Redman / McBride / Hancock

Peterdubya · August-11th-2006, 05:54 PM

Went to a triple bill a the Hollywood Bowl Wednesday night.

Joshua Redman opened the show with his trio featuring Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland on drums. They were great! They did a few standards and some originals. Great to hear Redman playing in an acoustic setting again. You never know what's going to happen with no piano, but it didn't hurt this group at all. The sound was huge and they all played well. Harland is such a musical drummer and Rogers was just great all the way through. Redman was all over the place, great tone, fluid running lines, a seemingly never ending supply of ideas and notes. He has a trio CD on the way. great group.

McBride's group was next, and they hit it hard. They did tunes from his new CD, and went back to some older material too. The band has gotten so tight over the last few years. Ron Blake keeps getting better, and Keezer is always a monster. Terreon Gulley was burnin all night. They closed the set with "Boogie Stop Shuffle" the Weather Report tune.

Then Herbie came out with the band he's toured Europe with all summer.
Lionel Loueke on guitar, missed the drummer's name, Matthew Garrison on bass (wow!!), Lily Haden on violin and vocals, and Herbie.

Their first tune was sort of electric new agey sounding, I wasn't real into it until Herbie's solo, then wow. He was playing great. The second tune was a Headhunters tune, don't remember the name. Herbie was fantastic, fresh ideas, interesting voicings, he was sounding wonderful. I like Loueke a lot, his style is unique and he really opened things up a lot. Lily Haden is fine at what she does. I don't think she was a great fit with this group. I think if there was a 'weak link' in the band, it was her. Not that she's bad, just that the others were so good. Matthew Garrison was a monster on bass.
Nice to hear Herbie, haven't heard him in a while. His solo on Cantalope Island was incredible. He took it all over the place.

Nice night at the Bowl. Haven't been to a jazz show there, except fro Playboy in years. Close to 10,000 people there sligghtly over half full) and they were quiet and listening intently. Beautiful warm summer night.

shrugs · August-11th-2006, 07:32 PM

there's a boot of the redman/mcbride/blade trio tour from 1999 going around that is good. he should have stuck to that format........

Peterdubya · August-11th-2006, 07:51 PM

Rumor has it that they'll tour again.....

shrugs · August-11th-2006, 08:06 PM

It could be great.
Especially if Redman stuck to the big horn.

Tom Marcello · August-11th-2006, 10:45 PM

Matthew Garrison is Jimmy Garrison's son. The drummer is Richie Barshay.

Speaking of bassists, Reuben Rogers has been playing with The Joe Locke / Geoffrey Keezer Group, in place of Mike Pope. The Group includes Terreon Gully on drums.

Hey, all they were missing was Joe!

Driving the way up the New York State Thruway last month where the Joe Locke Trio ( Joe Locke, Mike Pope & Terreon Gully) were to play the Kingston Jazz Festival, we stopped at one of the service stops to get coffee at a Dunkin Donuts.

Herbie and that whole band were in the line in front of us. They were on the way to Saratoga Springs for a concert. We all had a nice little nosh together!

Valerie · August-12th-2006, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Peterdubya

Went to a triple bill a the Hollywood Bowl Wednesday night.

Joshua Redman opened the show with his trio featuring Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland on drums. They were great! They did a few standards and some originals. Great to hear Redman playing in an acoustic setting again. You never know what's going to happen with no piano, but it didn't hurt this group at all. The sound was huge and they all played well. Harland is such a musical drummer and Rogers was just great all the way through. Redman was all over the place, great tone, fluid running lines, a seemingly never ending supply of ideas and notes. He has a trio CD on the way. great group.

McBride's group was next, and they hit it hard. They did tunes from his new CD, and went back to some older material too. The band has gotten so tight over the last few years. Ron Blake keeps getting better, and Keezer is always a monster. Terreon Gulley was burnin all night. They closed the set with "Boogie Stop Shuffle" the Weather Report tune.

