EDDIE LANG JAZZ GUITAR VIRTUOSO

[sirjuandabicho]

Magníficas grabaciones, muchas gracias por compartirlas.

[kettuantti]

This is the best you can get!

[n64wilbert]

Thanks for posting!!!

[butte17]

Lonnie Johnson is playing a 12 string guitar on the 3rd song. The accompaniment on the 2nd piece is a piano.

[butte17]

Lonnie Johnson is playing a 12 string guitar on the 3rd song.

[kettuantti]

@butte17 I think Lonnie is playing with nine strings, the doubles juts on first to third strings? It´s hard to hear, though...

[dangerousdaveT]

You may notice there are two guitars on most of these tracks...most of the lead work was actually Lonnie Johnson.I wonder why there is no mention of him here?

[Finkldorkin]

The song names are:

Pickin' my way

Rainbow Dreams

Blue Guitars

Just sayin' because I didn't know what songs they were. so there they are.. if anyone cares.

[BlindedinChains444]

@Finkldorkin thanks dude

[MrDrewBaker]

@Finkldorkin Pickin my way is with Carl Kress, and the last one is definitely Lonnie Johnson on lead. He used a double high-e string, which is why he has that unique sound. I don't recognize the second guitar on the second song, but it is likely to be Kress on rhythm and NOT Johnson on either of the first two.

[999manman]

@MrDrewBaker What is a double-high e string?

[Airwar405]

14th birthday, and you'll be glad to know, jazz guitar is still hip to me.

[timjmoran]

This IS TWO guitars.. right? Any idea who the other player is ?I assume Lang is playing the melody..right?

[lazur1]

@timjmoran Perhaps Carl Kress. I'll look into it.

[cherenerules]

what are the song titles

[Jazzyteach65]

today is my 28th birthday, and i've been a jazz and blues lover for life. I had a subpar day, but hearing this made it great

[pdasaro]

So Eddie, Django and Les Paul were the only 3 Jazz Guitarists of the Golden age? Anybody know of any other forgotten Guitar heroes?

[dangerousdaveT]

How about Lonnie Johnson-he wasn't just a blues player and played with Eddie Lang on some tunes-he was also a big influence on other guitarists-I would assume including Eddie and Django if you listen to some of their phrasing;blues bends at the end of a line etc.

[lazur1]

@dangerousdaveT Aside from Paganini-influenced shredders, all modern guitar has evolved from Eddie & Lonnie.

[tbcass]

@pdasaro Charlie Christian or was he too late?

[lazur1]

@pdasaro Lang: Eddie's most influential work was a decade berfore Django's, two decades before Les's.

[busessuck1]

@pdasaro if we're sticking to jazz there's Snoozer Quinn and Charlie Christian

but there's also a load of great blues guitarists like Blind Blake, Barbecue Bob, Danny Barker... and that's just the Bs

[JimmyDeLocke]

WAY COOL !!!!

[zalman595]

Now I get it: Chet was obviously influenced by Django, but you can hear where Les Paul got a lot of his ideas from in Eddie Lang's playing ( even more so than Django) Some of Eddie's lines sounds like stuff Les was doing twenty years later with multi-tracking. Thanks for putting this up!

[onki64]

30年聞いて飽きない

[ranger5230]

Eddie Lang, born Salvatore Massaro, is my Grandmother's cousin. Here in Philadelphia, there is a monument to him calling him the "Father of Jazz Guitar". My family is very proud of him.

[bigmuddy1]

@ranger5230 It was a terrible loss to the jazz world. Gone far too soon.

[busessuck1]

@bigmuddy1 Y'know this cat died because bing crosby told him to get throat surgery so that he could have speakin parts in films and he bled to death over night...

same thing happened to someone i know, he survived it but he can't shout anymore

[massarojones]

@ranger5230 We related! My grandfather was Eddie Lang's brother. What's your grandmother's name? My father is still living and probably knows your grandmother.  Most of my family still lives in the NJ/Phila area. Looking forward to hearing from you! Until then...loving the music!

