band number. It's on YT.
Mel was one of the very best of the big band drummers (and was great with small groups), but he was neither a composer or arranger. The trombone soloist is John Mosca, who has been on the band for many years and has fronted it since Mel died. The pianist is Jim McNeely, who has done a lot of writing for the band. I don't recognize Lovano on this band.
first heard of McNeely when he was part of Ted Curson's group @ a Newport J F performance, early 80's. Terry Gibbs tagged Mel to be drummer on his early big band groups too. Before the "Dreamband" - ie. "Launching A New Sound in Music" - what a great group. Mercury records.
And the "best" car is still the Model A! Fact is, though, that neither of those guys grew up in the pop and post-bop culture that Garrett did, so can't bring his hipper sound and rhythmic ideas to the playground. It's like stating that Biederbeck must be honored first and foremost when Brecker is standing in front of you.
There's a record Mel Lewis Plays the Music of Herbie Hancock. On the album, it's actually Dick Oatts. the album was recorded at Montreaux. GREAT record and it's on iTunes now. was out of print for a LONG time
@@cymbaljunkie You're right....and I finally figured out how I screwed up on that one. I always used to think it was Kenny (that sound and inflection), then I made the mistake of convincing myself this was a video version of the "Compositions of Herbie Hancock - Live at Montreaux" album from 1982. When you look at the credits for "Live at Montreaux", the altos are Dick Oatts and Steve Coleman. They credit Dick with the solo, but it's clearly not him soloing in this vid, so I figured it had to be Steve. But this vid is just a separate live recording from the same time period.
+Benny Brewer Thank you, Benny; I wish that they, as physical human beings, will never go - if it were possible. The Mel Lewis Big Band Jazz Orchestra to which I have really made reference, is it still active as a Unit with that great sound? I have recently seen a couple of active players from the MLJazz Orchestra leading their individual 'tet.
Yeah they still play at the Village Vanguard every week, they're called the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra now, but it's the same band. A few of the players in this video are still in it too. One of the trombone players is I know, not sure about the others.
+Benny Brewer Thanks again, my friend. I have therefore been happily hearing the group on a couple of occasions without realizing that it has been principally a name change.
