for me russell has a way of attaching the best part of him with the best part of his instrument which allows him to create from a place that is full of melody and instinctual improv.... this song takes me to the place in my mind that was a moment of awe and jaw dropping cringes on my face when I first heard it,.....
It sounds to me more like Steps Ahead than Weather Report. Songs are much more melodic. Weather Report was a different thing... a little bit anarchic, but I will thank Zawinul forever for his efforts by creating a new jazz concept.
what a wondeful, sofisticated and delicate theme this is...
the original version on 'politics' is kind of a musical miracle to me, and when Marc Russo gets in improvising at the end of the song, some of his melodies still can bring tears to my eyes... Thank you, Russell, this is possibly the best gift you could give us all. Peace.
such a unique tune.. I recorded this on a cassette tape from radio when i was around 15, that's 17 years ago... listened to it a lot, never knew who it was... now I accidentally stumbled upon this video. what a rediscovery of a fascinating tune, I'm going to transcribe all of this
On all these comments there is something missing. Why has no one mentioned the beautiful melodies that come out of Russ Ferrante? Improve is cool, but there has to be an incredible melody. Russ has composed some of the most beautiful melodies I have heard since of Chopin. For me, music is all about the melody.
@akv8 Themes and variations! Without the melody there is nothing. I kind of feel that way about most of the blues and much of jazz. They go off into pretty cool tangents, but do you have a melody embossed in your brain that you can't let go of? Again, themes and variations. Think Chopin!!!!
As far as vocal music goes, I can appreciate great lyrics, but again (and it is only my opinion) if you don't have a great melody, they are only words.
Yeah, for me that is also true, and that's why I prefer artists who play a great melody and do some improve, but only some, a little. Yellowjackets are, I'd say, half-melody half-improv. I also like Spyro Gyra (they're not exactly similar although last.fm, for instance, says they are), they have little more melody than improv. The same goes for, say, Pat Metheny. There are some artists that I simply don't listen to, because all they do is improvise and I'm a melody-lover :)
@grisznik Is improvisation the ability to create a melody on the spot? For instance, Russel Ferrante's solo isn't as melodic as Bob's. It's still a great melody to listen to. And Bob's improvised solo is incredibly melodic. Some of it was taken right from the original recording, but I mean, the other is improved and it sounds amazing. It's a phenomenal solo with a great melody. So even as a melody lover, I love improv, because to me, it's the next stop of creating a great melody.
I remember when I first saw Marcus Baylor at the Birdland in NYC, back in 2001, when he just joined the band...As a huge Kennedy fan I was a little biased at that time, but now, I must acknowledge the superior musicality, technical prowess and simply the magnificent , musical, outstanding level he is at now!! Hats off and keep on swinging like this for many, many years Marcus !!
My favorite from the Yellowjackets. Got to hear William Kennedy on this piece back in 1990. While Bob Mintzer was giving me hi autograph I had the nerve to ask him "where's Mark Russo"? Imiss Mark Russo. The most beautiful alto sax I've ever heard.
This is beautiful bit its also probably my favorite Will Kennedy tune...I can dig the swing version and the playing here is outstanding, but the studio version of this song is very special.
They didn't play this song when I saw them live with Kennedy but I did get to hear Peter Erskine's version....solid.
I actually just got back from a YellowJackets show. With the right amount of money, our high school music director coaxed them to play in the Jazz Festival at my school. I and the other students in my school's jazz ensemble got to play two songs with Bob Mintzer.
Count yourself lucky to a)have a band director that is hip enough to have the pull and money to get them to your school and b) to get to see these guys in that setting. Geniuses don't normally hang out with high schoolers, knowhatimsayin? All my band director could get was a douchebag tuba player from the local community college who could barely solo thru "So What"!
Robben Ford (longtime member of YJ, before Mintzer) will be playing at the College of Lake County in Spring 09 - get ready! I have mized his "Blues" (more fusion blues really) about 5 times over a 2 year period, and my jaw dropped further each time.
I like this - this song and it's style was the closest thing to Steps Ahead (Mintzer started it around the time this song is performed here) Maybe this kind of music isn't not dying out - have you heard Eldar's group yet?
