The Great Guitars: Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd and Herb Ellis • 11-07-1982 • World of Jazz
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Three of the all time greatest jazz guitarists perform their unique skills on the guitar:
Barney Kessel, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA on October 17, 1923 was known for his chord-based melodies and was a prolific member of the so-called ‘Wrecking Crew’ group of musicians that accompanied and played on records as diverse as The Mamas & Papas, Sonny & Cher and The Beach Boys.
He was voted best guitarist in Down Beat Magazine in 1956, 1957 and 1958 and recorded numerous albums. The Gibson Guitar Corporation introduced the Barney Kessel model guitar in 1961 to honour his skills. Barney died on May 6, 2004.
Herb Ellis was an American guitarist who probably was best known as member of Oscar Peterson’s Trio in the 1950’s. He was born on August 4, 1921 as Mitchell Herbert Ellis. He played with Jimmy Dorsey’s band and played on numerous Verve records supporting jazz giants like Ben Webster, Stan Getz, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Herb died on March 20, 2010.
Charlie Byrd was one of America’s greatest guitarists. Born on September 16, 1925 in Suffolk, Virginia, he was strongly influenced by Django Reinhardt’s style and Brazilian bossa nova.
He played in Woody Herman’s band in the late 1950’s and recorded ‘Jazz Samba’ with Stan Getz. Also he recorded the famous bossa nova albums with João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Byrd died on December 2, 1999.
The three great guitarists are accompanied by Joe Byrd, Charlie’s brother, on bass and Chuch Redd on drums
The repertoire included:
• "It's the talk of the town" by Marty Symes, Al J. Nieburg, Jerry Livingston;
• "Undecided" by Sid Robin, Charlie Shavers;
• "A felicidade" by Vinicius de Moraes, Antonio Carlos Jobim;
• "Manha de carnaval" by Antonio Mariz, Luis Bonfá;
• "Nuages" by Django Reinhardt;
• "Goin' out of my head" by Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein;
• "Flyin' home" by Sid Robin, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman.
*"Speak Low"
*"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out."
The concert was taped on 17 July 1982 in the Congress Gebouw, The Hague, The Netherlands during the North Sea Jazz Festival.
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00:02:20 It's the talk of the town
00:08:45 Undecided
00:14:40 Lover
00:20:27 Old Folks
00:24:40 Slow Burn
00:33:28 Speak Low
00:37:55 A felicidade
00:44:40 Nuages
00:53:30 Flyin Home
01:00:38 Nobody knows you when you're down
Thanks!
00:39:11 Manhã de Carnaval
00:46:27 Goin' out of my head
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As a former extreme metal guitarist it was after i watched this concert i realized i have been wasting years of practice to be able to "shred". To improvise with such speed, feel and melodic factors is 10x more impressive than playing fast runs up and down scales and arpeggios in metal. And i have to mention Barneys chord voice leading. Such speed is insane. I am glad i discovered the beauty of jazz now and not later.
You will never doubt the authenticity ... because if you hear shred guitar on an acoustic or clean, the technique does not translate. Either this or true classical will prevail, ie Parkening method, Carcassi Method, Segovia.
Congratz ! Happy for you. You got a real treat to pop your jazz cherry cuz this is an awesome gig i often rewatch.
There's many sub genres in jazz but with this post modernist swing jazz, i thing all the lines are very clear, not hard to understand but played in such beautiful ways in terms of harmonics and then you hear the solos where the phrasing again, is 'simple' to understand yet of a incredible level to play, let alone perform ( the fast pieces i mean)
Plus if you understand that all their solos are improvised !! ... These guys are used to propel themselves totally out of their comfort zone and still manage to play superb... Hope your new found love takes you to new joy and new levels of playing !
@@alainvosselman9960 Of course it will, have a good one!
you should listen to pasquale grasso. his technique is insane.
Are you Alex Skolnick?
One evening in the early 80s, I saw this trio on Maryland Public Television. The next morning I was on my way to work, and I arrived as per usual at Silver Spring Metro Station. While passing a group of people waiting for a bus, my eyes fell upon a well-traveled but sturdy electric guitar case. I looked up and was startled to see a distinguished man in his 60s standing next to it. I said "Excuse me--aren't you Herb Ellis?" He was as startled as I was, and confirmed his identity. I mentioned that I had just seen him on TV the night before (I had also seen him and Barney at the Cellar Door in DC a few years earlier), and we had a brief but friendly chat. I think the last thing he expected while waiting for a bus was to be recognized by a young guy barely out of college. I really hope I made his day!
