One of his best for sure and IMO his best 1980s album, compositionally and also improvisations are top notch and the band - Don Grolnick, Darryl Jones and Omar Hakim are a perfect match.
@@toreropalido he knows where he's going and the band keep moving, like composition all the way, the art of making improvisation non-improvisation, or non-improvisation, improvisation. Running through trees blindfold, this is the way, the speed of change.
This band live is so much better than the studio versions. I have the VHS, LOL, 2 drum videos Dennis did in 92' and it had live in studio performances with this band. Pick Hits Live is an insanely good live album, same lineup. Scofield is so damn original... Love the first tune, 'Protocal' ,Dark bluesy, heavy and mysterious....Blue Matter is beautiful,funky and bluesy and heh, Jazz/Fusion! Incredibly talented 80's original Fusion. Cool grooves, Jazz chords and phat funky bass lines and amazing improvisation. Pure music expression, composing @ the moment. Each musician engaged in conversation with one another. Jazz is an amazing gift passed down by the true Giants. Many of my heroes are standing on the shoulders of these Giants of Jazz.(Steve Smith) This band was so tight and relaxed and groovin' HARD and swingin' all at once!!!!🤣😂🥺🥺 Goosebumps!!
Incredible chemistry, IMO this is one of Blue Matter Band's best live gig Ive heard amazing their highness on 'Loud Jazz' and some of Jim Beard's greatest playing I've heard.
THANK you so much for posting this. I discovered Scofield shortly after high school..I think it was the Still Warm album. This band right here, though, is what really pulled me away from listening to Led Zep, Rush, etc and lead me into jazz, etc. Really changed my life and opened my ears. I still get goose bumps from it. Dennis at the real height of his powers here.
DUDE! You too?! I was into metal and especially Rush in the 80’s - why? Because they were playing real instruments. Then one day one of my friends had me listen to Omar Hakim on John’s Still Warm album…. I was blown away! John Scofield then comes to town and I’m expecting to see Omar on drums, but he was getting ready to tour with Sting. So Dennis gets on stage - WHO IS THIS GUY?! That lasted for about 5 minutes (due to John’s solo intro)…. OMG - the whole crowd was blown away. Saw them like 4-5 times after that… incredible
I wish I knew about this back in '88! I was in the fifth grade and listing to Metallica and Guns and Roses, a little grease ball with long hair already playing guitar and jumping bikes off of homemade ramps. No worries, but it would have been nice to have the youtube way back when. These kids today are too busy sexting with their teachers or playing online farming games to even give a damn. Respect!
love this comment, so self-aware, and funny. i'm just enough years older that i was lucky to catch this period of sco's career (as a high schooler). glad you eventually found your way through the metal haze to the mastery of sco.
I was happy to get the chance to record this concert from german tv "eins plus" in vhs. It was a great pleasure for years and it is a REAL TREASURE!!. Now I am happy to get this here. John Scofield, Jim Beard, Dennis Chambers....a (very) great moment of jazz playing and interaction....
my first sco show was right around this time, maybe '87. it was at the great american music hall in san francisco (tons of great shows there). i remember how dennis chambers looked like he was part of the drum kit, a sort of man/machine interface. he just slaughters the skins, so badass. and gary grainger, epic. i've seen sco maybe ten times or so, and this era was a fave, but all eras are great. there's this amazing evolving tapestry that is his career, where you can see little bits of each album just preceding and just following the current one. and throughout there is always the signature sco twang. fuck yeah sco! i wrote a paper about him for a class in college, and i named my surfboard after him (it was a bill stewart--no relation--board!).
Ahhhh. When it was cool to enjoyyyyyy fantastic artistry. Look at this crowd. Diverse and all there for one thing. To STFU AND ENJOY AND APPLAUD. Gone are thise days.
