This interview is badass. Everyone should know someone like him these days especially. Dudes start talking about jazz like somone that should work at Space X or something. All this stuff came from the ghetto and it was transmitted from human to human . Don't forget that.
Was jazz not derived from classical music? I would think a lot of musicians learned to read and play instruments by ear too and changed blues and classical into "jazz". Just because "real" jazz/black jazz comes from where ever it comes from doesn't mean that is what it is. Chicago blues was played/invented by primarily southerners who relocated to the city, but the music must be city blues right? Those guys were doing Robert Johnson style, but electric, with a band.
@@benjohnson4810 I think the meaning of the post is more about not getting too academic with jazz. There are alot of ways of thinking about music theory in general and the whole idea of jazz is the freedom to harmonically change things on the fly, to improvise. It belongs outside of classrooms it cant really be taught like that. Jimmy touches on this in the interview about how he grew up playing and guys would have different names for things before everything came so standardized, like sears and roebuck referring to rhythm changes
In short: no. The history of jazz goes back primarily to New Orleans Black horn band music, ragtime, and blues. Some classical harmony got in through the side door by way of its influence on the Tin Pan Alley songwriters, but it's not a foundational part of the DNA of jazz
New Orleans horn and piano players know plenty of classical music, and they knew it since the earliest days of “jazz”. All of these instruments - guitar, piano, horn, sax, bass - come from Europe. You think New Orleans musicians didn’t know classical harmony?
@@raf889 I mean, sure. There are plenty of old school jazz musicians who had a foot in both traditions, but if you're trying to follow the trunk of jazz all the way down, the roots are in West Africa
Every time i watch anything with Jimmy Bruno , I learn more useful practical shit in 10 minutes than a whole afternoon of random fishing for licks on YT or subscriptions i have.
This was GREAT! Jimmy's a great player, I love his music and his stories are hilarious, especially the one about Buddy Rich, and him telling Jimmy. "Don't play no Berkeley scales here." I think it was Buddy Rich. I watched EVERY video Jimmy made during covid.
Jimmy and Denis, the two men most responsible (along with David Hamburger) for saving me from the nonsense I read in books and the bollocks talked on forums. Thanks guys, super looking forward to this. All the best.
Dennis, I think you're great! I love Jimmy Bruno and have had the great pleasure of hanging out with him. He is incredible and a true pioneer of jazz guitar and definitely one of a kind! thanks for this great video!
Great interview! I was teaching at that college at the time (not music) and Jimmy & Jack's Saturday morning workshop, sponsored by the Interlochen school (that's where the "bucks" were $$) in the auditorium was a highlight of my concert experiences. I got to talk to them outside during a break. Awesome experience.
Jimmy is THE guy that got me into jazz, the first jazz player that I heard that blew me away in my teens. I saw him play Giant Steps on his old 7 string Benedetto, and from that point on I was into it. Jimmy has ridiculous chops and tone, he's still my all time favorite jazz player.
Love this one! 8:17 "E7 with hair" 🤣 Jimmy is a monster (in a good way) with so much jazz knowledge. Thanks for the vid. Love those chords at 10:30. Golden. And such a great story-teller!
Italian guitar players......these cats could play..Satrani...Vai.. Joe Pass..Pisano..Zappa..Tedesco..Martino the list goes on.Something about their community they have Great education and feel.and Jimmy Bruno is amazing love and respect him.
I laughed about the “gig from hell”! 😂 I had a nearly identical nightmare. I got called for a guitar trio gig by a drummer who was absolutely clueless. First tune, I said “bossa nova” and called Wave. The electric bassist thumbed through a Real Book and pedaled on a D while the drummer played a polka. The gig went downhill from there! At least I had my own amp!
I was doing sound for FOH at the Somers Point gig Jimmy mentioned ( unless he played another time recently!) I remember thinking about how he was laying out a lot and now it makes sense.
The reason why a lot of musicians of the young generations sound the same? Here you go, jimmy said it all. I try to teach a kid jazz but he was not about trying to do it because all he wanted to know was Mixo, locry, Super locry & other stuff just like everybody was doing at school. That's how everybody will show up on stage & play their modes.
I think the biggest difference is until a certain time , jazz was a fairly popular music in a number of countries. Many people in those days grew up hearing songs played by jazz musicians (Autumn Leaves, All Of Me, Girl From Ipanema), they already knew jazz before even starting out.. Nowadays, people discover jazz in other ways, and often through schools and teachers. It’s less natural than it used to be. I remember when I played in Paris a few years ago, there were older people in the audience and they knew almost all the songs we played because it was their childhood. Those people weren’t musicians.
Stochelo Rosenberg and George Benson (see the Rick Beato interview) learned in that way, aurally and with some hints from good musicians. No deep dive theory.
That's funny that you put politics, religion, and climate change in the thumbnail video. That's why i clicked on it, although i'm not a fan of any of those topics, but i had to see what this was about. I'm overjoyed that there was no mention of those things, unless i missed it somehow. Great video and GREAT playing gentlemen.
Love these old school players. They were from a generation like my dad (RIP) as a young jazz listener and enthusiast back in the 50s and 60s and into the 70s. They don't teach like this anymore. Jazz is too formalized and academic nowadays. Cats used to just play what they heard on the records and substituted harmonies here and there playing live. Oh and half of those "Real" books ain't right, either. You have to listen to the records first and foremost.
The Real Book has so many alterations to dominate chords in the lead sheets that guitar students play it verbatim and that causes clashes with the pianist who are using their own alterations.
What is the title of the song you guys played at the end? One at the beginning of the video is Out of Nowhere but I can't remember the title of the one at the end. Excellent interview and playing, thanks.
@Denis Chang thanks for the reply. There's an excellent video on this unspoken rule titled "Who's in Charge of the of the Tempo" with Christian McBride and Gregory Hutchinson. The ebb and flow of jazz Bass and Drums.
Music education has a lot to answer for. Academics making jobs for themselves mostly. Not many people can actually make a living gigging anymore. It’s a dead art form where teachers teach others to be teachers. 😕
@@DenisChangMusic Joking apart. It is! The people being swindled are the students. They are too young to realise that they are walking into a dead end.
Maybe you should look up what art Blakey had to say about your whiney comment. Jazz wasn’t invented in Africa and there is a reason for that. Your opinion is a dead stereotype cliche, you are living in a hateful past. And by the way, I am 69 and saw a lot of the original cats like max roach, art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, etc, and you know what, the audiences were always 95% white.
