Vinnie Colaiuta: "Actual Proof" - Full Piece  

Vinnie is number 1 for me. Super technical sight reader that can play virtually anything, but never overplays the parts. He blends in to exactly what the piece requires. Genius talent with a humble degree of control.

I sometimes forget how much of an absolute beast Nathan East is!

No better drummer ever in music history. So disciplined and a practiced, absolute master!

Vinnie in full Tony Williams mode, while being himself. #GOAT

G’damn, Vinnie!! GOATest of all time.

👍🙂‼️Nathan East is KILLING IT!!!!!!! Vinnie, too!!!!!!

What a great mixture of iconic Jazz Fusion musicians here...

Herbie Hancock is a beast on keys!!! Nathan East is a master bass player!! That guitarist was awesome!! Vinnie is off the hook!!! A drummer’s drummer!!!

Ironic how so many Zappa discovered drummers were later hired by so many musicians who wouldn't give Zappa his due. Vinny is still the beasts of beasts. No one near him.

Vinnie and weckl are seconds to none! True legends!

The 2 marks of this genius are: 1. I have heard this track a billion times, and in every single version it is different, the same, original and a new take on an old master, and 2. Dammit - the VERY first chord when he solos - you just KNOW that it is Herbert Jeffrey Hancock. Nobody used chords and inflexion like him. Its been an honour to have him in my life for 50 years so far! And Vinnie just keeps pumping through every change - even with one hand when he loses a stick!! THIS - ladies and gentlemen - IS CLASS!

Stellar group. Vinnie is about the most tasteful drummers and refined, his work with Sting was also awesome. He's the Swiss Army knife of Drums.

After fifty years, I'm pretty much bored with solos. But Mr. VC has my full on attention. What a marvelous talent and a fantastic human being.

Four outstanding musicians!

I never tire from watching this performance

Vinnie has devoted his entire life to mastering his craft. An inspiration. We become what we devote our attention and effort to. It's not just talent. It's relentless focus and WORK!

been watching vinnie videos for twenty years and he still blows my mind.

Great drumming, that's realy unbelievable how fast and transparent he plays.

Those Gadd licks at 6:45 are epic!

I listened to Mike Clark's original from the 'Thrust' album. Clark's ability to groove over individual pieces of the drum kit was unmatched. I was fortunate enough to see that group play 'Actual Proof' live in concert... truly amazing. This version shows off Vinnie Colaiuta's ability to both cover and complement Clark's work.

Well the Great monster is Hancock, Vinnie and Nathan the highest level in performance. Monster assemble.

Vinnie is what drumming in this century is all about everyone from the late Jeff beck to Herbie Hancock all sound their best with a guy like Vinnie he is modern day drumming. Excellent 👌

Who is the best drummer of all time? Depends on who you ask but if you don't put Vinnie in the top 10 your wrong.

More video of Vinnie! Inquiring drummers want to know!!!

Vinnies understanding of music and his style are just fantastic!

Thrust is such an excellent album, and timeless as you can hear. It's hard to believe that this track is half a century old. If you don't have it on vinyl or cd, then you need to start clicking some buttons!

It’s like a more intense version of Oakland Stroke with another layer of Jazz Fusion-simply Devine!

Vinnie is unreal! I've been playing 45yrs and he still makes my jaw drop!! Amazing!!

These guys, right here, are absolute masters of their craft: every last one of them, absolute legends. The amount of years of just the highest level of performance on that stage is immense. That being said, I personally don't find a whole lot of "new" when it comes to jazz fusion as a idiom - almost like it's been explored as much as it can be by these immense talents. As a result, while I still enjoy the occasional performance in this genre, I've found myself gravitating toward the music of Jojo Mayer's band Nerve --which is just a completely different sound and derrives from a completely different space altogether. For me, personally, what Jojo Mayer's band is doing now is what I imagine people listening to Ornette Coleman's "The Shape of Jazz to Come" in 1959 must have felt when they heard that album, and I don't make that comparison lightly - *at all* .

The bass player that plays with Clapton is also off the charts

Incredible! Vinnie drops a stick and doesn’t miss a beat. Wow.

Just Insane band.Inspiring musical madness.

