joe diorio.- wes blues

[DjangoLevee]

Wes Montgomery liked this dude. No really, he said so.

[bachoff]

he's a very good artist too..

[RichArnoldMusic]

Wooo Hooo! Love it, Joe.

[Ken742903]

Great Chops Joe--keep on keeping on--Ken [UK]

[900198619]

Who fool said that Joe Diorio sucks!?!?!? Seriously! The guy is a hundred million times better than 99.9% of guitar players. Anyone says something that ignorant deosn't have the patience to listen to and understand great music, but even then when i first heard Charie Parker my response wasn't "I don't know what he's doing he must suck." My response was "I don't know what the hell he's doing but that's amazing!"

[William102582]

@900198619 Kids today have very short attention span! I blame all those crap on tv for turning stupid kids to be more dumb because of their trash!

[OldJong]

Simply a genius

[riley4emma7katie0]

Just Beautiful Joe, You are a national treasure, thanks for sharing.

[keithallankramer]

Great clip - Joe Diorio is one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.

[dannyhood66]

What?.. hAHa!. ..Wait' a minute'' .. what is this shit?.. haHA!.. ''I can't help it!,'' Hey you jazzy bebop whatever guitar playing muther '' COME BACK! This is a hole new thing for me,'' i never seen this before in guitar players,'Its real thing huh?,''I sound like an asshole thats hard up for entertainment,'' But from what i hear this guy is no joke..

[franco6719]

The three people who disliked this should be sent to Guantanamo.

[moebiuslolo]

one of the greatest guitarist of the century ! thanks joe !! keep on groovin !

[jreichbart]

Great time, tone, feel and lines. I listened to this several times while, in my head, adding bass and drums. Then I took my guitar and played a walking bass over this (try it, it's fun!). He is just amazing.

[ericrob2112]

joe rules!

[swingmanu]

@pbol2504 and so?

[pbol2504]

i'd compare joe diorio to robert conti

[333jas]

Nice playing but what's with the constant not really in key humming?

[mx2maduro]

@333jas It is distracting... oddly, it works when George Benson does it.

[buckyskank]

@333jas He is projecting what he plays. listen to Bud powell,Elvin jones,Thelonious monk,Kieth Jarrett,ect,ect.You hear them all grunting.Its called blowin son.

[dannyhood66]

@buckyskank Good comment,'' Because i had no idea these jazz guys did this blowin grunt,''Is it like he's playing something and gets caught up in it,'' like he's going somewhere or skipping rocks as a kid or something he's thinking about? Is that the same as projection? It must be.

[RabidCookie]

@dannyhood66 Wow, brutal use of quotations man, I'm not quite sure who was saying what

[dannyhood66]

@RabidCookie I dont how many quotations are allowed?

[RabidCookie]

@dannyhood66 lol wtf? I am just saying I can't tell what you're trying to portray having random quotation marks at the beginning / end / middle of whatever that was

[voukis6]

i found joe dorio from guitar books

great teacher , great guitar player, with a lot ideas about the solo

i learned from him ....

thanks mr joe dorio

nikos/greece

[dmemswiler]

This guy is the real, real deal... modes and scales flowing like water... DAAANG !!! And how 'bout that 175 geeetar !! I have three COPIES only, because I can't afford anything with a Gibson name on it...

[swingmanu]

@dmemswiler when i comes to playing jazz with a classical clean sound, any guitar can do the job if you can play it! There's very little difference in the result ... Still a good guitar feels better.... but it's you on the guitar.......

[462040]

Great jazz. thank you!

[ericrob2112]

i love it! now that s good!!

[thailow117]

i first got acquainted with joe d through my friend jean-yves in rheinbreitbach - a teeny tiny town not worth knowing in germany - via an ld vhs tape. anyways, jean went on to study with joe in L.A. He holds him in the highest regards, me too.

Search the jean braun trio here, you'll like it.

[jplent]

very cool...

[loverools]

Brilliant!

[4578a]

He definately doesn't sound like an 'old timer". His playing is new fresh vital,creative,cutting edge music that still has one foot in the past.

[benthemiester]

Bad ass guitarist, but Joe never claimed to be a singer.

[pldbs]

He sings almost like Thelonious Monk! they could be a cool doo wop duo! :D

[geoffstockton]

The old timers love to groan along with their playing. I know they think it helps them somehow but I really doubt that it truely does. Nice playing here.  I'm not trying to talk smack. It just sounds so funny, the groaning.

[TV3020001A]

could it be that we each focus on the aspects of the music and sound experience that are most meaingful to us?

[thailow117]

you never studied jazz, right? no offense, but singing what you play is an integral part of the educational process of jazz studies. i'll give you that his groaning sounds awkward, but listen to keith jarrett. he's even worse and beyond. but then, whaaat a musician.

[geoffstockton]

Go watch my lessons if you think I haven't studied jazz. Singing what you play is fine when you're playing singable lines but it's pretty pointless when you're playing fast bebop lick with huge leaps that aren't intended for the human voice. Monk did it so all the old-timers wanted to. Well, not all of them. Horn players CAN'T do it but they still learn how to play jazz don't they. There's really just not much point in doing it while performing, unless you do it well like George Benson!

