Incredible Jazz Guitar

[Ducatista47]

The good news: New York Stories Vol 1 is a terrific CD. As well as Gatton, there is Joshua Redman on tenor and Roy Hargrove on trumpet (and four other great musicians). "One For Lenny" is as good as any guitar performance I have ever heard, no kidding. It is so full yet fluid that the YouTube rendition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR0grs9joy0 reveals only perhaps half the notes I can hear through my Stax headphones. This man was obviously one of the best guitar players that ever lived. And he wasn't even a Jazz specialist. I can say that he had the speed, articulation and Jazz sense of Joe Pass, plus the all chops of a Pat Metheny and a first rate classical guitarist. And the ability to combine everything in the Jazz idiom.

The bad new? Firstly, Danny is dead, having killed himself. The word is that depression over poor record sales was a major cause. Secondly, good luck finding a high quality CD. Amazon burns it to recordable CD on demand. It seems to be out of print. It is a 1992 Blue Note release. Thirdly, as mentioned above, there is so much going on that a first class stereo is required to bring it all out.

Highly, highly recommended. Not many weak tracks on the record. My downloaded copy has ten songs for some reason. Nine are listed everywhere. This is not the soundtrack of the anthology movie, by the way.

Clark

[SpeakerLabFan]

HOWARD ROBERTS !

http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/mikevans/hroberts.html

spun this one a couple of nights ago, very tasty jazz guitar.

The Howard Roberts Quartet - H.R. Is A Dirty Guitar Player
(1963, Capitol)



I really like John Scofield & Pat Metheny - I Can See Your House From Here. A couple of clips of them playing together. The second clip, Everybody's Party, is especially entertaining when they trade off solos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEMX6...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_pf_...eature=related

Going to see Pat's new Orchestrion project in April when he stops in Seattle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VymA...layer_embedded

[cosmos]

I am flabbergasted. 3 pages of jazz guitarists and not a mention of Larry Carlton, Mr. 335? Google him and listen. Honored with a lifetime achievement award by Guitar Player Magazine. He is part of the jazz group Fourplay and was a guitarist on many of the Steely Dan albums and responsible for the guitar work in Kid Charlemagne. Take a look at this article in Guitar Player September 2009 issue...

Also, it appears to be missing Ken Navarro?

If you don't know the two above artists, you should...

[Krunchy]

Well, I think Larry goes without saying Thats like listing the Ox in the Great Bass Players thread
Now Kenny Navarro, him I was not aware of, thank you

Thanks for the suggestions Clark & SLF

[cosmos]

Stanley Jordan would also be on my list..

[herki the cat]

ZREMEN
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Hello: toobwacky & ZREMAN__ Speaking of Radio Broadcasting, I acquired a First-Class Radio Telephone FCC Ticket in 1941__my junior year in high school__which led to a very nice transmitter engineering job combined with studio announcer duties at Radio KWEW in Hobbs, New Mexico.

We did not broadcast on Sundays. With the WW11 shortages, I became the only remaining engineer attending the Transmitter full time 7:00AM to 10:00PM. I Had tutors so I could finish my high school senior year.

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December. I remember the station manager had to retrieve me from a movie theater that Sunday afternoon to put the station on the air to break the tragic news.

At KWEW, we had a marvelous 16 inch, 33 rpm, high fidelity transcription music service library__with sound quality that rivals any current LP stereo recording. Alveno Rey had a number of these stunning 16 inch, 33rpm disc's featuring the "King Sisters" including a fabulous arrangement of "Tiger Rag" with the King Sisters voicing "Hold That Tiger!...Here Kitty!...Kitty! Kitty! Kitty!"...backed by the strains of Alveno Rey's Lap Steel Guitar__simply awesome! not to mention Alveno Rey's arrangement of "Rose Room!"

There's a nice article on Alveno Rey in the current on line version of Smithsonian magazine:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Alvino-Reys-Musical-Legacy.html#

Alveno Rey created the electric pickups. Rey's electric music technology was developed in part with innovator Leo Fender's amplifiers and as a consultant to the Gibson Guitar company__for both of whom, Rey tested many guitars. Rey was a brilliant engineer who in large part set the stage for swing music and modern rock.

