The nicest man in jazz. So down to earth, would spend 10 minutes talking with anyone. Carried on a conversation with Bucky one time in a long food line during an intermission. Big fan of chocolate milk...that day he was in search of chocolate milk. Really miss him.
This was great! My father, Bernie Kaufman (woodwinds) probably played hundreds (maybe thousands?) of dates with Bucky....including the entire Tonight Show while it was in NY. I can remember sitting in many studios watching them on a jingle, a record date, or the NBC stuff. What a musician!
No doubt he and other greats like Tony Mottola whose names you don't see on everybody's greatest lists will eventually rise more and more to the top of heap as the dust from guitar effects drifts away forever forgotten.
3:08 The 7th String is typically another B String (2 Octaves below the 2nd String) but in this case Bucky has it tuned down a step to a Low A an Octave below the 5th String, so yeah Drop A Tuning. This Guitar sounds great both Acoustically & Plugged in.
I saw both John and Bucky Pizzarelli play separate events in my town. They were both Great. I talked to Bucky for a minute right after he finished. John performed with the late great Ray Kennedy and Bucky played at the Buddy DeFranco jazz festival in Missoula.
I had to see it several times to understand. (I only speak Portuguese). But it helped me a lot to write about it. Maybe at the edge of the universe we can find kilopods, it would be better than cockroach, right?
Oh Bucky did some wonderful gigs for me, Sugarloaf Music, Inc. in Warwick, N.Y.... esp. w/ Frank Vignola and Gene Bertoncini. As a former teacher in Paterson, N.J., I arranged to have the mayor give Bucky the Keys to the City many years ago before the city's arts high school, Rosa Parks...full house of students who gave Bucky and Frank Vignola a standing ovation. So...visiting the city's website, they never posted Bucky having received this honor. Bucky helped, along w/ Larry Doby, Allen Ginsberg, Lou Costello...helped put that city on the map.
R.I.P. Bucky Pizzarelli [January 9, 1926 - April 1, 2020]. Leslie and I were so very lucky to get the chance to make this documentary about him. We only spent one afternoon (and one evening at The Iridium) filming with him, but even in that short time, he was not only incredibly kind and supportive, but extremely sharp-witted and funny (as you can see from the stories he told us)... and, it goes without saying, he was a truly legendary talent. Rest in Peace John "Bucky" Pizzarelli.
Thank you for the inspiration and follow-through on Bucky's story. You do know that he was God's favorite guitar player, right? You're gonna get a special place when the time comes...
Centipede are harmless and they don't do anything to you if you just ignore them and killing them is wrong cause first of all the more you kill them than their will be less of them and second of all, the most important, their population will decreased. Even exports say that you shouldn't kill centipede.
Not sure if this will get to you since its been many years but could I use a couple of your clips in a video that I'm creating? I would absolutely give you credits for all the clips I use.
Love Bucky... Heard him play lots of times. Met him personally through my boyfriend who is great friends with him. My boyfriend is a jazz photographer and knows a lot of great musicians... Thank you babe.. Even met his son John Pizzarelli... Met Phil Woods, Auturo Sandoval, and a lot more great jazz musicians...
Bucky is truly a wonderful man...Met him at the Rahway Summer Jazz Festival 2004. Les Paul was doing the Iridium gig and I was building PSEG Power facility ... LOL . Great player and truly a wonderful man. Amazing how well he looks. better each day
An Octave lower. I had no idea. I rem seeing Ralph Patt who like tuned in 3rds or some darn thing. Couldn't steal a lick. Love Bucky's work & John's as well.
(I thumbs up'd it) But maybe they just stumbled in here and aren't into jazz or something? OR-- I know guitarists who are staunchly against guitars with more than 6 strings who would totally thumbs down this based on that, regardless of the genre they play!
I met Bucky at Germanos Restaurant in Baltimore !! Great player very humble and he educated me about his seven string and gave me a mini lesson on how to approach playing it he let me play his Bennedeto guitar That was real cool man !! After all said and done I Looked up the price of that guitar almost faded lol expensive lol