I used to be really self-hating white about jazz actually. I think it was probably because the arts high school I went to was like 90% black. So I was really self-conscious about "not playing white" until one day I came up with a theory (that I still think might be true) that a lot of white jazz players who suck actually suck precisely because they try to play "black," i.e. a really reductionist and pretty racist idea of what jazz is, instead of doing what the best black AND white jazz musicians do, which is just hone the shit out of your musicianship, focus really hard on your accents and the nuances of your phrasing, etc.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, work your ass off. that's the best way to go about anything. keep your head down and do your thing.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
anyway, Jim Hall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mGuRM8tBw&feature=related
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
i really like jim hall. but sometimes all you really need is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOm17yw__6U
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
i like what tal and barney did in the 50's. with groups. i don't listen to solo jazz guitar much at all. if i listen to a guitar album it would be wes or kenny burrell or some funky 70's shit.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 June 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
I'm trying to find you a clip of this Kenny Burrell tune called Three Thousand Miles Back Home -- sample bait from the 70s that was also a random thing I had early on. Record is called Stormy Monday Blues iirc.
Meanwhile, I don't like solo jazz guitar either, buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHE6FSeWuLQ
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
Which led me to this, wowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZDSLQsOmNY&feature=related
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 June 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt61GcUl3J0
― onlydarkness.com, Friday, 15 June 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
nice recovery
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 June 2012 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
and my pal elliot levin.
There was a time when I used to see him playing at practically every gig I went to.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 6 December 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link