just watched this whole show the other day. so good. there’s a point around the half hour mark where Brecker just leaves during Tyner’s intro… and Tyner doesn’t look up and notice he’s gone until he’s ready to pass the melody off to him. Sharpe refuses to take the head, so Tyner just keeps running with it. Totally beautiful and off the cuff. And Brecker walks back onto to stage and resumes playing perfectly like he’d never been gone lmao
Awesome! I love it. Randy Becker has obviously studied Trane and incorporated aspects of Trane’s style without sounding like a copy cat. I saw McCoy at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach around 1972. Just a trio. Right up front in front of the piano. One one number McCoy was so into it that was pouring down onto the keyboard 🎹 from his forehead so profusely that he was trying to wipe away the sweat and play at the same time. I wanted to go onstage and wipe his forehead so he could just play but I didn’t know what people’s reaction would be so I just sat in my seat in amazement. What an incredible Artist he was to see and hear in person true story
I too have been a jazz lover for 61 yrs. l I've played a little trumpet in my time in my opinion, NOTHING SWINGS like the music between 1960 and 1980! It just had that SOUL man! SOUL don't know no color SOUL don't know no race. SWING and SOUL just ARE. You've got a great show! Please carry on! Best of all to you!
@@JazzVideoGuy We certainly WERE!!! I remember an old album my Dad had for years by a sax cat named Flip Phillips he played "Round Midnight" with all he had! That was my introduction to jazz.
This music I mean real jazz will always be great, this is the beginning, I still listen to my blue note and prestige and verve recordings I purchased as a teenager in the sixties, real jazz will never ever get old
I'm pushing 30 right now, started listening to Michael Brecker when I was 19. He's still an insanely impressive musician, as are all this great. There are people making great jazz today, but introducing people to the classics today is important. They are pioneers who made some of the most influential tunes for the genre ever.
This stuff makes my spirit fly and my heart nearly burst out of my chest. In rare moments I get to play this stuff but it's only fleeting. These guys have it on tap, it must be heavenly for them.
It's all about how advanced the improvisation can go in this modal swing context. How far you can stay in the conversation, yet continue to move beyond it at the same time- AND do it in very creative and logical way. Here are two guys that were destined to play together. Mike well understood where Trane was coming from, but he built upon what he gleened from Trane and added a ton of new harmonic and rhythmic spin with his vast vocabulary and unparalleled acumen. If Trane had been up on that stage it would have been as beautiful as it always had been with McCoy, but Mike of all sax players was the right one to fit in this context at this time. Still the greatest improviser of my lifetime on so many levels. Whether one gravitates to this style or appreciates newer styles more, nobody can take away the historic advancements that the top mid 20th century players brought to the table. These are two such contributors to that history that should always be lauded and understood better through consistent exposure. These are the kinds of grooves and changes that go through my head every morning when I pick up my instrument and start playing. I don't even need to put a record on. I imagine a rhythm section and start playing. These guys were among the major jazz linguists of their time. Just emulating them in as many ways as possible will lead to great growth in any player's life. Back at you Bret!
Too intense?... depends who's listening I think. Outstanding musicianship here. Avery Sharpe was having a ball ! 😆 R.I.P. to Mr Brecker and Mr Tyner.. Two great players.
Absolutely exhilarating Bret, thank you! I was fortunate enough to see McCoy with this group (without Michael B.) several times in the eighties and early nineties at the old Yoshis in Oakland on Claremont Ave. The last time I saw them McCoy acknowledged that Santana was in the audience! As far as the person(s) who say these people should be in a museum, well isn't that where one finds the Masters? That's why we have institutions like the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, to recognize and pay tribute and discover the lineage of where the music came from. It doesn't mean they're dead either, and if they were, the music they created has a life of its own. Jazz music has always honored the older guys which is beautiful to see; the mentoring of the young by the older. All of Elvin Jones groups in his later years had people from younger generations in the band. Look at Wynton Marsalis playing with his father and whole family. Whoever said the "museum statement" is completely missing the point that to learn, one must study what went before you and how/why things developed as they did. The concepts, the times, the people who often gave their lives in sacrifice that you may benefit from their creation. Whoever said that only exposes their own immaturity, lack of hipness, and weakness as to have been manipulated into the "separateness" that is contaminating our society today.
From Australia...I remember last year laughing out loud on hearing Sonny Rollins' East Broadway Breakdown (?), recorded over 50 years ago, and as fresh and shocking as when it was recorded.
