Lenny Breau Meets Ted Greene Part One: Lenny Plays Bill Evans (and more) For Ted: LA-Oct. 1979
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- In October of 1979, Lenny Breau and his girlfriend Sinde Shubert arrived at the Los Angeles airport where they were met by saxophonist Scott Page who had invited Lenny to stay at his home until he was settled in the city. Scott brought along his friend Ted Greene and Ted's partner Barbara. Ted was an enormous fan of Lenny's and had long been looking forward to meeting him.
After arriving at Scott's house that afternoon, Lenny and Ted spent several hours jamming, showing each other arrangements of tunes and discussing techniques and other subjects. Scott Page recorded the entire ten hour session which we are presenting in edited form in three parts.
In Part One, Lenny plays several tunes associated with Bill Evans on classical guitar. The pieces are rich with Evans- like chords and harmonic structures that Lenny had been working on for several years. Unfortunately Lenny never recorded most of these tunes nor are there any recorded examples of his developing technique for playing melody over chordal harmonics which he demonstrates to Ted in this recording.
Lenny also plays his own unfinished composition Song for Sinde, discusses McCoy Tyner and plays Tyner's composition, Vision.
The recording finishes with Lenny playing Jerry Reed's version of Don't Think Twice, after which Lenny discusses Reed's picking style and provides examples.
1. Glad to be in California
2. A Time for Love 00:40
3. Fingerstyle Jazz College? 02:47
4. What Kind of Fool Am I 03:50
5. Playing Melody over Chordal Harmonics 06:30
---Stella by Starlight
6. Bill Evans Medley 09:25
--My One and Only Love
--My Foolish Heart
--Turn Out The Stars
Chat about Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett
7. Song for Sinde Shubert (Lenny Breau) 18:00
8. McCoy Tyner and Visions 19:50
--Chat about Tyner's voicings
9. Don't Think Twice ( a la Jerry Reed) 26:30
- Lenny analyses Reed's picking style
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I don’t even know if I’m ready for this
Beautiful.
I was lucky to have met Lenny Breau in 1976, my wife's father played with lone pine, Lenny's father in Maine. Lenny came to visit my father-in-law Ray Couture, who was a great guitar player. Lenny decided he would stay with my wife and I, because Ray lived in a very rural area of Ohio, and Lenny didn't drive. He stayed with us for 3 months, I had never seen such incredible guitar playing in my life, Lenny could play all genres of music. It was a wonderful experience for me and my wife, one that I will cherish always.
That must have been incredible. Did he ever replace the coffee table?
@@beverlyducharme433 is this the Beverly, friend of my wife, was in the Peace corps?
@@davidrose8588 No
I ran into him a couple times at Carol’s music in Lewiston Maine and also saw him perform at several Venues.
What a great version from Lenny of 'A Time For Love'. You can really hear how he has internalized Bill's arrangement and many of the voicings he used but also extended it while making it work on a much more constrained instrument that the guitar is.
No noodling. Every note counts, beautifully articulated. Yet the tune is played just like that, casually.
And those gorgeous perfect harp harmonics at the end.
This feels like eavesdropping on Mozart and Beethoven chatting over beers making discoveries about the soul of jazz guitar together.
Lenny and Ted are seriously consisering how to answer to the challenges posed by (pianists) Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and McCoy Tyner. Now how many guitar players are willing to even dream of such?
0:40 A Time For Love
4:02 What Kind of Fool Am I
6:48 Stella By Starlight
9:09 My One and Only Love
11:30 My Foolish Heart
14:47 Turn Out the Stars
18:00 ?
16:53 Lenny goes into Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed fingerpicking style differences. Cool!
the tune started from 18:00 is "Visions" composed by McCoy Tyner.
This is super. I took lessons from Ted Greene in 1982-84 and always considered him to be one of the true greats. But it is interesting to see him completely defer to Lenny here, even asking at 8:40 "I hope you don't mind me getting close to watch, man...into your space." Ted knew he was in the presence of a master -- Lenny was, indeed, special.
The respect ran both ways. Lenny raves about Ted further on in the conversation which we will be presenting in time, particularly Ted's mastery of voicings and knowledge of scales. Thanks for you input!
as much as Lenny was a totally different species of player, the music knowledge that ted had was, and is unrivaled.
Imagine what might have been if the Public had liked his music?
The public likes what it's brain washed to think is cool...
...I find myself holding my breath...forgeting to breath during..My Foolish Heart .Thank You for posting
Wow, the fabled meeting. Very grateful this exists and is being shared, truly treasured. Thanks for what you do sharing these. You may want to reach out to someone who could clean up the audio, there’s some amazing software out there from izotope and others that could remove the buzz and clarify the guitar and voices.
Glad you like it! We do our best to clean up the audio before posting with two audio restoration programs that we use. But there's only so much that can be done and no amount of work with excellent software will return these old (cassette usually) copy of copy of copies to their original condition, which was often horrendous to begin with. This recording in particular was in dreadful shape when we got it and we worked very hard to get it into the condition that it appears in here. Some portions of it were virtually unlistenable and no amount of restorative work could improve on it so we were forced to edit it out. We do appreciate the feedback but there really is only so much that can be done with these recordings.
@@thelennybreauarchives5675 I’m doing a PhD in AI and Music and some of the others in the lab are doing amazing work with audio restoration. I just wanted to chime in and say that some previously impossible things are becoming possible now. I have some ongoing restoration work with the Ted Greene project - I’m also happy to help with this archive in any way I can (no fee)
@@xavriley Didn't see this until just now. Thank you for your kind offer. We are definitely interested. Can you contact us at LennyBreauArchives@protonmail.com We'd love to talk to you about this. Thanks again.
Ted died at age 62 and of course Lenny at only age 43. Two absolute genius players. What a shame their get together was not recorded in a studio with proper lighting and hi-def A/V equipment.
You got a grip on tech. Hi-Def? I'm angry at you, nincompoop.
Amazing.
Am I dreaming? My word- how splendidly heavenly. Ty.
Both Divinely inspired and gifted. Generosity and humility. The best of the best.
WOW thats absolutely amazing 😀
Thank you!!!
This is some amazing recording right here!
I listen to this and know that there is purpose for creation.
This is how YT should be used. Thanks!
Fantastic!❤
No way! What?! How did I not know this existed??
the notes at 16:15 was a crazy reference.
After decades of using "pull-offs" in blues & rock groups, it turns out that simply taking one's finger off a fretted note to let a lower fretted-note play is an entirely different skill, a necessary skill when the harmonics of both notes are the issue.
Classical training is worth the effort.
My favourite part is...THE WHOLE THING! I really like the rendition of "Don't think twice (Its alright) Jerry style. Really uplifting. Thanks for getting this MAGICKAL MEETING as best sounding as you could. It sounds like a tough task. THANK THE UNIVERSE!!!! This happened, was recorded and survived til now 2022 and hopefully forever in physical form. Their music will live forever in the KOSMOS! THANK YOU!
lenny the prefered titan i adore 😍
🙏🌈
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Is Lenny playing with 7 or 6 strings?
Likely it is the japanese 7string dauphin classical which i sold him when he was living in nashville. It was stock except that i made a new bone nut to improve the string spacing. Later on kirk sand did some further improvements on that one. I think it was Lenny’s first 7string. I think it is the one in the photo.
@@jerryrobertsguitars7 string with a high A?