Fretboard Journal Live: Bill Frisell and John Pizzarelli
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- Our latest Fretboard Journal Live features jazz guitarists John Pizzarelli and Bill Frisell. Watch these two icons, performing together for the first time, talk about music and their craft, guitars and more.
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At around @13:00 John Pizzarelli mentions Joe Pass coming to the family home and trying to figure out how to play on Bucky's seven string. I went to a Joe Pass Master Class in the early 1990's. After an hour of lecture/demonstration, Joe had each attendee come up to play and get his critique. Chicago guitarist Dick Curtis went first and began playing "What Is This Thing Called Love". Joe stopped him immediately and demanded to know "...what the hell kind of guitar is that?" Dick had a seven string that was an older 1940's Gibson L-7 he got at a garage sale and had Bob Benedetto add a seven string neck. Dick asked Joe "Wanna try it?" Joe said "No - I got enough problems with just six strings!"
@Mathias Santana I'll let you know - no one cares
i love bill! he always looks like he is holding a guitar for the first time but then plays the most beautiful lines. less is more!
Bill reminds me so much of myself. Except more talented. And with a better guitar. And better shirts.
+Cameron Brwdway u probably got a bigger one
And Bill has better jokes
What a thoroughly enjoyable video of music and conversation.
Please find songs as follows;
1:58 Honeysuckle rose
15:24 Days of wine and roses
32:45 all the things you are
Though if it's your first time the conversation is definitely also worth a listen
Narrator: It was not his first time
thanxx
It is criminal how many licks I have stolen from these performances. I keep coming back. I cannot thank you guys enough for putting stuff like this up and taking the time to shoot it.
Hmm..."Bill is not a jazz player"? I believe the more accurate statement is, Bill is not JUST a jazz player.
Among many other of Bill's skills ***** LOL!
Bluegrass is a kissing cousin to pastoral black metal.
@@jbpeconic This comment should get way more recognition.
Nope, Bill sucks major donkey balls at playing jazz.
Bill Frisell seems quite introverted and Pizzarelli comes off as quite loquacious and extroverted. Interesting contrast.
Bill is always so shy and humble
@@AlcachofaBlog Shy and humble - exactly these words came to my mind when I saw this session
@@jamesdaniels2094. I really wonder why you would ever wonder that? Let's hope it's not some sort of elitist self aggrandizing, 'cleverer than thou' attitude that a lot of blcked off intellectuals seem to indulge in?
@@edwardcleaver3020 no man, I really respect both of these crazy intelligent people. I realize maybe my curiosity about people may have come off as poor. I didn't mean to be disrespectful to either of these guys.
@@jamesdaniels2094 Cool bro. Got it.👍
Don't be fooled by any of these mild-mannered gentlemen - both are vicious guitar monsters!
they should do a record together. their very different styles compliment each other greatly.
such an interesting contrast in styles and approach to space. you can really hear their influences in both their soloing and comping. JP clearly coming out of that Bucky P approach of filling things up and several different "big" chords per measure.....and BF w his spare Jim Hall approach.....leaving all that space...and playing little two or three voice shell chords.
The volume of Mr. Frisell's guitar is similar to the volume of his voice, which in turn reflects his inner peace.
I love how mild mannered Bill is and then he just kills it. Pizzarelli sounds great too!
What a nice pairing of Musical Sensibilities.
Well done, Fretboard Journal !
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That Days of Wine and Roses is jaw dropping. It actually made me laugh several times. Incredible musical communication and positive energy.
Bucky is such a warm soul. I had a long conversation with him about picks and strings and he spoke to me like a person and not as a nobody. I have seen Bill live, but never spoke with him. His warmth comes out through his playing. I like the moments where you can see how they dig on each other's playing. Two different worlds, but amazing...
Some guy spoke of Bill as not being a jazz player.....Is he out of his f......mind! Bill is one of the most influential guitar players on the planet-and he is listened to by people of many different musical persuasions. Bill has studied with jazz players like the great Jim Hall for God's sake.
so nice video...so beautiful and pure. as a music/guitar student myself I'm like I'm there with them!! love for music,, love for guitar,,communicating with music..John's version of 'All of Me' was a reference of the tune that is the very first jazz standard I learned..he is one of the first jazz guitarist I ever got to know since I learn jazz and seriously listen to jazz guitar players. I can't forget the first time listening his solos with scats.. for me he was like SRV of jazz guitar.. he sings great too. love his fluent melodic bop lines and killing chromatic chord solos..especially love his guitar-piano-bass trio with Ray Kenndy. few monthes ago I bought his album 'Knowing You' and I heard lot of 'raresung' standards..
