Joe Henderson's solo on this track is one of the best saxophone solos of all time. Unreal start to an album

@bernabefernandeztouceda7315

2 жыл бұрын

Very underrated improviser, indeed, he was really smart with that phrasing.

A stellar lineup of Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Jack Dejohnette, and George Benson. Doesn't get any better than these cats ! ! !

@Cade_Sando

4 жыл бұрын

david little oh ya also Freddie Hubbard

@ambroulard

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree,,, this thing swings harder than anything!!!

Joe Henderson always KNEW how to get started with a tenor saxophone solo...dude was in full force on this track.

Hubbard's tone -- so big and so beautiful -- always attracted me. Add to that his technique and you one of the greatest to play the instrument.

@Will_Moffett

2 жыл бұрын

Always great, his tone seems to have changed from the earlier Blakey years, but I can't tell if that's a function of recording equipment.

There was a time when music was free and easy. That CreedTaylor stuff never disappointed.

@user-cf5gy4zr6v

17 күн бұрын

No pop,no blah,blah,blah.."talkin loud sayin nuthin"bs....this is music 4 whatever one needs...Check Bob James tiny desk..

About 20 years ago at a time I had an almost exactly 17 minute drive from my apartment to my university at the time, in Cracow, Poland. For a while it became almost a ritual to listen to this piece on my way to school, starting straight away when I took off, and finishing the song when I turned into the parking space in front of my university building. Perfect way to get in the right mind set for the day. Great memory too.

It's a crime how few views this composition has. Almost all my favourite cats on one track, it doesn't get much better.

@flowerface9011

8 жыл бұрын

+Cliff Yablonski There's good modern music, you'll just never hear it on the radio and will have to do some serious digging online to find it.

@pgroove163

8 жыл бұрын

na, not a crime...the people are brainwashed..you know the story...always be this way..always

@cliftonfloyd9994

6 жыл бұрын

alexander hanifin they got the fuck down on this....

@cooldebt

6 жыл бұрын

I was in preschool when this came out but even my teenagers listen to stuff like this (and play it too in Jazz Band) - I have brainwashed them with GOOD music so they can tell what is junky pop and what is not :) Maybe with Snarky Puppy, Joey Alexander and a few others around, more young ones will catch on. KZread is a jazz treasure trove.

@calikali2420

4 жыл бұрын

@Cliff Yablonski Jazz is grown folks music. Requires advanced level of intelligence which a lot of people (including kids) lack. The lucky kids are the ones that get hip to it when they get older.

Do you hear George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and other greats on this album because they are here in full force.

I've commented on this album before. But I'll say it again. This is my all time favorite jazz album from my college days. It was recorded on the legendary CTI label, which stood for Creed Taylor Industries! Most of these artists were regular on this label and they would often play on each other's albums. But this album "Straight Life" is the best in the entire collection. I did an FM Jazz show in college and this was one of my go to choices. Every time I hear it, it's like listening to it again for the first time! Glad to be with others who found it and love it!

@brucescott4261

2 жыл бұрын

ray metoyer ...CTI means Creed Taylor Incorporated.

@raymetoyer2627

2 жыл бұрын

@@brucescott4261 thanks for correcting my typo!

Dat line up !!! It's a wet dream for jazz lovers !

Joe plays his horn with unstoppable saxuality. Dig.

This fusion jazz by some of the best who ever did it .

"They are playing the shit out of their instruments" - I guess this phrase was created after listening to this masterpiece...

Had the district pleasure of seeing him in the summer of 1974, at Don Clindenton's. Sat so close, almost got his spit on me. That summer I grew into popular jazz, with him being my introduction.

A Celebration of Life!!!!!!!!

The late great Richard Pablo Landrum on Congas

@kenmeyer6786

Жыл бұрын

Great playing.

I XIII MMXXI still present still standing and counting...

@stefanomoretti3664

3 жыл бұрын

so what... is VMMXXI supposed to mean ;-) ? Maybe you meant MMXVI ? (jan 13th 2016 i.e.)

This song, on so many different levels. Wow

Stephane, tu resteras le meilleur prof de jazz que j’ai jamais eu. J’espère que tu es bien là bas

TOTAL Agreement with the previous Comment. All star players, who became legends in fact. It's a Tour De Force. FUNKY SOULFUL and Cosmic. There's another BADASS version with Stanley Clark on Bass. Airto, percussionist , Chick Corea, keys, Lenny white i believe Drummer.

This is an amazing composition.

"For all the boredom the straight life brings it’s not that bad. I mean even this crummy little room ain’t so bad. I mean I actually wake up some mornings and I feel like something good is going to happen today. You know?" - Matt Dillon, from "Drugstore Cowboy", talking about being off drugs

@fjdmusicman

6 жыл бұрын

a hip film. I recognizedThe the line after the 4th word...The sad part is that I lived the same life as the film..of course not exactly the same.....

