Dennis Chambers and Victor Wooten Live at The Montrose Jazz

Dennis Chambers and Victor Wooten Live at The Montrose Jazz

This is some monster stuff here, Dennis is at his best here

You know, it may seem kind of mono-dimentional compared to today's cinematics, but I actually enjoyed watching that without camera angles changing every three seconds.

Instrumental athletics can be fun for a little while.
I'm sorry, but this became quite boring very quickly.

Victor could have used more volume. I think Dennis
overwhelmed him somewhat in that regard.

I thought it was just my computer speakers. Yeah, Victor needed more volume, but considering it's probably Zoom or something it isn't a bad recording.

I love this kind of stuff, actually, though it's obviously something that would have to have some kind of structure to keep going. Victor Wooten is such a marvel at what he does. He's like a one-man band.

I like it also... But this sorta just stays where
it is and goes nowhere. I kept waiting for another
segment, something different and it never came.

I guess I'm getting old. When I was younger, all
the razzle- dazzle used to floor me. Now, it just
gets in the way of the music I enjoy when it's
done on this level.

Funny, I find that the more I understand the inner
workings of a particular thing the less impressed I
am with it.

Maybe this is why in reality only God is truly great
and nothing else.

The way I took it, was that, they were just jamming and nothing more. And what I was enjoying was the skills and speed that Dennis has. And especially when he goes around the drums with single strokes at supersonic speed. I think that they were just showcasing for a clinic.

I hear ya and feel ya, Spank.... I just got bored with it.

Hey Don how do you like Dennis as a groove drummer ?

Spanky, here's the thing I really like about Dennis.
He can play the most syncapated patterns and still make
them groove really hard. Dennis is a bad boy all the way
around. Groove, chops, it doesn't matter!

I suggest three CD's by Tom Coster that he played on:

Forbbiden Zone, From The Street and Let's set the record straight.

Incredible playing by everyone involved and Dennis was just killin it.

"Maybe this is why in reality only God is truly great and nothing else."

Amen and amen, to that. I was driving back from a long trip yesterday and was contemplating all the discussion we've had here on "greatness," and as I drove along the same thought traveled along with me; when I consider Christ and what our Creator has done for us, there really is nothing else that is great. It all truly becomes nothingness by comparison. And everything that is, every talent, is all lent of God. No one has any claims to anything. No spotlights are worthy. No name has any real greatness.

When I was an atheist I used to think all kinds of things were "great." I emulated so many people in my young years - athletes, drummers ... all "vanity," as Solomon wrote.

Of course, God has given talents and abilities and people work hard at things, and we give honor where honor is due. But yeah, your comment really struck home after thinking about that yesterday.

Yes, Asaph,

And I think that you and I understand the differences
between speaking secularly and spiritually. Whatever
"greatness" we see in ourselves or in others, the Lord
has given us all and it can be taken away that much
more quickly:

For who sees anything different in you? What do you
have that you did not receive? If then you received it,
why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

1Corinthians 4:7

Hi,

Those Tom Coster’s albums that Don mentioned are great and fine examples of Dennis Chambers’ grooves and chops. Here’s one track “Jazz Lament” from the Forbidden Zone (1994). Besides Coster and Chambers there’s the late Bob Berg on sax, Scott Henderson on guitar and Jeff Andrews on bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chc_uQmdRG8

Kind regards,
Anders