Jim Hall Trio, Germany 1973

[mddavison54]

If only jazz were more like this. Just beautiful. Music first, technique last. I hope John McClaughlin is watching.

[YOUKO511221]

渋い！

ハゲ！



[easguitar]

The original master of taste, melodicism, and especially Space between the notes- much like a Zen painter with a mind free of clutter....And that harmonic sense!!

[fistchips]

this is sweet!

[ChiZ712]

@rfwgtr as far as jass guitar.....shawn lane

[meanmud1]

Wow, what a gem!!

[ahaaaaaaaaah]

he was bald at young age!

bad guitarplayer btw,

much overrated and dull,

where is my bed goddamn,

me like hendrikx, oh yeah!

Jazz = Hahahahahahaha!

[Flugulate]

@ahaaaaaaaaah Some day, when mommy let's you where the long pants, you may mature enough to understand that Jimmy Hendrix and Jim Hall are not mutually exclusive. Until then, spare us.

[OnSugarHill]

@Flugulate Hopefully when that time comes, you've learned how to spell the word "wear"

[Flugulate]

@OnSugarHill Busted.

[kalmac65]

i love this trio, Jim's a jazz god

[Jazzyluca3001]

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm impressed... there still are two of us who don't like this... I could break down and cry while hearing this... listen... between 3:13 and 4:08... Thank you Jim for giving your soul in those little melodies!

[Jazzyluca3001]

Lovely! I can't stop hearing this! Listening and reacting... These guys are masters in this, which is considered to be the essence of improvisation (at least by Jim... and my little self ;-)! Thank you so very much for sharing this!

[Manoplero]

Jim Hall and Joe Pass , Long Live to them.

[1950jimbei]

While I like and respect most jazz guitarists, my 3 best favorites are Wes Montgomery, Herb Ellis and Jim Hall. And when it comes to touch and tone, Jim Hall is by far the best.

[jburde]

There's something about minimalist jazz (especially Jim Hall) like this that I just love. leaves so much room for interpretation and freedom :)

[ClarenceHW]

Hey Modes9, Without a doubt! And they would be the first to tell you.

Brilliant work, such melodic freedom.

[AtmosMusic]

This performance is an excellent example of why people love Jim Hall so much.

[SIRONEDRAGON]

beautiful

[ready22rock]

Wow! It looks like Jim had his ES-175 modded with an ebony fingerboard. Most likely done by Jimmy D'Aquisto. Jimmy did the same thing to one of my guitars. Sounds great!

[jazz1bro]

what moods! Like a painting!

[shimmy43shimmy43]

一生に一度くらいこんな美しい演奏が出来ればなぁ、、、、。

[EZIOTHEMASTER]

IMHO Jim Hall is the best jazz guitar player ever. Phrasing, tone, choice of chords are always perfect and not predictable. He doesn't use chichés or licks like many other great players, he's like a painter with sounds.

[whatsyourstory1]

@EZIOTHEMASTER Check out Pete bernstein if you haven't already heard of him. He's a sick player.

[helluvagun]

Super! Nearly the ultimate jazzguitar, played by nearly the ultimate jazzguitarrist!

Those Gibsons, ah well!

[jazz1bro]

Great creative playing . Again one knows it's Jim Hall immediately. A mark of a true artist who could careless about impressing someone because of confidence of their own direction.

[shishyupal]

Daniel Humair is the drummer. An excellent one, it seems.

[shimmy43shimmy43]

This performance such as a beautiful rainbow.....

[frank12344321ful]

you have made me cry

[frank12344321ful]

Oh my god, I just discovered a nice substitution as well: G major shut-the-fuck-up over D minor self-promoting-bullshit

[unclejunglebass]

hahahahahaha

[EBEalienbeing]

Jim Hall rules. He is my favorite Jazz gutairist

[notenoughJAZZ]

Great Player!!!For those who want to see and listen for some new autentic shit,listen some Kurt Rosenwinkel.He is the new one who is going to be in the history of jazz Guitar.

[EBEalienbeing]

@notenoughJAZZ He maybe good but he is not as good as Jim Hall.

[cogoyo1970]

im a guitar player and can´t stop to enyoy this song every day. Do know the title of this album?

[JGC255]

Where Would I Be? on Milestone Records.

[masqualero]

@cogoyo1970

JIM HALL IN BERLIN. IT'S NICE TO BE WITH YOU. MPS Records, distributed by Polygram Records.

[jazzmunky]

4:30 nice

[jazzmunky]

Great stuff!

I'm trying to learn jazz guitar, learning some scales and a few chord voicings at a time.....is that right? I can't seem to visualize things with the ease of say the piano or the sax (my main instrument), it's a baffling task. I mean how does one go about it? Any advice?

[17orben]

Learn several voicings for the main types of chords (maj7, Dom7, Min7, Min7b5, diminished, etc.) on different string sets 6-4-3-2, 5-4-3-2,and 4,3,2,1. Learn the Major, Minor, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, and major and minor pentatonic scales and learn Arpeggios for the main types of chords.

[jazzmunky]

thanx for tips. hard part seems to me is piecing shapes together to make nice voice leading without parellel 5ths and obvious roots.

[retsofnalanosaj]

An easy way to avoid voicings with roots is to use chord subs.

for example:

Cmaj7: rC 3E 5G 7B use Em7: 3E 5G 7B 9D

Dmin7: D F A C use Fmaj7: F A C E

G7: G B D F use Bm7b5: B F D A

and so on. You can also use these ideas to develop melodies when improvising.

