I have always admired his music. Mike is a very special person. I once interviewed him for Guitar Player. When I entered his room in a hotel in Madrid he was with his Telecaster, a small amp and sheet music. He was going to play with The Brecker Brothers and he was practicing there. I was surprised by his calm, his humility and kindness, so much so that when the interview ended and I told him that I played, he took about 20 minutes to be interested in what I was doing and it was Mike Stern!!! Happy to see him and listen to his music.
Happy to hear, thanks! It was a really great gig! Unfortunately we weren't allowed to publish the whole concert, but "Connections" was one of the best.
I love Mike Stern, have seen him play in London's Jazz Cafe and he was brilliant each time out. I left always feeling inspired. After, his accident of a few years ago, I was afraid that he wouldn't be back to his exhuberant self on guitar. This performance confirms that he his back with some vengence. Love you dude ... London Fanboy
Love Mike, seen him in concert many times before, never with Leni though! Sometimes I wish I still lived in Europe (in Oz currently), looking at that awesome diversity on the Berlin Jazz platform Victor's Places/Zig Zag Jazz club. I needed to check the date/venue though as it was not mentioned in the description: 30 October 2024 -Zig Zag Jazz Club Berlin. Thanks for posting, subscribed and will keep an eye on the channel!
What a great video and performance! Thank you for sharing and for hosting these great shows. I had the great honor and good fortune to recently produce and mix a project where Mike was a featured guest artist with guys like Eddie Gomez and other amazing jazz musicians from around the world. Mike's playing on this project was unbelievably beautiful. I was really inspired and honored to be able to work on it with him. He was incredibly kind and generous and talented beyond words. Thank you for sharing these videos and I wish you a lot of success with your channel!
Thank you so much for your comment and support! I was also lucky enough to not only hear and see Mike, but also to talk to him that evening. And I felt his kindness and warmth as well. Outstanding artist, fantastic band! Subscribe and stay with us please!❤️
@@VictorVoytov I just subscribed. And I will let you know when this LP is coming out. It is a double LP with some really extraordinary playing on it. Keep doing what you’re doing!
Absolut Fantastisch, irre guter Klang, die Performance der Damen und Herren selbstredend. Wenn ich es diesem Leben nochmals nach Berlin kommen kann, ist ein Besuch in diesem Club meine erste Adresse ❤❤
Greetings from Chicago🌭 HI VICTOR ❗️ ( my middle name)🤫 Just liked & subscribed!!!!!!! THIS IS LIQUID GOLD❗️ THANK YOU MAESTRO ❗️ I’m a 68 year old self taught jazz composer by calculated accident….. …. lol ( long story 👀) Don’t know Mr. Stern as I should. As my side door entry into this medium ; while being simultaneously tugged on by forces dragging me, against my will, into a religious rabbit hole.😡 Losing decades of critical thought and aesthetic freedom; has led me, sooo late in life, to finally explore such inspirational excellence by what I now understand to be my calling…… 😳 I somehow got a hold of STERNS 2001 “ VOICES” Album in my library…. And…… wore out the 2 pieces; “STILL THERE “ & “ WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN”. This introduced me to the HEART AND DEPTH OF THIS GUITARIST ❗️❗️❗️ I now know why he wrote: “ LENI’S SMILE “; …… which is on the same album… he’s obviously been with her DECADES NOW ❗️❗️😌 ( as for myself; a primarily composer of romance and heartbreak; of which I’m an expert…… lol……) I find myself ; a lyricist struggling to engage prose around the essence of 50’s lavish style horn arrangements …. only using “state of the art” mixing and equalization❗️ Still…… I confess; fusion holds me ; a happy prisoner ……..🥹 ( and I will have something to say compositionally soon….In that regard…) hopefully 👀 before the decade is done…❓ I find life’s irony’s … par for the course as well when issues of human togetherness arise ❓ I mean….. does it square, that a professor of romance…. is the one who spent the majority of his researchable life…… in the paradox…. of ALONE-NESS ❓ I guess…… no more peculiar than a astronaut; or even better…. a world renowned Nobel Laureate Astrophysicist; spending his career….. studying ON EARTH ….. without even an “ HOUR “ in space……. ❗️ Irony ; or poetic justice ❓ Either way…… I wouldn’t change a thing about traversing & reporting on such enigmatic & miraculous emotional terrain❗️ for ; it’s the path we’ve traveled ……. that reveals the true scenery🕯️ I might have to do a piece on : MR. & MRS STERN❓ …….. they’re love … is a rare miracle ❗️ Like Sting; ( Gordon Sumner)and his 31 years long love affair with Trudy Styler❗️ Or , “ Everything But The Girl “ That English duet ; Tracy Thorn & Ben Watt who’s been together 40 years…… still gigging together….. still in love ❗️ Can’t think of a bunch of couples in jazz that survive……but it happens…….