Trio of Liberty ft Joris Teepe & Don Braden play Humpty Dumpty live @ Jazzpodium DJS

Thanks for watching this video. If you like what you see or hear, consider giving a 'thumbs-up' or even subscribe to this channel. Trio of Liberty ft Joris Teepe & Don Braden play Humpty Dumpty live @ Jazzpodium DJS. Op zondagmiddag 5 november presenteert Jazzpodium DJS in het kader van de saxofoonmaand een concert van de Amerikaanse saxofonist Don Braden met zijn Trio of Liberty. Don Braden is vooral bekend omdat hij speelde in de groepen van Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard en Tony Williams. Zijn eerste professionele ‘gig’ was toen hij Branford Marsalis verving in de groep van Wynton. Branford ging bij Sting spelen en Don Braden kwam in de band met Kenny Kirkland op piano, Jeff Tain Watts op drums en Robert Hurst op bass.
In de jaren daarna volgde een hele serie van ‘sideman-gigs’ waaronder tours met Kenny Barron, Betty Carter, The Harper Brothers en Tom Harrell. Inmiddels heeft hij zo’n vijftien cd’s gemaakt onder zijn eigen naam en vele andere cd’s als sideman.
In 1992 kwamen bassist Joris Teepe en Don Braden elkaar tegen in New York en begon hun samenwerking aan vele projecten. Joris speelt op diverse Don Braden cd’s, Don speelt ook op diverse cd’s van Joris. Daarnaast spelen zowel Gene als Don op de CD van de Joris Teepe Big Band. De Nederlander Joris Teepe is in de VS vooral bekend omdat hij negen jaar in de groep van Rashied Ali speelde (de laatste drummer van Coltrane).
Don, Joris en Gene hebben nu besloten hun lange historie van samenwerking te verzegelen en als Trio of Liberty verder te gaan. De muziek is swingend, toegankelijk, typisch New Yorks, maar ook vernieuwend en diepgaand.
Marcel Serierse vervangt vandaag drummer Gene Jackson.
Onlangs verscheen van Trio of Liberty het album ‘Conversations’
Meer weten ? Check:
Joris Teepe - joristeepe.com/
Don Braden - www.donbraden.com/
Marcel Serierse - / marcel.serierse
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Audio/Video door Ton van der Kolk
In life we tend to make hard distinctions between the value of conversation and the worth of action, crystalizing such a dividing line with statements like "talk is cheap" and "actions speak louder than words." Jazz, however, has a way of relating the two. When musicians get together to play, the talk is the action. Every opportunity to play with others is a chance to open the lines of communication, and albums like this remind us that the deeper the rapport, the more expressive the dialogue.
Conversations is the culmination of a quarter century's worth of meaningful communication between bassist Joris Teepe and saxophonist Don Braden. Since connecting in 1992, they've been sidemen together, toured the Old Country as a team on multiple occasions, worked for each other, and recorded as co-leaders. Their friendship and kinship is written in a collective sound, manifesting itself in entwined and aligned harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic gestures. When they get down to it, every thought's ending serves as a new beginning and every moment is a moment to be savored.
These ten songs frame the Teepe-Braden partnership in two different ways. Three numbers, recorded back in the winter of 2009, present this pair with no additional players in the mix; the remaining seven, recorded in the spring of 2016, find them working with one of two world-class drummers-Gene Jackson on three numbers and Matt Wilson on four. All are gems, sitting well next to one another and never betraying the long space between sessions. It all sounds like it could've been recorded on the same day.
There are no "chording" instruments to be found here, but there's little to no absence of harmonic stability or implication in these performances. When you hear Braden, Teepe and Wilson swing away on "It's You Or No One," you don't miss a piano at all. The same can be said about the Jackson-enhanced group's sly trip through "Footprints" in five, a cool-headed "Our Love Is Here To Stay" with Braden's romanticized tenor working atop the locked-in Teepe-Wilson swing, and the open-eared trip through "Humpty Dumpty" that opens the album.
Teepe and Braden each have a deep understanding of the tradition, evident in their interplay, choice of repertoire, and technical showmanship. But neither man lets tradition get in the way of things. Hearing the evolution of Wilson's "Stolen Time," where a curious and pleasant pas de deux for flute and bass evolves into a frolicking journey with cymbals providing momentum, and observing the open-mindedness in solo stands and two-way exchanges, most evident on the duo's trip through Kurt Weill's "This Is New," makes that clear as day. Teepe and Braden bring new meaning to the idea of "talking a good game" with this album. It's a wonderful treat to be a fly on the wall during their conversations.