Back in 89 I hung out at a Disney town in Lake Buena vista to catch the Yellowjackets sound check. The band waltzed in at around 4pm in the afternoon. Jimmy Haslip was gracious enough to spend time talking with me and even allowed me to tape the sound check with my old 8mm Sony. What a great time it was. Needless to say, I was there with my wife and son later that evening to catch the show. What a superb band they are!
I've always loved their music. To me, there are only two great fusion bands whose compositions and improvisations are beautiful and intelligent- Yellowjackets and Pat Metheny Group.
The Return to Forever-music has too much rock element to my taste, plus their melodies are atonal, and synth sounds are a little cheesy. The band has that 70s sound to it which I don't like too much.
The Yellowjackets, uses more acoustic sounds-drums, sax, piano. They hardly use guitar with distortion. Many years from now their music won't sound old like a lot of music of jazz musicians of the 70s. Jazz of the 50s and early 60s which was all acoustic, was recorded really well, and is ageless.
It's funny that you mention the absence of a guitar,wnen in fact one of the founding members of this incredible band was a guitar player by the name off Robben Ford,and as great as thier music is, I do miss the earlier version of this band when it was Robben Ford on guitar,and Ricky Lawson on Drums,nonetheless they've always have been a great band regardless of personnel
This video must be fairly recent. Jimmy Haslip has been the bass player with Russell Ferrante since the beginning. Ricky Lawson was the first drummer. I don't think Peter Erskine ever recorded with the band, but I heard he was with them for a while.
I like this version of Tortoise & Hare. Russo had a great sound - and was great on this tune. Both sax players are great, but I like Mintzer's depth and influence on the band. Ferrante & Haslip are just great.
Politics is my all time favorite album and so much better on the CD. Of course, most music is because of refinements they can produce in a recording studio.
I think for most a feeling of sophistication. A pretty chic lady, rain-slicked sidewalks in the bustling city, complex emotions, college, innovation, a feeling of wealth and success perhaps, smoking a cigar, drinking a martini, gazing out at the arid wilderness of steel and stone. Stuff like that.
For me it's the groove, it makes me want to get up and dance, move, it is a peoples' music, the people involved in it are so different and interesting.
Y-Jax did a lot of great things with Russo on Politics. I love "Evening Dance". Ferrante and the group did it for me by request years ago in SF. They're always so generous with the music. Mintzer has been great since way before Y-Jax. I saw him play bass clarinet with Jaco's quintet in th early 80's..it was awesome. I love Mintzer's compositinal contributions to the Jacket's material as well as his playing.
The whole band sounds great as usual. Bob's solo's are great, but the song does sound better w/an alto. Maybe because that's the way we're used to hearing it on the album!
I really think the whole Band sounds great. and for those who want to compare mosicians. I would like to remind you that each muso brings a different sound to a song, because we're all different.
My buddy always wanted the Jackets to do this one live, it was his never ending request....maybe they finally heard him, I can only imagine what it takes to pull this one off live
Mad cats!
hognip 10 hours ago
Omg.. this is killing
fashodo2002 1 week ago
Very nice! Subtlety.
MrMintjazz 1 month ago
turk of scrubs play drums?!?!?!?!
smilzo87 2 months ago
Wonderful
hermittlive 2 months ago
I saw them listening to "punta del este" from Astor Piazzolla.
STEAMWORKER 3 months ago
i like this version as well as the version on the album.... cool
tommieblaster 5 months ago
@tommieblaster This *is* the version on the album.
jamesthenabignumber 2 months ago
Big thank to Marc Russo!
STEAMWORKER 6 months ago
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blackandtanful 6 months ago
damn I love this video .
this is great music
jmm1714 8 months ago
omg........the jackets rock the 90's and today!
doctorbombay 10 months ago
This make my heart wanna jump out of my chest. Jimmy and Will, AWESOME.
ubarent 10 months ago
for me russell has a way of attaching the best part of him with the best part of his instrument which allows him to create from a place that is full of melody and instinctual improv.... this song takes me to the place in my mind that was a moment of awe and jaw dropping cringes on my face when I first heard it,.....