☺️ ( don’t worry…. LOVE will survive the internet….. lol) I recently finished a piano piece called: “CARLA” ….. to celebrate the intense love between : Carla Bley & SteveSwallow❗️ ( hope to send it to Mr. Swallow when the album is done.)👀 ( rest easy Carla😢) ( I would love to build the piece out properly with a small 25 piece ensemble if my dream comes true.)👀 That piece should be arriving on the debut out hopefully Christmas 2025 next year …. ( if funding comes through 👀)…. lol Very excited to find your channel this evening sir ❗️ Well, heading to the studio next door to work on something knew…….. Keep stacking those musical logs on your channels jazz bonfire Victor, God knows the importance of visionaries like you……. ❗️ ….. who keep us strangers fed…… out of pure “love “……. 🔮LOVE 🔮 that’s “your” calling 🌱 🎼 RAIN AGAIN 🎼
Hi @RAIN-AGAIN, thanks for your comment and support! Anyway good luck with your dream! this was my favorite jazz couple..Carla Bley & Steve Swallow! R.I.P. Carla
Sounds great as usual. I first heard Mike , Somebody had a cassette of him playing in Boston in the late 70s, before he got on Miles Davis band. I was amazed at the playing on the tape, but I saw him with Miles about 5-6 He had that Stratocaster, and to twin Reverbs-Amazing. I saw him many times in the early days of the 55 bar, Grant Street and then also on Christopher Street. I saw Some well-known musicians do those little gigs and some well-known musicians sit in too.He did that gig at the 55 barre on Christopher Street Monday nights every Monday for years and years, it didn’t matter the weather, who he could get to hit with him, that was his thing, that Dig and I respected him so much for doing that too. His recovery from that accident is amazing, to have something like that happen, and bounce back sounding so strong, right on Mike!It’s beautiful that his wife, Leni-Also an excellent Guitarist is in the band on a regular basis.
Yes, 55 Bar on Christopher Street, every Monday and Wednesday night. In the late eighties he would play with Jeff Andrews, Adam Nussbaum, John Riley and Harvey Swartz all the time, now he goes as Harvey S. We would sit right at the front table and Mike was about three feet away from us,he was like a god up there. That place didn't survive the pandemic unfortunately. They started at 55 Grand,then 55 Christopher, I guess now they have to find another place with 55 in the address to jam at.
@ Yes, I saw him playing at the 55 on grand also a couple times. The musicians you mentioned at the 55 on Christopher, I saw all of them play too. Adam is a really old friend of mine, I’ve known him since 1975. Great times, glad I was able to witness them.
Many great things here... 😊 ....Chambers is really amazing again. Whoever did the mix removed all low end from the sax...it's way to thin. But nice overall 😊
I will NEVER understand why Mike doesn't release a LIVE double or triple cd featuring his various line-ups - I have contacted his management several times, never got an answer... he always performs with the very best musicians... Bluray exists, but no cd releases...frustrating
Yeah much better to listen to a digital recording on a vinyl disc that costs twice the price, but still end up ripping it to PC anyway cos vinyl wears out pretty quick 😅@@user-nu7xx7pc1d
Mike Stern is NOT a great player; he also NOT a jazz player. I see him as an imposter. He plays rock; a jazz phony. If you listen to his body of work, you will notice that he always plays the same; if you listen to his solos, they aren't too satisfying- he noodles around a bit, and only has that one fast lick that he ends nearly all of his solos with. Yet, he has managed to play with some good jazz artists, somehow. WTF is that piece of green tape on his pickup selector?
He always sounds the same, he uses an SPX90 with the stereo detune setting, at some point he kicks on the overdrive. Predictable. Good composer though…
@@ChromaticHarp he sounds the same because he found his sound some 40 some years ago.....all jazz greats who got their own sounds sound the same because thats the sound they have and like ... Mclaughlin, Miles, Marcus Miller sounds the same.....finding ,developing your own sound is the most important thing...U gotto play your ass off with that sound though and they all do
It's so great to hear Leni and Mike together! And Dennis sounds better than ever. Go Dennis!!!
