Lee Ritenour with Brian Bromberg Stolen Moments

[dimsylsodium]

Superb peformance. Many, many thanks for posting. I've listened to the studio recording since its release in 1990. I was not aware that there was any video footage of the group playing live. It's absolutely fantastic to be able to put the images and sound together. The "Stolen Monemts" album remains a firm favourite of mine and for anyone interested in my point of view, includes a spellbinding version of "Hanted Heart" (as well as an introduction, for me, to the pianist Alan Broadbent).

[biffstudd]

I didn't know Jeff Foxworthy played the piano.

[OneandOnlyMusician]

what wankers

[JazzTimeLatino]

Sounds fine, but note that in the sax solo, the images are of the any others musicians. What a crap of editing work. Obviously Ritenour signs the checks, not Watts.

[AbeRivera]

Ernie "one take" Watts. What a giant talent. Rit and Brian Bromberg aint too shabby either.

[gardedog]

how did they get so cool, and where did the piano player get those harmonies?

hey captain fingers! see you in seattle at jazz alley with dave grusin!

[Rexicano]

I'm usually not a fan of Lee but I like his version of this piece. I hate Smooth Jazz but this piece has passion unlike most Smooth Jazz, which is not really Jazz at all...if you follow and respect the ever changing tradition. I just think the tradition goes wrong if the solos are all paint by number. This is slick but not drippy.

[TheAnnafisher]

Melts my heart! Give thanks more love! BEST!

[nobodady1]

That did a great job playing this tune slowly like this, and still keeping it alive. All the players are so in the pocket, they could probably keep this thing alive at half or double the speed.

[BERZITI]

@liveforfunk -whay you put your nose in another people bussines !!!!??? are you blind or something ?? did you read what he is wraiting to me ??? and NO, I am no muslim, and NO, I dont have a sister , and YES, I wil fuck your sister too , stupid moron !

[harmonicajazzcm]

EXCELLENT !!!

BRAVO !

[GaryBMr]

Excelente Jazz, ótima qualidade! Muito feeling!

[wanekeef]

mullet music moments

[ChadizzleFoshizzle]

Thank you for such a good quality video, Love it!

[darkoanton5]

Great version. Such a beautiful guitar sound.

[seelanne]

heaven, what a version: 5 Stars.

[jrb1376]

Think they meant Coconut Grove

[jrb1376]

Great Thank you so much.

[emitkellyjr]

A beautiful song written by true genius! lee Ritenour and Ernie Watts Wow what a duo..... i really love this song... But Brian Bromberg is a over playing ass wipe that should go away and die! PLEASE GO AND DIE BRIAN!

[BERZITI]

@emitkellyjr - Brian Bromberg over playing !!!??? are you deaf !!!??? and he must to die for "that" !!!??? you are you fucking idiot !

[emitkellyjr]

@BERZITI Im sorry BERZZZZZIRKIE.... Did i hurt your feelings ? Is Bromberg your DAD ? Go fuck your sister she really one of the best!

[BERZITI]

@emitkellyjr - I wil fuck your sister motherfucker ! did Bromberg kil your DAD that he must to die , kocksucker !?? go fuck yourself !

[emitkellyjr]

@BERZITI You are spending to much time alone BERZZZZZZERKIE!!!!! You and your sister should should get out more..... Go find Brian Bromberg and you and your sister can take turns sucking his cock!

[BERZITI]

@emitkellyjr - dont worry about me you cocksucker , I spend my time wit your sister , she is great !

[jplucknett]

OK, I dig it.

[maidoodesu]

nice ! ですね.

[thehatchettman1]

Have a little respect, all of these guys are motherfathers.

[telarc]

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[kevinkgillette]

Beautifully rendered by a quintet of true masters - jazz "purists" may think it lacks the sting and chromatic phrasing necessary for real jazz, but there's nothing un-jazzy about it. In fact, it is informed directly by blues, more so in some respects than a lot of other modern jazz. Really tasty stuff, guys!

[etp9440]

why is stanley from the office playing drums? fantastic song. rediculous guitar feel

[caparole]

Great playing, fine performance. But oh my! Those haircuts... These guys were from a another world.

[molinmusic]

LOVE this! THANKS for posting so inspired!!

[JazzNaySean]

5:28 omg fucken god

suckkk line!!!

i ruined my pants :/

[mr12note]

correct lose the melody... the story is lost

you have to keep the melody in check to come across honestly, because of its feeling... Lee is hot, but OK ...this his take on it

[SigmundPhroid]

great musicians here! Really wouldn't matter what they played; it would/will sound terrific. I'm a big fan of all of these guys (Oliver too!).

