Steps Ahead ft. Michael Brecker live at the North Sea Jazz Festival • 14-07-1985 • World of Jazz
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Steps Ahead was a jazz fusion group formed by vibraphonist Mike Mainieri in the 1970s. In the heydays the lineup consisted of Mike Mainieri, saxophonist Michael Brecker, pianist Don Grolnick, bassplayer Eddie Gómez and drummer Steve Gadd. They fused elements of jazz, R&B, funk and rock in one blend of jazz rock.
The band was active during the 1970’s and 1980’s and fell apart in the nineties. They gave a reunion concert however during the 2005 North Sea Jazz Festival.
This unique concert was recorded at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 14 July 1985 at the Congresgebouw, The Hague, The Netherlands, featuring Michael Brecker and the rhythm section of Weather Report: Victor Bailey and Peter Erskine. It was never broadcast!
The full line up:
Mike Mainieri, vibraphone,
Michael Brecker, saxophone
Chuck Loeb, guitar,
Victor Bailey, bass
Peter Erskine, drums
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RIP Michael, Chuck Loeb, Victor Bailey, three of the most wonderful players
I was there and enjoyed every second of it. Got chickenskin on Beirut, Trains and tears on my cheeks while they were playing in a Sentimental Mood. Fantastic guys, this was a SUPERGROUP. Amazing concert. RIP Michael and Chuck
Who’s still listening in 2022? I was there… amazingly fanatastic
Me too! 🙌✊
2024!!
I was not there, born in 89, but enjoying it a lot!!!
Michael Brecker is my favorit sax performer of all time. RIP
He was the best saxophonist of his generation and he played with the best of fusion giants, Steps Ahead, Pat Metheny, Uzeb and many others.
The delight on Victor Bailey's face is wonderful to see. Surrounded by great musicians, what a thrill.
JUST WHAT I WAS THINKING WELL DONE
Great musicians. RIP Michael and Chuck, we'll never forget you both
Also victor bailey RIP
@@JoEsp Right
And Rip Victor Bailey
One of my first jazz festivals. I was 23 and blown off by this fantastic performance!
I remember this concert. I was mainly impressed by the play from Michael Brecker and vibraphonist Mike Mainieri.
what happen to Chuck Loeb? I guess he was lifted in those times by such musicians as Brecker and Steps ahaead in general....?
What?
Chuck Lob...always inspiring! R.I.P.
Chuck Loeb plays worlds first guitar synthesizer from roland.. just wow
@@Jolafunk Especially that Roland 700 series. I’ve never heard it sound as good and I owned one,
Incredible Musicians. 👏🏿👏🏿❤️
RIP Victor Bailey, Bassist Extraordinaire 🖤❤️
RIP my friend Chuck Loeb 🖤🤍
Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤
I was there aswell great concert (in het Tuinpaviljoen) and super festival. North Sea Jazz in the '80es was incredible.
What year what is that exactly?
A few months before Steve Smith and Mike Stern came in. I saw a kind of pickup version of Steps Ahead many years later in Montreal, with Mainieri and Brecker and Jeff Watts on drums. One thing that was obvious was how much they loved playing this material.
When I watch this video over and over again, I see Michael having fun with what he is doing with the saxophone, just like everyone else who is on stage at that moment! It's priceless!
Rip Victor mike and Chuck we miss you guys very much
"Self Portrait" = what dynamics mean in music
0:00
21:03 Self Portrait
35:08
46:30 Intro ->
58:37 Trains
1:10:00
0:00 Oops
8:53 Sumo
21:03 Self Portrait
35:08 Safari
46:30 Vibes solo
51:17 EWI solo -> In A Sentimental Mood
58:37 Trains
1:19:10 Pools
当時ラジオで放送されたものを録音して繰り返し聴いていました。マイケルのMCまでしっかり覚えている。
まさか映像があったとは！
I was there! Unforgettable ♥️
this is a gem, never take it down!!!!
I've been listening to Steps Ahead since 1983 and have only heard them live once, in Wigan (UK) in 1999 with Bob Mintzer and Eliane Elias.
That would have been Bob Berg on Tenor sax not Mintzer.
@@mmee24 You could be right.
What an incredible musicianship! It was so much fun hearing and seeing these tunes! Thanks for the upload and thanks to the wonderful musicians!
My favourite band even now in 2020.Switzerland is here🇨🇭👍❤
SUPERB late-stage offering from ALL the players! (Brecket STANDS OUT EVEN amongst these BRILLIANT fellow-jazz musicians!!)
Steps Ahead and some of Weather Report in the same video! How cool!
troppo bravi pazzeschi
Je les avais vu à NICE FRANCE ! Assis derriere PETER ERSKINE ! fantastique formation de musiciens extraordinaires !
Priceless even shedding tears super Band and the Great Ones here in Spirit but not Body anymore Michael Victor and Chuck Rest in Power
I was there in the Hague. They blew my mind with "in a sentimental mood" and "trains".
What year was that exactly?
Incredible!!! Absolutely incredible!!! Thank you!
Nunca te olvidaremos Brecker. Tu legado seguirá hasta el fin del mundo.
Brilliant stuff ❤️❤️❤ ... And who knew Patrick Marber was such a badass on guitar?!
Now this is one concert that I really would have liked to have attended. Thanks so much to RUclips, I can at least enjoy the second best thing - a video recording.
By the way, I just marvelled at Michael Brecker when he transitioned from playing the EWI solo version of "In A Sentimental Mood" to "Trains". Just imagine having to play those too pieces back to back live!!!
