Branford Marsalis - Giant Steps - 8/26/1987 - Newport Jazz Festival (Official)

Branford Marsalis - Giant Steps
Recorded Live: 8/26/1987 - Newport Jazz Festival - Newport, RI
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Personnel:
Branford Marsalis - tenor sax, soprano sax
Kenny Kirkland - piano
Delbert Felix - bass
Lewis Nash - drums

[@diment0857]

RIP Kenny Kirkland, the world was robbed of a jazz genius with your passing

[@tychovskisounds]

Kenny Kirklands' solo is one of the best I have ever heard on this tune... so melodic, so swinging, just hiply breezing over the changes like it's nothing

[@brendancarroll9778]

Branford's "what happened," at 3:28 is hip as fuck.

[@BlikeNave]

One of the most melodic versions I've heard on sax, wow. You can tell his understanding of the changes and available notes is rock solid.

[@TimothyGondola]

For those interested, I've transcribed the piano solo and I will put a video up in a little while

[@csallenii]

Oh. Wow. Yes, interested

[@c0nk2879]

Branford's Air Jordan 2's are hip as fuck.

[@jazz4asahel]

+Luke Conklin These cats are slick and they are killing the steps.

[@andrewhooker8798]

RIP Kenny Kirkland. You are still....hip as fuck.

[@signorpresidente7340]

Best solo by Kenny and branford . Jazzlife forever

[@joebandana1]

I met Branford a few years back at the afterparty to his show he did in New Zealand a few years back. He was the nicest, coolest, friendliest guy I've ever met, and got me to go and hang out with the band for most of the night. It was such a great night. In person, Branford is hip as fuck.

[@docsaxman]

Yes sir, he is!

[@paxwallacejazz]

Same here nearly identical experience

[@richardsteele5095]

I knew Kenny while at Manhattan School of Music in 1973-74, at a time when he was learning Giant Steps. He worked very diligently on the tune, and blossomed over time. Such a sweet guy, and his hard work really paid off.

[@monkcocolahvera8270]

they way that this is still cool today is hip as fuck

[@davidscott1052]

I still think Kenny does the most melodic improv on this tricky tune of any other pianist I've heard ....miss his great playing .....R.I.P.

[@Jzh733]

David Scott Check out Michel Petrucciani

[@davidscott1052]

@@Jzh733 will do

[@thechunkytrucker5111]

If you think he solos good here check out his solo on Giant Steps with Kenny Garrett at jazz baltica

[@davidscott1052]

@@thechunkytrucker5111 I have gone that ...both great solos

[@evanubiera]

So swinging!

[@rillloudmother]

Kenny Kirkland's groove is amazing!

[@TheDopestCMC]

Lewis Nash has such an incredible feel. Like no other

[@myingratealbinochild4825]

Kenny Kirkland is just Killing !!!

[@slickrockcreek1]

He always did, but yes this is definitely no exception. I've seen a lot of concerts in my day but hands down one of the best was Branford, and Kenny was with him. I remember being amazed when they came back for an encore and Branford said "we don't have any more songs" and I thought how could these guys not have any more songs? They huddled for a second and Branford said "ok we decided what to do" And they did "Giant Steps" - one of the best memories of my life! Especially because I was with my Dad who bequeathed me the love of jazz, RIP Dad!

[@CarSimping]

DAMN the action on that bass is higher than a modern day rapper and he’s still making it look and sound so easy!?

[@jazz4asahel]

Kenny Kirkland, RiP. Delbert Felix and Lewis Nash really carrying it. Branford Marsalis, saxophone. John Coltrane, writer.

[@marselmusic]

31 years ago and still better than most today

[@LukeWilliamsMusic]

Branford thumbs up at 3:48, so I think when he said, “What happened?” just before that he was talking to the sound guys.

[@RudeBoy-hx1fn]

Those sunglasses are hip as fuck.

[@cldavis33]

+RudeBoy99143 Those sunglasses reflecting the audience for sure are absolutely hip as fuck.

