Derek Trucks, McCoy Tyner - Greensleeves

[eloyhbermudez]

jack dejohnette´s playing is so beautiful and agressive!!

[yurtle371]

Alien Speak

I love it when he and Jimmy Herring "communicate"

[kzearo]

Is Derek doing all the guitaring in this?

[pparrish11679]

Yeah, thats all Derek.

[kzearo]

Jesus. He's good.

[milanj99]

Dynamic and tonal shift at 1:23 is dope.

Tyner is a top 10, if not top 5 jazz pianist. Trucks is on track to be a top 10 guitarist as he grows...and I'm talking all-time here.

Awesome collaboration

[fiddlercrab3]

I'm curious to hear your list... I need to start paying a lot more attention to pianists, and what they have to say. Give me a head start, eh?

[eloyhbermudez]

i like this natural sound overall , is like a littlebit dirty but thats okay for my .

[GeneBarzizza]

The performances are rock solid...the mixing is a bit wierd, but then again I am listening through laptop speakers...

DTB plays greensleeves all the time, and derek trucks could make a cigar box strung with rubber bands sound good... I shall be purchasing this album.. MCCOY TYNER IS A SUPER BADASS!

[bebopchess]

Derek has shown consistently that he has incredible dynamic control. He can make profound musical statements at nearly any volume. I'd say the "singing" quality of his overdriven tone when he pushes the amp wide open is definitely the sound most people know him for, and therefore many are put off by this recording, where he never really pushes it into that more saturated sound... different does not equal worse...

[MRJimcoMustache]

I think Derek probably played waht he wanted too. He could have played his amp in the studio as loud as he wanted by simply putting it in another room. I'm thinking he just decided that understated is the way to go with McCoy Tyner, shows real humility for sure

[bebopchess]

i agree with you. he's a class act.

[nellgit]

if it is tyners record he was being respectful to the melody-dereks band would indeed provoke a much heavier ,more violent ride!we all know what dt is about!

[otuzzir]

i dig Derek's work here.

[jimmymgbclick]

probably i gave this video 1000 views

[seanieemac]

Its different for Derek, but I still like it.

[gutterslide1]

Thank you for this wonderful piece of music!

da gutterslide

[n0pointmentioning]

i think whats bugging alot of hard core derek fans is that it sounds like he turned the reverb on his legendary blackface all the way down. An unusual move which takes away from the usual derek fretted/unfretted howl. Amazing Nontheless!!!

[hotlanta71]

where the fuck is his tone?

[JohnMayer07]

probably the recording.

[mattchurchill]

Sweet! Trucks is a god.

[jxw137]

at its best moments, the jazz behind it sounds out of place. Don't care for this as much as i hoped to. Though, i give any . GUITAR PLAYER . lots of respect to stand in with coltrane's piano man and try and do anything. ...boy i wish coltrane was around. miss him. there's just this big empty void where he used to be.

[ImDward]

Derek definitely isn't playing straight ahead jazz by any means, but he has an insanely soft touch for a blues player.

It's definitely a blues solo, but if you listen closely you will hear the Wes licks thrown in there.

Not to mention the melody is played gorgeously. I think its a fantastic rendition. But again, I'm not looking at it as pure jazz.

[Sivad335]

Agreeing with rsw, I think trucks is out of his league here. Derek is not a straight jazz player. He could get away with being a jazz player in a blues setting. Not the same.

I'd take Coltrane's version over this one.

[rsw74]

Admittedly I haven't heard enough of Trucks to render an opinion but this is not a good introduction to him as a player. He's way, way out of his league here as many players would be next to McCoy.

[blah148]

I completely agree. McCoy Tyner is musically at a different level. I'm, btw, a huge Derek Trucks fan (I love blues and jazz), so I'm also a fan of Tyner and his work with Coltrane. I must say though, Derek was not on it during this recording.

[bluemonk82]

I hate Derek Trucks, he sucks. His total disregard to tone is something that just drives me crazy. He also has no sense of dynamics. He's such an erratic player.

[ymmij765432]

You shouldn't talk about one of the best guitar players in the world like that fag boy

[bluemonk82]

Oh yeah, you really got me there. Derek Trucks still sucks.

[ymmij765432]

gain some respect and knowledge about music then talk. Your the one watching his videos so I mean he can't suck that much huh?

[alexsuperdude]

basically everything you said is wrong

[bluemonk82]

Basically you're a damn idiot.

[cbsmooth13]

derek plays very reserved here. he's almost too respectful and it hurts the track. derek has torn up greensleeves for years with his band and it is completely raw and filled with emotion. this track is almost staid.

[alexsuperdude]

they could have found a way to let derek record through a lot more power. it seems like derek's discouraged by his lack of volume and that's what makes him more reserved. i'm sure theres plenty of things they could have done to get the sound they wanted without just turning the volume on the amp way way down. instead he was stuck in the middle, doing a super mellow version when he's used to ripping the song up

[blah148]

IMHO, in addition to that, its the jazz music setting that restrains Derek the most. Blues players playing jazz music can be a nervous experience as the intracacies and particularly the chord changes can be difficult hurdles.

[jonjosephbarnes]

blah: i certainly don't think dt has or had any difficulty navigating the changes to greensleeves. especially since its a modal tune.

also,i think to label derek a blues player is kinda off.the blues is just a part of derek.he plays so many other styles so fluently he really can't be labeled.

i'm sure if anything he was just a little nervous recording with 3 of his idols. plus..as the only electric instrument, he had to keep his amp vol really low.sounds like 3 or 4.he couldn't get his sound.

[devilstoaster]

i disagree with your last point. you can get a good sound at most volumes. all except 0 actually.

[jonjosephbarnes]

yes thats true especially someone with great touch like derek...but what i meant was derek turns his super up to around 8 live...

and that gives him his trademark tone..

which he isn't getting here because it would have been way too loud.

[abach123]

jonjosephbarnes, i agree. labeling derek as a blues players is off and yes playing with people like mccoy tyner could be pretty intimidating

[codyr222]

There are no chord changes in this tune. Its competely modal - its bounces in between two chords the entire time. In that way, its LESS complicated than standard blues form. Except for the theme (melody) at the beginning and end.

[blah148]

yeah you know what sorry guys i agree with you in that derek is not jsut a blues player.

to be honest, i cant believe i said that because i own several of his cds where he experiments with indian rhythms and stylings.

and thanks for informing me its modal; i must've been on crack all day that day

[3shiftgtr]

codyr222-You mean the tune's melody has changes (diatonic), but the soloing is modal, right?

[PsychoRanger]

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very nice =) bW

[Luthval]

Nice impro on the famous theme ;-)

Val

[kathrynhorwath]

This is a great track.