I've heard a nearly endless number of versions of this song, in all manner of genres from samba to metal, and I can say there's nothing at all wrong with this one. The back-beat sort of feel is an interesting idea, and Clapton makes it work pretty well in his style. That being said, nobody has reason to insult any song, and doing so just cheapens all music.
How anyone could knock this version is beyond me. What Clapton does is amazing on the guitar and the arrangement is just beautiful!! Our band is going to add this version to our list of classics that we cover. I agree with you that every version brings out something unique and original to the song, none are bad!!
@legalrule1 They're just not familiar with this type of music. They hear the name Clapton and are expecting "Sunshine of Your Love". Clapton's way more diverse than that.
I agree!! Too bad people limit their interests in music bc there are such great artists out there. Something I've never understood is why people don't accept an artists willingness to expand his music base? Clapton did a fantastic job on this song no matter what style he normally plays.
@legalrule1 I agree with you so much, this is great, it says so much about an artist who is able to be versatile and go from I shot a Sherrif to Autumn Leaves and we, the listeners also should have expended base of music we listen to and not be limited to one style.
I am sick of kiddies thirsty for thumbs up which goes on rock and roll videos all over youtube and sh*t about today's music.Does a thumb up really means something for you?
Why can't people just give an honest opinion without negative snipes from other people......I just think it is what it is and like to say so...I'm being honest...it's a jazz ballad played by a blues performer. The drums are static and boring, Clapton's voice is sultry and sentimental, his guitar playing is pure blues...not jazz as he wouldn't know a diatonic scale or a modal way of playing it. As a jazz guitarist and vocalist myself I think the vocal is okay but the guitar sucks...
@Flopsydoodle you are right about the drums, but i dont think saying the guitar sucks is appropriate. I know it sounds very bluesy ( especially at like 3:50 ) but that doesnt have to be a bad thing. for instance me myself i like that sounda lot . but im the type of person who plays and listens to a lot of blues. so its all just personal preference i guess
btw sry for my language , enlgish is not my 1st language
@Flopsydoodle have u ever think that he might have been wanted to make something different? if every cover would have been the same way, why there would be need to cover the songs? he made it in his own way, which he does best on blues scales.
and according to me as not a jazz listener nor blues listener, i liked it because it sounds good in the way that i push the song out of genre bounds.
Why only suddenly have the comments gotten so shrewd and not thought out. What makes this piece what it is, is Eric Clapton. He has made this piece his own, in a very interesting and enjoyable way. Jazz, in particular, shouldn't be judged on what it should sound like, but how it sounds like already. There is no need to hate.
This was a huge surprise for me. I loved it. It proves that EC can truly play anything and play it like a master. While he is not known for his vocals, this song suits him.
Eric Clapton is THE ERIC CLAPTON. I pity people who are extremely adept in music because they can play music but can never touch people the way Eric did in his whole career. As deep as their knowledge for sophistication, as shallow their appreciation for simplicity. Music buffs and ordinary listeners could very well exhaust their convictions and brains in music but the fact remains: This video garnered a million views.Take it or leave it.
This man has grown and mature withing the music. This like it or not is Art, his art. A wonderful piece well done and yes his "own" interpretacion of it.
I think one has the right to like or not, and to say "I don' t like it" . And that would be the end of it. But we should not forget where we are and in this public media all kind of people and education levels come in, we need to develop some tolerance for ignorants..... must of the time they are the one who make a judment.
He makes this song a blues, no point comparing with jazz different feeling altogether. The emotions are there nonetheless. Lifeless voice - i guess i'd sing it like that too if i was really missing someone.
@islandfunhouse I don't see anything pathetic in it. Clapton is a blues/rock guitarist and he made this arrangement (?) to sound like him.
You're definitely right about the solo though It's nothing special and maybe for jazz people, like myself, it's kinda boring in a song like this, but it sounds like Clapton, and if I'm not mistaken, I think that's what he was looking for in the solo. So all in all, I don't think it's pathetic, he wasn't trying to make his playing jazzy, he was just Claptoni
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Regarding his extended solo at the end: He sounds like the majority of jazz program incoming freshmen...playing the "right" notes over a simple harmony that stays in one key....the notes 'fit' harmonically but show the complete absence of any understanding of the traditional language of jazz. Why do aging rockers - eg Rod Stewart - try to play jazz tunes? It's pathetic.