[@RudeBoy-hx1fn]

The way he plays the head is hip as fuck.

[@NoName-tq7qc]

Everything is hip as fuck here!

[@jdmusic9728]

RudeBoy99143 what does that mean?

[@TheZPil]

It means it's modern

[@allkeyspro6606]

❤Kenny! Your hands are dancing!❤

[@jackturner3721]

Branford a Master musician and saxophonist, not to mention Kirkland who is just brilliant.

[@julstheturk]

The 12 mf'ers who gave this a thumbs down are NOT hip af.

[@robertstone8852]

this cat never runs out of ideas! Fantastic performance, cool arrangement!

[@Carsonsaxplayer]

Aside from the fab music, seeing the crowd reflected in Branford’s sunglasses is a great visual.

[@edge60able]

Branford's socks are hip as fuck.

[@HarrisonHoude]

The bokeh and then zoom out the camera does revealing the crowd and ocean at 5:26 is hip af

[@nezkeys79]

Harrison Houde bokeh is dumb. just keep everything in focus. there is no need to blur anything

[@everythingsawesome]

Long live the great Kenny Kirkland

[@andrewkholowa1740]

This piano solo❤

[@paxwallacejazz]

Kenny Kirkland was so brilliant soooo brilliant.

[@videolover61]

I heard the great Kenny Kirkland play Giant Steps with Branford and Kenny Garrett and KK always played the most refreshing balanced solo. I miss Kenny Kirkland, John Hicks, Ronnie Mathews...great piano players on the NYC jazz scene

[@heifetz14]

I am 57 and if I fuck too much I tend to fuck my hip.I once saw Django B ates play this and he went up a semitone after every chorus.The bass player looked at him and said fuck that and fuck you.We all shared a house and the bass player forgot to wash up so that was his punishment.Nice touch though.

[@robertgee2369]

Robertgee..Kenny Kirkland was a great player...RIP

[@edcherry9282]

I was at this performance. .it was a great afternoon. .Dizzy’s big band ,and George Benson played after Branford. .and killed..

[@jimbosteen2935]

Tasty playing from everyone!!!!!

[@GregJonson]

If you play this at 1.25 speed, it gets close to the tempo of the original recording.

[@yesntnono4172]

Ain’t wrong

[@davidscott1052]

It's not about the tempo it's about the ldeas!!!!!

[@spacegupta71]

kenny kirkland would shit all pver tommy flanagan lmfao

[@samchilds4127]

Uneducated comment.

[@solecaring1230]

@@samchilds4127 You're uneducated because that's not the way how Coltrane interpreted and played. Branford should not dare to play that musical piece because he"s just messing around.

[@alexpavchinski]

The Great Kenny Kirkland - Master!

[@muratt4811]

Greatest version of GS, HAF performance

[@theredstonelab6104]

4:50 the lick

[@pharmdiddy5120]

kinda lol good ear!!

[@johnsharpe734]

you wouldnt think this a difficult tune to impro over the way these guys deal with it!

[@rakutzimbel4539]

Apart from every aspect of that video being hip as fuck (which made my day btw), did anybody see that Branford wasn't happy with the backing chords during the first part of his solo? I think he wanted to improvise on these altered chords he invented for the theme, which I like very much. He looks to the rhythm section and says: "What happens?" @ 3:25 , if my lip reading skills don't fail me. He looks again at 3:43, so something is going wrong there. I don't agree that the Marsalis family is playing without the heart. I especially love Branford on the soprano sax, and I have heard Winton playing wonderful ballads with his incredible trumpet sound.

[@bhot9293]

Raku Tzimbel I'm not the best at this stuff ,but I think the beat got turned around during the last few bars of Kenny's solo (he's too hip lol) and Brandford was saying "What happened?"

[@eddierichmusic]

Raku Tzimbel If you listen closely, it sounds like there's feedback coming from one of the toms. That happens very prominently at 3:25 and several places throughout.

[@rakutzimbel4539]

you both might be right... I have to listen closely again, (which is not a penalty :D).

