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Post by feilong80 on Nov 10, 2012 0:01:25 GMT -5
In order to make you uncultured slobs more educated in America's one true musical contribution to the world,* I'm going to manage this thread with various jazz performances from YouTube.
My house rules:
I will only post stuff that I think is ACCESSIBLE to people who hate/don't know jazz. Nothing weird here.
Since I myself am a guitarist, there will be a lot of, well, guitarists.
*well, other than blues and rock n' roll, but whatever.
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 10, 2012 0:03:18 GMT -5
To start, here's a favorite Joe Pass cut, "The Song is You." Notable for its absurdly ridiculous tempo and super clean, fast playing (Joe Pass was a monster, monster player in terms of speed and clarity- legend has it his dad was a slave driver who forced him to practice many many hours per day as a lad).
Also of note is the utterly weird choice of guitar here: a Fender Jaguar- which while Fender did make these with jazzers in mind, jazz guitar players *detested* them.
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 10, 2012 0:08:21 GMT -5
Another personal favorite from youtube, the great Wes Montgomery playing with some dudes from Holland:
What I love about this (other than the fantastic Horace Silver composition, and Wes' other worldly guitar tone) is how you hear Wes explaining the tune to the musicians: in Jazz, everyone is expected to know the same rough collection of tunes, stuff isn't necessarily worked out before hand.
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Post by ECM on Nov 10, 2012 2:12:39 GMT -5
Well, I had woken up due to some insomnia, but problem solved! Thanks Roho!
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 10, 2012 14:48:12 GMT -5
Ok, here's something to wake you up: a little Mahavishnu Orchestra- Jazz Rock fusion stuff that's insanely loud and fast (and, bt the way, this genre is HUGELY influential to this day in Japanese game soundtracks: those guys are heavily influenced by Jazz Fusion and prog rock)
Also: McLaughlin's double neck Gibson SG IS THE COOLEST GUITAR EVER.
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 12, 2012 23:33:47 GMT -5
Barney Kessel was one of those guys I didn't like much when I started jazz guitar. Over the years he has become one of my favorites, mainly because he really maximizes the instrument's potential: thick, chordal playing, doesn't really need a piano or other instrument besides bass and drums:
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 13, 2012 0:18:32 GMT -5
Famous short film "Jammin' the Blues."
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 13, 2012 11:13:03 GMT -5
One of my favorite old standards, All the Things You Are, rendered wonderfully here:
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 13, 2012 11:18:04 GMT -5
Again, for something a little more rock oriented, here's Al DiMeola doing some interesting Spanish fusioney thing:
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 15, 2012 1:00:18 GMT -5
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 15, 2012 1:20:39 GMT -5
Totally awesome Herb Ellis in his prime with the Oscar Petersen trio- check him out emulating drums! Badass!
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Post by somebody336 on Nov 15, 2012 2:48:28 GMT -5
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 15, 2012 10:46:52 GMT -5
Thanks for the contribution! Here's the same link, embedded fancy:
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Post by feilong80 on Nov 15, 2012 13:54:47 GMT -5
What you are listening here is the VERY FIRST GUITARIST TO POPULARIZE THE ELECTRIC GUITAR.* Up until this point, guitar was a rhythm section instrument for the most part, used to help keep time, and even second "fiddle" to the banjo (hard as it is now to imagine, but before amplification and microphones the banjo was preferred as it was louder).
*Remember, Les Paul didn't popularize the electric guitar (though his singles in the late 40s and 50s certainly had a huge impact). He popularized and even *invented* (among many things) the SOLIDBODY electric guitar.
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