Joscho Stephan - J'attendrai

[nicolavaleriik6hiq]

the Joscho bassist is 100 times lower in level..........

[mwise7477]

This is the first person that I have seen that could even rank in the same caliber as the great Django.

[Jazztastic2112]

if u learn how to play jazz all other styles are a piece of cake because jazz encompasses so much from blues/funk jazz fusion to Latin jazz to gypsy jazz... its is truly to me the best idiom because it can be all different forms of genre

[zgogi11]

super!!!!

[octavianAgustus]

i think if i learn how to pick like gypsy players other styles will be a piece of cake

[miroslavsafin]

this guy is fantastic

[2Funky4me]

does he use gipsy picking or alternate picking?

[ragazzo0625]

I do like his style!!!

[Mariisintii]

sucker

[dylanlawless1]

I'd love to see Gunter doing a little solo

[matthewcross]

it's almost as much fun watching joscho react to the different parts of the bass solo as it is to watch him play!

[foxybrown2]

will somone please post the guitar lesson that he used to have. All I see now is lesson number 3 where is 1and 2

[tubetwang]

Joscho is, for me, the top of the toppermost...

he is my favorite guitar player and a joy to watch and listen to...

i've learned a lot from him...

[mesnierp]

Oscar Aleman will be proud too!

[G3r0n1mo]

1:01-1:04 ?? is this a lick?? , a bit fast...

[tpreagan]

More proof that youtube hosts the dumbest comments on the web. The sheer volume of dithering idiots who don't understand the entire spirit of improvisation here is just staggering. Anyone talking about Django and who sounds like who and who isn't sounding 'Gypsy' is a dummy. Everyone SHOULD sound different.  When I see guys playing a Django solo note for note, I'm always amazed at the contradiction. It's all art. There is no 'right way'. Morons.

[jalofnotrade]

@tpreagan I think you're misinterpreting our discussion, of course everyone sounds different, but I am still entitled to my taste and opinion. You're argument here, is that people who don't like Joscho are dummies and morons. ha, not really. I am just trying to point out something about Joscho's playing, not saying that he's not good or that he's not Django or whatever.

[soittotaiteilija]

Man, this guy uses those chromatic runs very effectively.

[trydreamin]

Extremely talented and very mechanical - I'm jealous but certainly like more feeling and interpretation. There's not enough space in his playing for personalization.

[Stingerfyle]

I couldn't say it better! Thanks

[django0071]

Great guitar playing, but nothing to do with Django or hot club!

[sintygypsy86]

@django0071 Yea, nothing but the Django style he plays, on a Django Gypsy jazz guitar, talking about Django himself, and finally playing a Django Song...you are right...NOTHING to do with Django.

[jalofnotrade]

@sintygypsy86 he's talking about the improvised solo part, it doesn't conjure the spirit of django's style of jazz, very little space, riff driven melody, doesn't reflect django's unpredictable sweet style. but yes, he is playing a django tune on a django guitar, so i guess it does have something to do with django

[risingsun1987]

nice

[SubGordonUSN]

Gypsy players are hard hitting. Steel strings, heavy picks, strong attack, and indelible alternate picking.

[oldpython]

Are his strings nylon or steel?

[Gallery43]

Steel

[emixolydian]

steel

[lanesblitz]

amazing !!!!

[lucascanastero]

kiyo eres un fiera

valgame el seño

[pinoyparin08]

superb!!!

[cilicha]

i think for all guitar style, all is on right hand, (pick hand for lefters)

[ozqari]

i know i'm being a smartass here, but how about legato =D?

[awagamgnalaw]

that was pretty amazing

i love Django and this is an awesome song

[qutqut]

i just wnna rate for u 1000 time , man wht the hell

[Nicklas1212]

2:32 to 2:53 it's real smooth chord melody playing

[pokbacsi100]

freakg, I wouldn't say everyone picks on Metal shredders, in fact quite the opposite, it's the one modern genre of music respected by most musicians from a musicianship standpoint. Of course this does not mean the critics or Hall of Fame type old fake farts respect it, but so much the better. Its unpopularity with the establishment is partly precisely what guarantees its success within the underground. Of course most musicians also respect traditional music shredders like Joscho.

[freakguitar1]

he sure can play, but from what he says and acts, he is a complete idiot.

[sloba111]

Well, we all know what Joscho can do, but man... Bass player is also a BEAST... :-)))

[pokbacsi100]

flexsarvar, you've got to be a (C)Rap fan. Or tone deaf. Gypsy music has more versatility than any other modern music genre in existence, comparable for it's sheer amount of original melodies to traditional Folk styles. This one reason it is so beautiful no matter what the speeds and aggression level of the attack even during those shred level solos.

[freakguitar1]

i agree in some parts, but why does everyone always pick on the (metal) shredders?!?!

