The way Bill Evans just comes to the fore, wanting to solo, and then at 9:36 drummer Steve Smith looks at Stern and nods "why not",...that shit is beautiful. The whole band just holds it down when Evans is playing , and the song grows into a big finish. Beautiful, i feel this live version every single time!! THIS is why im into music! Music flies above all our bullshit in this world, all of it.
Steve Smith is phenomenal in his melding, blending and boosting or retiring of the bottom line. Bill Evans covers so many bases it’s huge, Stern is up there with the great guitarists, composers and arrangers living. Richard Bona brings it all together with beautiful playing and a voice of angels AND a creative spirit w/playfulness unparalleled in one package. Eee Gods. Thanks for the performance and the Upload shared.
Is there anything better than a beautiful melody? Written or improvised. Voice or guitar or vibes or bass or drums. The spirit of Wishing Well delights the audience. Sure, we marvel at great musicians like this incredibly talented band playing anything. But the listening experience reaches its fullest when there's a great composition for the virtuoso(s) to play.
15:55. On NPR I heard that when Richard Bona was a little kid he climbed through the window of a bikeshop in his homeland of Cameroon to get bicycle cables to make his own bass....out of bike cables!......this is what that determination sounds like decades later. Commitment level 9000.
There is very little I can listen to over and over again. Too many notes, or just not my piece of the pie, but this is it. My heart on a platter, no walls, all is good. Because I said so.
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When the vibes come in on the melody-OMG.... Such a deeply beautiful thing. And then the song blooms and grows and expands.
World class virtuoso's who listen to each-other. I have had the pleasure to listen to Mike and Richard play together about 6 feet away. My only criticism is that I wish Mike would sing more because he has a great voice and could hold his own vocally with Richard who is a great.
le meilleur de ce que la musique international peu produire quel plaisir !!! quelle musicalitée.... quels talents.. et le message est sublime! merci a ces musiciens qui nous rappellent que la musique se joue des frontieres baties par les hommes,et est sans limites, les personnes se rejoignent dans la memes couleurs" musicale et humaine" ce sont en plus des musiciens que j'adore depuis longtemps ..Sublime!!! a l'interieur nous avons tous la meme couleur le rouge qui est symbole d'amour!
like stern because he's a great composer , never boring ! some great guitarists they make albums just for guitarist , any name lol ? stern make music very pleasant to hear even if its great music hard to play !
Wonderful to have so different charakters unique in one band. Wish, Trumps, Putins, Orbans and Kims could find any harmony... even 0.1% would be great for the world. what we can see and hear here, is 110%, timing, intonation, lines, construction, I can learn so much from this! Personal thanks to my favourite Bill Evans. Must be like in heaven to listen live to that concert!!
and he is a very natural and friendly person he was in austria ,st pölten it was soooooo great he talked with us and i have a pic mike and me , so great i love him and his looking and behaviour is very young and powerful
Grande Richard Bona, non sapevo cantasse così bene. Mike Stern ha bisogno di questi genii nella sua Band. (anche se gli SA sono una Band a se stante). Richard Bona mi fa pensare quanto sia aperto mentalmente per fare questi skat: come di consueto in questa tecnica, non dice una parola sensata, ma sembrano poesie.
what do call that snare figure w/ brushes? when he sings the melody widens out touches everywhere. for chills and thrills..on par with metheney's nicest melodies.. 8:30 the band listening so well playing the rhythm and the band playing each other
Drummer is the leader of fusion band Vital Information, and is the prototype rocker/jazzer fusion master: ex and again current member of Journey; also played with Ronnie Montrose; & Jean Luc Pony - this is stickman Steve Smith.
Sorry, but Richard Bona is an over playing nightmare. He plays like he's starved for attention. Don't get me wrong, he's an amazing talent. He plays like a kid w/ chops on bass without much taste.
Nah... you're wrong. LIke Jaco, he plays a lot and it all makes sense. There area a lot of apologists who think any bass player that plays more than 8th notes is playing too much.... nah, you're wrong.
To be fair he does play his trademark runs a little bit too often... not too much vocabulary just great technique. Although I do still enjoy most of his playing.
