Horace Silver-Liberated Brother

Italy 1974 Perugia Jazz Festival
Tom Harrell-trumpet, Bob Berg-tenor sax,
Mike Richmond-electric bass, William Goffigan-drums

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• Horace
• Silver
• Tom
• Harrell
• Bob
• Berg
• William
• Goffigan
• Perugia
• Jazz
• Festival

[JanCarlo88]

everyone is saying berg is a good player.. (which is true), but what about the godlike harrell ? :)

[boxing1000]

@Tchalla77 Whoahh,easy there fella...greatest white saxophonist?Not really.He was a great player but the likes of Bergonzi,Grossman and Brecker were fare more accomplished.

[jazzjanne1]

I like Tom Harrells playing. I heard and saw him in Stockholm for about twenty years vago, when I got hat autograph

[InuFire12]

Tom is omnipresent...

[glacyan]

Liberated Brother of course is pure delight. Do people know that Horace did not write it (regardless of what the sheet music may say)? But he recognized its beauty and it was in his playlist for quite a while.

Bob Berg was silenced by drugs (for a while in the 80s) and by a drunk driver (permanently). But his legacy grows and grows. I remember hanging out with him at some Hartford jazz club in the late 80s. He was just so gracious and so devoted to the music.

[robertmbruno]

So do you wish to take musicians like Bird,Trane,Brecker,Bergonzi,or whomever you choose and place them in a list according to your opinion of what is and what isn't hip?Russel Garcia wrote a book used in college courses on arranging that listed the musical abilities one would have after committing oneself to his study and finishing his course.The lowest on his list of abilities was being a music critic.I don't see music as a contest at all,but more as a painting.Measuring greatness?Irrelevant.

[boxing1000]

@robertmbruno Not really...what's wrong with discussing who the greatest wthite,black or other colour saxophonist is...?You seem to think everybody plays on the same level...

[robertmbruno]

@boxing1000 Maybe I was replying to Tchalla 77 , or a note that appeared to be left by you(for instance the Tchalla blah blah about "White sax.."which has boxing1000 directly below it),or perhaps the general gist of several comments so easily dropped here but my point is as obvious as the futility of throwing pearls at swine.

[boxing1000]

@robertmbruno Uhm...your point?

[robertmbruno]

@boxing1000 .. This critical review as if the music is a football game really doesn't make a bit of sense to me and never has . Now Mary Tyler Moore would have looked good on the electric bass .. haha ,(sorry Mike) and I would have preferred Sonny Jorgenson on tenor but , after all it is all a fantasy.Music,painting,and perhaps all beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.The lowest possible part of music is criticism even if you actually study music, and that is merely academic BS.Good share

[Tchalla77]

We'll just have to agree to differ boxing1000. Will defer from knocking any of those you've mentioned, which serves no real purpose here; only to say Berg had both the best tone and improvisational prowess, no doubt a result of playing alongside great Black musicians like messrs Silver and Walton.