The Greatest Guitarists Of The 60's #4
Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd and Herb Ellis; Duane Allman, Scotty Moore, Link Wray and Roy Buchanan Plus Trippin' With Duane Allman
The greatest guitarists of the '60's
Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd and Herb Ellis
The Great Guitars: Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd
and Herb Ellis • 11-07-1982 • World of Jazz
GREAT GUITARS: BARNEY KESSEL-CHARLIE BYRD-HERB ELLIS/ LIVE at MAINTENANCE CLUB 1979
Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Known in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies, he was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions. Kessel was a member of the group of session musicians informally known as the Wrecking Crew.
Kessel was rated the No. 1 guitarist in Esquire, DownBeat, and Playboy magazine polls between 1947 and 1960
Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album Jazz Samba, a recording which brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music.
Byrd played fingerstyle on a classical guitar.
Mitchell Herbert Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010),[ known professionally as Herb Ellis, was an American jazz guitarist. During the 1950s, he was in a trio with pianist Oscar Peterson.
Herb Ellis was also featured on an episode of Sanford and Son accompanying Fred Sanford's singing.
Ellis gave cartoonist and The Far Side creator Gary Larson guitar lessons, in exchange for the cover illustration for the album, Doggin' Around (Concord, 1988) by Ellis and bassist Red Mitchell.
In 1994, he joined the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame. On November 15, 1997, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of North Texas College of Music.
The greatest guitarists of the '60's
DUANE ALLMAN
Duane Allman & Eric Clapton 1970 - Studio Jams 1 thu 6
Delaney & Bonnie with Duane Allman - Only You Know And I Know 1971
The Grateful Dead & Duane Allman - Dark Star - Spanish Jam 1970
Grateful Dead Live at Fillmore East on February 11, 1970.The Grateful Dead with Duane & Gregg Allman!
From "Searching for the Sound" by Phil Lesh:
Jerry says to Phil of the ABB on their way to this show: "make sure you check these guys out... they're kinda like us... They jam hard"
Phil was startled when he heard Duane's slide during Dark Star... Jerry hadn't told him anyone would sit in.
Gregg "slides onto the organ bench" during Spanish Jam.
"Peter Green from the Mac plugs in just as I'm pulling the music into the dominant minor ... he and Duane seem more comfortable in this space."
After the show, "I walk outside -- it's daylight, and snow is falling gently on the streets of New York... I grab Bob and Jerry in a group embrace: This is what it's all about."
The Allman Brothers Band -
WXRT Chicago 1971 (Complete Bootleg)
Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American rock guitarist, session musician, and the founder and original leader of the Allman Brothers Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Allman began playing the guitar at age 14. He formed the Allman Brothers Band with his brother Gregg in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969. The group achieved its greatest success in the early 1970s. Allman is best remembered for his brief but influential tenure in the band and in particular for his expressive slide guitar playing and inventive improvisational skills. A sought-after session musician both before and during his tenure with the band, Duane Allman performed with such established stars as King Curtis, Aretha Franklin, Herbie Mann, Wilson Pickett, and Boz Scaggs. He also contributed greatly to the 1970 album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, by Derek and the Dominos. He died following a motorcycle crash in 1971, at the age of 24.
In 2003, he was ranked number 2 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, second only to Jimi Hendrix.
The Night I Tripped With Duane Allman- And Learned About The Blues
He wasn't tripping, I was, but after a wild night of free love I found myself on the back of his motorcycle. Click this link:
The greatest guitarists of the '60's
SCOTTY MOORE
Scotty Moore - Paris - au 287 Rock'n'roll café en 2001
Scotty Moore Tells It Like It Was
Sun records, rockabilly and the birth of rock and roll.
Scotty Moore - The Guitar That Changed The World
ELVIS - "Sun Days 1954-1955"
Scotty Moore on guitar. Elvis was 19. Pure rockabilly.
Winfield Scott Moore III (December 27, 1931 – June 28, 2016) was an American guitarist who formed The Blue Moon Boys in 1954, Elvis Presley's backing band. He was studio and touring guitarist for Presley between 1954 and 1968.
