Thank you for covering Herb Pedersen and “Lonesome Feeling”. He is a favorite of mine since he and you appear so much in my record collection. And Linda Ronstadt ❤. We saw Tom Paxton a few months back. Last tour. 86 years old. Still can sing and play. Santa brought me a book for Christmas. Signed by the esteemed author, bearded bass player and all around great guy, Leland Sklar. And yes we do love you.
So nice to find out one of your musical heroes it’s also just a humble dude who could be your brother… love having the opportunity to be part of the family
I must add that the Rose Parade did not disappoint and the preview you gave us yesterday really helped when we saw them again today. Sorry for the loss of your friend. Rose Bowl game was horrible but what can you do. It is a New Year, let's all hold on and see where we end up.
Happy New Year Leland. Herb has such a wonderful voice. I love the Sugar Hill album you featured and the two he did for Epic. His two albums with the Dillards are great too. He is all over my record collection (as you are, of course).🙂 Best Wishes for 2025 from Scotland.
Thanks for sharing Leland! Herb is a great guy and one of my favorite banjo players, singers AND writers! He has written several songs that are central to the bluegrass Pantheon. "Wait a Minute" and "Old Train" being at the top of the list. Herb is an excellent harmony singer and has probably sung on as many if not more records than he has played on. Bluegrass, being a small community, everyone knows everyone. Herb is no exception; very personable and friendly. Go Herb! Thanks Leland! John from Tennessee
Richie Saputo was a light in the rock and roll concert world. He always wore a big grin. A classic people person, easy to hang out with. Rich spent months in the hospital, and geez, I'm lots older than he was! It kept seeming that he had turned the corner and was on his way back to health, and then he'd be back in ICU. His partner Renee was so dedicated to getting him better, even finding ways for his dog Mr Guilty to visit him. Between that news and New Orleans, it was a rough day - even before I encountered more plumbing problems. Being in a cast makes it tough to take care of things, but after yesterday's grim news, I'm reminded that it's not a big deal. RIP Rich Saputo ... thank you for recognizing his passing, Leland.
Had the pleasure of seeing Herb, Chris Hillman, Bernie Leadon, Blue Rodeo and several others perform in Ottawa, Canada for a Gram Parsons tribute show in the early 2000s, one of the first of many such memorials to Gram. Magic. Happy New Year, Lee!
Happy New Year Lee ! & Family it has gone by so fast ! The boys as well , love to see them living life and enjoying each other. Been a fan of Linda for decades.
Hello lee. Happy new year and let it be a year with lots of positive things and much laughter for everyone. I truly hope when the hospital results come in from your spouse Maureen the treatment is not so severe 🙏🏻 she has been through enough already. Greetings sir.
Those fireworks you heard were most likely from one of the last floats in the parade. I watched the parade on TH-cam so it's neat to associate your video with the timing of the parade. Neat!
Thoughts and prayers for everyone affected by the terrible New Orleans incident and now also Las Vegas. So sad that the world can’t seem to give peace a chance. Great music Lee and thank you for shining your light through the mayhem of idiocy.🙏🙏
Thanks for being you Leland! Your perspective is consistently solid and always rests on a solid substrate of support for your fellow humans and the health of the world in all respects! For all the pain and suffering we witness and endure it's reassuring to know there are many good and thoughtful people who still make the wheels turn! All the best to you and to the greater community at large! Wishing all a good and, (hopefully), a better year than what we're faced with on the front end would appear to offer us going forward! Keep love and hope alive!
A new year means new hope, new light, new thoughts and new ways to reach the goal. I wish you and your family a good start to the new year. The best way to predict the future is to shape it yourself. Leland and a Happy New Year. Rudi Blankenburg Tangermünde / Germany 👍🙏☮
Such sad news about Rich Saputo and also the terrorist attack in New Orleans. Awful way to start off the new year. My condolences to families and friends of everyone affected 🙏
…all the activities going on outside - and here we are combing back the years with this incredible music. I’d rather be inside with you tuning out honestly. Herbs’ singing style reminds me of Gordon Lightfoot. Love the pedal steel here too!
Btw, “Down in the Willow Garden” Aka “Rose Connolly” was credited to Charlie Monroe when the Everly Brothers recorded it, is one of those songs of unknown origin, likely from Ireland.