[karemsecret]

ok i got one from joseph: Bric à Brac... listen to it ollie... anyway. i think i know what i'm talking about if i say that joscho is the first german to improve manouche guitar...

[karemsecret]

i have a book about django's life so i know that. he played with two fingers for the solos, but he also used the third one for the bass!!! only two fingers were burnt... and joseph used to kid him. have you already heard joseph performing with stephan grapelli? wonderful... anyway. thanks for your...rude reply.

[karemsecret]

do you know how django has produced a new way of playing swing( 3fingers!!) and why he did so? that's because of his brother( wonderful and crazy swing guitarist) joseph reinhardt which was kidding him not to be able to play faster than him. so he invented a new way for three fingers guitar players!!! and joscho, the little genius, admit that it's not easy to play as django. who am i to juge anyone of them.. all respects....

[OllieKIllickdobeedo]

what are you on about? i dont think you really know what your talking about... django played with 2 fingers because his hand was badly burnt in a caravan fire.

[karemsecret]

i have a book about django's life so i know that. he played with two fingers for the solos, but he also used the third one for the bass!!! only two fingers were burnt... and joseph used to kid him. have you already heard joseph performing with stephan grapelli? wonderful... anyway. thanks for your...rude reply.

[MyMelancholyDodo]

he's got great technique and wonderful ideas. But I do think that he has a habit of over embellishing some of the phrases with too many notes.

[yankeeG]

That's what Salieri said about Mozart, "too many notes". He does it because he CAN. Those who can, do. But he plays pretty stuff, too.

[flexsarvar]

this is kind of true for gypsy music... they repeat the same shit allover again in every fucking pub here....

[Alt075]

I bet all these people bashing Joscho for having no feel, no breathing, it's not music blah blah blah have never picked up an instrument, mediocre people are threatened by greatness, if you do play stick to your powerchords and pentatonics you fucking losers and shut the fuck up until you have contributed something to the music scene greater than Joscho, which will be never.

[kmh196700]

I have played for nearly thirty years and have seen great players live and youtube, but I have never seen one play with the precise technique as Joscho. I would take his style and ability over 'feel' ANYDAY and so would they!

[jalofnotrade]

@Alt075 but that's exactly it. Even a person with no musical talent can hear that this guy lacks the feel of django's playing, its not even about the super locrian scales, or the 2-5-1 prgressions, its the basic feel. I'd rather listen to someone with much less technical ability but with an actual sense of the music than this guy

[jalofnotrade]

but i guess its just personal preference, some prefer the more technical stuff

[zini5]

@jalofnotrade I bet you're a self righteous hippy with dreadlocks to drenched in his own ego to give credit where credit is due. Failure

[jalofnotrade]

@zini5 mmmm, no. Did you even read what i said? its not a matter of giving credit. I just don't prefer Joscho's style, it feels dry and technical to me. I much prefer Django's style which I feel is quite different. But, like I've already said, its probably a matter of taste. So, to each his own.

[jalofnotrade]

@Alt075 I guess you just don't understand 

[Alt075]

@jalofnotrade pot, kettle, black.

[jalofnotrade]

@Alt075 oh, nice cliche, you got me, im totally wrong in having an opinion..haha

[goodwoods007]

Thanks for that explanation Joscho Stephan.

Ivan.

[guitarman63mm]

Hey folks, what's with bashing Tommy Emmanuel?

He's a great guitarist and fun to watch.

Obviously I won't question Joscho's technical ability, but can he make it sound like music?

No, he can't. Liken to the little kids you see in music stores that wank away with their obnoxious Locrian "shredding'.

I suppose you people who claim the man has anything whatsoever on Eddie Lang or Django will say what you will, but maybe it's time to get your ears checked.

[rexious5]

yeah i agree theres no comparison, no question that the sounds that django heard in his head and interpreted on the guitar as opposed to joscho or just about anyone else were on a completely different level of soulfulness, emotion, style and melodic genius. i do enjoy joscho and think hes great so to me your words are a bit harsh but i get where your comin from. he is a bit of shred show off. tommys the man too.

[mariusstein]

hallo from a german sinti...

es ist so wunderschön.... ich liebe es weider so..........

[Moltograesslich]

hey woher kommst du mariusstein?

[mariusstein]

Köln und Du? Bin aber in Marburg geboren..

[bobby493]

Django puts less virtuosity in his playing and is more melodic so to someone who likes virtuosity but not to much he's the perfect guy but for someone like me who loves musicality and melodic soloing but will never get enough of virtuosity, joscho is the one I want to hear again and again!

[bobby493]

I think that tomy ears, joscho isone of the best guitarist I've heard and I love all the other gypsy stars. We must not forget that art is art because of the perception humans have when they consume it. I really love django's playing and I admire him a lot but I just can't help prefering this guy. I never chose to prefer joscho I just do. So now to say who is the best,I really don't care because they are simply different and I understand totally those who would prefer django or stochelo etc...

