I read an account years ago of Paul Desmond calling Jim Hall to recommend players to work with in Canada. "Don't use piano" Hall advised. "Ask for a guitar player named Ed Bickert." "He's good?" Desmond asked. "He's the only cat who scares me when I walk into the room" Hall replied.
InWalkedBud is that from Desmonds’ book? I’ve been searching for that, little hard to come by down here in little ol’ New Zealand! Must be a bloody good read though! Never even heard of Bickert before but sure glad that I have now, what a master!
@@daniellurman9093 I think I saw in the liner notes of a Desmond live album recorded at a club in Toronto (the Bourbon Street? If memory serves, the album is entitled Paul Desmond Live) which features the rhythm section of Bickert, Don Thompson, and Jerry Fuller. So glad to have hipped you to Bickert! He was a great one.
@@daniellurman9093 Sadly, Desmond never got around to writing his book. But maybe you were making a dry joke about it, because he was kind of legendary for saying it was his current project for most of his (too-short) post-Brubeck retirement.
There are - and were - many very good jazz guitar players that I love but there was only one incomparable Ed Bickert, an extraordinary musician. I can hear his recordings again and again and they always sound fresh and inspiring, full of life and love. His humble and devoted attitude towards music comes out in every bar he plays with his battled up Telecaster. A giant!
one of my favorite trios ever!! Listening to Ed is a lesson in making tunes your own, interpreting the melodies beautifully, comping, chord melodies-chord solos, using dynamics in exciting ways and creating lines derived from the melody. he has my favorite guitar tone I've ever heard too! what an incredible performance. Don and Terry are so smokin' too
So well said. Bickert’s regard for the song’s melody is one of the pleasures of his style. And that mix of single lines and chord melody means there’s always surprise and variety in his solos.
thanks, Ed (& to Tim Lerch, another fella' who knows his way around a Tele too, for bringing Ed Bickert into my orbit)... may the heavens be as lovely as your gifts to humanity were - R.I.P.
And about a million other things.. almost no triad he plays is normal.....like someone once said, " Ed does impossible things in impossible places"....
Damn, that was a good chord melody solo and melodic solo. Oh my God I wonder what West Montgomery would think of him I’m sure he would say that he was more advanced than he was probably. He sounds like a Fender Rhodes player not a guitar player on some of those cords I’ve never heard anything like that.
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Ed has had a very distinct effect on my playing. To me, he will always be my favorite guitarist. I've modeled my playing on those that shon, like Jim Hall, Joe Pass, for example, but Ed, to me, stood a cut about the rest. I heard him live quite a few times. A treasure lost.
Ed Bickert was one of the greatest masters of the instrument (and music). But wow, check out the playing of Don Thompson and Terry Clarke too on this recording (both masters in their own right).
great closed tight chord voicings reminds me of lenny breaus concept of chords. Do any of you veiwers know if Ed and Lenny knew each other? When i first saw lenny he had of hagstrom 12 string with 6 strings on it and opened with dont think twice with the harmonics like ive never heard before at the time. Ed is a new find for me and i really enjoy his style.
steve burchfield Lenny Breau was in Toronto a lot in the 1960’s and Ed Bickert lived in the Toronto area until his passing earlier this year. Not sure when Ed started living in Toronto but he was on CBC a lot. I’m guessing that it would have been almost impossible for them to have not known each other. Lenny was pretty notorious for having fun, to put it mildly. Ed Bickert always seemed like a quiet, stay at home guy but that’s just a guess. Lenny was always dipping into his country/ folk roots. Ed was a consummate professional guitar player. I had a small interaction with Ed when I was watching a gig in the Pilot Tavern in Toronto. I leaned back in my chair, my wallet fell out of my back pocket and a really nice guy picked it up and handed it to me; it was Ed Bickert. He was there to watch Dave Young and Gene Bertoncini.
Ed Bickert & Lenny Breau were playing together on a record, along with Sonny Greenwich. There is at least one cut from that on youtube, "Norwegian Wood", posted by Sonny Greenwich Jr. All three great guitarists, and unique in their styles.
There is an archived radio interview with Lenny Breau (CBC ??) where Lenny talks about liking Ed Bickert's playing, but he never said that he ever met him. The jazz community in Canada wasn't that big, so everyone would likely have known of each other, even before the internet days. I reposted that interview I think on one of the Lenny Breau Facebook pages or else on the Jazz Guitar FB group.