I was actually there in The Hague. Wow some memorable performances seen in that era, from mid eighties to late 90s on Congress Centre venue. Michael Brecker is definitely one of my absolute heroes. Never forget talking to him and shaking his hand after a cd signing session.
Whoever said that to you should just listen to what they like, not worry about another mans preferences. That person should or could start their own channel. I love yours and the GIANTS that walk on it. We have choices.
This is one of my favorite albums. Their version of the great contemporary jazz piece "Impressions" is fantastic. The whole album must listen for any jazz fan.
Jazz is not something that belongs in a museum; it’s a constantly evolving art form. The nay sayers have always been there, and they will persist, as we are all different and enjoy different kinds of music. Ignore them! Not worth the energy to even listen to such comments.
For me (and for what is worth) your content will always be the REAL ONE when it comes to jazz music. I follow you since I discovered youtube. Thank you for your job, please keep spreading the voice of the late masters! We miss them dearly. ❤️
Love your opening comments, Bret. I'm an avid student of piano and McCoy's voicings have haunted me for sixty years. I expect it will take another five or ten years of study just to be able to play a chord in the "style" or Mc Coy Tyner.
Bless your ‘Jazz Museum’ there’s room for it all, early and contemporary. You’re like London’s British museum and the Tate Modern of jazz roles into one, my man!
Pre-teens and such apart, people that think this music belongs to a museum, in that dismissive sense, deserve a lot of compassion, and admiration too because, with all due respect, it's a miracle if they are capable of walk the streets without shiting themselves in their pants
I will have to watch after my class Friday . I cannot wait to hear this music you speak of . I'm a huge fan of both artists and have gone to see M Brecker in steps ahead , Brecker Brothers and other appearances . Iv mostly heard MT on recordings I'm not 100 percent sure live. Great idea for a show!
Folks think of jazz being one type of music. I'll be driving around with some friends and have Wayne Shorter or Herbie Hancock on... I'll often get "That's nice! What kind of music is that?"... "It's jazz". The following week I'll have some Groove Holmes organ jazz or Danilo Perez on and get "That's nice! What kind of music is THAT?"... "It's jazz".. lol Just like artwork, you can always find some you'll like, and some you don't. They just need to be exposed to it so they can find some they like. These guys are intense, but it's not just noise; there's structure there.
I agree with you, now that is jazz as it should be when I came back from Vietnam, I hit every jazz club in one night in the San Francisco Bay area I had a ball and some heavies were playing that weekend and I saw them all for at least one set and this was the type of jazz they were playing. There are some outstanding music and musicians out there today and I do not want to take anything away from any of them but I often refer to what I hear as pop-corn jazz somewhat repetitive without the soul. Hope I did not offend anyone, I am just saying.
@@JazzVideoGuy Hi, Mark Turner Jaleel Shaw Rosario Giuliani Plume Seamus Blake Troy Roberts Miguel Zenón Kenny Garrett +more Just to name some, if you check the live streams comming out of SmallsLIVE you can see and hear the younger players loving to play intense music, modal stuff and for sure you can hear the masters the are checking out in order to build there vocabulare.
Two departed legends. We will never see another pair like them McCoy gained a lot of experience by playing with John Coltrane. John influenced many saxophone players, including Michael Brecker
@@JazzVideoGuy true, but modern players thinking KJ-level-creativity is untouchable may be why today's music is mostly comparatively bland. . get to work young musicians! transcend the "genre"
You make a good case for the music and I love it it may be as much or more than you but I was in my barbershop and introducing my barber to jazz music so he asked me what do you want to hear so I said the procrastinator by Lee Morgan and I’m looking at him to see you guys I know he likes it and then we look over and all the customers left and I said what everybody go and he said the average person in America can’t handle this music so you got a good pointBut jazz is still for the fish aficionado not for the average person it is too intense for them that’s my opinion
we only have about 160 years of recordings & the quality wasn't usually there until about 50-60 years ago.; so, much lost/ not known of or forgotten. there will always be art from actual artist, but i tire of hearing how those guys from years ago are better than the guys now; its bullcrap.
Modernism is a dying art - its patterns and practices require a certain level of engagement that doesn't comport with contemporary digital media, educational norms or society. The infrastructure for modernism of clubs and small gatherings of rarefied learning supported by the wealthy is going the same way as the Borgers of 15C Florence or the wealthy immigrants/exiles of the great wars that were essential for Modernist practice. But while it still has some life and such great practitioners of the very recent past glowed so brightly, why not celebrate it.
just watched this whole show the other day. so good. there’s a point around the half hour mark where Brecker just leaves during Tyner’s intro… and Tyner doesn’t look up and notice he’s gone until he’s ready to pass the melody off to him. Sharpe refuses to take the head, so Tyner just keeps running with it. Totally beautiful and off the cuff. And Brecker walks back onto to stage and resumes playing perfectly like he’d never been gone lmao
Is the whole concert on UA-cam? Can you provide a link?
