Oud Blues, Perso Turkic Bass & Cello

Oud Blues and Perso-Turkic bass & cello improvs by Oriental Jazz originator Dr. Lloyd Miller on National Iranian TV in the mid 1970.

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• Oud
• cello
• bass
• Oriental
• Jazz
• world
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• Lloyd
• Miller

[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?

[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....