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Shostakovicification 1 year ago
It sounds to me more like Steps Ahead than Weather Report. Songs are much more melodic. Weather Report was a different thing... a little bit anarchic, but I will thank Zawinul forever for his efforts by creating a new jazz concept.
durodehamburgo 1 year ago
what a wondeful, sofisticated and delicate theme this is...
the original version on 'politics' is kind of a musical miracle to me, and when Marc Russo gets in improvising at the end of the song, some of his melodies still can bring tears to my eyes... Thank you, Russell, this is possibly the best gift you could give us all. Peace.
HairHawk72 1 year ago
what's the song on the beginning? i mean piano intro. i love it !
jayziembka 1 year ago
Very fascinating, energetic and talented.
alvin3528 1 year ago
such a unique tune.. I recorded this on a cassette tape from radio when i was around 15, that's 17 years ago... listened to it a lot, never knew who it was... now I accidentally stumbled upon this video. what a rediscovery of a fascinating tune, I'm going to transcribe all of this
jdean9 1 year ago
My dad used to play them in the car when we travelling- I discovered jazz in the back of my dads car travelling around South Africa :) Memories
lebomatseke 1 year ago
8 people have obviously wrong to vote ...
Diviiid92 1 year ago
my god! why haven't i heard of these guys before?!? :O
rrrickflair 1 year ago
On all these comments there is something missing. Why has no one mentioned the beautiful melodies that come out of Russ Ferrante? Improve is cool, but there has to be an incredible melody. Russ has composed some of the most beautiful melodies I have heard since of Chopin. For me, music is all about the melody.
KobishopProductions 1 year ago 5
@KobishopProductions haha ya im transcribing his melodies as i speak.. it's what makes the song pretty much
akv8 1 year ago
@akv8 Themes and variations! Without the melody there is nothing. I kind of feel that way about most of the blues and much of jazz. They go off into pretty cool tangents, but do you have a melody embossed in your brain that you can't let go of? Again, themes and variations. Think Chopin!!!!
As far as vocal music goes, I can appreciate great lyrics, but again (and it is only my opinion) if you don't have a great melody, they are only words.
Good luck with your transcribing!
KobishopProductions 1 year ago
@KobishopProductions Yes!!! You said it man!
swellpropel 7 months ago
@KobishopProductions
Yeah, for me that is also true, and that's why I prefer artists who play a great melody and do some improve, but only some, a little. Yellowjackets are, I'd say, half-melody half-improv. I also like Spyro Gyra (they're not exactly similar although last.fm, for instance, says they are), they have little more melody than improv. The same goes for, say, Pat Metheny. There are some artists that I simply don't listen to, because all they do is improvise and I'm a melody-lover :)
grisznik 7 months ago
@grisznik Is improvisation the ability to create a melody on the spot? For instance, Russel Ferrante's solo isn't as melodic as Bob's. It's still a great melody to listen to. And Bob's improvised solo is incredibly melodic. Some of it was taken right from the original recording, but I mean, the other is improved and it sounds amazing. It's a phenomenal solo with a great melody. So even as a melody lover, I love improv, because to me, it's the next stop of creating a great melody.
AutopilotRocketship 2 months ago
its amazing how russell ferrante pulled off those comps from 5:52 to 5:58.
that simple bass line makes this song work so well.
akv8 1 year ago
easily one of the best composed jazz tunes
cheeseman59 1 year ago
Il 27 luglio 2010, al MUSA di Benevento, i mitici Yellowjackets...! Biglietto 15 euro.
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muxsa 1 year ago
Ferrantte.. such an honest soloist. He'd rather be quiet on his instrument than say dumb shit he doesn't mean. My hero.
SIRUS80 1 year ago
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muxsa 1 year ago
Thank God for Haslip and Mintzer. I actually saw these guys live at Fresno city college a few years back, good stuff.
brogmir1 1 year ago
SICKKKKKKKKK :D
TheySayImSpecial 1 year ago
sounds like spain from chic corea , even though i love this track....
MARDIUNO 1 year ago
Man, this is awesome...
Flemmingdoerken 1 year ago
Best band ever. Their what got me started on the jazz thing.
postalnut308 1 year ago
1:07 to 1:15 the bassist faces are fucking epic.
I love to see a musician feel it like that.. seriously.