Bill is one of my heros too.. I get many ideas and inspiriations from him.. from improvising concepts to songwriting.. he can fit everywhere. with his style kept. can't forget Bass Desire works and works with Jim Hall and../ Grace Under Pressure with John Scofield, of courese his own works his trio and quartet..earlier groups.. Have a Little Faith in Me album is favorite of mine.. playing Aaron Copland piece with his jazz ensemble was so nice idea and great work.. last summer I played this album to two close friends they are stuying music too when we go to beach, they really love it..Bill's playing is so pure and filled with love.he surely tried and trying a lot of things.. great musician. can't forget about trio with Paul Motian and Joe Lovano too..so many great things he done I really want to see him in Korea.. I really wish he could come.. I heard he came Korea 2003..and this video is so great!! story about Bill's guitar was so amazing! I haven't thought of John and Bill playing together. for me this video is like a evidence of music, jazz is one thing. even I don't group and categorize music but this 'meeting'(would be better expression) was unimaginable for me. but this video proved performance of two of great musicians with their music, with their guitars is nice..seems like they can to go further. it's interesting that talking style and soloing of Bill's are somewhat similar. great video made me happy thanks for fretboard journal!
Pizzarelli sound like an entire orchestra
John's older sister was in my class through elementary school and Jr. Hi. I went over to their house a few times; I didn't really know John since he was a few years younger, but I knew their father was a professional guitarist. I don't know if John was playing at that age, but it never occurred to me he would be famous in his own right. This is the first time I have seen him play. Amazing stuff. Very sweet collaboration with Bill Frisell.
I have the exact same story from 1968 regarding my 68 Gibson Melodymaker Bass. Sold it in Cambridge in 74. It came back to me 30 years later
Ah, John is playing Joe Pass's take of All the things you are in Virtuoso, the intro note for note :D
just wanted to thank you guys @ the fretboard journal to bring us those wonderful moments! You might not be followed by zillions of fans, but I truly value and absolutely love you work, A feeling that goes beyond words, I wish you all the best. Kind regards from Belgium
This is just so wonderful - to hear them speak with such respect about so many wonderful players of the past who are completely unknown to the younger generations - when I hear them play it is like listening to a dialogue - each listening intently to the other and responding with eloquence and grace - their knowledge and experience speaks through the music they make together here - and Bill reminding us that even when we abandon the things we cherish - if we feel true remorse, they will eventually come back to us - just like when you finish the song - everything comes back home - and for John, what great good fortune in having had a father like Bucky - watching stuff like this is uplifting - it is inspiring - and provides a great diversion from the hellish times we are experiencing right now - better times are coming - we will get through this - together.
It's nice how little ego they show in this performance. They manage to snake around one other with spare, understated lines.
I like Pizzarelli family! Italia, il paese o cantiamo di più
"Bill might have moved slow... ...but it was only because Bill didn't have to move for anybody." - Henry Hill
Such tone, touch and delicacy in BF's playing, so understated but nothing more required, a master for sure.
BILLS AMP, SHOULD BE TALKED ABOUT TOO.
Haha, these guys play rather sophisticated music yet can't seem to express the incredible 'high' one get's out of playing jazz or music in general, so modest of them.
There's "playing" music, and there's "feeling" music. Frisell and Pizzarelli are good examples of the latter. Bravo!
These guys can both play lead and accompany very well with both freedom and solid skill. I like the differentation in tone from Bill's sharper tone to John more mellow one. Love John's Moll 7-string for those extra bass notes. Their disparate styles complement each other well. Love Bill's lost /found guitar story. Bill is quiet and diffident John is brash. Both are masters.
Keep on watching this one. So funny when John talks about how his father made him play the "seven cord" :-)
very interesting to watch this 2 guy. bill looks like he's in awe all the time, while john trying to figure out what's bill was doing. bill took his time looking for words, while john always speaks in clear volume. yet, they were playing like any other kids figuring out chords for the first time.
This video is priceless. That "Days of wine and roses" is absolutely fantastic.
Such beautiful playing by Bill around 16:20.
Excellent video excellent players. I love listening to two players like this with no other instrumentation, especially unrehearsed. Great stuff!
When you have had enough of screaming people on tv and radio-this helps to lower the stress levels.I but wish I could pick that nice.I appreciate Bill mentioning the late great Wes Montgomery-a true giant of jazz guitarists.✌️
Frisell Gibson sound great!
The language of Frisell on the guitar is so unique that puts him on another level.
How am I finding this now seven years after it was posted? Lovely stuff I must say. Bill was about my age during this recording. What a tasty player. John is a fine guitarist himself. I love it when two musicians are able to anticipate each other and change up their direction to match up or offset what the other plays, and these two guys did a great job of that on this day.
33:24, the face you make when you realize the E-string ain't in tune. XD
So when does the record come out? ;)
Great duo!!!