The Last Thing on My Mind was made famous when Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton first covered it. It was one of Porter's big hits with Dolly singing with him.
As much as we would not want to believe this , there is real evil in this world. Hopefully there more than enough good to overcome. But it is an awful way to begin a new year. 😕. Please let there be more peace and love ❤️ in our world 🌎.
Great kickoff to 2025! Herb and so many luminaries, including Hal! I'll bet you had big smiles. "I hope they're fireworks." A statement that sadly only fits in America. Love and Thanks ❤👍❤👍
Good evening, Lee, from Cape Cod. ⛵️⚓️🌊 🥰 I'm so sorry to hear about your dear friend, Rich's passing. ❤😔🙏🕊 Just awful what happened in New Orleans this morning. When will this senseless madness end? Seems as though it's the same press conferences again and again, and yet nothing changes and no actions being put into place to prevent these atrocities from happening over and over again. I don't get it. I guess the original barriers they were going to use to block off Bourbon Street malfunctioned, so the police used their cars to block the street off, but not the sidewalk; and so the psycho decided to take the truck he rented and ran into innocent people around 3:15 am. Truly heartbroken for those who lost their lives. 😔🙏❤️ Ahahahaha, get that damn downbeat is right! 😂🎵🎶👍😅🎸😂 Love these tunes by Herb Pederson. Thanks, Lee! 🎸🎶😊 Yes, great intonation indeed! I love you ao darn much, Lee! Sending you big New Year hugs! My wish is to see you again sometime this year. Love to Maureen and the BASSet hounds. ❤🥰🐶🎸🎶🤗 Gosh, I miss you!
I've seen HP a few times on Jorma Kaukonen's utube Fur Peace Ranch videos. He's a favorite. So is Jorma. So are you Leland. Thanks so much for your music
@Mark_Brooks hi Mark, always think I'm the only one up late at night. I always enjoy hearing from you. We've been hanging out here for sometime. It's a good hang, as they say
He drove around a parked police car across the road...he went up on to the side walk. You would have not thought a truck would make it through there but he did.
It reminded me of the night a guy drove a semi truck into the California Capitol Building while we were in session. At first I thought it was a construction accident from across the street, but I was hearing rapid explosions and thought it must be assault weapon fire. It turned out to be cans of evaporated condensed milk exploding when the truck caught fire. That was the truck's cargo. The truck driver, who had a grudge of some type against government, was the only fatality, thank goodness, but the Senate side of the Capitol building was closed for several months for repairs and fire cleanup. Before that incident, we didn't even have metal detectors to get into the Capitol building in Sacramento. Now there are bollard and fences, and after January 6th we learned the correct term for magnetometers. It's really a shame that the actions of a handful of people have such terrible consequences. My thoughts are with family and friends.
@@RockandRollWoman I forgot your service to California When you said Capitol Building at FIrst and said session I was thinking the Capitol records building.....Then I read further.
@FreedomRock44 hahaha! Don't think a semi has ever crashed into that one after going around multiple times building up speed - so it would have been easier with a round building.
@FreedomRock44 hahaha! Don't think a semi has ever crashed into that one after going around multiple times building up speed - so it would have been easier with a round building.
@helenespaulding7562 Béla Fleck is a banjo player, who has collaborated with all manner of musicians. Per Wikipedia, "An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, playing music from bluegrass, jazz, classical, rock and various world music genres. He is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Fleck has won 17 Grammy Awards and been nominated 39 times." I saw him with recently deceased tabla player Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer last year. Fleck's website describes that collaboration: When Fleck and [bassist Edgar] Meyer were looking for a third partner for a triple concerto they had been commissioned to write to mark the opening of Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, they thought of Hussain, who was quite interested in orchestral writing. “We thought we could learn a whole lot from this guy!” says Béla. The result was The Melody of Rhythm (2009), recorded with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin. It wasn’t until the three began touring to promote the album that the trio’s true potential became apparent. Although each had a base in a different musical realm - bluegrass for Fleck, Indian classical music for Hussain, and Western classical music for Meyer - they shared a gift for improvisation as well as an ability to reach across musical genres as casually as neighbors might chat over a backyard fence.” When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation,” says Hussain. “So the music emerges as we speak.” Hence the 2x GRAMMY-winning As We Speak, an album that not only showcases the group’s breathtaking abilities as instrumentalists, but underscores the wide range of musical influences at their command. Across a dozen tracks, the group glides easily between the cerebral complexity of Indian rhythm and the gut-level groove of a funky bass line, sounding equally at home with the rigors of raga. Worth checking out. I think the first CD I bought was the Flight of the Cosmic Hippo. Like Chris Thile on mandolin, Fleck's range defies genre.
