Chick Corea and Friends - Straight no chaser

[ToroCheng34]

WTH was Chick wearing?? XD

[SCOPOtuaMADRE]

BORING

[PoeticJustice05]

@SCOPOtuaMADRE It might be boring, if you're uneducated about music.

[jazzuffe]

So fantastic. Bob Berg.

[tavadigelovani]

what a bass player!

[Lukasoncapeta]

What a great team!!!

:D

[Jordainio]

Wow nice video. Cool to hear this rhythm section with Berg.

[ninja1dalbem]

please include the name of the musicians in the description!

[sergioz07]

@ninja1dalbem

Bob Berg(sax), Eddie Gomez(bass), Chick Corea(piano), Steve Gadd(drums) XD

[SuperHighGloss]

playing simple and sounding awesome at it goes for who in this groovy clip?

then, what a spot-on and surprising fill at 7:20!

yeah, i'm a drummer

[erichngage]

DUDE!! that bassist plays so cool!!

[fusi0nista]

@erichngage that's no other than the great Eddie Gomez!

[fusi0nista]

@erichngage he is the great eddie gomez!

[LEONCODAJJ]

Gran tema de TELONIOUS MONK !!

[StandardSam1]

I didn't really listen.... I mean really listen, to drummers until hearing Gadd for the first time. The groove is always spot on with him. Fantastic!

[rafysax]

Bob Berg was a perfect pitch...

[EoN604]

This is seriously awesome. Love this great performance of a great track. Check out the later Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin one also on youtube if you havent, very cool.

[Laight4work]

they are having fun here . . no doubt . . best wasy to pay tribute to Monk is to have fun (of course they play the living shit out of this as well . . )

[batukada09]

Gadd's groove just makes me sick it's so good!!!!

[nthsieh928]

what mouthpiece does bob berg use? it doesnt really look like anything ive typically seen.

[triads99]

I believe it was a custom Francois Louis mpc...

[digiblood]

I have no proof for this. But from the choice of drummer chick corea has made so far I'm inclined to think he wouldn't like this very in the pocket groove. He seems to prefer busy grooves that pushes the music.

Nothing against Gadd, i do think he's probably the top 3 most influencial in my generation.

[aronizer]

Eddie looks younger without mustache :P

[eelRolyat]

One of my favorite Chick Corea albums is "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs".

[Trommestikken88]

The solos Steve plays at this concert are some of the sickest he's ever done. He's SOOOOO GOOOOOD with an amazing groove

[gloucester414]

Virtuoso's is certainly the word, these people are a group rather then a band and the amount of time they all have been around makes that even more extreme. It might be interesting for you to listen to their early 70's stuff, like Miles Davis "live at the Fillmore Bill Evans from that time.

[SixPantsMaloney]

For years I thought I didn't like jazz. But, after just listening to Buddy Rich play this tune, I realize I really don't care for Chick. This tune can really swing. Chick seems to noodle around with it like a precocious child.

This does not mean he's not great, a legend, etc. I'm sure he's brilliant on levels I'll never understand. But my musical "gut" feeling just falls completely flat.

[gloucester414]

You will have to listen a bit more to this music, I think!

[SixPantsMaloney]

I've listened to quite a bit of the Acoustic Band stuff from the early 90's. It was WAY over my head then.

As I revisit it with (hopefully) a bit more musical understanding I still don't key into it. I know this sounds harsh, but sometimes it feels like 3 virtuosos bent on impressing each other and soloing rather than constructing a lucid tune. Maybe you have some insights?

But maybe that's just it... the whole idea is about individual musical flamboyance and not necessarily this cohesive

[SixPantsMaloney]

... composition.

Maybe I'm just too egalitarian to understand jazz! I'm sure you guys can set me straight!

[march191947]

My sense is that Corea and Berg [and other serious players] are actually intimidated by what Monk and Coltrane laid down- which is perhaps impossible to extend, as it's so developmentally complete. This results in attempts to 'do something different'. While it's fine to musically search, a player must have a deep message. I also don't hear that here.

[AviramG]

Hey SixPants,

This isn't the group with patittuci and weckle obviously but if you listen to acoustic band, listen closely to the bass solos... then you'll hear just how closely that bunch of players know and understand each other, and how cohesive they are and yet how ZEN they are when it comes to at once playing a lot of information AND never disturbing one another (but communicating fluently).

[ilikememusic]

how about hearing MONK play it lol

[xxxreddy71]

bob berg

[jazzsax77]

whos on sax?

[LilJapBoi]

Steve Gadd is amazing on the drums. damn.

[Pilbromatic]

Very cool! How does the bass player do it!? Haha.

[RCW45]

The funkiest Monk, the 'Monkiest' funk...

¡Grande Thelonious, grande Chick!

[javijazztazz]

I love this song funky

[RCW45]

Something funny about the 'rivalry' between Chick and Keith.

Buenos Aires, 1979 or 1980. First visit of Chick to Argentina with an electric band. Great concert. Near the end Chick introduces his musicians ('XXX on bass, YYY on drums...') and he ends saying '... and my name is Keith Jarrett'. ¡Genius!

[FLCL2010]

lol he said he was herbie hancock at a return to forever get back together concert.

[paradust]

i love this song and this is my favorite version of it. though personally i would electrocute the camera crew for their negligence towards Steve Gadd (see the entire concert and youll know what i mean, especially Sicily). awesome concert though. anybody seen a dvd with it? been looking all over for it...

[rawr0206]

who's on doublebass

[javijazztazz]

Eddie Gomez

[rawr0206]

thanks

[vojto03]

I think that Chick is really one of the gratest pianist ever!

[martinvfphoto]

no . . you are totally right . . and i love 'em both . . but this kind of reminded me of the "standards" phase . . but . . yes . . comparing Chick and Keith is like comparing Picasso to Matisse or Gadd to Dejohnette.

[martinvfphoto]

take that keith jarrett!

[Justino111]

dude, do you really think KJ and CC have spent their lives competing with each other to see who is better?? They are too busy making music!

[martinvfphoto]

YEAHH BABY!!

[martinvfphoto]

YEAH!!!