[fishqwer]

First of all, i'll bet that *any* decent bebop horn player could take their horn from their mouth and sing a killer solo without even playing along with it. The only people who do not sing along with their lines are those who can't, because they rely on licks. The best way to truly delve into harmony is to sing, sing sing. Sing the bassline, sing the guide tone lines, sing the melody while comping for yourself, sing a transcribed solo, sing an improvised solo...

[geoffstockton]

@fishqwer Have you listened to Keith Jarrett groan along with his playing? Just like this, it doesn't even have discernable pitch. I've watched a lot of players vocalize while they play and it doesn't stop them from relying on licks. They just groan along to the licks that they know. Licks are words. You can't speak w/o relying on words. I'd consider Charlie Parker to be a decent sax player, right? He was licks all day. It's pretty clear after learning 9 solos of his, which isn't a lot.

[Adsem]

it's good he made his choice to play guitar and not a singing career ;p

great playing!

[tokaibob]

What a player! I've had the pleasure of seeing Joe live a few times. Always a spiritual experience.

[4578a]

That's what so great about all these different musicians you speak of, they are all great at what they do and no one can do what they do as good as they do.

[SRVMOE]

he looks like duke robillard

[Chromatype]

lets see Eric Johnson or Yngwie touch that...not gonna happen

[lilpuppyguy]

Malmsteen, no. But Eric would surprise you. You should hear him play jazz on piano. I'm not kidding.

[MercutioUK2006]

Malmsteen is actually well versed in Jazz but never records any. Read any interview with Phil Hilborne and he'll always cite Yngiwe as being the most naturally talented guitarist he's aware of (this is from a guy who's interviewed practically everyone in modern guitar circles and is a massively well respected guitar educator).

Yngwie is at heart a rocker, regardless of what his talents actually allow him to do.

[Chromatype]

STOP...Yngwie is definitely a super natural talent...but he is NOT well versed in jazz(classical yes). Period...ask any jazz player. He doesn't swing and and I have yet to hear him play over one jazz standard with lots of modulations and keep his speedy lines happening...I bet he could do it...but he is NOT well versed...give examples please?

[MercutioUK2006]

@Chromatype

What you have yet to hear and what he's capable of are two different matters, yes? You haven't _heard_ him swing, you __assume_ he isn't well versed.

Let me be frank - am I to take your opinion over a guitarist like Phil Hilborne? Phil assured me that he has heard Yngwie swinging over Jazz standards, and I'm content to take his word for it. The fact that Yng doesn't choose to record those sorts of tracks in order to please those who doubt him is a matter to take up with him.

[petar870602]

even the best tallant in the word can't learn to play good over jazz harmony without good 10 years of work.yngwie maybe can play over some of the jazz harmonies but it won't be good i promise you.

and it's not his job to be able to do it he is rock guitarist.

[MercutioUK2006]

@ petar87062 and anyone else who feels like giving me a thumbs down because I'm not a jazz elitist....at the end of the day we're all anonymous YouTube idiots BUT Yngwie is a world class guitarist and Phil Hilborne is likewise.

Disprove me if you can but I maintain that Yngwie can most certainly play quite comfortably in a Jazz style despite what all the doubters would believe - he just doesn't chose to pander to the hollowbody snobs and actually record it.

[petar870602]

1-i don't consider myself a youtube idiot

2-stop giving me shit about yngwie because i like yngwie alot and i have defended him almost always

3-i told you yngwie maybe can play over this but he will not be good.

[MercutioUK2006]

Please allow me to retort:

1) We're ALL YouTube idiots :)

2) I'm not giving you shit about Yng, I'm disagreeing with your assessment of his abilities in this area.

3) I shall simply opt to disagree with you on the basis that I've been told he can play well in that style by a guitarist who I trust implicitly.

As I said, if you can disprove my opinion which is based entirely on fact and NOT speculation I'll happily revise my position but I suspect you will be utterly unable to do so.

[petar870602]

you have been told by a guitarist you trust!

If yngwie has spend any time on some form of jazz his playing would be affected atleast a little!

And here is my final question:Do you have any idea of jazz harmony that you talk so sure of yourself?

[MercutioUK2006]

Yes - Phil Hilborne is an internationally renowned educator that has written for many magazines over a course of years. His qualifications far exceed either of ours by a very long way :)

Knowing Jazz and allowing it to directly affect his other playing is a different matter - we'll have to agree to disagree.

Yes I do although of course you can only take my word for it. I spent some time doing courses at GIT in London before injuries stopped me playing.

[JOHNNYG99X]

much as i love YJM, i very much doubt he could play jazz properly.. if that were the case, then imagine what sort of fusion player he'd be with his rock technique !

[Corporations8MyBaby]

good point!

[petar870602]

everyone is playing what they can...Yngwie can never survive in a jazz harmony but he is not supose to because he is not jazz musician.

