THE GUITAR SHOW with Cornell Dupree

SUBSCRIBE TODAY! EPISODE 29 Taped March 24, 1989

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• Cornell
• Dupree
• Jazz
• R&B
• Guitar
• Christian
• Roebling
• Productions

[95dshore]

I will NEVER view your videos on YouTube again, you never allow the song to complete.  A teasing promo doesn't cut it. FrontRowMusicNYC and it's owner SUCK!

[FrontRowMusicNYC]

@95dshore

You are entitled to your opinion. Don't worry you never have to look at the site again. I have seen your bogus site and it is you my friend that suck. It's amazing that with over 500,000 views on FrontRowMusicNYC that I have literally gotten (3) people with coments like yours. All of artists have rights that they deserve to be protected. It's cheap opinionated people like the (3) of your that feel ripped off that they didn't get everything they wanted for free. Get a life.

[Agent4Wisdom]

It's good enough, you don't know shit.

[AirRaidAaron]

Beautiful.

[lralbrecht]

@FrontRowMusicNYC now, do you know where they sell the whole guitar show series?

[Aggeasy]

Legendary guitar player of RnB !

[taildragger53]

@GeorgiaBoy1961

Yes, Adderley was quite the talent scout wasn't he!

As jazz guitarist Martin Taylor says "With only 12 notes in the scale you can hit any note and it's bound to fit at some point. The Chromatic Scale is the only one you need".

Wes says in the interview " I deliberately avoid playing cliches."

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@taildragger53: Re: ""Teasin" had a one of a kind, King Curtis, feel to it. Sort of Muscle Shoals too." I hear those things, but alot of Ray Charles influence in there, plus some hard-bop east coast jazz, too. Tenorman Fathead Newman was with RC for years, which accounts for that flavor, I guess. The record is a beautiful hybrid of southern soul, blues, and east coast jazz, at least to my ears. Urban and rural, sophisticated and basic - at the same time. Amazing record... desert island pick.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@taildragger53: Re: "On the interview, Wes says he can't explain the chords he uses..he only goes by how they sound." Cannonball Adderley, who discovered Wes, used to say that he played in the wrong key when soloing, but that it didn't matter because of how great it sounded. Wes and others like him had discovered substitution of scales and arpeggios and melodic lines - much like a skilled pianist will sub chords in a std. tune. Everyone hip does this now, but it was rare then and cutting edge.

[taildragger53]

@GeorgiaBoy1961 Yes, mind you, Benson didn't only just sing he went the full distance and got facial re-structuring and his skin was lightened on some LP covers (ha ha!) Joined the FULL commercial circus.

I don't blame him for doing so but i sort of dismissed him as another R'n'B star and avoided his LPs from 1985.

It was nice enough music, compared to today, but so many were doing it.

[taildragger53]

@GeorgiaBoy1961 Yes, in the 60s-early 70s i noticed Benson had fused alot of "outside the box" phrasing.

'Fearless' is the correct word. He played alot of open string, Gabor Szabo-type (Eastern) drones which was just amazing.

People, especially today, just haven't got the attention span to listen to an instrumental.

When one is a musician, one analyses, but most just want a background noise.

The attention span was alot longer during the 60s-70s, what with Allman Bros 45 min solos! (LOL)

[taildragger53]

@GeorgiaBoy1961 Bop 'N'Blues is a KILLER CD by Mr. Dupree! A fantastic, slinky, version of "Bags Groove" and a tasteful one of "Round Midnight".

He does a great take on "Freedom Jazz Dance"...a very tricky tune.

"Uncle Funky" is also a great CD from Cornell. "Teasin" had a one of a kind, King Curtis, feel to it. Sort of Muscle Shoals too.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

All this writing back and forth on this thread about Cornell Dupree, got me in the mood for his music, so I listened to "Teasin'" today... man, the playing, composing and arranging on that record is just through the roof. We'll never see the likes of those players again, something tells me. "Bop 'N Blues" is up tomorrow...