@keithduncan6139

3 жыл бұрын

All I have to say is if it wasn't 4 The Lighthouse on Hermosa Beach CA I wouldn't have had a chance to hear some of the true heavyweight's in the industry..Thanks to them older cat's that who exposed me to it.. R I P

The pinnacle of music 🎵

One of my my all time favorite jams. I know that "straight ahead" jazz has no electronics. But this is straight ahead if I've ever heard straight ahead jazz.

@stefanomoretti3664

3 жыл бұрын

there's strictly no electronics here... just a rhodes piano that is metal bars hit by hammers.

Two words : HOLY SHIT

I was just listening to drum legend Bill Stewart tell Pablo Held on his KZread channel that this record was the first time Bill had ever heard Jack DeJohnette. Bill was nine at the time, and his dad had brought home the record. Bill says that Jack is his third favorite drummer, after Elvin and Tony.

Incredible group, but on the the first track I cannot stop from being stun at Jack De Johnette's powerful and elaborate drumming

@rhubarb1073

Жыл бұрын

Same, great playing by everybody but this tracks all about dejohnette and Carter to me

I love George Benson's playing on this track the most of all the soloists.

@romeredubost6971

Жыл бұрын

benson has a way of doing that when he is featured on others sessions...his solos stick like hot oatmeal on a cold day.

The music is very excellent music. I love instruments. I'm a 90's baby,but the music my generation is garbage now.love the old school flavor.one love my fellow music fans.

@swzzlestik5426

5 жыл бұрын

Im a 50's baby with no prejudices... youngin', you arent looking deep enough. Vijay Iyer. Esperanza Spaulding. Craig Taborn. Ravi Coltrane. Mary Halvorsen Tyshawn Sorley. John Zorn. & a zillion more all making great instrumental music today,

Love this music, thanks! Have a lot if the Hubtones.. CTI especially.

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!

damn,so clean!

Sometime I just skip ahead to Herbie's clanging solo cause that's the glue here.

high, high stuff this is. solid.

0:30-0:36 The work week. 0:37-17:30-CELEBRATION!!!!

L'émission Jazz'Mots sur Radio Campus Lille FM 106.6 fait un spécial Freddie Hubbard ce 27 février 2015... Émission téléchargeable sur le site de la radio...

@charlesh3823

8 жыл бұрын

Cool

THANK YOU

@willieisrael2125

8 жыл бұрын

listen

Sampled wonderfully in Delinquent Habits' "House Of The Rising Drum"

@littlesoldier1985

3 жыл бұрын

That song is something else.

the dimensions beyond , the Tao of Wow now

Personally, I say CTI records were the high point of Jazz-funk-rock, the musicians were all young lions ready to tear it up and they do just that.

#dope just ordered this jawn💯

Mike Metheny (Pat's bro) recorded this in '88.

yeah !

Yes, straight life, no brainless allowed.

George Benson on Guitar before he started singing.

@essietessiet729

7 жыл бұрын

Charles h well he started singing before that. He was always a singer on records before this one.

@Wally-H

Жыл бұрын

He sung in the 60's - for example, listen to his rendition of 'Summertime.'

George Benson Gave A Guitar To Prince In About 1996

Freddie Hubbard et ses nappes de son....

@francescom49numfunk82

5 жыл бұрын

ça veut dire quoi?

#OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #Audioded

Oftentimes, perception is the inflection of one's voice or in the tenor of the words that you know they wrote. When it comes to music, there is one of words who said it is a good feeling when someone does something for kindness alone and not to get something from you. He wrote something like this: Information is not knowledge, knowedge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth. Truth is not eaty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is the best, Frank Zappa on Easter in 1975 and when I wrote it it was Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014, on the back of a thesis/dissertation start that is sitting somehwere among a Mormon Bishop stacks to be shredded. Music is not that way, we can enjoy it a divine virtue of life. MM. #607. F&AM.*All have reasons to hone their memories of words and presentations properly done in peace for sake of a widow's son. Yes, music is best among us all.kmc.

which style is this? bebob ? Im bot very into jazz but I have to learn this songs xD

@DorianPaige00

8 жыл бұрын

It's the later more avant garde hard bop mixed with fusion.

@grantkoeller8911

7 жыл бұрын

this is rock ,with straight 8th notes

@chipstern

6 жыл бұрын

Cough. This is jazz. Nothing straight about these 8th notes. Funk and blues are very much part of the jazz tributary. Show me a rock guitar solo like what George Benson puts down here. Go on, I'm all ears.

@patricksmith9417

5 жыл бұрын

FREE BOP !!!

@stefanomoretti3664

3 жыл бұрын

@@chipstern not to mention ALL other solos...Jack de Johnette's straight eights ;-) ... Fredddies' cascades of notes, Joe henderson...

#question better than milez, & if so, which body of work❓

@Wally-H

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, a little more rhythmic than the stuff on Bitches Brew

at last, can shut up and listen

G 0:36. 0:45. 0:54 G

Drummer pulls his solo 15 minutes in - must have been a fit guy LOL.