Thats what is great about music, always something to learn. Im 57, been playing since i was 7, and ive barely learned a thing other than blues, trying to learn some jazz too.
Yeah, I had success with that as well. It's funny, those 5 scales are not really that different from the common scales that everyone knows (and which are taught at Berklee) but the way Jimmy presents them and thinks of them make a lot of sense. They offer a solid blueprint for the guitar.
Howard Roberts taught me the 5 scale shapes in the 70’s. They are the foundation of everything I play to this day. I wonder if they’re the same as Jimmy’s.
Someone else Commented that Jimmy Bruno is a Living Legend. That's absolutely true. Lets Remember their are other Living Legends that are fortunately still with us. Kenny Burrell, George Benson, John Pisano among others. Also, and Jimmy talked about this, their isn't just One Way to Learn Jazz, their also isn't just One Way to Teach Jazz. Ultimately you have to find the way that works for you. Thanks.
@tychoshea Over the past approximately 10 years I've had the pleasure of seeing Live Performances by Jimmy Cobb, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and others. The Best part was having the opportunity to Talk to them for a moment after the show and Thank Them for what a big inspiration and influence they are to Me and so many others.
jimmy bruno the master , telling me how little he knew when starting out and being self-taught , to hearing chords as colors gives me inspiration to learn more every day i'm 71
Good night, Jimmy. All the time you are talking about Joe and Pat , I’m thinking, man, He’s fortunate. I remember you when I started playing guitar. At the beginning level, no one would teach me or share, how to play a major scale. I couldn’t get it. As I got better, the same would happen. So at the time my girlfriend had a clarinet, so during summer school I went to learn how to read. The year that followed I learned to read guitar music so well that I bucked into one of the most influential person of my life who was part of the Broadway road show, and needed a guitar player that could read. I couldn’t play a lick, but I was broke. Committed 2 minor mistakes, and was hired. That musical director showed me how to be a professional musician. To this day, haven’t found someone who knows or can play Pensativa. Smile. Thanks for your introspection. Very rewarding.
Being a public school kid in Hawaii with very little access to Jazz education, but a strong hunger to learn jazz, Jimmy’s hot licks videos and his old online school gave me my starting foundation in playing and understanding the language of Jazz, and it’s a journey I am still on today. Thank you very much Jimmy for being such a great steward of Jazz, and also for all the laughs and chuckles I get to this day when you “tell it like it is” on your own TH-cam channel.
I love this video. I started studying jazz in the late 1970s when it was starting to be taught in the academies, and a lot of Jimmy’s organic learning was being put into the Mickey Baker books and the Joe Pass chord book and studies.
Hi Jimmy I so enjoy your videos I learned to play jazz a totally different way. I was fortunate enough to hang out at the original Birdland. They had a peanut gallery for kids under 18. For the price of a cake you could watch and listen to the greatest jazz players in world. Besides the cycle of 4ths in scales and arpeggios I learned the rest from the masters at Birdland. And years later I had the good fortune to play with a lot of them
Hey Dom! Hope you're doing well. I used to hang out at RMMGJ - that's where I know you from. Too bad that Lord Valve guy was allowed to ruin it for everyone.
I’m sooooo glad you addressed the circle of whatever. I appreciate it very much. I thought I was the only one who was confused by the intervallic label but to hear you as a jazz great mention what you mentioned, I feel more normal as a human being and as an American English speaker.
Wow, I really dig the idea of colors. I've been trying to wrap my head around the idea of chords for a while but as a trumpet player - and a beginner - it just doesn't click. But seeing chords as colors is a whole new ball game.
Knowing all these musical relationships and pulling out melodies and harmonies is just such an amazing encyclopedic knowledge of tones and intervals. The ear of jazz players just baffles me. Being a rock player, I realize the difference is discipline and PRACTICE. Doing everting in all 12 keys all the time....wow. I ready an article from a great guitar player, I forget who......he said something to the effect of...."there are no short cuts. You have to put in the time." Amen brother.