@islandfunhouse Not everything has to be Bebop buddy. I used to prefer the Davis/Cannonball version, but I've had to reevaluate this song as a whole based on this version. All music is about is conveying emotion through sound, and it does not have to be complicated to do it. That solo at the end shows immense understanding of jazz, listen to old Louis Armstrong recordings with him singing and playing, you can hear the influence of the vocal part on the solo.
I disagree with a lot of the recent comments. One of the great things about jazz is that is is "never played the same way once." as our music director would always say. Every artist can take the song and make it thiers. When i play this song, it sounds different from this, but EC is obviously a master of blues guitar. i appreciate every artists interpritation of jazz, listen to all the versions, do any of them sound the same? so how could you compaire two? its like compairing apples to oranges.
@NOWG0015 Apples and Oranges ? Ok Herman Cain ! This is in my opinoin the very worst I have ever heard from EC this is more proof that clapton is not God !
This is mediocre interpretation of a lovely song. For a good one listen to Jo Stafford, from 60 years ago. Today is mostly marketing. Electric guitars, marketing and lack of a musical education has created modern poor music. This is just an example, not the worst for sure
@PeanutButterFender. Maybe I just fail to understand Clapton. On the other hand I "understand" when Jo Stafford and many other performers sing this very same song with force, emotion and perfect tone. Eric's performance sound like is coming from a grave. It's a dead song in his voice.
@Sempergalaicus Electric guitars... and all "created" poor modern music? Can you explain please what you mean by that? Actually, I can agree with that in large part, but this is not a good example of that. This sounds like a classic Nelson Riddle arrangement. On the other hand, I've heard a lot of new music that is little more than "gratuitously distorted" guitars with badly sung shallow lyrics. I'd name examples but the songs were so forgettable I can't think of any.
@Guitarburt. I'm sure Clapton is a good electric guitar player. But the electric guitar is a poor instrument. You can barely play more than one note at a time unless you use it for accompaniment. Players abuse distortion and too often is hard to listen to any other instrument, Listen to traditional guitar players (Paco de Lucia, John Williams come to mind) and you'll see what I mean: these guys use 4 fingers and can play with extraordinary speed.
@Sempergalaicus I actually make my living playing and teaching guitar, and I agree with you most of the time. A lot of songs I hear on the radio would be far better off without the guitar part altogether. We as players AND as listeners are all too willing to accept bad tone. I use distortion a lot myself, but I'm very careful to use it as musically as possible.
@Sempergalaicus I teach a high school music theory class and I am using Autumn Leaves to teach about improvisation and modes. I am collecting as many good examples of this song as I can and came across this version. I listened to it several times and am not sure shat to make of it. It seems quite lifeless, but that may be just the thing Eric Clapton was going for... "haunting" "melancholic..." (?) Eva Cassidy's version may be just as "dull" if not for the fact that she has a beautiful voice.
@Guitarburt, thanks for your polite answers. I was afraid I was going to offend somebody, but, eh!, we've suffered bad music for too long. This song has been famous for quite some time. I was surprised to learn it was written in France by a Hungarian composer. Since we are approaching Xmas I recommend a song from my neck of the woods: Galician Carol (Carlos Nunez). You probably can put it into score. I'm going to do just that once of these days (I use Sibelius).
@Sempergalaicus search for this on youtube: Johanna Kiley Live on Binghamton 34. That's me playing guitar. I also play in a ten piece band called Scott Freeman Band. I'd write links here, but youtube is rejecting the posts that include URL addresses.
@Sempergalaicus Thank you. If you search for my other links, you'll see that I don't ALWAYS play it so clean. As I am writing this I am in my studio recording a version of "Autumn Leaves" for my students to record their solos over. The assignment is to compose and perhaps perform their solos over the chords as to show their understanding of how chords and melody go together.
