Bireli Lagrene - Cherokee

[supahsekzy]

Ok Bireli's solo just made me quit all forms of music

[supahsekzy]

0:44 bireli's got a sick progression there

[supahsekzy]

haha, cherokee Gyspy style baby!!!

[robinsnd]

Wow - maybe the most facile guitarist ever!

[schmattarags]

@Ven1EdCox

Yes! Bassist Diego Imbert is busting a move. He reminds me of a dancing Snoopy, in the old Charlie Brown Cartoons.  Full of Joie de Vivre.

[ignace53]

It is a great pleasure for our ears, really impressive! Bireli Lagrene won all my beloved guitarists que j' adore!

[DoctorCluny]

That boy is an absolute mother.

[mdschneider1]

such amazing musicians, what a treat to be in that audience and to be able to see this online anytime!

[alexpwe]

@3:25 i seen sooo many ppl play that lick and it jus makes no sense to me every time, it sounds mad cool tho lol

[reynoldsj125]

@alexpwe it's just a common way to play outside the changes

[Foxfire0925]

this is simply amazing, as a jazz person myself... i must say this is perfect. Well done to the guys that composed this wonderful composure of epicness :)

[HendrixcommaMartin]

This is all kinds of impressive. 

[briguyhackins]

While I get that there is technical facility going on here in spades, a great deal of the time I feel if it were 10bpm slower it would glue together, There are simply times when the ensemble/uni playing is ragged and frenetic for its own sake. It is good but it does not groove as hard as is should. That said the bass is atomic clock steady

[bundr]

@briguyhackins I agree!!

[Segura99]

lol

[MicheleAndriulli]

to much fast...i feel the fingers not the HEART,DO YOU AGRE?

[josepharchbold]

@MicheleAndriulli No I can't agree, Cherokee is a test of speed. It's basically a tune that tests whether you can think and create amazing things at high speeds.

[MrDamagesauce]

WHOOOA are they human!!!! amazingly detailed phrases ....some top quality musicians...

[deepfriedpankakes]

@Ven1EdCox brilliant is the only word i could use to discribe it as well

[customz]

thats whats up !! 

[dr05guitar]

awesome

[Leedysgladstones]

What happened at 4:52?

[MrPointySquid]

@Leedysgladstones I believe a string broke my good fellow, I'm not too sure.

[hajroz]

These guys can play everything

[BASSHEAD89030]

ZERO DISLIKES?!?!?!?! .....thats what i want B)

[Memastian]

Fucking simple standard, I've played it myself......but not at that speed!, just amazing!

[SpraxIAKS]

Bass player not feeling cramps?

[HCL991]

WOW Those guys go flying!

Damn good!

[hueseph]

I bet that bass player could crush a baseball with his bare hands. Real tight playing boys. A great performance.

[wacodizzy]

Simply amazing. How is it even possible to play such a well build and melodic solo at 300+bpm. The soprano player also completely blew me away. Thank you for sharing these videos.

[BeefCaike]

Very nice!

[aaronamccoy]

he's the only dude that can stretch time and space like salvador dali, for real though

[MUSICRTW]

I just got high from watching this video!!!! Who needs drugs!!!!

[pr0gam3rn3d]

E.T.

[vvrankulj]

Really good. Bass player ruins the time. Drags way too much.

[flashjones9053]

WOW! Well done, great speed and accuracy!

[terrryc]

The soprano player is a total muh-fuh.....

[Robster881]

The first guitar riff reminds me a lot of a metal riff. It's really quite strange

[dgoss1966]

Chet Atkins does a good version too. Nothing like Lagrene's, but still really interesting.

[trmn8rusa]

bireli is one of my favourite players. the other great guitar version of cherokee is john mclaughlin on the johnny carson show about 1985.

[schmattarags]

Bireli is so brilliant here, but we should give a huge credit to the blistering, rock solid framework laid down by Diego and Hono, as well as the compliment of Franck Wolf's playing, for allowing him to shine so brightly.

