One of his best for sure and IMO his best 1980s album, compositionally and also improvisations are top notch and the band - Don Grolnick, Darryl Jones and Omar Hakim are a perfect match.
Incredible chemistry, IMO this is one of Blue Matter Band's best live gig Ive heard amazing their highness on 'Loud Jazz' and some of Jim Beard's greatest playing I've heard.
@@toreropalido he knows where he's going and the band keep moving, like composition all the way, the art of making improvisation non-improvisation, or non-improvisation, improvisation. Running through trees blindfold, this is the way, the speed of change.
This band live is so much better than the studio versions. I have the VHS, LOL, 2 drum videos Dennis did in 92' and it had live in studio performances with this band. Pick Hits Live is an insanely good live album, same lineup. Scofield is so damn original... Love the first tune, 'Protocal' ,Dark bluesy, heavy and mysterious....Blue Matter is beautiful,funky and bluesy and heh, Jazz/Fusion! Incredibly talented 80's original Fusion. Cool grooves, Jazz chords and phat funky bass lines and amazing improvisation. Pure music expression, composing @ the moment. Each musician engaged in conversation with one another. Jazz is an amazing gift passed down by the true Giants. Many of my heroes are standing on the shoulders of these Giants of Jazz.(Steve Smith) This band was so tight and relaxed and groovin' HARD and swingin' all at once!!!!🤣😂🥺🥺 Goosebumps!!
I was happy to get the chance to record this concert from german tv "eins plus" in vhs. It was a great pleasure for years and it is a REAL TREASURE!!. Now I am happy to get this here. John Scofield, Jim Beard, Dennis Chambers....a (very) great moment of jazz playing and interaction....
THANK you so much for posting this. I discovered Scofield shortly after high school..I think it was the Still Warm album. This band right here, though, is what really pulled me away from listening to Led Zep, Rush, etc and lead me into jazz, etc. Really changed my life and opened my ears. I still get goose bumps from it. Dennis at the real height of his powers here.
DUDE! You too?! I was into metal and especially Rush in the 80’s - why? Because they were playing real instruments. Then one day one of my friends had me listen to Omar Hakim on John’s Still Warm album…. I was blown away! John Scofield then comes to town and I’m expecting to see Omar on drums, but he was getting ready to tour with Sting. So Dennis gets on stage - WHO IS THIS GUY?! That lasted for about 5 minutes (due to John’s solo intro)…. OMG - the whole crowd was blown away. Saw them like 4-5 times after that… incredible
my first sco show was right around this time, maybe '87. it was at the great american music hall in san francisco (tons of great shows there). i remember how dennis chambers looked like he was part of the drum kit, a sort of man/machine interface. he just slaughters the skins, so badass. and gary grainger, epic. i've seen sco maybe ten times or so, and this era was a fave, but all eras are great. there's this amazing evolving tapestry that is his career, where you can see little bits of each album just preceding and just following the current one. and throughout there is always the signature sco twang. fuck yeah sco! i wrote a paper about him for a class in college, and i named my surfboard after him (it was a bill stewart--no relation--board!).
I wish I knew about this back in '88! I was in the fifth grade and listing to Metallica and Guns and Roses, a little grease ball with long hair already playing guitar and jumping bikes off of homemade ramps. No worries, but it would have been nice to have the youtube way back when. These kids today are too busy sexting with their teachers or playing online farming games to even give a damn. Respect!
love this comment, so self-aware, and funny. i'm just enough years older that i was lucky to catch this period of sco's career (as a high schooler). glad you eventually found your way through the metal haze to the mastery of sco.
Thank you so much for uploading this - it's opened up a whole new world of guitar hero to explore (the musicians are all top of their game, and Dennis is simply awesome, as always) :)
Ahhhh. When it was cool to enjoyyyyyy fantastic artistry. Look at this crowd. Diverse and all there for one thing. To STFU AND ENJOY AND APPLAUD. Gone are thise days.
