I got to know the Yellow Jackets in the 80's. For my job, I traveled around in almost the whole of West-Europe. Always by car, as the job was technical service and suuport. During more than 30 years I listened to their music in my car. Never got tired of it. I found their music on "Soulseek", put it on a memory stick. I still listen to it , now I'm retired. And, of course the WDR band is also one of my favorites. A viewer in Belgium (Europe)
What a beautiful sound 😯. A colleague of mine put me on to Yellowjackets and I must say what a treat 🍰. Listening whilst at work, certainly takes the pain away! Did I say beautiful sound. Awesome 🎼. Thank you 🎵
It’s just hard to beat the Yellowjackets for professionalism and creativity! Combine them with the WDR Big Band and you’ve got magic. The current lineup is one of the best in Yellowjacket history. Dean Alderson is the most melodic bass soloist they’ve ever had in my opinion. I’ve seen them live 3 times and they never disappoint. I was glad to see Will Kennedy rejoin the group: Best drummer in Yellowjackets history.
The late great Ricky Lawson was great with YellowJackets, specially for the music played at that period. Jimmy Hasplip will be forever the best YJ's bass player, you have to calm your excitation John. :-)
@@RogerBiwandu I’m not saying Ricky Lawson was a slouch; far from it. I saw him with the YJs on two occasions. I just prefer Will Kennedy was the drummer the first time I saw the YJs. I was very glad to see him return. As for Jimmy Haslip, he played a huge part in the formation of the YJ sound. It was, is Jimmy’s mechanical solos that I didn’t care for.. Even Felix Pastorius was a better soloist in my opinion. Dean Alderson, on the other hand, can maintain the same funky groove that Jimmy did, while delivering some scorching good bass solos. We all have our favorites; your’s are good and so are mine. Enjoy the music!
@@johnfuller8284 It's not about who's my favorite, my favorite musician on YJ is Russ by far, saying this I love all of them, but I like the respect of the history of a band, that's all. And, I don't need a bass player being a "genius" at soloing, it's good if he is, but I really don't care, I want a bass player to play the bass as solid as possible, with good taste, feel and sound, cheers John.
Thank you so much! This is fantastic! That's what I like the Yellowjackets for melodic and groovy and together with this great body of sound, of course, swingin'.
The GREAT Russell Ferrante, he's SO funky when he plays "Imperial Strut", his left hand keeping that bloody bass line while soloing with his right hand, awesome !!! PS : not enough praise for him, he's the only one original member on stage, I mean come on, give some love to Russ please....
Superb concert, I wasn't intending to watch it all but I got hooked in. I didn't know the current line up of the Yellowjackets but new names to me were Will Kennedy and Dane Alderson who are both world class players. Great playing obviously from Russell and Bob.
It's a beautiful thing to see and hear one of the greatest bands (Yellowjackets) still strong and amazing after 40 years! Cheers to WDR BIG BAND these musicians are DOPE!
Put this on in the Background while doing some office work, wondering why all songs sound so familiar - is that literally the Yellow Jackets XL Album in one take and live?? What the hell man, how can you not miss a single note!!! This is very much one of if not the best active band at the moment.
Beautiful. So BEAUTIFUL! Top tier Musicianship. All the Musicians 👌🏿 Rhythm section of Drummer Will Kennedy and Dane Adelson on Bass🔥 I wish all the names of the Musicians were included in the description 🙏🏿 Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤❤️
Back in the 80s the musician's union had a contact book with all the musician's contacts... lol duh. Anyway, I was a young musician and one of my favorite artists were YellowJackets. Charles Brown the musician who wrote and sang "Merry Christmas Baby" was teaching me to play piano along with Dorothy Donegan. After one of my lesson I was talking to Dorothy she was about to throw a box full of old sheet music. I asked her if I could have it and she gave it to me. Inside the box was an old musicians union contact book. I looked up Russell Ferrante's number and gave him a call. He answered and spoke to me kindly and invited me to the studio in SilverLake. I met him at his house in the hills of SilverLake and the one thing I really remember was his very fluffy cat was sleeping on the stove lol. I love cats and was saying, "oh no that guy could catch on fire". Anyway I met Ricky Lawson and Jimmy at the studio and watch them play for a short time then I had to leave. I love these guys and their amazing music. Good music is oxygen
Great show ... but this electronic thing is as annoying to hear as it is offensive Without this annoying and offensive electronic thing , this would have been epic It's still worth it , but a large part is annoying ... it could have been epic
WDR is one of the best big bands in the World. Top notch professionalism!
