Duke Robillard - Uptown Blues, Jazz Rock and Swing DVD

[papyslapet1]

What a swing! So beautyfull jazz music ! Bravo!

[headmonsterzero69]

Smee-okin!!

[qtofdog]

he has notes on his guitar that aren't on mine...

[naumerbraga]

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[rolanrex]

i think its an 80s korean epiphone, i got a 335 same era but i cant get it to sound like that, have to practice a bit more.......

[chooseyourblues]

@rolanrex

Are you insane? This is a 50's Made in America Epiphone Zephyr Deluxe Regent. The Epiphones of today are in no way related other than Gibson took out the nearest competition in the mid 60's and decided to use the name for their off shore import guitars.

Many would say this guitar would smoke a Gibson L5 in a head to head.

[Juanfld]

11 people needs to get ears

[Vashounet84]

I feel a lot of Charlie Parker in that tune... that's quite a compliment!

[dayum73]

@Vashounet84 I have to admit I hear ALOT of quotes alongside his "jazz-Blues" style and playing. =o}

[Modes9]

He has a really great old-school sound and feel. My man obviously loves T-Bone and Charlie Christian. This just proves that quality can't be measured in notes-per-second.

[nickerz65]

looks like a Gretch

[Georgia100ify]

cool. It's great very relaxing

[ryanneglect]

beautiful



[1qadazadam]

neat

[Fjord76]

that's how it's done.

thanks for posting

peace out.

[SUPERROCKER1970]

I, MATE!! I WANT TO BUY A EPIPHONE "JOE PASS" MODEL. I WANT TO PLAY SOME ROCK N ROLL "OLD STUFFS" LIKE BEATLES. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOU THIS? THIS GUITAR IS THE RIGHT GUITAR? THANX!

[DuhAprilFool]

what kind of guitar is that?

[livejoker24]

This guy is as cool as a cucumber. Damn!

[pbellucci1]

He Could cut off his forth finger and play better than 90% of the guitarists out there stupid !!!!

[1owaldo]

Very crazy, congratulations brother

[pickinstone]

@AbeRivera it's part of getting the right tone. Glisses sound better with the third finger. Most jazz greats didn't use their forth finger unless they really needed to. The pinky has less girth to it, so it won't sound the same as the third finger. There's a reason to everything. Currently I am trying to use my pinky less in my single line playing to get better articulations. You should practice using both, but don't just default to all four. Look at what django did with two fingers and a thumb.

[pickinstone]

I like the Charlie Christian T-Bone sound he's got here (both from the same musical tree). To curb all this nonsense about predictability, this is an instructional video. He's playing an idiom to illustrate typical uptown blues lines. If he was such a boring player he wouldn't get called as often as he does. Scott Hamilton just did a CD with him, and I think he was on a Tom Waits album as well. Very versatile player, check him out more before you judge.

[ThePhallystorm]

@AbeRivera Yes, but he is making up for it by holding down the bass notes with his thumb!

[jbharuch]

Damn!

[maxmoves64]

He needs to play a bit more:)

[storfiskarn52]

Put a double-bass comp and you´re in the heaven of music!

[yagamei]

For newer jazz players: this is a great little solo to transcribe by ear. No other instruments, clear playback, and a ton of classic bebop vocabulary!

[MrAzomite]

@yagamei

thanks. after playing other styles for many years i've finally committed to learning jazz; this sounds like a good tip.

[IamtheSpankster]

the tone is in the shades

[chipewa100]

Duke could care less about his fans. He never has time for them. John Robillard

[papyslapet1]

Good swing!!!  thanks et bravo!

[MrLima083]

fine

[denukio]

mini humbuckers are so sweet!

[jdoggreenway52]

my last name is robillard!! HAHA

[crayrail]

I noticed his pinky is used far less than the rest of his left hand. His thumb comes up over the neck as well. But those sounds.....

[RDblues47]

this is oscar moores song Bb blues

[35ugurkan]

very very nıce musıc

[mimichou53]

j'ai plusieurs cds ,une fine gachette .

[carnasa1233]

nice guitar

[kingofskateop]

is it Joe Pass's epiphone?

[thailow117]

most certainly not. i think it is an elitist series emperor or a zephyr. but i'm not entirely sure. but it's old, that is certain, as the headstock shape gives away.

