Greg Tardy Live at the Artists' Quarter

[holyburn]

hey Greg! How are ya? Kelly Roberti here...hope all is well.

[TeXas10er]

Just got off of the phone w/Greg. He sounds great hear. I need to shed!!!

[MarvsTracks]

it's like stepping back in time.

[AryehTepper1]

Great tenor player.

For more Greg Tardy, search for The NJO, with Omer Avital, R' Haim Louk, and Gregory Tardy, from May, 2010.

[USAFjazztenor1]

Man I love this video of Greg! Greg is going to be my new teacher at the University of Tennesee! I am very excited to start studying with him. He is joining an elite class of jazz professors to at the university: Donald Brown, Jerry Coker, Mark Boling, Rusty Holloway, Vance Thompson, and Keith Brown. Going to be awesome!

[invisiblebridge]

I played in his FIRST band! A jazz fusion outfit called Le'Crew.

[InBy9OutBy5]

Wow

[willy4u4u]

i can really hear the coltrane influence, he plays a lot of that late 50's coltrane licks off the bluetrane album era..

[dhhargis]

Greg Tardy is a bad mofo! Great chops and a deeply spiritual feeling to his playing. How many other tenor players can count Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali as bandmates? Gotta be at least one other out there. Hmmm....

[sherLocke9]

yeah, alright. this guy is coming to my school for a jazz festival. I've never heard him play till now. should be a good show!

[jwc1926]

I used to see him play at a tiny bar in Milwaukee called the Jazz Oasis back in the late 80s. He was so patient with a bunch of (underage) high school kids asking him to play a Charlie Parker blues right when he got done playing one. Humble guy too. I wanted to take lessons from him, and he refused, saying that we should just hang out and play. Should've taken him up on that. Keep blowin', Greg!!

[johnrolandyeiseriii]

I played with him in Brooklyn for a couple of gigs, at the time I was 17, now 19 and he was really encouraging. I enjoyed playing with him and he is great. I play alto by the way.

[nolasaxdude]

go Greg,I hope the next post has better soun d quality,but Greg is a playa

[donberryman]

I took this with a tiny cannon digital camera with a 3 minute time limit and a micro mic - so the sound quality is poor, However the playing is great! I hope Greg comes back to Saint Paul soon. -DB

[lpsling]

Greg is devoted cat and it has paid off...a wellspring of creative tenor playing on a high level. Man, I remeber when you were playing on the street at Cafe Dumonde, at Kaldis on Sundays in New Orleans...yeh Greg...youv'e become the man on tenor! Beautiful playing!