I don't understand all terms, I've been playing since I was 8 until 28. But, not everyday. Still, I've been doing a lot of this by the influence of listening to people like you. So, thank you for jamming and continuing to be accessible. Rock on man
Jimmy's a great teacher. So many players sound like they studied way too long... but don't play anything moving. Jimmy knows how to make play with feeling. I love that he has synesthesia. I have been seeing music in colors since I was a kid. It made it easy to play by ear. Hearing and visuals and together made it natural to hear notes going up or down. Anyway, Jimmy is the real deal. I still have his oldest instructional video; wish I had something to play it on. Blessings Jimmy! And thank you!
I've got you by 6 years. Learned guitar pretty much the same way. Keyboard @ 8, guitar @ 11, alto @ 13. All this contributed to playing melodically which is another reason 'I can't buy a job'! (chuckles) Nice video.
I loved the part about weddings. When I was learning, playing weddings was where you pull the stuff together. It was funny about holding up fingers. If the the band leader was a horn player the fingers up were the flat keys and down were the sharp keys. Great days or in my case daze! Lol😅
I call them "Grips" as well. I came up with that term because I was "Grappling with Grappelli" trying to learn Jazz Violin. It's nice to know that after all these years that I'm finally on the same page as Joe. I had a great guitar teacher: Tim Hayden who was a hometown guy that studied at Berklee. He took me through all the Berklee guitar books but taught me Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery using Chord diagrams with each lick dotted out. I still prefer this to written music because I could see where the Half Steps occurred, instead of having to memorize where they were in the scale.
AL STAUFFER!! I was wondering if you were going to mention him, such a big influence on many of us. I studied from him as well but didn’t really know Jimmy except hearing him play in Philly. Great player 🙌🏼🙌🏼 ~ John Benthal
Loved Al & always saw him w/another Sandoli Virtuoso Gr-8, Chuck Anderson, who is still performing and producing nice albums. Didn't find out 'till a recent High School reunion that in addition his Jazz expertise Chuck taught Marley guitarist Al Anderson. God bless & Cheers!
@@jjmohn9204 yeah, I studied from Chuck. Great teacher for technical stuff, Al was actually a better jazz teacher tho. Michael Sembello (session guy, composer of’Maniac” fame) also studied with Chuck.
Jimmy. It's not just your technical ability that makes me like your playing, but the fact that you have an incredible style. I'm a HUGE Pat Martino fan. I don't much care for Hank Garland's style, but he was great. I can play lead to just about anything, but I need more work with those crazy @ss jazz chords. But, anyway, peace man. You and Pat are my all-time favorites.
Used get up @ 5am San Diego for the early Bruno Rant, Take it or leave it what you see is what you get, not just no nonsense Guitar, no nonsense real McCoy 😾
Before i learn a jazz solo, i also learn it in parts and then improv. Once i get all the parts down, then i play the whole thing. The few times, it will be wrong, but i keep refining ot until i get it perfect. That's how i learned Donna Lee.
I took lessons from a guitarist Dan Bennon from Bloomfield New Jersey he grew up in the 1930s and he was an old man when he taught me guitar in the 70s 60s and he said there was no books on guitar back then his guitar wasn't even electric when he started so the guitarist that you hear from anything below the 70s really didn't have great instruction they would have to learn their craft by listening to the recordings they had in one book on guitar technique it was by Mel Bay. that's where you could learn the chords and it was weird because all his chords most of them do you had to skip the A string.
because they didn't have a codified way of playing the guitar that's why he's talking about grips on the guitar and basically it sounds like they just had a little structure. that they learned and they put them together piecemeal randomly somehow to come up with a decent presentation. Which is what I learned how to do. Playing chords is totally different than soloing. And to put notes together when you solo all over the fretboard you need to try to start somewhere my piecemeal solution was to start on the fifth fret usually because that would utilize most of the fretboard that is accessible. Duh in the middle. And then I learned how to play in keys specifically songs that were in certain keys.