[Agar101]

this guy is much better than all the other gypsy greats of the moment and if you think not then i am sorry but just...no. and he's only young.

maybe he can even be as good as django in the future

[pokbacsi100]

I can give a recording of today's Gypsy Jazzers and one of Django to any aspiring kid guitarist and guess which one will blow them away the most. I know it's gonna be Django more often than not because I've worked with kids since the 80's and have turned many of them on to this kind of music. Nah man sorry, but there isn't a jealous "four fingers" soloist out there who can match what Django did with two.

[pokbacsi100]

Dads.. you must not play this kind of stuff. Noone's surpassed Django's abilities precisely

because though one guy might have the technique and/or speed down pat as Joscho does, another the feel and/or phrasing, yet another the improv skills and/or melodicism, yet another the fire and/or passion, and others various other combinations of these, only Django had such a combination of these

skills fused with his incredible talent to

blow away just about anyone who's ever heard his music.

[myshkin67]

ive heard many good guitarists, but josho is definitly one of those who had the biggest range of sounds in his playing, beside his clear technique.

and what he s saying about the right hand technique is absolutlty right.

many guitarist dont make mcuh out of the possiblity to influence guitrasound with their right hand (normally right^^. left for the lefthanders ;-D).

[SleepyGypsy]

Joshco is easily one of the best in the world, I just wish he would start playing with the others like jimmy and andreas, even Bireli or Angelo and Stochelo...why he doesnt is beyond me, i guess he'd rather play with...tommy emmanuel over Bireli...eek

[Funkystuff92]

I agree with you FULLY! I mean, i could see (and i wanted to) Joscho RIGHT THERE at the 2002 Jazz a Vienne Concert which Youtube has a bunch of vids from with all the big guys (Bireli, Stochelo, the Schmitts, Angelo you name it...) I don't know why he chooses not to as well. I guess it's Beyond the Both of us lol

[MovieScripts]

oh well thats easy to answer. Cuz Joscho is not a gypsy. He is 100% Gajo. He, like most other Gajo's, favor "whities" like tommy emmanuel. Personally I dont think he is near good enough to play traditional Django ala Rosenberg, bireli, Romane ect. He plays "jocho style" gypsy jazz, which is like bubble gum 1950s pop music. Its very annoying, and his skill will deteriorate because of this. He wont ever play with the best, therefore he wont ever be nearly as good as them

[bobby493]

gajo's don't play with gypsys?

what are gajos?

[babsyco]

Yeah I agree. This razzle-dazzle showboat BELONGS playing with Tommy Emmmanuel-he'd just look like a fool on stage with Angelo Debarre or someone real. No ideas, not much tone (and hence I suspect not much projection). Just a skin deep impersonation of this style, with no depth of understanding-and chops chops chops, speed speed speed. boring and rude.

[yschepers12]

this guy is realy realy realy good i am impressed

[gadzooks63]

here he is again . . .i keep going back to this guy . . . time after time . . . phenomenal . . .gifted by the gods . .one of the finest acoustic players in the world . . you can name the other 24 . . .

[mikey50077]

I think Joscho makes the common mistake of most virtuoso guitarists essentially in the commandeering of work(s) of another as his own (though even in interpretation). I view this as essentially, the forger placing his signature on the stolen check; often not immediately recognized by the unsuspecting public but nonetheless a 'robbery' of sorts, even if in tribute, and therefor a complete bastardization of the initial intent of the original artist's spirit. Technically proficient, but lacking.

[plectroman]

talking head...you blah blah blah while someone else is DOING!

[Cillit134ng]

plectroman's absolutely right, that guy obviously loves what he's doing, so with what kind of right do you have to say he's playing the wrong stuff?

[plectroman]

it's much easier to talk and criticise than to do all the hard work that this young master has done!

[DadsDaBossa]

mikey50077, you really, really need to get your ears out of your ass. Django was not as good as this guy. He is considered to be the best because he was the first to be recorder and distributed worldwide. In fact, this guy has more talent.

[newstrat]

I'm putting myself in for therapy....

[akoabo]

technically one of the most stunning things i've seen/heard.....really...but i miss the the feeling/musicallity..it doesn't go to my heart...when django plays, the first note will grab your heart, really, his musical genius on guitar which a lot of players copy, is unsurpassed, mind you though, technically django was also AMAZING, trust me Joscho knows this too, now please don't hate on me and give me all kinds of negative feedback, i am just saying my opinion

PEACE

[Agar101]

i totally agree

:)

[SrArkie]

I agree with you. My mouth flys open in amazement when I watch this mans videos. But!!! to me, I do not get the same feeling from his music as I do from: Laurindo Almedia, Les Paul, Chet Atkins who sometimes make my hair stand up from the beauty of the sound they get from the guitar.