Beautiful. There is a perfect blend of jazz and blues that combines to make this version of autumn leaves my personal favourite. I LOVE blues music and I am a part time listener of jazz music so this Clapton cover ticks all the boxes for me. Many jazz fans may think its simple, dull and un-inventive but I will strongly disagree. Blues is all about emotion and feeling. Clapton had this from day one along with Jimmy Page. Its not about how many times you can change key in 2 minutes of improvising.
Clapton is a multifaceted musician. This is lovely. Some of you have left very hateful comments about his son's death. Try to express yourself with some intelligence. You are repulsive.
Let everybody spit on me , but I hawe to send a complaint to Mr Eric cos he left his origin , soft rock blues and blues ! This album is confuseing my eyers cos is too much jazzy !!!
To appreciate music is to be always learning... to be looking at a "standard' in a new way... to see new things.... I love it when artists step into a different genre and that new vision happens... sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. but that guitar solo over the strings at the end... great combination.
I don't always miss you... but when I do, it's when autumn leaves starts to fall
MarkoRevelate 1 day ago
A life that has reached its Autumnal beauty being shared in its.bright and fading hues.The reflected Eric Clapton is soulful genius in this standard.
joensab 3 days ago
@MrRaphite, Very well said. I've been a E.C. fan for ever, and when I bought this CD it just solidified just how GREAT he is.
plumb2013 4 days ago
This just reminds me of a pretty bad break up a few years ago. Word for word, it's like a double punch to my soul.
ResistanceMode2012 5 days ago
Nice ........like to hear him stretch out with solo over the changes
cowlipz 6 days ago
C'est une chanson qui nous ressemble,
Toi tu m'aimais, moi je t'aimais
Et nous vivions, tous deux ensemble,
Toi qui m'aimais, moi qui t'aimais.
Mais la vie sépare ceux qui s'aiment,
Tout doucement, sans faire de bruit
Et la mer efface sur le sable
Les pas des amants désunis.
from first listening - the notes are B - G - A - D - B - E - F - B
chiricosu 1 week ago
Please everyone, listen to the version by Doris Day.
LeonardoNasir 2 weeks ago
the best medicine against depression and for my heart :)
Ti2011Mi 2 weeks ago
I've heard a nearly endless number of versions of this song, in all manner of genres from samba to metal, and I can say there's nothing at all wrong with this one. The back-beat sort of feel is an interesting idea, and Clapton makes it work pretty well in his style. That being said, nobody has reason to insult any song, and doing so just cheapens all music.
MrRaphite 2 weeks ago
@MrRaphite
How anyone could knock this version is beyond me. What Clapton does is amazing on the guitar and the arrangement is just beautiful!! Our band is going to add this version to our list of classics that we cover. I agree with you that every version brings out something unique and original to the song, none are bad!!
legalrule1 1 week ago
@legalrule1 They're just not familiar with this type of music. They hear the name Clapton and are expecting "Sunshine of Your Love". Clapton's way more diverse than that.
TheOneartist 5 days ago
@TheOneartist
I agree!! Too bad people limit their interests in music bc there are such great artists out there. Something I've never understood is why people don't accept an artists willingness to expand his music base? Clapton did a fantastic job on this song no matter what style he normally plays.
legalrule1 2 days ago
@legalrule1 I agree with you so much, this is great, it says so much about an artist who is able to be versatile and go from I shot a Sherrif to Autumn Leaves and we, the listeners also should have expended base of music we listen to and not be limited to one style.
BytomGirl 1 day ago
なんかクラプトンじゃないみたいに聴こえる・・・
HARRYisblackout 2 weeks ago
Wonderful rendition of great song.
basicaa 2 weeks ago
This is a cover of Frank Sinatra's song... Nevertheless.. this is also beautiful...