So, in other words, early guitar players had to master their own technique from scratch, which is crazy if you think about it. Because all the other instruments had textbooks, etc., but not for jazz guitar. Even if you studied classical guitar at the time, I gather that the technique was totally different. Improvisation was also a challenge, and there was no solution for it either. But now, with places like Berklee College of Music, etc., young guitarists sound really good technically, but they sometimes lack that emotional feel which I hope experiences will somehow touch their technique. A classic example of a great guitarist, who I'm not sure if he was totally self-taught, is Pasquale Grasso. He has fantastic technique and fantastic emotional presence."
@@grantgre any advice in learning to improv in this way? And if I do learn from records what's a good way to implement the material in my own playing?
@@m3ntalcollid3r i'm not sure of what way you're saying but all I can tell you is that you have to make an emotional decision and intellectual decision to try to play what you're hearing other players play. And once you make that emotional commitment because it's going to be a lot of work and you're gonna have to try that practice. Bruno was talking about basically he learned by practicing little licks and you can hear that and his playing if you hear him. And I think that most guitars have their set of licks, some are more sophisticated than others and or more complicated to pull off technically. But one so-called riff would you need to just play a scale in whatever key he would like to try to play the scale that say see starting on the third fret, then you would like to play it in on the fifth fret, then you wanna play it on the eighth fret and so on until you can basically play that scale at any position on the fretboard. That should get you started. Then play a tune that's in C and play that scale over the tund and see what fits and where they don't and try to use a different scale or a different note on that particular chord that clashes Dont study the modes and all that stuff it's it's too complicated and it takes you away from learning the fretboard because it's it's too much for a beginner. I think the goal of improvisation should be to play and present yourself with an instantaneous in the moment creation which is unique to you and also surprising to the listeners such that they think the music is interesting. Because after all if you play the same Alex are the same tune over and over again it gets boring . You may have practice same thing 1 million times but when you play it out and in that moment it may sound fresh and creative. People like Wes Montgomery develop their technique which was highly unusual at the time nobody played like that and therefore when you heard him it sounded so fresh and so beautiful because it was musical. And melodic. you should listen to the Wes you should listen to Bruno you should listen to Ed Bickert, Jim hall Pat Metheny, George Benson Joe Pass, Johnny Smith, Chuck Wayne, Hank Garland, Billy Bauer, Tony Mottola. Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker etc. Kenny Burrell, Jimmy ponder miles early miles and late miles. I learn to know what you like and try to expose yourself to other musics that you don't necessarily have heard like the great Brazilian guitarists Guinga etc like I said this is an Ocean that you can jump into.
I also took lessons from Dan Bennon in Bloomfield NJ for about 4 months back in 1980. I still have some of the lessons. Incredible chord melody player. A real taskmaster to be sure. Old School.
I noticed several guitarists that know theory, but they basically learned it on their own, and/or came up with their own language for it. Like Allan Holdsworth had his own way to write most of the theory.
I don't claim to be an expert but I know what I like. 😊 I think a young guitarist who is getting into jazz would do well to pick his 7 or 8 favorite players and listen to everything they ever played. But, I ALSO think it's good to listen to vibe and clarinet players as well. And maybe take a few lessons with a lounge type pianist to learn how they comp in the background to support a singer. I wish I could turn the clock back 50 years and take my own advice.
How refreshing to watch a great player showing people the ‘human’ way the guitar is learned, rather than the’99 things you schmucks out there all suck at’ approach.
yoghurt or cottage cheese? smooth yoghurt is in tune within one cent, has a compensated bridge & compensated nut. cottage cheese is bumpy and has straight nut with compensated bridge. you are out of tune at least 5 cents with a straight nut=cottage cheese. bumpy feel
Learn songs and the words. Then sing cool stuff between the vocal phrases. Sing the string parts on romantic songs and I believe your playing won’t sound like student-stuff
Im trying to learn in my 70’s
Thats what is great about music, always something to learn. Im 57, been playing since i was 7, and ive barely learned a thing other than blues, trying to learn some jazz too.
Me too!
Same here
It's worth it!
His VHS tape entitled, "No nonsense guitar" was a secret magic stone for budding Jazz guitarists.
His 5 scale shapes totally turned me into a pretty good jazz guitar player and I owe Jimmy a debt of gratitude.