Thank you so much for uploading this - it's opened up a whole new world of guitar hero to explore (the musicians are all top of their game, and Dennis is simply awesome, as always) :)
This must have been one of the last gigs with this band as I saw him a year later in Birmingham UK at the Adrian Boult Hall with Joe Lovano. I remember him leaving his guitar on stage during the interval.
2 Years and 1 day after I Performed "Licorise" Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra by Bjorn Howard Kruse in the Old Much Museum In Oslo conducted by Geir Tore Larsen.
No man, tell me it's not true... I just learned of Jim Beard's passing yesterday and it made me so sad. This is too much sadness in less than a day. PS - I tried to Google your news and couldnt' find anything, are you absolutely sure? Here's a link to Gary playing very recently, I thought he looked in excellent health - ua-cam.com/video/RJByNMsGavg/v-deo.html
Now that I have finally listened and watched several of John's music video's I have formed an opinion. His playing sounds convoluted to me, all mixed up and all over the place. So, I actually don't like listening to him play. I give him that he is different and original in his style but it's just not for me. -Peter 72
RIP Jim beard .
Dennis Chambers is a machine here!
Here, there, and everywhere!
Hear John Marshall (he's dead now)
1:36 Protocol
14:26 Blue Matter
29:14 Loud Jazz
40:25 True Love
51:33 Dance Me Home
Just more ironclad proof as to why Dennis is considered the GOAT behind the kit.
Masterclass through and through.
To me still warm is his best album
One of his best for sure and IMO his best 1980s album, compositionally and also improvisations are top notch and the band - Don Grolnick, Darryl Jones and Omar Hakim are a perfect match.
This is brilliant stuff, even in 2023
Classic late 80s Sco, his chorus, stereo days. Haters can hate, but I love it.
My favourite Sco period!!
Agreed. The stereo chorus days were the lick, whether he was fronting his fusion band or playing str8 ahead.
...and his suit; love it too
This is the way
@@toreropalido he knows where he's going and the band keep moving, like composition all the way, the art of making improvisation non-improvisation, or non-improvisation, improvisation. Running through trees blindfold, this is the way, the speed of change.
This band live is so much better than the studio versions. I have the VHS, LOL, 2 drum videos Dennis did in 92' and it had live in studio performances with this band. Pick Hits Live is an insanely good live album, same lineup. Scofield is so damn original... Love the first tune, 'Protocal' ,Dark bluesy, heavy and mysterious....Blue Matter is beautiful,funky and bluesy and heh, Jazz/Fusion! Incredibly talented 80's original Fusion. Cool grooves, Jazz chords and phat funky bass lines and amazing improvisation. Pure music expression, composing @ the moment. Each musician engaged in conversation with one another. Jazz is an amazing gift passed down by the true Giants. Many of my heroes are standing on the shoulders of these Giants of Jazz.(Steve Smith)
This band was so tight and relaxed and groovin' HARD and swingin' all at once!!!!🤣😂🥺🥺 Goosebumps!!
Robert Aries, on keys for that one
Wunderschön !
Jim Beard was tthe "révélation" of John Patitucci ffirst album
Great!!! What an interaction beween Scofield and Jim Beard on Protocol! Makes me smile too :)
Damn…James Beard and Dennis Chambers…l kickin’ it! I give it a 93. It’s easy to dance to. 😵💫
Wow...takes me back to when I bought the album in 1987...some of this performance is even more beautiful than the live record
SETLIST:
1 - Protocol (Still Warm)
2 - Blue Matter (Blue Matter)
3 - Loud Jazz (Loud Jazz)
4 - True Love (Loud Jazz)
5 - Dance Me Home (Loud Jazz)
John Scofield - guitar
Jim Beard - keyboards
Gary Grainger - bass
Dennis Chambers - drums
Incredible chemistry, IMO this is one of Blue Matter Band's best live gig Ive heard amazing their highness on 'Loud Jazz' and some of Jim Beard's greatest playing I've heard.