Hi how are you doing. I hope you are safe and in good health. I'm Maria from California, looking for a new friend and i saw your pic here. I hope you don't mind, thank you.
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You just made my day! Great story!
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Old School is the best! Look at these guys, ties and jackets. No fake sheets or notes. Closing their eyes while they play. That is total musical freedom.
I saw this lineup in the late 70’s in Austin Texas.After the show, Barney Kessell was actually rolling up his own cord, and I asked him about the Charlie Christian pickup on his guitar.He brought the guitar over to show to me and eagerly explain all of the modifications he had done.It was like two guys just talking shop.I’ll never forget how gracious and humble he was, a real gentleman.
Such a great Musician. What a true privilege and honor to get to meet him person it must be.
@@mathieudager4234 The best guitar playing in history there will never be another era of such amazing talent.. Man what a pleasure to watch and listen......
Hi
What modifications did Charlie do?
Hello 👋 😊
Watching again, this performance, two years after, I'm still amazed by the show of talent of theses three guitarrists, the bass and the drums, and also by the quality of the work of all the people involved.
It's one of my favourite videos on youtube. I've watched it many times, never disappoints, always impresses... here I am watching it again...
Yes great recording and camera work!
How are you doing
My mom gave me a birthday gift when I was 15. A guitar lesson with Charlie Byrd. Never forget that!
Wow. What was he like? What did he teach you? Any life longs tips he gave you? He is one of my favorites. I was studying jazz in uni before transferring to another uni and started studying classical and charlie was one of my biggest inspirations in that transition.
Love how they're constantly tinkering with the tuning keys and tone knobs in the midst of each song - their ears are so precise, they hear even the slightest variance
Not the bass player!
@@AlexH4774 He's too busy! What a player!
A internet nos propõe coisas que não tem valor belo concerto ! Gratidão pelo upload ❤
E quem está vendo essa pérola em 2023.
Realmente Irmão, uma obra prima.
bagulho é doido meu parceiro viva os licks de jazz
...so thrilled that this musical moment in time was captured for generations to enjoy.
Well said, this is pure joy… fenomenal
Enjoy your day🙌🏽
Hello Mr. Jim how are you doing 😊
A big thank you for whoever filmed & uploaded this live masterpiece performance to You Tube. Technology has changed our world and affected it in many negative ways. This effect is definitely positive and highly pleasurable. To see and here this performance free is a wonderful gift.. These men were born with music in their soul. Dedicated beyond what most people can fathom. Their work/practice ethic must be off the charts. These guys had to have egos that were monstrous. Yet, their humbleness that allows them to take a back seat or front seat to make the music mesh into a masterpiece that musically moves the soul is simply amazing. Have to be wonderful human beings.
Amen
Fabuloso...
Not sure about the egos, think they were just doing what they loved.
in the mid-late 90's Charlie Byrd came to play a concert at Northern VA Community College performing arts center for about a thousand people. I was lucky enough to be his piano player that night. I had a VHS video of the performance but unfortunately it got taped over a few years later. That was shortly before he passed away. That is a day that will live on in my mind for the rest of my life!
Hi Steven how are you doing. I hope you are safe and in good health. I'm Maria from California, looking for a new friend and i saw your pic here. I hope you don't mind, thank you.
Seen this show in small venue in Baltimore MD . At the end of the first night, before i left, i bought tickets for the second night. What a show and a great memory. I was so close. No one between me and them both evenings.
35 years ago when I was 24 years old I first heard these masters on the concord label. My respect and admiration for them has never wavered one inch. They were the quintessential Jazz guitarists of our age. And no extra charge for facial expressions.
That's about the same time I was lucky enough to see and listen to Charlie Byrd play a one night gig in a small club here and it was one I'll never forget. I sat about 20 feet from the small stage where he sat on a chair, played and just mesmerized me. I stayed for both sets.
SUS. CORAZONES.. EL. CORAZON
DEL. UNIVERSO. TOCAN AL
UNÍSONO. Y. LO. INTERPRETAN
SEMEJANTES. DOCTORES
SON. DIAMANTALES. E
INMOTALES. LOS. AMO
HASTA. EL. COSMOS SON
SIDERALES. GRACIAS.
GRACIAS GRACIAS.
