Count Basie - The Elder (Freddie Green Chord Solo) video free download

Günter Tauchner

The Elder

Angelica Lovesee

sounds like he needs a string change... his tone doesnt sound so great

Peter Caffrey

Ok. I am a jazz guitar student, and I have been studying standards and comping. If you are studying comping, you need to spend some time with Freddie Green (I have been using Jim Ferguson's books). Freddie started playing with Count Basie in the late 30's...modern recordings techniques did not come around until the 50's. In the late 30's, Count Basie's band had fewer horns, and Freddie was more audible. The guitar was, in fact, only a recent replacement of the *tenor banjo*, a staple of Dixieland music, or early Jazz. My point here is that on Count Basie recordings such as this one, Freddie Green is COMPLETELY INAUDIBLE. The fact that he takes a rare solo in this recording is nothing more than "the exception that proves the rule", and I think anyone will agree that this solo is discombobulated and almost a reflection of a befuddled Freddie Green being awoken from slumber (that, I admit, is a little too harsh).Another thing is that I "finger" Freddie's figures, while he used a pick. I always thought that the pick sounded clunky on those voicings and now I know for sure!Anyway, my point is that if you like Freddie Green (which I do) and you listen to Count Basie's Orchestra (which I do), good luck finding 5 seconds of audible Freddie Green. I play him on paper through teachers, but like a deadbeat dad whose picture is impossible to find in family pictures, Freddie is simply never there in Count Basie's recordings. I know that he WAS there: I am just addressing a true state-of-affairs.God bless him though! His recordings that live on through teachers such as Jim Ferguson and Charlton Johnson have taught me what-there-is-to-know about comping figures.

Craig Montesano

Someone has got to re-release this album on CD. Holy cow! Basie and Freddie are killing it, baby!

mrcountbasie

Maby Thad Jones at trumpet??

Pat S

who's playing trumpet?

MARKMANIATT

Glad to spread the word Alec!Freddie was a Swing Rhythm guitar genius for sure.That said,so 'very much'was the great Allan Reuss.Check out George Van Epps,Allan's tutor,so you can get them in the correct order.There are some brilliant recordings by Benny Goodman's band from the Madhattan Room of the Hotel Penn,NY in 1937/8.Allan is playing a Gibson L5 unamplified and can clearly be heard over the band.Stunning!Also,find the Arnold Ross Quintet recordings with Benny Carter 45/46 as I recall.Allan plays great rhythm and brilliant solo's.While your looking,find another great player from this stable of fine rhythm guitarists,Carman Mastren.Enjoy!!

MARKMANIATT

Don't forget the man who gave Freddie Green lessons in the 1930's and was more than equal to him,the very great Allan Reuss.According to fellow rhythm guitarist Steve Jordan,"the greatest rhythm guitarist bar no one".Check the great man out here on You Tube.A genius by any measure!!

Hermann Otto

a classical trained trumpeter,musical diarrhoea. slick but what does he say? compaired to Sweet Harry Edison

Edwin Anderson

That's my music

Steve Tapia

The Metronomic Man, more accurate than an atomic clock...

pnojazz

4 people didn't know that at one music was created by musicians.

Eric Peterson

FG is just too awesome!! Forget the BR clone this drummer was the best CB had as well...

iyamthecoltraneman

Freddie Green is the man! Love Django, Grant Green, Charlie Christian, and a lot of other great jazz guitarists too.

Carey stallings

Wes Montgomery was a big Freddie Green fan also.

standingbeark

yes, another wonderous icon !

RAMLIA1

♥ ♥ ♥

Guy Luca

You can get a lot out of the Freddie Greene voicing on the guitar. They sound good and are fun to play. There is a web site with some great lessons and examples. I learned a ton from that site. Just google "Freddie Greene lessons".

Matt Sewell

He wasn't. They didn't use the jazz boxes with pickups back then. They just used a straight up acoustic archtop.

Luis Piña

"You should never hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums so it sounds like the drummer is playing chords—like the snare is in A or the hi-hat in D minor" —Freddie Green