RajeshVedantam 2 weeks ago
@RajeshVedantam Everyone has covered this song.
sp2834aa 2 weeks ago 10
@sp2834aa True.. but I think this is probably the one of the best covers.. & I just found out that the original was by Yves Montand :)
RajeshVedantam 2 weeks ago
@RajeshVedantam That was the french version.johnny mercer wrote the english and jo staford played it.................just saying
jkake1961 1 week ago
@jkake1961 Correct I love em both
BATENKILL 1 week ago
@RajeshVedantam This is by Jacques Prévert (lyrics) and Vlamimir Kosma (music)...
yorgl 6 days ago
@yorgl Sorry ...Joseph Kosma ...
yorgl 6 days ago
@RajeshVedantam The original is by Yves Montand. Sang it way before Sinatra.
InMyFifties 2 weeks ago
@InMyFifties Good to Know. Thanks :)
RajeshVedantam 2 weeks ago
I am sick of kiddies thirsty for thumbs up which goes on rock and roll videos all over youtube and sh*t about today's music.Does a thumb up really means something for you?
MegaDarkChris 2 weeks ago
Did he finally run out of ideas?
wmw0702 2 weeks ago
Too heavy, too persuasive
papaval2007 2 weeks ago
Fuck heavy metal !!!! This is better
Jerome10Fernando 2 weeks ago
brilliant!
kermeey 2 weeks ago
Why can't people just give an honest opinion without negative snipes from other people......I just think it is what it is and like to say so...I'm being honest...it's a jazz ballad played by a blues performer. The drums are static and boring, Clapton's voice is sultry and sentimental, his guitar playing is pure blues...not jazz as he wouldn't know a diatonic scale or a modal way of playing it. As a jazz guitarist and vocalist myself I think the vocal is okay but the guitar sucks...
Flopsydoodle 3 weeks ago
@Flopsydoodle Thats a good point to make, and i respect your opinion, but it is in my opinion that you are wrong :P
Deltablues1001 3 weeks ago
@Flopsydoodle you are right about the drums, but i dont think saying the guitar sucks is appropriate. I know it sounds very bluesy ( especially at like 3:50 ) but that doesnt have to be a bad thing. for instance me myself i like that sounda lot . but im the type of person who plays and listens to a lot of blues. so its all just personal preference i guess
btw sry for my language , enlgish is not my 1st language
Kozho12 3 weeks ago
@Flopsydoodle have u ever think that he might have been wanted to make something different? if every cover would have been the same way, why there would be need to cover the songs? he made it in his own way, which he does best on blues scales.
and according to me as not a jazz listener nor blues listener, i liked it because it sounds good in the way that i push the song out of genre bounds.
onur7373 3 weeks ago
Thanks amigo for sharing this classic music of a lifetime.!..Great Eric!!!
machadoneto41 3 weeks ago
Why only suddenly have the comments gotten so shrewd and not thought out. What makes this piece what it is, is Eric Clapton. He has made this piece his own, in a very interesting and enjoyable way. Jazz, in particular, shouldn't be judged on what it should sound like, but how it sounds like already. There is no need to hate.
BigBrother352 3 weeks ago
It's just not good...
MrRemo58 3 weeks ago
I was really disappointed in this album,sounds like elevator music
MrRemo58 3 weeks ago
@MrRemo58 What's wrong with that?
BigBrother352 3 weeks ago
Rather uninspired drumming..sounds a bit like a machine.....
Flopsydoodle 3 weeks ago
@Flopsydoodle It doesn't have to inspire you... it's a song, a jazz one to be exact, and jazz music is whatever it wants to be.
BigBrother352 3 weeks ago
it feels very awkward to look clapton's eyes for the 5.43 minutes and listening the autumn leaves which start to fall
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it feels very awkward to look clapton's eyes for the 5.43 minutes and listening the autumn leaves which start to fall
clapton is god
chrischow1989 2 weeks ago
I LOVED the Miles davis version. This captures that same essence to me.