Fallchild123 1 year ago
Gosto demais dessa música! ouço desde o meus 5 anos de idade...
pedrokbana 2 years ago
good lord, this is the most spastic video switching I've ever seen. Great song though!
mdh0153 2 years ago
2 awesome 4 words
bobsong7 2 years ago
Saw them last sunday in Zoetermeer (NL). The 'old guys' were as awesome as ever. The new drummer, Marcus Baily, was absolutely brilliant!!
WorldWideWish 2 years ago
Saw them last sunday in Zoetermeer (NL). The 'old guys' were as awsome as ever! And the new drummer, Marcus Baily, was absolutely brilliant!!!
WorldWideWish 2 years ago
STUNNER!!!!!! TRULY AMAZING
nteimoori 2 years ago
man...how many memorys of the good age.....time were only the real musicians play around!!!!
JAZZEE51 2 years ago
AWESOME!!
MusicEVOL 2 years ago
Yellow Jackets é tudo de bom!!!
Excelente
CantorLeandroBarbosa 2 years ago
One of my fav.tracks from a great album.I think i preferred Mark Russo playing that alto.
mikebuddy1 2 years ago
Great tune!
babitzky 2 years ago
AWSOME
shame on the video quality tho =/
winnerbaby44 2 years ago
That's for me is the radical evolution of jazz rock after the "Weather Report Era".
Isn't it?
ResciM 2 years ago 10
:D Yes I agree tho Dave weckle band is good 2
laelo1 2 years ago
iv'e seen them in thehaguejazz they were cool
kanalenl 2 years ago
yep they played fantastic! They come to Zoetermeer in the end of 2009. I believe november.
santibanks 2 years ago
....brilliant
mkfnfraz 2 years ago
89).
Lanark8 2 years ago
Beauty!!
nteimoori 2 years ago
great!!!
1stChoiceBand 2 years ago
they are nice guys met them at ronnies in london
stringmachine2000 2 years ago
great stuff. minzter's improv work, as usual, is just gorgeous...
that keyboard pattern has me flashing back to some 70's Corea / RTF tune...
JonP1961 2 years ago
Got to see Marc perform this with the Jackets in 2001 - awesome show!
MattFacingSouth 2 years ago
I remember when I first saw Marcus Baylor at the Birdland in NYC, back in 2001, when he just joined the band...As a huge Kennedy fan I was a little biased at that time, but now, I must acknowledge the superior musicality, technical prowess and simply the magnificent , musical, outstanding level he is at now!! Hats off and keep on swinging like this for many, many years Marcus !!
itadrummer1 2 years ago
GREGORY
nzaika 3 years ago
the question is "where's marc russo" in french ou est marc russo !
la version studio "politics" impossible a trouver ! tellement mieux par russo !
lemusiclover01 3 years ago
used to have this on cassette.....anybody know where to find the studio version on youtube?
afgan01 3 years ago
My favorite from the Yellowjackets. Got to hear William Kennedy on this piece back in 1990. While Bob Mintzer was giving me hi autograph I had the nerve to ask him "where's Mark Russo"? Imiss Mark Russo. The most beautiful alto sax I've ever heard.
TPonds 3 years ago
my favorite song of all time
SublordUtilax123 3 years ago
Very good....
UlugOzkan 3 years ago
This is beautiful bit its also probably my favorite Will Kennedy tune...I can dig the swing version and the playing here is outstanding, but the studio version of this song is very special.
They didn't play this song when I saw them live with Kennedy but I did get to hear Peter Erskine's version....solid.
Mr. Baylor is certainly an ace, A+ drummer.
ackerlaw2004 3 years ago
Magnificent!
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and1er23 3 years ago
Right On the money Video!
apks2004 3 years ago
preciosa cancion
doncasworld 3 years ago
grande jazz
khiodo3 3 years ago 3
I agree with you SaxHero
STEAMWORKER 3 years ago
These guys just kill me every time I see them.
Great clip!!! Mintzer is scary as always!
gv
gvSAXBOY 3 years ago
Wow. I loved this song on Politics, but it's not even the same without Will Kennedy and Marc Russo. They were a huge part of what made the song. Man.
