wonderful, exciting to feel the roots of true flamenco in his playing! Question: in this piece he doesn't seem to use the capo, and the guitar seems to be tuned a half-tone lower ?!? Or is it the recording which is too slow, that means in reality he was playing even faster? or both...? Thanks for your answers!
In a sense the playing of Don Ramon Montoya will never be equaled. His flamenco is so elegant, so beautiful and so simple. I wonder sometimes if he says more with fewer notes than the guitarists of today with their blinding picado and jazz fusions.
@TheTocaor Dear Tocador, For me the playing of Ramon's says much more than the frenetic jazzy playing of the newer players who always seem to be restlessly searching for brilliance and greatness. With Ramon you sense that he wasn't struggling against nature, In spite of the fact his playing is exciting, it is so natural like the trees and the sky... I just relax and get lost. I'm reminded of a Victorian art critic who said... 'The old masters found great meaning in the ordinary.'
@TheTocaor IN FLAMENCO TOQUE WEVE LOST MORE TODAY THAN WE'VE GAINED EXCEPT FOR EARLY PACO AND A FEW LIKE MORATIO JUAN HABICHUELA AND CEPERO ETC. JAZZ HAS SUFFERED TOO
Wow! Listen to this and you can see where Sabicas came from. Too bad his nephew Carlos did not carry on the tradition of Flamenco Puro. Thanks for posting this. I first hear Ramon Montoya playing Solea when I was 3. I have never been able to throw the hook. I am 59 now.
You can even see, (or should I say hear), the influence on Diego that Ramon was. Amazing!
@jbell94521 CARLOS LOVED ACCOMPIANMENT AND HE WAS A GREAT ACCOMPIANIST BUT STOPPED IT EARLY ON BUT HIS WIFE KEPT PUSHING HIM AS THE GREATEST GUITARRIST. OFTEN WHEN HE WENT BACK TO SPAIN HE' LEAVE HIS ENTOURAGE AND FIND A SMALL CANTINA AND PLAY ALL NIGHT BEHIND SINGERS AND DANCERS
wonderful, exciting to feel the roots of true flamenco in his playing! Question: in this piece he doesn't seem to use the capo, and the guitar seems to be tuned a half-tone lower ?!? Or is it the recording which is too slow, that means in reality he was playing even faster? or both...? Thanks for your answers!
arajanja 3 months ago
@arajanja I´m sorry. I can't give an answer to your questios.
I love flamenco guitar, but I am not a guitar player, so I can't talk of tuning or speed.
Maybe, someone else would give you an answer.
Porverita 3 months ago
Suena Montoya y vive el flamenco.Detras de cada nota espero la voz de Chacon,Vallejo o Marchena.
Y sigue los arpegios de Don Ramon.
En Gloria esté.
Betulo99 7 months ago
A lost art .This the true Andalucian flamenco nostalgic ,simple
tuxedomoon 8 months ago
Pefect example why Flamenco in it most purest form is a timeless art
Reyesabicas 9 months ago
otra vez que bonito, jajajaja
juncalflamencoap 11 months ago
Brilliant! My favorite Flamenco guitarist.
petey604 1 year ago
que bonito!
juncalflamencoap 1 year ago
In a sense the playing of Don Ramon Montoya will never be equaled. His flamenco is so elegant, so beautiful and so simple. I wonder sometimes if he says more with fewer notes than the guitarists of today with their blinding picado and jazz fusions.
TheTocaor 1 year ago
@TheTocaor
I agree completely with you about the "toque" of Ramón Montoya
Porverita 1 year ago
@TheTocaor Dear Tocador, For me the playing of Ramon's says much more than the frenetic jazzy playing of the newer players who always seem to be restlessly searching for brilliance and greatness. With Ramon you sense that he wasn't struggling against nature, In spite of the fact his playing is exciting, it is so natural like the trees and the sky... I just relax and get lost. I'm reminded of a Victorian art critic who said... 'The old masters found great meaning in the ordinary.'
Totma11 10 months ago
@TheTocaor IN FLAMENCO TOQUE WEVE LOST MORE TODAY THAN WE'VE GAINED EXCEPT FOR EARLY PACO AND A FEW LIKE MORATIO JUAN HABICHUELA AND CEPERO ETC. JAZZ HAS SUFFERED TOO
mrboppman1 9 months ago
the legendary "hammer-on-while-tremolo"
Fabimann 2 years ago
Todos los guitarristas se han mirado en Ramón Montoya.
También subí sus famosísimas rondeñas.
Porverita 2 years ago
Wow! Listen to this and you can see where Sabicas came from. Too bad his nephew Carlos did not carry on the tradition of Flamenco Puro. Thanks for posting this. I first hear Ramon Montoya playing Solea when I was 3. I have never been able to throw the hook. I am 59 now.
You can even see, (or should I say hear), the influence on Diego that Ramon was. Amazing!
jbell94521 2 years ago
@jbell94521 CARLOS LOVED ACCOMPIANMENT AND HE WAS A GREAT ACCOMPIANIST BUT STOPPED IT EARLY ON BUT HIS WIFE KEPT PUSHING HIM AS THE GREATEST GUITARRIST. OFTEN WHEN HE WENT BACK TO SPAIN HE' LEAVE HIS ENTOURAGE AND FIND A SMALL CANTINA AND PLAY ALL NIGHT BEHIND SINGERS AND DANCERS
mrboppman1 9 months ago