At Northeastern in Boston, I took a couple of lessons from lan at Berklee. I thought Buddy Rich had fast hand, but Alan was exceptional. What a great person!!! @@thekeygod9810
The world was so different then, Sonny had been a beacon of jazz genius and integrity for a decade, and along with Coltrane gave us all enough so that we should be still digesting and admiring his gifts even now (in 2020). THIS IS HIGH ART.
Such a fun, spirited, spiritual, swinging and exciting period for Newk. So fortunate to have theses videos- ty for upload, snd whomever had the foresight to- record them!
@@thekeygod9810 Most certainly. My pleasure. 1) CHRIS BARBER...Le Martinique. 2) BUNNY BERRIGAN...Can't get started with you. 3) STAN GETZ...Desifinado. 4) SAINT LOUIS BLUES MARCH...Perfidia... 5) KEN COLYER...Postman's lament. Hope you enjoy, Kind regards to you.
@@thekeygod9810 -Thank you so much for your courteous reply. If you enjoy them, I will happily recommend some more, but, please remember, "one man's meat is another ones poison". Regards.
So wonderful to see Alan Dawson in action. There is not a lot of video of this great drummer. Of course, the whole video is a joy. I don’t understand these people who go around hitting the thumbs down on great performances like this.
I highly recommend Alan Dawson playing Take Five with Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan in Berlin in 1972. He substitutes for Joe Morello and does a magnificent solo - see ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1tbSyrmXo60.html.
Remember my Dad (who was a drummer and public school band director for years) coming back from a summer camp with his older students. Telling me all about Alan Dawson. This would have been in the late 1960's or early 70's. My dream was to get to Boston area to study with him when I got older, alas was not meant to be....I studied his approach to the kit as much as I could. Even thou I never got to met him in person, he had a very big influence on my playing.
Sonny's improvisatory explorations are beyond genius....he is more spontaneous and free and yet he is also one of the few masters like Monk who never abandoned the melody during his solos. Sonny took tunes like this and especially the tune "Three Little Words" and played them more times than anyone who ever lived and yet, he displays fresh new ideas each time no matter how many times he has played that song. An absolute improvisational master and saxophone giant. (A colossal one). Of course, Alan Dawson and N.H.O.P. are both masters and are truly amazing as Sonny's accompanists. Alan is way too underrated in the music world.
The Danish bass player, NHØP (Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen), was 19 years old when this was recorded in the concert hall of the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen (Denmark). The drummer is Alan Dawson. As far as I know, the three men had not even had a rehearsal.
Sounded to me like nhop went into his walking out of his solo kind of early, maybe feeling the pressure to create. Nice how Sonny started adding some background tones to flesh it out out a bit. NHOP solid though young.
He plays good, but, sorry, not that level of those legends. He shouldn't be alowed to play with masters just because of mutherfucking rules of fucking TV.
Getting a chance to play with more experienced colleagues helps young talents mature, and Mr. Rollins’ decision to give the 19 year old a chance at his Copenhagen concert was not influenced by the TV broadcaster. Dexter Gordon spoke highly of NHØP in letters he wrote to friends at the time, and Ben Webster and Bud Powell also said they enjoyed working with the teenager. However, I do not have the time to look up those texts right now - so suffice to quote what Oscar Peterson wrote about a more mature NHØP in his 2002 autobiography, A Jazz Odyssey: “Niels Pedersen is the type of player whose talents on his instrument are such that he is almost unaware of what he does. His virtuosity on the bass surpasses anyone else that I have known. His melodic sense is impeccable, his choice of harmonic sequences is a pure delight to play with, and his time is flawless … He is now arguably the most inventive bassist in jazz.” When given a choice, pianists as different as George Shearing and Michel Petrucciani also asked for NHØP to accompany them. And, by the way, on top of his facility on bass NHØP, an autodidact, was a decent human being, tolerant & appreciative of others, firm but polite, highly intelligent, and quite erudite (particularly in the field of history).
Listen to Dawson's bass drum especially during the solo! Amazingly powerful and dynamically smooth and Beautiful. The doubles between the r foot n' snare Tom's (sometimes HH)
Awesome playing all around. Sonny was at the height of his creativity here, NHOP's solo is fantastic as is Alan Dawson's. I don't know why he never got his due because he was a true master.
I would say Sonny was at his best in the late-Fifties, but still very good in '65. Dawson is on a ton of recording sessions, so he is pretty well known.
Why share this thought? If you didn't like it, move on. We don't need to know that John Bresnik wanted to hear a piano to make this "work". It works just fine without you.
Quite superb. 3 extremely talented musicians who gelled brilliantly. I have been a jazz lover all my life and really do appreciate this. Thank you so much. Have bookmarked this for regular future visits.
I love these kind of trio's horn bass n' drums. Sonny and Allan are in state of pure Zen. So relaxed and powerful. The Bass is nasty. Sonny really stretches out without a piano. Man he blew me away on this performance. In the moment improvisation at it's best! He's still here and boping!😎
yeah I mean I can HEAR the changes in everything they play, that's what separates the men from the boys in jazz. I'm a pianist and saxophonist and the lack of a chordal instrument is what makes this amazing to me, they improv over every change, never play the head once and if you know the song you can hear it all. nothing but greatness.
Brother Bresnik would appear to have a rather pedestrian mind. What's the matter? Can't figure out where the chords are? Doesn't seem to inhibit Sonny or NHOP or drummer Dawson in the least.
5:52 Sonny quotes "Them There Eyes" Simply incredible communication through the horn; during the trading with Alan he's literally taking the figures he's playing and translating it on the saxophone
These guys make it all seem so easy. Surely, even non jazz fans could hardly fail to nbe impressed by such talent. Have bookmarked this and pplay it regularly. Aren't we lucky to have in whenever we need a little real music. Regards from England.
There used to be a great concert he did with Brubeck where he played a maraca in his right hand instead of a drumstick as a ride on the hi hat and across the set. That was brilliant. That should be up on RU-vid. Peace, Mike. He was a player-not just a teacher.
He did stuff like that on his records too, at least moving around with the bell, and it creates a sort of "phasing" effect. Always loved that. Joe Henderson got that too sometimes.
First time I heard A longer solo from Alan Dawson. Wow. Really kept the overall theme going, while playing interesting variations, swinging hard, with super smooth chops and an obvious economy of motion around the set. No wonder the Bigs sought him out as a teacher.
