jazz with telecaster

[monkymonk6]

Teles are such great and versatile guitars! Great playing as well!

[Raasmuss]

Is he playing a standard or is he just jamming? To me it sounds like he does a chord-melody of a standard and improvises a bit on it. Am I rigth and does anyone know which standard he plays?

[bills48321]

@Raasmuss Stella By Starlight

[Raasmuss]

@bills48321 Thank you=) I'm gonna start to practice it!

[arandunagusimm]

@Raasmuss He's playing what sounds like "Stella by Starlight" but not strongly elucidating the melody (at least to the point I have heard while typing this).

[fendlo]

wonderfoul!!!!can i say witch amp you use and witch tele is it???and how you create taht beaoutifoul sound???011 ??

[stoofbuis]

great tone! more tele-jazz one you tube,if you go to John Cassio.

[Indiegaze]

I think its a Mad Professor amp..

[eastman805]

I play jazz gigs with a tele all the time. I don't worry about being heard, damage to the guitar, or theft. Also, i'm playing a guitar made by

'Tradition,' made in Korea, but set up in Ft.Worth, TX. Excellent value.

At home, i seldom plug in. I play my archtop on the couch.

[djangoph1le]

It baffles me that people think there is a specific type of guitar for jazz. I showed to a gig with a Les Paul once and another guitarist called it a "rock" guitar. Barney Kessel recorded with a Tele. Ed Bickert, Ted Greene, Mike Stern, & Bill Frisell, used them as well. Clint Strong and Pat Martino used a Les Paul. Just about the best "Jazz" tone I've ever had was on a standard tele.

[TheHumbuckerboy]

@djangoph1le I totally agree with what you say here.Many (especially younger) musicians do not know that the Les Paul was originally created to play Jazz .I also love the warm ,woody,jazzy tone that can be obtained from using the neck pickup on a Strat ,especially if it has a rosewood fretboard.

[GravityBoy72]

Very very nice!!!

Telecaster is versatile.

[recuerdo000]

chingón¡¡¡

[kingofskateop]

Very nice Joe Pass style...

[juanlash]

what strings is he using, and what gauge is he using? is it 0.10? or heavier?

[blueskidd96]

Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't play Jazz on Telecaster.

[rooseguitar64]

Nice take on Stella...

[gomudhen]

Great Tone!  Really nice!

[bolajunky]

beautifulll music !

[jcgv6565]

Hola, tengo varias guitarras. La 52 es una de ellas, pero le he puesto una pastilla Duesemberg y ahora si te puedo decir que tiene el sabor vintage.

¿Que amplificador usas?

¿Donde puedo conseguir una Levin 315 N/M2?

Ánimo.

[pveg65]

And who said you needed a Hollow Body to play Jazz ?

[lexo30]

I knew that couldn't be a stock Tele nick pickup. I love my Tele but the neck pickup sucks, and one of these days I'm replacing it with something that actually produces a tone, instead of just humming meekly in the background.

[jnfran92]

bien!!.....

[surfco]

Danny Gatton proved the world Jazz can be played on a telecaster.

[edgluhrs]

@surfco ...and Ted Greene as well!

[fishqwer]

@edgluhrs You forgot Bickert! :)

[edgluhrs]

@fishqwer Just watched some videos with Ed Bickert... fantastic! Thank you.

[fishqwer]

@edgluhrs Ed Bickert is one of my favourites, and it also helps that he comes from my hometown. I think he is one of the most underrated guitar players of his era, and his tone and technique have greatly inspired my playing.

[waldo2384]

I didn't know Karl Pilkington played such good guitar!

[rockerdude29]

now if only he could make the bridge pickups sound good lol.

[fishqwer]

If you've ever played a real tele (the modern ones fender is putting out are wired nothing like the earlier models) then you will truly appreciate what a tele bridge pickup should sound like. Twangy, bright, but not "stab your ears out with an ice pick"

[jamestdawson]

Lovely playing!!! Many thanks for posting that!

[fenderbender92]

Makes me wish I never gave my friends back his custom 1980's tele...great man !

[spaceguitars]

I gotta return to this vid over and over again beause it's so darn beautiful tone and feel. Thanks for posting!

