Paul Chambers' Signature Song
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2022
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Paul Chambers remains one of the most recorded and important bassists in the history of Jazz music. His lines have graced some of the most iconic recordings of all time including albums by Wes Montgomery, Thelonoius Monk, John Coltrane, and (of course) Miles Davis. Today I explore one of his great original bass melodies, where it comes from, and why it's so important to learn it.
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You are terrific young man. I grew up in that "era" and remember it well. (I'll be 79 in April.) You are a gift to the new era. I recognize the health challenges you so candidly expressed...but keep up the good work. I am a man who is a believer...if you get my drift...so you are on my prayer list............
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I was literally playing through PC transcriptions and this video popped up 🤯
PC makest everything float in the clouds somehow. He makes everything around him sound better, simpler and in a different light. You feel good and relaxed when he plays the bass.
Once again I learn something, I’m entertained, and I am inspired. Thanks for your work PT!
Great video, like the others, i ' ve seen.
Never gets boring and you keep the information, fresh and easy to handle.
Thank you so much, for your work.
Take care, and keep up the cool vids.
I appreciate that!
Love your channel, keep em' coming. I'm not a bassist, but I am binge watching your stuff including the bass lessons. Been listening to jazz since the 70's and I am not listening to stuff that I have had for 35 years and hearing all kinds of new stuff. Thanks.
Great video! Chambers was the Jamerson of his generation...or, was Jamerson the Chambers of his generation? Man, just checking out any great jazz album of that era, and there he is...Paul Chambers! Just discovered your channel, and I'm glad I found it...keep 'em coming!
Beautiful melody, and thank you for your generous gift of this knowledge and the transcription.
Killer playing! Love that slide in the Visitation lick - great video as always
Mr. PT - again your predecessors are watching and giving you a nod of approval. this is gods work. been waiting for the video since the teaser the other day. when you broke down the melody bar by bar i was like wtf - waiting for that slide on the G string. your students are a lucky few. thank you maestro!
Thanks man! I’ll shed this tonight. Your channel is great, keep it up!
You are consistent with the quality info.
I very much appreciate you, sir.
Huge respect for Paul Chambers. RiP
Great video on one of the giants from a classic era. As a huge Miles Davis fan I am quite familiar with Mr. Chambers as well as his successor in the second great quintet, Ron Carter. You sounded great on that upright yourself, keep on groovin’ brother.
Thanks so much for this, really killer playing on this by you as well.
Amazing video with a super precise transcription! I love your channel, your content and the way you present everything! a BIG THANK YOU for sharing all your insights and knowledge with all of us!
Thank you for spending your time with it! 🙏🏽
This is a great video. Very informative piece about one of the great bass players of all time. Mr. PC!
Brilliant Tribute to the great Paul Chambers.
Your channel has quickly become one of my favorites on youtube! Love your videos! you're great
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Ok I have to go learn that now. TY🤛
When I saw the title of this video I thought it would be a discussion on Paul”s playing on “So What”
Wonderful playing as usual. Gosh, the purfling on that bass is beautiful. Hadn't seen that before. 😎👌
Nice! I transcribed this track and loved every moment of feeling like the master himself.
thank you so much for opening the floodgates for me and so many bassists, and this pdf holy cannoli youre a godsend
You’re killin it my man. Much appreciated.
Keep it coming! Your’s are at the very top of the bass vids here on youtube. Each one is a gem! Many thanks
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when I started listening to jazz Paul Chambers was on so much of what I was listening to. Great tune to show the inner workings of PC.
thanks dude, I was looking so mutch for jazz to learn in the bass, but I was only getting "sax" and "guitar" ideias even by bassistis, now I have found a channel that is about traditional bass. Great finding. 1+ subscriber
Glad to hear you mention Thelonious Monk and Rufus Reid in the same video...
great video man
Amazing as always! I really dig your style and mesmerizing enthusiasm. Big ups from Sweden! Keep it up, dude!
you’ve quickly become my favorite bass channel, literally eclipsing dozens of channels i’ve been watching for years, keep it up!
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Your are the man. This channel is really great!
I hoped that you were referring to this song. My favorite PC. Big thumbs up!
Wow! Found you this morning for the first time ..subscriptionez***
Keep making vids. Need more jazz double bass you tubers. You are killing ut
Great video!
very cool video, Bass on top was one of the first jazz albums i bought and hearing Paul Chambers use the bow left an impression. Great to see an informed video on him. I'd love to see one on bass players during the bebop era like Curley Russell and how their approach differed to the swing/rhythm and blues bass lines. Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for this
Outstanding Pd!