You can hear Ed discuss Breau a little bit at 4:35 in this interview with Ed's son Jeff: vimeo.com/92266051 He doesn't say much about how well he knew Lenny, but clearly he was very familiar with Breau's playing, and as others have posted, Ed caught Breau's live gigs in Toronto (they both played the Bourbon Street club, which was where Ed was recorded with both Paul Desmond and Frank Rosolino). Ed was supposedly a teetotaler in the 1970s, and was a homebody and family man, while Breau obviously wasn't any of these :). But I'm sure they had a mutual appreciation going on, just as Ed had with Tal Farlow and Jim Hall.
Agreed. The bass and drums are recorded well but Ed’s tone sounds muffled. CBC Radio broadcast Ed many times. If they still have the tapes, the CBC should make these available.
I don’t know what sort elevator that would be! Some of the long, angular and very chromatic solos - especially on the bass - would have driven unsuspecting punters mad!
I read an account years ago of Paul Desmond calling Jim Hall to recommend players to work with in Canada. "Don't use piano" Hall advised. "Ask for a guitar player named Ed Bickert."
"He's good?" Desmond asked.
"He's the only cat who scares me when I walk into the room" Hall replied.
InWalkedBud is that from Desmonds’ book? I’ve been searching for that, little hard to come by down here in little ol’ New Zealand! Must be a bloody good read though! Never even heard of Bickert before but sure glad that I have now, what a master!
@@daniellurman9093 I think I saw in the liner notes of a Desmond live album recorded at a club in Toronto (the Bourbon Street? If memory serves, the album is entitled Paul Desmond Live) which features the rhythm section of Bickert, Don Thompson, and Jerry Fuller. So glad to have hipped you to Bickert! He was a great one.
yes, Ed is the Desmond of jazz guitar players...
@@daniellurman9093 Sadly, Desmond never got around to writing his book. But maybe you were making a dry joke about it, because he was kind of legendary for saying it was his current project for most of his (too-short) post-Brubeck retirement.
@@zenobardot hi there, I always thought he had written an autobiography. Turns out, after a quick search on the ol’ google, I’m bloody wrong!
There are - and were - many very good jazz guitar players that I love but there was only one incomparable Ed Bickert, an extraordinary musician. I can hear his recordings again and again and they always sound fresh and inspiring, full of life and love. His humble and devoted attitude towards music comes out in every bar he plays with his battled up Telecaster. A giant!
one of my favorite trios ever!! Listening to Ed is a lesson in making tunes your own, interpreting the melodies beautifully, comping, chord melodies-chord solos, using dynamics in exciting ways and creating lines derived from the melody. he has my favorite guitar tone I've ever heard too! what an incredible performance. Don and Terry are so smokin' too
So well said. Bickert’s regard for the song’s melody is one of the pleasures of his style.
And that mix of single lines and chord melody means there’s always surprise and variety in his solos.
al riascolto e riascolto successivo...confermo impressione iniziale ...proprio bello questo CD splendido.
I always come back to Ed for inspiation. What elegant voicings.
thanks, Ed (& to Tim Lerch, another fella' who knows his way around a Tele too, for bringing Ed Bickert into my orbit)... may the heavens be as lovely as your gifts to humanity were - R.I.P.
Love that you can hear dishes and customers in the background....
great wonderful voicings, this guy makes you love tunes you never knew you liked...
All feel man. This is natural jazz talent. Year I was born this album. Partially why it's one of my favorite live albums of his work
And about a million other things.. almost no triad he plays is normal.....like someone once said, " Ed does impossible things in impossible places"....
,@@sitarnut actually for me the goal is to get inspiration, and go on my own, let your imagination and your ears do the rest...
@@sitarnut another thing, nothing is impossible, 10 hours a day, after a while you'll be surprising yourself with amazing things...;)
Damn, that was a good chord melody solo and melodic solo. Oh my God I wonder what West Montgomery would think of him I’m sure he would say that he was more advanced than he was probably. He sounds like a Fender Rhodes player not a guitar player on some of those cords I’ve never heard anything like that.
RIP such a gift
Master at work
Beautiful performance! It goes to my playlist of Favourites.
