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Here's a great player you need to hear! I'm always surprised people don't know Ilya Lushtak. Can't think of any other current day players I'd rather listen to. He's got the groove of Grant Green or Wes but he also has a bunch of Barry Harris stuff in his playing. His solos are very surprising and interesting, you never know what he's gonna do next.
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Darn that Dream
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11-24-2022 01:51 AM
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Originally Posted by JazzIsGood
He's been on Smalls Live several times playing with different folks.
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Good find!
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Great player, great sound. This was my introduction to him, some years back:
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I saw him live quite many times while he was back in St.Petersburg, there he was kind of a star (the only other player who compete with him in that sense was Andrei Ryabov but he belongs to older generation and has indisputable reputation).
He is a master on the instrument and has huge vocabulary in trad jazz.
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Yeah Ilya seems to be a legend in small circles, but for some reason mostly unknown on the internet.
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Originally Posted by Doug B
The Smalls Live website has 60+ Ilya Lushtak performances and some of them are really mind blowing.
It costs $10 to join the site for a year, well worth it, and the money goes to a good cause.
There's not much on YouTube and he has no records out, so I think the Smalls Live websites is the best place to hear Ilya.
Well I guess he has the Hand and Frank record out, but IMO it does not feature the guitar much and does not really capture what he does. The studio version is nothing like the live version.
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Here's a good one-
Looks like he's sight reading doubling the sax around the 13 minute mark, then proceeds to tear up the fretboard while also singing every note. I've seen lots of people singing what they play and I know you're supposed to practice that way but he's got some accuracy and speed on this that is unusual.
Wacky comping by the piano player, but overall it's a great band and great set. Put this one on and just let it play for an hour or two.
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In a Mellow Tone-
Also includes Ceora, Girl from Ipanema, Someday my Prince will Come and a few more. If you can name the rest of the songs please reply. I have heard them but the names of the tunes are eluding me at the moment.
Sounds a bit different on a Gibson ES-335 (or something in that family), but it's a great trio performance.
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He doesn't play along to transcriptions at 300bpm on instagram. Originally Posted by JazzIsGood
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it looks like an es-330 , the guitar grant played on all of the classic blue note stuff. Its like a 335 but full hollow and single coils instead of humbuckers. I used to have that I wish i wouldn’t have sold Originally Posted by JazzIsGood
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Jeanine Originally Posted by JazzIsGood
If I Had You
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A new video just came out, for a solo on "The Song Is You."
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Here's your weekly dose of Ilya-
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New Ilya just came out-
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Wow this version of Autumn Leaves is really something. I've heard it a zillion times but not like this-
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Here's Ilya on a '59 D'Angelico. Wow sounds awesome! I'll post this in the DA threads also.
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I’ve heard him a few times on streams.
it’s interesting that the first few times I heard him I didn’t think he was very good. In fact I think what it is is that I’m so used to hearing a certain approach to jazz guitar - even bop guitar - that I’m unused to hearing it done differently.
he certainly makes for an interesting contrast to all the very technical modern players who play very even and smooth with the tone rolled off. Not that he doesn’t have chops, but he seems willing to risk coming off the rails; not everything is clean, pretty and perfectly controlled. I think he’d be a really exciting ‘in the room player’.
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Barney Kessel vibes - Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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What's an "in the room"player? I have heard that before but not sure what it means.
I like the adventurous style he brings for sure. It's more spontaneous than the modern/even style players.
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Well I mean I think he’d be really good live in person, have a compelling energy. Originally Posted by JazzIsGood
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Absolutely! I heard him play Un Poco Loco with a trio in Rome in 08 and it was compelling energy indeed. Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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Barry's 80th - NYC
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I have Illya's old 1963 Gibson Johnny Smith. I got it from one of his students. Its the same one in the video of Darn that Dream someone previously posted. When I bought it, it needed a lot of work. Binding repair, three cracks glued closed. But the guitar has such a unique old school sound. Its hard to describe.
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Heres a clip of the guitar today. I just joined and saw this post. I had alot of work done on this thing and im not sure if im going to keep it or not, yet....
I think this guitar is the one he played on the frank wess and hank jones record with John Weber and the same one he used to record with Cedar W. I'll ask him when i see him.
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