It was my eternal pleasure to be a great friend to Barney Kessel for years. Every time he visited England I would be at all the gigs and sometimes ran his around. Not only was Barney a brilliant musician he was a wonderful man. RIP sir. xxx
That sounds like quite the experience, I've only recently discovered his playing and I was sold instantly.
@@qumatru The thing I liked about Barney was that he wasn't " Big time" at all. Just a really nice guy and a fantastic talent. It was a pleasure being a friend.
Help me to fill this.
0:00 • INTRO
2:17 • not sure 01
8:44 • Undecided by Sid Robin, Charlie Shavers;
14:39 • Lover - Rodgers & Hart, I think
20:27 • Old Folks - Cole Porter
24:36 • not sure 05
33:25 • not sure 06
37:51 • "A felicidade" by Vinicius de Moraes, Antonio Carlos Jobim;
"Manha de carnaval" by Antonio Mariz, Luis Bonfá;
44:35 • Nuages - Django Reinhardt
53:28 • "Goin' out of my head" by Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein;
1:00:30 • "Flyin' home" by Sid Robin, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman.
Not sure where put this ones:
"New eyes" by Jaco wright
"It's the talk of the town" by Marty Symes, Al J. Nieburg, Jerry Livingston;
*"Speak Low"
*"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out."
Hello, Jose! Just posted fufl list with timestamps.
8:44 Undecided
14:39 Lover - Rodgers & Hart, I think
20:27 Old Folks - Cole Porter
44:35 Nuages - Django Reinhardt
@@farmduck2762 Thanks. I updated
Herb Ellis was in top form. All five were superb. What a treat.
I am utterly and totally in awe of these fantastically, talented gentlemen. Would love to have been there soaking up and inhaling the music coming from these incredible musicians.
These guys take it all in stride, no smiles, conversation or extraneous movement. For them it was probably just another show, but this is the way jazz guitar was meant to be. Inspirational.
Delicious and inspirational
wonderful concert from past masters, and Charlie's brother Joe Byrd on bass is absolutely on it....
This is pure joy! When people play not shouting over each other, but aiding, supporting and surrounding :))) Great job, guys!
I saw this magnificent trio in the 70's at the lighthouse in Redondo Beach CA. I am blessed!
What Swing! What class. 3 Incredibly talented guitarists. The Drummer & Bass player swing hard too . Great video & close up shots of the necks.
That drummer is out of this world. So clean and tight with perfect technique
Perfect balance with headphones. The solos by Herb Ellis were excellent. The arrangements were razor sharp. This was a most enjoyable concert by all five musicians.
I'm at about 65% on the UA-cam volume and 100% on my laptop with headphones-- it's a MIRACLE how good it sounds.
All passed....thank u so much 💖 ur music lives on forever !
One must have class of taste in music to appreciate this...I enjoy this every beat and note..
Contagious perfection (38:00). These gentlemen now hold concerts in heaven. Do not doubt they are sold out.
It's been a few decades since I first listened to these greats and I still want to play like them when I grow up.
I only discovered this concert Friday, since then cannot stop thinking about this masterpiece!! I wish I was there and could have some talk with the 5 of them... They are Genius and Genuine. Enjoyed all show from the 1st to the last second. Thank you for the upload!! ❤️👌🏾✨
This concert is really incredible, the music, the artists, the atmosphere that you see in the video, it is really great to be able to listen to this type of music ❤
5 gentlemen channeling the soul of the music so that we can feel its beauty. The true sign of a musician, being an instrument without ego.
What a total treat! Three favorite guitar players together in one performance!
Hi how are you doing. I hope you are safe and in good health. I'm Maria from California, looking for a new friend and i saw your pic here. I hope you don't mind, thank you.
What a collection of talented guitar players.......great Jazz music to play while you're looking things up on the computer, or you can just sit back, have a coffee, a beer, or a green tea ,close your eyes, and just Listen !
@@Agent_006.9 No, only coffee, beer or green tea dude. Pay attention!
You've got that right!
It's a video :(
Quick proficient chord changing is mind blowing!🤯 Phenomenal💯%
Well that's exquisite. I've been playing classical and jazz guitar for nearly 38 years and this represents ear and eye candy of the finest quality and taste. The audio and videography are fine too. Great rhythm section also. Solid.
Three quite different voices that effortlessly combine to support each other and all without clutter and repetition.
Bravo.
I was lucky to see these guys at a small club in San Francisco - four nights in a row. I was selling their records for Concord. Every night they played with joy and enthusiasm.
The GREAT Charlie BYRD !!!! Wonderful musician, one of my favorite ever !!!!
