Bruce Kaphan Quartet (Jazz): Birdland

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 8 Jan 2014 5:39 pm

Here's a nice one:

http://youtu.be/aFeiDEuNUrg

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 8 Jan 2014 8:01 pm

That's great. Thanks Jim.

Tony

Ken Pippus · Post by **Ken Pippus** » 8 Jan 2014 8:33 pm

Somebody forgot to tell Bruce that you have to play jazz on the C6 neck.... didn't seem to slow him down much.

Douglas Schuch · Post by **Douglas Schuch** » 8 Jan 2014 9:39 pm

Jim, I think you must have been too busy putting your own steel jazz album together when this got posted (and discussed) a few years ago. What a great year for steel jazz with both his and your album appearing! I've got both and they get frequent play time.

Birdland was my favorite fusion jazz song back in the day (and also loved the vocalese cover by Manhattan Transfer) so certainly dig this version. However, I think the real prize on this album Bruce and Co. did (and also did a Youtube video for) is "Jessica", the Allmand Brothers Band cover. Maybe my Southern Rock roots are showing - that was also a favorite of mine, in an even earlier day, and Bruce's cover keeps enough of the original to induce road-trip flashbacks, yet is unique enough, particularly by using pedal steel, to have it's own vibe. That video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eeawv2KdCk

edit: "Jessica" (with brief mention of "Birdland") was discussed briefly in this thread:

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... ht=jessica

Neil McCollum · Post by **Neil McCollum** » 9 Jan 2014 6:38 am

Thanks, Jim and the Kaphlan group - Fantastic. Birdland was always a favorite of mine, too.

Sez Adamson · Post by **Sez Adamson** » 13 Jan 2014 1:20 pm

This is great, and the band swings like crazy.
I've always had a penchant for fretless bass, and this guy nails it.
Thanks, Jim, for posting.
And thanks Neil for the pm to alert me.
I'm now going to search the web for more of this band.
Sez