SaxHero 3 years ago
Bob Mintzer - tenor sax
Russel Ferrante - piano, synthesizer
Jimmy Haslip - bass
Marcus Baylor - drums
jacofan12609 3 years ago
Wow, Russel Ferrante is AWESOME !!!
I love Yellow Jackets, true that Will Kennedy's groove on the original studio is great, but here in "Jazz" setting it sounds great.
Rodgebi 3 years ago 3
anche loro sul palco di Musiconda a Loreto.
GRANDI!!!!!!!
saxebasta 3 years ago
That drummer swings so hard... I wish I could play like that
delliejonut 3 years ago 2
This is nothing short of amazing. Musicianship like this is dying. LOVED EVERYTHING especially the bass entrance
stevel02 3 years ago
I actually just got back from a YellowJackets show. With the right amount of money, our high school music director coaxed them to play in the Jazz Festival at my school. I and the other students in my school's jazz ensemble got to play two songs with Bob Mintzer.
Xionrafoie37 3 years ago
Wow. That's great! Mintzer is amazing.
mikaylasax 3 years ago
Yellowjackets!! Not 'Yellow Jackets'
borysjohn 3 years ago
Hey, I made it one word. Just the 'J' is capitalized. Sorry to have upset you.
Xionrafoie37 3 years ago
Count yourself lucky to a)have a band director that is hip enough to have the pull and money to get them to your school and b) to get to see these guys in that setting. Geniuses don't normally hang out with high schoolers, knowhatimsayin? All my band director could get was a douchebag tuba player from the local community college who could barely solo thru "So What"!
3shiftgtr 3 years ago
Robben Ford (longtime member of YJ, before Mintzer) will be playing at the College of Lake County in Spring 09 - get ready! I have mized his "Blues" (more fusion blues really) about 5 times over a 2 year period, and my jaw dropped further each time.
flatbouy 3 years ago
No matter what, these guys put it all out in their shows. This sort of musicianship is dying out, I hope the industry will keep this from happening.
This type of tight improvisational work, is genius. America's best gift to the art world.
free2bpoppie 3 years ago 3
I like this - this song and it's style was the closest thing to Steps Ahead (Mintzer started it around the time this song is performed here) Maybe this kind of music isn't not dying out - have you heard Eldar's group yet?
flatbouy 3 years ago
paurosi gli yellowjacket
sucuni85 3 years ago
this is the first time i heard this song... i like i like i like :)
Ngelic 3 years ago
Superb. I actually prefer this version, subtle, so much going on underneath. This cooks!!!
jxxybxxy2002 3 years ago
Génial,exelent.Bravo yellow Jacket!
simontennis1996 3 years ago
you can see it comin,then you hear the sound of free expression,unified and chilled
streamas 3 years ago
Excellent.
UlugOzkan 3 years ago
Back in 89 I hung out at a Disney town in Lake Buena vista to catch the Yellowjackets sound check. The band waltzed in at around 4pm in the afternoon. Jimmy Haslip was gracious enough to spend time talking with me and even allowed me to tape the sound check with my old 8mm Sony. What a great time it was. Needless to say, I was there with my wife and son later that evening to catch the show. What a superb band they are!
freedok 3 years ago 7
Wow. Thanks for sharing that =) Great you meet Yellow Jackets
DynaDash 3 years ago
i like the cd version of this song better. good drummer but i like the jackets with will kennedy. more fusion than trad sounding.
miced 4 years ago
do u guys know where i can find Yellow Jacket's video/music:LOCAL HERO?... i love it so much but cant find it.. thanksxxx
miggyBE 4 years ago
An now you know why me nick name is YellowYackets
YellowYackets 4 years ago
Amazing band
ndominguez1 4 years ago
Yellowjackets not only technic!
Great taste of funky fusion jazz...
I listen 3 time live this band (one with WKennedy on drums) and everytime was incredible what they do...
ms
marcoscotti 4 years ago
Unbelievable to see them play this stuff live... :-0 Terrific!
esseestpercipi 4 years ago
Lets Not forget weather report...lol
wepaboy 4 years ago
Weather Report was another whole thing, best band ever.
DynaDash 4 years ago
Amen brother!
Paulonbass75 4 years ago
I've always loved their music. To me, there are only two great fusion bands whose compositions and improvisations are beautiful and intelligent- Yellowjackets and Pat Metheny Group.
akhmetchine 4 years ago
¿How about Return to Forever?
