Jazz GUITAR poll

Did you guys know that Lenny Breau's first jazz session (1961) was with Levon Helm and Rick Danko as rhythm section? Also, it fucking smokes. They're not an amazing jazz rhythm section but they get out of the way, which is the best thing they could do for his liszt-esque runs.

Crazy!

It's on spotify ("the hallmark sessions"). Couldn't find any youtube links.

Thanks, will be checking out shortly.

Just asked one of TD's well-known students if he played the list everyday. He laughed and said "Everyday? I'm still trying to get through it!"

Seriously, I think I went crazy trying to play Parisian Thoroughfare on the guitar. Of course I had only heard the lightning-fast Bud Powell version and it had never occurred to me to play it half time like here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q-ePYiCJYM

that is a great quote btw ken

oh and I forgot to mention that the super-fast bud powell version is the one he gave us on the tape he gave us with all the tunes. Small fuck you for that one Ted, RIP all the same.

Just trying to do my job as Jazz Investigator, Josh.

Guy also said he can still hear Ted's voice

Question: which two beloved, much missed Jazz Guitarists/Teachers were born in Port Arthur, Texas? Hint: one played on many film soundtracks including those of The Wild Bunch and Ocean's Eleven, both of which he was an extra in.

wow, two? I have no idea who the other one is.

Jimmy Wyble

ha, well according to wikipedia, there's also Zachary Breaux. So that makes three.

Next question: What Jazz Guitarist had a successful career at his advertising day job before he retired to play music full-time and has just written a bestselling cookbook?

no idea!
but i was listening to this album last night.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61P1EXCNS7L._SL500_AA300_.gif
very nice, but a missed opportunity w/ the cover image -- should've had kessel standing at the stove flipping a pancake or something.

If I could imagine one jazz guitarist being successful in advertising and writing a cookbook, it'd be George Benson, but I'm guessing that's wrong.

He's not a famous guitarist.

I only learned of him because he his a family friend of a guy I know but he is well-known in certain circles.

Buckethead

Ding ding ding!

j/k

Bucketheads Bucket-o-food Cookbook

BH Ideas.

If I could imagine one jazz guitarist being successful in advertising and writing a cookbook, it'd be George Benson, but I'm guessing that's wrong.

― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Friday, June 8, 2012 2:22 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol because he had a record called cookbook?

There's some jazz guitar in Sunnyside this Wednesday, if you want to kill two birds with one stone and check out your new neighborhood.

cool where at

The Claret Wine Bar.

John Stowell will be the special guest this week, he is in town from Portland.

Also, the other guitar player, Tosh, whose gig it is, has two little kids so you can ask him about facilities for children in the area.

http://irom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/jimmy-wyble-young-man.jpg

Another victim of Frankenstorm Sandy: Jazz Guitar. Jack Wilkins' regular Tuesday night gig has been put on hold the past two weeks. Fingers crossed it will return soon.

0 votes for Abercrombie? :-<

Charlie Christian 2

the fuck

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, January 27, 2012 9:09 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seconded.

Hurting, you neglected to conduct the requisite pre-poll poll to see how many people would actually vote and adjust the number of nominees accordingly.

jim hall 2!

The Genius of Lenny Breau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLD-BVVYDV4

Just watched the whole thing. Man.

***SPOILER ALERT***
You will see Chet Atkins cry and there is some chance you might do so as well.

It can be a little hard to watch without feeling depressed about my own chops.

Yet another reason to cry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6MN9uYWG5I

OK, I just read One Long Tune: The Life and Music of Lenny Breau and it knocked me flat. Will report at length later.

The whole story unfolds like some kind of Michael Chabon/Cameron Crowe confection about The World's Greatest Guitarist, piling incident upon incident of, just when you thought there were no more left, another Guitar Player's Guitar Player or Guitar Player's Guitar Teacher stepping forward to say "I thought I knew something about the instrument but then Lenny came to town and stayed over to my house where we jammed all night and he showed me had mastered my style and in fact greatly improved upon it. Whenever he came through again he would stop over and show me some new stuff he was working on while I kept the tape rolling but I in the end couldn't really play it because my technique wasn't good enough." All this leading up to the dark Sunset Boulevard/Jim Thompson denouement. I exaggerate but not much.

Hey Ken I like the way this guy plays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxk1dycOz5w

never seen him live but found him via searching other DC players I know

Don't know from him, sorry. Only Washington guitar player I know is a Brazilian guy who moved up here full-time last year.

This looks to be interesting: Kenny Wessel interviewed by Lewis Porter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Whg6Js62Xs

Hurting, just checked out the website of something called QJOG -the Queens Jazz OverGround, which is supposed to promote live jazz in Queens, and they had a woman listed there that I never heard of who studied with Ted and some other famous guitar players.

There are actually two people on that list who studied with Ted, and one was my year

Small world. Which I type whilst wondering if there is an emoticon for a certain kind of finding something a little surprising when really it is just a statistical likelihood that was bound to turn up sooner or later.

Lage Lund live streaming on Smalls website right now, later Nir Felder.

"You and the Night and the Music." Pretty nice.