T-Bone Walker w/ Jazz At The Philharmonic - Live in UK 1966 

I think Lonnie Johnson is not given enough credit.

@@peteyhop7589he really is the pioneer

@@peteyhop7589 Lonnie Johnson was 20 years ahead of T-Bone Walker !

Charlie Christian was one of TBone's friends and also invented licks and ways of playing against chords that everyone plays in our times as well.@@stevenkimsey7039

He certainly didn't invent them, but he definitely made many of Lonnie Johnson's riffs his own.

Chuck Berry said Walker was huge influence.I'm sure Bo Diddly, Elvis, and Buddy Holly would second the notion that Walker was their dude.Again,we need show respect to the master's.Give it up to T-Bone Walker.

Hard to believe that Chuck B. would be so generous praying and giving credit to someone else.

@@javiceres Nah, I heard Chuck Berry,say T- Bone Walker, Charlie Christian and Ray Charles as his Heroes.

Coury Landers That’s great to know

Chuck very often talked about his influences when interviewed. Aside from T-Bone Walker, Carl Hogan and Charlie Christian being his main guitar influences, he also often mentions Louis Jordan for his lyrics, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra for the feeling in their vocals and their diction, and Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and all those big band guys for what he called their "tremendous beats". He also said Muddy Waters and Elmore James were some of his favorites as well. Direct quote: "That was the basis of my music, if you can call it my music, but there's nothing new under the sun." - Chuck Berry

Wow, I'll bet that night was not only interesting but also unforgettable!

Unbelievable! You are sure? You are not dreaming or telling tales..? You must be old now.. If it is true then it is just fantastic!! What would I give for an evening like that!!!!!

Loved the "Johnny Otis Show" - so cool music and conversations...

Everyone in ytube comments tells these kinda stories and I can't help but call bs

And then you woke up

Unknown?

Hes been called one of the most important musicians of the 20th century

yes

Yes, t bone Walker si unknown and is the father of the electric blues

Super talented and very influential. If you play blues guitar, you play T-Bone Walker.

T-bone, t-crazy

Great comments Can I just say though that Norman Grannz was well-known for cancelling performances if they meant playing for segregated audiences what a champion of jazz music and racially integrated music Norman was

. . . And all the YT musician's knew it!

along with Lonnie Johnson(b. 1899)

How about Charlie Christian?

Facts

Most of all ... he was the primary guitar influence for Chuck Berry ... and we all know where that went!

Hyperbol. Great, but the most important???

SAW HIM LIVE PGH 1976ish STANLEY THEATRE DOWNTOWN PGH

Robert Johnson

Hendrix is eh' T bone and Elmore had it!

Lightning Hopkins as well...

I can hang with you cause we're on the same page because I feel that exact same way!

Hendrix had great innovation with the guitar, but to me, the soul isn’t quite there like it is with the original guys

Thank you for sharing some history. Three Cheers for you, sir!

And Dizzy on trumpet

Agree. 'Modern' blues with all the shredding completely misses the point. It's like playing scales fast with no rhyme or reason. I love jazz and blues with soul but would sooner listen to Eddie Van Halen than Joe Bonamassa.

@@dantimber Bonamassa plays loud, and thats about it.. Robert Cray is the opposite, what touch... We need a new T-Bone ripping off those killer single note lines...

@@alanfranzen1029 I agree. There’s something missing with this crew. They lack authenticity, emotion. Nothing connects for me. Speed and volume are mistaken for talent. I’d suggest jazz/pop crossovers Gary Clark Jr and John Mayer are vastly more talented when playing blues. I’m not familiar with him but guitarist Chris Buck recently blew me away on RU-vid with ‘Dreams to Remember’. Every member of Spyra Gyra is in another class. There are others.

if he indeed said it then there's no reason to use the term "literally"...seems to be a word that people very often use inappropriately these days...not sure how that got started...

@@EastmanD okay grandma

@@vincentmadden6112 you're welcome grandson

Æll Yã cãts, Hê is The best, nex tô Robert Johnson, love watch Him play, jùs såyîn !😎🥚😎!

I totally agree with you.

I thot that was funny too.

