Oud Blues, Perso Turkic Bass & Cello

[LloydDocMiller]

Mr. Fantazi. A couple of clips in your video are nice. Remember that jazz came mostly from North Africa over 100 years ago and brought the sensible swingin' 6/8 beat that is so typical of the real thing and of real blues. The ugly evil 8/8 inhuman mechanical rock beat is an assault on humanity an must be eliminated from the earth. Check out another 1965 TV braodcast I performed using oud and clarinet used a Mid East jazz context in the above attached Oud in jazz video.

Thanks, Dr. Lloyd Miller

[CountThrillhammer]

This cat was from California , incredible performance.

[worldartsdocmiller]

Walad, I understand your thinking but I never use electronic instruments because my whole jihad is to fight against modernization and electronics. I do have a special harmless pickup on the oud (not attached in this video); it is a silver dot, the kind they use to detect submarines or whales in the depths of the ocean. So it isn't anything like the ugly pickups on those worthless rock guitars; it is totally acoustic. It is time to go green and throw away electric instruments. Dr.Lloyd Miller

[WaladAlhoriya]

i think an electriqu oud would sound better, because an eleqtriqu one sounds faster.so it would go with the same tune of the other instruments

[WaladAlhoriya]

i think the an electriquee oud would sound better, because an eleqtrique one sounds faster.

[keeelane]

wow, this is certainly something you don't see every day. great.

[mastiluzumaki]

awesome and inspiring work you are doing in your life,thank you mr.Miller

[worldartsdocmiller]

In answer to the oud only being made for Middle Eastern music, European lute and the guitar are directly derived from the oud which is originally the ancient Persian barbat which became the Chinese pipa and also the Japanese biwa, etc., etc. The North African blues scale with two semi flats is the basis for blues and early jazz; so everything about the oud points to a potential jazz usage and that is what I proved on this recording, although I prefer the oud for Persian music. Dr. Lloyd Miller

[GuitboxmanCG]

I don't think it works at all.... It was designed to play music from the middle east... It's not tempered the way North American instruments are so that they're in the same tuning all the way up....

[SlugaBoziji]

I like It! is weird, but only beacuse of the blandness of the ear I guess.

[worldartsdocmiller]

Read about he unbelievable adventures of Dr. Lloyd Miller traveling and performing through the Middle East and beyond by going to the jazzscope website and clicking on Sufi, Saint & Swinger.

[worldartsdocmiller]

These were recorded in the 1970s in Iran. L. Miller

[FernandRaynaud]

Unique oud mizrab technique! What year were these recorded, please?

[redbonebenji]

Dr. Miller, I congratulate you on a wonderful example of the potential in music cross-pollination.

[missionmooch]

THIs guy is awesome!!!!!! :-D

[worldartsdocmiller]

The title is totally correct since I was playing the modern Turkish / Arab Oud with 12 strings tuned in unison to 6 notes NOT the ancient Persian Barbad which had four strings like its descendant the Chinese Pipa. The title of compositions from the 1960s don't change, they stay the same no matter who thinks different. The Greek Laouto is even more different as are the mandolin or the European lute and its bastard son the guitar. All come from the Barbad BUT have other names. Dr. Lloyd. Miller

[friendlyboylulea]

Please correct the title. This is a Persian (Iranian) instrument. This movie was recorded in Tehran and the language is Persian.

Of course Turkish music i very nice, but this is not Turkis.

Thanks for posting this

[iranovich2]

that instrument is Iranian, and is called [Barbat] nat oud.

[navazguitar]

This is great music by an standard. Never mind Kipling - East and West have much in common and much to share. I'm happy that I discovered your music.

[worldartsdocmiller]

Dear piccobow. What I meant is that Eastern music works in a jazz setting if it is purely Eastern and not blended with Western system in a mushy low level manner. The intellectual level of both systems requires that they be respected and presented in their native spelndor not like and old Valentino film of stereotypes and incorrect or unthoughtful tossing together. I tried in these recording to retain both traditions. But instruments of other traditions can be used to play jazz. Dr. L., Miller

[Piccobow]

I agree with worldartsdocmiller! This oud

performance is just out of place with jazz!

Yuk!

[Ruskiedann]

1:30 = Oud Metal

[missionmooch]

hahahaha everyone leaves comments with their opinions which i cant even comprehend and then you say Oud Metal! haha :-D you are an awesome person!

[worldartsdocmiller]

Dear friends, Salam va baraye vazheha-ye mehraban besyar sepas. The first thing to keep in mind is that any use of Eastern music must never alter the Eastern tradition in any way; it must just be left in its pure form. Just like we can never change one dot of any holy scriptures which are also passed down over millenia. Then we must avoid any form of electronics becuase it makes real music inhuman and detrimental. East and West can only be placed side by side never mixed. Thanks Dr. Lloyd Miller

[frayquantum]

this better be a troll

[GOLMUSICVIDEOS]

Dear Lloyd Miller

your work and these videos have been so inspiring,

we are a group of musicians crossing iranian and western instruments and find your work just wonderful!

thank you!

Roxana & GOL

[worldartsdocmiller]

Dear friends,

I realize that the recording of the first piece is not reallly clear because they used those tinny neck microphones inb 1972 on ranian TV. Later in the series, they used real microphones and other sessions were better, But when one considers the obnoxious thumping stomach-slamming ear-deafening noise that is considered music nowadays, I guess there recordings are not so bad. Dr. Lloyd Miller

[worldartsdocmiller]

Yes almost all my best music is on CD an d DVD but it seems I cannot give any of that information on Youtube. If you can go to my site called jazzscope you can find infomration on my recordings. Dr. Loyd Miller

[JDMUHR]

I am an amateur guitarist and oudist. Awesome stuff! Thanks. Have you managed to put any of your music on CDs?

[pauperrimo91]

Thanks for posting it!! His cello soung it was fantastic.. and I'm cellist..

[easternartskstjohn]

Thanks for appreciating the traditional ethnic music I have been posting. Yes I lived in Europe for 6 years and in Iran for 7. In Europe I studied Middle Eastern languages and music at the best schools. Dr. Lloyd Miller

[usasdwoman]

i am enjoying many of the videos you have posted! thank you so much. did you live in iran for a long period of time?

[doctorlloydmiller]

Thanks for the comment. I tried to demonstrat that the oud can be used as a total jazz and blues instrument and that the bass and celo can be used as totally Eastern instruments.

[doctorlloydmiller]

Thank you for the comment. It was a wierd experiment using the oud as a jazz ax and using bass and cello as an Eastern instrument. I wanted to demonstrate that almost anything ca be done with the right mindset. Lloyd Miller

[heybuddyheybuddy]

@doctorlloydmiller Wow! is that you speaking persian?

[ErisTheFairest5]

Very interesting sounds. Thanks for posting this.