Ted Greene - Playing the Blues - December 2003

Ted improvising the blues. Check out http://www.youtube.com/user/TedGreeneArchives for more of Ted

Category:

Music

Tags:

• guitar
• jazz
• blues

[taildragger51]

entity3sf; Most jazz artists are not embarrassed to speak about their influences.

This is what seperates Pass or Ted Green or Wes from self absorbed guys like Sir Elton John. Life shouldn't be taken too seriously..in 20-30 yrs time we'll all be in the same place as Joe & Ted so where's the need for idol worship.(or smugness for that matter)....REAL music, as on this clip, has a spiritual quality that surpasses human ego.

[xSODxDeMoNiaC]

@RaymondFRevalee IGNORANT.

[Bratschenator]

He is up there with Jimmy Rowles. That kind of sophistication and soul. We love you Ted !

[mattgresh1]

@taildragger51 Even though your ego doesnt exist, because you can be who ever you want..

[Krumboltz]

beach shirt FTW!

[gjfanatique]

Well, taildragger, I love Ted Greene *and* Elton John for different reasons. TG is one of the greatest masters of what I try to do. EJ writes beautiful songs. I like EJ's songs because they always go somewhere and take their time getting there. He's always got something to say, and so does TG. They just speak different languages.

[lsmith869]

@RaymondFRevalee Watch a lotta tv do ya. Thats hilarious Ted Greene boring, what a moron.

[Bebop646]

at the end of this beautiful impro i would stand up and cry. Then i would start asking "how can u do that?!?!? how can it be so smooth? how can you make the bass, the chord, the melody flowing that way? Thank you for existing."

[schniggitty1]

@taildragger51 Well spoken. It's a lesson that will forever lose to the tyranny of popular taste.

[musicmandrew]

@RaymondFRevalee Please post some of your playing. That way, we can all hear what a genius you are on the guitar!

[foomsbah]

He needs to hurled into the harsh world of West Texas red-stool cigarette bars of the late 70s. Then, he would play more aggressively & more surely. This delicate approach would be run over like a kitten on a freeway. Life is like that.