John McLaughlin & Herbie Hancock: Turn Out The Stars

[FunkMan53]

what the FUCK?

[andrewyka]

Wonderful!!!

[blitzspeer]

Nice mellow music by 2 very talented gents.This music tends to make an average music listener frustrated do to the lack of common rhythm but for a musician this is thinking music but like all genre's it has a time and place depending on your mood.

[rukussert]

yesssss

[rukussert]

yesssss

[AlessandroFortarel]

two fabulous artists in an equally fabulous version of this standard .. my idol Herbie Hancock at its best, every his harmonic choice frees the mind and soul

[Paiste2002100]

OMG!!!!!! What a STUNNING performance!!!!

[bce5150]

can someone help me pick up my medulla oblongata cuz i think my brains are splattered against the wall

[SuzanaLascu]

where is this happening? and when?

[dorian411]

BodhiSvaha- Thanks for your considered comments. Can't really disagree. Herbie is a gem...Carry on !

[wynnegum1]

Awe inspiring. I'm left breathless by this performance.

One of the few times I HAVE to post....

thanks for putting it out there pix

[BodhiSvaha]

here are a few songs to check out

footprints live

chan's song

edith and the kingpin

tea leaf prophecy

all-star set

show me one song with more depth than those...

[BodhiSvaha]

you can't really say anything about anyone, but there is something about herbie that no one else has. not to put anyone down. he is playing in a newer realm, ever expanding. he has a freedom and ease that is enchanting. he has class that no other musician on the planet can possibly hold a candle to. there is a magic there on the level of miles...and it just keeps getting better...the newer stuff is unbelievable...

[BodhiSvaha]

they all have that touch, but herbie is in a league of his own. tatum is incredible, but it sounds more speed for speed's sake after a while. oscar has incredible depth, but can be a bit much at times. bill might have had the most intimate touch of anyone, but it begins to sound the same...not that that is a bad thing... herbie has all of that, with a reserve and capacity to surprise that no one else in history can be considered on par with...and endless creativity...look at his output...

[watmorecanisay1290]

WTF JM is standing???

[stimeeee]

"The only thing wrong with an opinion is, everyone has one!"

[bzbzob]

This is beautiful. Thanks for posting it.

[haroliyk]

No need to waste time on this dirge. Go check out some Satriani or Steve Vai videos.

[gh103]

@haroliyk You having a laugh mate? They couldn't lace Johns boots.

[gasparovsky1]

@haroliyk

man,youre retard

[gasparovsky1]

@haroliyk

man yxoure retard fuck you and those two retards

[haroliyk]

@gasparovsky1 How many times can you use the word 'retard' in one breath?

Keep practicing and you will keep improving.

- Oh, and stop sucking balls all the time.

[rexasul]

@haroliyk Best be trollin'.

[Upritebass]

Beautiful guys! Beautiful! Bravo! Bravo!  Encore! GOD, that was beeautiful piano!

[pierrejazzlover]

What great musicians!!! n bill evans is one the best composers ever in Jazz history, excellent music!!!

[NJlo]

I love both these musicians, but to quote my theory teacher, 'Herbie needed somebody like Miles Davis to keep him in his place'. There's no better playing of his than in his Miles days. If I were him and I could play all that fancy shit I'd prolly do it too, but it's so full!

[BodhiSvaha]

@NJlo herbie is the greatest pianist of all time

[dorian411]

@BodhiSvaha Funny! At a minimum Art, Oscar and Bill might have some things to say...Herbie is good though.

[maidoodesu]

very nice !...thank you ( ありがとう )

[tonet5761]

Brilliant! As always from these two greats..

[matambale]

This video is very fine - beautiful texture, but give a listen to McLaughlin's disc "Time Remembered"; JM stays a bit more....inside the lines, so to speak. It's a brilliant tribute to Bill Evans, yet stands on its own.

[notthedinosaur]

i'm so happy i was able to hear and see this

i can only hope to one day be half the musician of herbie, or john

[AZIARGROUS]

amazing.. i would have liked a cleaner effect on Mclaughlin guitar... still amazing though.