[@lonhillyer]

+Raku Tzimbel What happen is that his monitor was acting up.

[@vaughnvkeyshenry8638]

It was definitely the sound man he was looking at. He would never have to Kenny anything. He steals half of his licks from Kenny lol. If yu look at the different angles through the video yu'll see that he was looking out the sound man. And notoriously sound men usually never know how to set the stage right for jazz. Especially at the festivals. They never solo over the arrangement chords so thts not the problem. Kenny Kirkland doesn't drop beats. Lewis Nash never drops beat. Delbert sometimes but not in this video. They were on.

[@toddm8609]

all around: tight

[@jamorains]

the action on that bass is so high you can see him through the strings! ha

[@RudeBoy-hx1fn]

Guy in shorts dancing at 5:15 is hip as fuck.

[@j.p.lindsay6768]

RudeBoy99143 Too funny! Way to keep it going... :)

[@skillet6870]

He's not dancing at all.

[@simonsays525]

Those shades...hip AF.

[@paxwallacejazz]

To this day my favourite concert was Branford and Kenny in the mid 80s at Bumbershoot in Seattle.

[@peanutsfrancavilla8549]

J'adore cette pianiste

[@sampowellmusic]

Wildly creative lines

[@paxwallacejazz]

I met him at Mariners game he's cool very warm very hip one of the times I wasn't disappointed by those I respect.

[@templarexemplar35]

sick ass dancing in the background starts at 5:12

[@jimbosteen2935]

Kenny one of my fav!!!!

[@lj3musicjulien855]

Mr. Branford Marsalis plays one of the greatest giant solos over this composition . He's an unsung hero in the jazz industry in my opinion.

[@rillloudmother]

branford been killin for decades.

[@grantkoeller8911]

Personnel: Branford Marsalis - tenor sax, soprano sax Kenny Kirkland - piano Delbert Felix - bass Lewis Nash - drums

[@wresk]

Giant Steps?? ....pffff piece of cake

[@AkilHenry]

Kenny Kirkland!!!!! man

[@isaiasrivera9302]

Bravo!!!

[@Ericstlaurent]

The weather on that day is hip as fuck.

[@andrea22213]

What is the Saxophone hip as? I reckon two fucks at least.

[@manguera9]

Giant Steps is a brain song, better than sudoku or chess .I play that song every morning to wake up my brain,practicing in many ways ,one is, remember the chords and substitutes and improvising all over the backing track, the other way is feeling the chords and improvising over.

[@alemuabayneh2519]

TOP CLASS MUSICIANS

[@RivieraByBuick]

Felix on 6:00 is like - oh here he goes again..let`s go get some walk

[@keithsy75]

Very good, not rushed. You need not be fast to be good. Savour it.

[@franklindelaine5287]

Great.

[@electrojazz14]

killer track

[@lenkemorath9931]

BURNIN!!!!

[@yakovsyskov191]

Does anybody know what shades Branford is wearing? They're hip as fuck.

[@edge60able]

I really want to know too, now...

[@kobebryanthashops]

Yakov de la Syskov I think they're made by FAOSA. Unfortunately you can't find them anywhere nowadays

[@eternalgloy]

Listening to this, all I can think is Kenny was READY

[@caponsacchi]

I'm not hearing the drummer's high-hat. With all the mics used on drums these days, don't engineers know enough to put one on the high-hat? All a drummer needs is an athletic left foot, one that never misses an offbeat. Branford is refreshingly melodic. He doesn't "overplay," like some guys trying to prove they're Roland Kirk reincarnated. He's playing the same carefully phrased melodic lines even when the piano lays out. I may have been in awe the first time I heard Trane's cadenza on "I Don't Want to Talk About You" (the later Birdland '63 album more than the earlier one with Red Garland). But having admired its sheer brilliance (the same for Getz's incredible solo on "Shine"), I don't need to listen to it every day. Hank Mobley and Tina Brooks are the players who never wear out their welcome. And returning to the digital version of "Ellington at Newport '56", it's clearer than ever why the most famous solo in Newport history is Paul Gonsalves' 28 choruses on "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue." The band came on 5 hours late, after midnight, but what transpired was timeless. Paul stays right in the groove, listening to himself, making minimal changes with each chorus--and Duke's piano accompaniment pushes him to play like a man on a mission (which he was--as was Duke's band--being written off as academic and unswinging--not after this night).

