I don’t play guitar. And hence, I have no knowledge of the demands of the instrument. People tell me how great certain guitar players are or were..........Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark, Glenn Campbell, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mark Knofler, Tommy Emmanuel, Joe Pas, Bucky Pizzarreli (spelling?) and the list goes on and on. I’ve listened to them all and have recordings-several in fact-of all of them. A few months ago, I stumbled upon Joscho Stephan on RU-vid. At the risk of using a hackneyed expression, I was blown away. I’ve never enjoyed a guitar player as much as this. I don’t just think he’s amazing. He IS amazing. It helps that I very much enjoy Gypsy Jazz, but even his collaboration with Tommy Emmanuel on If I Had You-not exactly Gypsy Jazz- is absolutely wonderful. If there’s one thing that bothers me, it’s this. I’m bald. And Joscho has an impossibly glorious head of hair. An amazing guitar player and musician with really thick hair. It’s simply not fair. NOT FAIR I TELLYA ☹️
I just stumbled on Jocho Stephan today, and as the guitar player, I can tell you - this amazing creativity and impeccable technique, perfect guitar voicings is definitely not fair! And that glorious hair just adds insult to injury to us baldheads! 😊
@@kingrobert1st Joscho Stephan about Django Reinhardt: "He is a genius!" Don't stop listening to Django Reinhard! Bireli Lagrene, Stochelo Rosenberg, every great Guitarist does! Joscho plays most of the solos and licks by Django, because they are great! Joscho has studied every guitarist since Django and plays everithing they have played. Django Reinhardt invented a lot of what guitarists play today. But the most important thing is: he has played music in every song!
I'm a mediocre guitarist and I still have some hair, but you're absolutely right: Joscho is a fabulous guitarist. He has a lot of hair and he also seems like a handsome man to me (but I could be wrong about that, I prefer to look at beautiful women). If you become too envious of him, I recommend a fat and almost bald but equally magical guitarist: Richard Smith
An amazing flood of creative ideas, perfectly executed, and if you watching him play it on five different occasions on you tube, its totally different ever time. Got to see this guy live.
Simply Marvellous. And Anything but Simple. If in fact, if there is an element of simplicity, it would certainly be the simpletons who gave this a thumbs down.
Fast as lightning and clean as a whistle but more importantly the choice of notes and the tonal spice! Dude's amazing. (the first guy, other guy ain't bad neither)
Everyone's top notch but I would be lying if I said I wasn't absolutely flabbergasted by joscho. Django must be smiling down on him as clearly this is his moment in the sun , God bless
Really Amazing solo and Amazing Player Joscho Give me the motivation to play again I played Django and so since long time but I never see an incredible clean playing like this It's wonderful So now since two month I try to play this solo as Joscho play it and mixed with the Stochelo one Many Ideas comes...This piece isn't easy to play but it is a fantastic exercise that open many doors for modern Gypsy Jazz as Joscho playing! I would like this guy to be my Teacher ! Love it.
Good feeling here. Some people who do this are just mechanics. The key to this is playing like yourself in the genre. Continuous invention. The Mozart of Gypsy Jazz.
Any young musicians who are the up n coming , take note if you want to witness some of the world's current cream of the crop killing it at top of their game ... Take note this is it
Keeping the groove playing along with the chords is difficult because Joscho is playing so much off beat syncopated weird shit, and I mean that as a compliment!
let's all just one moment to appreciate the bass player who has to stay calm and play out some bass lines throughout some of this frenzied guitar battle LOL .... as much as we'd all agree that Joscho Stephan is good, Olli Soikkeli is pretty good too.
one must admire anyone's courage to go and play with joscho ...because you might be good, or even very good. But then there is "joscho level" of being good and there is 100% chance that you will be the worse player on the stage (maybe bireli lagrene is exception, matching equally)
Stochelo ist Stochelo, ein Melodiespieler mit super Ton und feinem musikalischem Geschmack. Joscho ist Joscho. Joscho ist fantastisch. Er ist ein Lick-Spieler mit grossartigen Fähigkeiten. Wer eine Abfolge von Licks hören will, ist bei Joscho bestens aufgehoben. Les Paul sagte einst: Sie spielen unglaublich schnell, aber kann mir jemand sagen wozu?
@@erichnussbaum Es ist wahr !! Du hast recht Sie sind beide unterschiedlich. Durch die Nachteile, über Joscho, werde ich das hinzufügen. Von Zeit zu Zeit verlieren wir an Musikalität mit ihm, er macht zu viel Technik für die Technik, und manchmal ist es viel zu viel.