Yeah, I had success with that as well. It's funny, those 5 scales are not really that different from the common scales that everyone knows (and which are taught at Berklee) but the way Jimmy presents them and thinks of them make a lot of sense. They offer a solid blueprint for the guitar.
Howard Roberts taught me the 5 scale shapes in the 70’s. They are the foundation of everything I play to this day. I wonder if they’re the same as Jimmy’s.
Where can someone learn these nowadays?
Yes please share it with us !
@@salvatormundi5184 his no nonsense dvd
Someone else Commented that Jimmy Bruno is a Living Legend. That's absolutely true. Lets Remember their are other Living Legends that are fortunately still with us. Kenny Burrell, George Benson, John Pisano among others. Also, and Jimmy talked about this, their isn't just One Way to Learn Jazz, their also isn't just One Way to Teach Jazz. Ultimately you have to find the way that works for you. Thanks.
😂 Relax
@@lowellcalavera6045 I'll try to.
I was so grateful to have caught Herbie down in New Orleans this past May… what a treat to see him still shredding keytar
@tychoshea Over the past approximately 10 years I've had the pleasure of seeing Live Performances by Jimmy Cobb, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and others. The Best part was having the opportunity to Talk to them for a moment after the show and Thank Them for what a big inspiration and influence they are to Me and so many others.
As in Life
jimmy bruno the master , telling me how little he knew when starting out and being self-taught ,
to hearing chords as colors gives me inspiration
to learn more every day i'm 71
Jimmy, you sound and look great. I'm glad you're back.
Did he quit smoking?
I miss his online school. Learned a lot there. His 5 shapes are an absolute MUST
He has Bruno online school here on TH-cam.
Jimmy is a treasure trove of wisdom
God bless you Mr Bruno!
I feel blessed to have sat in his masterclass last week.
Good night, Jimmy. All the time you are talking about Joe and Pat , I’m thinking, man, He’s fortunate. I remember you when I started playing guitar. At the beginning level, no one would teach me or share, how to play a major scale. I couldn’t get it. As I got better, the same would happen. So at the time my girlfriend had a clarinet, so during summer school I went to learn how to read. The year that followed I learned to read guitar music so well that I bucked into one of the most influential person of my life who was part of the Broadway road show, and needed a guitar player that could read. I couldn’t play a lick, but I was broke. Committed 2 minor mistakes, and was hired. That musical director showed me how to be a professional musician. To this day, haven’t found someone who knows or can play Pensativa. Smile. Thanks for your introspection. Very rewarding.
Being a public school kid in Hawaii with very little access to Jazz education, but a strong hunger to learn jazz, Jimmy’s hot licks videos and his old online school gave me my starting foundation in playing and understanding the language of Jazz, and it’s a journey I am still on today.
Thank you very much Jimmy for being such a great steward of Jazz, and also for all the laughs and chuckles I get to this day when you “tell it like it is” on your own TH-cam channel.
I love this video. I started studying jazz in the late 1970s when it was starting to be taught in the academies, and a lot of Jimmy’s organic learning was being put into the Mickey Baker books and the Joe Pass chord book and studies.
I took a couple of lessons from this man and believe me he is a genius, teaching method is like no other, and my favorite player of all time.
Such a great storyteller. Thanks for the vid
Hi Jimmy I so enjoy your videos
I learned to play jazz a totally different way.
I was fortunate enough to hang out at the original Birdland. They had a peanut gallery for kids under 18. For the price of a cake you could watch and listen to the greatest jazz players in world. Besides the cycle of 4ths in scales and arpeggios
I learned the rest from the masters at Birdland. And years later I had the good fortune to play with a lot of them
Hey Dom! Hope you're doing well. I used to hang out at RMMGJ - that's where I know you from. Too bad that Lord Valve guy was allowed to ruin it for everyone.
I’m sooooo glad you addressed the circle of whatever. I appreciate it very much. I thought I was the only one who was confused by the intervallic label but to hear you as a jazz great mention what you mentioned, I feel more normal as a human being and as an American English speaker.
Wow, I really dig the idea of colors. I've been trying to wrap my head around the idea of chords for a while but as a trumpet player - and a beginner - it just doesn't click. But seeing chords as colors is a whole new ball game.
