A Lesson with Bucky Pizzarelli

[pcjazz]

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!

Bucky20080525-Part 1.mp3

[MarkRhodes]

Thank you for the fly-on-the-wall experience.

[pcjazz]

For some reason only the first 15 or so minutes of the 40 I had intended to post showed up. Here's the next chunk:

[DMgolf66]

So great!

[Jack E Blue]

pcjazz,
Thanks so much for posting this. I really enjoyed listening to it. Got any more?

[radiofm74]

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!