Fully agree, amazing Mike and Dennis, great band!
Thanks for your comment and support!
So nice to see that jazz fusion is alive and well. Live long and prosper, Mike.
❤
I have always admired his music. Mike is a very special person. I once interviewed him for Guitar Player. When I entered his room in a hotel in Madrid he was with his Telecaster, a small amp and sheet music. He was going to play with The Brecker Brothers and he was practicing there. I was surprised by his calm, his humility and kindness, so much so that when the interview ended and I told him that I played, he took about 20 minutes to be interested in what I was doing and it was Mike Stern!!!
Happy to see him and listen to his music.
Yes,nice music!Bass & Drumms are amazing for them!So nice to see that jazz fusion is alive and well. !!!
@@ManfredElsingBielefeld How talented all those musicians are.
I was very surprised by Dennis Chambers that I heard from Sco's records.
Very interesting, I had similar impressions from a short conversation with Mike after this concert in the club. Amazing musician and a very nice guy❤️
why dont you remove that phantasy flag from your account? you support hamas?
What a great performance, thank you so much for sharing this!
Happy to hear, thanks! It was a really great gig! Unfortunately we weren't allowed to publish the whole concert, but "Connections" was one of the best.
Thanks for your comment and support!
Subscribe and stay tuned please
Nice to hear Dennis Chambers swingin like that.
Yes, he is truly an amazing drummer!❤️
I love Mike Stern, have seen him play in London's Jazz Cafe and he was brilliant each time out. I left always feeling inspired. After, his accident of a few years ago, I was afraid that he wouldn't be back to his exhuberant self on guitar. This performance confirms that he his back with some vengence. Love you dude ... London Fanboy
😊😊😊
When you have a stage filled with monsters and the drummer steals the show! Go Dennis!!!
Dennis at his peak...thanks he is back again
Super Thanks 🎉❤
Thanks for your comment
Amazing performance by all.❤ Been following Stern since 80s Miles. 🔥 Chambers is an absolute Monster drummer 🙏 glad to see everyone still growing ✨️
Just wonderful!
The perfect marriage! Human and in music. ❤
👍
Brilliant Mike Stern and the Band who are also Brilliant.👌
Yes, he’s truly a legendary artist ❤
Gran sonido e imagen, gracias por subirlo 🎧🎶
Original, beautiful and fierce music. Embrace from Argentina. Thanks Victor´ place.
God Bless Mike
Love Mike, seen him in concert many times before, never with Leni though! Sometimes I wish I still lived in Europe (in Oz currently), looking at that awesome diversity on the Berlin Jazz platform Victor's Places/Zig Zag Jazz club. I needed to check the date/venue though as it was not mentioned in the description: 30 October 2024 -Zig Zag Jazz Club Berlin. Thanks for posting, subscribed and will keep an eye on the channel!
Thanks for your comment and support! Stay with us
What a great video and performance! Thank you for sharing and for hosting these great shows. I had the great honor and good fortune to recently produce and mix a project where Mike was a featured guest artist with guys like Eddie Gomez and other amazing jazz musicians from around the world. Mike's playing on this project was unbelievably beautiful. I was really inspired and honored to be able to work on it with him. He was incredibly kind and generous and talented beyond words. Thank you for sharing these videos and I wish you a lot of success with your channel!
Thank you so much for your comment and support! I was also lucky enough to not only hear and see Mike, but also to talk to him that evening. And I felt his kindness and warmth as well. Outstanding artist, fantastic band! Subscribe and stay with us please!❤️
@@VictorVoytov I just subscribed. And I will let you know when this LP is coming out. It is a double LP with some really extraordinary playing on it. Keep doing what you’re doing!
Fantastic!
Great Gig…WOW…..thx👏👏👏👏👏👏
I think Bob Franceschini is a rising star. Together with Mike sounds so well together.
Rising star???? What are you talking about!!! He’s been around since Bob Berg’s passing!!! What rock did you crawl out from under?????
Much longer than that! He’s been on the scene for 40+ years.
Absolut Fantastisch, irre guter Klang, die Performance der Damen und Herren selbstredend. Wenn ich es diesem Leben nochmals nach Berlin kommen kann, ist ein Besuch in diesem Club meine erste Adresse ❤❤
you are welcome every time!❤️
Greetings from Chicago🌭
HI VICTOR ❗️
( my middle name)🤫
Just liked & subscribed!!!!!!!
