He makes IT appear effortless. And he sounds straight ahead until he sounds out there and back again.Scary. Glad I've seen him twice, once as a guest at a DEAD show at MSG, and once leading a quartet at the Jazz Standard, and both by chance.
Yes, he is like George Adams in the way he plays straight ahead inside jazz and blues of the highest order and then goes outside like it was nothing and then back in and so on. I love that about these guys playing. I saw him twice 4 years ago and got to talk to him too. The guy's amazing.
IMO David Murray is very overrated player,I've caught him live and on records since the early 80's. His Paul Gonsalves tribute concert in Boston 20 years ago was a joke. His abililites certainly don't merit him having one of the largest recorded outputs of any Jazz artist of the last couple of decades. A media darling early on when over-hyping new young saxophonists as the 2nd coming of Trane was commonplace. As a player he is not even close a Gary Thomas, Branford, Potter. When the critics would place a Chico Freeman or Murray above a Brecker in the Down Beat polls I'd just sit back and say WHAT!!!
@@rinahall David Murray WAS NOT being thought of as the "next Trane". He had his own unique sound and THAT is why he was so highly regarded at that time, and still is. All of those others you mentioned, while certainly excellent saxophonists, did come out of the Trane mold. So your whole rant on him stands on a faulty first premise. Hopefully, this clears things up for you. And you are, of course, free to prefer any other sax player and ignore the fresh and compelling sound of David Murray.
I may have been in the audience here. Saw this band at the VV several times around then. Always amazed by Ed Blackwell. Such efficiency,
In the early 80s I was lucky to see and listen his orchestra twice here in Finland Tampere and Pori - so I'm a jazz fan ever since !
St. Louis strong is this video. Ya love to see it!
Beautiful!! David Murray is sooooo baaaaaaaad!
Always so much hope in his music.
What a great way to spend 20minutes, love this !
Damn what a band. Superb
20年近く前、大阪帝国ホテルの、地下バーで浴びたQuarteの演奏がなつかしく瞼によみがえる。
Wow !! God bless him...
He makes IT appear effortless. And he sounds straight ahead until he sounds out there and back again.Scary.
Glad I've seen him twice, once as a guest at a DEAD show at MSG, and once leading a quartet at the Jazz Standard, and both by chance.
Yes, he is like George Adams in the way he plays straight ahead inside jazz and blues of the highest order and then goes outside like it was nothing and then back in and so on. I love that about these guys playing. I saw him twice 4 years ago and got to talk to him too. The guy's amazing.
I andra from Sweden and hörd dis saxplayre Long Ago itS Still a journie
The first tune is "Off Season" by David Murray. Beautiful!
"INTENSELY"
El mejor Jazz. Quien tenga oídos que oiga... Un lindo loco, un delirante del saxo
Simply put, just brilliant !!!!!!!!
Great!! The last piece was brilliant!
awesome
I wish I was there. Qonjonett !!!
Lucky to be alive...
Now I realize where James Carter got his schtick from.
Does anyone know the name of that first tune they started with or maybe possibly a lead sheet for that tune?
Hopkins and Blackwell. What losses when these two passed.
I think his 80s Octet was the pinnacle. What a supergroup!!
ホーク、レスター、ベン、トレーン、ロリンズに比肩する唯一の現役テナー♫
Not so much to rival as to be in their category, in their lineage of the historical development of the instrument.
He wrote the Cassandra song based on Greek myths. Sheer poetry.
What's a first tune's title?
According to discogs "Off Season" from "Morning Song" Album.
No shit... Beauty...
To not let the melodious Fred Hopkins solo is tragic.
This is the shit!
He sounds like a talented amateur.
funny troll
Careful now, your obvious inability to comprehend the complexity of this music 🎶 is showing, and glaringly too !!
Great....a real contemporary jazzman with a big sound👏🎶🎼🤗✡️🇺🇸🇺🇸🎷🎵
innovation is a little bit of the unknown, there is no wrong way or right way. just play!
IMO David Murray is very overrated player,I've caught him live and on records since the early 80's. His Paul Gonsalves tribute concert in Boston 20 years ago was a joke. His abililites certainly don't merit him having one of the largest recorded outputs of any Jazz artist of the last couple of decades. A media darling early on when over-hyping new young saxophonists as the 2nd coming of Trane was commonplace. As a player he is not even close a Gary Thomas, Branford, Potter. When the critics would place a Chico Freeman or Murray above a Brecker in the Down Beat polls I'd just sit back and say WHAT!!!
You simply do not know of what you speak.
@@howardrobinson4938 prove it
@@rinahall David Murray WAS NOT being thought of as the "next Trane". He had his own unique sound and THAT is why he was so highly regarded at that time, and still is. All of those others you mentioned, while certainly excellent saxophonists, did come out of the Trane mold. So your whole rant on him stands on a faulty first premise. Hopefully, this clears things up for you. And you are, of course, free to prefer any other sax player and ignore the fresh and compelling sound of David Murray.
Playing this music is the black man saying f-U . Go to hell, for the suffering and kidnappings of our people. Now go back to hell. no thank you.