[datommaster]

its always the best muso's who aren't famous. D:

[1Ma9iN8tive]

these guys could play tv adverts at a 3 hour concert and I'd pay top dollar to hear that...far king cosmic

[qweasd1993]

thx guys for not arguing unlike my other video. :)

keep posting such complimentary comments :)

[pootershnitzel]

composer please?

[devostm]

@pootershnitzel Charlie Parker. The Bird's the word.

[devostm]

@devostm ... Ray Noble. I'm a tool.

[coolcolbass]

@qweasd1993 nice man, 293 likes and 0 dislikes too, impressive

[1950francesca]

MANIACS!!!! How can human fingers reach such velocity while still creating perfect sound? Django, Bird and Hawk must be spinning in their graves!

[jpcannavo]

As an oddball, jazz guitar influenced amateur jazz clarinetist, I have listened to everyone from Wes to Django to Christian to Johnny Smith (remember him?) to Kessel to Martino to Jimmy/Doug Raney to George Benson. In the context, then, of my musical experience, Bireli is an extragalactic freak of nature - like watching someone bench-press 6,000 lbs. He is the guy I would want to turn into in my "walk into a local guitar shop, start noodling and have everyone crap their pants" fantasy.

[jpcannavo]

One more thing: Apart from broad stylistic differences, Bireli strikes me as the Oscar Peterson of the guitar. Its the combination of super-monster chops and an ability to rapidly weave diverse idioms in an out of a solo to staggering effect. This plus the drive, passion and sheer musicality creates the "on the edge of your seat" experience that both these artists exploit to fantastic effect. I saw Bireli live 10 years ago. Right up there for me with having seen Sonny Stitt & Dexter Gordon live.

[SuperGuitarman69]

Bereli is just unbelievable. Nothing like him exists. Just him.

[r3ck0rd]

the best Cherokee rendition I've ever heard!

you can hear that Lagrene has good baroque/classical and blues foundation.

[JH5251]

holy soprano

[shredicon86]

That bass player is amazing

[ricaard]

Man Diego is a beast on this one!

[tobyman7]

I think the bass player is working hardest of them all!

[rosatijazz23]

Bireli is one BAD MOTHA FUCKA!!!!

4:53......: P

[anadryantontine]

Biréli's playing on this tune is the complete anthesis of his "wacky for the sake of being wacky" playing on the Autumn Leaves video in the suggestions box to the right. It's what I really love about him is his ability to have immaculate taste when he plays, even when he's suddenly throwing a Cuban rhythm in there at :44 - :51, it's done tastefully and with immaculate style.

Vivé le Gipsy! Vivé le hot jazz!

[romanocavoro]

frank wolf is also a saxaphone player.. birelli is one of the greatest guitar player .. god bless

[guitarpro3367]

beautiful tasteful solo by bireli. Wonderful attention to what not to play...something you can whistle along to.........

[edmondssax]

i could never wear a neck strap with soprano for some reason :p

[peepeeland]

Hot. (though Bireli Lagrene has somehow morphed into Lewis Black...)

[JSGayMusic]

@peepeeland haha I was wondering who he looked like! Thanks for the laugh.

[dagvon]

My God! Totally fantastic!

[aaronamccoy]

i'm glad we still got a few genuis left..birelli sicc wit it

[alexistexias]

good

[zaferlamizik]

the bass player is solid

[rodcrippler]

@zaferlamizik REAL solid, like a gypsy Charnett Moffett!

[ilikememusic]

GYPSY GIVE YOUR TEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aaronamccoy]

this guy always tripped me out..bireli off the hook

[billdaniel92]

dude.

[laughingogliphot]

Really great!

[benontheboat]

Holy Crap.....Don't mess with the Gypsies.

[ricaard]

Absolutelmente!

[Joe0mel]

Lmao

[Joe0mel]

2:01 amzing 2-5 lick!

[aaronentresz]

Wowow!

