3 most remarkable live saxophone performances

[Mike Schwartz]

No recordings....eye witnessed only.

[bluenoter]

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.

[jtx]

1. Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, Osaka, 1994 or 1995. No mics.

[BeBop]

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

[Mike Schwartz]

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.

[David Gitin]

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)

[LennyH]

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.

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Only one for me. Peter Brotzmann with William Parker and Milford Graves at CBGB's in NYC in 2002. Blew me the fuck away.

[Mike Schwartz]

Sonny Rollins; Tarrytown, NY early 90's

George Coleman; Stanford, CA

Ornette; SF Jazz Festival

[Ron Thorne]

In date order:

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



This is my post #1000 on Jazztalk! No, I'm not channeling a poster who shall remain nameless.

[Steve Reynolds]

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!!!

[Ron Thorne]

We should do a drummer top 3!!!

I agree.

Who would you recommend, Steve?

[Jimmy Cantiello]

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

Indeed I do, Steve. That was a stellar evening of music.

[stonemonkts]

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.

[stonemonkts]

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

[moldyfigg]

Sonny Rollins last year at El Camino. Ageless monster.

[uli]

one of my more memorable was this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHhPmXqts3M


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.