Herb Ellis / Joe Pass "Seven, Come Eleven"
Available on CD, SACD and even LP.
Herb Ellis / Joe Pass "Seven, Come Eleven"
Available on CD, SACD and even LP.
I'm a BIG Scofield fan too. My favorite albums are Hand Jive (another of my all-time favorite albums)
and Uberjam
which is just incredibly innovative. Weird at times, but it's a thrill to hear an album where the artist has such an original vision and both the artistic virtuousity and technical prowess to pull it off.
Sounds a lot like my education.
Here's another vote for Jim Hall.
Here's a little track with Chet Baker,Ron Carter and Steve Gadd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLO7B...eature=related
Toobwacky, the amazing thing about John is that he always stays innovative - his music never seems to get stale, he always sounds fresh even after 3 decades, he has a great gift of combining harmonies, melodies with off centre beats and riffs.
And he's played so many styles of jazz including blues, funk, gospel influence, fusion, ECM type chamber jazz, straight ahead - amazing musician.
Plus he did the Ray Charles tribute in 2005 with singers like Dr John.
"Oscar Peterson Trio, Live at the Blue Note" With Herb Ellis, Ray Brown.
CD, Telarc.
"Johnny Frigo with Bucky and John Pizzarelli: Live from Studio A in NYC"
Hybrid SACD, Chesky
"Joe Pass Virtuoso"
Pablo, Hybrid SACD and CD, there are actually 3 or 4 separate CD releases with this title, numbered 2 3 and 4.
This guy is interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt
This guy is superb:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_Szab%C3%B3
& was an inspiration for Carlos Santana
Virtuoso is very interesting to me. Pass had been through it all. Fame, the love of his peers, much recording, and a terrible battle with heroin. At this late stage he rethought his art and switched from full body F-hole electric to acoustic. He sounds like a beginner in a way, being new to the instrument, but he was so phenomenally talented and experienced that it is a unique experience to listen to these recordings. The music is the sweetest struggle I ever heard. I picture it like seeing Cezanne "struggling" with the creation of modern art through oil painting.
"Interesting." That is funny. It is like saying the Sun is bright. Django is on every Jazz player's top five list, often #1. But I don't doubt that most Americans have never heard of him.
Here is another monster of guitar you might never have heard of. Baden Powell. All he was, according to Wiki, was " widely regarded as the greatest Brazilian guitarist of all times." If you like video, put this in your pipe and smoke it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0YooGnESSg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiv47...eature=related
He reminds me of Joe Pass here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8tyy...eature=related
Some are not feeble shadows of themselves at the end of their lives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQ1b...eature=related
Good Luck finding it, but Samba Triste from 1989 is a good one. http://loronix.blogspot.com/2007/11/...iste-1989.html
His take on "Bahia" is a revelation of subtlety, beauty and power. But everything here is top notch.
Off topic (sorry, Krunchy!), but this is a hard act to follow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBMe9...eature=related Some parts of the World have pop princesses much more talented than ours. Brazil gets her and we get Madonna and Mariah Carey. BTW, I'm in love... This next is such a cultural twister that the last minute had my brain circling the drain, but still in love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRJT...eature=related Those chirping string harmonics are like her vocals. I thought Eddie Van Halen was a master at right hand techniques, but look at her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arYSs...eature=related
Clark
Information is not Knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom
Too many audiophiles listen with their eyes instead of their ears
Clark,
I like your musical taste. I just finished watching the Baden Powell and Badi Assad videos. WOW! A big sigh here. That made my day.
Thanks again for the links.
Scott
Lee Ritenour Wesbound
I had a Lee Ritenour lp, don't remember the title, but it was the one with "You Got Me Smilin" on it. Good lp.
You should not miss Vic Jurris- one of those real MONSTERS of jazz guitar who never had the fame to go with his talent. You can find his playing on some of the great Barry Miles LP's, like " Fusion Is "
Of course, you should obviously be aware of Al DeMiola
HOWARD ROBERTS !
http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/mikevans/hroberts.html
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