Herb Ellis’s technique is out of this world extraordinary
He's a boss
Realy fantastic tecnique herb ellis i agre
I haven't received such pleasure from music for a long time. Wonderful !
This is more than gold. I got goosebumps from the beginning till the end.
This is what professional musicians look like; stunning skills really all 3 of them.
Are they actually sitting on their speakers? How relaxed and beautiful. It doesn't get much better than this! Thanks
Very fond memories of Charlie Byrd at the cellar door ... He is quite the classical guitarist as well
I stumbled upon and couldn’t stop listening! Thnx SCOTT for the awesome stories . I don’t understand why anyone would comment that one was better the other or someone in the audience was better than all 3! I guess haters gotta hate!!!
Look each one of the three guitarists is a grand master, one not better than the other, they are in a league of their own. At that level of proficiency, they have noting but the utmost respect for each other. Each one has his own particular style, and that's why each guitarist is unique and special.On stage they are not 3, but 1, in mind, body and spirit musically.
Love it all. What a tremendous collection of talent. I saw Charlie at the Austin Jazz Festival. Among other things, he played a bunch of Bossa/samba/Brazilian stuff. I was blown away. I kept looking for the second guitarist hidden somewhere on stage because that couldn't be just one guitar I was hearing that was simultaneoudly carrying the bass, melody and rhythm---could it? My love affair with the electric guitar faded a bit that day and I went out and bought my first classical guitar shortly afterward. It's been with me ever since.
Hello Mr. Michael😊
@@HelenamariaRusso Hello Helena Maria Russo. Do you know that the surname Russo is a nickname for a redhead in Italy?
Thank god there's UA-cam and you're uploading great videos thanks a lot
Masters Indeed. Let's just not forget the BASSIST, a Master of Endurace himself and the DRUMMER, A Tempo-Master
Phenomenal guitarists and awesome job!! What a piece of history!!
I just cleaned off my vinyl album of Great Guitars (Concord Jazz CJ-73) and had to check if there was some live footage of these fine musicians. I ended up laughing and a-grinning at the artistry of these gentlemen. So tight yet so loose at the same time if you know what I mean. And as a bonus, there's Joe Pass making a cameo appearance near the end. Thank you so much @WorldofJazz!
I remember seeing Barney with Sasha disteal at Ronnie Scott’s club with my dad and as both musicians we were enthralled. Music takes your heart into a different world ❤
I grew up listening to these guys. They are masters of their instrument.
Comecei a gostar de Jazz agora em 2023 ouvindo esses guitarristas lendários. Estou simplicidade viciado nesse concerto.
Same, converter from extreme metal to jazz just because of this consert. Feels like i have wasted months of practice. I wish i was old enough to have been able to see these people alivr
@@Mountain_Storm This is wonderful
"The Great drummer and Bassist" Byrd and Redd killed it on this performance. wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nearly 73 first time for me. To God be the glory 🙏
I grew up in the 60,s in N.Y.C . These guys have the classic sound like the Jass Measagers etc. One tune was called Mr walker( guitar selection)Even at age 75 I still love jazz. THANKYOU, keep up the great work. Your new fan jazzman.
Assistindo novamente,e novamente e novamente ...............!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
They are playing guitar so smooth and nicely. I like it.
Since the early 60's, Charlie Byrd as been Number one on my guitar heroes list. Just awesome!
Samba Dees Days is one of the best songs ever - you go Charlie Byrd where ever you are ...😎😎
My all time hero and reason why I play fingerstyle is Charlie Byrd (I had the honor of meeting him between sets in Orlando, he was so kind to a besotted 18 year old neophyte picker), but my remarks is about Barney...with eyes closed he has LEFT this sphere and we must assume he is in an ecstatic musical "state". The Old Ones, the Nephilim of the Instrument!
Charlie Byrd on Wes Montgomery made me cry, not sure yet why, very nice ensemble here, thank you for sharing!
My first thought was stunned silence and the next was how did I get to almost 63 without knowing about these guys?
Hahaha...time flies..!!!
There was so much music wisdom on that one stage it's hard for us mere mortals to comprehend. Great upload!
Es un enorme placer escuchar a músicos de este nivel aquí las escalas y la armonía están en otra dimensión fabulosos
Hello Koldo
Man they are so a high rank that cannot be duplicated by means superior art Gold 🥇 for our ears
A motive and a threat at the same time for someone thinking of taking guitar lessons. Simply breathtaking.