[fabianidhesona]

@AZIARGROUS hes playing on the clean channel actually. but John is using his guitar with a computer here,so the signal goes straight to the computer and then I guess to the speakers, not a regular amp. you can tell its not an amp tone. he also plays that way with remember Shakti.checl him out, the sound is the same.

[bibivox]

@fabianidhesona there wasn't a computer, he used the Sony DPS M7.

[ESmithStringSlinger]

I agree,oatbuck. I am humbled...

[rafperf54]

che meraviglia!

[oatbuck]

Wow !

How lucky I am to have lived a life in the era of this beautiful talent.

[hartistry1957]

Ahhhhhhhhh. thanks man.

[awesomejohnnet]

wow two masters painting pictures with music.. such freedom in their comand...

[mattleemattlee123]

While I truly love JM, I wish he'd turn off the chorus unit...just ONCE in a while...and play more than three notes in a row without using the Bigsby.

But hey...he's the artist. It's how he hears it. He can do what he wants.

[DustinDrums1]

JM i think has the best guitar tone... competitor would be eric johnson... what do you guys think?

[Guitar126]

jm definately has some awesome tone, but i think he had the best tone during his mahavishnu orchestra days, that stuff was so raw and loud!! i aspire to have tone like that someday

[DustinDrums1]

really? i would say his chops were more fresh back in the mahavishnu days, but i think his musical maturity and tone have improved a lot since then

[Guitar126]

i agree with you how his musical maturity has improved, but eh its just my opinion with the tone thing i guess. im into more of the early fusion stuff and i think that jm's distorted tone on the first couple of mo albums was top notch. i like pat methenys tone though, that reminds me of jm's tone on this video

[ESmithStringSlinger]

@DustinDrums1

No competition,or comparison.Eric J. is a fine player,and all but for a piece like this John is a great Comp. player for Herbie.John is a great comp.player for alot of piano players.Herbie is a players player,to say the least.

[EZIOTHEMASTER]

@DustinDrums1 Eric Johnson's tone IMHO is a bit shrill, I'd go for early McLaughlin.

[zakcattack]

I've never seen JM on a big hollow guitar, he sounds great, keeps his acoustic tone well

[ESmithStringSlinger]

@zakcattack

If you look back,John used a Gibson Hummingbird for work with Tony William's Lifetime,and in his first solo album.Using that on Miles Davis "Silent Way" in 1969,as well

[zakcattack]

Huh, I guess I associate him most with his Les Paul and the double neck rainbow from MO days, as well as his acoustic from shakti. Makes sense though, he is a jazz guy after all

[ESmithStringSlinger]

@zakcattack

He always has been Jazz,and usually takes a style to the Nth degree! You need to check out his latest release out soon called "For The One",another dedication to John Coltrane.John reach is still far for this stratospheric level.

[zakcattack]

Yeah JC touched something deep, very deep

[SteefStevens]

i think herbie is very pissed of.. he hits the yamaha straight through the floor! john is somewhere else haha john is amazing.. so is herbie.. those cats always are

[djkocisi]

i think johns presence makes herbie sound more like chick..

[optmystik]

hmmm... a lot of this guitar stuff sounds like vapid elevator music to me tho. guess i'm still not old enough. on a cruise ship with a shit load of coke and gallons of gin could be good.

[pyromohanzed]

1:18 => Those are cross rhythms, I don't think it is SO banal as elevator music. Why would coke help?

[asxefv]

you have some serious problems then

[anarchopaperclip]

Lol. Check out McLaughlin work witht the mahavishnu orchestra. It was by far the loudest band of its time.

[bobtork]

That wonderful version! Some idiots who write here want a genius like McLaughlin do an simple imitation of Bill? What nonsense!!!

[unclejunglebass]

damn JM has suhweet tone here!