Just wanted to say thank you Jimmy. These lessons are pure gold, really appreciate you spreading the word to us youngsters.
There he is! Brilliant and all Jimmy, class act and great guy.
Knowing all these musical relationships and pulling out melodies and harmonies is just such an amazing encyclopedic knowledge of tones and intervals. The ear of jazz players just baffles me. Being a rock player, I realize the difference is discipline and PRACTICE. Doing everting in all 12 keys all the time....wow. I ready an article from a great guitar player, I forget who......he said something to the effect of...."there are no short cuts. You have to put in the time." Amen brother.
I don't understand all terms, I've been playing since I was 8 until 28. But, not everyday. Still, I've been doing a lot of this by the influence of listening to people like you. So, thank you for jamming and continuing to be accessible. Rock on man
Admitting he has musical kinesthesia at about 6:09
Maybe this is most important ❤❤❤
Jimmy. For what it's worth, this video, for me, is one of your best. Thanks
He mentioned the tune Ebb Tide. Such a beautiful melody.
This man is one of the last greats and he is a genius
True man!
Such a shame he is not more widely known, even more now that he is one of the very few of his generation left.
@@axeman2638 agreed his playing is on par with Pass Green Kessel and Wilkins
@@joshferguson9703 its not on par with wes
@@anotherbahamianguitarplayer it’s better than Wes imo
This is wonderful.
Wow, what an interesting man. I really enjoyed that.
One of my favourite interviews.
Just an amazing player. I'm using those tips for myself and it helps very much! Jimmy seems like great fun guy who loves his guitar!
Appreciate hearing Jimmy’s thoughts.
Jimmy's a great teacher. So many players sound like they studied way too long... but don't play anything moving. Jimmy knows how to make play with feeling. I love that he has synesthesia. I have been seeing music in colors since I was a kid. It made it easy to play by ear. Hearing and visuals and together made it natural to hear notes going up or down. Anyway, Jimmy is the real deal. I still have his oldest instructional video; wish I had something to play it on.
Blessings Jimmy!
And thank you!
Great insights from Jimmy!!
I've got you by 6 years. Learned guitar pretty much the same way. Keyboard @ 8, guitar @ 11, alto @ 13. All this contributed to playing melodically which is another reason 'I can't buy a job'! (chuckles) Nice video.
Thank you Bruno.
Love Jimmy Bruno! Learned good stuff from his videos! God bless him. 👍🏼😎🙏🏼🎼🎶🎵🎸🎵🎶🎼
Garota de Ipanema! Viva o Brasil! Congrats!!!👏👏👏
Love you, Jimmy!
This is one of your better videos...more vulnerable somehow. I love you Jimmy but man you can be a hard ass. Great video.
Nice to hear Al Stauffer's name come up- important teacher from Phila.
So great…
Jimmy we know that anyone who can play the standards can play anything else in the world but jazz players are the most humble of all musicians.
What. A. Tone❤
I loved the part about weddings. When I was learning, playing weddings was where you pull the stuff together. It was funny about holding up fingers. If the the band leader was a horn player the fingers up were the flat keys and down were the sharp keys. Great days or in my case daze! Lol😅
What beautiful playing! Thank you Jimmy and everyone who helped make this video. 🎶💕👍
"and something else.." love it!
Good to see you back !!!
Boys and girls, here's a legend, watch in awe and absorb.
Excellent
I call them "Grips" as well. I came up with that term because I was "Grappling with Grappelli" trying to learn Jazz Violin. It's nice to know that after all these years that I'm finally on the same page as Joe. I had a great guitar teacher: Tim Hayden who was a hometown guy that studied at Berklee. He took me through all the Berklee guitar books but taught me Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery using Chord diagrams with each lick dotted out. I still prefer this to written music because I could see where the Half Steps occurred, instead of having to memorize where they were in the scale.
This is refreshing and encouraging thank you for sharing!❤
AL STAUFFER!! I was wondering if you were going to mention him, such a big influence on many of us. I studied from him as well but didn’t really know Jimmy except hearing him play in Philly. Great player 🙌🏼🙌🏼
~ John Benthal
He was a jazz bassist but taught improvisation for players of all instruments.