@@msudlp it’s an hour long; please enjoy it all (:
ua-cam.com/video/s0nFW7fZ32s/v-deo.html&feature=shares
Search for a McCoy Tyner 1995 N. Sea Jazz Festival
@@JazzVideoGuy 1996 I guess?
That’s one of the beautiful things about jazz. Shit happens unexpectedly and great musicians just go with the flow.
9:40 oh...my...God...how can I paint that moment...👨🏾🎨🖼️ I'm blown away
Awesome! I love it. Randy Becker has obviously studied Trane and incorporated aspects of Trane’s style without sounding like a copy cat. I saw McCoy at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach around 1972. Just a trio. Right up front in front of the piano. One one number McCoy was so into it that was pouring down onto the keyboard 🎹 from his forehead so profusely that he was trying to wipe away the sweat and play at the same time. I wanted to go onstage and wipe his forehead so he could just play but I didn’t know what people’s reaction would be so I just sat in my seat in amazement. What an incredible Artist he was to see and hear in person true story
McCoy in person! Glad you had the opportunity to experience that.
You are a treasure of knowledge. Keep it going
It would appear I have no choice. Every time I try and get out, they pull me back in.
I too have been a jazz lover for 61 yrs. l I've played a little trumpet in my time in my opinion, NOTHING SWINGS like the music between 1960 and 1980! It just had that SOUL man! SOUL don't know no color SOUL don't know no race. SWING and SOUL just ARE. You've got a great show! Please carry on! Best of all to you!
Thank you. We were lucky!
@@JazzVideoGuy We certainly WERE!!! I remember an old album my Dad had for years by a sax cat named Flip Phillips he played "Round Midnight" with all he had! That was my introduction to jazz.
This group is tight.
I love the call and response.
This music I mean real jazz will always be great, this is the beginning, I still listen to my blue note and prestige and verve recordings I purchased as a teenager in the sixties, real jazz will never ever get old
Love what you're saying!! 👍👍👍😅😅
for sure
People are not eclectic as the cats were with the expression of innovations as they speak to us through their playing.
I love it.
I'm pushing 30 right now, started listening to Michael Brecker when I was 19. He's still an insanely impressive musician, as are all this great. There are people making great jazz today, but introducing people to the classics today is important. They are pioneers who made some of the most influential tunes for the genre ever.
Well said.
Jazz Music is for the spirit is not to be fashion, is timeless, is free but respect the limit, is the music for the nowaday human been.
Great music lives on. Even these days I hear younger players try to emulate McCoy Tyner's style. I believe that will continue on.
I think so too.
Didn't realise they'd played together! Wow!!!
a truly magic collaboration
I was there with my dad when I was a kid. Magic!
yes, truly
Wow! 🔥🔥🔥
This stuff makes my spirit fly and my heart nearly burst out of my chest. In rare moments I get to play this stuff but it's only fleeting. These guys have it on tap, it must be heavenly for them.
Well said!
This is fire!
It's all about how advanced the improvisation can go in this modal swing context. How far you can stay in the conversation, yet continue to move beyond it at the same time- AND do it in very creative and logical way. Here are two guys that were destined to play together. Mike well understood where Trane was coming from, but he built upon what he gleened from Trane and added a ton of new harmonic and rhythmic spin with his vast vocabulary and unparalleled acumen. If Trane had been up on that stage it would have been as beautiful as it always had been with McCoy, but Mike of all sax players was the right one to fit in this context at this time. Still the greatest improviser of my lifetime on so many levels. Whether one gravitates to this style or appreciates newer styles more, nobody can take away the historic advancements that the top mid 20th century players brought to the table. These are two such contributors to that history that should always be lauded and understood better through consistent exposure. These are the kinds of grooves and changes that go through my head every morning when I pick up my instrument and start playing. I don't even need to put a record on. I imagine a rhythm section and start playing. These guys were among the major jazz linguists of their time. Just emulating them in as many ways as possible will lead to great growth in any player's life. Back at you Bret!
I adore the intensity! That’s what the music’s all about! Like having an energy and spirit infusion/transfusion!
You have big ears, Joyce.
@@JazzVideoGuy Thanks for the compliment!