[etp9440]

drummer looks like stanley from the office

[ubsrg]

asd

[catsduke]

See Brian's video : watch?v=zrRVLZ-imSA

Lee & Brian are living musician, and they love Jazz.

[Chroniccold]

scottwbutler// Most weird thing is, that I had been just thinking like this tune is one of the masterpieces Lee emitted out, and then on seeing your comment, and listen again and again on this vid, I abruptly feel just like the way you have. Maybe that's what people call JAZZ, right?

[scottwbutler]

Lee, you lost the melody and feeling of the tune. Just hot licks.

[stixs2005]

ya really HOT licks

[fuerjo1]

bass is wonderful...

but is not the Brian Bromberg I used to know!!!!!!!!

[Kdees]

This piece sounds wonderful no matter who plays it!, yet I deem Jamal's take my fav right after the original by Oliver Nelson.

[MultiBEATA]

very good cool amazing

[partycrashing]

piano solo is doin' it to it, at 5:01 . excellent video

[altman32334]

muito bom !!!!!

[emankeys]

Does anyone have Brian Bromberg's "September" song? I can't find it on ITunes.

[geullerulez]

Bromberg for president !!!!

[knebi89]

Really great Solo by Ernie Watts!

Reminds me a lot of his performance on Round Midnight with the GRP All Star Big Band.

[rmoraespinto]

Such a great taste Harvey Mason has!

[alhajem]

Ahmad jamal has the best version of stolen moment

[phgp527]

Indeed, a thing of beauty

[Herbaldi]

Amazing!!

[Herbaldi]

Saw Brian Bromberg perform at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow, Idaho. Went to one of his bass clinics....ABSOLUTELY amazing!!!

[4Thelowerbass]

Great stuff! Brian Bromberg's bass: nothing sounds quiet like it!

[ImpossiblyLost]

So beautiful, thank you

[MartinZ136]

OMG really nice performance, and i loved the pianist's solo & the saxo too. =)

[nordhill92]

WOW, Ritenour playin with some chops!!

[wahwahwatson]

simply beautiful

[marinagipps]

Mullet power all the way...yay!  Great music...

[funkarello]

omg I love this version

[chazzbird]

Yeah!!! Sterling performance! How many hundreds of covers of this tune have been done? This one easily ranks among the best!

-Chazzbird

[Virons2]

A really nice version by some very talented musicians, all though i prefer Avi Leibovich and the Orchestra's version :)

[54spiritedwill54]

Wow! All the best guys in one band. Awesome.

[KLOKFXR]

Only the white players have mullets, and this being 1990 could be their mullets were soon history. OMG the eighties and mullets LOL

[nivekia]

what about lionel ritchie? he had a mullet!

[KLOKFXR]

I tried to find Lionel Ritchie in this Lee Ritenour "Stolen Moments" video, you know the video to which all these comments refer to.....just cant seem to find him in here

[bluenote335]

Top Shelf - sweet tones and even sweeter mullets!

[KLOKFXR]

Brian Bromberg sure lays that bass line down,,walks it right in at 1:58. Great sound from these top shelf players.

[Vayshen]

No kidding. I didn't know he played double bass too. Nice sound too.

[varok93]

quizas lee ritenour se arrepiente de haber sido algo inmaduro al solear sobre este precioso tema

[takis1984]

mr Ritenour has confused some things...

[nukes27]

wow i hear tribute to Wes Montgomery all over these solos- i guess Wes played too many notes tho...poor wes

[w6hu]

Lee Ritenour egy zseni!

[crepescule]

ernie watts is one bad ass motherfucker

[fabibass]

@crepescule He is the best

[paisteguy799]

@crepescule THE most underrated sax player in the last 40 years, period

[ssguernsey]

Nothing wrong with this interpretation. It aptly shows where these guys are coming from. This band has made so much pop music so much more credible. The fact that this is "smoother" than straight ahead jazz interpretations doesn't diminish it's musicality. I love to listen to many stylistic takes on jazz tunes - some I like better than others but that's just AN OPINION!

[ubsrg]

hey for those of you who like this tune maybe you want to see to young jazz players play a version

OR CHECK OUT MY CHANNEL

feel free to comment it would help to know what the world thinks :P

[thesoulofbass]

This is a PORNO VERSION!!!