I just stumbled onto your channel and now I’m hooked! Keep up the awesome work :)
I had no idea, you play Upright Bass. You're amazing 👏🏿 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿💯🖤⚘️
Dude! You are incredible.
Thank you for revealing me to this grail🙏
¡Gracias Paul!
Very good, Sir!
Paul Chambers has always been my favorite bassist. If I see an album with him on the credits I buy it just because I know I will enjoy listening to the bass at minimum. Since he played with so many greats, I'm usually not disappointed with the albums as a whole.
Like Oscar Peterson, PC has his signature sound. You always know it's them hearing recordings they are on no matter what the tune or style is. I don't hear that with most of the bassists of that era. Maybe for me it's because I started listening to Giant Steps album 30 years ago and his sound was imprinted on me at the age of 12. Same for Oscar Peterson.
My music life took a weird path and even though I played a lot of jazz at an adequate but mediocre level in my 20's, I never really focused on being a jazz bassist and explored a lot of other genres/mastered none. Thanks for the PDF as it is about time I try to actually play some Paul Chambers lines.
Love your videos! Best bass content on YT by far!
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Need to get this album. Don’t have any with him as a leader. Thank you for the great inspiration and examples.
Not to mention Mr PCs revolutionary arco bass solos. So original bowing.
That, is Chambers music!
Thank you very much!
Very informative website. Thanks
Awesome video!
Love it thank you
Terrific. Brilliant.
Can’t say it enough … great research 👍
No wonder John Coltrane named a tune after him …. Mr P.C !
Cool. Thanks, man
Not only did he set the bar, but what he did for the double bass' metamorphosis from orchestra pit to small jazz ensemble configuration, (often bowing arco bass) will always define the hard bop style, and sound, with all of its unforgettable music.
Part of the great Detroit/New York transplanted double bass triumvirate, that also included his contemporary and partner in crime Doug Watkins, along with The Maestro Ron Carter, they all learned to play music in the Detroit Public School system back in the 1940s, and double bass at the same high school, Detroit Cass Tech.
What Mr. P.C. accomplished with Bill Evans, during his all too brief lifetime, alternately playing off and laying down the percussive rhythms in the oft times conflicted marriage of piano and double bass, in my opinion made them the greatest foundation of any jazz rhythm section ever recorded. Listen to their mesmerizing magic on Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments. Of course, when it comes to music, whenever the argument is made for something being "The Greatest", I always point to Kind of Blue. Then, I rest my case. Thx.
Don't know why it took TH-cam so long… Your channel popped up a little bit ago. Subbed. Man… WOW! Just… WOW!!! So good. Absolutely love your work. And then I see a 'Stillers' shirt? What?! Pittsburgh? Rush?! TB?! Me too. Lessons? 👍👍
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Love this. Thank you. Please let me know if and when you profile one of my favorites: AL McKIBBON. Please.
Well said. PC along with Ron Carter are IMO the two greatest jazz bassist.
My favorite Jazz album...And maybe...Just maybe...the greatest Jazz album of all-time, is Kind of Blue...And who's holdin' down that low end?...Mr. PC
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I’m glad I saw this today. I’m working it now I have PC’s book thanks for kicking me in the head “All God’s Chillin = Rhythmish in F a beautiful way into the path of PC language just like we study Bird! PC is a study too, I’m sorry I missed him Live but here I go!
YES a great study in language,
playing in the lower range of the fingerboard and developing sound.
For those who read the comments: Gerald Cannon is a legendary jazz bassist and composer. Check him out, he's on TH-cam!🤗👍🏽
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Awesome.
I am playing the solo for moments notice for combo band
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Been working on this all morning now and it's blowing my mind! One thing I've noticed is that the few transcriptions on line are all a bit wrong in different places. I keep going back to the PC recording to check. Your version seems spot on so I'm sticking with you and doing my own transcription!
...I've only just realised that your transcription's on there! (me being dumb)
There are a couple of prominent versions of the tune that really differ in the notes. Sam Jones’ version is very popular. It’s played a little up and leaves out a lot of that crazy chromaticism that PC’s version had. It’s much more straight-forward, but when you listen hard to the original, you hear almost Barry Harris-type harmony. It’s very in the cracks. Thank you for watching! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
TH you ! and TH PC !!!
I would love to see a segment on Israel Cachao Lopez!
