I agree with everyone on this one. I wish I had seen them a lot more than the one time I did. With that great Phil Woods sax and the disjointedly beautiful ending. WOW!!
Shortly after seeing this at the time I took at friend to the El Mocombo Stood right in front of Terry Adams F*** were they fantastic !! The only time I ever saw a drummer break his snare drum - replaced instantly barely skipping a beat ... they were so good beyond 10/10
Thanks for preserving & sharing this. Night Music wasn't carried in my area & I used to freak & frustrate when I'd hear who was on the show. No knock at the great Roswell Rudd, but this is the definitive version.
I agree with you all. It's pop, it's jazz, it's blues-rock, it's...chaos. Beautiful! What an underrated band--and highly unappreciated, especially on the West Coast. I love these clips with Big Al. Johnny's great, but this classic line-up can't be beat. And *Night Music!* There's a show that NEVER should've gone off the air!
You should have seen Terry when he was just a kid in high school. He could tear it up. I will never forget when his group played "Blue Rondo a la Turk" at a high school talent show.
I was a little surprised to see Big Al and Joey Spampinato singing this song, I thought Terry Adams composed "Little Floater" and that he sang the lead on the studio recording. Regardless, this is a nice performance. Too bad the 'Q never got their commercial due.
@poopologist96 I think they probably did better than most people think. They loved their fans and vice-versa. I think thats what they cared most about. I discovered them in 1970 and they packed the place eveywhere they went
Woods initially mistakes this song as being something one can simply blow some blues over, but eventually comes around to making an appropriately melodic statement.
@@Flavum Respectfully (I hope...), there are WRONG notes, and he DOES NOT play for the song initially. I love Woods as the (at the time) living embodiment of Bird, and his opening salvo on that solo was stone bebop, but unfortunately contained a coupla bVII notes that were ( I wish I could simply say "inappropriate", but no, they were) WRONG and far from "the right notes in all the right places". However, two things, to further elucidate on my original comment...1) He corrected so quickly, and, I am sure, through no small effort on his part, found the harmonic groove and got solidly deep in it, genius that he is! 2) The fucking song is in the fucking key of A fucking natural...name me a jazz alto saxophone player that does not wilt in this rocknroll key! If a sax player is coming from a legit clarinet background or similar, maybe no sweat, but jazz guys frequently drown in A natural. So, if you thought I was dissing Woods entirely, allow me to correct that misconception. It's just that the top of one's solo; one's entrance makes the impression (does with me, at least), and that's what I was commenting on. Other than that, having a bebop luminary such as Woods play with THE BEST BAND EVER is an amazing thing to witness (and certainly, better Woods than that squealing, ice-pick-in-the-ear Sanborn!!).
I so wish that the entire Night Music archive would be remastered and re-released. It deserves to be resurrected.
I agree with everyone on this one. I wish I had seen them a lot more than the one time I did. With that great Phil Woods sax and the disjointedly beautiful ending. WOW!!
Classic and wonderful. I saw them as much as I could and wish I had seen even more shows.
Shortly after seeing this at the time I took at friend to the El Mocombo Stood right in front of Terry Adams F*** were they fantastic !! The only time I ever saw a drummer break his snare drum - replaced instantly barely skipping a beat ... they were so good beyond 10/10
What a treasure! Love the Q. Last time I saw this was around midnight, decades ago.
Thanks for preserving & sharing this. Night Music wasn't carried in my area & I used to freak & frustrate when I'd hear who was on the show. No knock at the great Roswell Rudd, but this is the definitive version.
This is music! Greatly underated band! Fantastic live performers.
what band ever rocked with freshness like this absolutely joyous
I agree with you all. It's pop, it's jazz, it's blues-rock, it's...chaos. Beautiful! What an underrated band--and highly unappreciated, especially on the West Coast. I love these clips with Big Al. Johnny's great, but this classic line-up can't be beat.
And *Night Music!* There's a show that NEVER should've gone off the air!
Jeez...I really miss seeing these guys.
Greatest band ever!!!!
so great rest in peace tommy
You should have seen Terry when he was just a kid in high school. He could tear it up. I will never forget when his group played "Blue Rondo a la Turk" at a high school talent show.
Would love to hear more about this, 14 years later (!!).
Phil Woods solo is incredible
The best!
I was a little surprised to see Big Al and Joey Spampinato singing this song, I thought Terry Adams composed "Little Floater" and that he sang the lead on the studio recording. Regardless, this is a nice performance. Too bad the 'Q never got their commercial due.
Its Terry's ode to his Metropolitan Nash.
that gibson looks like a baratone uke in Big Al's arms
Americas version of the Beatles
@poopologist96 I think they probably did better than most people think. They loved their fans and vice-versa. I think thats what they cared most about. I discovered them in 1970 and they packed the place eveywhere they went
love
Very true...all of it.
Woods initially mistakes this song as being something one can simply blow some blues over, but eventually comes around to making an appropriately melodic statement.
He played for the song. Like his Doctor Wu solo. All the right notes in all the right places.
@@Flavum Respectfully (I hope...), there are WRONG notes, and he DOES NOT play for the song initially. I love Woods as the (at the time) living embodiment of Bird, and his opening salvo on that solo was stone bebop, but unfortunately contained a coupla bVII notes that were ( I wish I could simply say "inappropriate", but no, they were) WRONG and far from "the right notes in all the right places". However, two things, to further elucidate on my original comment...1) He corrected so quickly, and, I am sure, through no small effort on his part, found the harmonic groove and got solidly deep in it, genius that he is! 2) The fucking song is in the fucking key of A fucking natural...name me a jazz alto saxophone player that does not wilt in this rocknroll key! If a sax player is coming from a legit clarinet background or similar, maybe no sweat, but jazz guys frequently drown in A natural. So, if you thought I was dissing Woods entirely, allow me to correct that misconception. It's just that the top of one's solo; one's entrance makes the impression (does with me, at least), and that's what I was commenting on. Other than that, having a bebop luminary such as Woods play with THE BEST BAND EVER is an amazing thing to witness (and certainly, better Woods than that squealing, ice-pick-in-the-ear Sanborn!!).