Thank you, Stefan!
I absolutely agree.
0:04 Downtown
7:42 The Red Sea
15:47 Mile High
21:03 Dewey
29:09 One Day
37:35 Even Song
46:24 Tenacity
53:20 Imperial Strut
59:21 Revelation
I got to know the Yellow Jackets in the 80's. For my job, I traveled around in almost the whole of West-Europe. Always by car, as the job was technical service and suuport. During more than 30 years I listened to their music in my car. Never got tired of it. I found their music on "Soulseek", put it on a memory stick. I still listen to it , now I'm retired.
And, of course the WDR band is also one of my favorites.
A viewer in Belgium (Europe)
Thank you very much for your kind words and this fantastic story! Keep healthy!
très bonne captation, du très bon jazz au top de la fusion électro et acoustique, bravo, on se régale ! 🔵⚪🔴
2 great bands made greater band. Thanks
😅 Rob!
This combination between The Jackets + WDR Big Band are amazing and Explosive..!!
Have a look at the cd release, carlos!
What a beautiful sound 😯. A colleague of mine put me on to Yellowjackets and I must say what a treat 🍰. Listening whilst at work, certainly takes the pain away! Did I say beautiful sound. Awesome 🎼. Thank you 🎵
Music heals our souls. Thank you for your kind words!
I have that song from their classic fusion jazz album called Four Corners. One of their best.
It’s just hard to beat the Yellowjackets for professionalism and creativity! Combine them with the WDR Big Band and you’ve got magic. The current lineup is one of the best in Yellowjacket history. Dean Alderson is the most melodic bass soloist they’ve ever had in my opinion. I’ve seen them live 3 times and they never disappoint. I was glad to see Will Kennedy rejoin the group: Best drummer in Yellowjackets history.
Jimmy have done a great work the sound and the feeling of YJ
The late great Ricky Lawson was great with YellowJackets, specially for the music played at that period.
Jimmy Hasplip will be forever the best YJ's bass player, you have to calm your excitation John. :-)
@@RogerBiwandu I’m not saying Ricky Lawson was a slouch; far from it. I saw him with the YJs on two occasions. I just prefer Will Kennedy was the drummer the first time I saw the YJs. I was very glad to see him return. As for Jimmy Haslip, he played a huge part in the formation of the YJ sound. It was, is Jimmy’s mechanical solos that I didn’t care for.. Even Felix Pastorius was a better soloist in my opinion. Dean Alderson, on the other hand, can maintain the same funky groove that Jimmy did, while delivering some scorching good bass solos. We all have our favorites; your’s are good and so are mine. Enjoy the music!
@@johnfuller8284 It's not about who's my favorite, my favorite musician on YJ is Russ by far, saying this I love all of them, but I like the respect of the history of a band, that's all.
And, I don't need a bass player being a "genius" at soloing, it's good if he is, but I really don't care, I want a bass player to play the bass as solid as possible, with good taste, feel and sound, cheers John.
Impresionante , WDR big band la banda N 1 junto a Yellowjackets ! Genios !
Thank you so much! This is fantastic! That's what I like the Yellowjackets for melodic and groovy and together with this great body of sound, of course, swingin'.
Thank you for your kind words, Peter!
The best of the best
the best bands united
The great Group, the great Big Band and the great MUSIC!
Thanks, Maestros!