[jazzpsalti]

what a fuckin piece of music this is!!! Bill Evans forever

[ales65100]

ok vecchio john sei un grande

[alirink]

Great Communication at 3:27 :-)

[WalterDiamond]

An absolute classic tune. I'm a JM disciple, but I think the Art Friedman Trio's version of this song is the best I've heard. Find it if you can. Michael Pattituci on bass. Wonderful languid pace.

[obgyno]

i think you mean JOHN pattituci. I dont think there is a Michael Pattituci

[rrichko5049]

to john even though you sound great as usual id like to hear you play without any affects on your guitar and mabe even a chord melody

[jazznfood]

On a second listen, the thought occurred to me that neither Herbie or John (both of whom I worship), really have the tune itself in mind in their improvisations. Bill Evans always maintained that no matter how far out he got in his solos, it was always about working within the structure of the tune and with respect to the tune. Herbie's solos mostly consist of his characteristic licks that don't at all arise from "Turn Out the Stars" interspersed with melodic segments from the tune itself.

[jazznfood]

This is so tasteful. However, I must say that it doesn't even rival the composer's, Bill Evans', recordings of this tune. That doesn't take away from this recording, but some of the licks that Herbie plays don't seem to be at all in accordance with Bill's conception of this tune.

[mantatnam]

hes not playing no damn licks he plays melodies

[jazznfood]

Just curious, have you heard Bill Evans and Jim Hall's original piano/guitar recording of this tune?

[unclejunglebass]

but its herbie and john's conception, not evans'. herbie's just doin the herbie thing.

[batman4453]

ERArocker - try some early Chick Corea ... Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Corea/Clarke/DiMeola) was around the same time as Inner Mounting Flame..

[watersydpalmerzoso]

La Puta Madre!!! se va a la bosta , muy buenoo!

[jimmied01]

Unbelievable! 2 masters at work here. JM has grown so much since the MO days. This one brought tears to my eyes, just beautiful, makes me want to quit playing....

[giampi46]

Due geni!!!!!

[cegonha02]

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN is GOD!

[mario21128]

wow, truly inspiring, these guys are my two biggest influences in the jazz world.

[jmsbk12345]

Anyone else think that McLaughlin's most exciting playing was with the original MO?

[GDarkstar74]

yeah probably with mahavishnu and shakti/remember shakti were his most exciting and interesting music.

[ERArocker]

damn straight...Inner Mounting Flame rules! I'm currently exploring jazz other than MO (such as Miles Davis, Coltrane and Hancock) any suggestions?

[flipperboy]

Charlie Parker, Theloniuos monk, Jelly roll morton, Bud powell, Stan getz, Gerry Mulligan and Charles Mingus

[newthings158]

Chick Corea's "Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy", Larry Coryell's "11th House", Chick Corea "Circle", anything by Gary Burton...lately I'm having a love affair with Ornette Colman and Art Tatum...there are so many greats!

[masterofallhesurveys]

You have got to check the John Coltrane quartet playing 'Vigil" live in Belguim around 1965.Theres a 9 minute posting available on youtube.

[DFitzTube]

this is too cool

[larry3393]

Can some1 pleaase tell me what guitar he using here? is it a gibson?

[bzbzob]

@larry3393 Johnny Smith Gibson

[ESmithStringSlinger]

Herbie,as always has a graceful touch and is a wonderful acoustic player.And John is a master at comping,and playing over the changes.He's been bashed about the soft tone,or not the right one in this type of context.Tone can be changed...a matter of choice.

[xRisingForcex]

this is one of the most delightful performances i've heard from mclaughlin

[Bluezking]

John can do what ever he plz.His choice.

Can't we shut our big mouth n listen?

[axegrinder9]

wow there are people here who are bitching about John McLaughlin? c'mon fellas rip a tube, and listen to this again.

[orlandoCF1]

No big issue, people are just giving personal opinions on John because of his sound. John McLaughlin is a master guitarist but listen to him with Herbie. Honestly....

[xRisingForcex]

i know right?

[icecreamforcrowhurst]

Beautiful music- beautiful people.

