Joshua Redman Quartet - St. Thomas (with Brad Mehldau)

From the Philharmonic Hall in Munich
On the occasion of the Munich Piano Summer 1994 (Münchner Klaviersommer)
Joshua Redman - saxophone
Brad Mehldau - piano
Christian McBride - bass
Brian Blade - drums
Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
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[@TheZerocrossings]

The intro is exactly what my highschool friends thought Jazz sounded like, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[@thmsrttg]

One of the most impressive double bass solos of ALL TIME.

[@thenetworkmystery]

Yep!! I thought Larry Grenadier's solo on Nice Pass was good (which it is), but this is INSANE!!

[@HyaenaHierarchy]

Such a beast.

[@zakbarbezat]

wow. that 7 minute solo just flies by. literally had my attention the whole time

[@elliottturner9029]

I got so annoyed by the end of that intro until the band came in. Then I realized something: sometimes you have to hold back and let the awkwardness of the space in the music take hold. That really draws people in. Then you play and you realize what you were missing all along. I appreciated that lesson, Mr. Redman. Squeal on!

[@elliottturner9029]

Also how the heck does Brian Blade always have the best solo? He's just so good

[@ForcesInMotion]

Brad Mehldau frightens me :)

[@rjpimprov]

unreal. makes me question why i bother playing!

[@the_wheelbarrow_of_pathos]

High on smack

[@jeanlucchapelon]

Forces In Motion Brad is higher...!!!

[@UkuleleAversion]

@@the_wheelbarrow_of_pathos He got off it though, probably not during this period though

[@MendelssohnCZ]

Me too. Even when he is not playing like at 13:02

[@erickmatthewlynch2058]

I can't help but laugh when seeing Redman live. His antics while playing are just so funny to me. Still killin thouigh.

[@curtko0752]

@@ViziaFilms James Farm

[@tomdrawsstuffs6092]

it’s honestly because he just has so much fun performing, and it’s palpable

[@leonbarron]

this is without doubt one of the finest quartets in jazz history

[@juancpgo]

i agree

[@carloscrbm7007]

What?? There's a trio, not a quartet. The band leader plays nothing.

[@wird5406]

Carlos Maciel There are 4 people. Quartet means 4 people

[@KermitHitler]

agreed its also by far my favourite recordings of Brad Mehldau

[@basicallyalandershowitz]

@@montecardenas-metal1172 no asked for you to spew your completely unsupported opinion that Joshua Redman is overrated. Why bash on a the whole group which includes the almost undisputed greatest living drummer and freaking Brad and Christan? Everyone of those artists contributions to the genre will be heard for decades to come. On top of all that each one of them has the most amazing outlook on life and approach to music I've ever heard. Redman has one award after award after award and played with every great he was alive to play with and has done seemly everything there is to do, yet he doesn't think he's good. He thinks he's still learning just the same as me or anyone else and the same goes for everyone else on that stage. I think you be extremely hard pressed to name any group that did as much as they did and made way for careers as endlessly inspiring as theirs.

[@wadsmitter511]

9:37 I love Brian Blade

[@hyunwooshinyt]

i always come back to this

[@erictheredone]

What sets Redman apart from so many others is his intonation and tone. Nice to get a close up of his embouchure on this vid. We all have the ability to play those lines, maybe not in a performance setting, but if you work hard enough... but only he can do it "off the cuff" in a performance. Truly amazing. I wonder who his repair tech is.

[@mtwoh]

we don't all have the ability to play those lines though :) (speaking for myself at least)

[@erictheredone]

@@mtwoh Yes you do! Slowly one note at a time!

[@joeblankenship377]

its cool seeing his fingers switching through altissimo fingerings when he's doing those slides.

[@davidnazombe8589]

Brad was simply I do not know how to describe his playing. Christian 😳 Brian superb

[@antonlindstrom8373]

These guys were all under 25 when this was recorded, unreal

[@jvegaalbela]

I was having an okay day until I read this

[@vargaso]

I was lucky enough to play with Josh in the high school all star band at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1986. He was already this good at 17.

[@GrumpyStormtrooper]

vargaso I'll have to accept the fact that I'll be mediocre for all my life.

[@asd-uv2it]

what..?? 25...??