Well, he is a better singer

Debatable. But there was a period between 1947 to 1955 or so, where practically every Blues guitarist who played in standard tuning wanted to sound like T-Bone on guitar... Lowell Fulson, Pee Wee Crayton, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, B.B. King, Clarence Garlow, Pete "Guitar" Lewis, Stick McGee, Goree Carter, Guitar Slim, were all T-Bone guitar-slingers in those days. T-Bone's licks even found their way onto the solos of the likes of Les Paul, Chet Atkins and others of that ilk. The mere fact that he is thee main influence on both Chuck Berry and B.B. King means he may be the most influential electric guitarist in history. If he's not, he's certainly WAY up there, matched or beaten only by people like Chuck, B.B., Charlie Christian, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and that might be about it. Remember I'm talking about sheer influentiality, not just technical skill.

@@TheHeater90 Lets add Goree Carter, magic decipl of Mr T

gitfiddlejimagain jimmy Nolen too

the best in blues to ever done it hands down bo

Plant and Page in one man.

1mespud T-bone was actually very jazzy at times for a bluesman. He had a good since of complex harmony again for a mainly blues oriented style.

What a lovely statement..... I agree!

you're both exactly right. original clean blues/jazz guitar in an era when many RnB musicians crossed the imaginary lines between jazz and blues. T bone straddled that line perfectly with taste, those (for me) essential 7 9 chord extensions and enough straight forward down home blues feeling to not alienate less sophisticated audiences.

marktarmannpiano exactly.. those 7/9 chord extensions, on top of using diminished chords and other harmonies for 12 bar blues... for me that little bit of melodic complexity makes him my favorite, over the other guys.

I’m a bit late but absolutely correct

+transtremm No it is not genius. I don't know what prompted Clark Terry to play only his mouthpiece but comes across as patronizing and condescending.(imho). Maybe he was trying to imitate a harmonica. His horn would've sounded so much better.

+transtremm I agree that it is pretty sweet. It is apparent he's trying to do a harmonica thing, I think it was pretty inventive, at least out of context.

Playing his mouthpiece was something Clark Terry did on occasion, and always to good effect. He was not the type of person to be patronizing and condescending in intention.

I remember actor Montgomery Clift in movie scene from "From Here to Eternity" playing mouthpiece in barracks beer bar. Probably done in the day more often than people realize.

That's Dizzy, not Clark Terry. Dizzy loved to clown!

I noticed that as well.

😂

😂😂

That’s good. It shows you have that you have good taste in music.

@@LoweringMyProfile I appreciate it.

blues is one of the only listenable genres of music lol,

Really

mrmiles725 Nothing more true in this world than the blues

mrmiles725 preach!!!

@mmiles725.... "I'm in Love with a woman, but she's not in Love with me" - If that ain't the blues.... I cannot think what else there is. :-)

Ain't that some shit

Worst of feelings...

Stormy Monday!

+GDTRFBBB And yet you can look at list after list of the "greatest guitarists" and T Bone isn't there! I just saw one that had David effin Bowie but not T Bone. What an overlooked talent.

+Gf Black What list would that be not maybe Rolling Stone surely not Guitar Player

I found out about T Bone from an article in Guitar Player magazine back in the 70s. Those top 10 lists can't be taken too seriously. But thanks to that article I found some really good music by T Bone.

Me too Alton.... not too far anyway....

GDTRFBBB Stevie ray Vaughn as well!

B.B. and Buddy directly credit TBone as the reason they picked up guitar. Chuck Berry made a career ripping TBone off. The list of what TBone did and gave to blues is endless.

You are totally right

Yep. T-Bone is 'THE GUY".

@@johnnyford9074 Sister Rosetta Tharpe was playing rifts similar to Chuck Berry before he was discovered.

Great music. Exciting music. Gerry. Mackay

TerryO'Regan Yup, All jazz comes from the blues and with all due respect I would add... And all blues comes from the hurt of the heart.

@@bobdillaber1195 They both come from gospel believe it or not

@@jonnehayesjr.9299 We all stand on the shoulders of those who preceeded us.

@@bobdillaber1195 Well said.

details please

He's in the rock and roll hall of fame.

Black is why

I know, I thought that was phenomenal, putting the Blues singer in the "Reacher" series.

legendarisch

Hein Overbeek: Had to be a beautiful time.

Yeah I thought he just didn’t know what he was doing.

Thanks for pointing out the line up. I only recognized Diz. i love JATP and have many of those records with Bird, Lester, Diz and many more.

An all star cast

What was that guy playing in the first tune? Just the mouth piece from a trumpet? I thought he was on harmonica at first.

Louis Bellson on drums Bob Cranshaw on bass

@@moonmunster 'Dizzie' Gillespie, one of the greatest on trumpet