Hans Groiner

[Mark M.]

Larry Goldings strikes again:

[Jimmy Smith]

That's Larry Goldings?

The sad thing is when he plays the lame voicings and progressions, that's basically 90% of rock/pop music.

[wintermoon]

Not Goldings

[grahambop]

Not Goldings

Yes it is, Larry Goldings likes to joke around and Hans Groiner is a comic figure he created, a deadly earnest Austrian music professor who likes to ‘correct’ Thelonious Monk’s music, for example.

[gitman]

Not Goldings

It's him, the "other" side of Larry Goldings .... I just saw him in Mainz with Bill Steward and Bernstein and had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard about his comments and elaborations/fabulations
in between tunes. The man has many talents and has surely worked hard to bring them to fruition, it's a total success !

PS : That wig reminds me of Richard Clayderman

[wintermoon]

Hah totally fell for it, well played! I dismissed it immediately when I saw the wig and heard the accent. In thinking about it reminds me of Jonathan and Darlene, Jo Stafford and her husband the great arranger Paul Weston's alter egos. Check em out if you don't know them, brilliant...Jo (one of my absolute favorite singers) would intentionally sing out of tune, very difficult feat for a good singer.

[Mark M.]

I assume everyone has seen this from a few years ago. Hilarious:

[A. Kingstone]

Finally some theory I can get with.

[David B]

Larry has even done some live performances in character as Hans Groiner. There was a set at Smalls some years ago on YouTube. On his recent solo tour in the UK and Europe, he brought the wig as there was one booker in Europe who specifically wanted a Groiner appearance!

He's done some very funny videos in the last couple of years. I love this one.

[omphalopsychos]

Larry Goldings can be funny. Likes to crack a lot of jokes bw songs at concerts.

But watching a professional musician do comedy is about as rewarding to me as watching Adam Sandler sing. I guess the difference is I also hate Sandler's comedy while I consider Goldings a great musician.

[grahambop]

You wouldn’t have liked Dizzy Gillespie or James Moody then...

[grahambop]

Or Clark Terry (Mumbles).

A lot of jazz musicians like humour, I think. (It probably helps them survive...)

[PMB]

Larry Goldings can be funny. Likes to crack a lot of jokes bw songs at concerts.

But watching a professional musician do comedy is about as rewarding to me as watching Adam Sandler sing. I guess the difference is I also hate Sandler's comedy while I consider Goldings a great musician.

Billy Connolly is a rare case of a professional musician who transitioned into comedy. One night while working in a folk duo The Humblebums (alongside Gerry Rafferty who later hit the big time with the songs Stuck In The Middle With You and Baker St), Billy broke a string and told a joke or two to pass the time as he restrung his instrument. It gained such a good reaction that he reintroduced the comedic section on successive nights until it grew and eventually became his main gig.

[yebdox]

Goldings is brilliant. I have known of Hans for awhile and shared it widely, as well as the Close Encounters shtick. Great timing and physical expression. Hopefully, all of you Goldings fans know of the "Johnny Bowtie Barstow" album, which is so clever, especially listening to Goldings chase the vocalist around, as he drops measures, modulates, speeds up, etc. Big fan!

[unknownguitarplayer]

Bowtie is...unique. I break that album out every Christmas and lose a few more friends each time.

I highly recommend "Danny Boy". Basically, civilization crumbles over the course of the tune, but Johnny commits and keeps the brogue going until the (very) bitter end.
"Blue Skies" is pretty great, too, but "Mack the Knife" demonstrates that nobody swings like Bowtie. BTW - the guitar player on that intro is a guy named Bernstein.

[unknownguitarplayer]

The Charleston lesson is priceless!

[yebdox]

Bowtie is...unique. I break that album out every Christmas and lose a few more friends each time.

I highly recommend "Danny Boy". Basically, civilization crumbles over the course of the tune, but Johnny commits and keeps the brogue going until the (very) bitter end.
"Blue Skies" is pretty great, too, but "Mack the Knife" demonstrates that nobody swings like Bowtie. BTW - the guitar player on that intro is a guy named Bernstein.

I asked Peter about Bowtie last time I saw him and he would NOT cop to the real artist... All he would say, was "Yeah, Bowtie... He is, uh, really special!"