😮😮 Potential lawsuit here! I have heard the story before, but I just about aspirated on my dinner when you said "we were too young and inexperienced to play our own instruments.". Hard to believe now! Is he considered an Americana Music figure now? Not really up to speed on the history of the term but know it's out there. 👍👍Ms. Ronstadt.
That Microphone is pretty good - when the train horn and fireworks went off I started looking around over my left shoulder to see where the hell it was coming from !....
Leland, do you or have you ever played on jazz recordings? The kind of jazz your good friend and most recorded jazz bassist, Ron Carter, has played. Thanks.
@@lelandsklar6363 Thank you, sir! I'm sure I'd like to hear them. Your friend, Ron Carter is one of my favorite bass players. Too, I have enjoyed the late "NHOP" Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, who played with Oscar Peterson!..Ya' know, Leland, I love the bass. I've played with some of the best, too. Like, Rolly Bundock (original member of the Glenn Miller Band, he played with Benny Goodman, Tex Beneke, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey, and many movie scores). Arnold Fishkind (Bunny Berigan, Jack Teagarden, Les Brown, Lenny Tristano, Charlie Barnet, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, and many t.v. shows including Merv Griffin and the Tonight Show) Bill Plummer (Rolling Stones, Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, Ry Cooder). Rolly and Arnold are no longer with us, but Bill is living and playing in Wyoming. I was fortunate to have played with these fine musicians playing at the private golf resorts in Palm Springs, Ca., with pianist, recording artist and composer, the late Murray Arnold who was part of the great Freddy Martin Orchestra. I've always enjoyed your illustrious and lengthy career as a bassist and I thank you for being there, to be able to converse with you and experience such an array of music styles as you offer, being an important musician on the scene, today! All the best to you, sir! Thank you.
LS has an electric double bass but rarely plays it however he has played Bass Guitar on some great fusion recordings, firstly Spectrum by Billy Cobham, which he shared the Bass Chair with Ron Carter, is a groundbreaking masterpiece. Check out The Section and Daryl Stuermer.
@@lavatar3562 Yes, I've heard the fine recordings of Leland playing with his great fusion group "The Section" and with Daryl Stuermer. Oh, yeah, B.C's "Spectrum" is a classic for sure! I had more of a "straight ahead jazz" style in mind, though (with electric bass or double bass). Kinda' like Ron Carter's version of "You & The Night & The Music" on his marvelous1997 album, "the bass and I". I was just interested in hearing recordings of Leland playing swinging bass liines in 4/4 with a jazz trio or quartet. Don't know of any such recordings, but with all of the many recordings he's done over 50+ years, they could exist!
@ he played String/Upright Bass in the School Dance Band swinging Autumn Leaves etc. it’s a pity that he’s not called for more swing work coz he’s got a sweet spot feel for it.
Evening Leland 🧙🏼♂️ 💖 Prayers 🙏 for New Orleans victims 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 Glad Judith ,Harry and her boys🐾 🐾 are safe! Special Healing energy ⚡ to Maureen ✨, yourself & the boys 🐾 🐾 🐾 🧙🏼♂️ ☮️ 💖 ... CBD Oil helps the boys 🐾 🐾 🐾 with 🎇 fireworks 🎇 💖 ☮️
Sooooo , Andy , a guitar player . I am impressed . I can hum . Not a musician at all . Well , well Andy , you talented guy . Horrible event in New ORLEANS . Those poor families . ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Can't believe it, but you made my day! I hadn't been able to build up the head of steam necessary to get us tickets for that event. If you had been doing the presentation I would have to be 🦵 kicking myself over it, so less self kicking🦵on that account!
