Ray Brown
Saturday night I saw a Ray Brown tribute band that had Christian McBride, Benny Green, and Greg Hutchinson. The music was swinging like crazy and the mannerisms by the band had the group I was with laughing in awe a majority of the time. At one point during one of McBride’s solo’s Hutchinson (drums) asks “Where’s he at?” Insisting that he had lost his place in the form. After a signal and some delicate chords from the piano they were back on track. If i were to play at the Manchester Craftsman’s Guild and do that, I’d probably be kicked off stage, but these guys, everyone was already aware of how great they were. So in the midst of all this intense music it was a bit of comic relief.
They did the tune “Milestones,” i never like this song all that much (except when Evans does it with Scott LaFaro, you can’t really go wrong there) but after hearing there arrangement of it i can’t wait to play this song. Ray Brown is a bad mother – - .
This video is Ray Brown, Christian McBride , and John Clayton playing “Blue Monk”