Tmonie1986 3 weeks ago
Hungarian classic. Jozsef Kozma's piece, jazz standard since.
wreckingballzy 3 weeks ago
sweet
WataruRai 4 weeks ago
This was a huge surprise for me. I loved it. It proves that EC can truly play anything and play it like a master. While he is not known for his vocals, this song suits him.
basicaa 4 weeks ago
Classic!
exukbritbrat 4 weeks ago
Clapton is God
ghugs4life 4 weeks ago
Frank Sinatra would appreciate it
mb3467mb 1 month ago in playlist Eric Clapton
beutiful///
maia890 1 month ago
some whisky and a smoky bar will go great w this song!
luifer921 1 month ago 36
@luifer921 Nah, Mary Jane and some nature!
TheOneartist 5 days ago
@luifer921 damn right
SirSixtyNine 3 days ago
Eric Clapton is THE ERIC CLAPTON. I pity people who are extremely adept in music because they can play music but can never touch people the way Eric did in his whole career. As deep as their knowledge for sophistication, as shallow their appreciation for simplicity. Music buffs and ordinary listeners could very well exhaust their convictions and brains in music but the fact remains: This video garnered a million views.Take it or leave it.
monkspriestsandhorse 1 month ago
@monkspriestsandhorse almost a million-and-a-half, now.....
rdysail59 1 month ago
Nice cover of this chestnut!
DG19075 1 month ago
A great interpretation of a classic. The blues melodies and jazz chords go together beautifuly. And the solo at 3:40... Beyond words. o_O
TheFaizYunus 1 month ago
美しい。
時間がゆっくり流れてると感じます
秋じゃなくても聞いてる＊
いつでも秋の空気を感じて いろんなことを思い出します
綺麗だなぁ。
guriko4x2x4 1 month ago
@guriko4x2x4 I totally agree.
gibbon1998 1 month ago
@gibbon1998
thank you reply＾＾*
I'm very glad*
guriko4x2x4 1 month ago
talking about ignorance, before i am reprimended change that must to most. Ay caray!!!!
guariban 1 month ago
@guariban What!!!!!
jkake1961 3 weeks ago
This man has grown and mature withing the music. This like it or not is Art, his art. A wonderful piece well done and yes his "own" interpretacion of it.
I think one has the right to like or not, and to say "I don' t like it" . And that would be the end of it. But we should not forget where we are and in this public media all kind of people and education levels come in, we need to develop some tolerance for ignorants..... must of the time they are the one who make a judment.
guariban 1 month ago
I Can't Stand The Strings, Other Than That, It's OK
zachisaniceperson 1 month ago
Mit dem alter wird man ruhiger...nich Eric??? danke...danke...
christinainspain 1 month ago
the high note on 4:24 is why I love this version so much!
OMERTA011 1 month ago
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OMERTA011 1 month ago
Please watch my improvisation-cover of this song ( it is a little bit faster than the original )
:)))))
UkraineYamaha 1 month ago
классная музычка
MrSaven76 1 month ago
This is like Chet Baker or Wes Montgomery doing death metal this mixes like milk and lemon juice.
19thSFGA 1 month ago
Muito bom, romântico q.b.
isabelcatroga 1 month ago
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katherinesparrow98 1 month ago
He makes this song a blues, no point comparing with jazz different feeling altogether. The emotions are there nonetheless. Lifeless voice - i guess i'd sing it like that too if i was really missing someone.
bluescanfly1981 1 month ago
I LOVE his version!
Hawkeye62158 1 month ago
An obviously heart-felt rendition of the old classic from a master performer.
spacemonkey1463 1 month ago
Not more sentimental than Eva Cassid's version, but still good and very different after all.
denizthetis 1 month ago
Great! Great! Great!
patrizioserni 1 month ago
i feel lonely all the time I listen to this
NingkySinger 1 month ago
@islandfunhouse I don't see anything pathetic in it. Clapton is a blues/rock guitarist and he made this arrangement (?) to sound like him.
You're definitely right about the solo though It's nothing special and maybe for jazz people, like myself, it's kinda boring in a song like this, but it sounds like Clapton, and if I'm not mistaken, I think that's what he was looking for in the solo. So all in all, I don't think it's pathetic, he wasn't trying to make his playing jazzy, he was just Claptoni
Walttestar 1 month ago
great job! but I still like ruth young and chet baker's version better....................
jkake1961 1 month ago
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BiancaJadeSings 1 month ago
This song hurts so good.
