GUIDO BASSO (A voice you won't forget)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- When Guido Basso played the flugelhorn, he spoke in a way that was as warm and beautiful as he was a person. I doubt there is anyone who ever met him, even in passing, who was not touched by his grace, and when you hear him play a ballad, you know.
In the wake of his recent passing, I say goodby to a friend and my most significant musical influence, and the world bids adieu to a musical artist of the highest calibre. In this video I share a few personal recollections and a musical clip that few people have heard. I think you'll agree that Guido's voice is one you won't forget.
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I had to fight back tears to make this video immediately in the wake of the news of Guido Basso's passing in 2023. The proper title of the song is Ballad of the Sad Young Men. Tunes from this session have been posthumously released on a recording appropriately titled 'One More For The Road' on Cornerstone Records.
A beautiful tribute....great stories Chase....we have all the great recordings to keep us close to his spirit.😌
Lovely tribute, Chase.
What album is the Ballad of The Sad Young Men from?
@@agussy3318 Never released to the best of my knowledge. That's why I shared it.
@@chasesanborn that’ll be why I can’t find it. Sublime.
@@agussy3318 It has been my secret recording for years, and a quintessential example. I'm happy that so many people now get the chance to hear it.
Such a humble genius.
Exactly right.
A beautiful tribute to out dear amico, Chase. Thanks for your efforts to let people know what a totally great person Guido was, not only his playing but his humility, his deep care for people. We were so fortunate to spend ANY time in his company.
Bobby Shew
Bobby, exactly the same can and has been said of you.
thank you, simply thank you
I'm happy to share the love.
Thank you so much Mr Chase to this tribute to one of the my heroes, on 1993 I've met him in Toronto for the first time, and Mr Guido was so gentle with me. I'm very sad about his passing😪
I think everyone who ever met him had the same feeling.
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Chase,thanks for this.
That must have been difficult.
Great stories.
RIP Guido❤
As soon as I woke up and heard the news, I started working on the video. The emotion didn't hit me until I watched the final edit late in the day; I couldn't have kept it together otherwise. You and I have been together every step of the way and I know you feel the loss as deeply as I do. He was a guiding light.
Yes,thanks again Chase
I had never heard of him, and so I just did a search. A very evocative and articulate player. And very accurate.
I'm loving that people are becoming acquainted with someone who has been so influential in my life.
@@chasesanborn I was at Chuck Levin's Music near Washington D.C. yesterday. Your video about Guido inspired me to purchase a better flugelhorn for myself. 13 hours, round trip, through a snow-ice storm, but it was worth it.
@@IndianOutlaw1870 A 13-hour round trip through an ice storm to buy a flugelhorn is a mark of true dedication. (I would think Chuck Levin's owes me a commission, but I will forgo it as homage to Guido. :)
Beautiful, Chase. Thank you for your deeply personal thoughts and feelings.
I know your feelings run deeply like mine, Paul. And while I am on the subject of acknowledgements, let me say that I owe you a world of gratitude for setting me on a path that would come to be the defining element of my musical life. Thank you for that and for the high bar you have set.
Well said and wonderful tribute to Guido Basso, Chase!
He deserves every kind word that has been spoken about him.
UN CAPO !!!!!!!! MUY BUENO !!!!!! GRACIAS GUIDO !!!! Me has hecho llorar !
Sí!
A loving and touching tribute, CS ❤
It comes naturally when the sentiment is heartfelt...
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Thanks for this tribute Chase. I met Guido for the first time on my 23rd birthday, at George’s Spaghetti House in Toronto where the Guido Basso and Rob McConnell Quintet were playing. I wanted to talk to him so badly, but was really nervous. Between sets I passed his table on the way to the washroom. I saw his flugel on the table, a Benge I believe, and asked him if he liked it. He looked up and said “You play?”. The conversation flowed from then on like we were old pals. Forty years have passed; I still play, and Guido remains a hero and an inspiration. I feel this loss profoundly. There will never be another like him.
Lots of people have commented on what a great experience it was to meet him, even if just once and in passing. The warmth and grace of his personality flowed freely.
Thank you. This video is superb.
As was the subject. Thank you for that.
His playing was incredible and sound was velvet. I know his playing from Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass. Sad news.
The synchronicity of Guido's playing and Rob's writing was sublime.
What a wonderful tribute to a trumpeter who perhaps while not a household name or as famous as some, still managed to influence a whole generation of us and oh so tastefully! Thanks, Chase!