Loved Al & always saw him w/another Sandoli Virtuoso Gr-8, Chuck Anderson, who is still performing and producing nice albums. Didn't find out 'till a recent High School reunion that in addition his Jazz expertise Chuck taught Marley guitarist Al Anderson. God bless & Cheers!
@@jjmohn9204 yeah, I studied from Chuck. Great teacher for technical stuff, Al was actually a better jazz teacher tho. Michael Sembello (session guy, composer of’Maniac” fame) also studied with Chuck.
Never forget Diorio. He was a master. I love his guitar playing.
Jimmy. It's not just your technical ability that makes me like your playing, but the fact that you have an incredible style. I'm a HUGE Pat Martino fan. I don't much care for Hank Garland's style, but he was great. I can play lead to just about anything, but I need more work with those crazy @ss jazz chords. But, anyway, peace man. You and Pat are my all-time favorites.
Great performance 👏👏👏thanks for sharing from Miami
the real deal! thanks a lot.
awesome discussion, thanks!
Bravo Mikey!
Legend..
So inspiring,thank you.
Legend. Privileged to have learned from the great JB
Jimmy 'Clooney' Bruno
Best teacher for no bullshit guitar jazz on YT
so good great sound wow
Wow, this is fantastic, thank you Jimmy, for your clarity and great history lesson
Miss those old morning shows--coffee-cigarettes and the news.
Used get up @ 5am San Diego for the early Bruno Rant, Take it or leave it what you see is what you get, not just no nonsense Guitar, no nonsense real McCoy 😾
Me to! The Bruno rant...
He has Bruno online school on TH-cam. But I agree, those daily morning videos were priceless.
Can we still do the those ? Daily Bruno videos
You ok in Canada with all the wild fire? You are a very good player and teacher thanks.
Great
Before i learn a jazz solo, i also learn it in parts and then improv. Once i get all the parts down, then i play the whole thing. The few times, it will be wrong, but i keep refining ot until i get it perfect. That's how i learned Donna Lee.
I took lessons from a guitarist Dan Bennon from Bloomfield New Jersey he grew up in the 1930s and he was an old man when he taught me guitar in the 70s 60s and he said there was no books on guitar back then his guitar wasn't even electric when he started so the guitarist that you hear from anything below the 70s really didn't have great instruction they would have to learn their craft by listening to the recordings they had in one book on guitar technique it was by Mel Bay. that's where you could learn the chords and it was weird because all his chords most of them do you had to skip the A string.
because they didn't have a codified way of playing the guitar
that's why he's talking about grips on the guitar and basically it sounds like they just had a little structure.
that they learned and they put them together piecemeal randomly somehow to come up with a decent presentation. Which is what I learned how to do. Playing chords is totally different than soloing. And to put notes together when you solo all over the fretboard you need to try to start somewhere
my piecemeal solution was to start on the fifth fret usually because that would utilize most of the fretboard that is accessible. Duh in the middle. And then I learned how to play in keys specifically songs that were in certain keys.
So, in other words, early guitar players had to master their own technique from scratch, which is crazy if you think about it. Because all the other instruments had textbooks, etc., but not for jazz guitar. Even if you studied classical guitar at the time, I gather that the technique was totally different. Improvisation was also a challenge, and there was no solution for it either. But now, with places like Berklee College of Music, etc., young guitarists sound really good technically, but they sometimes lack that emotional feel which I hope experiences will somehow touch their technique. A classic example of a great guitarist, who I'm not sure if he was totally self-taught, is Pasquale Grasso. He has fantastic technique and fantastic emotional presence."
@@grantgre any advice in learning to improv in this way? And if I do learn from records what's a good way to implement the material in my own playing?