Blaze936 1 month ago
Regarding his extended solo at the end: He sounds like the majority of jazz program incoming freshmen...playing the "right" notes over a simple harmony that stays in one key....the notes 'fit' harmonically but show the complete absence of any understanding of the traditional language of jazz. Why do aging rockers - eg Rod Stewart - try to play jazz tunes? It's pathetic.
islandfunhouse 1 month ago
@islandfunhouse Not everything has to be Bebop buddy. I used to prefer the Davis/Cannonball version, but I've had to reevaluate this song as a whole based on this version. All music is about is conveying emotion through sound, and it does not have to be complicated to do it. That solo at the end shows immense understanding of jazz, listen to old Louis Armstrong recordings with him singing and playing, you can hear the influence of the vocal part on the solo.
arscroggs 1 month ago 2
I miss a live version of this song
Vinix30 1 month ago
Eric...!!!! Really a delicious theme, with body and sensual arrangement...Master of blues .....Thanks and Thanks millions....of Chile.
patagonia5rock 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Eric Clapton
amazing arrangement !!!!
celestinolopes 1 month ago
how people can listen to every song of Lagy Gaga every day, when in our world exist such beautiful musicians....
MultiSpongebob95 1 month ago 8
Wonderful song and performance!
scientistnina 1 month ago
изумительно
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TTTTTTTTomas 2 months ago
Thank you Eric Clapton for another awesome song.
AlperenBirim 2 months ago
Wow! This is really good. I was not planning to buy this album but now I may have to iTunes it
EricWagram 2 months ago
最高！ウイスキーのロックで葉巻吸いたい！最高の贅沢！ゆったりとしたリズム。ほぐされていく体の疲れ。でも、ギターソロは違う人にして。バークリー卒とかの音の選び方が上手い人にして。終わり方もjazzっぽく終わってほしい。だけど声は渋くて最高！
66nobu66 2 months ago 3
wow that piano is really lifeless
discordant11 2 months ago
smooth and sentimental.
kissing88 2 months ago 14
EPIC CLAPTON
louieboto 2 months ago 4
this is a classic rock with an old song revived and added some of claptons way thats why it is called claptonized
BornebolAve 2 months ago
One of the best jazz recordings that I ever heard.
dmitrit81 2 months ago
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this sucks
darkmarcus428 2 months ago
@darkmarcus428 And we don't give a damn cause we like it. :D
Plucnuck 2 months ago
I disagree with a lot of the recent comments. One of the great things about jazz is that is is "never played the same way once." as our music director would always say. Every artist can take the song and make it thiers. When i play this song, it sounds different from this, but EC is obviously a master of blues guitar. i appreciate every artists interpritation of jazz, listen to all the versions, do any of them sound the same? so how could you compaire two? its like compairing apples to oranges.
NOWG0015 2 months ago 55
@NOWG0015 @@ this one is blue, bro!?
tamquyen94 1 month ago
@NOWG0015 Apples and Oranges ? Ok Herman Cain ! This is in my opinoin the very worst I have ever heard from EC this is more proof that clapton is not God !
19thSFGA 1 month ago
There is a connection between chet baker and eric clapton's son?
jkake1961 1 month ago
@NOWG0015 you are completely right. As a music lover and listener I feel so. every musician plays and sings in theirs way .
serap2007 1 month ago
you said it baby!!
jkake1961 1 month ago
@NOWG0015 Oranges are tangier
pianokd11 3 weeks ago
@NOWG0015
well said.
PizzaBlade17 3 weeks ago
03:45 ... Wow.
tadevokle 2 months ago
How did this guy get away with this crap for so long? Listen to Nat King Cole - a singer
mrsuzymax 2 months ago
@mrsuzymax ruth young sang it best!!!
jkake1961 1 month ago
This is mediocre interpretation of a lovely song. For a good one listen to Jo Stafford, from 60 years ago. Today is mostly marketing. Electric guitars, marketing and lack of a musical education has created modern poor music. This is just an example, not the worst for sure
Sempergalaicus 2 months ago
@Sempergalaicus you just fail to understand music.
