David Murray coming to Warsaw. What should I expect?

[Konrad]

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I've never listened to the guy, but he's billed as pretty good.

K

[Bootman]

Definitely go to the concert, he is an amazing Saxophonist. You will hear good music, no matter what the style that some may label it as. go with an open mind and you will be changed once you leave the concert.

[BayviewSax]

Just saw him 4/13 in Boston with the Gwo-Ka Masters. GO!!!!!!! Murray has an ultimately unique BIG sound. His playing is characterized by INCREDIBLE range. He plays a lot of notes (kind of like Sam Rivers, Albert Ayler) but few of them are wasted. The energy of the show we saw was positively indescribable. The band had Hamid Drake on drums, Jaribu Shahid on bass, and Hugh Ragin on trumpet. ALL monsters. You won't be sorry.

[Konrad]

Cool!

I got free complimentary tickets, so...

Cool!

[BayviewSax]

Complimentary Tix!?!? You dawg! :wink:

There were roughly 28 people in the audience for the show I saw. It was grossly underpromoted.

[Dig Gonsalves]

Konrad, please tell us your impressions and how the crowd received David Murray. I'm sure it'll be a huge inspiration.

Dig.

[deblcooper]

When? :?:

I travel to Warsaw a lot, when will he be there!.....(fingers crossed so I can skip a business dinner!)

deb

[Berg-Man]

IMO David Murray is very overrated player,I've caught him live and on records since the early 80's. His Paul Gonsalves tribute concert in Boston 20 years ago was a joke. His abililites certainly don't merit him having one of the largest recorded outputs of any Jazz artist of the last couple of decades. A media darling early on when over-hyping new young saxophonists as the 2nd coming of Trane was commonplace. As a player he is not even close a Branford, Potter or Redman. When the critics would place a Chico Freeman or Murray above a Brecker in the Down Beat polls I'd just sit back and say WHAT!!!

[BayviewSax]

Bergman, got to totally disagree. I don't think Murray is the top technical player by any stretch (but neither is Brecker). Murray has consistently created some of the most meaningful music in modern Jazz. Branford is the personification of overrated. I guess it comes down to taste. Nothing personal, but every saxophonist you referenced positively falls in my category of "completely lacks soul".

[BayviewSax]

Ooops, omitted this: I was at the Paul Gonzalves concert in Boston and it was one of the most incredibly achievements of arrangement that I've ever heard. I didn't think Murray's tune compared with Ellington's, but the arrangement was pure insantity. Butch Morris made the whole thing work, conducting the band on the fly (choosing soloists as his ears told him to). 21 piece big band with 20 piece string section. Unconscious. Again, I respectfully disagree with your assessment.

[no war]

I don't know David Murray's rating (I don't pay attention to polls), but I love his sound. I agree with Bayview Sax- Murray has heart and soul.

Reminds me more of George Adams than Trane.

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[noelpaz]

Murray - overrated - you can't find the guy at Hastings that often. He is the bomb and I am glad he is alive and playing. Yeah Brecker and Redman and Branford -t ehy are overrated although I really like Branford, don't care too much for Redman even though he was good and not all all impressed with Brecker.

Murray definitely ----- I saw him many times and alway impressed by his sound. And he is technical as well - with a lot of Soul.