[anchisefr]

I know the pianist. he's pretty cool

[ckrieger36]

Brilliant! Be blessed:)

[chmrg66]

irresistible beat ! great players !

[DarkHalo08]

Lee is a great musican. I hear a lot of Larry Carlton in his style. Stolen Moments is one of my favorite Jazz comps of all times. Thanks Siouxsies for posting this.

[shostokavich]

Unless your name is Oliver Nelson, there is little room for critique.

[jdean9]

this sounds very similar to the version on Lee's CD! I love that version, i have heard it a zillion times, so this was a very interesting find! Almost the same lineup, but with Brian on the bass ! John Patitucci played on the record i think.

5/5

[abath07]

There is nothing wrong with this jazz. The critics here are whining because it doesn't fit their tastes exactly.

[picchaz]

Mark Murphy does an excellent version of Stolen Moments.

[notcb3000]

You must be fantastic, world class musicians to describe this as paint by numbers or cruise ship jazz. Also, you must have the definitive one and only dictionary definition of what "Real Jazz" is. We are humbled to be among such experts who feel comfortable dissing these guys, wow, you must be hot. Funny though, Ernie Watts and the others are probably too busy actually playing at world class gigs to be sat on their arses criticising and pontificating about what real jazz is.

[vova47]

Since when beeing busy is a criterion for great jazz or any art for that matter?And in words of great Fats Waller"If you have to ask what real jazz is you´ll never know!"

[orangefunk]

These guys need to make a living and this is the lowest common denominator i.e. appealing to clueless middle class people with disposable income... if they could really play what they loved it wouldn't be this...

[zaqmlp1234]

how do you know what they love?

[orangefunk]

Probably money more than the music ;-)

Just joking.. they probably love this kind of music too.. but this sounds very smooth to me... like its appealing to the Smooth FM crowd.. nothing wrong with that of course...

as an anecdote: I once saw a gig with Don Alias, the Breckers, Alex Acuna et al and the first thing they said "you are gonna hear tonight what we genuinely love playing... not what you hear on our records... not on our videos..."

it sounded nothing like the Ritenour video ;-)

[vova47]

Right on,orange!You know what the deal is!

[marcj2112]

Like it or not, this is what the average listener calls "jazz" while real jazz is over the average audiences' head.

Guys like him and Brian Bromberg in particular realize this, and while BB is one of the baddest straight ahead cats there is, he also has to make a living and realizes there's more of a market for this style. I dont like most smooth jazz out there, but I understand why guys like Eric Marienthal do what they gotta do after they leave Coreas' band.

[orangefunk]

+1000.. this is tolerable music, doesn't move me in the slightest though... its too stylistic for me.. I prefer my jazz a bit more progressive and atmospheric...

[lesmizzle]

This kind of guitar playing is exactly what made me put the guitar down and focus on the piano. He plays more than is needed to get the point across, spending too much energy trying to impress.

[DBangaDon]

Guitar is an unworthy instrument because Lee Ritenour played too many notes?

[zeeksgarage]

You typed too many letters.

Go away......

[crazydaisydoo]

Yeah, same with Charlie Parker and Cherokee. That guy was an idiot, I mean all those notes, what was he thinking?

[Rexicano]

What a boring version. Like a paint by number painting. I prefer wild gardens to lawns all trimmed and edged. The guitar tone is terrible and the licks sound like someone typing. Perfect for a Cruise Ship.

[jdean9]

i dont agree. but i guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion : )

[aboutjazztime]

Boy, I'd like to get on that Cruise Ship.

[NotYourTypicalNegro]

You are out of your d___ mind! That sh__ is swingin'!

[davew833]

I hate to agree since the Ritenour version of this song was what turned me on to "Stolen Moments" in particular and "real" jazz in general, but there are a lot better versions out there. Nothing matches the Oliver Nelson version from "Blues & the Abstract Truth", or the Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis version from "Trane Whistle" for energy and feeling. This version is just sort of pleasant dinner music... can I get another margarita here?

[CatchyChords]

I completely agree with Rexicano. Smooth jazz has ruined this respectable Nelson tune. A shame, really.

[vova47]

I agree absolutely,with the possible exeption for Broadbent.He adds authenticity to otherwise bald and unconvincing proceedings.

[gilga73]

mullet jazz

[robthereedman]

Wow! All the best guys in one band. Awesome. Thanks for posting it...