Yellow Dog Blues Soprano Summit 1995

Yellow Dog Blues – Summit Reunion 1995

Kenny Davern and Bob Wilber performed together at Dick Gibson's Colorado Jazz Party which turned out be a huge success, and one of the most important jazz groups of the 1970s, Soprano Summit, was born. Both switching between the clarinet and various saxophones, Soprano Summit enjoyed a very successful string of record dates and concerts. When the group disbanded in 1979, Davern devoted himself to solely playing clarinet, preferring trio formats with piano and drums. His collaboration with Bob Wilber was revived in 1991, the new group being called Summit Reunion.
The reunion performs here in 1995 at the Bern International Jazz Festival. Bob on soprano sax and Kenny on clarinet are being backed up by Johnny Varro piano, Marty Grosz guitar, Milt Hinton bass and Jake Hanna drums.
I have posted several other tracks of this concert before. Unfortunately in the last few minutes there are some picture problems. This doesn’t inferfere with the music, so I decided to post this clip, especially for so many listeners, including me, who rate these musicians anong their favourite.