Bireli Lagrene: Stella by Starlight

[medranomanuel13]

Esto es otro nivel!

[likuidflaememan]

What the fuck is wrong with this guy. he thinks he can just come in and blow everyone else away? Well its just not ok.

[HICYMBALS]

What an amazing speed. Whaoooooooooooooooo! His speed is like needle with pin point accuracy. Whaooooo. This guy is amazing. The scales are fast but sweet and meaniful.

[ShalomLucido]

esse vídeo é muito ferrado !! muito bom mesmo =)

Olhem tbm o vídeo "chega de saudade guitarra jazz" um arranjo novo da música de Tom Jobim.

[jonnyrokr]

INhumane skill 

[Tzachi076S]

4:01 is so epic

[abinato1983]

He's such a Monster

[The22Fret]

I knew Einstein is also a genius drummer!

[rivnew]

Amazing guitar player from Argentina!

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[funkyflautist]

yeh.....

[jackhammer111]

Wow, that was great. I get people saying he sounds like Joe pass at times but that's a hell of a compliment right there, and I hear many other influences he's absorbed too, like even Wes Montgomery, I think I even heard Gabor Szabo pass through. Some play fast to impress, he does it like Coltrane did. Not about the speed, but about the shape of the line and the expression of the underlying chords.

[johnnylance]

Not many guitarists can bring tears to my eyes nearly every time they solo...

[frizzzzzzal]

hes like George Benson, only he doesnt suck

[peemgee]

For me, the most  inspirational player i have heard to date. Wonderful.

[Fensterbaum]

Before an audience of thousands Bireli Lagrene is capricious, bold, free. For me this must be the summit of jazz. I love this.

[magnoliapugana]

A lot of styles and rhythms improvised in a classic standard. The freest guitarist I've ever listen to. Long live Lagrene!

[bruce68]

vaut mieux pas que le contrebassiste suive le solo , sinon....ha ha ha

[Abramstiger]

Happy Birthday Bireli Lagrene!!!

[cw71017]

Okey...

Time to sell the guitar then :( 

[GassyCoke]

Does anyone know which amp does Bireli use when he plays electric guitar??? It is by far my favorite tone of all famous jazz guitar players.

And what guitar is that?? Gibson ES 175 maybe????

Hope someone knows : )

[bravo1111]

@GassyCoke

the guitar must be a

GIBSON WES MONTGOMERY VSB (Vintage Sunburst) ca: 6000€

the Amp, i dont know...

cheers

[rockingrobot]

is there a name or sorta sub-category/sub-genre of jazz that this particular style would come under?

[caranauba]

@rockingrobot he's using a lot of bebop lines...think Joe pass

[sitarrero]

@rockingrobot let's call it "bireli"

[9kolajbertelsen]

wow! 39 deaf people decided to have an opinion!

[iankjenkins]

WOW @ 3:57

[SleepyGypsy86]

But Bireli plays pretty much any way you want him to. He plays fast because he is bored and already mastered slower paced genres. Not only does he play anything you want him to, but he plays it on a level that not one other human on planet earth can hope to play as well as he does. Oh by the way, he plays violin on a master level, is without question the worlds best bassist, and sings. It's not likely Mozart would be able to play with Bireli.

[jackhammer111]

@SleepyGypsy86 ummm.. have you heard of Stanley Clark? He's the best bassist the world has ever seen, second is a long way down.

[The22Fret]

@SleepyGypsy86 Ever heard of Victor Wooten? One of the worlds best bassists... Or ever heard of Tommy Emmanuel? Also a genius guitar player.

[aznc0ffe388]

at least 1000 of the views are mine

[DanteDog78]

Bravo, ma mi rompe i coglioni (He breaks my balls...)

[zzbob69]

He is not just a great guitar player. I met him some years ago during the Jazz Festival in Nice. Birelli is so nice and simple. He shares everything just like when he is on stage.

Gifted guy...

[EGIL94]

Omg :D i love it :D :D :D

[lralbrecht]

30 seconds in my head exploded. haha

[miguelgmusic]

Great guitar player.....

