Here is a video clip my wife Kerry took of the Korg All Stars playing Europa in the Korg Soundroom at Winter NAMM 2014.

The band members are Frank Gambale, Tom Coster ( on Korg Kronos ), Victor Wooten and Steve Smith. Of course Europa was composed by Tom Coster when he was playing in Santana. The Rhodes sound on the Kronos is impressive.

Can't find the one from 2009 Namm in the JazzKat booth.

It's the best live version of the tune I've ever heard. Sadly, the video quality sucks, but the rest is fabulous. Drummer is Bernard Purdee(SP?)...inventor of the Purdee shuffle, heard on so many Steely Dan songs.

R.

WOW ... thank you, Nigel ... that is SUCH a great tune ... but those chords aren't in the version I have ...

I saw Gato Barbieri in a jazz club outside of Boston a number of years ago and he played 2 notes on the sax and the crowd started applauding ... he stopped and said "No, not yet, but you have good ears..." ... they were the same 2 first notes as to Europa, but to a different tune ! ...

Super tune, super musicians, super gear ! Thanks for posting.

Yeah, masterful version that. Thanks for posting it, Nigel. Every time I hear Europa I immediately think of Gary Moore's version of Parisian Walkways, the Leonard Cohen tune.

If that's Bernard Purdie, he lost a LOT of weight and got the bleach job from Hell!

http://www.bernardpurdie.com/

I did a session job with him in NY back in the 80's. Awesome!

EDIT... I guess you are talking about another video! LOL

That's him! Sorry for the error in spelling. This is a guy I should know!

A young guitarist, Frankie Ciella(SP?)! from Jersey tore up the version I'm thinking of.

R.

BTW, were you talking about the Rhodes sound AFTER the intro, Nigel? That one at the start had Korg digital all over it!

It got better, but still not QUITE the real thing. For some of us, it's been so long since we played the real deal we are starting to get wowed by some things that aren't quite there...

I've got a set for my Kurzweil that also has the weird 'dunk' false hammer hits (sometimes the hammer sort of sticks to the tine on poorly maintained Rhodes's and makes a dull muted sound every now and again if hit really hard) and they programmed a slider to control how often it would happen, randomly! I love anal attention to detail, sometimes. The flaws in the original instrument are often what help us believe we are playing the real thing!

Google Europa Jazzkat amps to find the piece I'm talking about.


Russ

Here is Korg's video of the same lineup last year at WInter NAMM 2013