Courtesy of Linn A Wheelright-Alveno Rey archive.

cheers: herki the cat

[herki the cat]

There is a very fine article on Alveno Rey in the current on line version of Smithsonian magazine:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Alvino-Reys-Musical-Legacy.html#

Alveno Rey created the electric pickups. Rey's electric music technology was developed in part with innovator Leo Fender's amplifiers and as a consultant to the Gibson Guitar company, for both of whom, Rey tested many guitars.

Rey was a brilliant engineer who in large part set the stage for modern rock following the Swing Music Era__ for example, Rey's arrangement of "Rose Room" & the King Sisters voicing "Tiger Rag" aka: "Hold that Tiger!...Here Kitty!...Kitty! Kitty! Kitty!"

Courtesy of Linn A Wheelright-Alveno Rey archive.cheers: herki the cat

[Ducatista47]

...Emily Remler. Neither had I. As good as anyone, she emulated Wes Montgomery early on, then developed her own style(s). She might have become as great as Joe Pass, but she didn't get the chance. In 1990 she perished at 32 of a heart attack probably brought on by a heroin overdose. Shit.

Lots on YouTube, right down to a local Public TV appearance. Played with Barbara Dennerlein, Astrud Gilberto, Larry Coryell and others. She was invited to gig with some of the true greats, including a dressing room session with Joe Pass (unrecorded dammit). I am ordering some of her CDs. Search and ye shall find.

Interestingly, she was good enough to be tapped by Arlen Roth (I think) for some Jazz & Latin instructional videos. They are still available on DVD. http://www.amazon.com/Emily-Remler-B.../dp/B0014BJ12W

Clark

[JeffW]

I picked up a nice album McLaughlin/Di Meola/De Luca "Passion Grace & Fire". Maybe more classical than jazz, but great picking.

[Ducatista47]

I posted this on the Video thread but it certainly belongs here too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jojCh...eature=related

This rendition is really sweet, outstanding in fact. While Barbara Dennierlein in ostensibly the leader, this is Emily Remler's number. Sonny Fortune does a great job on flute, Barbara is uncharacteristically using a bass player (she almost always played the bass with her left foot on the B3 pedalboard), everyone is right there...but it is Emily that makes this so great. She is playing a borrowed Gibson ES-125 thinline with a P-90 single coil pickup (my favorite), and it appears to be a 3/4 scale model. I guess she could have played a broomstick with a string if she had to. I just discovered her, but I am already coming to realize how good she was. A shame only musicians seem to remember her.

PS A further note to guitarists. I have an ES-125 full body, and I can tell you that the tiny thin guitar she is playing has almost no bass in the body. I am sure now it is a 3/4 because the pickup looks huge. It all goes to show that it is in the fingers, not the instrument. It seems she was the opposite of the carpenter who blames his tools. What a terrific player, working live through all the problems she was having with the smaller fretboard on the single note work. A another giveaway is her looking so much at the fretboard. She almost always played with her eyes closed.

[Bern1]

incredible jazz guitar?

there are so many but the name Pat Martino comes to mind....an album anmed Cream....

[Krunchy]

Nice stuff guys!
Was not aware of either of these artists, beautiful guitar.
Thank you so much

[JeffW]

incredible jazz guitar?

there are so many but the name Pat Martino comes to mind....an album anmed Cream....

He's great, but even more so when you consider that he had to completely re-learn the guitar after a traumatic brain injury (I can't remember if it was a stroke or tumor or what) wiped his playing out at the peak of his career. An amazing comeback.

[Ducatista47]

He's great, but even more so when you consider that he had to completely re-learn the guitar after a traumatic brain injury (I can't remember if it was a stroke or tumor or what) wiped his playing out at the peak of his career. An amazing comeback.

I seem to remember it was an aneurysm. The surgery, a very dangerous one, led to a full recovery (other than amnesia). I see now that according to Wikipedia he not only could not remember how to play, he had no memory of his career playing.

Only slightly less drastic, the great Leo Kottke suffered motor/nerve injury so severe he had to learn to play in a totally different manner.

[yggdrasil]

Here's another one for you: Terje Rypdal - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfLT_SCFaHg