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Paul Chamber could be considered the heart beat of Jazz in the 1950s and 1960s.
Dig it.
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I’d like to hear what you would have to say about Tiran Porter
Great video, and I love the sound of your beautiful bass. I'm a huge fan of Paul Chambers all my life, since I first heard him in the '60s as a teenager. However, I must respectfully disagree that he was "the most in-demand bassist" of his era, although I know how huge his repertoire is. I think Ray Brown was just as "in-demand" and just as great as Paul, and there's a few others I'd put right up there with Ray and Paul. But there really is no "Number 1"---- let's just admire all these guys as equally great musicians and enormous giants of the bass.
Fortunately for us, much of this time spanning Ray’s career (‘51-‘65) was spent with Oscar Peterson. I challenge you to find a bassist that played on more records with more people between 1955-1964 than Paul Chambers. His Blue Note appearances alone are staggering, not to mention Riverside, Atlantic, et al. I never tried to draw any comparisons or tell someone who their favorite bassist was or is. When we look at the history of Jazz, particularly at that formative time from 1955-1961, nobody approaches his output. In 1959, he made significant records (separately) with Miles, Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, and Bill Evans. I mean, come on now.
@@pdbassWell said!!!
II BS Have been trying to nail that intro forever....
yes I know it's Mingus not Mr. PC
Great video! Please, how do you compare Paul Chambers with Jimmie Blanton and Scott LaFaro?
Well, they all play the upright and are badasses!
Thanks! I hope you make one about Reggie Workman some time!
You got it. Thank you!!
Mr. PC!👍
Mingus and Lafaro were great soloists also
Not familiar with this tune! Thanks for the transcription and great playing. Could you please tell me who made your bass? Your sound is fantastic. String choice also if you would. Thanks!
It’s a Pöllmann from ‘72. I use Thomastik Spirocore Weichs. Thanks for watching!
Your tone is awesome! What strings are you using? Liked and subscribed!
Thank you!
I use Thomastik Spirocore, Weich gauge.
@@pdbass thank you! I'm getting started with upright on a NS NXTa bass that I got on the used market. I've been playing a p-bass for a few years, but wanted to learn on the upright. Thanks for the inspiring videos.
Paul, I was working on this with a student and in the 9th bar I can't reconcile the A to Cs in that line against the Bmb5 to E7.... What do you think is happening there? It doesn't seem that the piano is playing those changes there later in the song either.
Yeah-it’s tough to say, but it crazy works. If we base it on “All God’s Chillun”, he’s really stretching. All those notes: C, A, G#, F, D, E, C#-they are totally good for Bm7b5-E7. Next level!
Maybe because PC studied with Barry Harris, he is just borrowing the A and C from the E6/D#O7 scale?
A C over B-7b5 E7 = 7 to 3 to A- Cma/A- relative PC knew Barry Harris too Yes Sir! LT tone to Cmaj/Ami relative
Non sequitur: love Jimmy Garrison on Ascent
While I don't agree that Paul was "The greatest soloist, on the instrument, during his time", I do love his playing and agree as to his vast contribution to the art.
I love this recording for the very forward bass mic/mix. Likely thanks to Nesuhi's brilliant influence in the booth: th-cam.com/video/BDYGgicuwFQ/w-d-xo.html
The great PC is right
ST JOHN 3:16! ❤️
Great video and I love PC. But, the "no doubt greatest soloist" statement seems a bit of a stretch given his career overlapped Scott Lafaro, Mingus, Oscar Pettiford..
Not quite.
Lafaro didn't play with Bill Evans until 1961. Listen to his playing on "The Arrival of Victor Feldman" (1958). He was a PC devotee until he found himself with Evans' trio.
OP had relocated to Denmark in 1958. His legacy is set (see th-cam.com/video/GnkrsoqUwxw/w-d-xo.html), but he was not "on the scene" in the years preceding his death in in 1960.
Mingus is Mingus and in a class all by himself.
Perhaps I should have said "arguably".
Take two of PC's solos from Coltrane's "Blue Train" album in 1958.
The title track and his bowed solo on "Moment's Notice". Those are ARGUABLY two of the best bass solos...ever. Period.
@@pdbass All good points , Portrait in Jazz was recorded at the end of 59 though..
And let’s not forget the often overlooked Wilbur Ware.
Although his discography was probably less prolific than either PC or Ray Brown, and to my knowledge he only made one album of his own.
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Once again I learn something, I’m entertained, and I am inspired. Thanks for your work PT!