@@m3ntalcollid3r i'm not sure of what way you're saying but all I can tell you is that you have to make an emotional decision and intellectual decision to try to play what you're hearing other players play. And once you make that emotional commitment because it's going to be a lot of work and you're gonna have to try that practice. Bruno was talking about basically he learned by practicing little licks and you can hear that and his playing if you hear him. And I think that most guitars have their set of licks, some are more sophisticated than others and or more complicated to pull off technically. But one so-called riff would you need to just play a scale in whatever key he would like to try to play the scale that say see starting on the third fret, then you would like to play it in on the fifth fret, then you wanna play it on the eighth fret and so on until you can basically play that scale at any position on the fretboard. That should get you started. Then play a tune that's in C and play that scale over the tund and see what fits and where they don't and try to use a different scale or a different note on that particular chord that clashes Dont study the modes and all that stuff it's it's too complicated and it takes you away from learning the fretboard because it's it's too much for a beginner.
I think the goal of improvisation should be to play and present yourself with an instantaneous in the moment creation which is unique to you and also surprising to the listeners such that they think the music is interesting. Because after all if you play the same Alex are the same tune over and over again it gets boring . You may have practice same thing 1 million times but when you play it out and in that moment it may sound fresh and creative. People like Wes Montgomery develop their technique which was highly unusual at the time nobody played like that and therefore when you heard him it sounded so fresh and so beautiful because it was musical. And melodic. you should listen to the Wes you should listen to Bruno you should listen to Ed Bickert, Jim hall Pat Metheny, George Benson Joe Pass, Johnny Smith, Chuck Wayne, Hank Garland, Billy Bauer, Tony Mottola. Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker etc. Kenny Burrell, Jimmy ponder miles early miles and late miles. I learn to know what you like and try to expose yourself to other musics that you don't necessarily have heard like the great Brazilian guitarists Guinga etc like I said this is an Ocean that you can jump into.
I also took lessons from Dan Bennon in Bloomfield NJ for about 4 months back in 1980. I still have some of the lessons. Incredible chord melody player. A real taskmaster to be sure. Old School.
I enjoyed this video very much, thanks!
Love him!
Great musician !
I noticed several guitarists that know theory, but they basically learned it on their own, and/or came up with their own language for it. Like Allan Holdsworth had his own way to write most of the theory.
선생님 항상 건강하셔야되요❤❤❤
Thanks, Jimmy. There is so much insight in this video!
I don't claim to be an expert but I know what I like. 😊
I think a young guitarist who is getting into jazz would do well to pick his 7 or 8 favorite players and listen to everything they ever played. But, I ALSO think it's good to listen to vibe and clarinet players as well. And maybe take a few lessons with a lounge type pianist to learn how they comp in the background to support a singer.
I wish I could turn the clock back 50 years and take my own advice.
Amazing to hear him speak about learning with joe pass and tal farlow. Legend speaking about legends, gotta learn from the greats
is handy when everybody around speaks the language you want to learn.
He's a fine guitarist.
Just remind me please, what Jimmy said about Django?
YEAHHH
Kenny Burrell is my all time favorite.
Basically the way to learn jazz effectively is to be surrounded by other people who know and play jazz.
How refreshing to watch a great player showing people the ‘human’ way the guitar is learned, rather than the’99 things you schmucks out there all suck at’ approach.
Toller Werdegang...toller Mensch..... großartig
Brilliance....coming from a brilliant guy.
Hello Long Island - - from JOE MONK up in Heaven !
@3:00
❤️
Your the shit jimmy. Thanks for this
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I could spend MONTHS learning from him from sunup to sundown
🎸💎🎵😎👌
Wow. Know songs in all 12 keys. Holy sh t.
Jazz is a great yet at the same time a funny idiom. It’s not like classical music. Classical guitar is perfection. Jazz is wild
They didn't sound like jazz. They seemed like they went to school. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
yoghurt or cottage cheese? smooth yoghurt is in tune within one cent, has a compensated bridge & compensated nut. cottage cheese is bumpy and has straight nut with compensated bridge. you are out of tune at least 5 cents with a straight nut=cottage cheese. bumpy feel
Learn songs and the words. Then sing cool stuff between the vocal phrases. Sing the string parts on romantic songs and I believe your playing won’t sound like student-stuff
Don't go nowhere... I'll be right back.
Study his 5 shapes and doorways open!!