There was Freddie Green, the great brakeman on the steam locomotive that was the classic Basie rhythm section. Perhaps the most important and renowned jazz musician never to take a solo -- some discographer will correct me, I'm sure, which is cool by me, as I'd love to know if even a single recording exists of Green taking a single-line solo, and I'm too lazy and / or overwhelmed to invest in the research myself -- Green has nonetheless inspired what has to be one of the most comprehensive and flat-out deep websites dedicated to any musician, jazz or pop or avant-flake, living, dead or crippled by chronic inebriation.
Freddie Green - Master Of The Rhythm Guitar
Site features include the customary photo gallery, the obligatory list of recordings, and visitor guestbook, but numbered in the highlights are a wealth of transcriptions, a nice piece on the exquisite, buxom Epiphones and Gretschs over which Mr. Green ran his fingers for so many years, and tons upon tons of full-text articles, excerpts from monographs, anecdotes, and the like.
A really, really, really valuable resource. Besides, the home page features one of the finer examples of front-porch-swing aesthetic theorizin' I know:
Rhythm guitar is like vanilla extract in cake. You can't taste it when it's there, but you know when it's left out.
Well ALMOST not but they are like few few bits here and there of 4 to 8 bars single lines or intros
best is to go to
www.freddiegreen.org
and you ll find everything
best
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was grant green also considered really big rythm guitar guy?
maybe i am confused with kenny burrel's stuff.
well.
Posted by: alexandre at July 22, 2004 10:22 AM"was grant green also considered really big rythm guitar guy?"
Bellenger !
If you have some holiday time... listen to the Count
and read Noel's interviews..
sorry did i talk crap again jacques?
i am going to read noel's itw, yes yes yes
i should
maybe its the vodka!!!
what noel's itw are you talking about jacques?
i went on the freddie green website but didnt find anything like noel's itw?
also its not that i'm on holidays
actually i kinda became a bit stupid with the all holidays concept
i just never go on holiday at all, i mean, i am always so scared that i dont know what to do
at the moment i watch tour de france quite heavily.
i think its crazy, i mean, this guys, i used to be a triathlete when i was teenager, so i was involved with cycling quite a lot, and basically, all this guys, the speed they go in the slopes is super-human, armstrong is amazing, i wonder what kinda sensations he's having with all the drugs he's taking!
Posted by: Alexandre at July 22, 2004 11:25 AMNoel -- as a contemporary guitarist, what would you say is the most valuable thing you've learned from Freddie Green's music?
Posted by: Joe Milazzo at July 22, 2004 11:44 AM"what noel's itw are you talking about jacques?"
In Improjazz,
Well, I meant Freddie Green.. He is one of Noel's favorite.
"at the moment i watch tour de france quite heavily."
Great ... boy. So you don't need holiday.
Who/what are you listening to... while looking at Armstrong ?
i cant listen to any music when i am watching tour de france in fact. i listen to the comments on the TV.
at the moment i am working on a composition i have to present in october. so i watch tour de france and i am working/thinking about this piece. its a new thing including movement for the players in the composition, they have to decide with the dies on live....
hell it's so hot tonite
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