StLJN Saturday at the Movies: Fly performs "Emergence/Resurgence" and "Todas Las Cosas Se Van"

This week, we provide a video preview of the band Fly, who will be performing at Jazz at the Bistro starting next Wednesday, January 17 through Saturday, January 20. Fly is a cooperative trio made up of Mark Turner on saxophone, Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums. Though they've worked together for several years, Fly has released just one CD, with a second recording scheduled for later this year. However, all three members have busy careers apart from the group - Turner has recorded a number of CDs as a leader, and Grenadier and Ballard work with many top players, also serving these days as the rhythm section of choice for pianist Brad Mehldau.

Fly's Web site is just a placeholder at this point, but if you want to know more, in addition to perusing the links above you might want to check out this feature story/interview with them published last week by Bloomberg News.

As for the videos, they're both from a gig in November, 2006 at the Jazz House in Copenhagen, Denmark. The camera work is as rudimentary as it gets - a stationary three-shot of the band members - but at least you can see them all, and the audio quality is quite decent. The first clip shows Fly performing "Emergence/Resurgence," which was written by Grenadier. The song in the second clip is "Todas Las Cosas Se Van," composed by Reid Anderson, bass player of The Bad Plus (who were just in St. Louis at the Bistro last week ). Both tunes were originally recorded by Fly on their eponymous 2004 debut.