[jakerowguitar]

There u have it! An alien playing guitar...unbelievable!!!

[MichelVonBerlin]

absolutley unique. not from this planet. birelli you really rock!!!

[actionvid1]

WOW!! This cat is so off the chain. Thanks, Bereli!! B

[mantra3000]

A 1:55, il fait une fausse note

[tibert]

@mantra3000

mdr

[hamajuggle]

@mantra3000 ?...

[Kingding6]

oh yeaaaaaaaaaa

[GabeSlice]

one of the badest guitarists ever, i think my favorite actually

[wendywolfman]

I'd like to see those gay speed metal guitarist's playing something like this

[magnoliapugana]

@wendywolfman Me too, those scum dregs of 70s hard rock couldn't be as free as Bireli

[NealHeat86]

Yeah.....my favorit ist django and wes

but dont forget Django Only got 2 fingers to play you know and wes just play with the dumb soooo thats the special of the two guitarist

after that masters ist hard for other guitar players to be a big number but belive me bireli is mozart he can play bass violin he is singing dude very well he plays drum i think he is an music guenius im sorry my english is bad i know but i want to say django and wes is a diffrent art of music sorry the rest

[martino0335]

Bireli is a great musician:)

[xRisingForcex]

doc jazz on drums

[lagrene1]

bireli jsi nejlepsi kytarista o tom neni pochyb

[SuperGuitarman69]

I love his gypsy approach in his playing. I wish tho when he flutters the 32nd notes he would have it a bit better planned out. Not hearing the distinction in the individual notes makes me feel as if he isn't executing his thought. I get that it's a vibe and feel thing within the line. But still, it sounds as if he isn't executing. I guess that is why I like Gambale when it comes to that. When Frank plays a fast phrase, he meant every note of it.

[ElectricDjango86]

@SuperGuitarman69 Bireli doesn't plan anything. Almost everything he does or plays is 90% improvised.

[krane121]

white people doing jazz always makes me laugh a little.

[surfer919193]

@krane121

Oh yeah. Django Reinhardt just makes me piss my pants... and Les Paul, and Benny Goodman. You can just hear their lack of melanin in their music...

[danthefave]

@surfer919193 I hope you're kidding right?

[surfer919193]

@danthefave

Ofcourse man! I'm still boggling at Krane121's comment. Grrr.

[LynnMantle]

@krane121 oh but jazz overall I agree, most of the jazz greats were black. sorry, I meant more on the guitar side.

but for other instruments, like piano, saz, etc I see what you're saying. John Coltrane and Miles Davis are the big two for me.

[AfroBlueImpressions]

there is much more talent in this 5 minute video than in the entire discography of all shredders

[bmc31190]

a true master

[LH419]

One of the best guitar-solos I've ever heard: it is not just one voice but a whole band, which voices he fractions into the linearity that he is limited to with the guitar. One can way of hear how he thinks musically. Stellar. And he masters every single bit of expression that the guitar allows for.

[Reg523]

Yes he can copy probable anything... and he's one of my favorite guitarist, but I feel that jazz has a blue influence... not rock or pop blues, anyway some players don't have that blue/jazz feel. Bireli, for what ever reason doesn't have that feel, even when he tries... I don't think that's bad... maybe that's one of the things we love about him... i totally dig his feel of music in general. Best Reg

[Reg523]

I dig Bireli for what he is... I don't really call him a jazz player, he can cover but his feel and harmonic choices are not in the blues/jazz style.

[KABRIS1]

@Reg523 I have found that he can copy any style. Jaco Pastorius thought that his feel was in the jazz style and chose to play with him.

[FenceThis]

@Reg523 Bireli is the very epitome of jazz. Your definition of jazz being an offspring to blues is entirely yours. Bireli went to berkley and underwent a thorough education on this issue, tutored by highest acknowledged teachers in addition to his inheridged mastering of the manouche-style ( though Bireli being a sinti) gypsy-swing brought down in line to him from his father Fiso LaGrene, an estimated pre-war guitarist.

