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Flamencology
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Turning back from piano to guitar, Bill Frisell also recorded a really nice, spare guitar/trumpet duet album with Ron Miles under Miles's name, can't remember the title.
Flamencology
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My favourite Miles Davis records are the 2nd Quintet stuff. Studio and live albums each have their own (sometimes similar, sometimes radically different) merits.
Flamencology
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I really liked the guitar trio records he was putting out 5 or 6 years ago. I don't love him leading bigger combos, though, he's not a particularly great composer, arranger, or bandleader.
edit: the guitar/sax unison stuff in that vid really just makes me want to listen to Rosenwinkel with Mark Turner, who have truly incredible synch/telepathy, and the rest makes me want to listen to Metheny. Both guitarists who are phenomenally talented composers.
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I just ran across him online a few weeks ago. I actually liked him playing standards in a clinic video I saw a lot better, which probably speaks to his writing.
Flamencology
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If you're looking for an album, Nine Stories Wide might be the best of the lot.
My favourite straight-ahead standards guy is possibly Howard Alden, who might well be the most underrated guitarist on the planet.
Howie doesn't realize how lucky he is to be a NYer.
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Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
Howie can't afford to be a lucky NYer all the time. :(
He is awesome. I got to see him sit in with Les Paul at the Irridium some years ago....it would be nice to hear him on his own gig.
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Frank Prince
Slowhand
Howard Alden is super-good! He played guitar in the Sean Penn movie Sweet And Lowdown, which was a fun time.
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eloydrummerboy
& the Flaming Monkeys
Well...
Are they going to let him name it that?
Are they going to let him name it that?
Flamencology
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Yeah, he wrote a couple of the original numbers for that movie.
He's a musician's musician, and the kind of guy you can't really appreciate until you've heard the next 300 guys. His playing has immense sense of history dating all the way back to the early-20s, yet it always shows a modern grasp and perspective. And his solos are typically well-structured and have a sense of narrative, cohesion, storytelling, or what have you. He almost never plays licks or cliches. He's not as much of an innovator, composer, original voice, etc., as some of my favourite favourites, but he is the textbook opposite of what I dislike about jazz guitar at its worst.
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Tig
Fucktangular
Thanks for the suggestions, Doc. Kenny Baron and Stan Getz: People Time is full of beautiful jazz. I believe Stan died just a few months later. My Dad has been a long time fan of Getz and saw him live several times.
Flamencology
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Yeah, it's a special record. Getz's health was failing, his sound isn't anywhere near as gorgeous as it was in his prime, he runs out of breath, etc. But he finds a way to transcend his limitations. Performances like that are part of the reason why jazz is unique.
There's a duet record of Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach playing a duet concert in Paris in '89 that has a very similar story yet manages to have a totally different mood and vibe.
Tig
Fucktangular
You might enjoy Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz But Beautiful.
Recorded in '74.
mikesr1963
Gonna walk my dog, you?
I listened to 13 minutes of this, is it just one tune?
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