Thank you for covering Herb Pedersen and “Lonesome Feeling”. He is a favorite of mine since he and you appear so much in my record collection. And Linda Ronstadt ❤. We saw Tom Paxton a few months back. Last tour. 86 years old. Still can sing and play. Santa brought me a book for Christmas. Signed by the esteemed author, bearded bass player and all around great guy, Leland Sklar. And yes we do love you.
So nice to find out one of your musical heroes it’s also just a humble dude who could be your brother… love having the opportunity to be part of the family
Many thanks, Leland, for today's Herb Pedersen encore! 😊
I must add that the Rose Parade did not disappoint and the preview you gave us yesterday really helped when we saw them again today. Sorry for the loss of your friend. Rose Bowl game was horrible but what can you do. It is a New Year, let's all hold on and see where we end up.
Happy New Year Leland. Herb has such a wonderful voice. I love the Sugar Hill album you featured and the two he did for Epic. His two albums with the Dillards are great too. He is all over my record collection (as you are, of course).🙂 Best Wishes for 2025 from Scotland.
Thanks for the Herb tracks. Happy New Year to you and yours. ❤❤
Saw Herb , Chris HILLMAN and John Jorgenson. Back in the 80s aka The Desert Rose Band at the Los Alamitos Racetrack. They were wonderful !
Thanks for sharing Leland! Herb is a great guy and one of my favorite banjo players, singers AND writers! He has written several songs that are central to the bluegrass Pantheon. "Wait a Minute" and "Old Train" being at the top of the list. Herb is an excellent harmony singer and has probably sung on as many if not more records than he has played on. Bluegrass, being a small community, everyone knows everyone. Herb is no exception; very personable and friendly. Go Herb! Thanks Leland! John from Tennessee
Richie Saputo was a light in the rock and roll concert world. He always wore a big grin. A classic people person, easy to hang out with.
Rich spent months in the hospital, and geez, I'm lots older than he was! It kept seeming that he had turned the corner and was on his way back to health, and then he'd be back in ICU. His partner Renee was so dedicated to getting him better, even finding ways for his dog Mr Guilty to visit him.
Between that news and New Orleans, it was a rough day - even before I encountered more plumbing problems. Being in a cast makes it tough to take care of things, but after yesterday's grim news, I'm reminded that it's not a big deal.
RIP Rich Saputo ... thank you for recognizing his passing, Leland.
Had the pleasure of seeing Herb, Chris Hillman, Bernie Leadon, Blue Rodeo and several others perform in Ottawa, Canada for a Gram Parsons tribute show in the early 2000s, one of the first of many such memorials to Gram. Magic.
Happy New Year, Lee!
I don't suppose that show is floating around TH-cam, is it?
Happy New Year Lee ! & Family it has gone by so fast ! The boys as well , love to see them living life and enjoying each other. Been a fan of Linda for decades.
New Orleans so sad. Thank you.❤❤🙏
Your parade preview made it a lot more enjoyable this morning. Thanks.
Got to see Herb at Merlefest here in North Carolina, one of my favorite banjo players. Great video!
Happy New Year Lee ! & Family it has gone by so fast ! The boys as well , love to see them living life and enjoying each other.
Hello lee. Happy new year and let it be a year with lots of positive things and much laughter for everyone.
I truly hope when the hospital results come in from your spouse Maureen the treatment is not so severe 🙏🏻 she has been through enough already. Greetings sir.
Wow!! What a line up!! Beautiful stuff!! thanks Lee!!😎✌❤
Happy New Year Lee thanks for Herb.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
Alan 🥁 ❤️ Happy New Year 🎇 💖 2025
Happy New Year. 🥁
Those fireworks you heard were most likely from one of the last floats in the parade. I watched the parade on TH-cam so it's neat to associate your video with the timing of the parade. Neat!
Thoughts and prayers for everyone affected by the terrible New Orleans incident and now also Las Vegas. So sad that the world can’t seem to give peace a chance. Great music Lee and thank you for shining your light through the mayhem of idiocy.🙏🙏
Oh no, I have to watch the news again.
Evening Leland and Happy New Year👍👍
Hello! Happy New Year. 🖐✌️
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Evening KJ - BB 🧙🏼♂️💖
On ⌚ time in 2025 💖..