Danke schön!
Thank you for watching us, Arsen!
@@WDRBIGBAND
👍👍👍
🎷🎺🎹🎼🎼🎼
Perfect match! The Big Band is a dream and Yellowjackets with the WDR leader is great.
Thank you very much!
C'est toujours un réel plaisir de retrouver cette formation même avec de nouvelles têtes en son sein.
C'est la vie partout, les gens vont et viennent, - mais la musique reste... Thierry!
Simply fantastic ... Particularly like the bass-player ...
Thank you for watching us, Oswin!
*November 2019* - So near and yet so far,
will it prove to have been the last November of humanity?
The GREAT Russell Ferrante, he's SO funky when he plays "Imperial Strut", his left hand keeping that bloody bass line while soloing with his right hand, awesome !!!
PS : not enough praise for him, he's the only one original member on stage, I mean come on, give some love to Russ please....
😊Rodgebi!
Ganz großes akustisches Kino!
Danke, Bossa!
It's so great!
🙏🙏🙏 Gaston!
Great Jazz Soundscapings...Masters!...
Muchas gracias, Américo!
Many thx for uploading this great live concert with impeccable sound and performance quality👍🙏
Thank you for watching us, AcoustiMan!
So glad I bought the new CD Jackets XL, it's fantastic.
Great, have fun with our music, MrDaveaccord!
Superb concert, I wasn't intending to watch it all but I got hooked in. I didn't know the current line up of the Yellowjackets but new names to me were Will Kennedy and Dane Alderson who are both world class players. Great playing obviously from Russell and Bob.
That is true, it is a great danger to get hooked in in, rocketpost1!
Awesome, great band!
Thank your for watching us, Rene!
It's a beautiful thing to see and hear one of the greatest bands (Yellowjackets) still strong and amazing after 40 years! Cheers to WDR BIG BAND these musicians are DOPE!
🙏🙏🙏 Charles!
GREAT SOUND & GROOVE HERE! ... CHEERS!
Keep grooving and thank you for watching us, notpopebuthope!
They never disappoint... All masters of their crafts and truly inspire on many levels... Love Love Love
Thank you, Mario!
Imponente !!!
Brilliant
Thank you, Hudson!
Music at its BEST 🔥🔥🔥
Hopefully, Jerry!
Oggi,praticamente nessuno come voi.BRAVI!!
Mille gracie!
Will Kennedy is just an incredible player. Could it sound anything less than amazing with him playing underneath you?
wow...
been waiting for this for so long..
thxx a lot.
Sometimes it is necessary to wait on something, - thank you for watching, el!
ya lo vi como 5 veces. WDR y Yellowjackets son todo lo que esta bien.
Wow, Ya has visto el concierto 5 veces a pesar del error de sincronización. Muchas gracias, Federico!
Fabuloso concierto 😍😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘
Muchas gracias, laura!
Thank you for the amazing concert. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
I'm so happy they played Mile High!
Yeah.Bob.
☺️S.P!
wow!!!!
Thank you, 재즈산책!
Que imponente !!!! Son geniales !!!
😊Lirio!
Put this on in the Background while doing some office work, wondering why all songs sound so familiar - is that literally the Yellow Jackets XL Album in one take and live?? What the hell man, how can you not miss a single note!!! This is very much one of if not the best active band at the moment.
😊🎶
Simply amazing, awesome concert! Well done, guys!
Welcome to our channel, Geyr!
@@WDRBIGBAND Thank you very much!!
Beautiful. So BEAUTIFUL! Top tier Musicianship. All the Musicians 👌🏿
Rhythm section of Drummer Will Kennedy and Dane Adelson on Bass🔥
I wish all the names of the Musicians were included in the description 🙏🏿
Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤❤️
Wow, thank you for your hint, BlackRoots! It was missing and we have to fix the jump marks for the single tunes!
@@WDRBIGBAND You're welcome 👊🏿🖤❤️
Simply the best...