Rock critic Dave Marsh credits Moore with inventing power chords, on the 1957 Elvis hit "Jailhouse Rock", the intro of which Moore and drummer D.J. Fontana, according to the latter, "copped from a '40s swing version of 'The Anvil Chorus"." Moore was ranked 29th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2011. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2007, and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2015. Rolling Stones' lead guitarist Keith Richards said of Moore:
When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel", I knew what I wanted to do in life. It was as plain as day. All I wanted to do in the world was to be able to play and sound like the way Scotty Moore did. Everyone wanted to be Elvis, I wanted to be Scotty.
Moore is given credit as a pioneer rock 'n' roll lead guitarist, though he characteristically downplayed his own innovative role in the development of the style. "It had been there for quite a while," recalled Moore. "Carl Perkins was doing basically the same sort of thing up around Jackson and I know for a fact Jerry Lee Lewis had been playing that kind of music ever since he was ten years old." Paul Friedlander describes the defining elements of rockabilly, which he similarly characterizes as "essentially... an Elvis Presley construction:" "the raw, emotive, and slurred vocal style and emphasis on rhythmic feeling [of] the blues with the string band and strummed rhythm guitar [of] country." In "That's All Right," the Presley trio's first record, Moore's guitar solo, "a combination of Merle Travis–style country finger-picking, double-stop slides from acoustic boogie and blues-based bent-note, single-string work, is a microcosm of this fusion."
Although some lead guitarists and vocalists, such as Chuck Berry and the blues legend BB King, had gained popularity by the 1950s, Presley rarely played his own lead while performing, instead providing rhythm guitar and leaving the lead duties to Moore. As a guitarist, Moore was a noticeable presence in Presley's performances despite his introverted demeanor. He became an inspiration to many subsequent popular guitarists, including George Harrison, Jeff Beck, and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
Greatest guitarists of the 60's
LINK WRAY
LINK WRAY (1974) Winterland San Francisco
Link Wray live at Winterland in San Francisco on 11/19/1974. Broadcast on KSAN 95 FM in San Francisco. Although Link Wray first became popular in the late 1950's, his career experienced a resurgence after his music was played on FM radio in the early '70's.
Link Wray - White Lightning: Lost cadence sessions 58'
Link hated and refused to do more than one take. The band would rehearse and when he felt they were ready into the studio they would go.
Robert Gordon & Link Wray @ Cellar Door - Georgetown, Wash DC 3-14-78
When the rockabilly revival happened, there was instant interest in Link Wray again!
Building on the distorted electric guitar sound of early records, Wray's first hit was the 1958 instrumental "Rumble". The record was first released on Cadence Records (catalog number 1347) as by "Link Wray & His Ray Men". "Rumble" was banned in New York and Boston for fear that it would incite teenage gang violence, "rumble" being slang for a gang fight.
Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr. (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s.Rolling Stone placed Wray at No. 45 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. In 2013 and 2017 he was a nominee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Roy Buchanan
Jimi Hendrix - Generation Club w Roy Buchanan. 07/04/68 It doesn't get much rarer than this! FILM!
Jimi Hendrix jams at the official opening of Mike Jeffery's Generation Club, 52 West 8th St, New York City, USA, with Roy Buchanan. The gig, sometimes described as a Wake For Martin Luther King, also features B.B. King, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Richie Havens and Buddy Guy.
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Introducing Roy Buchanan - 1971 PBS Special (WNET 13 New York)
Leroy "Roy" Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career and two later solo albums that made it to the Billboard chart. He never achieved stardom, but is considered a highly influential guitar player. Guitar Player praised him as having one of the "50 Greatest Tones of All Time."
Buchanan has influenced many guitarists, including Robbie Robertson, Gary Moore, Danny Gatton, Arlen Roth, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Jerry Garcia, Mick Ronson, Nils Lofgren, Jim Campilongo, and Steve Kimock; Beck dedicated his version of "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" from Blow by Blow to him.
His work is said to "stretch the limits of the electric guitar,"and he is praised for "his subtlety of tone and the breadth of his knowledge, from the blackest of blues to moaning R&B and clean, concise, bone-deep rock 'n' roll." In 2004, Guitar Player listed his version of "Sweet Dreams," from his debut album on Polydor, Roy Buchanan, as having one of the "50 Greatest Tones of All Time." In the same year, the readers of Guitar Player voted Buchanan #46 in a top 50 readers' poll.
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