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[ramonjazzguitar]

hey guy's,

This video is pretty cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aYEGAbgmv8


ramon

[Jazzy]

Yeah, thanks for the clip. He`s awesome

[YoungBlood]

That was killer, thanks for that link!

[Jens]

nice! Thanks
Jens
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[Bjorn]

I havent heard much with Scott Henderson, and I dont have any cd´s with him....But I know how famous he is....

This is a funny clip though, and a difficult clip for me to figure wether I like it or not.....
I think I´ll listen to it a few more times before commenting, also because, IMHO, the tune Giant steps, is one of the tunes which really tell you something musically about the person who plays it.....

Later.............

Bjørn
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[Jens]

I saw him live a few years ago, at a concert in Utrecht, where he was the supporting act to Kurt Rosenwinkel (which is wierd on several levels, one beeing that Scott Henderson was ten times as loud). That was a concert that was also broadcast on the radio, you probably heard the bootleg of that somewhere....
Anyway, I thought it was great. He was playing with Kirk Covington and a bassplayer that I don't remember, it was a lot of blues and it was very good, I didn't expect anything and it really blew me away. Kirk is by the way also playing with Seamus Blake and Scott Kinsey on the indian video in the Seamus Blake/Lage Lund thread.
Maybe it is not the way to check him out in this clip where he is playing with Band in a box.... But still check some more YouTube from him, he really plays nice stuff, espcially his rhytmical ideas are often quite advanced and as you can hear on this video he knows how to apply it to changes too. Check some of the tribal tech stuff: Rocket Science and Reality Check are both good.

Jens
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[Bjorn]

I hear you loud and clear Jens...

As I said, I´ve heard some things, though not that much....
And what I´ve heard has also been better than this....

It somehow made me think of a workshop I saw with Mike Stern in Dk, where he was totally off on drugs....It was stupid.
The teachers left the room during the workshop embarresed, and the only thing he could say was, ''you gotta learn the language''.......''you know''.....''music is a language''.....''you know''.....''speak the language''....
Anyway, I cant say why this clip brought me back to this, but somehowe it did....
But I´ll listen again and post later......

Bjørn.........
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Groups: BW - Brazilian Group, BW - Frevo Orquestra.

[Jens]

Living in the Netherlands I have seen a few masterclasses and shows where artists were a bit too high to really be great. I have also had that they played really good but when they started announcing you could hear they might be a bit under the influence.
I have been both disappointed and impressed on that account as I cannot drink and play myself.

Jens
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[alfonso]

Jens,
Hey I liked it, talented player. I also went to a workshop with a Gypsy Jazz guy named Robin Nolan, as good as Robin and his Brother play, the workshop sucked. There weren't any handouts at all, that's cool some players don't give out handouts but I didn't learn anything. Hell I'm not that good so I wanted to hear something about his speed picking technique or learn at least one song, the song they worked on I already knew. I learned nothing, they mostly played and talked about the pompe'. Sorry Robin, but I felt really ripped off the best thing that happened to me in that workshop was one of the fellow students brought in his Maccaferri-Selmer that he had just bought for $35,000.00. He let Robin play it and Robin smelled the soundhole and said yeah that's the smell, very nice but here's what I play and it only costs $800.00, it was a Saga Guitar who has now hooked up to Gitane Guitar Co. later

[Jens]

Well some people don't have a story to tell about how they make music or learned how to make music. That happens too. You can only hope that they then don't give workshops.
I find that often good players were/are very busy with learning stuff and like talking about that proces. But that is not always the case. As a teacher I also become much more aware of how I do things when I have to explain an aspect of playing to a student. It is only bad luck for the first student who asks because I don't have a good coherent story at that time. But that's another story, I guess.
Jens
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[alfonso]

Jens,
Yeah the bottom line is not all great jazz guitarist are great educators, I noticed last year if my memory serves me right I don't think Robin Nolan was doing the workshop thing. As far as Gypsy Jazz goes I did find out that night from a fellow guitarist who put on the best workshops as he went to 3 or 4 so in case any of you guys run into the GJ workshops these educators were in his eyes the best. Check out this guts website if you like GJ =Alfonso Pontacelli, John Jorgenson of course and Paul Mehling. Just thought I'd pass on some information, keep in mind that my whole statement prior to this post was only my opinion, as at least one of the players I talked to afterwards did learn alot from Robin Nolans workshop but he truly was a beginner. later

[Jens]