Since "two for the road" by Joe Pass and Herb Ellis, I didn't had so much pleasure to listen to a jazz guitar duo. :-)
Thanks a lot for this lovely video!!!
My thoughts exactly! I was reminded of the sense fun and mutual listening that was at the heart of that recording.
love the "Paul Stewart tie" remark at 6:52. also love both guitars and cannot believe the acoustic tone John obtains with tape wounds.
Bill kinda looks like Bernie Sanders
vecernicek2 his vocabulary is "uuuuuuuuge"
More Like Adam Savage.
I absolutely love hearing Bill play rhythm. He plays bass and chordal motifs leaving a lot of room and space while still keeping the movement going for John to play on and really dig deep into the range of his guitar. Killer.
Very cool that bill is playing the 175 :)
Wow that first song honey suckle blew me away..Cheers guys
So glad to come across this video!!! Such authenticity and beauty!!!
Just beautiful musicianship, played with such sensitivity. These two should record an album together.
Could I join in. I know the "E" chord, . Very amazing !
That's a very unusual duo but I loved it. Great video, great guys. Thanks Fretboard Jornal
Bill acts like he is completely blazed in this interview lol
John Pizzarelli is such a weapon...Dude is ridiculous!
Is it too much work to properly mic people? Jesus
Those guitar players from the italian american guitar school are at another level! Joe Pass, Bucky Pizzarelli, John P, Frank Vignola, etc. I don't know if its me, but at the very beginning of the video Bill seems intimidated or amazed by John's playing. Both are guitar greats. Thanks for the video.
Please don't mention Pass' name in the company of those technician hacks again. Thanks.
I would compare this event to having a professional house painter and Salvador Dali paint a house. They're both painters, but one of has painting skills that aren't going to help him much here.
Tony Lombardo that is a really funny yet really insightful comment. Particularly in ATTYA I was feeling that - it was hard for them to mesh there although on the other tunes there was a little more room for Bill to do his thing.
And the other one no one in the world would ever go to a museum to see his work.
On "All The Things You Are" at one point they were both lost but, somehow they found their way back in LOL.....
I'm judging for starters as a dynamic and fascinating way of playing music you should hold it Paramount instead of geeking out like a bunch of virgins. You guys need to step up and reclaim music and stop the dumbing down of the arts you know it's happening right in front of your socialist faces
Such a romantic story for Bill's guitar
great guitarist but personalities like this just grate grate grate. Probably feeds back and reinforces the personality which in turn makes it more annoying as such a reactionary thing. Oh well
That line at 16:44! Great ears from mr. Frisell.
Your rambling sucks. He might as well quote a band if you're going to say that....
that chuckle at 505 is perfect. mutual appreciation and joy. real dope.
2:00 Honeysuckle Rose
15:21 The Days of Wine and Roses
32:43 All the Things You Are
Quite the amp there between them.
JP doesn't sound BAD, but BF exudes volumes of creativity. He's a nice guy. He will find the good in everyone. JP has lots of good in him. Why did he continue to play twice as loud as Bill ? That is not a "sound man" mistake. It's what went down.
I honestly think it was the amps. John's guitar was also much newer than Bill's and probably built with loud volume intentionally. And I agree! John's solos seemed kinda bland and done before after listening to Bill's. But his chord voicings and comping is more than deserving of Bill's awe!
+Brandon Vu yeah my post sounds negative. I used to play with John and it was always high spirited and musica too !
That must've been a grand time, I would kill a man to see either of these guys, much less play with them!!!
+Brandon Vu yeah , I've had a blessed life .
Aww man, just gotta say, Bill was having problems with his volume knob. You can see and tell right?
Plus John's guitar naturally has a higher volume. I mean just look what kind of gauged strings he uses. His volume on his amp is probably super low, plus he decided to play without his pick, probably to blend in with Bill.
Had never heard of these guys before. Both are great players, lovely tones.
Maafa 1619 Translucent.
If this is your first exposure to Bill Frisell, you'd probably laugh your ass off listening to his early work with John Zorn.
Oh my God, he's so good
$400 in 1978 makes $1,581.58 in today's value according to US inflation calculator, can you buy same model new from Gibson today for that price?
No This SHIT Is What TH-cam Is ALLLLLLLLL About..!
A beatnik is dead and gone Mr hipster and might get Elaine but it won't retire you off of a career music
love this. Bill makes me happy!
notice that the way people talk is similar to how they actually play guitar notes….. :-)
Ah..Days of Wine and Roses. Rich Severson has a great chord melody lesson with excellent tabs for it. It's on youtube to watch, and if you like, it's about 5 bucks. I'm finally on the sweet end of learning it, (in terms of complete memorization) and it's really wonderful.
Bill is a little spacey ;)
Yes, thank you Martin Guitars for sponsoring this series. It is one of the joy's of my TH-cam experience. Okay tech stuff: What is that old amp that's sitting in the lower center of the screen. It is still working? Also what are those mic's? A twinned pair?