Yes The Roland JazzChorus is trully a good boss here too ah ah ....What a great sound
E-string snaps at 18:09 and the man keeps on playing without NOBODY noticing. SICK
gary grainger jesus. solid as a brick. especially for who he's playing with
jim beard crush mode too. such a great band of course dennis and john!
Died suddenly , rip gary and Jim !
Super ..
Simply BEAUTIFUL!! Love it!!!!
John's best show, burning throughout...Jim Beard simply killin' overall the baddest band...
THANK you so much for posting this. I discovered Scofield shortly after high school..I think it was the Still Warm album. This band right here, though, is what really pulled me away from listening to Led Zep, Rush, etc and lead me into jazz, etc. Really changed my life and opened my ears. I still get goose bumps from it. Dennis at the real height of his powers here.
DUDE! You too?! I was into metal and especially Rush in the 80’s - why? Because they were playing real instruments. Then one day one of my friends had me listen to Omar Hakim on John’s Still Warm album…. I was blown away! John Scofield then comes to town and I’m expecting to see Omar on drums, but he was getting ready to tour with Sting. So Dennis gets on stage - WHO IS THIS GUY?! That lasted for about 5 minutes (due to John’s solo intro)…. OMG - the whole crowd was blown away. Saw them like 4-5 times after that… incredible
What a f..kin feeling John have in duo with keyboard
It's an all star band! Can't ask for more!! High-class n groovy!!!
I wish I knew about this back in '88! I was in the fifth grade and listing to Metallica and Guns and Roses, a little grease ball with long hair already playing guitar and jumping bikes off of homemade ramps. No worries, but it would have been nice to have the youtube way back when. These kids today are too busy sexting with their teachers or playing online farming games to even give a damn. Respect!
love this comment, so self-aware, and funny. i'm just enough years older that i was lucky to catch this period of sco's career (as a high schooler). glad you eventually found your way through the metal haze to the mastery of sco.
What a band!!!
I was happy to get the chance to record this concert from german tv "eins plus" in vhs. It was a great pleasure for years and it is a REAL TREASURE!!.
Now I am happy to get this here. John Scofield, Jim Beard, Dennis Chambers....a (very) great moment of jazz playing and interaction....
one of the best lineups Sco had they were great together not a jam but a tight band
From 11:00 till the end of the song, what a symmetry exchange between Beard and Scofield
It doesn't get any better than this.
the baltimore boys!! yesss
Tuve la suerte de ver esta banda en Almería, Andalucía. Salí impresionado, fue genial.
my first sco show was right around this time, maybe '87. it was at the great american music hall in san francisco (tons of great shows there). i remember how dennis chambers looked like he was part of the drum kit, a sort of man/machine interface. he just slaughters the skins, so badass. and gary grainger, epic. i've seen sco maybe ten times or so, and this era was a fave, but all eras are great. there's this amazing evolving tapestry that is his career, where you can see little bits of each album just preceding and just following the current one. and throughout there is always the signature sco twang. fuck yeah sco! i wrote a paper about him for a class in college, and i named my surfboard after him (it was a bill stewart--no relation--board!).
Opening tune protocol is an all timer performance
Love this...I "discovered " sco back at blue matter, loud jazz, and the live album from that period. Life long fan ever since thanks for posting!!
Ahhhh. When it was cool to enjoyyyyyy fantastic artistry. Look at this crowd. Diverse and all there for one thing. To STFU AND ENJOY AND APPLAUD. Gone are thise days.
This lineup consists of ALL badasses!
Sco is a freakin' genius...
formidable performance..thanks
I was on a lot of coke that night! It was fantastic!! Dennis was smokin' as usual!!
the call and response between sco and the keyboard player in protocol is like listening to aliens communicate with each other
wooo damn what a set!
yes one on scofields best band projects together with his trio project with billy stewart and Steve Swallow
Is Gary grainger the funkiest and fun bass player ever ?
love it!
