Dennis Chambers is a machine here!

RIP Jim beard .

To me still warm is his best album

This is brilliant stuff, even in 2023

Classic late 80s Sco, his chorus, stereo days. Haters can hate, but I love it.

Just more ironclad proof as to why Dennis is considered the GOAT behind the kit. Masterclass through and through.

1:36 Protocol 14:26 Blue Matter 29:14 Loud Jazz 40:25 True Love 51:33 Dance Me Home

This band live is so much better than the studio versions. I have the VHS, LOL, 2 drum videos Dennis did in 92' and it had live in studio performances with this band. Pick Hits Live is an insanely good live album, same lineup. Scofield is so damn original... Love the first tune, 'Protocal' ,Dark bluesy, heavy and mysterious....Blue Matter is beautiful,funky and bluesy and heh, Jazz/Fusion! Incredibly talented 80's original Fusion. Cool grooves, Jazz chords and phat funky bass lines and amazing improvisation. Pure music expression, composing @ the moment. Each musician engaged in conversation with one another. Jazz is an amazing gift passed down by the true Giants. Many of my heroes are standing on the shoulders of these Giants of Jazz.(Steve Smith) This band was so tight and relaxed and groovin' HARD and swingin' all at once!!!!🤣😂🥺🥺 Goosebumps!!

Great!!! What an interaction beween Scofield and Jim Beard on Protocol! Makes me smile too :)

Wow...takes me back to when I bought the album in 1987...some of this performance is even more beautiful than the live record

Simply BEAUTIFUL!! Love it!!!!

gary grainger jesus. solid as a brick. especially for who he's playing with

What a f..kin feeling John have in duo with keyboard

Wunderschön !

What a band!!!

THANK you so much for posting this. I discovered Scofield shortly after high school..I think it was the Still Warm album. This band right here, though, is what really pulled me away from listening to Led Zep, Rush, etc and lead me into jazz, etc. Really changed my life and opened my ears. I still get goose bumps from it. Dennis at the real height of his powers here.

Incredible chemistry, IMO this is one of Blue Matter Band's best live gig Ive heard amazing their highness on 'Loud Jazz' and some of Jim Beard's greatest playing I've heard.

It doesn't get any better than this.

SETLIST: 1 - Protocol (Still Warm) 2 - Blue Matter (Blue Matter) 3 - Loud Jazz (Loud Jazz) 4 - True Love (Loud Jazz) 5 - Dance Me Home (Loud Jazz) John Scofield - guitar Jim Beard - keyboards Gary Grainger - bass Dennis Chambers - drums

Opening tune protocol is an all timer performance

Sco is a freakin' genius...

It's an all star band! Can't ask for more!! High-class n groovy!!!

Damn…James Beard and Dennis Chambers…l kickin’ it! I give it a 93. It’s easy to dance to. 😵‍💫

one of the best lineups Sco had they were great together not a jam but a tight band

From 11:00 till the end of the song, what a symmetry exchange between Beard and Scofield

Super ..

I was happy to get the chance to record this concert from german tv "eins plus" in vhs. It was a great pleasure for years and it is a REAL TREASURE!!. Now I am happy to get this here. John Scofield, Jim Beard, Dennis Chambers....a (very) great moment of jazz playing and interaction....

This lineup consists of ALL badasses!

E-string snaps at 18:09 and the man keeps on playing without NOBODY noticing. SICK

my first sco show was right around this time, maybe '87. it was at the great american music hall in san francisco (tons of great shows there). i remember how dennis chambers looked like he was part of the drum kit, a sort of man/machine interface. he just slaughters the skins, so badass. and gary grainger, epic. i've seen sco maybe ten times or so, and this era was a fave, but all eras are great. there's this amazing evolving tapestry that is his career, where you can see little bits of each album just preceding and just following the current one. and throughout there is always the signature sco twang. fuck yeah sco! i wrote a paper about him for a class in college, and i named my surfboard after him (it was a bill stewart--no relation--board!).

the baltimore boys!! yesss

John's best show, burning throughout...Jim Beard simply killin' overall the baddest band...

