Mr.PC

July26,1987 in Japan
DAVE LIEBMAN(SopranoSax)
WAYNE SHORTER(SopranoSax)
RICHIE BEIRACH(Piano)
EDDIE GOMEZ(Bass)
JACK DE JOHNETTE(Drums)

[@axyshaysi]

Dave plays without any fear. Thats what i love of his playing

[@sowhatsowhat4128]

he's a fucking beast

[@studbagl]

Watching Dave Liebman play scares me. In a good way of course, but you can't help but feel terror, lol.

[@samppalepochanel]

Love that someone is screaming at 2:25

[@low-keynice8061]

4:31 The way Beirach comps for both is literally a song by itself like if you only listen to the piano...then you realize you have the sickest sax solo on top. wow.

[@csjazzalloy]

❤️

[@carynichols2638]

Absolutely beautiful! This makes you love music. Thanks to all of them…

[@stratoholic706]

Awesome, you stumble across this drinkning your morning coffee. Now thats youtube =)

[@FCntertainr]

Was so excited when buying this CD. Would have been awesome to have been there, can't fathom live jazz not being appreciated in this country of USA. LOVED IN EUROPE AND JAPAN. To have this video is truly a blessing of this event. My hats off to the great artists. How can they play like this everytime out??????

[@jfree1112]

so much vocabulary here, love the ending

[@WilliamJames48]

Heaviest moment in the history of Soprano Saxes. They sent Kenny G back to Hell from which he came!

[@Zen.0N]

edge !!!! essence of life in music - don't look for it- it will find you. edge!!!!

[@cerimccoy]

1.42 onwards is bloody great playing. Wayne Shorter doesn't sound a THING like Coltrane 4.20 Wayne quotes Dexter consecutive major thirds whole tone drop a step... I love these guys playing so much . Thanks for this!!! : )

[@jampoles]

I thought I heard this pattern before... thanks for pinpointing. Wayne Shorter's "triplety" runs remind me of his duets with Joe Zawinul. The amazing thing about these players is how their sound merges in and out of a perfect sync especially when they switch to octaves. At about 1:52 Dave Liebman struggles with overtones that he usually gets so easily but this doesn't discourage him from making some "in-between" tone/overtone haunting sounds that are just out of this world.

[@2012tupi]

2:27 when I step in a lego

[@pirtukirkko]

PC means Paul Chambers:)

[@scotscheer]

Both shredding like crazy, fabulous. It just goes to show though how coltrane had chops beyond but kept the harmonic content of the blues never repeating anything. These guys alt out on patterns but coltrane was just ....Untouchable

[@FGPjazz]

Thank you for posting this!!

[@Sax4Him]

Such a great description! Love it.

[@jodi183]

I realize you've probably already figured this out, but for those who are just learning this one, play concert Cmi6 instead of Cmi7. Cmi6 is the I, the tonic, for this tune. Cmi7 is a II chord in Bb, which would make the tune sound more like it was a II-V-I tune (Cmi7 - F7 is II-V in Bb maj). This tune never resolves to Bb. It's concert Cmi6 - Fmi6 - Cmi6, then Ab7 - G7 - Cmi6 for the turnaround all over a 12 bar blues form.

[@ericream2000]

Richie!so cool!!

[@liamwatson5125]

I like Shorter’s soprano.

[@immortal846]

Love the song

[@PepperWilliams_songcovers]

Looked like Dave Liebman was ready to bust an artery. Both him and Shorter tore the hell out of the there solos!.

[@pauloteixeira9427]

Awesome !

[@StringKiller]

@theeviltwig minor7th chords are usually played as minor 6th, its a blues standart with minor 6th chords everywhere so you can play dorian or harmonic minor and still be inside the tone (at least that's what i hear in coltrane's version)

[@theeviltwig]

@12jo0 Walking over the melody is - Dm7 , Dm7 C Dm7, Gm7, Dm7, C, Dm7 , E , A , E , A , Dm7 , C, Dm7. Walking over solo section is Dm7 for four bars then Gm7 for two then Dm7 for two E7 for one A7 for one Dm7 for one then Dm7 or A7 for one.

[@UnimportantGamingVideos]

That Bass was the Bee's Knees!

[@sitarnut]

It's Eddie Gomez, Bill Evan's bass player, amongst other venues.