Hopefully and apparently a few more households are tuning in. Many people may not know his playing, but I have never met anyone who does who came away untouched.
Lovely commentary and background; note that the music starts at 4:33 and it is really cool.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm getting Night Walk vibes from this song. It's taking me back. That's how I had first heard about him. Won me over in an instant.
My condolences.
Good memory!
@@chasesanborn haha I'm a nostalgic. Every now and again, I go back to those recordings and soak up the times.
Thanks for sharing, Chase.
This got the taps running again. Thanks for sharing your beautiful tribute to this beautiful man. xo
I made it through the filming and editing without tearing up, but watching it they flowed.
Thank you for this! I really enjoy the things you share with us.
Glad to hear that, and very happy to spread Guido love!
I’m very, very, sorry for the loss of your friend, Chase. Thank you for sharing your deeply personal thoughts and experiences of him.
Guido’s rich and buttery-warm flugel, superlative technique, and capacious harmonic vocabulary identified him a true artist, readily identified from his unique musical voice.
I first heard him on the Rob McConnell Boss Brass direct to digital LP, which I’ll spin this evening in his honor.
I expect lots of us will be doing the same thing tonight.
Wonderful tribute here -- we know this wasn't easy for you to post. Some amazing memories, thanks for sharing them with us. I used to go to George's Spaghetti House and hear Guido play regularly (I also got to see Dizzy Reece there for the full week as well at one point) -- I think people in Toronto sometimes over look just how great of a "trumpet town" Toronto is (and was). Yourself, Guido, Sam Noto, the list went on -- all players with big beautiful tones all over the horn that one could go hear on any given night of the week. Your picture with Johnny Cowell brought back a great memory too -- Arnie used to sit at the end of the bar at George's almost every night and just enjoy the music with a glass of red wine. One night i got up the courage to introduce myself only to find him incredibly warm and welcoming. I was even able to get a trumpet lesson from him. Great times back then. Thx again for posting this.
Arnie Chycoski was beloved and admired just the same as his amigo Guido. Knowing that they were in Toronto gave me all the impetus I needed to move here in 1981. I was star struck the first time I met each of them and feel blessed to have all the memories I do of playing from them and in the process learning so much from them. In passing on what I have learned, I hope to continue their legacy.
what beautiful thoughts and reminiscences, and such a soulful elegy by Guido.... i remember hearing a solo by Guido on a CBC radio jazz program years ago that was both brilliant technically and had such beauty and soul, i was mesmerised...afterwards the announcer said that Jack Sheldon had heard it as well and made the comment that it was 'perfect'
Watching the documentary on Jack Sheldon I was struck by how much he reminded me of Guido. I talked about it with Guido who was similarly a fan.
Chase, so sorry for your loss. Your remembrance is a pure “whisper in your ear.” Thank you for sharing it with us.
I'm glad I have this forum to express my admiration for a man who had such a powerful impact on my life (and the lives of many others).
Thanks for this love letter to Guido, Chase. We have lost a treasure. I’m so glad I had the gift of hearing him not that long ago when he swung through Ottawa with the all star group. As usual he sounded achingly beautiful.
We will all relish the memory of every note we heard him play.
Well done Chase, we'll all miss Guido.
One of a kind.
Thanks for this Chase. I went to a lovely Guido workshop at a Jazz Festival in Toronto and he shared his idea of putting a clipped styrofoam cup in bell to soften the vibrations.
And we all promptly followed suit.
I haven’t heard a huge amount of his work, but I know he was a legendary player. My condolences.
The Guido piece you picked does sound like a beautiful requiem. I was trying to think who his playing reminds me of. It’s a different sort of fluegel sound, but I was thinking of the great Kenny Wheeler.
Music from that session has been posthumously released on an album titled One For The Road from Cornerstone Records.
Beautiful, thanks for sharing that with us all, Chase.
He sure shared a lot with us.
I had to come back to this heartfelt memory of Guido, and if I may, pass on the information that that beautiful recording of All The Sad Young Men and others from that session (and even more) are now available in a release created by Guido's wife Kristen. It's available by way of Cornerstone Records as a download, and as CD 165. Look for "One More For The Road". It's beautiful.
I knew Kristin had that in the works--glad to know it's available.
Thanks Chase. Wonderful job of of remembering a very special human being. He will be sorely missed.
The outpouring of affection and admiration in the comments is a reflection of a life well lived.
