"Four" part 1 by Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Roy Assaf, Francois Moutin, Kendrick Scott

[BashuUp]

Ohh, ever so bad! ;-)

[Selmerpilot]

what's really sad is this brilliant video has only 14k hits. If the world only knew........

[Selmerpilot]

went to Berklee with Kendrick. Brilliant then, brilliant now. undoubtedly my favorite drummer

[eciarm]

Lovano and Potter melt into the rhythm section...it's beautiful

[rubberbandsax]

These guys are kickin knowledge

[ZootSuits1]

LIKE



[MichaelBrandonSax]

Who is danny walsh? ginger?

[JazzmanZL]

thats hot! some of the hotest jazz i have head in a while!

[TripleOctaveMusic]

I done my own version of his All the things....but ..ehh check it out

[piedlin10]

Man this is so fucking awesome! Thanks for posting!!!

[rcjazz44]

Too hip. Joe is the man.

[ThesometimesYband]

@boxing1000 Danny Walsh is the best Alto Player since Bird? I think you're forgetting some people... Cannonball, Phil Woods, Sonny Stitt to name a few.

[boxing1000]

@ThesometimesYband They are great players but a prime Danny was unbelievable..

[AlexTerrier]

@boxing1000 I would like to hear you play and demonstrate what is a good melody, please, educate me. anyhow, I know Danny Walsh music, he is a fantastic player, but as far as I know (but I don't know every single album he did) he stays in the bop and plays it beautifully. but man, the history doesnt stop in 1955. and what about Vincent Herring? David Binney? Miguel Zenon? etc... I doubt Danny despise Potter and Lovo. Miles probably didnt know what he was doing when he hired Kenny Garrett...

[boxing1000]

@AlexTerrier Oh, you don't need me..just listen to Trane,Henderson,Bergonzi,Gross­man when adressing the tenor.All of the them have something in common: a superb sense of melody combined with fantastic time.Simply put:they have TASTE.Binney and Zenon are fine players but not killers like the ones mentioned above,guys that have DEFINED the modern saxophone.And yeah,it doesn't stop in '55..check out stone alliance which is a million times better than what Potter's underground is trying to imitate..

[confoozled3737]

@boxing1000 Have you listened to any of Coltrane's later stuff? Interstellar Space? If so, you can see for yourself that your argument makes no sense. Lovano and Potter are two of the most monumental players of our time. I'm sorry that you don't appreciate their playing. I don't know if you just haven't listened enough, or don't play yourself, or just have never had any sort of guidance or general musical understanding throughout the course of your life, but man, just listen to the music.

[dayve10]

@confoozled3737 Two of the greatest EVER. True improvisors and masters of their instruments. Anyhow.... I wonder how they would sound if they traded mouthpieces. I know the content would be the same but just curious how the textures would have come across and affected the ingestion of all of THIS SAXOPHONE playing. Thanks @alexterrier

[boxing1000]

No melodies, jagged lines, the two most overrated tenor players trying to play jazz..ZZzzzzzzz.....

[vpsaxman]

@boxing1000 which living player do you like?

[boxing1000]

@vpsaxman Jerry Bergonzi and Steve Grossman also Ralph Moore and Ralph Bowen are great, not killers like the Gonz and Steve but still..anybody that plays melodies,really.

[vpsaxman]

@boxing1000 well I like Gonz and Steve as much as the 2 guys in this video. They don't play alike but there is melody, development and direction. Just like any form of art, new directions take a little getting used to.

[boxing1000]

@vpsaxman Well, I can't hear any melodies here, sorry...just because something is new it doesn't mean that it is good,which in most cases it is not.You can't reinvent the wheel, I am afraid,,Asking me to get used to this is like asking me to get used to eating bad food.But if you like it good for you, maybe you hear some things I don't...peace

[boxing1000]

@vpsaxman Oh, and the best alto player since Bird?Danny Walsh...no one is even close.Do you know him?

[vpsaxman]

@boxing1000 That's cool man, whatever you feel. However, you're assuming Potter and Lovano are bad players I'm trying to "feed" you. I used to hate coffee and tea, now I couldn't live without them. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad. No "reinventing the wheel"? Are you joking? That's what jazz is all about : forward motion both literally and figuratively.

[boxing1000]

@vpsaxman Oh, I realise that playing the way they do probably takes a lot o time and effort,it just doesn't sound good to me...as far as moving forward,this means to me it has to sound good ( and this is relative, i understand)otherwise going "forward" does not mean anything to me.What i am trying to say is, that its very easy to have your own stye and but to have your own style that sounds good?...very,very difficult...

