Branford Marsalis Quartet - Giant Steps (1988)

Clip from the concert video (VHS) "STEEP" featuring:
Branford Marsalis - Tenor Sax
Kenny Kirkland - Piano
Delbert Felix - Bass
Lewis Nash - Drums

[@bobscott7127]

Kenny Kirkland eats Giant Steps for lunch...and still has room for dessert!

[@chasewilkins8298]

He’s eating a 7 course meal with a dq run after

[@melvinpolanski7249]

they play it like there falling out of bed. Incredible. Kirkland burns up the piano! RIP, Kenny. I love the altered last note of the melody phrases.

[@marcroigcebrian]

Kenny 🎹 🎹 🎹 miss you master😢!

[@azuzz6788]

It is SO hard to play giant steps with just drums and no harmony, so incredible to see

[@MabookaMabooka]

The 2nd pass on the melody is really nice (@0:58 ).

[@shiggins9]

Kenny Kirkland, we miss you! Thanks for the music.

[@griffinsalerno]

That pianist is a pure one

[@REDR83]

I had forgotten how great Kenny Kirkland was. Thanks for the reminder, that was one killer solo.

[@birdvatcher7424]

good lord this blew my mind. my jaw stayed dropped for the entire time. when the bass and piano dropped out i couldn't stop laughing especially with how the drums just caught on fire after that point. true mastery

[@Joe_TheGood]

1:12 when you play giant steps, but this time you studied the piano part

[@1256778]

*Tommy Flanagan left the chat

[@mr.shepherdspie7958]

😂😂 rip Tommy Flanagan

[@MabookaMabooka]

To be fair, Flanagan didn't have a chance to rehearse, at all, while Caltrain worked on it for months before the recording. Also the rumor is, Flanagan was "told" that it's supposed to be a ballad......., so when John counted it in he was naturally in a shock :)

[@Joe_TheGood]

Vladislav Kudelin The “ballad”’ fact was very interesting. Anyway this will be just an immortal (only for elitist) joke.

[@J3unG]

@@MabookaMabooka All the brother had to do was change the B7 to A7 and he would've unlocked the damn tune. It wasn't that hard. It isn't that hard.

[@lizgoodwin1812]

Masterful quartet! Branford Marsalis has a propensity to make the most difficult compositions sound facile! I have virtually all of his cds. God bless the memory of and the stellar musicianship of the late, great Kenny Kirkland. There will never be another! Blessings to all. Thank you for posting this wonderful performance!

[@alansenzaki4148]

Rest in peace kenny. A great musician...fantastic solo. Branford killer solo!!

[@wresk]

tempo here is about 30 BPM higher than the one at JVC festival in 1987....crazy

[@rightchordleadership]

Yes

[@BarryArgyle]

Wow... Definitely the best version I've heard after Coltrane.. and that's saying a lot.

[@HectorVII]

kenny kirkland and branford are just amazing wow

[@Simon-me9fh]

i love how tormented they all look

[@CuttySobz]

Such a sweet and smooth sound it's making me fall in love with jazz again. I remember the first time I saw the documentary"Jazz Seen" and I cried it was so beautiful. I was around 16 at the time and have loved jazz ever since although I must admit I've fallen out of it slightly.

[@andynovotny5106]

Beautiful interpretation...

[@Honeybarbequefritos]

Kenny Kirkland god damn 😩

[@jazzpianosista]

For real!!

[@chrispappas4085]

Man I miss Kenny...Branford...awesome!!

[@lordprivateer4965]

KENNY knows it is not a ballad!

[@jazz4asahel]

Delbert Felix chopping wood fast. Kenny Kirkland like he never left us.

[@hankrawlins8686]

Kenny !!

[@diegoamdrums]

Felix and Nash lock in like nothing else man. Crazy.

[@wyndhl9465]

The then young lion on tenor saxophone!

[@Guitar-free]

Kenny Kirkland....Cuppa tea with that? WOW!!!!

[@christopherbuilder5354]

Awesome, this deserves way more views!

[@allen6924]

If he had girl in a bikini dancing while he played. He have millions of views. Such is the world we live in.

[@sAEGGi]

thats such of a jazz banger thats unbelievable

[@yoga.ma.genova8591]

Kirkland steals the show

[@RonCarterBassist]

😃👍🏾

[@da11king]

What a 🔥 keys 🎹🎶 wow!

[@michaeldean9338]

R.I.P., Kenny. What a loss.

[@LucasGautero]

Insane. Thanks for uploading.

[@paulsakowski4657]

We don't have any more songs! LMAO

[@dylanmcgaharn5676]

Kenny Kirkland went off

[@Thouveninpascal]

The tempo too

[@shiggins9]

He hit the piano out of tune!

[@MabookaMabooka]

When??

[@shiggins9]

@@MabookaMabooka This is the encore at end of the show and with Kenny's strong percussive attack the upper register needs a tuning. It didn't detract from the stellar playing, though.

[@jamesmitchell6925]

He repeated a lot of licks though (he did 1235, 1235 on the first 2 chords at least 3 times). Don’t get me wrong, he was a beast and left our world far too soon. Not too many cats can cut those changes and at this tempo like he did here!