Trevor, I can't speak to the amp, but I make the mics they use for this series - that's a stereo pair of Edwinas, from Ear Trumpet Labs. You have no idea how cool it is to see my mics in front of these guys.
Philip Graham
Thank you. I bet it is pretty cool to have that going on. Thanks for telling me I'll go check out your website.
-Trevor
Trevor,
John is playing through a Carr Sportsman (just out of camera for most of this). Bill is playing through the Gibson EH-150 you're asking about (best known as the amp model that Charlie Christian used). The Gibson works fine but was giving Bill a little trouble on the third tune (which is why you mostly hear the ES-175 acoustically in that last song). Mics were Eartrumpet Edwinas from Philip Graham. Thanks for tuning in!
Jason
+Philip Graham Those mics look wonderful!
+Dominic Stafford Uglow I hope that you are a technician and not a musician.,
Amazing and beautiful guitar playing!!
I was fortunate to meet John Pizzarelli last year at the elmhurst Jazz festival. After his show I went up to him, mentioned that his new guitar was just like my 30s es 250 built by Gibson and sold by Montgomery wards which was kinda like his brand new guitar. On the spot he not only let me try his guitar but he gave me a 7 string lesson. It was so hard to wrap my head around it even though I could imagine it. If you're reading this John thank you. I hope to meet him again someday.
Pizzarelli is a recent discovery...he is just a monster, but he has an album called "Midnight McCartney" that is just wonderful.
His "Sweet Georgia Brown" (not on the McCartney album) is fantastic.
Re: okGhostlyGhost I was hoping that either or both of them might mention the pioneering efforts of Pop's use of altered tuning, his rather orchestrally inspired approach to the instrument which allowed him to play such beautifully rich voicings, and his fabulous "time" which was increasingly formidable during his partnership with George Barnes, e.g. "As Long as I Live" from "Guitars Anyone?"
lesson of chords progression at 13:50
Thank you! This video is a treasure!
The melding between the two, unrehearsed, on Days of Wine and Roses (one of my favorite standards), was really something. Right afterwards, out loud I said, "fantastic!" exactly 1 second before the host said the exact same thing! It truly was. I came to this video because I thought to myself, Frisell and Pizzarelli?? It's gotta be a joke - they're both great, but have such different styles. Just goes to show how different styles in the hands of masters can complement each other. Really a great sound together. Neither said they were working on any current recording projects. Well.... (hint, hint)...
Who could possibly have disliked this video? I couldn't stop smiling the whole time
Dude, welling up w tears. Haven't done that since I saw Nancy Wilson give an outdoor show in Milwaukee in 1999.
I thought John was gonna be really loud and obnoxious, i have no idea why, just did...but he was a real nice guy, Frisell is very humble and quiet. I think it'd be interesting if these guys made an album together. they've both got incredible skills.
Such understated brilliance and fluid joy...so pure. The communication and communion. Get my attention away from "my own little world."
That's a duo I did not see coming...
Great contrasting styles of two great musicians and yet they compliment each other’s style when they perform a tune. John’s comping is so strong and full and Bill’s harmony is so uniquely beautiful. I love this pairing of two monster guitarist. What a beautiful performance of “Days of Wine and Roses”
When I f irate heard Jim Hall play with Sonny Rollin's on the bridge it was a revelation.........hearing Bill doing solo jazz and with his duo is again a revelation...he is so unique in his approach.
I love how giddy Bill gets right before they start 'All the Things You Are.' 🤩
Could listen to these two cats for hours ! NAd what a nice bunch of amazing histories did they tell us Whoah !!!!
31:15, the payoff. Performing, even at my amateurish level, is keeping me sane🙏
The article of Sonny Rollins was a humor thing that a lot of people take it for serious, very poor interview...
Happy time !
Fascinating to watch the two of them. Just incredibly fascinating. All of it!
This so great. Bill was really low in the mix, though it seems the volume pot might've been partly to blame. I like John but to be honest I think he overplays a bit here. That said, it was their first time playing together and you could hear John start giving him more space as they went on. It'd be great if they made a record together.
John Pizzarelli? Overplaying? You CAN'T be serious. 🙄
Tbh one of the best duo guitar versions of days of wine and roses I’ve ever heard, bill frisell is a master
That Satin Doll that John just tossed off was spectacular. Days of Wine and Roses was gorgeous. Thank you, Fretboard Journal.
Very interesting pairing. I am not sure there are better representatives of two very different schools of jazz guitar.
Dos personalidades diferentes, ambas talentosas. En honor ala verdad, elijo a BILL. saludos desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.
i would love to buy an album/LP/CD of these two playing together, have they ever recorded together after or before this event?