[jazzlefty]

prety  guitar>>!

[tomthefunky]

Duke is like a Yankee Vaughan brother.

[orokonwo]

is he blind???

[buntus00]

Brendan Behan emigrated to Canada for a spell. An interviewer asked him why he moved there. "Well, he replied, "What inspired me to do that was, I was having a few pints in a Dublin pub, and I looked around, and I started to read this big poster on the wall. It said: "Drink Canada Dry".

[tomthefunky]

Speaking of drinking, I think I was drunk when I wrote the quote by Brendan Behan. I must have been responding to another comment or another video. Yours is hilarious, though.

[RDblues47]

thats Oscar Moore Bb Blues

[retal06]

what a tone, sweet

[monkeys350]

Man Duke's "After Hours Swing Session" is amazing! But I don't know why none of it is on youtube...

[giantrobot9000]

Sounds great. I think the word "cool" really sums up Duke's playing here.

[gretscher]

Is that a mini-humbucker or a full-humbucker in the guitar?

[michealdv321]

duke is great

[EdgarDaboin]

mijooo sali de ese pedazooo

[EdgarDaboin]

mijooooo sali de ese pedazooooo

[96sanny]

Is that clean, or with a little distortion?

[TheGuitarguru48]

I want that guitar!

[cerdjio]

this is my uncle, he is genial

[Tototwice]

COOOOOOOOOOOL DADIO

[handdancin]

Damn thats some white sounding shit- its good though...

[Fitzliputzli23]

White sounding? Well, at least this is the man Muddy Waters wanted in his band, stating:

"Man, if Duke was my guitarist I could rule the world!"

And Muddy is not considered to be an expert in "white sounding" music, is he?

Maybe your ears expect pentatonic blues scales - this is what Duke makes very little use of. Basically he plays arpeggios spiced up with chromatics. That's the way Jazz- Blues was played in the 30ies and 40ies by people like Charlie Christian (who wasn't very white either).

[handdancin]

naw dude, talking about his swing

[ShaneBluesRI]

yeah ,fuck you kid.This guys a legend.

[barassodinga]

OK -- hold the floor on a YouTube vid, play solo guitar for 3 and a half minutes, and give us some equally astounding 'black sounding shit'.

Get back to us when you've accomplished this. We'll be glad to rate and comment.

[willievega]

Ah yeah, hi, I'm a jerk-off critic, and I'm gonna do my CRITIC thing here and like critique this man, even though I SUCK and like ummm.........an an asshole.......................­....yeah that's it.

[sonnyblu42]

You are fucking idiot! You don't know the first fucking thing about anything! How can you be a "Critic" if you don't even know the first thing about history? This guy just happens be be the foremost T Bone Walker historian in the whole fucking world! If it wasn't for Duke Robillard... T Bone Walker would be completely forgotten! And he was only the True Father of Electric Blues Guitar! You are fucking sad! You need to go stand if front of a goddamn train. OK? Go do it! Now...

[willievega]

Boy, you guys are SLOW. I was being sarcastic, by taking the critics point of view that is so prevalent here on YouTube. And you dumb asses actually think I'm coming down on the Duke. Sad

[bluesboytom]

This is the greatest guitar player i have ever seen

[rustler987]

wow you are really goood:]

nice work

[marcometalico]

nice epiphone

[buitenkliniek]

You've been listening to Barney Kessel :)

cheers, M

[3510211]

good stuff, not mind blowing though.

pretty simple phrasing

[chooseyourblues]

he does swing though!

[koffiedikskaten]

woah!

[JimmyDeLocke]

nice axe

[jonrittmann]

Wonderful, you play completely from the heart, thats easy to tell and your timing is excellent. - Jon

[mwgsf401]

タモリ！！！

[whoobie2008]

So Sweet...Legend status...

[Puttputt180]

Excellent stuff,

[54spiritedwill54]

Duke is the real deal. I love everything about his playing.

[SiMplYCo0LmE]

no. he looks more like Tom Hanks

[ankoslitoflower]

does anyone else think he looks like john cusack?

[sangReality]

great great playing.. and, to the ever creative "guitar7279" - its a blues, of course its predictable, you dolt.