[@lisadavis4164]

@@jvegaalbela hh77h7

[@KermitHitler]

Jesus Christ !!!! Mehldau is monstrous here. That solo just had everything, endlessly fascinating, beautifully melodic, the stretching of time to almost breaking point and then bringing it back with apparent ease and musicality so gorgeous that it gives you goosebumps. Please please please, reform this exact quartet and go on tour. Imagine how much they've all evolved on their own journeys since then and then what theyd each bring to the table as a result, individually and collectively now. Surely it would be beyond mindblowing what they could do ? Reform this quartet Reform this quartet !!!!!

[@benpartridgesax]

Got a new album coming this year :)

[@UkuleleAversion]

And they reformed

[@mirkus81]

open.spotify.com/track/6R2vR6b0jLJaJCZUvyp5Ax?si=IigSDdwkTjidRTYVuSqR6w

[@emilianodelsolar7469]

Ur wishes come true. :,)

[@namastemind8441]

McBride Bass Solo... From Another Galaxy... Awesome !!

[@JohnNyerges]

Oh my...some of the greatest our time...can't get any better than this.

[@tylerbragg4220]

Brian Blade, that is all.

[@WIUBenny35]

Yup!

[@djwsam575]

👌

[@mikejgebhart145]

damn when they start swingin in brad's solo holy moley

[@davidantiguedadclassicalgu4259]

I was like this😱

[@OdinLimaye]

Absolutely fucking amazing! The whole quartet is on fire from start to finish.

[@willasacco9898]

I couldn’t say if any better 🤟

[@richardadeymusic5698]

Goodness- that intro- I was listening without looking and thought I was listening to two players..!

[@khadijahsimon7998]

Me too!

[@YumaUesaka]

20:42 it sounds like McBride is intentionally fliping the beat here. He gets right back on at the end of the form. What a trickster

[@MichaelBB]

intentionally? Hmm...

[@LH-jo7os]

@@MichaelBB i think he intentionally did that. Otherwise its impossible to be that precise to come back right at the end of the form without a hesitation on that insane tempo.

[@trevorsmith8950]

@@LH-jo7os might be possible with the heads up the sax gave him

[@Zacharysandilands]

@@trevorsmith8950 nope. Mcbride too good to play for nearly 20 mins then lose it. Was obviously intentional

[@amileoj9043]

And what a band! So much artistic firepower on that stage, it's really breathtaking.

[@davidnazombe8589]

I suppose when Sonny Rollins listened to this interpretation of his composition by such young he must've said wow

[@davidchampclos2473]

The chorus of Brad is just a miracle ... I'm just waiting a few seconds to go back listening to it.

[@brainfreeze1925]

Freaking insane....OMG, these guys were on their game. WOW!

[@insultantable]

Simply brilliant, St. Thomas is alive.

[@raymondkarlsson9794]

Wonderful performance! Lots of energy. It all comes back to how you approach the rhythmic pulse. So many possibilities if you can balance the concrete with the (more) abstract.

[@1sirgrandmastermrkingrober216]

Military class training exercises, Class, chops beyond belief put to the right cause always🎶🎵, and a perfect song too. Having fun is the key & both is the key, in one to twelve keys baby. Good work!✌️🎵🎶🌈😇📀💛🔒🔐

[@rickstokes2239]

Joshua is a beast. Amazing technique and style.

[@maffroo]

So young, so good, so classy. Wow.

[@duncanwilson2803]

Fancy meeting you here lol

[@maffroo]

Haha hey man! What a phenomenal concert eh

[@duncanwilson2803]

@@maffroo Oh yeah! Defintifely favourite performance of all time.

[@maffroo]

Wow! I think I’ve only seen this video and maybe another, but I see that LOFT has posted the full thing which is awesome. I’ll definitely be watching it all soon :)

[@duncanwilson2803]

@@maffroo You won't regret it! There's also a really good show at Newport in 1993 with the same quartet on KZbin.

[@adamstickelbault]

Christian McBride ladies and gentlemen

[@Verzemnyn]

that was insane!!!

[@zwartepiet412]

machine gun bass

[@AlexPryrodny]

I think my face just melted…

[@virghammer1]

😂 🤣 🤣 🤣. Yeah. Me too!!

[@123Jimjamjub]

A 24 year old Brad mehldau :O

[@asigoabout]

Tremendous and OUTSTANDING! These GUYS are AWESOME! Brad Mehldau can play that Piano! I've heard him playing under his name and will seek to listen to him again.

