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Thursday, January 21, 2021

Elvin Jones 4tet - France 1973

I've been attending Ian Froman's weekly Contemporary Jazz Drumming listening class via Zoom, offered by The Collective, and I've really been learning a lot from these sessions. Yesterday's episode featured the great Elvin Jones and this prompted me to revisit Elvin's quartet from the early 1970s with Dave Liebman, Steve Grossman and Gene Perla. If you haven't checked out the legendary "Live at the Lighthouse" volumes, well now's the time!












Here's some rare concert footage of this band from French television circa. 1973:

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