Love this new to this thank you
interessante ... lo ascolto per la prima volta... relax
1 Come Rain Or Come Shine (Arlen, Mercer) 0:00
2 Where Are You ? (Adamson, McHugh) 9:46
3 When Sonny Gets Blue (Segal, Fisher) 14:15
4 It Might as Well be Spring (Hammerstein II, Rodgers) 20:24
5 Nancy with the Laughing Face (Silvers, VanHeusen) 26:15
6 Manhã de Carnaval (Peretti, Creatore, Weiss, Bonfa) 31:01
Hope Francois Leduc transcribes some of these tunes!!
@@victorwong9622 I have 'Where are you' in progress.
RIP Ed Bickert.
Ed has had a very distinct effect on my playing. To me, he will always be my favorite guitarist. I've modeled my playing on those that shon, like Jim Hall, Joe Pass, for example, but Ed, to me, stood a cut about the rest. I heard him live quite a few times. A treasure lost.
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Oh, man, I thank you, u made my day
Love~~~
Ed Bickert was one of the greatest masters of the instrument (and music). But wow, check out the playing of Don Thompson and Terry Clarke too on this recording (both masters in their own right).
Thank You for this TH-cam video.
R.I.P., Ed.
Another wonderful jazz guitarist gone but not forgotten! RIP Ed
Those who likes this... Look up on kenny burrell... I love this kind of music.
great closed tight chord voicings reminds me of lenny breaus concept of chords. Do any of you veiwers know if Ed and Lenny knew each other? When i first saw lenny he had of hagstrom 12 string with 6 strings on it and opened with dont think twice with the harmonics like ive never heard before at the time. Ed is a new find for me and i really enjoy his style.
steve burchfield Lenny Breau was in Toronto a lot in the 1960’s and Ed Bickert lived in the Toronto area until his passing earlier this year. Not sure when Ed started living in Toronto but he was on CBC a lot. I’m guessing that it would have been almost impossible for them to have not known each other. Lenny was pretty notorious for having fun, to put it mildly. Ed Bickert always seemed like a quiet, stay at home guy but that’s just a guess. Lenny was always dipping into his country/ folk roots. Ed was a consummate professional guitar player. I had a small interaction with Ed when I was watching a gig in the Pilot Tavern in Toronto. I leaned back in my chair, my wallet fell out of my back pocket and a really nice guy picked it up and handed it to me; it was Ed Bickert. He was there to watch Dave Young and Gene Bertoncini.
Ed Bickert & Lenny Breau were playing together on a record, along with Sonny Greenwich. There is at least one cut from that on youtube, "Norwegian Wood", posted by Sonny Greenwich Jr. All three great guitarists, and unique in their styles.
There is an archived radio interview with Lenny Breau (CBC ??) where Lenny talks about liking Ed Bickert's playing, but he never said that he ever met him. The jazz community in Canada wasn't that big, so everyone would likely have known of each other, even before the internet days. I reposted that interview I think on one of the Lenny Breau Facebook pages or else on the Jazz Guitar FB group.
Read in the Lenny Breau book about Ed going to hear him play at a club.......
You can hear Ed discuss Breau a little bit at 4:35 in this interview with Ed's son Jeff: vimeo.com/92266051 He doesn't say much about how well he knew Lenny, but clearly he was very familiar with Breau's playing, and as others have posted, Ed caught Breau's live gigs in Toronto (they both played the Bourbon Street club, which was where Ed was recorded with both Paul Desmond and Frank Rosolino). Ed was supposedly a teetotaler in the 1970s, and was a homebody and family man, while Breau obviously wasn't any of these :). But I'm sure they had a mutual appreciation going on, just as Ed had with Tal Farlow and Jim Hall.
He was (in my amateur suggestion) the T.Monk on Guitar, wonderfull!!
not sure I hear it
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The guitar should be more upfront.
Agreed. The bass and drums are recorded well but Ed’s tone sounds muffled. CBC Radio broadcast Ed many times. If they still have the tapes, the CBC should make these available.
Can never get enough of Don Thompson tho
idk, i'm a big fan of jazz and guitar but this does sound a bit elevator to me.
those men are jazz legends dude.
let's hear you play trio music at such a high level then. LOL
@@alexmuscalu8439 Right on!
I don’t know what sort elevator that would be! Some of the long, angular and very chromatic solos - especially on the bass - would have driven unsuspecting punters mad!
I'm going to pretend I didn't read that remark.
lemme get in that elevator