Tuesday, April 02, 2013

DBMITW: Joey Baron on Night Music

For those of you too young to remember, there was a live music show on US television at the end of the 80's,called Night Music. Hosted by saxophonist David Sanborn, it was some of the most adventurous music ever to make it onto network TV, and truly eclectic, featuring artists as divergent as Sun Ra, Squeeze, Gladys Night, Sonic Youth, Wayne Shorter, Slim Gaillard, and John Zorn. Here are two of my favorite bands from the period playing on the show, both featuring Joey Baron. First, Bill Frisell's quartet with Kermit Driscoll and Hank Roberts:




... and then Tim Berne's Fractured Fairy Tales:




Another nice clip of Baron, with the sans-Roberts Bill Frisell trio after the break:





And what the heck, here's the Bill Frisell tune Monica Jane, from Sanborn's album from this period, Another Hand, again with Baron on drums:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

That's Hank Roberts on Cello (not Mark Dresser). Dresser plays Bass on the Tim Berne track.

Todd Bishop said...

Oops, right! Thanks for that-- revising...