Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues - Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center - Ice Cream

[superfasulo]

Esto era lo que faltaba: Clapton cantando y tocando jazz. Genial, como todo lo que emprende.

[IVEZaIgro]

so good ! :D

[buenosaires4u]

Whom are leading singers ?

[AURORA4105]

Meraviglioso.



[pabloant10]

why there is one person that don´t like it¿?¿¿? i think he/she hasn´t got ears

[TiraMiMusic]

YEEAAHHH..... !!!!!

My father had this on LP by Dutch Swing Collage Band... I was not allowed to play the LP's, because they might get scratched... But sometimes I could not resist to listen to "Ice Cream" when I was alone at home^^ (... This was my only childhood-sin... exept... steeling a wee tiny bit of chocolate out of kitchen when my mother was shopping^^)

I really have fun with this GREAT version :)))

[AlainBelliot]

Si ça ne swingue pas cela,alors rien ne swingue!!

[deantallhat]

Yes, take your point. Sting can actually play a bit (though he's not the renaissance man he thinks he is - his spanish guitar playing ain't Julian Bream) Now I'm just being bitchy because he's rich and famous and I'm not.

[deantallhat]

Also, watch the clip 'When Eric Clapton met Jimi Hendrix' - I think that had something to do with Clapton's descent into depression and drugs. I don't think he ever recovered from the shock - I mean, can you imagine being played off the stage by Hendrix? You'd feel like giving up.

[deantallhat]

Sadly, yes he is. Loved the Bluesbreakers album and a couple of Cream and Blind Faith things, but years of drug dependency and mindless adulation cut him off in his prime, and we're left with a shadow of what could have been. And anyway, the rest of the guitar playing world caught up - every teenage guitarist nowadays can zip up and down their pentatonic minor scale (over a major chord sequence - urgh!) and think they're Hendrix reborn. Done it myself. Folks, there's more to music than that.

[deantallhat]

Charlie Parker is important because he shows how the blues SHOULD be played. He had the technique and musicianship to be able to play anything he imagined, and an endlessly creative musical mind with every phrase delivered with passion and soul. 'Parker's Mood' is a good example. Guitar players are posers when they value style over substance and the music suffers. Sure, I like all the guys you mention (except Fruscianti), but if you want the real thing, listen to Bird.

[TintedRedFilms]

@deantallhat Look, I love Bird, but that's kind of a bold statement.There is no way Blues or Jazz SHOULD be played. We don't want to end up like a bunch of classical musicians. ;). My only real problem with a lot of guitarists, is their incessant need to stick ONLY to the blues scale. There are/were a few blues guitarists, however, that rise above that. Stevie Ray Vaughan was an example. That guy used voicings most blues guys don't even know (I hate Frusciante too... he probably doesn't know)

[TintedRedFilms]

@deantallhat George Benson can play blues like a mo-fo as well, and he can swing like a bitch. Don't discredit all guitarists

[soundersfan530]

@deantallhat sure jazz guitarists have the technique, theory, and perfection of their solos, but they all lack the soul and attitude that every great guitar solo needs

[deantallhat]

@soundersfan530 So you do admit that Clapton doesn't have the technique?

[soundersfan530]

@deantallhat but i'm also saying that he sounds better



[deantallhat]

@soundersfan530 That's right - play your handful of 4th hand blues licks while you pull an angst ridden face and everyone will think you're really 'expressing something'. Attitude - don't make me laugh! There's more attitude in one note by Charlie Parker than all the gurning, grimacing guitar posers put together.

[soundersfan530]

@deantallhat There's more attitude in one note of -BULLSH*T! FIrst of all, Charlie Parker doesn't even play guitar so he's irrellevant to this argument. Second, Clapton is not a guitar "poser." posers are those guys in the crappy modern pop bands. Listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Paige, Jeff Beck, Caros Santana, Randy Rhodes, Eddie Van Halen, Chuck Berry, David Gilmour, Danny Gatton, Eric Johnson, and John Frusciante and honesty tell me that they are "posers."

[EmergencyDeclaration]

wow!

[deantallhat]

Oh come on - listen to the jazz musicians' command of their instruments, then Clapton's pitiful attempt - there's no comparison. Any half decent jazz guitarist down the pub could piss all over him.

[samschwartzbein]

@deantallhat watch the layla video with marsalis and look at his face when clapton takes a solo. Pure admiration



[franciscosuman]

@deantallhat Clapton's not a jazz but a rock guitarist. The purpose of this show is the crossover not Clapton adapting to jazz - John Pizzarelli or even Brian Setzer would fit in very well - but Clapton makes it his own.

[deantallhat]

@franciscosuman That's just an excuse - command of your instrument means you can play whatever you want, jazz, rock, classical, whatever. Marsalis is a serious musician who can play anything from classical to jazz. Clapton made a promising start then got sucked into the Rock Star black hole of groupies and heroin and stopped developing as a player. Now he's really just a singer who plays a bit of guitar, which is a shame. It doesn't have to happen - look at Jeff Beck, who never stopped growing.

[lcombs46]

@deantallhat You are an idiot

[deantallhat]

@lcombs46 Hmm, well perhaps - hardly a reasoned argument, though, is it? Have you seen Branford Marsalis playing sax with Sting - one of them is a brilliant musician, and one of them is a famous pop singer with enough money to hire real musicians to back him. OK, Branford needs to pay the rent, but it doesn't make Sting any better a musician, does it?

[rixills]

@deantallhat im with you all the way about charlie parker, but dude, im not shitting you when i say this; sting is an incredible musician. 

[wer197]

@deantallhat yeah sure, the most famous vibrato in the guitar world is just an ordinary guitarist. I have a request go Kill Yourself - i will pay you :)

[deantallhat]

@wer197 Er...you can't just stand up there and say - 'listen to my great vibrato!' You have to play some music...

[refici222]

but still awesome

[deantallhat]

In comparison with the great jazz musicians' playing, it's a shame about the embarrassing guitar solo - whoever it is needs to do some serious practice on the blues.

[TheBochas11]

@deantallhat was that supposed to be funny/shrewd or something??

[refici222]

eric is singing, awesome job

[NoTitleNeeded]

@refici222 yeah he sounds so gutteral on this one. sounds good

[NoTitleNeeded]

who is singing on this song?

[speights44]

A definte must for anyones music collection! WOW....

[EdwardHKDC]

Great music. A pity there's no significant coordination between the music and the pictures.

[bmovegas]

Oh yeah!

[bmovegas]

Oh yeah!

[Pops53]

The best Dixieland music of the 21st century. Somewhere in heaven, my dad is digging it ... and I know I am, too!

[greatome]

eric clapton hd

[jmiller1997]

you said it BrendanGaming

[BrendanGaming]

Such good stuff.