Oz Noy: “Go Out Of Your House And Play Live”
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2023
- This episode of Dipped In Tone features Rhett flying solo with veteran jazz guitarist Oz Noy. Born in Israel, Noy started gigging at age 13, and 37 years later, he’s still going strong as a celebrated live musician-including a 17-year run at New York City club The Bitter End.
Noy explains that he grew up with a foot in both jazz and rock music worlds. The former taught him intricate playing, while the latter schooled him on tone and sound. “I was playing heavy metal on one hand,” he says. “On the other, I had a hollowbody guitar and I was playing bebop.” When he moved to New York, he was “shellshocked” by how advanced and impressive the jazz music scene was. Noy played in a trio, so to fill out his sonic palette, he began leaning on effects as “almost another instrument.” Not all of it has been intentional-he found a signature sound thanks to a happy accident with a tremolo pedal while gigging in Japan.
While he still loves old, loud Marshalls, Noy says Two-Rock amplifiers have radically changed his approach, and he even uses Fender combos on the road. But aside from running his amps into a Universal Audio OX, Noy explains why he’s still not impressed with digital amp solutions.
Noy’s most important advice for players? “You gotta go out of your house and play live,” he says, explaining why it doesn’t cut it to just home-record clips for Instagram or UA-cam. And while he sings the praises of his favorite modern jazz players, he tells Rhett why he thinks that rock and blues guitar-playing haven’t evolved much since the ’70s: “There’s nobody that took it to the next level or invented something new.”
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My favourite modern guitar player, dude's just incredible. Great interview Rhett!
Nice interview Rhett. Oz is one of the best out there and the guy I always tell rockers who are jazz curious to check out. Anyone who gets a chance to spend a week in NYC should go seek him out and catch him at Bitter End, have never left there without a big stupid smile on my face.
Great interview!
Thanks, gotta love Oz!
Oz is phenomenal!
The black knob twin reverb that came out after the red knob one is referred to as the Evil Twin, since it was the first one that had a legit overdrive channel.
Oz is my favorite jazz, fusión guitar player, his outside playing, and sound approach it's unique.
He should be more recognized in the guitar world.
Lucky to live on LI and close to NYC…have seen Oz at the bitter end and he’s fantastic. Rhett…..you MUST check out Guthrie Trapp from Nashville. BEAST. He played with Oz not too long ago at bitter end. One of the most insane country players around.
Great Interview love hearing a players journey to find their “sound”
Oz. The Wizard of. Nice interview Rhett.
love his steam heater banging away in the background…that’s life in a nyc apartment. lol
Amazing 🎉🎉
Thank you. Interesting interview.
Oz very accurately emphasizes that a tube amplifier provides, first of all, the correct response to what the musician is playing. Secondly, it provides air movement. And only thirdly is the timbre itself important.
So close to 20K subs :)
Interview fatigue, please consider going back to you 2 talking when Zach is healthy. Of course I always watch anyway but it’s enough with the interviews, in my humble and probably annoying opinion 😁.
you need to open your mind brother. Do u know Oz’s music? If u love great guitar playing, you should. 👊
Oz. The Wizard of.
Jesus, the sound of a man shouting in an echoey room was too much for me, sorry. It's surprising how many music interviews are like this. You would have thought that they would be sensitive to that sort of thing, but this is Odd Noize, I spoze.