THIS IS LIQUID GOLD❗️
THANK YOU MAESTRO ❗️
I’m a 68 year old self taught jazz composer by calculated accident….. …. lol
( long story 👀)
Don’t know Mr. Stern as I should.
As my side door entry into this medium ;
while being simultaneously tugged on by forces dragging me,
against my will, into a religious rabbit hole.😡
Losing decades of critical thought and aesthetic freedom;
has led me,
sooo late in life, to finally explore such inspirational excellence by what I now understand to be my calling…… 😳
I somehow got a hold of STERNS 2001 “ VOICES”
Album in my library…. And…… wore out the 2 pieces; “STILL THERE “
&
“ WHAT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN”.
This introduced me to the
HEART AND DEPTH
OF THIS GUITARIST ❗️❗️❗️
I now know why he wrote:
“ LENI’S SMILE “;
…… which is on the same album… he’s obviously been with her DECADES NOW ❗️❗️😌
( as for myself; a primarily composer of romance and heartbreak; of which I’m an expert…… lol……)
I find myself ;
a lyricist struggling to engage prose around the essence of 50’s lavish style horn arrangements …. only using “state of the art”
mixing and equalization❗️
Still…… I confess;
fusion holds me ;
a happy prisoner ……..🥹
( and I will have
something to say
compositionally
soon….In that regard…)
hopefully 👀 before the
decade is done…❓
I find life’s irony’s … par for the course as well when issues
of human togetherness arise ❓
I mean…..
does it square, that a professor of romance…. is the one who spent the majority of his researchable life…… in the paradox….
of ALONE-NESS ❓
I guess…… no more
peculiar than a astronaut;
or even better….
a world renowned
Nobel Laureate Astrophysicist;
spending
his career….. studying
ON EARTH ….. without even an “ HOUR “ in space……. ❗️
Irony ; or poetic justice ❓
Either way…… I wouldn’t
change a thing about
traversing & reporting
on such enigmatic &
miraculous emotional terrain❗️
for ;
it’s the path we’ve traveled ……. that reveals the true scenery🕯️
I might have to do a piece on :
MR. & MRS STERN❓
…….. they’re love … is a rare miracle ❗️
Like Sting; ( Gordon Sumner)and his 31 years long love affair with Trudy Styler❗️
Or ,
“ Everything But The Girl “
That English duet ;
Tracy Thorn & Ben Watt who’s been together 40 years…… still gigging together….. still in love ❗️
Can’t think of a bunch of couples in jazz that survive……but it happens…….☺️
( don’t worry…. LOVE will
survive the internet….. lol)
I recently finished a piano piece
called: “CARLA”
….. to celebrate the intense love between :
Carla Bley & SteveSwallow❗️
( hope to send it to Mr. Swallow when the album is done.)👀
( rest easy Carla😢)
( I would love to build the
piece out properly with a
small 25 piece ensemble
if my dream comes true.)👀
That piece should be arriving on the debut out hopefully Christmas 2025 next year …. ( if funding comes through 👀)…. lol
Very excited to find your channel this evening sir ❗️
Well,
heading to the studio next door to work on something knew……..
Keep stacking those
musical logs on your
channels jazz bonfire Victor,
God knows the importance of visionaries like you……. ❗️
….. who keep us strangers fed……
out of pure “love “…….
🔮LOVE 🔮
that’s “your” calling 🌱
🎼 RAIN AGAIN 🎼
Hi @RAIN-AGAIN, thanks for your comment and support! Anyway good luck with your dream! this was my favorite jazz couple..Carla Bley & Steve Swallow! R.I.P. Carla
his chops are really back on top now after the accident aren't they! Amazing!
Sounds great as usual. I first heard Mike , Somebody had a cassette of him playing in Boston in the late 70s, before he got on Miles Davis band. I was amazed at the playing on the tape, but I saw him with Miles about 5-6 He had that Stratocaster, and to twin Reverbs-Amazing. I saw him many times in the early days of the 55 bar, Grant Street and then also on Christopher Street. I saw Some well-known musicians do those little gigs and some well-known musicians sit in too.He did that gig at the 55 barre on Christopher Street Monday nights every Monday for years and years, it didn’t matter the weather, who he could get to hit with him, that was his thing, that Dig and I respected him so much for doing that too. His recovery from that accident is amazing, to have something like that happen, and bounce back sounding so strong, right on Mike!It’s beautiful that his wife, Leni-Also an excellent Guitarist is in the band on a regular basis.