Nathan……..just what?!!!! Look this bad ass up and listen to everything…..Vinnie too! 😮🙌🙌😵‍💫❤️❤️

I picture myself at a club and this is playing on stage, just listening to this on Utube brought it so close but being there would of been so transcendent. In my head resounded a permanent WOW!!!!!

Fantastic Herbie and his team of musical geniuses truly deliver during this performance. This song inspired me to get up and work out on my Day Off Lol, that's huge.

5:18 the "actual proof" Vinnie is a human being!

Yeah!

A listers, top tier Nathan East is tearing it up

The elite musicians on the Planet… Fantastic👍👍

OMFG ... is all I can say. Impossibly great playing... by all of them.

Fantastic! I wish just for once though Vinnie would play with a little feeling!!😅I commented that to one of the Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott’s tunes, the man plays with effort I’ve never seen, he never EVER tires out!!!

Awesome playing and groove , chops drums Vinnie incredible drummer 👍

Imagine the headspace (or outside of) you’d have to be in to know your role within. Fucking absolutely incredible. The original is not quite as involved, but incredible nonetheless. This LIVE version is devastatingly complex, yet together. Herbie always assembles the masters of sound. ♥️🎶

His kit sounds AMAZING !!!!!!!!!

Excelente brillante demoledor !!! Monsters of jazz fusión !!!!!!!!!!

Vinnie fantastic as well as all the others. I also hear Vinnie is a Born Again Christian which more important Evangelist Roger Mansour former drummer for Leslie West Vagrants 😊

My fukin got ... is the GOAT.

Diz a lenda que quando esse concerto terminou eles entraram em sua nave e foram embora para seu planeta! É sério 🙏

Vinnie is the Einstein of drums

Can’t believe people aren’t on their feet after that one. ❤👏👏👏

Just awesome. Smh. Vinnie and Nathan…wow. Herbie too….

Vinnie = BEAST !!!!

Unbelievable, what a Killer Band !

Awesome on Fire 🥁🔥🥁🎸🔥🎸🎹🔥🎹

WoW! That is some solid sensational jazz funk drumming!! Tight as the proverbial ducks ass! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👌✔✔✔

The Alien at his best once again.

Loved that Jaco Lick that Nathan East dropped in there👍

For me to be able to play this drum track, I'd have to keep practicing even after I died.

Ооочень сильно!!!

Really lovely piece of music.

That was amazing. Bravo…

MATURE MASTERS !!,......... BRINGS ME JOY AND ENTHUSIASM

i love Vinnie! Simply great!

Drums For Sale!

I know three chords with a capo ... this is Jaw Dropping for me!!

Sick. How on earth do these guys memorize all the rhythms and accents? And Who on earth writes this stuff to begin with??.. And How many hundreds of hours of rehearsal does it take to pull off something like this? Amazing.

greatest drummer of all time!

Fantastic 👍

Vinnie, el mejor.

awesome Vinnie!!!

Awesome!!👏

Meravigliosi musicisti ❤❤

All around good fun.

Awesome version of a very difficult song.

Grandes músicos !! Muchas gracias!! Rafael

Amazing !!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻... Brave...🤩🥁🎹🎸🎸☯️

una inspiracion vinnie. gran baterista.

Beast Mode 🔥

Escuchar a Vinnie y a Herbie es una delicia 🎶🎶😃 maestros!!!

Insane.

That bass !!

WOW 😮😳!!!!

😎 Chapeau 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩

WoW !!!!

🔥🔥🔥🔥

It remains to find out how many different tempos, the escalations in the harmonic progression and the timing of the intervals to be able to improvise on it...

Kick it

Vinnie a bad man haha

OMG

Nathan tore it up just a few days in Saint Paul, MN with Eric Clapton!

🔝! 👋

Man 😢

👍🙂Sweeeeeeeeeet!

That's top of the shelf drumming right there, but ironically most people are listening to the TR808 in popular music. Some beats are creative, but they're definitely repetitive.

Non-stop jam, start to finsih.

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🔥

Oh yeah thats Herbie on piano.

Thank you such a great piece from Herbie, who's th bassist and guitar player plz ? 😀✌☯

Second only to Buddy. Best living drummer on earth.

Sometimes i think jazz is something a doctor diagnoses you with. ' sorry son, you've got jazz' ' aww shit '