DynaDash 4 years ago
The Return to Forever-music has too much rock element to my taste, plus their melodies are atonal, and synth sounds are a little cheesy. The band has that 70s sound to it which I don't like too much.
The Yellowjackets, uses more acoustic sounds-drums, sax, piano. They hardly use guitar with distortion. Many years from now their music won't sound old like a lot of music of jazz musicians of the 70s. Jazz of the 50s and early 60s which was all acoustic, was recorded really well, and is ageless.
akhmetchine 4 years ago
That's because Fusion is a whole different universe per band, not just a genre.
DynaDash 4 years ago
It's funny that you mention the absence of a guitar,wnen in fact one of the founding members of this incredible band was a guitar player by the name off Robben Ford,and as great as thier music is, I do miss the earlier version of this band when it was Robben Ford on guitar,and Ricky Lawson on Drums,nonetheless they've always have been a great band regardless of personnel
erikdennard 4 years ago
you're right,this is art."Politics" is a masterpiece...guess what Marc Russo is doin...
heyfratello 4 years ago
holy shit their concert was the best concert I have ever been to, ever!
KingTBone 4 years ago
they were so awesome.. the bass player is CRAZY....
jazzcrazi99 4 years ago
and the drummer...and pretty much the whole band...
smsjazzrocks 4 years ago
hehe!!! yew were there w/ me!!! WOOT WOOT!!!
jazzcrazi99 4 years ago
haha i just saw them live yesterday ^.^
jazzcrazi99 4 years ago
Marcus doesn't play that drum part like Will.
Will brought a rhythmic feel that cannot be duplicated.
36index 4 years ago
Can Jazz become any more expressive????
They rule.
STEAMWORKER 4 years ago
you right man! it's so melodic if they play in italy...oh my god!
superlucagalaxy 4 years ago
I DONT KNOW ANYONE LIKE YELLOWJACKETS!!!
25 years thats crazy PASSION...
they there own sound that is a beautiful
...
drummer121314 4 years ago
this drummer will make your mind explode
IM1deadMONEY 4 years ago
i seen them live in the KL jazz fest in malaysia in 2001. Eye opener and this was one of the opening tracks!
anexiole 4 years ago
really? wow i'm from there thats awesome. did you see michael veerapen?
akv8 4 years ago
ty thomaskrag
Bghdo 4 years ago
im sorry the name of the album
Bghdo 4 years ago
The studio version is on Politics, this version is from their live release Mint Jam. :)
thomaskrag 4 years ago
Yes sir, don't you love both versions? Good stuff. They're so incredible live
alg573 4 years ago
Hey Dynadash, i just wanted to know the name of this piece. Cause i got different version but this is AWESOME
Bghdo 4 years ago
that's awesome!!!
megametallo 4 years ago
does anyone remembers the name of former memebers?
I also recomend Astor Piazola
Santis73 4 years ago
peter erskine, robben ford, I think Jaco played a little with them,Will Kennedy
bradydrum1 4 years ago
This video must be fairly recent. Jimmy Haslip has been the bass player with Russell Ferrante since the beginning. Ricky Lawson was the first drummer. I don't think Peter Erskine ever recorded with the band, but I heard he was with them for a while.
I like this version of Tortoise & Hare. Russo had a great sound - and was great on this tune. Both sax players are great, but I like Mintzer's depth and influence on the band. Ferrante & Haslip are just great.
sfz5 4 years ago
Geniales....de verdad es el arte del jazz en su mas plena altura....excelente...A.Díaz Venezuela
yalordetub 4 years ago
Amén.
DynaDash 4 years ago
Amazing song. Annoying film editing. Could you jump around even more
BVP326 4 years ago
Politics is my all time favorite album and so much better on the CD. Of course, most music is because of refinements they can produce in a recording studio.
hopeemch 4 years ago
great composition, but quite annoying filmed
zlatikk 4 years ago
I enjoyed this.Big thanks from me.Btw is there a dvd for this show?
Jewlampijs95 4 years ago
I'm not sure, but I'll give it a check and tell you if there is.