..(trusting notifications)
Prayers 🙏 for..
New Orleans 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 ☮️
Back at ya!
Quite a different take of “Down In The Willow” than the version done by Art Garfunkel on Angel Clare - very cool!
Wow, love some Herb. Hadn't heard this one. I've saved this to a playlist & will listen again.
So glad that you were able to catch up with Linda. I hope she is well.
Thanks for being you Leland! Your perspective is consistently solid and always rests on a solid substrate of support for your fellow humans and the health of the world in all respects! For all the pain and suffering we witness and endure it's reassuring to know there are many good and thoughtful people who still make the wheels turn! All the best to you and to the greater community at large! Wishing all a good and, (hopefully), a better year than what we're faced with on the front end would appear to offer us going forward! Keep love and hope alive!
... it's appropriate to have fireworks when talking about Linda Ronstadt...❤
Best wishes to all my old friends for the new year...😊
Blessed New Year to you & Maureen!
A new year means new hope,
new light, new thoughts and new ways to reach the goal. I wish you and your family a good start to the new year.
The best way to predict the future is to shape it yourself.
Leland and a Happy New Year.
Rudi Blankenburg Tangermünde / Germany 👍🙏☮
Why, HAPPY NEW YEAR, Mr Sklar! 😁👋👋
The way the 26:22 last chord rings out is so rich !! Thank You As Always !
Such sad news about Rich Saputo and also the terrorist attack in New Orleans. Awful way to start off the new year. My condolences to families and friends of everyone affected 🙏
@@Gina-ly5bp That after Magdeburg in 🇩🇪 Germany too! ☮️ 😔
So sorry regarding the loss of your friend as well as for the NOLA nightmare.
Happy New Year bass birthday brother...all the best!
Hello Leland and everyone. Happy New Year! 🙏✌️
Happy New Year 🎇
Dwayne ,Alberta 🍁 🇨🇦 💖 🧙🏼♂️ ☮️ 💖 2025..
Andy ⛵,
Whitstable 🛥️ ⛵ 🇬🇧 ☮️
…all the activities going on outside - and here we are combing back the years with this incredible music. I’d rather be inside with you tuning out honestly. Herbs’ singing style reminds me of Gordon Lightfoot. Love the pedal steel here too!
Happy New Year Lee! ❤
Btw, “Down in the Willow Garden” Aka “Rose Connolly” was credited to Charlie Monroe when the Everly Brothers recorded it, is one of those songs of unknown origin, likely from Ireland.
The Last Thing on My Mind was made famous when Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton first covered it. It was one of Porter's big hits with Dolly singing with him.
As much as we would not want to believe this , there is real evil in this world. Hopefully there more than enough good to overcome. But it is an awful way to begin a new year. 😕. Please let there be more peace and love ❤️ in our world 🌎.
Great kickoff to 2025! Herb and so many luminaries, including Hal! I'll bet you had big smiles.
"I hope they're fireworks." A statement that sadly only fits in America.
Love and Thanks ❤👍❤👍
@@slipperynoodle20 Or Poland 🇵🇱 😅
Good evening, Lee, from Cape Cod. ⛵️⚓️🌊 🥰
I'm so sorry to hear about your dear friend, Rich's passing. ❤😔🙏🕊
Just awful what happened in New Orleans this morning. When will this senseless madness end? Seems as though it's the same press conferences again and again, and yet nothing changes and no actions being put into place to prevent these atrocities from happening over and over again. I don't get it. I guess the original barriers they were going to use to block off Bourbon Street malfunctioned, so the police used their cars to block the street off, but not the sidewalk; and so the psycho decided to take the truck he rented and ran into innocent people around 3:15 am. Truly heartbroken for those who lost their lives. 😔🙏❤️
Ahahahaha, get that damn downbeat is right! 😂🎵🎶👍😅🎸😂
Love these tunes by Herb Pederson. Thanks, Lee! 🎸🎶😊 Yes, great intonation indeed!
I love you ao darn much, Lee! Sending you big New Year hugs! My wish is to see you again sometime this year.
Love to Maureen and the BASSet hounds. ❤🥰🐶🎸🎶🤗 Gosh, I miss you!