[SharkyRussell]

great karl thank you for posting!

can you do all the things you are too, for us?

Or how about a solo version of John Scofields Alster Fields ( from the rough house album)

[marcelodomar]

Telegant. Nice job!

[pgapga1010]

he touches the strings (right hand) with the tip of his finger and pulls them (check 00:19) and this one watch?v=N9Zy3EEbYMM

[cowie86]

is this on the neck pickup or the bridge? I'd love to know!

[danitz56]

neck. only the neck could make a warm, fat, full tone like that. the bridge pickup wouldn't make a tone like that because it's in the area where the string vibration is small and thin

[BlingMasterFunk]

@danitz56 yup. but a lot of guys play with the neck pickup on but the play the strings right next to the bridge. john scofield would be a great example of this, and it makes for a unique "fat/tight" tone that for some reason a TON of players are doing this.

[WoWintosh]

@BlingMasterFunk

How about Mike Stern? He picks really close to the bridge too, plus he just happens to use a tele, along with his Tele-style signature Yamaha guitar.

[arekceg]

@cowie86

middle or neck imo

[spaceguitars]

Pure joy and bliss. Love it very much. Thanks for showing what a Tele can do!

[squeadlieshero]

holy shit, can i have that guitar?? jk, awesome display of what a tele can do.

[acidbug]

stella!

[jasonqtx]

very nice...

[feelit4]

wow really beautiful playing

[k00lguy202]

god damn thats what happens when you put a 52 RI in good hands.

[kujofox]

this can't be real, Telecasters simply don't sound like that.

[88naka]

?? normal tele-tone with the tone all way down.

[jazzbox111]

you play very nicely. and the guitar sounds pretty good too, a little high end, but nicely.

[Leonard5555]

sounds good

[rockerdude29]

beautiful man just beautiful.sounds like a mild humbucker but its just a stock single right?

[bestchris]

awesum!

[ivan811]

Muy bien !

[BluesSoul89]

telecaste mexico or american?

[jimmymora05]

I am recording a disc by Internet if you want contacts to me and we recorded together I I put my part in youtube

[epiph0ne]

The player is Risto Toppola, amp is Mad Professor CS40. More clips can be seen/heard at Mad Professor-website

[djurt02]

How smooth!

[steveandcory]

i really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing! s

[Tweekerhead]

Holy shit .......

[CptPattern]

do you reckon they are flatwounds? i cant hear any squeaks , great tone!

[petertorro]

sounds good what kind of pick up and amp/

[neteraser]

simply amazing tone. never managed to get something like this from a telecaster and had to sell mine :(

[nickdrake1984]

Sounds like Stella By Starlight

[XxDEFLESHEDxX]

yep, it is

[viktorskyler]

As good as it gets.

viktor -- Cottage Grove, Oregon

[Measuremax]

Maybe not, listen to Ed Bickert

[kapacon]

Did you just remove the lipstick cover, or is that a custom, aftermarket neck pickup?

[karl149149]

I found this video on a homepage of a Scandinavian (I think it was Swedish) amp manufacturer, but I have forgotten its name and cannot therefore tell who is playing. The clip was made to advertise the amp the guitarist is playing with. I would be glad if someone could find out the answers to the questions. Anybody familiar with Scandinavian jazz scene?

[nickdrake1984]

I´m from denmark, and i do not know this guy, mabye he is from sweeden?

Sounds great!

[jasoncasper16]

Is it Wolfgang Muthspiel?

[Generalterz]

(+)

[MorganHvedehaps]

The amp is a Mad Professor, as far as I can see.

[el90moro]

@karl149149 Hagstrom amps?

[azambujafabio]

@karl149149 It's hard to make out from the video but my guess would be that it was a Dutch amp manufacturer called Hook amps and the tele is probably a tele from the dutch brand 'Haar' guitars, I could be wrong though. nice vid, thanks for sharing.

[aheioafei418]

@karl149149 it is risto toppola from finland

[fuzzycontrol1327]

@karl149149 Looks and sounds a bit like the dutch player Martijn Van Iterson.

[lumchavick]

Wonderful!

[littledaoud]

sweet playing !

[clubsandwedge]

Bossa-Nova like, no?

[yumopyumop]

good sound! so sweet!