the best guitarist ever....

Hootsmon

according tae Pat Metheny......don't know about that but he is a bit good,yeah?

Crazy Tal Farlow type HUGE hands and stretches and piano voicings to boot

Doesn't make enough faces for my liking

viz

Yeah love him

Hootsmon

Beside the chops there is SOOOOOOO much musical stuff happenin' in that clip.......melody ascending and descending at the same time....wild intervals.....dissonance.....i could go on.....

Philly_Q

Yeah, but what's he like playing Mustang Sally and Brown Eyed Girl on a cold wet weekday evening at the Dog & Duck in Stoke, eh...?

Winny_Pooh

Strange phrasing, doesn't feel musical nor swings like Django or Julian Lage. Pass for me, Holdworths is still top of my pile for jazzy technical stuff.

Hootsmon

Philly_Q said:

Yeah, but what's he like playing Mustang Sally and Brown Eyed Girl on a cold wet weekday evening at the Dog & Duck in Stoke, eh...?

That's actually quite accurate......an American friend of mine saw him last week in NYC with 65 in the audience

CaseOfAce

Philly_Q said:

Yeah, but what's he like playing Mustang Sally and Brown Eyed Girl on a cold wet weekday evening at the Dog & Duck in Stoke, eh...?

That venue is beginning to get famous in these parts!

Watching the vid I'm reminded of the age old quote "you can play 3 chords to a thousand people, or a 1000 chords to 3 people"?

Stuckfast

That's amazing, proper jazz orchestration but for solo guitar.

He probably gets more use out of his little finger in that one video than I have done in my entire playing career.

Philly_Q

Joking apart, I love to watch someone playing, live, in that style.  And I would love to be able to play like that, although I have neither the talent nor the work ethic.  But it's not something I would want to listen to on a record.

roberty

Brilliant, thanks for sharing

roberty

That lick at 2:50 with the contrary movement spins me out. Not heard anything like that before

west

Thanks for posting !  off to check more out , remarkable facility arranging execution just wow ..... !

axisus

He has amazing hands, and his technique is brilliant, but I was pretty bored after about 40 seconds. Best guitarist ever - no, but then you are never going to win with an inflammatory statement like that. 

It's incredibly good though, I take nothing away from that. 

ICBM

Good, but not the best ever.

Julian Bream is the best ever, I think.

Hootsmon

I should come straight here.......what PM actually said was......."i think he may be the best guitarist i have heard in my life...."

hollywoodrox

Philly_Q said:

Joking apart, I love to watch someone playing, live, in that style.  And I would love to be able to play like that, although I have neither the talent nor the work ethic.  But it's not something I would want to listen to on a record.

That’s really well put , I agree 

hollywoodrox

I think van halen from the early club days and Aerosmith would get more girls asses swingin on the dance floor 

mgaw

ICBM said:

Good, but not the best ever.

Julian Bream is the best ever, I think.

he bought a house down here a few years ago and played in pound stock village hall  twas superb, i saw Martin Simpson just before that and not sure there is anything between them tbh

Redlester

CaseOfAce said:

Philly_Q said:

Yeah, but what's he like playing Mustang Sally and Brown Eyed Girl on a cold wet weekday evening at the Dog & Duck in Stoke, eh...?

That venue is beginning to get famous in these parts!

Watching the vid I'm reminded of the age old quote "you can play 3 chords to a thousand people, or a 1000 chords to 3 people"?

Ah yes, but the three people a) get their money's worth and b) go home with less chance of catching Covid. 

I think this guy is fabulous. Really great stuff. I do love that Joe Pass style 'fancy chords and filigree fills' style. 

I am now going to listen to 'Virtuoso'. 

By the way, Django Reinhardt is the best guitarist ever. Endlessly inventive. Crazy chops. Established the guitar as a solo instrument. Overcame disability.

danishbacon

Would also suggest Joe Pass for those who might have liked the first video and not be familiar already:

https://youtu.be/p_kUJa1PueM

Funkfingers

Joe Pass was sooooooooo good that readers of Guitarist magazine voted him Jazz Guitarist Of The Year two years after his death.