This must have been one of the last gigs with this band as I saw him a year later in Birmingham UK at the Adrian Boult Hall with Joe Lovano. I remember him leaving his guitar on stage during the interval.
2 Years and 1 day after I Performed "Licorise" Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra by Bjorn Howard Kruse in the Old Much Museum In Oslo conducted by Geir Tore Larsen.
No man, tell me it's not true... I just learned of Jim Beard's passing yesterday and it made me so sad. This is too much sadness in less than a day. PS - I tried to Google your news and couldnt' find anything, are you absolutely sure? Here's a link to Gary playing very recently, I thought he looked in excellent health - th-cam.com/video/RJByNMsGavg/w-d-xo.html
Now that I have finally listened and watched several of John's music video's I have formed an opinion. His playing sounds convoluted to me, all mixed up and all over the place. So, I actually don't like listening to him play. I give him that he is different and original in his style but it's just not for me. -Peter 72
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RIP Jim beard .
This is brilliant stuff, even in 2023
Great!!! What an interaction beween Scofield and Jim Beard on Protocol! Makes me smile too :)
I am eternally grateful to have seen JS and these monsters live with Michel Petrucciani.
What a f..kin feeling John have in duo with keyboard
Just more ironclad proof as to why Dennis is considered the GOAT behind the kit.
Masterclass through and through.
Dennis Chambers is a machine here!
Here, there, and everywhere!
Hear John Marshall (he's dead now)
Wow...takes me back to when I bought the album in 1987...some of this performance is even more beautiful than the live record
To me still warm is his best album
One of his best for sure and IMO his best 1980s album, compositionally and also improvisations are top notch and the band - Don Grolnick, Darryl Jones and Omar Hakim are a perfect match.
1:36 Protocol
14:26 Blue Matter
29:14 Loud Jazz
40:25 True Love
51:33 Dance Me Home
E-string snaps at 18:09 and the man keeps on playing without NOBODY noticing. SICK
Incredible chemistry, IMO this is one of Blue Matter Band's best live gig Ive heard amazing their highness on 'Loud Jazz' and some of Jim Beard's greatest playing I've heard.
Classic late 80s Sco, his chorus, stereo days. Haters can hate, but I love it.
My favourite Sco period!!
Agreed. The stereo chorus days were the lick, whether he was fronting his fusion band or playing str8 ahead.
...and his suit; love it too
This is the way
@@toreropalido he knows where he's going and the band keep moving, like composition all the way, the art of making improvisation non-improvisation, or non-improvisation, improvisation. Running through trees blindfold, this is the way, the speed of change.
Yes The Roland JazzChorus is trully a good boss here too ah ah ....What a great sound
This band live is so much better than the studio versions. I have the VHS, LOL, 2 drum videos Dennis did in 92' and it had live in studio performances with this band. Pick Hits Live is an insanely good live album, same lineup. Scofield is so damn original... Love the first tune, 'Protocal' ,Dark bluesy, heavy and mysterious....Blue Matter is beautiful,funky and bluesy and heh, Jazz/Fusion! Incredibly talented 80's original Fusion. Cool grooves, Jazz chords and phat funky bass lines and amazing improvisation. Pure music expression, composing @ the moment. Each musician engaged in conversation with one another. Jazz is an amazing gift passed down by the true Giants. Many of my heroes are standing on the shoulders of these Giants of Jazz.(Steve Smith)
This band was so tight and relaxed and groovin' HARD and swingin' all at once!!!!🤣😂🥺🥺 Goosebumps!!
Robert Aries, on keys for that one
Wunderschön !
What a band!!!
Damn…James Beard and Dennis Chambers…l kickin’ it! I give it a 93. It’s easy to dance to. 😵💫
the baltimore boys!! yesss
It's an all star band! Can't ask for more!! High-class n groovy!!!
Simply BEAUTIFUL!! Love it!!!!
It doesn't get any better than this.
Sco is a freakin' genius...
Super ..
