Yes, Sessions at West 54th was also good. Its so sad, there must be millions of hours of amazing concert footage. I have a giant bin of VHS tapes of concerts that are amazing, I can only imagine what exists out there. They should be streamed 24/7, along with new interesting acts.
While teaching at Berklee College of Music in Boston, professor and bassist Steve had his graduate students transcribe the most common “Jazz Standard”tunes and the lead sheets were bound and sold to the students as class notes and became the first “Fake Book” that turned into the Real Book vol 😍5 that sits on my piano today and provides the tune structure including song melody 🎶 , melody 🎼 (need an icon for a G7 or B7 for Carla Bley😂 compositions “Lawns” / “Healing Power” respectively. Intro, Verse, Chorus, Melody and Chord notes make it much simpler to perform an unfamiliar called tune AKA “request” from the crowd, promoter, or music contractor. For more information listen to the entire Blue Note catalog (It will take a lifetime) and the Electra Musician catalog. . . . “ If music be the food of love play on . . . “ - William Shakin’ Shakespeare Sincerely Yours😎, Rob Swofford 1966 - ♾
Nostaglia right here. I watched this show on a 5 dollar 1978 panasonic b&w portable television with a 9 inch screen attached to rabbit ears back then (it never got stolen - maybe out of pity, but the neighbor's Trinitron apparently was considered fair game lol). Anywho i miss this show and hopefully something like it pops up again.
This show gets it. Maybe the only show that did. A showcase for the best of contemporary music at the time regardless of idiom. Moody Blues to Carla Bley and Steve Swallow!! Beautiful entertainment and education in the best sense.
Back when this originally aired, my folks used to record this on VHS (it came on so late) to watch a few days later. I was 9 years old when I saw them watch this; according to them, I talked about that bit w/ Bootsie Collins talking to the rat (@ about 20mins right after "Brickyard Blues") for years! I'm now 33 and forgot about that bit during most of my 20's.
Karen Mantler & Her Cat Arnold are terrific albums. So wish there was more live performances from these “cult classics”. Karen’s sooooo darn cute here.
I was in Europe so I missed the entire 80's in America. This is interesting, laughable, enjoyable and so the roots, talent, ecclectic, and electric and so amusingly good.
Ricardia Davis hell yeah. The whole show, cuts before commercial, ad lib feel, all fantastic and really missed. Whole performances of The Moody Blues AND Dinah? It was like RUclips way before RUclips. Love for great music period.
What I loved about this show is that bass players from divergent musical spectrums had featured segments, and each killed it in their own respective ways. BIOT, I can actually see similarities between Bootsy and Steve Swallow: Both play radically different instruments and use innovative approaches to achieve their distinctive sounds. #respect
I was a fan of the show when it was on the air. Sanborn did a great job. And Bootsy’s girls got some meat on those bones. Check out Steve Swallow’s bass. That alone is worth the price of admission. Drummer with Karen Mantler is great.
I recorded that bass. He did three nights at a club in Cambridge with John Scofield and Adam Nussbaum. NPR's Jazz Alive aired part of it back in the late 70's
@@monsterjazzlicks Look you clearly have no understanding of how many albums he appeared on. He was The Top Studio Musician call for every artist from Stevie Wonder to Paul Butterfield to David Bowie. But when you get a non embarrassing lp out, do let us know! All of these artists were definitely not embarrassed to appear with him and were pleased with including him. He led the show for a reason. If you're embarrassed by him, then that's on you. Sonny Rollins wasn't embarrassed. Carla Bley wasn't. Miles Davis wasn't. Julius Hemphill wasn't. Pharoah Sanders wasn't. That's good enough for me.
and played on hundreds of pop music albums in the 1970’s and 80’s, and made a direct pipeline from 50’s post bop to 1980’s popular music. Nice to meet you finally Miles . . .
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Great show buf that final performance by Bley, Swallow, and the others was magical.
That Show is unforgettable .... ❤
Hiram was an amazing musician. The confidence he exuded was well deserved.
That Bootsy Collins presentation was epic.
Ha, No doubt!
Sanborn had to bring him back from the "Tripping Balls on LSD" stories - "So you worked with . . . "
"WOOOW!!!" XD
Arguably one of the best music television programs ever. Sessions at West 54th was pretty cool too.
Yes, Sessions at West 54th was also good. Its so sad, there must be millions of hours of amazing concert footage. I have a giant bin of VHS tapes of concerts that are amazing, I can only imagine what exists out there. They should be streamed 24/7, along with new interesting acts.
The bley song is called "lawns" which turns into "healing power"
While teaching at Berklee College of Music in Boston, professor and bassist Steve had his graduate students transcribe the most common “Jazz Standard”tunes and the lead sheets were bound and sold to the students as class notes and became the first “Fake Book” that turned into the Real Book vol 😍5 that sits on my piano today and provides the tune structure including song melody 🎶 , melody 🎼 (need an icon for a G7 or B7 for Carla Bley😂 compositions “Lawns” / “Healing Power” respectively.
Intro, Verse, Chorus, Melody and Chord notes make it much simpler to perform an unfamiliar called tune AKA “request” from the crowd, promoter, or music contractor.
For more information listen to the entire Blue Note catalog (It will take a lifetime) and the Electra Musician catalog. . . .
“ If music be the food of love play on . . . “
- William Shakin’ Shakespeare
Sincerely Yours😎,
Rob Swofford
1966 - ♾
Please bring back shows like this! We need some real music on TV to bring up a generation of beautiful art!