[@gregorypatriciaandjiyajais8819]

oh my beautiful great masters

[@kitanoffxd]

awesome vidio

[@SH-jv5uf]

Just sax and drums?? Awesome.

[@gapman565]

Man o Man!

[@elmago6574]

alucinante , estos musicos son fuera de este planeta , gran homenaje a jhon coltrane que nos mira desde otra dimension

[@megabugginout]

Branford...the Coltrane of the 80’s and 90’s.

[@javierperez-gu5my]

Excelente¡

[@dennisobrien2578]

OMG❤

[@job474]

Amazing!

[@_ashtonthomas]

Lewis Nash !

[@theilain731]

Like It~

[@tyronepullan6624]

SICK! tommy wants a re-do!

[@ethanmulvihill7177]

Holy...

[@ChazzsLoFiMusic]

Classic! Thanks. Just added you.

[@danielpincus221]

Just another day at the office…

[@javierperez-gu5my]

Ese pianista lo vi con Ron Carter,buenisimo¡

[@senatordeadbird]

got damn he did dat👻🪟🗿

[@gabos7892]

I wish jazz didn't sound so chaotic to me. It's really a type of music most appreciated by actual musicians I think.

[@rightchordleadership]

Start with ballads and mid-tempo songs before moving to something like this.

[@gabos7892]

@@rightchordleadership Will do, any recommendations?

[@xrro_]

@@gabos7892naima is pretty good

[@jayskywalker5049]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@olatunjimwamba9259]

Whew. They got the pot on the front burner and they cookin'.

[@muhammadshakoor8745]

Bradford 🎷 they got busy on this tune

[@jontull2045]

To play like that with such a punishing tempo. Hats off!

[@allen6924]

If he had girl in a bikini dancing while he played. He have millions of views. Such is the world we live in.

[@juuk3103]

SO many thirsty men, us men have to do better...

[@zhonlino]

Daamn Kirkland can bring giant steps into next steps

[@jiyujizai]

🌱😀🌺💙

[@andersaskman6782]

Giant version of "the steps" KIrkland and Marsalis excellent !

[@jiyujizai]

🌸🌱💙😀

[@bla8859]

9k views, and corey henry snoozing through it hung over gets 500k, yeah those yt recommends really workin

[@andradas9688]

it is called DECADENCE. Let's face it: we live in MEDIOCRE times. Not saying Corey is mediocre, but if the jazz audience was small in the past, now it is pretty much invisible.

[@SitrusNetwork]

0:45 hey guys I think I’m addicted to settings

[@jiyujizai]

ケニ―に注目してみよう。😃🎵サンキュー😉👍🎶

[@nibirusoundstudios]

His tone is nearly identical to Coltrane.

[@jamesmitchell6925]

5 dislikes are jazz aliens from the future checking in on the 21st century to see if we can cut them changes yet. Still needs some work!

[@jamesmitchell6925]

Or maybe squares who just learned this song and are like, “he keeps playing wrong notes on the head!”

[@adeepseadiverindoubt]

*insert piano comments here

[@leonpressley6882]

Brandford just destroyed this tune which is one of jazz most difficult songs to learn to play over ..this guy is a jedi master of the Saxaphonist john would of been very proud of the marsalis family

[@charlesliles2966]

Lots of NOTES "signifying not much".

[@TheKlaun9]

Jazz - working really hard to be mildly entertaining. Amazing performance though

[@vitograssi3456]

Forzato ,Anedottico , lezzioso . Questo jazz autoreferenziale non mi piace .preferisco il grande Chet Baker. Non per altro si è trasferito a Milano .

[@rtfgx]

Amazing really but I just kind of don't like the form of the lead instrument playing only the head and playing the solo later. Rarely seems to work for me. In iconic tunes it's especially obscure. Mess with everything but not the form.

[@alannoob1926]

Well they were already messing with so much of the song, at that point, I'd say it's ok to mess with the form. I was thrown off guard too, but I was NOT disappointed by the piano solo (better then Tommy Flanagan jkjkjk) They were doing their own take on it and i thought that was cool

[@jmiguelsimpkins]

Listen to Pursuance from A Love Supreme by Coltrane. He plays the head and lays out till later

[@rtfgx]

@@jmiguelsimpkins I don't have to listen 😉 it's really more changing the form that bugs me not the form in general

[@captainstrangiato961]

Damn that poor piano player left to fix what the sax player did LOL.

[@mr.shepherdspie7958]

What did the sax guy do? I though he sounded fine

[@andradas9688]

@@mr.shepherdspie7958 obviously he sounded very well. When someone refers to Kenny Kirkland as the "piano player" you know he doesn't know what he is talking about. Also, the kid probably didn't understand that Branford Marsalis created a version for Coltrane's melody. It is beyond his comprehension that a jazz musician can change some of the notes of the theme, specially when such theme is played twice.

[@mr.shepherdspie7958]

@@andradas9688 yeah I agree, he sounded very good and the person who posted this comment is clearly a moron.

[@jabari22]

@@andradas9688 exactly

[@MLHunt]

"It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."