[Reg523]

@FenceThis .. I also graduated from Berklee in early 70's... please don't understand my comments to be negative... I love Bireli... all his styles. And not all jazz involves Blues.... but very much of it does. Not I IV V rock blues, or BBKing blues, There are many aspects to having blues influences. And you might talk with some of the still living jazz musician and composers... I don't believe it's my opinion... Again I dig Bireli, always have

[NealHeat86]

these guitar players all around the world will never get his level because he ist like mozart sorry people

1.Django Reinhardt

2.Wes Montgomery

3.Pat Martino

3.George benson

4.Frank Gambale

5.Andreas Oberg.......Belive it

[yochay94]

@NealHeat86 wes takes this guy every day of the week

[bravo1111]

Bireli`s Guitar: GIBSON WES MONTGOMERY VSB (Vintage Sunburst)

price c.a. 6000 €. I didn`t expect something else...

btw: I play on a CORT 720 F (312€)...lol :-)

But one of the Best values for Beginners, with massive Spruce Top!

[itosanjesusprpriedad]

Noooossa...

[dondijazz]

A real great player who plays intuitively! One of the best among the best! This guy can play anything!

[florafox]

@dondijazz that is true. i often think about it, maybe he is the best of all. Who is better..........

[andresp5t1]

exelente ¡

[RailroadBill76]

The guy gives new meaning to the term, MONSTER.

[N1castro]

Muito Bom em!

[luckluc]

What a shit camara work !!!

[svonification]

he is the master

[rlacuan]

You know what happens when a Ferrari runs across the city streets.

It´s just like this video

[bigtoine45]

Bireli, can I borrow the L5. I promise I'll bring it right back.

[jpcannavo]

I've said it once and I'll say it again...

Bireli is a sort of musical freak of nature. Extra-galactic command and a huge poly-idiomatic vocabulary. As such I wish he would take a dozen or more choruses and thereby deepen and extend the musical trip that it is to listen to this super-freak-titan of the guitar.

Joe

[entfred]

THis is the most amazing modern jazz guitar I have ever heard. It looks impossible

to play. This modern stuff can mutate into elevator music if not done right and

this guy just rips......

[XxAmageddonxX]

wow.. he just tunes the guitar down :D

brilliant solution ^^

[AlterWagner]

oh - my -GOD.... unbelievable relaxed, pure guitar-elegance.....words fail me.

PERFECT. thanx for the vid!

^^

[Hopperjazz]

I saw Bireli first at the age of fifteen years old !!! Great guitare pjayer !!!

[capomatrice]

gross

[dondijazz]

This is pure improvisation, he plays the form or melody once in the beginning and once at the end! In between he improvises and develops it! He incorporates rock, bossa nova, classical, bebop , rock and roll, funk and also another song in his improvisations! There is no gap between his creativity and his technique. You could see he plays what he thinks! This is true developmental improvisation! No patterns or licks or "memorized lines"! He is in the category of Benson, Django, Wes, Pass, etc!

[dondijazz]

@dondijazz I was thinking, he inserted the song "As time goes by" in his improvisation! Listen to it! Although it was very brief!

[thom188]

Bireli is one of the few that doesn't play the guitar but that plays WITH the guitar

[elpachucomiguel13]

he makes santana look like a kid in diapers lol

[dondijazz]

@elpachucomiguel13 Santana cannot be compared, it's like apples and oranges! Santana does not really play jazz ! Neither Eric Clapton! They are more in the blues, rock genres! You could see though that Bireli can play any genre! I heard him play fusion jazz before!

[roadpull]

When you love a track - you play it all the time - this one is awesome. Even have this video playing in the car regular - youtube in the car, why not. WHAT A GREAT PLAYER i wish he'd pick his Gibson guitar up more often, as opposed to the acoustic.

[darhar4]

Players like Lagrene deserve the title "artist," combining great technical fluidity with very tasteful creativity. It's a pure pleasure to listen to his playing, and makes me grateful to have ears! (I only wish the camera work were better to capture this performance.)

[hillybunker]

holy...shit...

[jacopman]

Wow!!!!!!

[rvbarnesboy]

my goodness....love that gibson sound, too....

