John Patitucci Electric Guitar Quartet – Jazz Festival Bonn (2017). The sense of proportion is what I like in these guys. They don’t try to overwhelm you with the technique, but every single beat or […]
John Patitucci Electric Guitar Quartet – “Four in One” – Live Blue Note (Milano). Great band, great musical conversation, full of dynamics, nuances, and varying degrees of density. They listen to each other and play […]
John McLaughlin – Stella by Starlight & My Favorite Things – Live at Berklee Valencia Campus (2017). Graduating Berklee students and our honorary doctorate recipient, John McLaughlin, played an adaptation of John Coltrane’s arrangements for […]
The Jazz Channel Presents: Chaka Khan – Concert “Bet On Jazz” (2000). Take a musical journey with BET On Jazz: The Jazz Channel and legendary soul diva Chaka Khan. Recorded live at Black Entertainment Television […]
David Sanborn – Live at Estival Jazz Lugano (2009). Includes nice versions of “St. Louis Blues,” “Basin’ Street Blues,” “Please Send Me Someone to Love,” “Brother Ray” and “Soul Serenade”.
Great concert of David Sanborn – Newport Jazz Festival (1998). His screeching personalized sound-voice notwithstanding , Sanborn demonstrates some true Jazz chops (although not to the level of jazz-purity as, let’s say, Michael Breaker (tenor sax) or […]