[@swan4163]

Hopefully since you’ve posted this comment you’ve had a chance to check out his Art of the Trio albums. Fun fact: Jorge Rossi, the drummer on those albums, actually went to Berklee on a trumpet scholarship. Now I think he’s mostly playing piano in groups these days, if I remember right.

[@pipagsock4205]

Holy rhythm section

[@jackelliotbarton]

10:07 hard to make any assumptions of Brad's intentions, but seems to me like one of the finest examples of validating a fluffed note through emphasis and recontextualisation

[@daboss15987]

The way the drummers head nods at the same time as that note 🤯

[@JeffLaRochelle]

There are no wrong notes if you contextualize them properly! Good observation there.

[@patrickbarrow9060]

That immediately caught my attention too. Which I think was the point. He lays into it.

[@virghammer1]

I don’t think it was a wrong note. I think he deliberately flatted it.

[@virghammer1]

I mean, there have been deliberately quirky (SOMEtimes) players, since the days of Charles Ives and Béla Bartók! Not to mention Thelonius Monk… Bud Powell…Jaki Byard …. ERROLL GARNER , even (I’d hafta say, Erroll’s my personal god. - lol 😂)❤- Charlie “Bird” Parker, etc. … Jes’ sayin’. - Momentary little dissonances. Just for the heck of it! To keep our ears sharpened. - Playfulness.

[@robertgeorgerees]

Natural selection in improvisation…the strongest melody survives

[@AliTennis72]

What a legendary crew!

[@timwalsh715]

Totally INSANE!!!!!

[@frankzona5459]

Sonny would be approve,for sure. Just an amazing performance!!

[@carmelos.4495]

Brad Brad Brad...superb

[@davidnazombe8589]

Brad Mehldau is a star. He has this cool demeanor on his playing if that ever existed

[@damovanb]

modern monsters. Brad and Joshua..Giants!

[@amileoj9043]

One masterpiece, inspired by another.

[@tomdrawsstuffs6092]

redman coming back in after the first small drum solo sounds like unrepentant joy

[@edu1batera]

OMG,amazing musicians,

[@FranckWolf]

This quartet drives me crazy! Awesome! Thank you for posting this. 👍🏼

[@antoniojesusgonzalezmedero5512]

Este bajista es único!!

[@mattnorman4292]

Brian Blade incinerated the stage !

[@fernandovivek448]

Jazz is alive forever 🫠

[@kmaclean]

Mehldau sending Brian Blade and Christian McBride into the stratosphere during that solo. And me too.

[@nunnayuhbitness6708]

Amazing sax solo!

[@legoblox01]

what a powerhouse quartet

[@ziruini5071]

Jeez the bass is good

[@CucamongaRob]

Jazz is a part of my life every day but just skip to 7:00 because the intro will make most newcomers turn around and go back to three chords. Monster muscianship without a doubt.

[@fabiosmith4450]

Incredibile....tecnica ma anche tanta musica.... così giovani....

[@twentysixlinx327]

Hands down Christian McBride understood what Redmond was trying to do and surpassed it with aplum. What a master class!!! Just a fun standard they clearly loved.

[@virtuoseplanet4006]

Christian McBride The "Presnel Kimpembe" of the bass ! They look similar to me and they're great in the back. They're bon vivants, too.

[@OdinLimaye]

This is literally the single greatest jazz performance in all of recorded history!

[@willasacco9898]

It is the greatest performance I can recall. It is total mind-blowingly beautiful and satisfying on every possible level🤟

[@ethanlander4252]

Certainly don’t suck that’s for sure!!

[@harrisonrichter9414]

Try Miles Davis live at the Plugged Nickel

[@thomasmore23]

It's hard to find a quartet past or present that can go toe to with these cats--this is historic

[@dylandecker_music]

Only the John Coltrane Quartet

[@michielmm]

Billy Hart Quartet with Mark Turner

[@ralfbettker-cuza7432]

I am a tenor sax player. Still, I have to admit that McBride's solo seems to me the best of all - very well balanced and well structured, since he ends each chorus with the same four notes as the theme does. So the listener can follow easily, does not feel lost, always knows where he is - spectacular!

[@jamessteen6667]

Geeze that bass solo seemed😅 effortless!!!!!beautiful

[@victoza9232]

9:43 "And on piano...the youngest son of The Brady Bunch...ladies and gentlemen...give it up for Bobby Bradeeeee!"

[@Stubummer]

Awesome!

[@ethanmulvihill7177]

10:10... this man went off.

[@OdinLimaye]

The syncopated restatement of the theme in the left hand is brilliant.