[rlacuan]

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE BRAIN-BLAST, FOR ANY GUITARIST WHO TRYIED TO PLAY THIS SONG EVEN FOR HUNDREDS OF TIMES!!!

THE GUY IS SUPE-JET-JAZZ-VIRTUOSO...

[00Dakka]

Im ascared...

[hawaiianeyesorg]

Playfulness...you said it johnnylance. Great find. Will be looking for more from this Lagrene. Totally in the groove. Enjoyable.

[daddymagz]

I love the sound of the big hollow body guitar... Lagrene is great.

'Stella' is such a nice Jazz tune to play off of and listen to..... thanks for posting.

[Demir3895]

outstanding piece!!!

[poisson55]

Fabulous stuff but what the golly is that 3 seconds of rolling sixth stuff at 4:02!!?? Did Lagrene actually play that . . .!?

[kinggambitabc]

Ok Bireli is very good but zzzZZzzzZzz

[8hui]

C'est du génie, c'est Biréli

[iumatron]

Wonderful!

[rickso12]

I agree with ever one, amazing

[fdsaw]

OHYEAHHHHHH!!



[jazzlefty]

bueno, bueno mmmm!!

[thejazzman8]

2:45...sick nasty

[thebrave77]

Fantastic.

[thebrave77]

Fantastic... can't stop looking at it!

[egyptianminor]

Nice...Stella by FUNKY Starlight

[earlpizumi]

voncoolio .... missed it somehow...

[voncoolio]

This guy plays too fast for my taste. Too many light-speed monster licks, for the purpose of showing off his technique. The guy's got good technique, amazing theory knowledge, but he kills the music completely. Wack.

[dondijazz]

@voncoolio He is just being playful! one who plays fast surely can slow it down, but one who slows down does not mean he can play it fast! He has just a lot to say, that is all! He plays intuitively, and plays what he thinks! You are right, he does overdo it sometimes! But surely, his technique is developmental improvisation, not just monsters licks and incorporates bossa nova, rock and roll, funk, bebop and another song in his improvisations of just one song!

[Dedalusalley]

1:54 - 1:57 Chops from hell. One of the fastest line I've ever heard from Bireli.

[JayIvory87]

goosebumps all over my body

[Spidey2391]

The groove at the start is outrageous 

[WarPig15]

@Spidey2391 That kind of comments are always true.

[sxmadrid]

Absolutely wow.

[geamit4]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vsaumarez]

He's probably the most exciting, and playfully inventive jazz guitarist alive.

[Freddy86ify]

wouuuuuuuuu q gran version

[JamesOnBass121]

Who's on Double Bass for this?

[geamit4]

WOW



[latinguitarjazz]

exelent

[Hoopermazing]

This dude is clearly possessed of a rare virtuosity. That said, I rarely like any of the crap he chooses to play, and this is no exception. Smooth "jazz" turns me right off.

[Twistchawa]

@Hoopermazing I'm not a fan of smooth jazz either, but when played well, it is a great experience, as this performance is. If you're not into all the "crap" jazz standards that Birelli reimagines, like Cherokee and what not, then something is dreadfully wrong.

[Hoopermazing]

@Twistchawa Dude is a genius. You'll get no argument from me. That said, I don't care for a lot of his, pas-Manouche, artistic choices. However the live version of Cherokee (which doesn't bear the stench of smooth "jazz") is quite look. It pretty much sounds like, more or less, straight ahead Jazz-Manouche w/ a Bebop-ish band.

[lunhizelanda]

tu muy bien :)

molto bene :)

you so good :)

tu muy brgs

[jembone]

Sickest mutherfucker guitarist ever...

[manuelergcruz]

Love that part on 4:02 to 4:05..haha

[horvathazagergo]

@manuelergcruz It's called rock n roll my friend :}

[manuelergcruz]

@horvathazagergo YEAH!! Birelli really "ROCKS" on jazzing up a tune "more!!"

[reallyfool]

...eestiqaatsi :)

[s1914]

AWESOME !

[lagatuda]

A master guitar player - Bravo!

[thomjz]

This is a genius

[vindicari]

no recognizable tune in amongst that plethora of pickin. tuneless, boring. something to be said fpr the old adage, less is more.

