he played with all the biggest players, at 16 he played with horace silver, but who ever said that he is underestimated. he is one of the best saxophonists in the world and everyone knows it
Not from me, of course, and not from Miles, Cedar Walton, Chick Corea, Horace Silver, Mike Manieri ... and Michael Brecker knew who Bob was too. A capo.
Awesome. I got to see this lineup around this same time. My high school sweetheart drug me to an outdoor show at the local Jazz Festival not knowing what I was about to witness. Completely changed my life forever.
Jewish Saxophonist Genius like Michael Brecker or David Liebman.Bob was a complex guy. His father was Jewish and his mother Italian. He grew up in downtown Bensonhurst. He loved his huge drift vessel, a good Cuban cigar smuggled from a friend of his, a little 'yac', and a lot of Sinatra. In the middle of his life he met Arja, and he calmed down, had two wonderful children and became a devoted father and husband. He went to live in East Hampton, where he began fishing seriously between tours. He also loved the saxophone and jazz music, on which he concentrated his formidable intellect. The combination of his intellect, working through the prism of his formative years and his lifestyle and daily environment, brought down to us a passionate, yet merciless conception. Playing he literally put your back to the wall, and then tore you and the wall together. You had to fight and respond with all your might when you were on stage with Berg ... he never said it specifically ... he demanded it through his instrument. That's what it's been like to play with Bob Berg all these years ... he made me play better, he imbued me with his style ... he marked my soul forever. This is what I will miss most about Bob ... the incredible merciless and fearless, yet passionate, sound of his sax. Yet I am convinced that I will feel him again, day after day, year after year, every time I think about him ... I will feel him .. I know I will feel him ". (Randy Brecker, trumpet player)
Being Jewish, maybe he should be awarded a Nobel Prize and declared the greatest saxophonist in the history of the universe, God's Only Chosen Begotten Saxophonist.
Bob Berg was really good, and I hate to quibble with as brilliant a musician as Randy Brecker, but he was no Michael Brecker. He had the chops, but none of the originality - in fact on this video, there is very little to distinguish his playing from Brecker's. Still a great player, but that's not genius.
I enjoy both, but I think Bob Berg is more accessible. I could put on my car sound with non hard core saxophone lovers, and they would still enjoy. Sometimes Brecker could be boring to someone not used to his music.
SHIT man!!!! Dennis was killing it a that age!!!!!!!! so strong, powerful, explosive, and musical at the same time!!!!!! LOVe his playing!!!!!!! just WIiiiicked!
Never got to see Bob Berg play live (Rest his soul), but have a couple of his discs and thoroughly enjoyed them. He and the whole band are on fire here!
Saw them a couple of times. This line-up and with Jeff Andrews playing the bass. Bob Berg was amazing. My all time favourite musician. Lincoln Goines is better than Jeff Andrews. At least he was at these sessions.
Mike and Bob take you to a world beyond sight and sound... Berg was really on fire here, just watch Mike Stern towards the end of the solo mouth the word "whoa".... Berg was channeling energy from some other place. He was in...the Chroma-zone.
I saw this band live in Turin, Italy, it was '89, if I remember well, but on bass there was the great Jeff Andrews (R.I.P.). It was a dangerous night, these gentlemen back then belonged to the "no prisoners league"... P.S. Bob Berg (R.I.P.) was a hell of a player, absolutely mind blowing...
I will never, ever get tired of hearing Mike and Bob blow through Chromazone :) But, is that Peter Dinklidge in the audience at 13:28? I think it is! I didn't know he had such good taste in music
Just off the hook epic playing by all of them. Geeeez! I wish Bob had been mixed properly, it was a struggle to hear his solo on Chromazone. But even with that you can still hear his genius shining through. R.I.P. Bob. Thank you for the gift of your artistry.
First time I saw this lineup was with my now wife at the Iron Horse cafe in Northampton Mass during our U-Mass days...totally blew our minds...still does.
Great show Mike Stern is an incredible gift to us all.. Dennis and Lincoln oh boy watch out. And Mr. Berg another fantastic talent with such great tone and feel for the sax. Thank You for the post.
Tive a honra de assistir um show do Mike Stern....É um ser humano incrível..Muito simpático e com uma educação fora do comum...Simplesmente iluminado...