Thank you so much for publishing what must have been a difficult video to produce. I had never heard of Guido before and I must say I'm in aw of his sound and his capacity to create such beautiful melodic lines without saying too much. I'm definitely going to listen to his music and get inspired and influenced by it , I'm certain.
My condolences from France.
That's what I hope will happen from this video, that more folks will discover what I know to be true.
Thank-you Chase for you passion and love for humanity. We will miss his horn.
Two words easily applied to Guido, and yes, we will.
Very nice tribute😊🙏
It's heartfelt. I'll be paying tribute to him with my horn on an upcoming concert.
Thanks Chase - we all aspire to be the human being, and the musician he was.
Well said.
This is beautiful Chase. Thank you. 💔
Thanks EC. I'm glad to have the opportunity to share it.
Thank you, Chase. My condolences.🌾🌾🌾🌾🌹The Flügel horn that teaches the Jazz Vocalist how a ballad should be sung. I've had that type of beautiful horn to voice lesson only twice before: once hearing Art Farmer,the second hearing Johnny Hodges. Compliments to your JazzElder. Blessings to his wife. And you.🌹🌹🌾😐
Roberta Flack sang the song as well, another master.
@@chasesanborn Art Farmer played Jobim and the Rabbit played Ellington. It was a unique and blessed experience to hear Guido play "All the Sad Young Men". I meant to express my joy and humility at hearing the rare and tender horn performance that teaches me how a ballad should really be sung. My highest compliment. Peace for you in these reflective times.🌾🌾🌾🌾
Beautiful tribute Chase, love to see your transcription, I have so much vinyl with Guido soloing effortlessly a true legend of Flugelhorn Horn excellence 💕🎺
My transcription is a forty year old hand written copy. I treat it like papyrus!
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Thankyou for this beautiful video and thoughts. I loved Guido's playing so much. The track you chose is perfect. RIP Guido, and thankyou for the legacy of incredible playing that will touch our souls forever.
As soon as I heard the news, I thought of that song. Listening to it gave me the impetus to share.
Thank you so much for sharing. I am a huge fan of Guido Basso and he was a major influence of my father.
There are many like minds.
Sorry for your loss
Shared with many.
Thank you very much for putting this together and sharing that beautiful track. Really appreciate it.
I'm glad that so many people are now able to hear it.
beautiful
Agreed.
To my shame, I have to admit that I didn't know his name and playing, but the first notes of this recordings really touched me. Thanks for sharing and sorry for your loss. Love from The Netherlands.
You are not alone in discovering Guido for the first time, and I'm happy to provide the opportunity.
Thanks for the tribute, Chase. I remember listening to Guido play "Atras Da Porta" over and over when I was younger...I just loved his sound.
As the man said, you won't forget his voice. :)
Wonderful. Thank you, Chase.
Thank you for listening, Jason.
Thanks for this and sorry for your loss. He was a national treasure.
Agreed.
What a beautiful tribute. Thank you so much for sharing the stories and that cut. Guido was the most musical brass player I’ve ever heard.
I tried to transcribe Jenny. Didn’t make it all the way. Would love to catch a lesson with you sometime. Peace
I'm with you!
A beautiful tribute ... thank you for helping us remember.
I'm glad that it did that.
😪 This made me so vey sad, but thank you for making a tribute to this great artist.
It makes me sad too, but in his time on earth he made it a better place, and me a better person.
Thank you for sharing this tribute. I’ve been in awe of Guido’s command of the flugel since the Boss Brass LP “Big Band Jazz”. It’s wonderful to hear what a special person he was as well.
That he was, as the outpouring of sentiment attests.
Thank you so much Chase. I'm crying with you even though I only meet him a few times. I was very fortunate you introduced me to this wonderful human. I know who.
We had some good times! And yes you do.
@@chasesanborn Maybe we can have a few at the ITG.
Thanks so much for this, a perfect and heartfelt tribute
I know that all of us in Toronto and many beyond are feeling the same pangs. Guido was universally loved in a way that few can lay claim to.
Chase - a beautiful tribute, certainly had my eyes welling up. So grateful that you introduced me to Guido’s music so many years ago (and Guido himself). Thoughts are with you.
There have been quite a few pairs of watery eyes, but ultimately it's a celebration of a man who spread love far and wide.
What a wonderful tribute, Chase. Guido had such perfect intonation and style, and a master of intervals. Many trumpet pickers are shall we say not great flugel people. It is a very different animal. Nonetheless, thank you for your great video on a giant of our craft.
The flugelhorn is as you say, and Guido was a master.