Music like this doesn’t exist anymore
@@Alltoofinite there are good artists still, but they are ignored by the industry and a population that has been corporatized.
@@antidote7 that is actually true… But they are far a few between
@@Alltoofinite indeed. They're all playing cover songs...lol
@@Alltoofinite it does but it's tricky to find.
Goddam that Bootsy intro! That humans can create this amazing sound is the reason we exist.
One of the best "Night Music" line-ups ever!!! I think.
So many Memories here ...❤️❤️❤️
This is culture television. It needs a remake with contemporary musicians for the older and youht musiclovers.
Netflix should do something like that!
"Healing Power" - just insanely wonderful.
Is that the time @ 8:00?
*tune
Nostaglia right here. I watched this show on a 5 dollar 1978 panasonic b&w portable television with a 9 inch screen attached to rabbit ears back then (it never got stolen - maybe out of pity, but the neighbor's Trinitron apparently was considered fair game lol). Anywho i miss this show and hopefully something like it pops up again.
This show gets it. Maybe the only show that did. A showcase for the best of contemporary music at the time regardless of idiom. Moody Blues to Carla Bley and Steve Swallow!! Beautiful entertainment and education in the best sense.
Back when this originally aired, my folks used to record this on VHS (it came on so late) to watch a few days later. I was 9 years old when I saw them watch this; according to them, I talked about that bit w/ Bootsie Collins talking to the rat (@ about 20mins right after "Brickyard Blues") for years! I'm now 33 and forgot about that bit during most of my 20's.
Funny, because I used to record this show on vhs too, I was around 20....
They should do this damn show again. It's time to do it again. Doesn't have to be on network TV either...
Jools Holland has been doing something similar for many years through the BBC. I think you can find it on AXS TV.
This is wonderful stuff. Bley is channeling Monk.
Bill Benzon yeah i got that too
Karen Mantler & Her Cat Arnold are terrific albums. So wish there was more live performances from these “cult classics”.
Karen’s sooooo darn cute here.
2 trillion likes!
Wow! Pretty Fat, Bootsy, Toussaint and more. New Bootsy cd on Oct of 2017.
if i wanted to send a friend a link to the best of everything you could put in one show ,this would be it.
I was in Europe so I missed the entire 80's in America. This is interesting, laughable, enjoyable and so the roots, talent, ecclectic, and electric and so amusingly good.
extraordinaire !!
now a favorite
But don't ya'll think the "Pretty Fat" are pretty Fantastic?????????
Ricardia Davis hell yeah. The whole show, cuts before commercial, ad lib feel, all fantastic and really missed. Whole performances of The Moody Blues AND Dinah? It was like RUclips way before RUclips. Love for great music period.
Love Carla!
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Thank you !
4:35 That BASS!
Amazing - Bootsy and friends are gettin it done! Thanks for this upload - great quality.
Extraordinary that this happened.
Dave get ready to roll ............and he sure did!
2019 Anyone?
Thanks crosscurrentjazz for posting this. I especially liked the Carla Bley/Paul Swallow tune, especially when they play in unison.
...followed by Moody Blues pre-mellotron era hit, "Go Now" and preceded by Bootsy Collins. What an episode!
Steve
@@satanas5975 right you are Jorge. Thanks!
What I loved about this show is that bass players from divergent musical spectrums had featured segments, and each killed it in their own respective ways. BIOT, I can actually see similarities between Bootsy and Steve Swallow: Both play radically different instruments and use innovative approaches to achieve their distinctive sounds. #respect
A thousand thumbs up. Thanks so much for posting this.
What would have been awesome would have been a Steve Swallow Bootsy Collins bass duet.. things that might have been.
Wonderfull 😊😊 thank tou !!
Bootsy!!
I done got hit wit da funk.
Starting at 4:52 headbanging soul, awesome at 5:52 and 32:50.
How did they ever sneak this amazing program past the admin wonks?
It was on after local news at 11:30pm Sunday nights.
for quite a while, too, best damn network TV weekly music show ever !
wow
1:34 "WOW!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was a fan of the show when it was on the air.
Sanborn did a great job.
And Bootsy’s girls got some meat on those bones.
Check out Steve Swallow’s bass.
That alone is worth the price of admission.
Drummer with Karen Mantler is great.
I recorded that bass. He did three nights at a club in Cambridge with John Scofield and Adam Nussbaum. NPR's Jazz Alive aired part of it back in the late 70's
Steven Bernstein !!!!
Is the Baritone thomas chapin ?
I don't suppose you have episode #206, do you?
She's better than him.
Sandborn is just an embarrassment!
LMAO
nope. he was a solid musician who cared. no point in such narrow windows.
@@dahliafully he only ever made one good album.
@@monsterjazzlicks Look you clearly have no understanding of how many albums he appeared on. He was The Top Studio Musician call for every artist from Stevie Wonder to Paul Butterfield to David Bowie. But when you get a non embarrassing lp out, do let us know! All of these artists were definitely not embarrassed to appear with him and were pleased with including him. He led the show for a reason. If you're embarrassed by him, then that's on you. Sonny Rollins wasn't embarrassed. Carla Bley wasn't. Miles Davis wasn't. Julius Hemphill wasn't. Pharoah Sanders wasn't. That's good enough for me.
and played on hundreds of pop music albums in the 1970’s and 80’s, and made a direct pipeline from 50’s post bop to 1980’s popular music.
Nice to meet you finally Miles . . .