Happy New Year Sue n Domino
@KittyCarlile-490 Happy New Year!!! 🥰🎊🎇🥂🎆🍾🎶❤️
Happy New Year to you and Maureen!!
Leland: When you are in England will you get to visit Phil Collins?
Happy Santa Year!! 🎅🏻
A sad and despicable act in NOLA. I have friends visiting there. 😠
Thanks for letting people know that Harry and Judith are OK. I had been wondering, because I knew they had a house in the French Quarter.
I've seen HP a few times on Jorma Kaukonen's utube Fur Peace Ranch videos. He's a favorite. So is Jorma. So are you Leland. Thanks so much for your music
Sue!
@Mark_Brooks hi Mark, always think I'm the only one up late at night. I always enjoy hearing from you. We've been hanging out here for sometime. It's a good hang, as they say
@@KittyCarlile-490 I am a chronic late nighter. Great to talk with you.
"Hey, Hey, Hey, Boys, I think I'm gettin' old..."
HAPPY NEW YEAR........Crazy days already??????
J D Maness is the man on pedal steel
I’m gaining a stronger appreciation for Pedal Steel and Bluegrass in general.
Top Class as I would expect!
2nd song has a Country/Irish song beat to it!!!!!
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Love Brother
He drove around a parked police car across the road...he went up on to the side walk.
You would have not thought a truck would make it through there but he did.
It reminded me of the night a guy drove a semi truck into the California Capitol Building while we were in session. At first I thought it was a construction accident from across the street, but I was hearing rapid explosions and thought it must be assault weapon fire. It turned out to be cans of evaporated condensed milk exploding when the truck caught fire. That was the truck's cargo.
The truck driver, who had a grudge of some type against government, was the only fatality, thank goodness, but the Senate side of the Capitol building was closed for several months for repairs and fire cleanup.
Before that incident, we didn't even have metal detectors to get into the Capitol building in Sacramento. Now there are bollard and fences, and after January 6th we learned the correct term for magnetometers.
It's really a shame that the actions of a handful of people have such terrible consequences.
My thoughts are with family and friends.
@@RockandRollWoman I forgot your service to California When you said Capitol Building at FIrst and said session I was thinking the Capitol records building.....Then I read further.
@FreedomRock44 hahaha! Don't think a semi has ever crashed into that one after going around multiple times building up speed - so it would have been easier with a round building.
@FreedomRock44 hahaha! Don't think a semi has ever crashed into that one after going around multiple times building up speed - so it would have been easier with a round building.
Thanks Lee ✌🏻
I believe Childish Love was written by th Louvin Brothers.
I don't think I've ever heard you mention Louis Shelton and whether you worked with him.
Good grief; progressive bluegrass? Now THAT’S a new one to me! 😁
What would you call Bela Fleck? Nouveau bluegrass? Definitely not traditional!
Happy New Year's to you and Geoffrey!
@@RockandRollWomanthanks! Same to you!
@@RockandRollWomanand I’m afraid I don’t know that artist at all at all.
@helenespaulding7562 Béla Fleck is a banjo player, who has collaborated with all manner of musicians. Per Wikipedia, "An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, playing music from bluegrass, jazz, classical, rock and various world music genres. He is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Fleck has won 17 Grammy Awards and been nominated 39 times."
I saw him with recently deceased tabla player Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer last year.
Fleck's website describes that collaboration: When Fleck and [bassist Edgar] Meyer were looking for a third partner for a triple concerto they had been commissioned to write to mark the opening of Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, they thought of Hussain, who was quite interested in orchestral writing. “We thought we could learn a whole lot from this guy!” says Béla. The result was The Melody of Rhythm (2009), recorded with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin.
It wasn’t until the three began touring to promote the album that the trio’s true potential became apparent. Although each had a base in a different musical realm - bluegrass for Fleck, Indian classical music for Hussain, and Western classical music for Meyer - they shared a gift for improvisation as well as an ability to reach across musical genres as casually as neighbors might chat over a backyard fence.” When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation,” says Hussain. “So the music emerges as we speak.”
Hence the 2x GRAMMY-winning As We Speak, an album that not only showcases the group’s breathtaking abilities as instrumentalists, but underscores the wide range of musical influences at their command. Across a dozen tracks, the group glides easily between the cerebral complexity of Indian rhythm and the gut-level groove of a funky bass line, sounding equally at home with the rigors of raga.