[kittom1378]

I don't believe a word this guy says

[reddoten]

Played with such whimsy and relaxed fluidity. Incredible. Makes me want to explore more Manouche. Absolutely lovely.

[lamiamano]

he's very young still. Wait till he becomes more experienced and what he does today will be in the future so outrageous that you won't believe he's so good,so precise,melodically perfect.

Joscho is so gifted that i wish him all the best possible in the world.He is truly a great musician and,in today's world, there are so few that he stands out as a giant!thanks Joscho for being the wonderful person you are!

[samuelshepard]

i like the guy on the right.. he keeps trying to get into the camera

[ibrokethetv]

When I first got into Gypsy Jazz I felt like Joscho Stephane was technically amazing but lacked the improvisational ability that guys like Lagrene, Debarre, and Rosenberg possess. I WAS WRONG. Although in a lot of the videos on youtube he is playing rehearsed/written solos, there are a few where you can witness him go totally from the top of his head. It is awesome!

[BONAPANTS]

Quite agree. Joscho is a *rare phenomenon I feel very privileged to have seen here. To those who watch and say stuff like 'Yeh, he's good, but too technical, too cold', I say, look away from the video and just listen. If that doesn't 'send' you, I don't know what ever could.

[JimmyDeLocke]

totally right! I don't know why people insist on comparing these guys. They are ALL (bireli, jimmy, stochelo, angelo, tchavolo, dorado, sdamson, fapy, etc.)GREAT. Joscho is for real. I've heard them all and this guy still knocks me out. He's fun. Check out FLYSWATTER with Frank Vignola's quartet.

[mattstiehl]

I went to see bireli twice 2 days in a row (don't ask why)I was amazed and the solos were completely different. Jimmy does the same apparently a friend of mine saw him something like 8 times

[cosmo2631]

Having been a jazz and classical guitar fan for over 40 years, I was stunned by this man's talent. I hope he knows he is blessed and continues for many years. I do not think he has an equal.

[Hucho]

stochelo is much better,. more feeling better songwriting etc.

[itsinhiseyes1]

i'll second that, i also prefer stochelo's playing.

but i'd say it's more to do with the fact that Stochelo is a far more musical player.

Stochelo's improvisation is as muscial and memorable as the main theme of the piece, where as i feel that half the time Stephan sounds like he's goin through a technical excercise...

i dunno, only a personal opinion aferall.

[kmh196700]

i doubt that. joscho can do things others only dream of.

[Hucho]

pff haha. you need to open your ears.

[kmh196700]

ok. i will gladly listen. give me some names of people on youtube.

thanks.

[Hucho]

Uhh stochelo rosenberg?

Joscho is maybe fast and accurate. But when it comes to the sensitive not he is not special;

[kmh196700]

i will listen.

thanks

[fr3das]

Bireli Lagrene.

[goffbum]

All these guys make me sick, sick, sick. This man is great..........

[whitelionvalhalla]

AMAZING

[pinkdirt]

sometimes you walk past people and you decide that they look like a loser and if he walked past i would think it, not even knowing that he is GOD!!!!

[tofumetal94014]

are you retarded?

then i would walk past you like you never fucking existed.

I bet you're jealous.. huh

[Bachelorno3]

great technician and awesome technique. But I have to say his playing does leave me cold at times

[photohayk]

I'm agree with You, my friend. He's great, but a little cold...May be that's because of he's not gypsy? But try to listen him not looking at him, just listen:-) There's some coldness in his music, especially when I compare him to Stochelo Rosenberg, Dorado Schmitt etc...

[tobias064]

"...try to listen him not looking at him, just listen..." it´s true!!!!

[photohayk]

So You tried to listen him not looking at him? :-)

[TH3W1R3D]

Awesome

[murhy]

he is completely right!, it's mostly in the right hand

[lordkazama86]

Ya hes for sure playing with all the wrong people. Tommy Emanuel is not a good role model for him...hes making Joscho suck more and more. :{ GET OUT JOSHCO! LEAVE HIM! lol

[featherweight01]

I've seen him many times in Nashville at the Chet Atkins convention and he's a very personable kid. Great guitarist, lots of fire!

[questchema]

that's true lord, cause he's lacking a truly great rythim guitarist to play with. when he join forces with one, it will be phenomenal

[apolue]

yes at last!! it's the right hand that sets django above everyone. this man's as good as they come. wonderful stuff

[lordkazama86]

he really needs to make friends with Jimmy rosenberg and Stochelo, even Romane or someone on their level. Because he is only like 22 now or so and has great potential to work his way into the top 10 best guitar players alive

[jazztube]

eeets nice.... I like!