I was happy to get the chance to record this concert from german tv "eins plus" in vhs. It was a great pleasure for years and it is a REAL TREASURE!!.
Now I am happy to get this here. John Scofield, Jim Beard, Dennis Chambers....a (very) great moment of jazz playing and interaction....
Is Gary grainger the funkiest and fun bass player ever ?
gary grainger jesus. solid as a brick. especially for who he's playing with
jim beard crush mode too. such a great band of course dennis and john!
Died suddenly , rip gary and Jim !
@@lesliehayton2929gary is alive
formidable performance..thanks
Jim Beard was tthe "révélation" of John Patitucci ffirst album
THANK you so much for posting this. I discovered Scofield shortly after high school..I think it was the Still Warm album. This band right here, though, is what really pulled me away from listening to Led Zep, Rush, etc and lead me into jazz, etc. Really changed my life and opened my ears. I still get goose bumps from it. Dennis at the real height of his powers here.
DUDE! You too?! I was into metal and especially Rush in the 80’s - why? Because they were playing real instruments. Then one day one of my friends had me listen to Omar Hakim on John’s Still Warm album…. I was blown away! John Scofield then comes to town and I’m expecting to see Omar on drums, but he was getting ready to tour with Sting. So Dennis gets on stage - WHO IS THIS GUY?! That lasted for about 5 minutes (due to John’s solo intro)…. OMG - the whole crowd was blown away. Saw them like 4-5 times after that… incredible
Tuve la suerte de ver esta banda en Almería, Andalucía. Salí impresionado, fue genial.
SETLIST:
1 - Protocol (Still Warm)
2 - Blue Matter (Blue Matter)
3 - Loud Jazz (Loud Jazz)
4 - True Love (Loud Jazz)
5 - Dance Me Home (Loud Jazz)
John Scofield - guitar
Jim Beard - keyboards
Gary Grainger - bass
Dennis Chambers - drums
From 11:00 till the end of the song, what a symmetry exchange between Beard and Scofield
Opening tune protocol is an all timer performance
Love this...I "discovered " sco back at blue matter, loud jazz, and the live album from that period. Life long fan ever since thanks for posting!!
my first sco show was right around this time, maybe '87. it was at the great american music hall in san francisco (tons of great shows there). i remember how dennis chambers looked like he was part of the drum kit, a sort of man/machine interface. he just slaughters the skins, so badass. and gary grainger, epic. i've seen sco maybe ten times or so, and this era was a fave, but all eras are great. there's this amazing evolving tapestry that is his career, where you can see little bits of each album just preceding and just following the current one. and throughout there is always the signature sco twang. fuck yeah sco! i wrote a paper about him for a class in college, and i named my surfboard after him (it was a bill stewart--no relation--board!).
one of the best lineups Sco had they were great together not a jam but a tight band
wooo damn what a set!
I was on a lot of coke that night! It was fantastic!! Dennis was smokin' as usual!!
I wish I knew about this back in '88! I was in the fifth grade and listing to Metallica and Guns and Roses, a little grease ball with long hair already playing guitar and jumping bikes off of homemade ramps. No worries, but it would have been nice to have the youtube way back when. These kids today are too busy sexting with their teachers or playing online farming games to even give a damn. Respect!
love this comment, so self-aware, and funny. i'm just enough years older that i was lucky to catch this period of sco's career (as a high schooler). glad you eventually found your way through the metal haze to the mastery of sco.
It doesn’t get any better than Protocol here. Insane.
John's best show, burning throughout...Jim Beard simply killin' overall the baddest band...
the call and response between sco and the keyboard player in protocol is like listening to aliens communicate with each other
This lineup consists of ALL badasses!
thanks for sharing....Pick Hits Live is one of my fav live albums
love it!
This is the best version of Protocol so far!
saw Sco and Dennis past night after 30 years since seeing this band.
yes one on scofields best band projects together with his trio project with billy stewart and Steve Swallow
ON FIRE !!!