Thanks Rick, I saw him with exactly this line up in L.A. this time around. It was my first experience of him, and totally knocked out. That feeling just came back to me as I watching this and fired me again, thanks for the post !
just saw mike at birdland with dennis on drums what nice men. I saw one set and left feeling great on jan 2023 bob mat be gone but he was a great guy too his stuff with cedar walton was killer. Oh mike be older now we all are lol but he can still play swinging they all did the other night
Sorry. I was wondering why I never heard/heard of Mike Stern back in the heady 80s and now I know. He/s very unmusical. Just bursts of incredible speed but playing very uninteresting notes. Very tuneless. Lots of noise, very little soul. I know I'm going to get all sorts of flak for that, but just compare him to, say, Frank Gambale. I rest my case.
Dennis makes me go, WTF....lol ...I mean, straight 16ths and doing all that stuff on top of it.... ...oh, and literally everything else. The cleanest, fastest shit...and then, the nastiest shuffle groove ever.... c'mon, wtf.
One of the best, maybe THE best live shows I have ever heard. Four musical geniuses on stage together. Inspiring would be a major understatement.
Bob Berg is one of the most under rated sax players in the world.
+Michael Corenzwit Agree. He was as good as brecker imo, and we lost both way too soon.
Sooooo sad........my two favorites gone in the blink of an eye.........
he played with all the biggest players, at 16 he played with horace silver, but who ever said that he is underestimated.
he is one of the best saxophonists in the world and everyone knows it
Bob berg.... the best sax!
Not from me, of course, and not from Miles, Cedar Walton, Chick Corea, Horace Silver, Mike Manieri ... and Michael Brecker knew who Bob was too. A capo.
RIP Bobby. You made your sax yell with such anger and passion at the same time brother.
I was at this show, found myself in the crowd 25 years later. Amazing performance, everyone is playing their ass off.
Awesome. I got to see this lineup around this same time. My high school sweetheart drug me to an outdoor show at the local Jazz Festival not knowing what I was about to witness. Completely changed my life forever.
13:27 Peter Dinklage (games of throne) was there to see it !
Jewish Saxophonist Genius like Michael Brecker or David Liebman.Bob was a complex guy. His father was Jewish and his mother Italian. He grew up in downtown Bensonhurst. He loved his huge drift vessel, a good Cuban cigar smuggled from a friend of his, a little 'yac', and a lot of Sinatra. In the middle of his life he met Arja, and he calmed down, had two wonderful children and became a devoted father and husband. He went to live in East Hampton, where he began fishing seriously between tours. He also loved the saxophone and jazz music, on which he concentrated his formidable intellect. The combination of his intellect, working through the prism of his formative years and his lifestyle and daily environment, brought down to us a passionate, yet merciless conception. Playing he literally put your back to the wall, and then tore you and the wall together. You had to fight and respond with all your might when you were on stage with Berg ... he never said it specifically ... he demanded it through his instrument. That's what it's been like to play with Bob Berg all these years ... he made me play better, he imbued me with his style ... he marked my soul forever. This is what I will miss most about Bob ... the incredible merciless and fearless, yet passionate, sound of his sax. Yet I am convinced that I will feel him again, day after day, year after year, every time I think about him ... I will feel him .. I know I will feel him ".
(Randy Brecker, trumpet player)
Being Jewish, maybe he should be awarded a Nobel Prize and declared the greatest saxophonist in the history of the universe, God's Only Chosen Begotten Saxophonist.
Bob Berg was really good, and I hate to quibble with as brilliant a musician as Randy Brecker, but he was no Michael Brecker. He had the chops, but none of the originality - in fact on this video, there is very little to distinguish his playing from Brecker's. Still a great player, but that's not genius.
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The early 90’s was a good time for music in New York City.
Absolutely. I was a gigging guitarist completely immersing myself in it.
Some absolutely crushing, trailblazing playing from Bob Berg. His mastery of the saxophone was on a superhuman level.
I'd be smiling too with Lincoln Goines and Denis Chambers!! Holy Mother of God!!!! Jazz/Funk at it's best.
Bob Berg, He was a legend! even as Michael Brecker. Great fusion!
I enjoy both, but I think Bob Berg is more accessible. I could put on my car sound with non hard core saxophone lovers, and they would still enjoy. Sometimes Brecker could be boring to someone not used to his music.
@@claudemiropacheco yes bob is a legend is a god of sax
Dennis Chambers. Man, he lives and breathes the music when he plays. So it's not a drummer he is; A great musician he is!
He chews the music. He always be chewing!
so fkn glad the cameras were there for this one.
Bob, you did so much in such little time, amazing.......
SHIT man!!!! Dennis was killing it a that age!!!!!!!! so strong, powerful, explosive, and musical at the same time!!!!!! LOVe his playing!!!!!!! just WIiiiicked!
he was already like 32 here...
I totally agree! It's one of his best performances I've ever seen!