[@alexanderking994]

Not bad made it his own... very good example to take something Great and put your own twist on it.

[@CONSULTORIOPCM]

wow

[@jarbasjesus5516]

Pure jaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzz.

[@derrfumousspeed9196]

he took it and remade it well

[@skrrrg]

Delbert!

[@arthurcabral100]

arrasou

[@kaihuku-ly4qo]

どうにも懐かしい。♡

[@cerimccoy]

Flat 5th or sharp 11th? I ain't asking

[@plitser9880]

Is Marsalis pretending that they have had mistakes? 'Cause if he is, then that's just amazing.

[@no.mans.guy.]

Holy fuck, that head out🙌🏼

[@ericwilliamsjazz]

Watching in 2017 and it's still hip as fuck

[@markyuells7175]

Truth

[@jasondavisjazz]

Branford is amazing! And he is cool!

[@solecaring1230]

He is not amazing because he could not play the Giant Steps well. He actually ruined the whole piece.

[@thehack5917]

nomercy

[@joshhu1465]

3:26 did he say "what happened?"

[@nezkeys79]

Josh Hu looks like it

[@jakeelliott781]

jazz4asahel Kenny gets a bit off track? Talk about pretentious...

[@kleinequietboykleinequietb7126]

it's probably a problem with the sound guys. "what happened" to his monitor or something. Just a guess since, they fuck up the sound pretty well on every recording I've heard from Newport.

[@daryljohnson3896]

Agreed ! the sax volume went up right after that, he was probably too low in the mix.

[@NathanialWheelerHD]

Yeah probably because they clapped after that piano solo and he wanted to be like “what happened? You haven’t seen nothing yet 😂”

[@joer3481]

He ate Giant Steps.

[@DangFee78]

He's wearing a Twins cap?

[@tonibasanta3419]

Branford Marsalis Quartet play Giant Steps in 1987 Newport Jazz Festival Official 268,296 + 72 views since September 23, 2014 Jazz on MV 87.6K subscribers More Branford Marsalis at Music Vault: www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault on KZbin: goo.gl/DUzpUF Personnel: Branford Marsalis (tenor and soprano sax), Kenny Kirkland (piano), Delbert Felix (bass), Lewis Nash (drums)

[@caiomonteiro4995]

guys take off ur sun glasses when u walk on a stage pls hahaha

[@thekidfromiowa]

Jay Leno's original band leader. Like Hendrix playing in a bar band.

[@jiyujizai]

さすがにうまい🍴😆✨。

[@jiyujizai]

いやいやいい音してる。😃🎵😘

[@miguelmoreira8120]

Apollo Creed on bass!

[@brandonblount87]

🤦🏾‍♂️😭😭😭

[@milest3560]

Bruh.

[@MrHidan30]

This reharm is hip as fuck.

[@marselmusic]

wow! i didn't even know wynton had a brother... turns out he has a few!

[@demetriuswhite1589]

He has three brothers

[@ldbboosha]

His whole family is a musical dynasty in Louisiana.

[@breckerman7552]

Wow...I never saw the phrase "hip as f..." used so many times as in these comments. Is that hip??? Sometimes hipness is what ain't...

[@CWMalako91]

What brand of shirt is Branford wearing?

[@phileascarrai]

Isn't it that famous screaming sheep @ 0:03 ?

[@SUPER5DESTROY]

恐ろしい曲だ。誰が演奏してもコルトレーンのようにしかならない。

[@rolandedrummer9723]

"What happened?"

[@Muzikman127]

4:51

[@alexcox8497]

Do you see how they feel it? Its insane!