[obsb0]

4:02 AHAHAHA!!

[Feromons]

c'est magnifique!

[blah148]

just posted a new django reinhardt lesson video for guitar

check it out!

[LucasBalakubaka]

Gênial!!!!!!!!!!!! uau...

[lukex1337]

OMGG!!!!!!!

[JPBerkleeDude]

WOW talk about chops!

[magicmrmadman]

Nice Baroque like bach-brandenburgconcerto quote at the end!

[clararfr]

el gordo se puso a dieta para este video

[gummibaerchenmap]

is it just me or does he just permanently ignore the fact that there are just 12 bloody different notes on the fretboard?

[robertofied18]

@gummibaerchenmap

or the fact that there are 30 thousand people staring at him..?

[vre313]

wuts the chord @ 4:35 please

[saddam5]

@vre313 i dont hear a chord there, but if you mean 4:33, it should be Cm7

[ricaard]

@vre313 C minor 7 add11, from heavy to skinny--8, 10, 8, 8, 11, & 13th frets.

[neilraoufsw]

holy shit!

[virsion]

This guy is off the chizane. Awesome.

[kidfromstatenisland]

Wonderful.

[johnnylance]

Most jazz players would be diminished so as to disappear in front of such a large audience. Bireli just gets bigger and brighter.

[shred73]

thanks so much for posting this..xoxo

[ieodksnw787]

awesome!

[dylanlawless1]

looks like the coolest most relaxing evenings you could have, in that audience.

[totobish2009]

amazing.....this is a kind of guitarist witch is on my taste...!!!

[MrGoonerforlife]

you people just admit he is a great guitar player even so he is french

[HOKIDIDO]

He's a bad mofo! great! i don't even want to play now

[Skyblueginger]

I want to be like that when I grow up.!!!!!

[ttsqas]

Just can't feel this one.

[shanebai]

I think thats just his style. some of the runs he does in this are fantastically melodic even if they flitter in and out of the harmony. I think he's an amazing player: refreshing and exciting, maybe he just cant restrain the electricity he feels flowing through his fingers during a tune. he reminds me of art tatum a bit, but on guitar of course. I do agree though that sometimes space and sustained notes, ala miles davis or monk, can really create a beauty that comes from a different place.

[ricaard]

@shanebai I agree also, but I think that there is a cult (a very large one) of people that believe there's only one way to play jazz or blues, etc. SLOW. And when anyone bends or breaks that overbearing and ofttimes non-thought-out conception, they get heavily harangued as being nonmusical. I believe taste and feel comes at speeds fast and slow. Too much slow playing can be just as bad and uninventive as overly quick stuff. Tatum, absolutely! Also Oscar P. But there's always those to hate...

[dondijazz]

@ricaard I agree 120% Your are very articulate and know what you are saying!You have good ears!

[ricaard]

@dondijazz Thanks, you talk it very well yourself...

[KABRIS1]

@ricaard The people that believe that are musicians that can't play fast.

[ricaard]

@KABRIS1 Well, you can't change someone's mind; you can only speak your own, and that's all I try to do, however passionately...

[ricaard]

@KABRIS1 Well, you can't change someone's mind; you can only speak your own, and that's all I try to do, however passionately...

[KABRIS1]

@ricaard Whenever people attach preconceived conceptions to how music should be performed they deprive themselves of appreciating the interpretation.

[ricaard]

@KABRIS1 Unfortunately, the preconceived notion is how most of the world is run; this is why people flock to conclusions, with little or no regard to consequence or accuracy. Sometimes a person just parrots whatever's been told to them for years (I'm sure I'm guilty too), without questioning its validity, or even worth. Mindsets can be hereditary.

[KABRIS1]

@ricaard You have articulated it better than I could. I think that most people are brainwashed, and are quite comfortable letting someone else do their thinking for them

because they don't know how to think for themself. Thank you for your intelligent comment.

[G36n]

@ricaard Too right mate! :

"Too much slow playing can be just as bad and uninventive as overly quick stuff"

I has to make sense what is been played /to be meant to be played/ to come from the soul of the player.