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3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby Mike Schwartz » June 27th, 2014, 4:29 pm

No recordings....eye witnessed only.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby bluenoter » June 28th, 2014, 9:29 am

1. John Coltrane at MIT (Cambridge, MA) several months before he died.

Well, that kind of makes any others of mine anticlimactic, but

2. The whole Rova Saxophone Quartet (performing with the Nels Cline Singers as the Celestial Septet) at the Windup Space (Baltimore) in February 2011.

That's all I've been able to decide on so far.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby jtx » June 28th, 2014, 3:05 pm

1. Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, Osaka, 1994 or 1995. No mics.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby BeBop » June 28th, 2014, 6:24 pm

Rahsaan Roland Kirk at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, circa 1974. That was three remarkable live saxophone (stritch, manzello...) performances, all at the same time.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby Mike Schwartz » June 28th, 2014, 7:45 pm

BeBop wrote:Rahsaan Roland Kirk at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, circa 1974. That was three remarkable live saxophone (stritch, manzello...) performances, all at the same time.


One that I sorely would have loved to have seen.

Coltrane was gone a couple of years before before I started taking in live shows.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby David Gitin » June 29th, 2014, 4:15 am

John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy, Carnegie Hall, New Year's Eve 1961

Ornette Coleman, Village Vanguard, the Tuesday after Coltrane died 1967

(too many more, from Coleman Hawkins to Rova, for me to select a third)
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby LennyH » June 29th, 2014, 5:13 am

Mike Schwartz wrote:
BeBop wrote:Rahsaan Roland Kirk at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, circa 1974. That was three remarkable live saxophone (stritch, manzello...) performances, all at the same time.


One that I sorely would have loved to have seen.


Me too. Bright Moments was recorded there. Of all the live albums I listen to, that's the one that most makes me wish I was there. Adore it.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby Jimmy Cantiello » June 29th, 2014, 7:09 am

Only one for me. Peter Brotzmann with William Parker and Milford Graves at CBGB's in NYC in 2002. Blew me the fuck away.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby Mike Schwartz » June 29th, 2014, 7:47 pm

Sonny Rollins; Tarrytown, NY early 90's

George Coleman; Stanford, CA

Ornette; SF Jazz Festival
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby Ron Thorne » July 19th, 2014, 6:29 pm

In date order:

Hank Mobley w/ Miles Davis Sextet - 1962
Jim Pepper - many times in the 80s/90s
Joe Lovano - Portland Jazz Festival - 2009



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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby Steve Reynolds » July 23rd, 2014, 8:40 pm

I was at the CBGB Brotzmann show - remember, Jimmy?

1) Tony Malaby - probably a 2011 Open Loose Show - last half of the second set beyond possible.

2) Paul Dunmall with Paul Rogers and Kevin Norton - Knitting Factory - maybe 2001

3) Evan Parker - hard to choose - Maybe 2009 @ The Stone with Dresser & Hemingway


I'm only including shows with one saxophonist

Other top shows:

Brotzmann this past January at Judson Hall.

Frank Gratkowski in 2001 before 9/11 with Formanek & Hemingway.

Marty Ehrlich with Andrew Hill's Sextet 1998

Ellery Eskelin with Parkins & Black - 2000 Tonic show when they blew the roof off the place

Any of the 5 times I saw the great Papa Joe Maneri

We should do a drummer top 3!!!
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby Ron Thorne » July 23rd, 2014, 9:35 pm

Steve Reynolds wrote:We should do a drummer top 3!!!
I agree.

Who would you recommend, Steve?
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby Jimmy Cantiello » July 24th, 2014, 4:50 am

Steve Reynolds wrote:I was at the CBGB Brotzmann show - remember, Jimmy?


Indeed I do, Steve. That was a stellar evening of music.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby stonemonkts » July 24th, 2014, 2:48 pm

My top 3 are David S. Ware at The Blue Note of all places, Greg Osby at the Village Vanguard, and Henry Threadgill at the Knitting Factory, all circa 2000-2002.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby stonemonkts » July 24th, 2014, 2:51 pm

Actually I'd like to cheat and add a 4th, Michael Marcus playing all sorts of horns (all saxophone-ish) at the Knit, 2001.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby moldyfigg » July 24th, 2014, 2:51 pm

Sonny Rollins last year at El Camino. Ageless monster.
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Re: 3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

Postby uli » August 7th, 2014, 11:01 am

one of my more memorable was this




it was incredible in terms of how Kirk captured the audience. they went beserk. After Kirk came a set of Les McCann's Swiss Movement group just a year of two after their success of the record and concert at Montreux. The audience and the atmosphere were completely gone with Kirk. They had to bring Kirk back to play with them to save the set.

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