"GIANT STEPS" (By Jeff Lorber, Eric Merienthal, Chuck Loeb, Will Kennedy & Konstantin Ionenko)

[flossflink]

"okay, now that you guys are warmed up, let's really play something!"

[TheIrishlad12]

have seen chuck loeb with fourplay, will see jeff and eric together in a month, can't wait

[Chezmat1]

why didn't the sax play...a

[aceofbaseNgd]

Domique diPiazza on camcorder at 4:18 ? =D

[brucelee999999]

superb!



[geraldiscool24]

holy jazz ride... great hands

[MrBurrikku]

LOVE JAZZ...........

[inaglasscage]

will kennedy is one of the best in the world.

[cxg88]

lets hear it for open handed drummers, myself included

[Zerathul7]

Chuck Loeb rulz the world with that guitar and all of them ofcurse

[ChiZ712]

dude wtf these are some pretty original phrases! these cats aren't just spitting out traditional memorized bebop phrases it actually sounds like they worked out original phrases for this tune

[cedjazz]

Faster does NOT mean better.

[elortibamal]

@cedjazz NHOP is better. Do you ever listen him?

[gladdad101]

OMG! AND I TOUGHT JEFF WAS SOME FLUFF FUSION GUY- HE KICKS ASS ON THIS

[ashmaple]

agreed

ahh!

[jazzattak]

Bass player dies at 3:46 (can you blame him at this speed!!), and Lorber offers the safety net return to melody - gracious and pure talent. ALL these guys are outstanding!You gotta love this stuff...back to my practise ;-)

[chewyflea]

@jazzattak yea hardly anyone can play a decent bass solo at this speed and if they can barely anyone wants to hear it...and Im, a bass player! lol

[elortibamal]

@jazzattak NHOP plays faster than this

[Crazyegg1234]

Robert Deniro is really fucking good at guitar

[Vessel4Praise]

@Crazyegg1234 LMNO!

[decus69]

Where was Eric Merienthal solo?

[jeronimoringo]

that piano looks so porno!

[saxman68able]

The ability to play over the "Giant Steps"/Coltrane cycle remains to this day one of the benchmark standards by which a jazz musician's improvising skill is measured.

[saxman68able]

The ability to play over the "Giant Steps"/Coltrane cycle remains to this day one of the benchmark standards by which a jazz musician's improvising skill is measured.

[saxman68able]

Jazz musicians continue to use the "Giant Steps" chord progression, which consists of a peculiar set of chord progressions which often move in thirds, as a practice piece and as a gateway into modern jazz improvisation. The ability to play over the "Giant Steps"/Coltrane cycle remains to this day one of the benchmark standards by which a jazz musician's improvising skill is measured.

[MrPeekABoooo]

GREAT!

[MrPatricioG]

Freakin' MONSTERS! ALL of them!

[Vistalavista123]

I am falling off from my chair as I watch this.

[hottencliff]

5 people on here aren't Giant Steppin....bums! This video is a beast!

[caracterav]

this guys are a giants!

[swelsher]

Will Kennedy is just so incredible. I had the pleasure of playing with him once. His playing is so deep.

[tyraarlitavise]

WOW!!!! I love this!!!!!!

[DrummerMike86]

love the sound for that splash at the end

[MAnuciao79]

Sick Setup :-) I like everybody is on socks only, haha

[UKdrum1]

That was amazing

[gladdad101]

Really good stuff (OMG)

[MrSmoothsongwriter]

God !!n How amazing the brain`s left and right connects to with each other and can process with that fast. This how I felt about 3 jazz panist I known at Memphis State University during The 1975 to 1979. Mulgrew Miller, James Williams(RIP), and Donald Brown; Yo guys, Its Kwame Ajanaku, you're still my inspirational!!!