[lilpuppyguy]

if you mute the left channel and bring the right to the middle you can't hear his voice

[highintel]

These guys are far to different in style and approach to compare you tool.

Even the two you compared can't be compared to each other.

Look at music like food, and making music like cooking.

You don't compare Chinese to Mexican and say what's better.

You compare all the Chinese restaurants in your area or worldwide with each other. And all the Mexican with other Mexican restaurants the same way.

Otherwise you just sound stupid like you do in your statement about Yngwie and Johnson.

:)

[geoffstockton]

Wow, I'm surprised this got a couple thumbs down. Has anyone seen either of those guys try to improvise? They REALLY couldn't touch that. Not to say that old Joe hear could touch what they do. I try to do a little of both but if I had to choose, I'd deffinitely go where the improvisation is at and stay there.

[elbalajazz]

boooring !!!!!!!!!

[brusemuse]

He sounds like Peter Griffin

[migitara50]

Joe Diorio is responsible for bringing forth some of the most virtuoso musician of this era.

He is truly a teachers teacher and I hold him in high esteem among the GREATS!!!!

Peace Brother Joe!

[mibifinalist]

intervallic design!!!

[baldheadedjohn]

hey beerdeddi. your a fuckin idiot!!!

[jazzcatuna]

You're an idiot.

[00DirectorsCut00]

superb master !

but.... who are crying below? ... stomacache :D

[DoggyT86]

I saw one of his students, Perry Smith, live and he was a total virtuoso

[KeithWhalen11]

Makes me think of Glenn Gould humming while playing Bach :). Diorio is so advanced harmonically it scares me at times.

[vincebrown89]

why compare joe diorio to metheny? totally different styles its just what your into. joe diorio doesnt suck trust me

[mx2maduro]

@vincebrown89 I'll compare them. I'll take Joe over Pat Metheny, or Pat Martino for that matter, any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I couldn't be compelled to listen to the new-agey Jazz fusion crap that Pat Metheny plays on pain of death.

[papu4000]

Geeee...z :D

[varok93]

EL Viejo es un semidios

increible lenguaje

sin duda Joe Mixo uno de los mejores

[redavide1]

incredibly great -- there aren't words to describe this kind of playing, you can only listen . . .

[lilpuppyguy]

"incredibly great -- there aren't words to describe this kind of playing, you can only listen . . ." haha - true, there are NO words as he's kinda having a hard time speaking.

Yes, I love Diorio. Just funnin'.

[Atwood333]

Ok just want to make something clear :

I and my wife had Joe and his wife at our home for dinner last night ( btw Joe loves pasta) and we went on the puter to view youtube, Joe kinda enjoyed seeing himself here on the net and the remarks people had posted, peace, love , God bless ya all, Joe's friend Mike , Waterbury, Connecticut

[Atwood333]

Not bad for an Old Man - Joe Diorio

[TruthSurge]

Geez, what is that sound? A man dying in the background?

[guitarttimman]

okay I'm getting MAD! Joe Diorio is ONE of the very BEST jazz guitarists in history! This sounds AWESOME! TruthSurge, you have to be educated to understand what is going on here. Obviously, you are not!

[TruthSurge]

It was sort of a humor thing. I mean, he's mumbling over the guitar. I'd prefer to just hear the guitar and I never said ANYTHING about his guitar playing so why are you attacking me?

[lilpuppyguy]

TruthSurge: lolz, i died laughing at that comment! Sarcasm has become a lost language unfortunately. :S

[TruthSurge]

Yeah, some people are wound too tightly. I mean, he's obviously a great guitarist. But man... some duct tape might help. HEHEHEHHEHEH

[999manman]

Seamless!!!

[campocat]

dynamite

[kulamdaparim]

that was inspiring.

[Nu9v9]

its beeing years for the people to say "shit" to what they dont understand... nothing new.. keep practicing pentatonic and one day ull hear diorio again and smile. haha hes outstanding

[killchiro]

sounds like rehashed jazz runs, over and over again... not very good technique and horrid scatting.

[erod1944]

Perhaps you should go and get Joe Diorio's book "Intervallic Intervals" and "rehash" on that for a few years. Report back in when you've finished.

[JazzGeetar213]

The scatting's just an improv technique. Means he's playing the lines that he's hearing in his head. Takes incredible musicianship... have a go?

[beerdeddi]

Totlally shit, this is no music...

[lewood1204]

I guess the shit is your hear

[nakajazz]

only if you are retarded.

[rmsolympic1]

he is a truly stellar guitarist indeed, although he definitely cannot sing; not looking at the screen while this played, i thought something was drastically wrong with my speakers.

[beerdeddi]

a singing joe diorio, very similar to Sautner

Kurt and Bontscheck Ernst

[genilcastro]

Wonderful Joe is simply THE MAN.Where this lesson come from where do I purchase this video?????????????????

[dafeval]

The Meister!

[rablerouser13]

So,far ahead of everyone....people won`t catch up for 50 years.The most underated musician that ever lived.Simply the best guitarist on Earth.BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!