[orlandoCF1]

I think they both played together very well, I just didnt like Johns tone on that beautiful guitar of his. His playing was great though. (acoustic piano & chorus guitar) :(

[abhinav333]

I agree. The tone doesn't go well with the piano. He culd have used a sharper tone that complements Herbie's piano

[jinalanguniafrika]

y'all leave them alone...and innovate something of your own.

that's what's killing this music...people thinking that they have to sound like something from the past to make thier story relevant, to make it "jazz".

go listen to a tribute album if that's what youre looking for.

these are free spirits- STOP HATIN!

[Upritebass]

@jinalanguniafrika Agreed. The musical mentality has de evolved so much on the whole in America, hasn't it? How could anyone not like this? Or at least appreciate it? I've heard John at his best B4, but I have to admit, I haven't heard HH play lke this B4. NOw I see why he is considered one of the greats. :-) He's fantastic!!!!

[OneBigRetard]

Listening to Herbie sounds like walking through mud. Benson would have more trad jazz set piece phrases, thats not Mclaughlins approach. But this is beautiful and as always far more imaginitive and with far superior time than Benson.

[osensei2987]

I feel you bro! Forget these idiots that are hatin on your post! Even rockers and shredders are getting away from effects these days and are going for the organic sound of guitar straight into the amp. The effects are just cheesy and sound dated! But Johnny Mac never did have a tone that was worth shit anyway!

[padleynj]

Just F.Y.I. this is a Bill Evan's tune........

[buddyro57]

Don't see the big deal? Well, you may need to do a little research; Yes, I would say that JM is a jazz guitarist, but also has a pretty broad scope of influences. He is acknowledged pioneer of fusion, played on Bitches Brew, was the founder of Mahavishnu - has written and performed his own classical concerto...need I continue?

[Steakfinger]

John McLaughlin has technical greatness. I would say he's sort of a jazz guitarist. Other than speed and some things that sound other-world to most people who are ignorant of Indian classical music, I don't see the big deal. Really.

[Sopranoguitar]

This could be very historical performance, however to me, Herbie was getting in a way for John to develop his solo and I wonder why Herbie was playing so busy behind John since we all know that how great pianist Herbie is, so there was no need for him to prove that unless he was kind of obsessed with unnecessary ego at a moment instead of creating music together with John. I see kind of disappointing musicianship of Herbie here. It is not any kind of interplay how Bill and Jim created together.

[bigfatgreek]

They both played magnificently together.

[dorian411]

Superb.

I wonder if it is only when JM leaves this veil of tears that the music world will begin to understand his utter GREATNESS and majesty.

[lwzeis]

ill cry like a baby when that day comes

[luke125]

Herbie is a genius and McLaughlin plays fabulous too.

[hallmanjon]

I kinda see Dimeola as an imitation of one of John's many dimensions.

[William102582]

I LOVE IT!!!

[gotrottin]

I am a huge John McLaughlin fan but I really didn't enjoy John's playing here. He's repeating the same runs he was using a lot during that period and the sound didn't mesh well with the piano. Herbie was flawless.

[denjz]

I think exactly the opposite-it's Herbie that didn't play with John,even interrupted him in the middle of his solo instead of supporting him.John played as good as usual,it's just that you need two to tango :-)

[moresteve]

I agree with you. We all forget our manners sometimes and I think Herbie got a little carried away. John did not fight it and I thought that was good!

[schifosojo]

The best jazz guitarist to ever live. His legacy will never die. Herbie is also incredible.

[alejandrojazzmetal]

fantastic melody

[ignaciomoran]

It's so wonderful to hear Herbie and John in this context. The voicings are interesting and perfect for this mood. It's understated but so deep and profound. It's real jazz. The other side of McLaughlin and Herbie.

[Modernjazz1]

Turn Out the Stars, is a great Bill Evans composition. Hancock and McLaughlin do a great job on this wonderful tune.

[filipebalestra]

fantaaaastic melodies.

[Jazzfan666]

I'm not a very big fan of John McLaughlin, but I love Herbie Hancock and this video shows why.