Oh la la la la. Leaves me speechless. And as refined as they are, these cats sure also can play the blues. The solos on Nobody knows you’re when you’re down and out are so tasty it almost hurts. Charlie Byrd in particular just kills it. And on nylon strings, with no cutaway... this video is incredible, THANK YOU to whomever posted it.
No matter what style of guitar playing you do, you know right off the bat, these cats are masters 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
These are the cats
One could never, ever, get tired of listening to this, It’s the real business,
Appreciating gift of listening to great inmortal musicians. Greatings from Dominican Republic.
Es algo extraordinario escuchar y ver tocar a estos cinco virtuosos , un deleite ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
Gotta love Herb Ellis playing the Herb Ellis signature Aria Pro II. I think I'll get one if the price is ever right.
This is life altering stuff. I will have to seriously sit down and take a very good listen to this and TRY to steal a few licks.
Fantastic trio, great video for jazz lovers
Hi Rod how are you doing. I hope you are safe and in good health. I'm Maria from California, looking for a new friend and i saw your pic here. I hope you don't mind, thank you.
Fantastic musician fantastic playing I can’t stop listening!! It’s such a joy.
Beautiful melodies, beautiful interpretations.
Absolutely beyond beautiful
Incredible stuff- thanks for posting it.
I can't stop listening to these masters. Every time I listen, I find something new. Help!!
Master chefs all.....cookin' like mad!!!!!
Great Stuff, and great stories Scott A. The Charlie’s Son story reminds me of one Francis Paudras wrote in ‘Dance of the Infidels’, about an otherwise tortured Genius Bud Powell’s one night playing in Paris. When one of the other musicians suggested playing ‘I Remember Clifford’, a usually distraught and otherwise less than inspired Bud, soon went on a tear on the piano keys and brought the house down. The significance? Bud Powell’s Brother was killed in the same car crash with Clifford Brown to whom the song title was about... Great Book, very moving story, some of which was the basis for the film ‘Round Midnight with Dexter Gordon. 👍🙏🏻✌️
Barney Kessel levantou meu orgulho brasileiro interpretando com maestria .
1982...great times, even greater music!! This is incredible stuff by genius guitarists. '82 was also the year Priest released Screaming for Vengence, and Maiden unleashed "Number of the Beast". 2 of the most influential and highly regarded metal albums of ALL TIME!!
Right Adrian Smith and Dave Murray what a tandem of shredders are so overlooked as the icons they are !! 1982 bro listen to the guitar playing its amazing !!! 🌟👑🌟😎
Iron Maiden released " killers " in 1982.
Please stop. Nobody here cares.
Saw these boys in '73 in Brisbane..........magic stuff, God bless'em.
Charlie Byrd used to play at the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center in Maryland, saw him there several times. Always amazing.
Fantástico! Um show de técnica, virtuosismo e interpretação. Mas é preciso destacar além da genialidade dos três, a brilhante performance de Joe Bird no contra baixo. Sensacional !
Descobri esse baixista hoje, agora. Tô maluco!!
The talents for eternity! 🙏❤
From the interview: "musicians with funny clothes and funny names"... Priceless statement.
these guys are on a whole other level
🎉❤❤❤🎉
💃💃💃💃
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💝💖💋
Desde Colombia S.A mil GRACIAS con AMOR...🙏🇨🇴💝
... lo Disfruto muuuuucho🎉❤🎉
a hand of applause for the Drummer and Bassist.... with out them... ???
yes!
Linda interpretação de "Manhã de Carnaval"! Super!
Брависсимо, высший класс!!! Гениальные гитаристы, ансамбль великолепен!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Probably thé best Jazz concert of all the times
Totalmente de acuerdo
By far one of the greatest session I have had the privilege of hearing 🥰✌❤🥇
I shall be playing this set many times, thank you for sharing this piece of artistic beauty with us :-)
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Three of the very best! WOW!!!
I saw these guys together in VA. Herb autographed a copy of his album for me. Such a sweet guy!
In 1983 I went to the Musicians Institute and Herb came to play and give a clinic ( somewhat) he was there because a whose who of Jazz were putting on a benefit for the widow of Lenny Brau who’s had died while teaching there …he spoke of his own struggles with alcohol it was touching really but man could he play still after all these years it left an impression ( I’ve been a pro guitar for nearly 45 years now) there guys remain the trunk of the tree that the rest of us sprout from
It ‘s so honorable to listen this music.
Hi 😊