[sinesine7]

ジャイアントステップス味玉

[JazzKeyboardist1]

cool,,,, reminds me of the classic reefer madness movie, and the guy saying to the pianist,,,faster faster,,, thank goodness my drum machine only goes to 255, so i rarely have to see if i can go above 255,,lol

[gladdad101]

Holy Cow, these guys can fly

[zurckoni]

holy crap! these guys just singed my eyebrows!

[f15r18]

I can´t believe it, these guys look like children playing with toys and they are masterly playing Giant steps!

[GotekDarkSamurai]

All the musicians are great but still give the drummer some! I know its not traditional for a drum solo in Giant steps but man he was killin!

[betobatera999]

holy sh**

[mattycspeaks]

Awesome job guys! Recently became a Will Kennedy fan. All of you ripped it here!! Thumbs up!

[sweetfly66]

will kennedy is flat out phenomenal

[gladdad101]

Sorry about the comment below- I was trying to type Jeff

[cliffworks4321]

is that jimmy haslip holding a cup?

[dhidut]

@cliffworks4321 yes ..., he's so cool ..., got a chance to take picture with him twice

[baronvonsatan]

@cliffworks4321 Sure is!

[Williamkurk]

Eric M just sat there...no sax solo on 'Giant Steps'? I'm appalled. But Will Kennedy is a constant denominating monster on this. So energetic, yet smooth. Nice to hear Jeff Lorber stretch out a bit too from the usual Contemporary vain.

[MaigaJarnagin5308]

You can grab the audio-mp3 of this tune at grabaudios doht cohm.

[jazzincelo]

everybody that comented on this type in courtney mc look at my improv on giant steps and tell me what i need to work on PLEASE ive only been playin for 1 year i need to get better and i need HELP .........thanks

[szelag]

Guitar player's comping was kinda crap. Not bad solo though.

[karpehcom]

yea their also playing it faster than the original tempo so yea they got my props...

[ssnatcherss]

Will rips the shit out of the whole thing. Everyone else does alright.

[ApoliticalApologist]

The other thing is Tommy Flanagan saw those changes for the first time that day, not many minutes before the recording. I'm sure these guys have spent hours shedding this tune just like every serious jazz musician whose formative years are post-1967. Also, Giant Steps does make a great ballad. Also a great waltz and a lot of fun in most odd meters. Give it a try.

[LEXANDERB]

and when Tommy Flanagan got the lead sheet, he thought it was a ballad.

[tuhsdxas]

To all you people out there who aren't giving this the respect it deserves, listen to the original recording. The pianist there isn't just playing sparse to be hip. He's trippin' up too. Coltrane eventually leaps in early and saves him. All the alternate takes are taken much slower, with no piano solo. Keep that in mind.

[LEXANDERB]

@tuhsdxas Legend has it that when Tommy Flanagan got the lead sheet in the studio, he played through it slowly, and said "John, this is a beautiful ballad." Then, Coltrane counted it off.....

[gladdad101]

Smokin Straight Ahead>>>>>>>

[JoshuaMorseMusic]

How the crap are people clicking dislike this for this? This is amazing!

[guitarmasterf18]

WTF MANNNN, THAT WAS SIK!!!!, IM BOUT 2 BONE UP ON MY WALKIN JAZZ BASS LINE, DUDE WAS HAULIN ASS!!!!

[drummerzac]

Like? I need a LOVE button!

[GRDSound]

cooool

[PINCHUNO]

All the negative posters here, should post their video of giant steps at any tempo they like. Assholes.

[ncodrington]

@PINCHUNO Well said sir.

UTTERLY.

DESTROYED.

[LearnToFlash]

Sounds like a bunch of retards trying to hump a door knob!

[Chessguitar]

a Giant Doorknop? Good titel...

But I think you missed it all

[manmonki]

yes that's him , jimmy haslip from the yellowjackets !!!

[megafunk88]

does anyone know what the occasion of this session was? I see other yellowjackets walking around as well. This small studio is populated by my early heros. It looks like somebody's house..like a jazz intervention for a fusion head who never learned to swing so his idols were invited over to set him straight. What gives?

