Lenny Breau Meets Ted Greene- Part Two: Lenny & Ted Jam, Trade Tunes and Share Ideas: October 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.
Part Two of this meeting begins with an excerpt from a 2001 telephone interview with Ted Greene in which he comments about what it was like to play and hang out with Lenny.
Lenny and Ted jam on the standard 'Emily' after expressing their admiration for each other. Lenny chats about his children and legal problems in Canada and then discusses the chords he uses in 'Why Did I Choose You' before playing the tune for Ted.
After Ted and Lenny chat about Ed Bickert, Ted plays his solo guitar version of 'Surrey with a Fringe On Top'. Lenny then plays 'Spartacus' and 'Hi Lily Hi Lo' for Ted. Afterwords Lenny discusses the development of his slurring techniques and their use in Flamenco and Jazz.
Ted then shows Lenny his harmonization of the Japanese pentatonic scale and Lenny reciprocates by demonstrating his harmonization of the Hungarian scale.
1. Excerpt from a Telephone Interview with Ted Greene
2. Mutual Admiration Comments 00:40
3. Ted and Lenny Play 'Emily' 01:41
4. Lenny Discusses His Children and Problems in Canada 08:22
5. Intro to 'Why Did I Choose You' 09:50
6. Lenny Plays 'Why Did I Choose You' Solo 11:25
7. Ted Plays 'Surrey with a Fringe on Top' Solo 15:14
8. Ted and Lenny Chat 18:10
9. Lenny Plays 'Spartacus' and Hi Lily Hi Lo 19:34
10. Lenny Demonstrates Left Hand Slur Techniques 27:15
11. Ted Shows Lenny Japanese Pentatonic Harmonization 35:40
12. Lenny Harmonizes Hungarian Mode 39:21
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Extraordinary. I'd like to hear it all unedited.
SO GOOD!
@TheLennyBreauArchives : thank you! 👍 f.y.i., the pitch goes lower at around 10 mins., back to normal around 15 mins., & then lower again around 27½ mins..
Amazing and historically significant upload. This is what the internet is best at.
Two humble giants teaching us how to reach the stars. Timeless treasure. THANK YOU!
"It's like the color purple" I listen to this all the time. Mesmerizing
Wow - a look-in at two giants sharing ideas with immense respect for each other. Beautiful.
Should have recorded officially.Could have been the guitar duet to end all others !
Everything is beautiful, because they loved beautiful music.
Lenny shares the knowledge with ted. The chord voicing. Beautiful.
Wow, Lenny's extended mprov on Spartacus is mesmerizing, so flowing with the moment.
Omg!!!! What a treasure... Thank you so much for uploading this!
Without exaggeration, it’s like listening to the first time Bird met Diz. Phenomenally significant historical document.
Bird and Diz? Are you insane? Do you want to compare these guys with some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century - musicians who could navigate changes in tempo, at high-speed and creatively? Come on. These guys would get lost in the dust attempting to play changes with a drummer.
@@ZRJZZZZZ Are YOU *insane* ?! “These guys” ARE some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century!!!
Finding this is like finding treasure to me
fascinating stuff
Wow! This actually happened??? You couldn’t dream this stuff up!! Thanks for posting!
Subscribed. Of course.
Thank you for this! Two masters together having great time and sharing some insight.
I have huge admiration to Lenny and Ted is my biggest hero. Cant help but this brings tears to my eyes.
gold mine!
Love this so much! Thank you
Thank you so much for these! Is the rest of the 10 hour session going to be uploaded eventually?
Was nice to hear the mention of Carlos Montoya. Great recording.
Thank you for share this!
thank you
A commonality among true geniuses is their child like wonder.
Phenomenal, where is part one?
We put it up on this channel a several months. Just take a look through the archives. Cheers
for me: 38:11
Thats some serious guitar braintrust in one place.
Can anyone make out the name Ted brings up to Lenny at the 1409 mark?
Ed Bickert
@@joseph2707 ty!
Does anyone know the song at 19:30?
Spartacus--all the songs are indexed in the description.
@@thelennybreauarchives5675 My bad! Thank you though, it's beautiful
15:08 what tune
A short quote from the standard "The Song is You'.
Very Ted Greene stuff with counter melodies and voicings
These guys were wonderful at harmonic exploration, but they let their complexity rule their rhythm, so their time feel left a lot to be desired. Many guitarist fall into this problem, which Pat Metheny frequently calls out, and justly so.
@@ZRJZZZZZ You’ve clearly never heard Lenny play with a rhythm section. Few players have anything close to Lenny’s sense of time and swing in that context.
Uh huh. Right up there with Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, John McLaughlin, Mike Stern?
@@ZRJZZZZZ Treat yourself to some of Lenny's trio recordings and decide for yourself. Cheers.
I did in order to hear some of his single line playing while improvising in a jazz ensemble. What strikes me about him is that he was a jack of all trades, and while he was a very capable guitarist compared to most, he did not excel in any genre to be worthy of the type of praise that people seem to give him.
I conclude, as I always have, that he was a decent working musician who was dedicated to his craft, but there’s nothing earth shattering. I am passionate about music, education, so I do not want youngsters and novices to get too skewed in opinion about his playing without knowing the other side of the equation. Simply put, there were scores of players in the various genres he dabbled in, that do credit to my wonderful instrument. It’s also true that the standard for guitar playing of various genres has gone up dramatically in the past 40 years, so if you want to say that he was good for his time, more power to you. Also, they have always been great guitarists, historically, and some of them are ageless. He’s not one of them.
I mean when you get comments saying that this practice session between Greene and Breau was like ‘Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker,’ I think people are getting the wrong message. And if someone likes his music because it moves them, then that is as it should be.