[@wyndhl9465]

Both guys sound contrastingly beautiful - Dave, 'Tranesque with some Multiphonics and lots of movements; Wayne, being his own man with his deliberate organization, coherence and improvisational progression. Sometimes during one's ad lib, one has to avoid the appearance of demonstrating a classroom of exercises. I am learning to utilize commas, semi-colons and colons, periods, quotation marks (to a lesser extent), paragraphs, exclamation points, paragraphs, tension and release, etc. during my improvisation. Needless to say Charlie Parker and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley were masters at punctuation and organization. The pianist explains these winning ingredients ably during his ad lib.

[@taejoonahn7194]

Hot & creative performance. Amazing! Gee.

[@Pilbromatic]

Great tune to solo over! Especially if you're into the up tempo blues! :)

[@hmoy24677]

Classic!

[@StringKiller]

@aborrebach I liked the ball-chopper ending too XD, it's a nice way to tense the end to the extreme!

[@jonesjoy834]

YES🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@lcal39]

I clocked it at MM 1/4=275. Not too shabby.

[@TrevorKellum]

what a line up

[@ianirishfan1]

Is that Eddie Gomez on bass? That guy is a monster. He and Jack are freakin' heavy on this tune.

[@sitarnut]

Jack's the terror....

[@Wheelly1]

Now this is a real jazz, not like tiny puppy they have now

[@db1815]

now that's fast!

[@max-db9pq]

0:25 holy shit

[@memzehni]

Are you kiddin'??? Richie is a MONSTER! Along with Herbie and Chick, McCoy and Mehldau...he's one of the greatest EVER! Could you imagine that he possibly had problems with the sound situation or something...so, please think about this next time, thanx.

[@csjazzalloy]

❤️

[@theeviltwig]

@kostor1991 I see. I was looking at the chorus of the song in Bb. To solo over in standard key (Cmin) Chros is Cmin7 2 bars Cm7 Bb Cm7. Bar 5 - Fm7 2 bars Cm7 Bb Cm7 (anticipated Dm7) G7 D7 G7 Cm7 Bb Cm7. Solo Section Cm7 4 bars Fm7 2 bars Cm7 2 bars D7 1 bar G7 1 bar Cm7 1 bar (G7) You can play more than the blues scale over this tune. Perhaps the bebop scale or the Dorian scale to avoid the blues notes all the time, also helps to hit those juicy sevenths.

[@theeviltwig]

@12jo0 Walking over the melody is - Dm7 , Dm7 C Dm7, Gm7, Dm7, C, Dm7 , E , A , E , A , Dm7 , C, Dm7. Walking over solo section is Dm7 for four bars then Gm7 for two then Dm7 for two E7 for one A7 for one Dm7 for one then Dm7 or A7 for one. If you need something more than that i can get it together pretty easy.

[@lobo14capoeira]

R.I.P. big Paul!

[@JazzySaxE]

cool

[@BadHorse615]

Et on ne retiendra des années 80 que "les démons de minuit"...

[@user-oy1cj8sz2x]

Johnetteのドラムもいいねー

[@vitamincory]

fucking amazing

[@azman.s]

Avant garde bebop. The killer!

[@jiyujizai]

🌺😊❣️🥀

[@kostor1991]

@theeviltwig dude,mr.pc is c minor blues. 4bars Cm,2 bars Fm,2 bars Cm,Ab7,G7+9,2bars Cm.

[@RobertoLacourt]

mortal

[@Drums036]

It makes me feel so excited! Hotter than summer～ by sam-sam

[@bandrascal89]

wow!! ^ ^ O O o

[@sirvidia]

such a huge contrast between Lieb's tone and Wayne's tone. Is Lieb on the Couf Superba here?

[@spicvic15]

9:31 and is awesome

[@theeviltwig]

@12jo0 hey man I'm a bass player too i have the charts for it if that's what you mean? The fake book version of this song. All that walking is all improv I would say. I'm thinking about transcribing it down however if i get around to doing it i'll send it your way. He's doing some real interesting stuff in there. Good thing he has an intense band to back him up!

[@freelance_commie]

Moammar Gaddafi on bass ladies and gentlemen!

[@max-db9pq]

Lmao

Now I want to play CupHead

[@musicmanson]

Dave Liebman never had hair.