I wish I knew about this back in '88! I was in the fifth grade and listing to Metallica and Guns and Roses, a little grease ball with long hair already playing guitar and jumping bikes off of homemade ramps. No worries, but it would have been nice to have the youtube way back when. These kids today are too busy sexting with their teachers or playing online farming games to even give a damn. Respect!

Love this...I "discovered " sco back at blue matter, loud jazz, and the live album from that period. Life long fan ever since thanks for posting!!

the call and response between sco and the keyboard player in protocol is like listening to aliens communicate with each other

wooo damn what a set!

Tuve la suerte de ver esta banda en Almería, Andalucía. Salí impresionado, fue genial.

formidable performance..thanks

It doesn’t get any better than Protocol here. Insane.

I was on a lot of coke that night! It was fantastic!! Dennis was smokin' as usual!!

Ahhhh. When it was cool to enjoyyyyyy fantastic artistry. Look at this crowd. Diverse and all there for one thing. To STFU AND ENJOY AND APPLAUD. Gone are thise days.

This is the best version of Protocol so far!

Jim Beard was tthe "révélation" of John Patitucci ffirst album

Thank you so much for uploading this - it's opened up a whole new world of guitar hero to explore (the musicians are all top of their game, and Dennis is simply awesome, as always) :)

saw Sco and Dennis past night after 30 years since seeing this band.

yes one on scofields best band projects together with his trio project with billy stewart and Steve Swallow

thanks for sharing....Pick Hits Live is one of my fav live albums

This must have been one of the last gigs with this band as I saw him a year later in Birmingham UK at the Adrian Boult Hall with Joe Lovano. I remember him leaving his guitar on stage during the interval.

ON FIRE !!!

Yes Indeed :)

I saw him on this tour in NYC!!!

2 Years and 1 day after I Performed "Licorise" Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra by Bjorn Howard Kruse in the Old Much Museum In Oslo conducted by Geir Tore Larsen.

All this metrics in one track come from Steve Coleman - The crrators are Mingus & Coltrane and followers are Zorn and Pastorius

That’s the way you change a broken sting in the middle of a song! 20:15

Jazz chorus doing his thing...

dennis chambers, always his "I m cool, man" head. making genius rythm.

RIP Gary Graininger..

Classic Dennis Chambers....wow

love it!

Insane

Mind=blown

still insanely hip, tight, and outside

Maybe the furthest stretching fusion band (soloing time AND tightness) ever

its busy straight up!

Is Gary grainger the funkiest and fun bass player ever ?

Smoke!!!

Monsters ✌️

love ice cube on drums

BEST,BEST,BEST!!!

Beasts.

1st tune at 7:02 dennis is like hey dude ---this stuff is killin though-intense with intent !!!!!!!

Genial.

sco changing his own string on stage!

Nuts. Two thoughts about this. 1) maybe the 80s werent that bad 2) now I know where Wayne Krantz gets his inspiration from these days

38:49 Dennis Chambers sounds like the Flinstones running

if already in 1988

Jim Beard wears Броненосец t-shirt?))

41:43 Seems that 80's Sco was a fan of Katy Perry lol

What’s the song at 29:21?

29:15 thats what its all about.

mm is not my prefer version off blue matter...but is Jazz love it

o mio Dio...

Scofield using a over o distor here?

someone can do the tracklist?

Last pièce is a variation of "now she's blonde"

Sorry, but - Gary Grainger - bass

El pianista quizá no puede repetir una sola nota a fusas pero tampoco se le rompe ninguna cuerda

interesting that scofild doesnt had a second guitar ready. nice. or had. niiiice hahaha

😷

Now that I have finally listened and watched several of John's music video's I have formed an opinion. His playing sounds convoluted to me, all mixed up and all over the place. So, I actually don't like listening to him play. I give him that he is different and original in his style but it's just not for me. -Peter 72

legendary, wore out this tape from radio broadcast so heavily