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Old 02-03-2012, 04:00 PM
 
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I like Ed Bickert's playing a lot. chord melody, single notes, counterpoint, coherence, using the melody for ideas, tone, subtlety restraint, absence of running the scales etc etc.

Paul Desmond : Warm Valley - YouTube
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He's pretty damn tasteful. I just got turned on to him this year. So good.
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You'll find a lot about him on this forum. Use the Search button, and take it all in. The trio things with Don Thompson are available if you look around, and while you're at it, you might want to look at Lorne Lofsky.
The live recordings with Paul Desmond are pretty amazing. Old footage of him on youtube too:
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I used to listen to the live album with Paul Desmond constantly. After 35 years I still draw upon it for inspiration.
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Thanks, markf. What a beautiful track! I just clicked over to Amazon. Just had to have it!

Bickert's accompaniment was suave. Intriguing without overwhelming. Just so...right.
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I like Ed Bickert's playing a lot. chord melody, single notes, counterpoint, coherence, using the melody for ideas, tone, subtlety restraint, absence of running the scales etc etc.

Paul Desmond : Warm Valley - YouTube
Great music!
Ed Bickert has nice jazz sound on his Tele with Gibson humbucker.
The sustain /chords/ is fantastic.Imposible with standard jazz box.
Very clean acurate sound.
His Tele is magic.
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A nice album in the realm of the posted video is Murley, Bickert, Wallace - Live at the Senator.
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Listening to the Desmond album "Pure Desmond" (with Ed) right now. What an amazing player he is Can't believe I just recently heard about him. But that's just one of the many things I have learned since I joined this forum in december.

Anyway Bickert reminds me a lot of Chet Baker. This smooth, melodic, fluid, intuitive aproach. Always wondered why there weren't any guitarists who sounded somewhat like Chet. No I have the answer

They even look a bit similar sometimes...

Ed vs. Chet
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A nice album in the realm of the posted video is Murley, Bickert, Wallace - Live at the Senator.
Thanks, will listen to that too. great suggestion.
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Bickert also made several albums for Concord records, worth searching out, and his stuff with Rob McConnell is excellent.
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Listening to the Desmond album "Pure Desmond" (with Ed) right now. What an amazing player he is Can't believe I just recently heard about him. But that's just one of the many things I have learned since I joined this forum in december.

Anyway Bickert reminds me a lot of Chet Baker. This smooth, melodic, fluid, intuitive aproach. Always wondered why there weren't any guitarists who sounded somewhat like Chet. No I have the answer

They even look a bit similar sometimes...

Ed vs. Chet
I always was bummed that Ed and Chet never played together--an album of them playing ballads might have eliminated the need for smooth jazz to ever exist--because you ain't gonna get smoother or more romantic than that!. But my guess is Ed would have had no patience for Baker's shenanigans.
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Ed -great player.
Did he recorded only on Tele?
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I think the brunt of Ed's recorded output is tele.

Story goes he took his archtop in to get some repairs and got the tele as a loaner, and never looked back.

Ed played for years in relative obscurity until Jim Hall reccomended him to Desmond. By then he was already playing the tele.

Rumor has it on "Pure Desmond" the tele still had it's stock neck pickup...he went to the Gibson style bucker soon after.

Love me some Ed...one of my biggest influences, always will be...
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