[@VitorioTatalia]

Please mooooore!!!

[@WilliamSlaght]

What's that tune at the end? I know a blues, but what is it??!!

[@joaopedromelao]

Still waiting for the answer!!!! Anyone????

[@FlorisV82]

Was it not Blues on Sunday?

[@jburleson123]

Ool Ya Koo by Dizzy Gillespie.

[@alexisortegamusic]

Brain Blades oh my Lord

[@IkanGelamaKuning]

That tenor sax set is really in good response. Superb. Selmer i guess.

[@johnthrelfall5]

Yes! Inspirational!

[@mbjdrummer]

On 🔥 fo’sho!

[@homeros211]

joshua genius!

[@jayclarke9611]

Great 4

[@paulgerards6494]

McBride RULES !!

[@MrJdsenior]

MOST people go out of their way NOT to squeak the sax...this guy has made an art form out of it. I looked it up, and apparently it is very difficult to do, with control.

[@nathleflutiste]

Then you should listen to Chico Freeman and Pharoah Sanders.

[@MrJdsenior]

@@nathleflutiste Thx, will do, but I still stand by "most" in my original comment. ;-) I've found a lot of excellent music (and a lot of junk, too) from suggestions like this from YT commenters, thus the Thx.

[@nathleflutiste]

@@MrJdsenior Well, what I will say will not please some jazz listeners, but some of the music from Jazz musician is a bit extreme, so I totally understand your opinion, and for exemple there is a lot of Pharoah Sanders music like that. But from time to time it's possible to find some highly refined jewels, that are so pure that it outshines many of the music one already knows. Exactly from Cecil Mc Bee the album "Music from The Source", "Agnez" and "First Song of the Day". From Pharoah Sanders "Harvest Time".

[@musicality8425]

@Aeolyus: Meh, but why should your comment please or displease jazz listeners like me? Your fair opinion doesn't hurt my feelings nor these artists' demonstrable, musically achieved skill sets. All music has extremes and moderations. I try to listen to it all, when and if I can. I think everyone should have such a healthy musical diet, too. The musically tasteless and the musically spicy and musically vapid and musically intellectual. It's all good, and distinct.

[@hincapiej4]

It's not squeaking.. it's altissimo...

[@Manuscript4]

6:58 You can hear him screaming into it!

[@petr.agapov]

Thanks a lot for this!

[@rishiyildiz4000]

Petr Agapov hahaha you like this video too?

[@petr.agapov]

@@rishiyildiz4000 I love them! One of my favorite bands! 😉

[@toyjazz]

Super improvisation

[@MayerHonza]

4:45 sounds like Also Sprach Zarathustra

[@yelassinacoulibaly819]

🌈💐🌹💐🌹💐🌹🙏👌❤️❤️❤️🌈

[@aaronfrohnmayer8493]

Every song should start with a solo by Christian McBride.

[@yeankim690]

Mehldau's solo starts at 7:29

[@MannyFioretti]

Ahahahahahahah, thanks

[@ClaudioQuartarone]

Fresh!

[@fabiocalzavarasax]

Number one!

[@MTKROCK]

McBride and Blade as babys... XDXDXD

[@aaarrarararrr]

Reminds me of Delta City Blues.

[@hyukjung7223]

I feel like I didn’t breath 25 minutes long. Crazy.

[@sid5537]

Brad's solo is very similar to his solo on The Deserving Mary. Same ideas.

[@flausimarrodrigues8599]

É incrível a agilidade do Blade. Fora a versatilidade. Excelente trabalho!

[@dwaynehendricks7842]

Overall a very jazzy performance!

[@mohitoness]

accurate jazz comment right here

[@stillphil]

21:21 Ool Ya Koo! Diz Tune

[@fred8097]

16:45-16:50 🙏🏻

[@aaronfrank9649]

Cool Eddie Harris like stuff in the intro. Joshua is a smart guy.

[@shawnbruce6934]

Brian Blade!!

[@ziruini5071]

That rhythm section

[@ДмитрийРоманов-ц1у]

Просто монстры, очень круто)

[@naaaaayeon]

미쳤다..크 핵소름

[@IkanGelamaKuning]

what is the name of the 2nd song?

[@trevorsmith8950]

I'm sorry, this quartet is Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Brian Blade, and Christian McBride?!?! 🤯

[@josiah566]

9:29 - 9:39 Brian Blade: HO LY SH*T