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Killin.
JayWeik 1 month ago
The first guitar magazine I ever picked up as a ten year old had an article about Bern Nix in it. I am sorry to say that this clip is my first time actually listening to him play. I wished I would have listened to him earlier. While I am not a fan of a lot of free improv music, I really like this and Mr. Nix's playing here. Is he still alive and playing? If so, I would love to catch a show sometime!
bullitt1434 3 months ago
@effsixteenblock50.
if it is not bop or modern it is no jazz? So why not if it is not new orleans it is not jazz? I learned at some point that jazz is about curiosity, interacting and being free to do what fits in your opinion and you need to have respect for for others to do that. I cannot see any sense in disrespecting someone because he does it a different way than i do or understand.
mojostflorian 10 months ago
@effsixteenblock50.
if it is not bop or modern it is no jazz? So wy not if it is not new orleans it is not jazz? I learned at some point that jazz is about curiosity, interacting and being free to do what fits in your opinion and you need to have respect for for others to do that. I cannot see any sense in disrespecting someone because he does it a different way than i do or understand.
mojostflorian 10 months ago
this is to jazz died: you kill jazz with opinions like this. Music and especially jazz is about doing something together and not against each other. If you don't like Vernon, you don't have to, but don't go out and say: He is no jazz musician. Jazz is improvisation and Improvisation is about being open. You closed the door, so perhaps you are not jazz????????????? just joking, decide for yourself!
mojostflorian 1 year ago
@mojostflorian Improvisation alone is not enough to qualify as jazz. Improvisation was quite common many years ago in baroque and classical, but that doesn't mean that it's practitioners are jazz musicians. As for Vernon Reid - he likes to drop names like Ornette Coleman and he's apparently learned the diminished scale at some point but I've heard zero evidence that he's at all conversant in either bop or modern jazz idioms.
effsixteenblock50 10 months ago
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Bern Nix is one of the finest guitarists in the history of this music. That he is without a record contract, and not regularly featured throughout the world's major festivals is a scandal. As a member of Prime Time, Bern Nix was key to the development of new forms of cultural expression. There a few, if any, working in the music who are anywhere near his level of musicianship. Reading the listings in NYC, where he lives, it's shocking that so much mediocre talent get work, while he does not!
hoodoojazz 2 years ago
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hoodoojazz 2 years ago
Not VR though, ron
seriousnews2 2 years ago
People talk a lot of shit about
"THE BEST GUITAR...."
Whatever..
Bern Nix is the Billy Bang of the guitar. Why he isn't the recipient of the MacArthur fellowship and being honored at the Kennedy Center is beyond me. As far as I'm concerned, If you're serious about jazz guitar, uhhh.....let's see.....There's Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, (I would include Les Spann, but whatever), Sonny Sharrock, Vernon Reid maybe, and BERN NIX. This guy is a motherfucker.
ronkopald 2 years ago