[zebopper]

I wish I could play blues so "predictably" ...dig all the outside the usual blues scales chromatic runs and altered notes, very cool jazzy "uptown" swing feel to to it, dude has great timing, too. He's not trying to do straight jazz ala Wes, rather he takes T-Bone jump-swing-uptown blues to the next level.

[UncleCaptainMidnight]

Been a Duke fan forever.

[bassgh0st]

Your comment sucks... You run out of intelligence half-through. It is about 62% consonants. Wes Montgomery would tell you to shut up...

[theriffer]

dude, relax!.....just listen to how great this sounds without analalyzing it. I wish sometimes I never picked up a guitar. That way I could just enjoy what's being played without critic.

[doodle202]

He's actually really refreshing to listen to. No overdosing on altered tones like a lot of guys do now.

[Modes9]

@doodle202 I like modern scales and pentatonic superimposition, but I also like to hear a guy kick it old school like this. Somebody mentioned T-Bone Walker. Maybe I also hear Charlie Christian and Tiny Grimes in it.

[yagamei]

@doodle202 "dissonances" as many modern jazz players call 'em ... It's gotten a bit trite, I admit. Refreshing is a perfect word to use, doodle202!

[pokbacsi100]

guitar7279, you sound awfully biased. Are you

sure you're not a Wes wannabe? Duke goes through

several genres here as the title of the vid

lets you know in advance. There's no running out

of ideas half way through just because he swithches around motifs atypical of Wes's style.

[MrCaribbean]

duke is fantastic,simply amazing

[BobiusBrown]

Fair nuff Bryan...show us someone (who you think) isnt?

[rhcpredhot1]

bryan u boob

[ceseasalad]

lol who says boob??

[rhcpredhot1]

me lol :D

[rhcpredhot1]

me lol :D

[ferlottes]

trout de cul que tu es !!! sale con de merde et enculé en plus !!! (idiot)

[Jon00Wesley00Harding]

He's certainly a professional... He just has rudimentary ideas. Can't see he wasn't doing things we haven't all heard alot before

[minor7b5b9]

hmmmmmmm.........I wonder what that makes you?

[peemgee]

So nice too see gadget free, head, heart and fingers playing, the way it should be.

[n9freaky]

Maybe if you're the likes of this guy...I like a little bit of dirt.

[peemgee]

Dirt has it's place. But a clean, no frills approach  sorts the men from the boys.

[n9freaky]

Agreed, dirt does have its place. (Especially in separating genres into styles, e.g. by geography; certainly, in what he's playing here, I think dirt can stay underground.) I think it really depends on what you're playing, often moreso than how you're playing.

[peemgee]

Sure, plenty of dirt in his sound here when he pushes a chord .Just so good to see someone employ a lil swing and right hand technique. Haha what's this Bryan been into, metal player are ya brian ? Anyway its nice to see a player swing a lil at any tempo. Dont see it much in the new younger players.

[bryan57s]

Haha, metal? Psh. I was kidding about the amateur thing :)

[ferlottes]

Encore toi ???

[hojirt]

Un mangeur de saucisses??

[fearfultom]

Yes - after watching him myself I was also blown away and told myself I have a lot of practicing to do. Yikes he is so good - get the DVD - he does a tuen Les Paul wrote that was just great.

[freezeflame720]

You sir are amazing!

[geisterbahn1]

fab! sanity on strings

[jasmoism]

cheers for posting...

[RDblues47]

this is an Oscar Moore song Bflat blues

Listen to Oscar play thru the changes

[footloose60]

i got this dvd 2 years ago.... i don't need nothing else . duke is the only one !!!!!!

[ImOnTheTube]

i think i found a new inspiration :)

[stratmancruthers]

This man exemplifies everything I strive to be on the guitar. Simply fantastic playing. Swing/Jazz guitar in its purist form. No gimmicks,no backup, no rack of equipment,no pedals, just pure inspired guitar playing. Beautiful riffs.

[hotgoalie11565]

It's an Epiphone Zephyr, steelguitar7.

[fearfultom]

Duke is the real deal. I love everything about his playing.

[zofou812]

Now that,s blues,zofou812!

[steelguitar7]

Great. what epiphone model?

[JesseGuitar07]

OMG!!! You're Really Fantastic!!