Yes, 55 Bar on Christopher Street, every Monday and Wednesday night. In the late eighties he would play with Jeff Andrews, Adam Nussbaum, John Riley and Harvey Swartz all the time, now he goes as Harvey S. We would sit right at the front table and Mike was about three feet away from us,he was like a god up there. That place didn't survive the pandemic unfortunately. They started at 55 Grand,then 55 Christopher, I guess now they have to find another place with 55 in the address to jam at.
@ Yes, I saw him playing at the 55 on grand also a couple times. The musicians you mentioned at the 55 on Christopher, I saw all of them play too. Adam is a really old friend of mine, I’ve known him since 1975. Great times, glad I was able to witness them.
I heard That Mike got hit by a car? Or he fell in the street or something?
GO MIKE!
Dennis Chamber'in, davulu okşayarak çaldığı ve mükemmel ton çıkarttığı sahne. Resmen bayıldım. Snare ile harikaları yaratmış.
@@asiriprofesyonel that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking!
Like A Thief 깊은 곡 👏👏👏👏👏
so cool
Yeh, great Mike and fantastic band!
Subscribe and stay tuned please!
Имел удовольствие побывать на майке в Иркутске. А на Чемберсе в Бангкоке. Класс.
Many great things here... 😊 ....Chambers is really amazing again. Whoever did the mix removed all low end from the sax...it's way to thin. But nice overall 😊
Thanks for your comment
15:15 Snare off ::))) Virtuoz Chambers.
👍👍👍
😊 ✨
Thats way too interesting and technically competent to be called smooth jazz. Great players
You are absolutely right, it was a mistake. Thank you!
Check out the Rick Beato interview of Mike 😊
Wow. Sweet video, great playing. Who is the sax guy? Thx
This is Bob Franceschini on tenor sax❤
I will NEVER understand why Mike doesn't release a LIVE double or triple cd featuring his various line-ups - I have contacted his management several times, never got an answer... he always performs with the very best musicians... Bluray exists, but no cd releases...frustrating
well, there is not so much demand to CD's
Yeah much better to listen to a digital recording on a vinyl disc that costs twice the price, but still end up ripping it to PC anyway cos vinyl wears out pretty quick 😅@@user-nu7xx7pc1d
There is a double LP, vinyl release, coming out in the next few months, where Mike was a guest artist with some amazing musicians.
@@TheZenguitarguy big thanks for this info - but - another frustration! I don't have a turntable any longer::)
@@youareveryundude. I am certain a CD and a digital release will also happen simultaneously.
8:57: Isotope
Those post Coltrane Tenor lines scare the shit out of my cat!
Anyone know when this was recorded?
ZigZag jazz club, Berlin 30.10.2024❤
Chris plays his ass off
FAT TIME IS IN DA HOUSE!!!
デニチェン痩せた？
Leni Stern looks like a beginner
Looks are deceiving.
some ones out of their league : (
Your mother? Pipe down, you don’t know what you’re talking about!
Now,now
If ur talking his wife ..she is a 1st rate guitarist herself 😮
Is it the Yoko Ono of the jazz guitar?
@@blueleadgoldproductions133 most definitely not. She has a very different style than Mike. Listen to her support work as others are playing.
Mike Stern is NOT a great player; he also NOT a jazz player. I see him as an imposter. He plays rock; a jazz phony. If you listen to his body of work, you will notice that he always plays the same; if you listen to his solos, they aren't too satisfying- he noodles around a bit, and only has that one fast lick that he ends nearly all of his solos with. Yet, he has managed to play with some good jazz artists, somehow. WTF is that piece of green tape on his pickup selector?
He always sounds the same, he uses an SPX90 with the stereo detune setting, at some point he kicks on the overdrive. Predictable. Good composer though…
Tell us how you really feel
Get a life. If you don't like it, don't listen.
Wow joseph, you really have me wondering now. Who has better Ears. you? Or MILES & COBHAM. 😆
@@ChromaticHarp he sounds the same because he found his sound some 40 some years ago.....all jazz greats who got their own sounds sound the same because thats the sound they have and like ... Mclaughlin, Miles, Marcus Miller sounds the same.....finding ,developing your own sound is the most important thing...U gotto play your ass off with that sound though and they all do