Mark Whitfield on Count Basie & Freddie Green's Jazz Guitar Comping Rhythm

[The brothers]

Hey guys here is a link on our interview Video with Jazz Guitarist Mark Whitfield, this segment is about comping like Freddie Green.

Hope it may be insightful and entertaining for ya'll.

For full interview:

The Brothers

[MarkRhodes]

Enjoyed that. Thanks for posting it.

[BickertRules]

Nice interview. Basie made some small group albums that included Greene; this is my favorite.



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[Groyniad]

great posts!!

[Groyniad]

I saw MW in Lafayette Louisiana in 2010 - he was playing with his two sons (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
one on drums the other on piano

I was absolutely blown away by his playing - it was hip and full of drive and fun and magic

and I got the feeling by half way through that his boys were doing him a favour gigging with him! they were so wonderful on the drums and the piano (I don't know their names - but Whitfield might be one of them)

I had become a father maybe one year before the gig. shiittt. that's a high bar.

or a very low one. I think I heard that he was not around when they were growing up (not much anyway).

thus began a long and as yet unresolved period of confusion about how to be a really good dad.

but the gig was as good as anything I've seen in ten years.