[nickkellie]

AWESOME!!!!!!

[109Juniper]

That's tearing it up. Great stuff here!

[TiteTrax]

Don't forget about Jeff Lorber. One of my early idols. He introduced my to jazz fusion. He also gave Kenny G(Gorelick) his big break. And Eric Benet, Lalah Hathaway, Karyn White...

[Ormaaj]

zomg! Sounds great guys!

[adburger]

Some of the best and favs over the years.

[biglalu]

Jimmy Haslip? Did you saw him on the video?

[RixGuitar]

Chuck surely burnin on this one! All the cats are smokin!

[derrylgabel]

These guys are smoking! Great playing Chuck!

[patriciostiglich]

I like chuck loeb a lot, his albums an playing

[ingenjoe1]

good player

[upT3mpo]

Holy fuckasauras!

[handdancin]

mad respect for staying alive on a fretboard on giant steps at that tempo!

[jayjurick]

isn't that jimmy haslip just standing on the sidelines???

[ldbboosha]

It's so damn hard to solo over Giant steps!

[gabrielaaron]

This guitar playing is horrendous

[koolynoodyano]

ass hole!!!

[danpianoman1]

I hope by horrendous, you mean horrendously good.

[jobaba64]

I checked out ur channel. Decent player. But this is a perfect example of ignorant rockers trashing something they don't understand. Try changing to disparate tonalities every one and one and a half measures at this tempo. I'm betting you couldn't do it with quarter notes

[germzneverdie]

this guitar playing is monstrous

[pierrejazzlover]

Please upload more of this material pleaseeeeeeeeee!!! Its a big favor to jazz community

[jazz1bro]

probably the best so called smooth jazz guitarist.

[sebastianlubini]

loeb is amazing, i love him

[mybahku]

That's Jimmy Haslip walking around in black with the coffee cup and Russell Ferrante behind Will Kennedy in the Sweater ... I'm assuming this was a Lorber/Yellowjackets thing ... sweet!

[ZigNodaMusic]

These guys are are top session players.

This was just a WARM UP before a recording and video session.

These guys were all weaned on standards before they starting writing and recording "smooth" jazz.

Lorber's solo was burning.

Wish Eric was on that clip because he would have blown your mind as well. He just to practice in the room next door from us at a local college when he was home between road trips and sessions. These guys live to play music and play music to live.

[ZigNodaMusic]

That's Jeff LORBER on piano,

Will Kennedy on drums,

Chuck LOEB on guitar

Eric Merienthal (sax)

Konstantin Ionenko on bass

[baajo]

I think that's Jeff Loeb (guitar), not Lorber.

[koolynoodyano]

chuck loeb maybe...

[Saxyman14]

I don't know man, didn't really sound like they could hang. I think they were trying to prove something, in turn, messing up a lot.

[SaxmanBW91]

WTF are you talking about??? I'm sure they would dust your ass given the opportunity.....

[Saxyman14]

This isn't their style.

[upT3mpo]

@Saxyman14 That song will kill most people at that tempo, even most "pro's"! Though I did feel Chuck held up the strongest, the keys man tripped a lot and the bass player was happy to move on. Still, props!

[itamarberman]

@Saxyman14 I thought they perform the standard beautifully.

[biglalu]

great music! Great drummer, he's a killer!! Ye, i hope one day to meet you!!!

[Chromatype]

That was some serious playing right dar folks...and not a whiff of Kenny G-ness

[lukePaulNorman]

Marvellous!!

[rotovader1]

I remember when Russ Ferrante learned Giant Steps - he played it in stride style and kept the bass going while he played a solo, and at a good tempo too. This was about 1975. They guys sound good but they are just playing catch up!

[phonkin]

kickin ass

[FlowJazz]

Now, everybody, come see me, and tell me those guys are just smooth jazz players !!! I didn't know Chuck Loeb could play like that !!!!!!! Awesome

[JazzySaxE]

jeff lorber is the best!

i love the piano too.