PeanutButterFender 2 months ago
@PeanutButterFender. Maybe I just fail to understand Clapton. On the other hand I "understand" when Jo Stafford and many other performers sing this very same song with force, emotion and perfect tone. Eric's performance sound like is coming from a grave. It's a dead song in his voice.
Sempergalaicus 2 months ago
@Sempergalaicus Electric guitars... and all "created" poor modern music? Can you explain please what you mean by that? Actually, I can agree with that in large part, but this is not a good example of that. This sounds like a classic Nelson Riddle arrangement. On the other hand, I've heard a lot of new music that is little more than "gratuitously distorted" guitars with badly sung shallow lyrics. I'd name examples but the songs were so forgettable I can't think of any.
Guitarburt 2 months ago
@Guitarburt. I'm sure Clapton is a good electric guitar player. But the electric guitar is a poor instrument. You can barely play more than one note at a time unless you use it for accompaniment. Players abuse distortion and too often is hard to listen to any other instrument, Listen to traditional guitar players (Paco de Lucia, John Williams come to mind) and you'll see what I mean: these guys use 4 fingers and can play with extraordinary speed.
Sempergalaicus 2 months ago
@Sempergalaicus I actually make my living playing and teaching guitar, and I agree with you most of the time. A lot of songs I hear on the radio would be far better off without the guitar part altogether. We as players AND as listeners are all too willing to accept bad tone. I use distortion a lot myself, but I'm very careful to use it as musically as possible.
Guitarburt 2 months ago
@Sempergalaicus I teach a high school music theory class and I am using Autumn Leaves to teach about improvisation and modes. I am collecting as many good examples of this song as I can and came across this version. I listened to it several times and am not sure shat to make of it. It seems quite lifeless, but that may be just the thing Eric Clapton was going for... "haunting" "melancholic..." (?) Eva Cassidy's version may be just as "dull" if not for the fact that she has a beautiful voice.
Guitarburt 2 months ago
@Guitarburt, thanks for your polite answers. I was afraid I was going to offend somebody, but, eh!, we've suffered bad music for too long. This song has been famous for quite some time. I was surprised to learn it was written in France by a Hungarian composer. Since we are approaching Xmas I recommend a song from my neck of the woods: Galician Carol (Carlos Nunez). You probably can put it into score. I'm going to do just that once of these days (I use Sibelius).
Sempergalaicus 2 months ago
@Sempergalaicus search for this on youtube: Johanna Kiley Live on Binghamton 34. That's me playing guitar. I also play in a ten piece band called Scott Freeman Band. I'd write links here, but youtube is rejecting the posts that include URL addresses.
Guitarburt 2 months ago
@Guitarburt. I sounds pretty good! You play it like an acoustic guitar. Maybe it is an acoustic guitar...
Sempergalaicus 2 months ago
@Sempergalaicus Thank you. If you search for my other links, you'll see that I don't ALWAYS play it so clean. As I am writing this I am in my studio recording a version of "Autumn Leaves" for my students to record their solos over. The assignment is to compose and perhaps perform their solos over the chords as to show their understanding of how chords and melody go together.
Guitarburt 2 months ago
@Guitarburt try listening to chet baker with ruth young is #1 claptons verison is #2
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gitarbest 2 months ago
WOOOOOW!!!!!
mrsten44 2 months ago
his husky voice and his life he has lived is a perfect compliment that fully translates the message of this timeless melody imo
superfaligouz 2 months ago
Beautiful. There is a perfect blend of jazz and blues that combines to make this version of autumn leaves my personal favourite. I LOVE blues music and I am a part time listener of jazz music so this Clapton cover ticks all the boxes for me. Many jazz fans may think its simple, dull and un-inventive but I will strongly disagree. Blues is all about emotion and feeling. Clapton had this from day one along with Jimmy Page. Its not about how many times you can change key in 2 minutes of improvising.