@@joyceglasgow2356 Thank you for your ongoing support of my work!
Absolute fire 🔥🔥🔥❤
Too intense?... depends who's listening I think.
Outstanding musicianship here. Avery Sharpe was having a ball ! 😆
R.I.P. to Mr Brecker and Mr Tyner.. Two great players.
Only wish more people would give this music a chance.
Absolutely exhilarating Bret, thank you! I was fortunate enough to see McCoy with this group (without Michael B.) several times in the eighties and early nineties at the old Yoshis in Oakland on Claremont Ave. The last time I saw them McCoy acknowledged that Santana was in the audience! As far as the person(s) who say these people should be in a museum, well isn't that where one finds the Masters? That's why we have institutions like the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, to recognize and pay tribute and discover the lineage of where the music came from. It doesn't mean they're dead either, and if they were, the music they created has a life of its own. Jazz music has always honored the older guys which is beautiful to see; the mentoring of the young by the older. All of Elvin Jones groups in his later years had people from younger generations in the band. Look at Wynton Marsalis playing with his father and whole family. Whoever said the "museum statement" is completely missing the point that to learn, one must study what went before you and how/why things developed as they did. The concepts, the times, the people who often gave their lives in sacrifice that you may benefit from their creation. Whoever said that only exposes their own immaturity, lack of hipness, and weakness as to have been manipulated into the "separateness" that is contaminating our society today.
Well said, Alan. Thanks for taking the time to write this.
All music was new at one time. Jazz is more timeless than any other musical expression.
I think so too
From Australia...I remember last year laughing out loud on hearing Sonny Rollins' East Broadway Breakdown (?), recorded over 50 years ago, and as fresh and shocking as when it was recorded.
I was actually there in The Hague. Wow some memorable performances seen in that era, from mid eighties to late 90s on Congress Centre venue. Michael Brecker is definitely one of my absolute heroes. Never forget talking to him and shaking his hand after a cd signing session.
Only in the Hague for a long weekend in '97. Wonderful place. Love the Dutch people.
Wonderful. Inspiring. Thank you
You are so welcome!
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing it Bret...
Glad you dig!
Play what you like, whats good, what you know!
Thanks, Carol. I will.
I heard the Mccoy Tyner Trio at North Sea Jazz in 2004, and it was a fantastic performance!
Epic bass solo too, wow!
Love the North Sea Jazz Festival.
Whoever said that to you should just listen to what they like, not worry about another mans preferences. That person should or could start their own channel. I love yours and the GIANTS that walk on it. We have choices.
Listening to music is a very subjective experience.
This is one of my favorite albums. Their version of the great contemporary jazz piece "Impressions" is fantastic. The whole album must listen for any jazz fan.
Jazz is not something that belongs in a museum; it’s a constantly evolving art form.
The nay sayers have always been there, and they will persist, as we are all different and enjoy different kinds of music.
Ignore them! Not worth the energy to even listen to such comments.
Well said!
For me (and for what is worth) your content will always be the REAL ONE when it comes to jazz music. I follow you since I discovered youtube. Thank you for your job, please keep spreading the voice of the late masters! We miss them dearly. ❤️
Appreciate your kind words, Michael. Thanks for tuning in.
Love your opening comments, Bret. I'm an avid student of piano and McCoy's voicings have haunted me for sixty years. I expect it will take another five or ten years of study just to be able to play a chord in the "style" or Mc Coy Tyner.
One of the piano greats, that's for sure
I love your channel! And my god, Brecker was so incredibly good.,,,
Much appreciated.
WONDERFUL ❤
I can dig it Brett! Art never goes out of style. Those with good ears know!
for sure, brother bob
Bless your ‘Jazz Museum’ there’s room for it all, early and contemporary. You’re like London’s British museum and the Tate Modern of jazz roles into one, my man!
Why thank you!
Love it Love it Love it 😊😊😊
Me, oo
Pre-teens and such apart, people that think this music belongs to a museum, in that dismissive sense, deserve a lot of compassion, and admiration too because, with all due respect, it's a miracle if they are capable of walk the streets without shiting themselves in their pants
That is true, but if you put yourself in the mindset of a 20 something person, you'd have a completely different perspective.
Love the way you answered the question about 'Today's Music'!
THIS one's Very sPecial and yoU're "IN IT too", to me anyways. Ty Br!
I love the lid man!!❤❤❤
Me, too!
I will have to watch after my class Friday . I cannot wait to hear this music you speak of . I'm a huge fan of both artists and have gone to see M Brecker in steps ahead , Brecker Brothers and other appearances . Iv mostly heard MT on recordings I'm not 100 percent sure live. Great idea for a show!