Hope that helps

[jazzmunky]

yes that does thanx, especially like the tritone sub chords without roots, also just discovered by accident a nice sub for II-V: IIm7/IVmaj7 to III7 to Imaj7, e.g. Am7 or Cmaj7, then F7, then Gmaj7 or Bmin7. Can also extend those chords. F7 Works as apart from the F, it would be diminished chord sub for D7, yes? And F is the sharp9 of D7.

THis is fun!

[jazzmunky]

sorry I meant B7, not F7, but strangley enough certain permutations of B7 seem to work as well, I suppose because they are tritone subs of each other and each contain 3 notes of the Eb diminished chord sub for D7.

[SGCmyASS]

brief: seventh chords on the third of the chord to be replaced...

[17orben]

Many of the chords on the guitar are movable. you learn one shape and move it up the neck to play gmaj7 and the 3rd fret, amaj7 at the fifth fret and so on.

[wisesatyr72]

this guy plays some of strangest chords but not like allen holdsworth..its very enjoyable

[gilouseb]

Comparing the styles of Jim Hall and Alan Holdsworth is quite a strange idea...

[jazz1bro]

wonderful..One of my heroes. Right up there with Albert King.

[Modes9]

I'm thinking differently about Pat Metheny and especially Mick Goodrick after hearing this. It's pretty clear that Jim Hall got there first!

[tbcass]

Actually there were people playing like this even before Hall. The father of modern jazz guitar was Charlie Christian in the late 30's and early 40's.

[Modes9]

I love Django and Charlie Christian...but I was thinking about this in terms of the slash-chord voicings Jim was playing. Maybe Ted Greene and Lenny Breau were also doing things like this in the late 60's and early 70's.

[tbcass]

I understand. Every great player brings something personal and different to the plate. What about Barney Kessel?

[tom6612]

@Modes9 --- Nobody chooses their notes more carefully than "maestro" Hall. I love Pat but he's relies a little too much on speed. He wastes notes.

[meditatio1]

des nenn i cool jazz! 'ke!

[SIRONEDRAGON]

Wonderful music done by wonderful musicians

[skinkusmetalicus]

All I said down there was that Jim himself said, "Ed Bickert is the best at what I do". I'm sorry if people do not like it but that is what Jim Hall said to Paul Desmond. It is on the record. Printed in the liner notes on a Bickert album for all to read.

Sorry.

As for the voicing he uses, he makes Pass sound like country.

[neothomist1275]

"l usually advise my students to emulate horn players, not bass players, and I recommend most heartily Miles Davis from the '50s and '60s...He both fought and thought. And what he came out with was so simple and so deep that any bass player could play it. So if you're going to emulate a horn player, emulate Miles Davis. A couple of octaves down it sounds even deeper." -- Red Mitchell

[tbcass]

Good advice. Jaco Pastorious had the same philosophy, that bass players should use lead instruments for inspiration. For my own playing as a bassist I follow the same rule.

[philipatoz]

Hall understands how to bring out the best feelings and ambiance of the piece - he understands that music is not just about chops and technique. Look at his face in the closeups - he is absolutely lost in the beauty of the music - actually transported to another place and another time, for all we know. Outstanding!

[mrbiteymouth]

Only a fool would listen to something this moving and imaginative and compare it to somebody elses performance. This is totally unique, spontaneous and soulful. Chops are cool, but you can't beat content. Bickert rules, too.

[skinkusmetalicus]

Jim Hall said it once himself to Paul Desmond. He said, "check out Ed Bickert. He is the best at what I do. Jim doesn't play one chord here which has not been played before. Ed Bickert does it in every bar.

However he is a beautiful player. Second best ever.

[waldo2384]

That's total nonsense. Ed is a monster, but his harmonic vocabulary is totally mainstream. Transcribe a few of his solos yourself and you'll see.

[ralphsilat]

There's nobody in the world who can play a "chord which has not been played before", not even a voicing w/c hasn't been played before. Ed Bickert is awesome, no doubt! His playing is really, really tops! But Jim Hall is no less fantastic!

[CptPattern]

Jim uses .11's strings too - nice to know that you dont need tightrope wires to sound good! (although he isn't too bad a player!!)

[trauma15]

what are you on man jim hall is great!

[CptPattern]

trauma 15 - it was 'tongue in cheek' ! , he's better than great - the exclaimation marks kind of denote that i think) - anyway, i replied as i didn't want you to think i was being serious! Regards. CP.

[gabri3l367]

Grande Jim. La chiarezza delle tue note è unica. Starei ad ascoltarti per ore specialmente con questo trio fenomenale.Red e Daniel !!!

[milesntrane]

I think Jim Hall has been bald since he was 9 yrs old

[ZeropointZero70]

Yeah. and Joe Pass too. LOL! They both have Charlie Brown syndrome. Good Grief!

[cj1982]

actually he's been bald since he was 7. but he is using that chia stuff to grow an amazingly green afro.

[zanelloluca]

mamma mia... il mio idolo!!!

[booksteve]

thank you thank you thank you for posting this.

Jim Hall plays so well here it looks easy.

brilliant music always does I guess.

[garmasan]

they play so fine but, i don ' t know what happens, something is wrong in this music, hall performances with sony rollins are perfect, but here maybe the drummer is so soft, or maybe hall 's shirt is so hipi, i just know that this is not as good as jazz should be, specially when i remeber that once there was a man called charlie parker

[wdrake41]

This is jazz guitar man, pure and simple. Great.

[dccnyc]

He's just so damned tasteful and deep.

[speriencer]

Sublime!

[eightstring]

Very cool playing...nice to see a new video of Jim Hall, and a real joy to see Red Mitchell. Thanks for posting this gem

RC

[NyJazzGuit]

Jim Hall at his peak (on second thought, he's still at his peak!) - what an innovator, and what a dream rhythm section!