Reinier Baas plays W. Shorter and (with) Jesse van Ruller

[Peter C]

Apart from his amazing and very personal take on Wayne Shorter's Juju, I'm struck by how clear and stringy Reinier's scaled down 335(?) sounds. Are the mics picking up some of the acoustic output from the guitar? Any ideas?

I hope you also enjoy his collab with Jesse van Ruller as much as I did and, if so, maybe say so before I crawl back into my musical cave in no man's land? Perhaps it's already really popular without me knowing!

[Christian Miller]

One of my favourites working today


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[Peter C]

Actually Christian, I think it was you who made me aware of Reinier in the first place, so thanks for that!

So, anyone have any ideas about how he gets that decidedly unmuddy sound with humbuckers?

[Christian Miller]

Actually Christian, I think it was you who made me aware of Reinier in the first place, so thanks for that!

So, anyone have any ideas about how he gets that decidedly unmuddy sound with humbuckers?

I always find 335 to be quite bright?

Notice that he picks over the bridge pickup most of the time

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[Christian Miller]

Who’s just came up in my feed. The jazz musicians getting younger every year lol

BIMHUIS TV Presents: NJJO & Reinier Baas - YouTube

The harp player is amazing

Also Reinier is into banjo now

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[Christian Miller]

Here he is playing mostly piano, sometimes dressed as a wizard

Very interesting composer.

Make sure you listen to Smash Hits Live with the Metropole


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[Peter C]

So, the smaller version of a 335 is called a 339. According to two different sources, including a JGO thread and then a Dutch one which clarified that "Dit is een Gibson ES-339", that must be what Reinier plays here.

A quick Google search "is the gibson es-339 a bright-sounding guitar?" suggested that it may be. Then you always have people swapping out pickups, whether they're wax potted etc. Not going any further with that.

Yes, I saw what he was doing with the pick, but he also gets a lot of note separation in the fingerpicked passages, where one would normally do this, just behind the neck pup. I'm very interested in this and will experiment.

I checked out the other stuff you linked to and loved all of it. Age doesn't matter, only talent and hard work! Cheers

[Christian Miller]

So, the smaller version of a 335 is called a 339. According to two different sources, including a JGO thread and then a Dutch one which clarified that "Dit is een Gibson ES-339", that must be what Reinier plays here.

A quick Google search "is the gibson es-339 a bright-sounding guitar?" suggested that it may be. Then you always have people swapping out pickups, whether they're wax potted etc. Not going any further with that.

Yes, I saw what he was doing with the pick, but he also gets a lot of note separation in the fingerpicked passages, where one would normally do this, just behind the neck pup. I'm very interested in this and will experiment.

I checked out the other stuff you linked to and loved all of it. Age doesn't matter, only talent and hard work! Cheers

I think he plays both 339 and 335 IIRC. He's a very original player, perhaps the most original I've heard since Kurt started making waves about 25 years ago (good grief!). He has his own harmonic concept but a lot of it is in his sound and phrasing.

I like the lack of delay or reverb - very unusual among modern players. Also a bit of hair on the sound too, breaks up when he pushes it.