[vpsaxman]

@boxing1000 Just watch a few of Danny Walsh"s clips on youtube. Is a great player but, again "best since Bird", "not even close"? There have been guys with as much or more individual personality, both in their tones and melodic / harmonic approach than Danny Walsh like Kenny Garrett, Ornette Coleman, Mike Lewis, Arthur Blythe, Will Vinson, Rudresh Mahanthappa and so on... All these guys are very different but very awesome in their own way.

[boxing1000]

@vpsaxman Danny's best work is not on youtube.I am afraid but please do not use his name in the same sentence with Kenny Garrett...lightning might strike;-)

[vpsaxman]

@boxing1000 what? lol

[boxing1000]

@vpsaxman In the 80'ies and 90'ies Danny's alto playing was from another planet

[vpsaxman]

@boxing1000 any album name I could check?

[boxing1000]

@vpsaxman Man,most of his grear stuff isn't recored on cd,I am afraid..I got some tapes(believe it or not) where he plays in a way that should be illegal...there is a record of his called "D's mood" which is pretty good, also he is on myspace with some clips,check those out.Playing the saxophone is so natural for this guy as it is for you and me to look out of the window.

[boxing1000]

@vpsaxman Did you check Danny on myspace?

[vpsaxman]

@boxing1000 I did. He's a great player but I think there have been and still are more individual voices out there.

[Superdry1302]

@boxing1000 what's wrong with kenny garrett?

[boxing1000]

@Superdry1302 Nothing.He's just not a top player..

[Superdry1302]

@boxing1000 haha not a top player.... you really are very ignorant. I checked out your danny walsh bloke. he can play saxophone to an acceptable standard but to even compare him to bird, garrett, lovano, potter etc is just laughable. so jog on, listen to as much walsh as you like and let people with ears listen to jazz. bloody idiot

[AlexTerrier]

@Superdry1302 forget about it, boxing1000 keeps posting senseless comments about Lovo and Potter, he must have had some kind of frustration, I don't know. We're giving him way too much credit just reading his posts. Who is making the music? not boxing1000. Who is appreciating it? not boxing1000.

[Superdry1302]

@AlexTerrier hey man your right. i checked out your channel, dead like your playing. your sound is fierce.

[AlexTerrier]

@Superdry1302 thx for the kind words, but do you know who has the best sound in HISTORY? ask boxing1000 who obviously knows the Truth... I had to block him, my tolerance has its limits. see you around.

[boxing1000]

@AlexTerrier How do you know..?

[boxing1000]

@Superdry1302 Ok, I can see that having parents who are brother an sister poses problems as this is clearly the case with you.The fact that you quote Garrett,Lovano,Potter and bird in the same sentence tells me you know as much about jazz as a cow does about laying eggs.You would sell your mother to have 1 percent of Danny's ability (not that she would fetch much) But I know your goal in life is to blow Lovano while getting fucked in the ass by Lovano.Good luck with that.

[Superdry1302]

@boxing1000 wow, vulgarities. great argument pal. your ignorance continues to astound me. And i shouldn't of said danny walsh is shit. he's not. but even you must know he's not a patch on these giants

[boxing1000]

@Superdry1302 As far as I remember you started with insults,right?A prime Danny blows these guys to pieces.

[Superdry1302]

@boxing1000 are you danny walsh? or his son or something?

[boxing1000]

@Superdry1302 ZZzzzzzz.....

[moonstruckdorian]

@boxing1000 Hey man, opinions are opinions, and that's cool that you think what you think and do what you do. It's always interesting to me how 2 people can hear the same thing, yet not hear anything alike. In this video, all I hear is beautiful melodies and it's very cool and interesting that you hear something else.

[moonstruckdorian]

One thing to consider is that when Bird came out, his music was looked at very similarly to how you're viewing Lovano and Potter. Give it 50 years, and cats will be saying, "Man, remember the good old days, when Joe Lovano and Chris Potter were the cats. That's what jazz is supposed to be."

[moonstruckdorian]

I do respect your opinion. It's great that you're not agreeing with something you don't hear just to fit in. I hope maybe this will shed some light onto what some of us are hearing. If not, no worries. Life goes on.

[boxing1000]

@moonstruckdorian Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it...

[DomPusey]

The look on Chris Potters face when Lovano is soloing. . . How I'd love to be able to see it in the same way he does.

[dolphytone]

Lovano was kicking that flow like a man pocessed he really thinks on his feet and doesn't bother with the usual cliches

[AlexTerrier]

The second part of this video and other tunes are uploaded on the link in the description.

[jazzmaster7]

Thanks for Posting! This is beautiful. 2 Greats together. Wow.

[AlexTerrier]

that was a pretty amazing night, so many great musicians packed in this bar, playing just for fun, awsome vibe.

got more footage of the hour long set Lovo-Potter that I'll upload.

[simaypierre]

Thanks a lot for posting and sharing this video. The jazz we love.

[checkthisout]

This is amazing, what a great example a present day jazz greatness.

[Soulnik]

Superb!