JBurrows15 2 months ago 2
@JBurrows15 well said. i agree completelty
Afayemi93 2 months ago
Lovely. Some comments here are repulsive and obscene. Get a life!
majorcadreaming 2 months ago 2
Clapton is a multifaceted musician. This is lovely. Some of you have left very hateful comments about his son's death. Try to express yourself with some intelligence. You are repulsive.
majorcadreaming 2 months ago
Listen to Chet Bakers version. It's the best.
shmoopseepoo 2 months ago
Let everybody spit on me , but I hawe to send a complaint to Mr Eric cos he left his origin , soft rock blues and blues ! This album is confuseing my eyers cos is too much jazzy !!!
crnogor 2 months ago
voice,rhythm,the meaning .......beautiful.......beautiful.........am so lonely and deepest feeling .......
lawyerpani 2 months ago 2
To appreciate music is to be always learning... to be looking at a "standard' in a new way... to see new things.... I love it when artists step into a different genre and that new vision happens... sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. but that guitar solo over the strings at the end... great combination.
jimaroo100 2 months ago
Can't you just enjoy it ,if not listen to something else ,it's simple or are the dislikes just very very simple
denty32 2 months ago
I like some of Clapton's music, but this is one of the worst performances/arrangements of Autumn Leaves I've ever heard a well known artist do.
Musicenthusiasm 2 months ago
@Musicenthusiasm Very karaoke like. Still, it's much better than the drivel Rod Stewart has been putting out that he calls the American Songbook.
darkoanton5 2 months ago
hummm....no.
klaritavital 3 months ago
@klaritavital lol y not?
BigBrother352 2 months ago
@BigBrother352 ...I like the other versions...
klaritavital 2 months ago
I think the most beautiful part of Clapton album, this masterpiece again reviewed. Why Clapton "the god" is his answer. is enormous.
MrOrhanu 3 months ago
nice ending.....i am so glad he is doing the classics ....i wish he did some frank sinatra....maybe a nat king cole...
besamemucho5 3 months ago
How does he visualise those twiddles amongst the chord progressions? Especially 3:50 - Clapton is truly majestic.
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gitarbest 3 months ago
this is terrible
lukegreenhalgh225 3 months ago
Nice, also check out Eva Cassidy's version..
jayt5342 3 months ago
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The song was Claptonized!
bole00007 3 months ago
The song was Claptonized!
bole00007 3 months ago 54
@bole00007 Very true, Have you seen Jerry Lee Lewis do this standard? Man...
layoungpal 2 months ago
Top Line..
guidomattina57 3 months ago
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he still sucks
slammer726 3 months ago
@slammer726 when you can play better then i might listen to somthing you say
TheWho0180 3 months ago
@slammer726 He still sucks? Well he never did suck and if you truly think he sucks then don't fucking listen to him? ... GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE :)
SICLIA1029 3 months ago 2
@slammer726
i think someone has been on your youtube account without you knowing because he doesn't suck.
AirallialeFay 3 months ago
uwielbiam jego muzykę.
miereczek11 3 months ago
Great! amazing voice!! thanx for uploading.
osachibi 3 months ago
clapton still sucks
slammer726 3 months ago
god awful clapton sunk to the bottom of the barrell hang it up your guitar you suck
slammer726 3 months ago
@slammer726 you probablly cant play yourself.. or write music.. if you dont like it dont listen to it
guitarguy5 3 months ago
@guitarguy5 gave you a thumbs down by mistake dude....totally 100% agree with your sentiments.
lebgold 3 months ago
@slammer726 hehe....would love to see you attempt his most crappiest song on his most crappiest day of days!
lebgold 3 months ago
@slammer726
get off the video then.... 0______0
AirallialeFay 3 months ago
i love this version
22rollon 3 months ago
This is suck
Royzilber 3 months ago
@Royzilber Learn some grammar.
BigBrother352 3 months ago 2
Sorry this bas :(
Royzilber 3 months ago
Nice man!! Clapton Jazzin it up!!!
supahsekzy 3 months ago
Sweet. Could listen to this... endlessly.
kelollman 3 months ago