Worth checking out. I think the first CD I bought was the Flight of the Cosmic Hippo. Like Chris Thile on mandolin, Fleck's range defies genre.
😮😮 Potential lawsuit here! I have heard the story before, but I just about aspirated on my dinner when you said "we were too young and inexperienced to play our own instruments.". Hard to believe now!
Is he considered an Americana Music figure now? Not really up to speed on the history of the term but know it's out there.
👍👍Ms. Ronstadt.
Sad to hear of the terrorist truck attack. Bad start to what i hope will be a better year. Thanks for the music , take extra care!
That Microphone is pretty good - when the train horn and fireworks went off I started looking around over my left shoulder to see where the hell it was coming from !....
Leland, do you or have you ever played on jazz recordings? The kind of jazz your good friend and most recorded jazz bassist, Ron Carter, has played. Thanks.
I have played on a number of what would be in that style.
@@lelandsklar6363 Thank you, sir! I'm sure I'd like to hear them. Your friend, Ron Carter is one of my favorite bass players. Too, I have enjoyed the late "NHOP" Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, who played with Oscar Peterson!..Ya' know, Leland, I love the bass. I've played with some of the best, too. Like, Rolly Bundock (original member of the Glenn Miller Band, he played with Benny Goodman, Tex Beneke, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey, and many movie scores). Arnold Fishkind (Bunny Berigan, Jack Teagarden, Les Brown, Lenny Tristano, Charlie Barnet, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, and many t.v. shows including Merv Griffin and the Tonight Show) Bill Plummer (Rolling Stones, Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, Ry Cooder). Rolly and Arnold are no longer with us, but Bill is living and playing in Wyoming. I was fortunate to have played with these fine musicians playing at the private golf resorts in Palm Springs, Ca., with pianist, recording artist and composer, the late Murray Arnold who was part of the great Freddy Martin Orchestra. I've always enjoyed your illustrious and lengthy career as a bassist and I thank you for being there, to be able to converse with you and experience such an array of music styles as you offer, being an important musician on the scene, today! All the best to you, sir! Thank you.
LS has an electric double bass but rarely plays it however he has played Bass Guitar on some great fusion recordings, firstly Spectrum by Billy Cobham, which he shared the Bass Chair with Ron Carter, is a groundbreaking masterpiece. Check out The Section and Daryl Stuermer.
@@lavatar3562 Yes, I've heard the fine recordings of Leland playing with his great fusion group "The Section" and with Daryl Stuermer. Oh, yeah, B.C's "Spectrum" is a classic for sure! I had more of a "straight ahead jazz" style in mind, though (with electric bass or double bass). Kinda' like Ron Carter's version of "You & The Night & The Music" on his marvelous1997 album, "the bass and I". I was just interested in hearing recordings of Leland playing swinging bass liines in 4/4 with a jazz trio or quartet. Don't know of any such recordings, but with all of the many recordings he's done over 50+ years, they could exist!
@ he played String/Upright Bass in the School Dance Band swinging Autumn Leaves etc. it’s a pity that he’s not called for more swing work coz he’s got a sweet spot feel for it.
afternoon Leland
You be safe too......
Go Buckeyes!
Evening Leland 🧙🏼♂️ 💖
Prayers 🙏 for New Orleans victims 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
Glad Judith ,Harry and her boys🐾 🐾 are safe!
Special Healing energy ⚡ to Maureen ✨, yourself & the boys 🐾 🐾 🐾 🧙🏼♂️ ☮️ 💖 ...
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Sooooo , Andy , a guitar player . I am impressed . I can hum . Not a musician at all . Well , well Andy , you talented guy . Horrible event in New ORLEANS . Those poor families . ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
250k!
🙏 the fruitcakes come out on nye .. i have stayed home since about 1999 😬
Can't believe it, but you made my day! I hadn't been able to build up the head of steam necessary to get us tickets for that event. If you had been doing the presentation I would have to be 🦵 kicking myself over it, so less self kicking🦵on that account!
Happy New Year Lee ! & Family it has gone by so fast ! The boys as well , love to see them living life and enjoying each other.