It was a great production, mario!
@@WDRBIGBAND ,i can imagine,i'm pianist...
Keep playing, - we need music in these strange times, mario!
Éblouissant !! Merci pour le partage !!
Merci pour regarder, Alain!
Merci vil moll für di tolli Musig :)
🙏😊 Alf!
Streaming on tv now. ‘Nominated for Grammy music award exactly 2 years after the joint CD “Jackets XL” per Description.
Yep, Galina! That is the fact! Keep your fingers crossed!
This is crazy. Thanks for wonderful music.
Hi KoYounghwan! From where do you watch us? Thank you for being with us!
@@WDRBIGBAND I'm from South Korea. Thank you for great wonderful music
From South Korea, - welchome to our channel, KoYounghwan!
increíble concierto
What a treat. Thank you! ❤️
Thank you for beeing with us, beebebop!
Hermoso, gracias!
Gracias por watching us, Luis!
Audio and video are badly out of sync on the song “Dewey.” Otherwise, FANTASTIC!
Thank you, we have to fix it, BigDogSteveNami!
What? So Gr8! ❤️❤️❤️🍻🎶🎼
🙏Chuck!
Thank you…grazie
Fabuloso! 👏👏👏❤❤❤
🙏 Luiz!
superb!
Thank you!
Sem comentarios Big Band das estrelas!!!
🙏🙏🙏 Maurício!
@@WDRBIGBAND bautiful maravilha
Vcs sao de outro planeta!! Feras!!
OMG!
💝💛💖💜
21:00 Dewey
Back in the 80s the musician's union had a contact book with all the musician's contacts... lol duh. Anyway, I was a young musician and one of my favorite artists were YellowJackets. Charles Brown the musician who wrote and sang "Merry Christmas Baby" was teaching me to play piano along with Dorothy Donegan. After one of my lesson I was talking to Dorothy she was about to throw a box full of old sheet music. I asked her if I could have it and she gave it to me. Inside the box was an old musicians union contact book. I looked up Russell Ferrante's number and gave him a call. He answered and spoke to me kindly and invited me to the studio in SilverLake. I met him at his house in the hills of SilverLake and the one thing I really remember was his very fluffy cat was sleeping on the stove lol. I love cats and was saying, "oh no that guy could catch on fire". Anyway I met Ricky Lawson and Jimmy at the studio and watch them play for a short time then I had to leave. I love these guys and their amazing music. Good music is oxygen
Hello Johnny! What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it!
man that piccolo really stands out!
🙏 Jason!
Bravo! Just one technical thing: Dewey is out of sync! This said, Top musiciens and sound guys! Thanks.
Thank you for the hint, we are working on it, Bernard!
Абсолютно идеальный Би-Боп!!! Если спросить, что такое Би-Боп- послушайте эту вещь!!! И вы услышите это!!
🙏🙏🙏 Елена!
Red Sea 7:40; Even Song 37:35
Wuhau!!!
Yeah, Solange! Keep watching! Thank you!
Fab
Thanx, John!
do I hear a sneaky mario kart lick variation from 4:24 - 4:29 :D
7:42
Das Bild ist aber auch manchmal zwei Sekunden zu spät :-(
Es ist in der Mitte bei Dewey asynchron, - wir müssen wohl noch mal ran: ) Danke für den Hinweis!
After 40 years Mintzer looks a lot better than Keith Richards!
No he didn’t
Der Ton ist nicht synchron zum Bild, wer hat das verbrochen...? Peinlich....
Hi Ralph, Fehler passieren im Leben. Fraglich, was an Fehlern peinlich ist. Danke für den Hinweis!
Greta concert. But some parts are out of sync
That is true, we must fix it, kostasax!
Great show ... but this electronic thing is as annoying to hear as it is offensive
Without this annoying and offensive electronic thing , this would have been epic
It's still worth it , but a large part is annoying ... it could have been epic
Yep forget the electric thing!!!!!!👎