Don Grolnick, Michael Brecker, Bill Frisell, Jeff Watts, Marc Johnson - 7th Ave South, NYC 12/20/85
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- This is the kind of show you could expect to see at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village in the first half of the 1980s: local jazz giants teaming up in an ad hoc configuration for a couple of shows. Not a touring or recording band, just friends getting together and having fun. Every week I would scan the ads in the Village Voice to see who was playing (the ad for this gig is in the graphic above - misspelling Jeff Watts' last name). After 7th Ave. So. closed down in 1986, Fat Tuesday's became the next best thing for current jazz/jazz-rock shows. Don Grolnick is one of those under-the-radar musicians everyone has probably heard (he played on many albums by, among others, Steely Dan, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Carly Simon, as well as with many jazz artists), but is largely unknown outside of the jazz world. He unfortunately passed away at a relatively young age in 1996. To me this was a dream band, as I was heavily into Frisell and Jeff Watts, and Brecker of course was legendary. This was the only time I saw Frisell play with Brecker. They played an interesting mix of tunes, including two by Wayne Shorter and a George Russell tune. In Grolnick's tune Human Bites, there is an almost 3-minute long stretch beginning at 38:30 where Brecker and Watts do this ferocious Trane-Elvin-like duo. It's probably the closest I ever came to getting a sense of what it must have felt like to see Coltrane live. Following on the heels of that duet is a Frisell solo beginning around 42:00 that sounds like heavy metal thunder.
Don Grolnick - piano
Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone and EWI
Bill Frisell - guitar
Marc Johnson - bass
Jeff Watts - drums
00:00 How Blue Is It? (later re-titled Nothing Personal) (D Grolnick)
13:35 Rambler (B Frisell)
25:10 Same Girl (R Newman)
27:54 Infant Eyes (W Shorter)
36:47 Human Bites (D Grolnick)
45:23 Stratusphunk (G Russell)
1:02:03 Regret (D Grolnick)
1:14:27 Fall (incomplete)(W Shorter)
Recorded on a Sony Walkman Pro D6C with Sony ECM-102 stereo microphone. Uploaded here solely for educational purposes and historical interest. Enjoy.
Wow, this is like finding precious treasure, huge Grolnick fan. Awesome, thank you!!
glad you like. There's also a set of this band from the next night on my channel if you're interested.
@@StephenBuckingham oh ok I'll check it out, thanks. Jeff "Tain" Watts is awesome.
Jazz gold. 🪙 Thank you for sharing this.
dig. those were the days..
Thank you Stephen for another wonderful upload-I agree with your comments when introducing this set; it is refreshing to hear musical friends jamming and not there just to support their new record-the kind of jazz club I prefer also.
Always enjoyed Don Grolnick's playing so it's nice to find this.
The Rambler (one of my favorite Frisell's album) is marvellous
Great to hear this, what a time to be alive! Everything Don Gronlick touches shines so brightly. Thanks for sharing this gem.
👌🔥🔥🔥
It's to sad the last track is incomplete...But what amazing live and eclectics musicians
Good night for Tain. He puts a real feeling on everything. This was recorded five weeks after my only visit to Seventh Avenue South, to see John Scofield during a visit from Canada. Memories.
Glad you made it there the one time. Great place to see Scofield. That must have been the Blue Matter band with Dennis Chambers and Gary Grainger. A HOT band!
@@StephenBuckingham A year or two earlier. I think basically the band he threw together after he left Miles. Yossi Fine on bass, Mark Cohen keyboards, Ricky Sebastian drums. Still Warm was the latest album. He groused, jokingly, while changing a string that Sting had hired Omar and Darryl Jones away from him. Funniest thing was, Jaco Pastorius was at the bar downstairs and the bassist did a terrified double-take when he saw him on the way in.
The first reprise of Michael Brecker is superb
Thanks.
It's sad when the applauses are comes before the end of solos or end
grolnick!!!!
Randy Newman's piece is beautyfull (i have a version play on piano by Marcus Miller in a Dave Sanborn disc)
On CD it's Mike Stern ; Jack Dejohnette ; Adam Nusbaum ; Herbie Hancock...who play (but this live is the best combinaison)
Stratusphunk is a sublimation blues in B bémol (diatonique)
Regret is an optical réal music
that is a yawn