One of the best live videos ever seen on youtube!!!
That's what I tell everyone about art Blakey's "Moanin" with Lee Morgan !!
Never got to see Bob Berg play live (Rest his soul), but have a couple of his discs and thoroughly enjoyed them. He and the whole band are on fire here!
Saw them a couple of times. This line-up and with Jeff Andrews playing the bass.
Bob Berg was amazing. My all time favourite musician. Lincoln Goines is better than Jeff Andrews. At least he was at these sessions.
He plays jazzy, but man hes got some rock influence, does killing bends, and then a cromatic jazz backwards at the same speed, legend!!!
Mike and Bob take you to a world beyond sight and sound... Berg was really on fire here, just watch Mike Stern towards the end of the solo mouth the word "whoa".... Berg was channeling energy from some other place. He was in...the Chroma-zone.
I seen this band in Edinburgh Scotland I will never forget how good this band was that night in the Queen's hall clerk street
I saw this band live in Turin, Italy, it was '89, if I remember well, but on bass there was the great Jeff Andrews (R.I.P.). It was a dangerous night, these gentlemen back then belonged to the "no prisoners league"...
P.S. Bob Berg (R.I.P.) was a hell of a player, absolutely mind blowing...
ON FIRE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's MUSIC !
Warm and accurate. What a band. Nice to hear that combination always. Rest in peace Bob. Love you're great abilities always.
Fantastica band ,fantastico concerto, Dio c'è!!!!!!!😍😍😍😍
I saw this band in Copenhagen 1989 at Montmatre in Nørregade. They where fantastic. What a great band. thanks for sharing this video.
Bestike Stern I've ever heard. Long-time listener too.
Saw Mike and Bob in Seattle at around this time. Brought the house down. Incredible show.
The brilliant "Snakes"@29:02… thanks for the music Bob! ( RIP )
I will never, ever get tired of hearing Mike and Bob blow through Chromazone :) But, is that Peter Dinklidge in the audience at 13:28? I think it is! I didn't know he had such good taste in music
Far out I think it is!
Definitely Peter Dinklage!
Thats crazy awesome!
I literally went down to comments to check if its just me who thinks that is Peter Dinklidge. Yeah I am not the only one!
It has to be! Peter's a long time NYC resident, still is as far as I know.
It is incredibly, fantastic, what power, this band is unreachable... thank you wild guys...
Jaw
Dropped.
Amazing playing by all of em, but Mike... OMG. I saw him a few years after this show, also with Dennis Chambers. So inspiring!
I was lucky enough to see this formation in Italy about 1990 at the Toniolo Theater in Venice. Top notch musicians.
Dennis just absolutely kills, ALWAYS!!!
Just off the hook epic playing by all of them. Geeeez! I wish Bob had been mixed properly, it was a struggle to hear his solo on Chromazone. But even with that you can still hear his genius shining through. R.I.P. Bob. Thank you for the gift of your artistry.
Saw this exact band in Seattle, years ago, one of THE most smoking shows ever! Jeff Andrews was a beast!
what mike Stern and Bob Berg have done in their collaboration is awesome
First time I saw this lineup was with my now wife at the Iron Horse cafe in Northampton Mass during our U-Mass days...totally blew our minds...still does.
Lucky enough to have seen that band in Northhampton MA, '91 or '92
THIS IS THE GREATEST LIVE SHOW IN THE WORLD. listened to a bootleg for years until it disappeared
These old, "New York Live," productions, are awesome! Never knew of these recorded performances. Top notch! Thank you uploading amazing stuff! Gems!
RIP Bob, wow what a cool player he was, awesome solo 👍👍👍😎
These guys are playin day A$$'s off! !
Ciao Bob...grazie Bob
Great show Mike Stern is an incredible gift to us all.. Dennis and Lincoln oh boy watch out. And Mr. Berg another fantastic talent with such great tone and feel for the sax. Thank You for the post.
I am here because someone introduced this to me. And I never regret it. They're great! 😍 Jazz music is so cool!
Tive a honra de assistir um show do Mike Stern....É um ser humano incrível..Muito simpático e com uma educação fora do comum...Simplesmente iluminado...
One of the best ever. thanks for sharing :)
57:44 is me! right before going back to Dinklage...what a fantastic night of music.
Just fantastic! Love this guys!
This band was terrific. Bob Berg is a real saxophone colossus.
Perhaps the best live performance I have ever heard period.
Espectacular 😍😍😍👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Gracias
Thanks Rick, I saw him with exactly this line up in L.A. this time around. It was my first experience of him, and totally knocked out. That feeling just came back to me as I watching this and fired me again, thanks for the post !
