In May 2008 Bucky Pizzarelli came to Toronto to play at the Heliconian Club. After the gig he kindly agreed to give me a lesson the following morning at his hotel. Here's the first 15 minutes or so. The guitar is a mid-1940's L50 which we traded back and forth during the lesson. In this part we were working on straight acoustic rhythm. His message (repeated often): "Lighten up!"
I wanted to share this as a tribute to the memory of this charming and generous guitarist. Please ignore my flubs!
A belated thanks for this gem you shared with us. Bucky comes across as such a friendly and warm person, in addition to being the master we all know he was. You were lucky to have this opportunity of meeting him!
I would not call it a warm rounded tone either. It sounds like a guitar directly into mixing console with no preamps or anything and all EQ flat. If that's how it sounds through the amp and that's...
Great sound here. Playing isn’t too shabby either… I have some doubt if it’s really the first time he played it. The action seems to be much lower than typical factory spec. Anyway, I love this tone....
This is some footage of one of his jazz gigs at a Holiday Inn. They subbed for Murph and the Magictones when they hit the road w the Blues Brothers....:cool:
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I've never used anything other than a Fender 358 Medium. (don't know how many millimetres thick that is). I must be a weirdo since I've never given anything else a serious go. When I was working I...
Rahsaan was acclaimed by jazz aficionados.
Saw him at Keystone Korner in San Francisco, he was a one man horn section, played lead and accompaniment at the same time - mindblowing!
And the 358 is a tiny pick. It is also the pick I keep going back to. I consider the Jazz III to be on the large side; I use it as a template to cut down 351 or 347 shaped picks.
It's interesting...
Damn, that's interesting. Did he ever mention which jazz pianists he liked or was influenced by? The guy played some real hip stuff on the jazz things they did, and even burned like a maniac on the...
If I remember correctly Reaper had an app called ReaJam… it seemed to work ok. I have not thought about that in years. I have no memory if the latency was bothersome or not. I just remember it...
I realize I may sound immodest, like a total douchebag, but…unlike most of you, I admit I’m gifted, genetically inclined, “talented”, whatever you want to call it, at wandering in circles, flitting...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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