Hm, do you find guitar much worse than keyboards or vibes?
― Sundar, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, how did I never know about Johnny Smith before?
― rammer jammer jan hammer (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
O_o Joe Pass 0
― Histrionic-Dependent (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I happen to find Joe Pass a little boring, fwiw.
― rammer jammer jan hammer (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
although I like the duets with Herb Ellis
Johnny Smith, the guy who wrote "Walk Don't Run"? You don't hear about him much these days. However I will re-extend my offer to you, Hurting, to come out and see some jazz guitar. Jack Wilkins is playing tonight at a place called Rue 57 where you will be able to see how well he blends in with Harvie S, Billy Drummond and Harry Allen and maybe talk to him about Johnny Smith or Ted Dunbar.
― suspect centauri device (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
You missed a good show. And the guy who books the place is way into Johnny Smith.
― suspect centauri device (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 September 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry man so this too late.
― adamirl (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 September 2010 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
saw
If you go to that place tonight, our friend Junior will be there along with his dad.
― suspect centauri device (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 September 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Putting link to Russell Malone interview here as well: http://www.justjazzguitar.com/articles/art-01-malone.php3
― redd cool card-pitt (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't know why I bother, but here's another invitation for you, Hurting. Come out one Monday to my neck of the woods and see my neighbor do his thing. He always has good players with him and the next two weeks he has an especially good bass player: http://www.jimhershman.com/gigs.html
― roast rage against the hoosteen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 October 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Not to be a dick but I don't really think I'm going to come out to Queens to see jazz guitar, which I don't like, when I'm working the next morning.
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Monday, 11 October 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean the guy is good but it's very jazz-guitary jazz guitar.
I do like some of Russell Malone's work however.
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Monday, 11 October 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Russell himself himself has made the long, lonely trip out to Queens where he hung out and played at that very gig and then still had time to go back into the city to catch Ron Affif at the Zinc Bar. But then again he likes jazz guitar and probably didn't have to get up in the morning.
― roast rage against the hoosteen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 October 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to dislike most jazz guitar as well, and I still don't always like to listen to recordings of it that much, but I figured that I live in a big city where there are lots of good players playing gigs in bars and restaurants with no cover, sometimes with bass and drums or singers and often even conveniently located in Manhattan so I figured I'd go out and check some of it out. If you can see Bucky Pizzarelli for the price of a beer, why not? Especially since he might bring his son John along or some other guitar player like Howard Alden is at the bar waiting to sit in. How do you know what the guitar tone of one of these guys is really like or how it fits in with a band until you have seen them live?
― my strange quest for maynesonge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 October 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Meanwhile, recently discovered this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXx9vtVrR9A
(I did always like Ted's tone, but he played with his thumb and that makes a big difference)
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Also been checking him out on Gil Evans - Svengali
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
(great solo on Thoroughbred)
You forgot to post this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxmnpAixnDg
― my strange quest for maynesonge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
High school guitar-class-mate of mine playing free at BAM:http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=2747&ref=nf
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
(Psst. If there is anybody reading this thread interested in actually seeing a real live Jazz GUITARist, instead of wondering why they all are so bad and hated, Gene Bertoncini will be playing tomorrow as part of the Jazz Brunch at the North Square off Washington Square Park, where they always seem to have good guitarists, and at Smalls on Monday.
You could also go this or any Sunday evening to Walker's to see Peter Leitch play as part of a duet, usually with a top of the line bass player.
Or you could wait until Tuesday and go to Jack Wilkins's regular gig that I mentioned upthread or you could stay home and... ah, never mind)
― Chinese Lox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 November 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i was a big jazz guitar nerd in high school and i still will defend pat metheny's playing. ignoring everything that is PMG, i put on some of his albums i love recently (80/81, the holland/haynes trio, even the 2o00-era Trio stuff like the Trio Live album) and every single phrase came right back to me. so distincive
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Really curious about this new record with the robo-orchestra. Sounded cool from what I heard in the EPK video.
I generally like some of his playing but he tends toward a sort of 'irrational exuberance' or something.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
how could you not love this man??
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/279167/Pat+Metheny+Russian+River+Jazz+Festival+20.jpg
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I enjoy Orchestrion. The title track is the most ambitious musically but it's all good if you like Metheny's style. My gf thinks much of it sounds like lounge music fwiw. I think the compositional craft and attention to orchestration distinguish it though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw a picture of your guitar teacher in the Jimmy Heath autobio which I think I'm going to need to read. Although I probably will read Scott LaFaro bio first.
― Overend Wattstax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 February 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice. I've been increasingly loving his playing on Ego lately.
I may have told you this before, but if you want to hear a really concise and incredibly tasty Ted solo, check out Fat Mouth on Lou Donaldson - Pretty Things.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 4 February 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Hurting, our pal Junior has been playing this week at the Jazz Standard with his dad and an awesome band featuring Peter Bernstein and Larry Goldings. I went to the late show yesterday and tonight is the last night so, um,...
― Overend Wattstax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Gah, this would have been a great week to go except tonight is terrible because my wife is about to fly out of the country tonight and I'm taking her to the airport.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Too bad you missed it.
Looking through the Jimmy Heath book and I see that he briefly mentions Ted D as somebody he knew from Jazzmobile. He also appears in "Appendix A: Unique Names," which is an incredibly long list of nicknames assigned by the Heath Brothers to other musicians, as "Texas Ted."
Barry Galbraith
― Overend Wattstax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I forgot that two people actually voted for Freddie Green. That's a great challops but in a way sort of right opinion to have.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Monday, 7 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, there's challops and then there's challops. I like reading the various articles on Freddie Green's comping style where they debate how many notes he actually played in a chord.
― Overend Wattstax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.freddiegreen.org/technique/mp_quotes.html
― Overend Wattstax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Have any new Ted Dunbar recordings been unearthed lately?
― Cowsill Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
A lot in his discography I'd like to track down:
http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Dunbar/td-disc.htm
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Our friend Junior might have his mom's copy of that first LP, but I don't know what good that is going to do you.
― Cowsill Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Yesterday was the birthday of the first man ever to record on electric guitar, who received zero votes in this poll.
― All Hopped Up and Ready To POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Hm, still can't figure out who you're referring to... Maybe I will in the morning.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
George Barnes, apparentlyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barnes_%28musician%29#First_Recording_of_Electric_Guitar
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, thanks!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
(How are you, Hurting 2?)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, I'm good sund4r! Thanks for the comment on my beat.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I'm going to listen to George Barnes for the rest of the evening.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope everybody who voted on this thread will vote in the upcoming "best jazz tracks of all time" poll.
― Agent Double O POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 September 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
just got thishttp://images.bizrate.com/resize?sq=450&uid=1203054some of the usual suspects, but a bunch of bop-era guitarists I've never really heard. cheap!
― tylerw, Monday, 12 September 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Charlie Christian 2
the fuck
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
Think I got an email that one of Ted's star students has a gig tomorrow night.
― Croupier (Superstar) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
Which one?
― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Saturday, 28 January 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link