[@Pewpshmear]

wow. when liebman went for those high notes, i was like, "OH SHIT!" and when wayne shorter played those high notes and went like 7 whole steps above i fucking shit myself. shorter schooled him so bad, i actually feel bad for liebman

[@FCntertainr]

Lieb did his thing! Wayne is a SCREAMER! I loved this two soprano masters , another day Lieb can hit those notes. I'm a Wayne man but I love Lieb's playing.

[@ianirishfan1]

Yeah, Lieb was playing the hell out of those changes. Both great and different

[@jampoles]

Actually the sound Dave Liebman gets at 1:52 is not intended for getting high notes but about producing a sound that is normally impossible to play on a soprano because it's a mix of over-tones and sub-tones. This meeting was definitely not about showing off or schooling one another but two masters come together to pay a tribute to another master to whom they both admit of being indebted.

[@yankelgorokhofskij3520]

Bullcrap.

[@johannus777]

yeah I bet it was at 60 bps too instead of the 265 that its supposed to be and the solo didnt sound like Shorter or Leibman.

[@godrobert18]

AMazing...:|

[@diegotentuba]

its amazing!!!!all of them are genius!!!!who doesn´t understand what ist happening here i recommend to listen at Ricky Martin,eminem,Roberto Blanco or one of the greats singers of reggeton.

[@goshajazz]

@theeviltwig it,s in c minor not d

[@armandomardencarvalhodebar8897]

Puta que pariu!!!! Que regaço.

[@dirtdude59]

its the 19th

[@michaelp5590]

@anapplecannon and aight it the truth! these guys fuckin' rip!

[@davidscher4303]

noodles in Kazoo

[@aborrebach]

omg, david liebman and wayne shorter can really play soprano saxophone...just amazing..other than 9:07 (which made my ears bleed, btw) sounding like a couple of girls screaming their heads off, or a couple guys getting their balls chopped off , this is one hell of a tribute to coltrane. Thanks for posting.

[@HeathWatts]

They aren't even playing as high as they could at 9:03. There is another octave available.

[@Lyraorganum]

chech out Ron carter- builiding walking bass lines. :) or transcribe alot.

[@stevetintweiss]

It’’s Eddie Gómez not Ron Carter on doublebass

[@fatgrunt3]

nice a little to fast for me if they slowed it down it would be nice

[@jiyujizai]

🙄🌾💛🌱

[@dirtdude59]

dude we need to speed it up.................alot

[@theeviltwig]

@kostor1991 Yes, you are right. I have the sheet music in front of me. What song am i thinking of.. Thanks for the response to my comment i will delete them immediately. Cm7 4 bars Fm7 2 bars Cm7 2 bars D7 G7 Cm7 (G7)

[@jofo37]

you dont have to play it that fast thats the best part about this song- it can be played with an upbeat tempo or be played slower in R&B form and still sound just as good

[@axyshaysi]

Why can’t Dave reach high notes clearly? Because now he can. Is it because of his instrument?

[@jampoles]

At about @ Dave Liebman struggles with overtones that he usually gets so easily but this doesn't discourage him from making some "in-between" tone/overtone haunting sounds that are just out of this world. You can hear this happening in Coltrane's playing too.

[@Modes9]

Liebman owns Wayne Shorter. It's also great to hear Ritchie get a solo.

[@TIMMYDEEZ]

haha

[@spicvic15]

i meant 9:13. whoops

[@memzehni]

you forgot Dieter Bohlen.

[@SelmersRule]

It's not Eb lol

[@666heavymetaladdict]

thats cause theyre soloing.....

[@Buffbodz]

@edsensanz Just dig the jazz and stop trying to analyze every thought going through a musician's head.

[@LTdrumma]

WTF is wrong with these ppl... (im saying this in a good way)

[@Mathewkinetix]

Ugh, the soprano sax is definitely not my favorite saxophone...

[@rinahall]

this is all i hate in jazz. Everyone plays loud and awfull.

[@flukecentral5641]

I feel sorry for you.

[@alberthaust4542]

Loud? Maybe. Awfull? I disagree quite a bit.

[@rinahall]

@@alberthaust4542 sorry for u

[@rinahall]

@@flukecentral5641 sorry for u 2

[@alberthaust4542]

No need to be sorry, I like that I was able to enjoy this video. Dave Liebman and Wayne Shorter are amongst my favorite saxophone players. I am not a groupie, so I am able to hear fault when it is there.