[PSIchiater]

PSIrelli Lagrene,my maan!

[gipsystrings]

Super

[masje]

la yapa une seconde ou un musicos n'est pas mis a default

..mais la non

bref Bird doit etre content

bravo*1000000

[VintageReverb]

3:01-3:02=blueslick:P hehe.. Awesome playing by everyone! Can't believe Lagrene.. He is the king

[Twistchawa]

VASTLY impressive. Really great stuff

[flatpick4eadg]

LOL!! Bireli is giving Hono Winterstein a real fast pace to maintain on this piece of music.

[defjampop]

el mastrodos del puta

[rrichko5049]

birelli your number 1

[jazzcat5]

the lick at 3.27, did bireli invent that lick? I´ve heard lots of players that sound "bireliesque" that uses it. I´ve never heard anyone before him using it... anyone who knows?^^

[qead0828]

Actually it seems to be a widely used gypsy jazz lick or at least used by guitarists who play gypsy jazz and both straightahead.. which is very surprising because of the moderness of the licks nature.

[tonydjangolopez]

somebody get him him a doctor... this guy's sooooooooo sick!!!! =)

[charlesfelixmagnus]

Most badass Langrene solo in there. And yea, shit, SentDeLaRaie, although I agree with the first part of that comment...that has got to be one of the more retarded comments.

[iyep]

encore un solo de dingue from bireli !

[SentDeLaRaie]

get a pack of beers

get a nice sound

be alone

and watch this full concert

you wont be the same man

(msg for men cuz women dont have any feeling for that kind of music)

[tokugijoo]

LOL

I wish I could find a girl who was into jazz.

[dorit33]

lots of girls are into jazz-- go to a jazz club, its not gonna be all men there :P

[tokugijoo]

haha i guess you're right.

but even then, it just seems like there are less of those girls in Jersey. =(

[KreatorOfDeath1985]

These days girls like talentless boy bands and rap "artists" those 2 words shoudl never be used together

i must say that i found my girl in a jazz club

[dorit33]

ivie anderson? velma middleton? of course women can dig it! :)

[barley1027]

i'd like to point out that that last comment is insensitive, bordering on misogynistic.

[manthos1234]

Does anyone know what with what guitar is lagrene playing?

[django247]

In this video Bireli is using a Stefan Hahl 'Birlei Lagrene Signature'.

[aaronlebos]

man sax player is killin but i can't get past cheesy soprano sound!

[G3r0n1mo]

I think 3:15-3:25 is killer

[pazootka]

so tight

[ronaldkorv]

I would even go as far, as to say, that the soprano player soloed better than Bireli on this one!

[ohthatsleo]

*jaw dropping*

[g3legacy]

What a stunning group of musicians.....they are all really badass!! Especially loving the bass player - he has so much stamina.

[kentplums]

well i couldn't resist this

[turbolawnmower]

lovely

[samcorey1]

This song is amazing. so complex AND fast!! wow.

[Kooovin]

that sax player needs to improve his posture.

crazy hunchback.

[0mleg0]

No matter how he looks, man !

[thejazzman8]

4:52 lol, he is human

[radmin2]

Yea, what was that about?

[cbazzpastorious]

conchetumare frank wolf =O=O

[Modes9]

Soprano boy has some of the Steve Grossman, Dave Liebman thing. (Compliment) Madman Birelli delivers the bebop and post-bop an acoustic! Hats off!

[sidwho123]

who's the soprano player?

[qweasd1993]

frank wolf

[sidwho123]

cool, thanks

[doddsalfa]

Usually Birelli gets all the credit,naturally as a main soloist.This time i want to thank for great saxsolo and great rhythmsession

[robertikapl]

asa frumusete....micatias p.... ta

[haikaido]

I LOVE Cherokee!!!!!! and as always what a GREAT group of musicians!! especially Mr Bireli Lagrene

[xMiloTheGreatx]

Bireli is sick. No doubt.