Young and amazing Bailey, incredible band! Thanks!!!
This is so phenomenally epic! This goes straight in my music history and historic concerts folder
Mickael Brecker has a style recognisable between all
Wow. i had no idea Chuck played with Steps!!! RIP Chuck and Michael
These guys were so ahead of their times.
Thanks for posting this. I heard them in Pori jazz in Finland on the same summer. Great music, great team.
Erskine wasn't just a fill-in; he played with Steps Ahead for years after Steve Gadd did not want to stay with "Steps" after a brief Asian tour.
Do you know why he didn’t want to play with them?Gadd I mean
Erskine the best for steps
This is the best stuff ever!
C'est magnifique. Merci.....
Saw this incarnation of the band two weeks before this performance at Summerfest in Milwaukee.
If another take of the live recording at the Pit Inn Roppongi, Tokyo in 1981 is discovered, it will be called the discovery of the century. There will be no other "Tee Bag" performance with Steve Gadd at that time.
yes always new with youtube thank you all you are like the sun big free
Amazing Fusion 🔝
Michael Brecker forever
Excelente música. Grandes intérpretes. Muy buenas grabaciones.
Muchas gracias.
I'm freakin' out on all these amazing videos you're sharing. Can't thank you enough.
Thankyou for your nice remarks. There are lots of concerts we will be uploading every tuesday and friday. Watch this space and thanks for watching!
I'll be keeping two eyes out !!!!!
Love michael brecker #love #sounds.
the #best man
Hey, thanks for sharing high quality recordings!
I am totally amazed by how this footage still exists.. I had taped this on betamax but it got lost over time.
= THANK you for this Unique post!
Saw them at umbria jazz, guess a few days before /later
Oh my god, what a concert....
Historical concert!!!!!!!
Victor Bailey, bass, rest in peace.
I just discovered your channel. Thank you for posting material like this!
Dam this was another great band
OMG! Thank you so much!!
SUPER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As good as it got at ”the time”. Lots of new technology to integrate. The music still comes first
A young Chuck Leob on Guitar. This is 1985. 37 years ago. Rest in peace Victor bailey and . Mike Brecker. These were great music days back then
Gracias Dios por crear a estos seres Humanos 😍
1985 Stereo vid.
Great!!!
Que des souvenirs
Thank you!
The highest point of an entire fusion era
oops
sumo
self portrait
safari
in a sentimental mood
trains
trains 2
pools
RIP Víctor Baley! 😢 Only the Good die young.... What a huge loss to the continuity of modern jazz bass repertoire and performance...
TOPISSIME !!!
The walking march of Victor Bayley sound like a upright bass. 😯
Super
Man, I was there, thanks for posting this! Do you have any earlier footage? Like North Sea Jazz 1978 (or so) in Carrousel I?
Great music and memories. WOJ needed to use professional videographers. It looks like a high school production. Chuck is burning a solo and the camera is fixated on Michael not playing. Weird.
R.I.P Mr Bailey.
@1:01:00 I cant believe how solemn the crowd is... altho I've read that europeans enjoy their music in this manner, i tend to think that, as humans, at least a small few in a large crowd are bound to break out in dance upon experiencing great music... simply as a natural, if not primal, reaction. Even if 'customs' says otherwise. I remain surprised at the calmness bc i'd be goin off! What a set!
i loved watching Michael listen to the music 2:36
54:38 In a Sentimental Mood
NHK-FMでやったやつですね。まさか映像があったとは…
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I was in town during this gig. Pity I was in first grade at the time 😑
I always knew my grandmothers were hip but I never knew the same people that made their kitchen tables made Maniari's axe. One had the yellow and one had the red.
RIP legend
Qui' con il grandissimo Peter Erskine
Yep my fav drummer,do versatile
00:00:00
00:08:50
00:21:14 Self-Portrait
00:35:10
00:46:48
01:10:00
01:19:10
Sorry, I don't know the titles.
# precursor to VGM 4 sho!!!
The camera director maybe hates Erskine......😑😑😑
21:18 Allan Holdsworth-like moment
Why the one filming , need to be so much time in their life faces.
Turn the bass up please I can’t hear it.
The sound is all over the place in this. The drums and sax are the loudest. I can hear the bass just fine though and I'm having a 70 dollar Bluetooth speaker
Crazy about POOLS version
Such a shame!!!!! Such a great Band and Such a lousy camera work......they show us the wrong players while another one plays his solo......unbelievable
Looks like they uploaded footage coming from only one of the cameras. Really sad, coz this is one heck of an Ensemble of Musicians.
Horrible camera!!!!! What a shame!!! How could camera man be so LAME!!!
Looking at this conveniently I would agree but looking at this intricately I wouldn’t agree 😃
Where's the song list homes?
3 of these cats are dead. Very sad.
Right Chord Leadership SOOO SAD
What's the name of that first tune?
Does anyone remember the title of the first piece?
Oops
@@ewi4000 Thanks, got it!
No humans knows how to win with the evil, except the God.
What Primus would sound like if they didn't s***
Sorry man steve smith didnt make it like erskine!!!, ask anyone
worst camera director ever
'Modern' Jazz ...inverted commas and question mark...........keeps taking Step Backwards !
Loved this version of Steps.Terrible audio mix (and out of phase) poor directing and those awful PV amps. These guys deserve better than this ! Music on tv was pretty bad back then (mono)and internet audio only adds to the shortcomings.