[ranger5230]

@massarojones Hi sorry I just got this message I don't check very often. My grandmother's name was Maria Saggese, maiden name Maria Massaro, from Monteroduni. Hope to hear from you!

[massarojones]

@ranger5230 This is my third attempt to post...we are related. My grandfather was Eddie Lang's brother. What's your grandmother's name? My father is still living and probably knows her! Hope to hear from you!

[CACCAMO911]

@massarojones

OMG!! then you are my son!!! GIANNIIIIIIIIIIII YOUR DADDY IS COME BAAAAAAAACK =°D

[18i7aar85]

that is awsom dude cool 

[CrispRex]

I heard an interview with Les Paul saying he and Django both admitted to being influenced by Eddie Lang

[jaropi17]

Quel plaisir !

[Whizzblitz]

This is really splendid stuff indeed! Eddie has introduced a unique mixture of Classic and Blues to Jazz. Just like Django Reinhardt he still posesses great influence upon ghuitarists, although in a more indirect manner.

[gabri3l367]

Dopo tanti anni ( 80 e forse più ) EDDIE è ancora il chitarrista più completo. Gli accordi a sei voci sono veramente difficili da far suonare bene. Solo lui poteva farlo.

[earsoup]

the comping is very creative, what a player !

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Pickin' [His] Way.

[col1rbtx]

I'd heard of Eddie Lang while researching a Gibson guitar. He was popular about 1930, as I recall. I had no idea he could play to THIS level ! He was truely an artist!! Robin Brown /guitar picker

[potentialcarnie]

bunchie1966:

"De Gustibus von Disputandum"

[Squarerig]

This is JAZZ guitar as it should be and was.Delightful music;thank you for the posting.

[claudevesco]

Sorry, it's a mistake, it is not in this record...

[claudevesco]

There is a gorgeous version of 'Saint Louis Blues' in this record, I remember it !

[EelectrikPhil]

just superb, thanks for posting this.

[xxxxharp]

By far my favorite guitar player !!! So unique and I love those bass runs.

[jphoenix001]

Amazing...

Django was a fan.

[vincenz55]

wow amazing guitar work..simply incredible

[bunchie1966]

I think the difference between Eddie and Hendrix was that Eddie improvised around the chords, while Hendrix often ignored them. Truthfully, what do you think that Eddie would have thought of Hendrix? I suspect he would have thought him crap.

[catgumart]

Mozart would have thought Stravinsky crap..unless you brought Mozart within the context of the 20th century...Maybe if you brought a young Lang into the 1960's He would have respected Hendrix as most of his contemporaries did or do!

[jphoenix001]

You know Jimi Hendrix played after those guys (Eddie, Django,...) and knew them and Segovia. He could have been a clone of them, but he decided to be Jimi Hendrix...

[potentialcarnie]

Yes, very eloquent manner. I just went straight for the throat of Bunchie1966's argument (i.e. the logic). You, however, did it with a certain amount of sophistication and class. Cheers

[jphoenix001]

Thank you :)

[vincenz55]

did you know hendrix was possessed by spirits and smoked pot. his talent wasnt all his but had help from demons

[jphoenix001]

According to everyone who knew him, he was the nicest guy on earth.

[helmusico]

Thanks so much¡

[Izigabo]

Accompanist on steel guitar (third track) is Lonnie Johnson.

[helmusico]

Who is the pianist, please?

[silkypuss68]

Probably Arthur Schott

[KawhackitaRag]

The pianist on "Rainbow Dreams", which runs from 3:00-5:51 in the video, is Frank Signorelli, and that tune was recorded in 1928.

The other two selections are guitar duets with Carl Kress and Lonnie Johnson.

[helmusico]

Thanks so much! I like to hear pianist who arent famous to me. Here always listening names like hancock or corea...I like them so much...but I think "and the others??"""

[GermanMetal]

I think the first guitar virtuosos were jazz guitarists.

[JosephNScott]

"I think the first guitar virtuosos were jazz guitarists." How about people like Agustin Barrios, who began recording in 1913?

[voidforpurpose]

As tragic a loss to American music as Hendrix.

Django's Philly brother.