Thank you so much for uploading this - it's opened up a whole new world of guitar hero to explore (the musicians are all top of their game, and Dennis is simply awesome, as always) :)
Monsters ✌️
I saw him on this tour in NYC!!!
Genial.
That’s the way you change a broken sting in the middle of a song! 20:15
Ahhhh. When it was cool to enjoyyyyyy fantastic artistry. Look at this crowd. Diverse and all there for one thing. To STFU AND ENJOY AND APPLAUD. Gone are thise days.
Yes Indeed :)
This must have been one of the last gigs with this band as I saw him a year later in Birmingham UK at the Adrian Boult Hall with Joe Lovano. I remember him leaving his guitar on stage during the interval.
Classic Dennis Chambers....wow
Insane
Bravi da paura 💖
dennis chambers, always his "I m cool, man" head. making genius rythm.
2 Years and 1 day after I Performed "Licorise" Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra by Bjorn Howard Kruse in the Old Much Museum In Oslo conducted by Geir Tore Larsen.
Jazz chorus doing his thing...
Mind=blown
All this metrics in one track come from Steve Coleman - The crrators are Mingus & Coltrane and followers are Zorn and Pastorius
still insanely hip, tight, and outside
Beasts.
1st tune at 7:02 dennis is like hey dude ---this stuff is killin though-intense with intent !!!!!!!
BEST,BEST,BEST!!!
Maybe the furthest stretching fusion band (soloing time AND tightness) ever
Smoke!!!
sco changing his own string on stage!
Yep, I heard John mc Laughlin say it never happened to him !!
18:07 His string broke in this segment.
@@BigBlackBe4r right…..
That’s what I’m saying
its busy straight up!
Funny thing about Now She's Blonde is that Dennis isn't really a Gogo Drummer!
RIP Gary Graininger..
No man, tell me it's not true... I just learned of Jim Beard's passing yesterday and it made me so sad. This is too much sadness in less than a day.
PS - I tried to Google your news and couldnt' find anything, are you absolutely sure?
Here's a link to Gary playing very recently, I thought he looked in excellent health - th-cam.com/video/RJByNMsGavg/w-d-xo.html
Rip Gary Graininger so !!!! Gary Grainger is a very good bassist ...who played with john scofield and rod stewart ah ah
Why does everyone say Gary is dead??? He is alive and well I was just messaging him
@@falsenotefestalso that is a different Gary Grainger that played with Rod stewart
@@brandonborn9540 Yes of course, and it was a bad joke of mine, Lame
Nuts. Two thoughts about this.
1) maybe the 80s werent that bad
2) now I know where Wayne Krantz gets his inspiration from these days
love ice cube on drums
Jim Beard wears Броненосец t-shirt?))
38:49 Dennis Chambers sounds like the Flinstones running
if already in 1988
29:15 thats what its all about.
someone can do the tracklist?
1:36 - Protocol
14:26 - Blue Matter
29:14 - Loud Jazz
40:25 - True Love
51:33 - Dance Me Home
Scofield using a over o distor here?
I heard that at this time he used like always a Proco Rat (distortion), but the Rat is sounding a bit like an overdrive yes.
He was definitely playin w/ more distortion back then than now.
Sorry, but - Gary Grainger - bass
What’s the song at 29:21?
“Loud Jazz” off Scofield album of the same name. Prob his best track or certainly in top 5.
41:43 Seems that 80's Sco was a fan of Katy Perry lol
o mio Dio...
mm is not my prefer version off blue matter...but is Jazz love it
Last pièce is a variation of "now she's blonde"
El pianista quizá no puede repetir una sola nota a fusas pero tampoco se le rompe ninguna cuerda
interesting that scofild doesnt had a second guitar ready. nice.
or had.
niiiice
hahaha
😷
Now that I have finally listened and watched several of John's music video's I have formed an opinion. His playing sounds convoluted to me, all mixed up and all over the place. So, I actually don't like listening to him play. I give him that he is different and original in his style but it's just not for me. -Peter 72
legendary, wore out this tape from radio broadcast so heavily