Body and Soul - Ed Bickert guitar solo (1976)
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2021
- From the Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass album "The Jazz Album", rec. 1976.
FWIW, Ed's Telecaster here still had the original single-coil neck pickup (which he swapped out for a humbucker in 1978, according to Grant MacNeill, a luthier at the Toronto guitar shop The Twelfth Fret that Ed favored). Ed's tone wasn't really that tied to his pickups or amps, however. They played a part of course, but Ed's right-hand touch was by far the biggest factor.
Void of bebop cliches and other jazz devices , Ed Bickert was improvising. What an ear !
First time hearing him… wow!!!
Amazing solo by Ed and an amazing arrangement by Rob McConnell
The wonderful Ed Bickert! what a guitar player, he is undoubtedly, my hero.
One of the true great jazz guitarists. Vastly under appreciated, I think. Ed Bickert!❤️
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I'm almost 80 years old... I've said for years and years there's no damn reason Jazz can't be played on a Telecaster... 'Nuff said!!!...
Wholeheartedly AGREE!!! 😊👍🏼
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Sounds better than most arch tops
1:11 So good 👌
Wow! He was fantastic. His phrasing, his sound, his presence -- fantastic. I'll have to try to track down this album if it's still available. Thanks for posting.
You can find the CD used on Discogs or Amazon at the moment. Bickert typically got 2-3 solos on the Boss Brass big band albums, so if you are new to Bickert, an album like "Out of the Past" or "I Wished on the Moon" might be the place to start. Also just reissued as a download album is Bickert's 1985 album with Lorne Loftsky, "Ed Bickert/Lorne Lofsky Quartet". Qobuz.com has it for a good price in hi-res. They did a follow up album in 1990 that is better known, called "This Is New". I initially got into the Boss Brass purely because of Bickert, but I've come to like the band a lot for the other players and arrangements as well. If you are hard-core on Bickert, the Mosiac boxed set of Paul Desmond Live in 1975 with Bickert is a must-have, and a limited edition that won't be around forever. 6 CDs feature a quartet with Bickert, some of his best work.
@@jimdixon3470 Thanks very much for the info, Jim. I'll check out the albums you mentioned.
great musician
For me the only other guitarist in this class was Wes. Dozens of brilliant wonderful players, but the complexity of content, the swing and tastefulness… they stand alone.
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@@rhmayer1 lovely player-not even close. Watch his interview about Ed.
@@golds04 Yes, I did. They both remind me of each other in a few ways. Both have the same sense of beautiful tone and subtle complexity with their harmonic sense.
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Are there 'faster' players? you bet. Do their solos say as much as Ed's. No, sir! With Ed you don't hear a lot of scales; instead there are these hip lines that make you wish you had thought of them...fresh, interesting, musical lines that live on.
The man had a song in his soul. Even when he's comping behind a soloist, those delightful song-like lines in his chords and voice leading turn the performance into a kind of duet between himself and the soloist. Steve Wallace said "Ed could also make more pure music just accompanying people than most musicians could when soloing or in the spotlight." It's all coming from the same love affair with melody, Ed's soloing and his comping. I do think this solo is one of his more memorable ones.
I hear some scales in there sometimes. He definitely knew his scales and arpeggios. But, he used them masterfully.
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Ed would sound good playing a toaster with 6 strings. It’s doesn’t sound anything like a proper an arch top. It’s sounds like one of the greats on a tele, with his own jazz voice. RIP Ed.
I agree with all this--Ed sounded great in the 50s-60s when he played his Gibson 175, and he sounded great (and a bit different) playing a solid-body. Don Thompson once said "The Telecaster was his instrument, and I don’t think he could have done it on another guitar. It had a lot to do with that sound. It was so dark, giving the illusion the chords were way bigger than they were. It was that sustain, and he was so in tune that set him apart."
I think what Don was getting at with the sustain comment was true, whether or not an actual Telecaster was required rather than some other solidbody. And Lorne Lofsky once said the first time he heard Ed on the "Pure Desmond" LP he thought he was hearing an electric piano. While guitarists do sometimes spend to much time talking/obsessing over equipment and not enough time thinking about a player's touch and other intangibles, in this case the equipment (combined with the light touch) really was important to the sound we love. I think it was sort of a happy accident, as Ed was not an equipment junkie in the least--he only bought gear out of professional necessity. All that said, buying a Telecaster doesn't get you a tenth of the way there! Lofsky really nailed the Bickert sound early in his career, much as Sonny Stitt got the Charlie Parker thing down pretty well. And Lofsky was playing a Les Paul in those days.