Then Herbie came out with the band he's toured Europe with all summer.
Lionel Loueke on guitar, missed the drummer's name, Matthew Garrison on bass (wow!!), Lily Haden on violin and vocals, and Herbie.

Their first tune was sort of electric new agey sounding, I wasn't real into it until Herbie's solo, then wow. He was playing great. The second tune was a Headhunters tune, don't remember the name. Herbie was fantastic, fresh ideas, interesting voicings, he was sounding wonderful. I like Loueke a lot, his style is unique and he really opened things up a lot. Lily Haden is fine at what she does. I don't think she was a great fit with this group. I think if there was a 'weak link' in the band, it was her. Not that she's bad, just that the others were so good. Matthew Garrison was a monster on bass.
Nice to hear Herbie, haven't heard him in a while. His solo on Cantalope Island was incredible. He took it all over the place.

Nice night at the Bowl. Haven't been to a jazz show there, except fro Playboy in years. Close to 10,000 people there sligghtly over half full) and they were quiet and listening intently. Beautiful warm summer night.

how come i didn't see you?!?!? wasn't it more like 3/4 full? how about that moon? agree with you about the violinist but folks seemed to respond to her, especially the emotional-hook tune dedicated to her mother. sorry i missed you. i went backstage but skipped the reception upstairs.

Peterdubya · August-14th-2006, 02:09 PM

Hey Valerie!
It was a perfect night! The moon, the temperature, the music.....
I was back there a lot, sorry I missed you, also skipped the reception.....

Here's what Don Heckman had to say:

Small groups provide a big payoff

Joshua Redman, Christian McBride and Herbie Hancock's bands bring legitimacy to the Hollywood Bowl series.

By Don Heckman
Special to The Times

August 11, 2006

Jazz actually managed to find its way on to the Hollywood Bowl's 2006 summer jazz series in Wednesday night's program of small groups.

And it was a good one, as one might expect from a concert featuring the bands of Joshua Redman, Christian McBride and Herbie Hancock. It also was, for Southland jazz fans, a welcome respite from the series' choice of programming only marginally related to the genre, tucked in between last week's Al Green program and next week's New Orleans night with the Meters and the Neville Brothers.

Although there was plenty of firepower on stage, the intensity heightened by the multiple keyboards of Hancock and Geoffrey Keezer (with McBride's band), the evening's most appealing moments traced to smaller, more intimate passages.

Most were provided in the opening set by the trio of saxophonist Redman, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland.

But not with Redman, whose gift for melodic variation made every solo a fascinating excursion. On "Zarafah," his soprano saxophone playing showcased the most engaging timbres of this often-maligned instrument. His romp through the multi-note demands of Thelonious Monk's "Trinkle, Tinkle" was an adventure in technical virtuosity. And his high-spirited interaction with Rogers and Harland on "Surrey With the Fringe on Top" — and elsewhere — balanced inventive improvising with audience connectivity.

Hancock's set included three high points — his own utterly original playing on "Maiden Voyage," violinist Lili Haydn's touching vocal/instrumental work on her "Unfolding Grace" and, especially, the extraordinary guitar and vocal offerings of Benin's Lionel Loueke, who is surely destined to become a major jazz figure.

McBride, easily the star of his own ensemble, displayed the musicality and virtuosity that have made him the most potent bassist of his generation. Let's hope that, in his role as the Philharmonic's creative chair for jazz, he will use his musical excellence as the foundation for his future programming choices.

bigtiny · August-15th-2006, 04:04 PM

...Terreon Gulley was burnin all night. They closed the set with "Boogie Stop Shuffle" the Weather Report tune.

Isn't Boogie Stop Shuffle a Mingus tune? Do you mean 'Boogie Woogie Waltz"?

bigtiny

Peterdubya · August-15th-2006, 04:58 PM

Yep, you're right. I got my Boogies mixed up....
It was the Burgies.

Peterdubya · August-18th-2006, 07:52 PM

At least it wasn't the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy..... or Boogie Down