Amazing top fusion
just saw mike at birdland with dennis on drums what nice men. I saw one set and left feeling great on jan 2023 bob mat be gone but he was a great guy too his stuff with cedar walton was killer. Oh mike be older now we all are lol but he can still play swinging they all did the other night
Yeah. I remember seeing these guys on NHK Satelite. Next trip home bought Mike’s LP’s and all my Berg CD’s were bought on Japan. Loved this band.
Amazing!
I never forget seeing them At My Place in Santa Monica on Wilshire ...
Richard van Schelven That was such a great venue! Saw Robben Ford and then Carl Verheyen there!
I also seen them there, totally taken by surprise, I remember leaving breathless.
I used to to listen to this song on mike's album: Odds or Evens. To see this played live is such a giant treat.
Chromazone kicked arse yea man! Dennis always been my fave. Great guitar and sax solos...
Saw them at Slim's in SF in 88, 89 and 90. Total overwhelming intensity!
Como alguém pode não gostar desse vídeo!?!?!? :)
This is off the meter!!!!! Killer and Berg was smokin'!!!!!! So was Fat Time (Stern) and Chambers and Goines!!!!
Great concert. Thanks for sharing.
Dennis Chambers has got to be one of the most gifted drummers.
He is one of the most gifted drummers. Gary Novak is up there as well.
I did not even know Bob Berg. Awesome!!!
13:29 A young Peter Dinklage
Anders Engebakken Dinklage confirmed for jazz bro.
glad I wasn't the only one to notice. Dudes got good taste, first saw him in that Tom Decillo (sp) film w/buscemi and Cathrine Keener,
Peter Dinklage! :-D I am not the only one to spot him, I see!
dude what so random omg
I thought this comment was a joke, but it really is!
I was there. Incredible show.
Made me cry in shame! I’ll never pick up a guitar again!
Oh, hello Tyrion Lannister. 13:28
Wowowowowow
Holy shit,that's actually him.Glad to see Dinklage likes the good music.
Thats really fuckin him, damnnnnnnnnn ! Props, mad props.
Was trying to find this vid! It is definetely divine level 🤍🤍🤍
Thanks for this. These guys were smokin’ hot and tight. 😎👍🎼🎸
One of the Greatest fusion bands!
Wow! Dannis' drumming is nailing it!!
Awesome Share.
The blessings of youth.
Mike Stern blows my mind.....wow
Mike, you one BAMF!!
fantastic concert! thank you so much for posting
Ohh my god .....the beginning with chromazon is epic .... 🤯
Just melodic Grooves …Awesome
the sound quality is awesome for 1991!
Recorded analog sound peaked around 1989.
Mike stern makes me wanna throw my guitars out the window.. Dennis chambers makes me want to quit music all together
+Neuro Demonio i totally agreee hahah
+Neuro Demonio me too xD
+Jake Baynes makes my guitar want to throw me out of the window
+Gianluigi Martone Really funny, can't stop laughing!
Sorry. I was wondering why I never heard/heard of Mike Stern back in the heady 80s and now I know. He/s very unmusical. Just bursts of incredible speed but playing very uninteresting notes. Very tuneless. Lots of noise, very little soul.
I know I'm going to get all sorts of flak for that, but just compare him to, say, Frank Gambale.
I rest my case.
Awesome. . . . . . as I put my guitar back in its case.
DAMN - so good words cant do it justice....
fantastici!!!!!!!💣
Oh, "that guy" on drums. Glad I came.. ;) BTW, I'd like to thank DC for enabling me to skip my afternoon coffee...
This is so god damn amazing.
OMG these guys are smokin'.
Fantastic
They are on fire.
Extraño a Bob Berg.
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"Common ground" is no.1 jazz tune for me today...
Specially the performance with Brecker Brothers....
incredible musicianship
HOLY FUCK! MIKE PLAYED LIKE A DEMON THAT NIGHT ON SNAKES!!! LEGENDARY!
Mike n Bob Berg 👍
The drummer is fantastic.
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Dynamics. Modulation. Groove. Jazz. Beboop. Jazz. Fusion. Rip. Bob berg.
Dennis makes me go, WTF....lol ...I mean, straight 16ths and doing all that stuff on top of it.... ...oh, and literally everything else. The cleanest, fastest shit...and then, the nastiest shuffle groove ever.... c'mon, wtf.
Damn...these guys are on fire!! Serious...s#$@!!!
Chamber's face just as Berg turns to him, signaling they're to go into the next riff haha what a badass