Dave Catney live at Cezanne 2-94

Dave Catney with David Craig and Joe Ferriera playing Theme From Black Orpheus.

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[tp583911]

Great quality video Tim and a very good performance that night and excellent representation of Dave's talent. I remember how much energy it took out of him performing around that time but you certainly couldn't tell. I remember helping pick out that shirt he was wearing too. ;-)

thx for posting -

.....SG

[ClausenTim]

Thanks for writing Scott and thanks for the major difference you made in helping Dave get the most out of life.

PS - Exciting news! - Bassist Darrel Tidaback has just issued Dave's superb last recording session, featuring Darrel and Joe Ferriera on drums. Titled Timelines, this great CD has just been made available on CD Baby - it features some terrific standards and originals, and was recorded just a month before this Cezanne video. An important part of Dave's legacy - do treat yourself!

[caponsacchi]

I notice the understated, "invisible" break between the vampish intro and the first chorus, then the same between the end of the 1st chorus of the melody and the start of the improvised chorus. The statement of the melody is at once faithful to Jobim's conception yet full of subtle harmonic and melodic alterations that are the performer's (I've yet to determine how he slips that dominant F7 in there so unobtrusively). He's playing more percussively here--a Brubeck mood?--than on his recordings.

[ClausenTim]

For anyone new to Dave's music, you can still purchase copies online of Dave's superb Jade Visions CD, featuring Marc Johnson on bass and Peter Erskine on drums. Still my all-time favorite jazz CD in a collection of many, many hundreds of recordings.

[scentline]

I can't believe I cna see his playing on youtube! His solo on 'Little paryer' with Sandra Duddley was one of the best ballad in my life!

[222Rooms]

Thanks for posting this!!!

Dave was a Friend of mine when I lived in Houston. After "First Fligt", I made him sign all the other copies on the front. He had an 'odd thing' about always wanting to sign the inside jacket of the CD. I always liked then on the front. He always agreed!!! I met him thru my dear friend Kim and still miss Dave fondly!!! Gary Dog

[ClausenTim]

Thanks for writing and for the thanks too. The music on Window of Light was recorded at Houston Sound Studios in '89 as practice-preparation for the First Flight recording for Justice Records, and contains many of the same tunes you'll find on First Flight, along with a few others. If you are able to order from Amazon US you can get copies of all of these, at least second hand ones.

[yugenakj]

Dave Catney according my opinion was going to become a new Bill Evans.

Living in Italy I've been almost lucky in finding his 3 recordings (Reality Rd, Jade Visions, First Flight).

Infos about Window of Light? Is it an anthology?

Thank you, Tim, for your contibution in remembering Dave.

[ClausenTim]

Thanks very much for sharing. Personally speaking, Dave's music has always spoken to me far more profoundly than Bill's does. The wonderful thing about this video clip is that you are not just witnessing a musical performance; this is an outpouring of Dave's soul, in which you can feel some of Dave's feelings about all the incredible things on his plate as a human being at that time... There is only this remarkably compelling, deeply spiritual beauty in his music.

[caponsacchi]

Great players can bring out the smallness in their counterparts, and no doubt some would sense relief that this gifted artist, with more potential than any player since Bill Evans, is one less threat to their self-esteem (and livelihood). His recordings are as close to Bill as you'll find. This video as mainstream as you'll hear him. (The audience is, unfortunately, one Keith would bully into silence. Not Bill or Dave. The loss is ours.