Here’s a link to the full show:
ua-cam.com/video/s0nFW7fZ32s/v-deo.html&feature=shares
Amazing, thank you!
Thank you too!
Much appreciated sir! Loving your insights and perspectives...most enjoyable all 'round. Whew!😅
Glad you enjoyed it
Folks think of jazz being one type of music. I'll be driving around with some friends and have Wayne Shorter or Herbie Hancock on... I'll often get "That's nice! What kind of music is that?"... "It's jazz". The following week I'll have some Groove Holmes organ jazz or Danilo Perez on and get "That's nice! What kind of music is THAT?"... "It's jazz".. lol Just like artwork, you can always find some you'll like, and some you don't. They just need to be exposed to it so they can find some they like. These guys are intense, but it's not just noise; there's structure there.
This was soooooo good !
For sure.
Escutem esta grande obra 🙏👆
A musical meeting of the minds.
for sure
I agree with you, now that is jazz as it should be when I came back from Vietnam, I hit every jazz club in one night in the San Francisco Bay area I had a ball and some heavies were playing that weekend and I saw them all for at least one set and this was the type of jazz they were playing. There are some outstanding music and musicians out there today and I do not want to take anything away from any of them but I often refer to what I hear as pop-corn jazz somewhat repetitive without the soul. Hope I did not offend anyone, I am just saying.
I don't want to be a party pooper but this music is still loved and played by many new cats.
I know so. The trick is reaching people. At least that's my challenge.
@@JazzVideoGuy you might want to feature some new players too ;)
@@JorisPosthumus who do you recommend?
@@JazzVideoGuy Hi,
Mark Turner
Jaleel Shaw
Rosario Giuliani
Plume
Seamus Blake
Troy Roberts
Miguel Zenón
Kenny Garrett
+more
Just to name some, if you check the live streams comming out of SmallsLIVE you can see and hear the younger players loving to play intense music, modal stuff and for sure you can hear the masters the are checking out in order to build there vocabulare.
@@JorisPosthumus Thank you!
Two departed legends.
We will never see another pair like them
McCoy gained a lot of experience by playing with John Coltrane.
John influenced many saxophone players, including Michael Brecker
Sooo very true!!!
Aloha thank you for sharing 💚
Thanks!
Greatly appreciate your generosity in support of my mission.
Bravo.
Interesting story in Ode To A Tenor Titan about how this pairing (Brecker and Tyler) came about.
Amen
Two monsters with two good sidemen. Intense but not too much.
Comparing with Cecil Taylor.
Thanks for sharing your music with us!
Th
The classic is the best.
yes!
@@JazzVideoGuy thank you for sharing your videos with us, sir!
👍
We can’t top Keith j in Koln, bremen, paris!! Paris! Tho we should try.
Only one Keith Jarrett.
@@JazzVideoGuy true, but modern players thinking KJ-level-creativity is untouchable may be why today's music is mostly comparatively bland. . get to work young musicians! transcend the "genre"
Nice headgear.
Thanks!
You make a good case for the music and I love it it may be as much or more than you but I was in my barbershop and introducing my barber to jazz music so he asked me what do you want to hear so I said the procrastinator by Lee Morgan and I’m looking at him to see you guys I know he likes it and then we look over and all the customers left and I said what everybody go and he said the average person in America can’t handle this music so you got a good pointBut jazz is still for the fish aficionado not for the average person it is too intense for them that’s my opinion
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts.
❤🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👏
Music is timeless. I listen to modern cats and they are good but I still prefer Miles, Trane, Davis and the Monk etc. It's all personal taste.
I know exactly what you're saying.
we only have about 160 years of recordings & the quality wasn't usually there until about 50-60 years ago.; so, much lost/ not known of or forgotten.
there will always be art from actual artist, but i tire of hearing how those guys from years ago are better than the guys now; its bullcrap.
sad but true
Yeah butt like it's too difficult to sit still and listen to sound,....and wait...and...LISTEN!
Many people just don't have much patience, any more.
Modernism is a dying art - its patterns and practices require a certain level of engagement that doesn't comport with contemporary digital media, educational norms or society. The infrastructure for modernism of clubs and small gatherings of rarefied learning supported by the wealthy is going the same way as the Borgers of 15C Florence or the wealthy immigrants/exiles of the great wars that were essential for Modernist practice. But while it still has some life and such great practitioners of the very recent past glowed so brightly, why not celebrate it.
Love your words. So true.