DynaDash 4 years ago
great!, (but too much of bass)
gregmorrow 4 years ago
i still will never understand why so many people love jazz. each to their own i guess
chrisp1987 4 years ago
I think for most a feeling of sophistication. A pretty chic lady, rain-slicked sidewalks in the bustling city, complex emotions, college, innovation, a feeling of wealth and success perhaps, smoking a cigar, drinking a martini, gazing out at the arid wilderness of steel and stone. Stuff like that.
anhacus 4 years ago
If you don't like jazz, why are you even here?
sfz5 4 years ago
For me it's the groove, it makes me want to get up and dance, move, it is a peoples' music, the people involved in it are so different and interesting.
What kind of music are YOU into, then?
GotPizazz 3 years ago
Is this video anywhere in a better quality? It such a great composition...
keesvlees 4 years ago
will kennedy is DA MAN, met him once, a super nice guy, too.
doodle202 4 years ago
one of the best jimmy haslip compositions
Great
Love Them
aaallbbeerrttooo 4 years ago
i like it
marcovena 4 years ago
Jezus, nice
loesberkels 4 years ago
Russ Ferrante is my idol! I wish I could play like him...
robbiemack81 4 years ago
And on the 8th day God created the Yellowjackets.
ramitupursnout 4 years ago
Amen.
DynaDash 4 years ago
Yeah! or the mexican: Orale!
efergarmx 4 years ago
Orale D:
DynaDash 4 years ago
I love Yellow J. they sounds cool & fresh always! i like Ferrante's soloing movements.
roydonn 4 years ago
this is a great jazz. the groove is so beutiful.
tshibuta 4 years ago
I had to say something, but there is nothing i can say. In fact I'm speachles...
didjerama 4 years ago
Whats the name of their drummer?
smallguy123 4 years ago
That's Marcus Baylor.
DynaDash 4 years ago
Weather Report & Yellow Jackets.
There's nothing beyond.
iunowhu 4 years ago
The Yellowjackets is the best jazz group in the world. I live their new CD/DVD.
gnukev 4 years ago
Bob Mintzer is a million times better then Marc Russo, Marc has a great altisimo register but that's about.
pyykko34 4 years ago
Y-Jax did a lot of great things with Russo on Politics. I love "Evening Dance". Ferrante and the group did it for me by request years ago in SF. They're always so generous with the music. Mintzer has been great since way before Y-Jax. I saw him play bass clarinet with Jaco's quintet in th early 80's..it was awesome. I love Mintzer's compositinal contributions to the Jacket's material as well as his playing.
linebacker365 4 years ago
Hey! The Yellowjackets are awesome!! i love them!
Who Knows where i can get Jackets Bass Tabs??
Thanks Already!
fromzerotonothing 5 years ago
this is cool. The saxophone player looks like Bill Walton.
JazzySaxE 5 years ago
That's Bob Mintzer.
But... hey yes, he looks like the basketball player!
DynaDash 5 years ago
my very humble thanks to al the ones who made it possible to enjoy the jackets on my pc
pattekeuh 5 years ago
Our pleasure.
DynaDash 5 years ago
my humble thanks....the jackets my all time favourite musicians finally on my pc
pattekeuh 5 years ago
Also check out Oz, Helix, and Downtown, all from the Politics Lp.
sdrob40 5 years ago
Politics!!!
sdrob40 5 years ago
The whole band sounds great as usual. Bob's solo's are great, but the song does sound better w/an alto. Maybe because that's the way we're used to hearing it on the album!
whatuthought 5 years ago
I really think the whole Band sounds great. and for those who want to compare mosicians. I would like to remind you that each muso brings a different sound to a song, because we're all different.
thabogaps 5 years ago
That's very very true.
DynaDash 5 years ago
My buddy always wanted the Jackets to do this one live, it was his never ending request....maybe they finally heard him, I can only imagine what it takes to pull this one off live
sippyjuice 5 years ago
The "Politics" LP was one of their most underrated works. I love these guys. Constantly re-inventive.
meak911 5 years ago
You obviously have not heard the original version with Marc Russo and William Kennedy...no comparison. Their best work.
k6b2 5 years ago
Let's enjoy, rather than comparing.
DynaDash 5 years ago