This is the best version of Protocol so far!
It doesn’t get any better than Protocol here. Insane.
thanks for sharing....Pick Hits Live is one of my fav live albums
Thank you so much for uploading this - it's opened up a whole new world of guitar hero to explore (the musicians are all top of their game, and Dennis is simply awesome, as always) :)
This must have been one of the last gigs with this band as I saw him a year later in Birmingham UK at the Adrian Boult Hall with Joe Lovano. I remember him leaving his guitar on stage during the interval.
Genial.
Yes Indeed :)
All this metrics in one track come from Steve Coleman - The crrators are Mingus & Coltrane and followers are Zorn and Pastorius
saw Sco and Dennis past night after 30 years since seeing this band.
Monsters ✌️
Jazz chorus doing his thing...
Bravi da paura 💖
ON FIRE !!!
2 Years and 1 day after I Performed "Licorise" Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra by Bjorn Howard Kruse in the Old Much Museum In Oslo conducted by Geir Tore Larsen.
I saw him on this tour in NYC!!!
That’s the way you change a broken sting in the middle of a song! 20:15
Mind=blown
Insane
Classic Dennis Chambers....wow
Maybe the furthest stretching fusion band (soloing time AND tightness) ever
dennis chambers, always his "I m cool, man" head. making genius rythm.
Smoke!!!
still insanely hip, tight, and outside
BEST,BEST,BEST!!!
its busy straight up!
Beasts.
41:43 Seems that 80's Sco was a fan of Katy Perry lol
Nuts. Two thoughts about this.
1) maybe the 80s werent that bad
2) now I know where Wayne Krantz gets his inspiration from these days
Jim Beard wears Броненосец t-shirt?))
Funny thing about Now She's Blonde is that Dennis isn't really a Gogo Drummer!
love ice cube on drums
1st tune at 7:02 dennis is like hey dude ---this stuff is killin though-intense with intent !!!!!!!
RIP Gary Graininger..
No man, tell me it's not true... I just learned of Jim Beard's passing yesterday and it made me so sad. This is too much sadness in less than a day.
PS - I tried to Google your news and couldnt' find anything, are you absolutely sure?
Here's a link to Gary playing very recently, I thought he looked in excellent health - ua-cam.com/video/RJByNMsGavg/v-deo.html
Rip Gary Graininger so !!!! Gary Grainger is a very good bassist ...who played with john scofield and rod stewart ah ah
sco changing his own string on stage!
Yep, I heard John mc Laughlin say it never happened to him !!
18:07 His string broke in this segment.
@@BigBlackBe4r right…..
That’s what I’m saying
if already in 1988
38:49 Dennis Chambers sounds like the Flinstones running
o mio Dio...
mm is not my prefer version off blue matter...but is Jazz love it
Sorry, but - Gary Grainger - bass
29:15 thats what its all about.
Scofield using a over o distor here?
I heard that at this time he used like always a Proco Rat (distortion), but the Rat is sounding a bit like an overdrive yes.
He was definitely playin w/ more distortion back then than now.
What’s the song at 29:21?
“Loud Jazz” off Scofield album of the same name. Prob his best track or certainly in top 5.
Last pièce is a variation of "now she's blonde"
someone can do the tracklist?
1:36 - Protocol
14:26 - Blue Matter
29:14 - Loud Jazz
40:25 - True Love
51:33 - Dance Me Home
El pianista quizá no puede repetir una sola nota a fusas pero tampoco se le rompe ninguna cuerda
😷
interesting that scofild doesnt had a second guitar ready. nice.
or had.
niiiice
hahaha
Now that I have finally listened and watched several of John's music video's I have formed an opinion. His playing sounds convoluted to me, all mixed up and all over the place. So, I actually don't like listening to him play. I give him that he is different and original in his style but it's just not for me. -Peter 72
legendary, wore out this tape from radio broadcast so heavily