It sounds old school, because it is! Most of the recordings are a bit crackly, but his sound is really on, bright and tight! And the lines (solos) he plays have been stolen by pretty much every jazz guitarist since.
It's a shame that most people know him only cos he played with two fingers (after a caravan fire) but this guy plays the best Gypsy swing jazz you'll ever hear.
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It's full of very fast sax lines, no guitar here, but it's essential listening for any self respecting jazzer. This is probably more like a stereotype jazz album, but an incredible one! The opening track is a really hard one to play, the changes are real tricky and these cats blow (improvise) over them like they are playing a blues. His technique is just jaw dropping, but it's real pure melody, he sings along even with the real fast stuff. He sings amazing, he plays amazing, he writes amazing. Real jazzers would poo-poo my choice with this album, and it's true that an album like "The George Benson Cookbook" is more jazzy, but this one is the one that turned me onto Benson. The recording is pretty raw, and it's an intense album, lots of notes, but still a melody based album. My personal favourite is an album called "Live At Elder Hall" but it's no longer available. He learned from a very early age and was a natural player, he plays chords, melody and bass lines at the same time without dropping a beat, and it's all improvised. One guy, one guitar and oceans of talent. A wonderful album, probably my personal favourite jazz album. Not full of technical stuff, beautiful melodies, wonderful interplay between the musicians. This is a slightly more outside album than Kinda Blue, but relaxing for the most part and some beautiful playing on it. There are some ballads, some up tempo stuff, but it's all melodic stuff. He was certainly one of the most influential guitarists in jazz, and this record is killer. I don't think there was ever a better jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Guitar Of Wes Montgomery This album was improvised, there is a book about the making of it, couple of takes of each tune and that was it. It's the biggest selling jazz album of all time. This one is essential listening if you wanna play jazz. So listed here are a bunch of jazz albums I really think are worth listening to, and why. Seems very obvious now, but at the time it was a revelation, which is why I'm sharing this with you.
How can you play jazz if you don't know what it's supposed to sound like? He told me to go buy some records and listen to them. The guy laughed until there were tears in his eyes. Actually, I didn't really have any jazz albums. He asked what my favourite George Benson album was, and I didn't have any of that either. The teacher asked me what my favourite Bird (Charlie Parker) album was. At the time I had been playing in rock and blues bands for many years, I knew all my scales and arpeggios and stuff, but it just never sounded like jazz.
When I was in my teens I drove a few hours to go and have a lesson with a guy who knew a lot about jazz, a sax player, and when I got there he asked about what I wanted to learn. but they got it all wrong :)Īnd also if you do want to study jazz then one of the most essential things you should do is LISTEN to it. The last few weeks I have noticed a lot of people that are not keen on jazz, or have some kind of strange stereotype feelings about it - they think of tuba and old men playing too many notes.
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