Great stuff! Madelyn and I are good friends here in Phoenix so I feel Vicariously connected to your dad through stories. Thanks for the series!

This is SO FANTASTIC on so many levels. I’m in Phoenix - recently transplanted and know Madeline. Also GIT ‘88. If you ever visit - I am buying you lunch. No arguments! Have a great day, Jay and THANK YOU for all these wonderful videos.

ytube is such a fun place. I am drooling over the tele btw.

Jay Roberts is a God. 2 f****** Good!

Man. I've been a H.R. guy since I heard A Tribe Called Quest. I had to do a lot of digging back then to get to the liner notes, lol! Long live the memory of a dirty guitar player. ❤️

That is one sick old Telecaster. I wish I had an old Tele or Strat from the 50's or early 60's $$$. They certainly don't make em like that anymore! It must sound AWESOME plugged into an old blackface. Your Dad was an incredible guitar player and musician. Those old jazz cats ruled.

Great vid and what a great guitar player this guy was. I heard his name on the wrecking crew movie from the story Bill Pitman tells about Howard and Phil Specter having a fight lol. I don't know how Phil Specter could criticize this really talented guy. Howard was so brilliant Phil Specter probably couldn't fathom it.

Is there any chance you have a live version of Howard doing ‘Dolphin Dance’ ? With video would be even neater. His studio recording is one of my all time favorites of anything.

I love playing with you Jay! You're awesome. Definitely one of the most versatile, accomplished musicians I've had the privilege to make music with.

Heard it? Hell, I have Played it! Lol😊

How are there only 500 people who have "thumbed-up" this incredible story?

Magical!

Killer!

Google just sent me here.... not sure why it took so long.

Remarkable thank you 😊

This song deserves more exposure. Great backing track!

Wow that’s awesome thanks for all that info and playing

HR was judged GUILTY!!! (on 11 separate counts) of being a dirty, funky, swamp bossa nova guitar player. Hear both sides of the story on the GUILTY!!! LP..

HR was judged GUILTY!!! on 11 separate counts of being a dirty, funky, swamp, bossa nova guitar player.

05:58 Great idea in getting to your neighbor tones.

Hello Sir, are you the same person, who participated Guitar Warz in 1991?

Love it. Wish we had some bootleg second take tracks on here of some early recordings. Jay - ya must have them stashed somewhere.

Loved HR. ❤

HR was judged GUILTY!!! (on 11 separate counts) of being a dirty, funky, swamp bossa nova guitar player. Hear both sides of the story on the "GUILTY!!! LP.

Wow!! Love it!

HR was judged GUILTY!!! for being a dirty, funky, swamp bossa nova guitar player.

HR was judged GUILTY!!! of being a dirty, funky, swamp bossa nova guitar player.

I have a CD listed on Bandcamp. If you listen to some of the solos you can clearly hear your dad's influence. I used to listen to him by the hour. The CD is called 'Show of Hands.'

Multidimensional Genius

I wish you guys were my neighbors.

Sometime late 70s he was at Port Townsend, part of the Centrum Jazz Clinics. He sat in with our group and was so excited about playing and loads of ideas on what to do with the tune. He started out just listening- but it seems he just couldn’t help it and had to play also. Great memory. I did a bunch of ‘jam’ session with Jill back in the old days too.

Bobby "Blue" Bland!

I was so lucky to attend the school at Gower Studios in Hollywood in 1976 or 1977. I had so much fun. Howard Roberts taught all classes at the time. I was a young teen and was cutting high school (Pat Hicks made a joke about it). When I walked into class everyone knew I should have been in HS, they all made me feel welcomed. Howard was a great teacher. That will always be one of my top memories. He told the class he had a picnic at the end of a runway with Barbara S. lol

That’s the best HR video that I’ve seen. Thanks!!

As I've listened to all of Lee Ritenour's work, from 1975 to present, you can definitely hear Howard's influence on Lee.

ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL AND GORGEOUS VIDEO.. I LOVE YOUR PLAYING..

Aw, you guys make me sick . . . you have shamed this 80 year old hack into realizing how many years I've wasted NOT practicing. This is the best stuff I've heard in years. FANTASTIC !!!!

Roberts was a genius monster on guitar - end of. He played more guitar than 10 players combined. His concepts for guitar, can’t be overestimated.

Met HR. In LA at 12 years old - so in Awe he was such a huge inspiring soul - possibly why I’ve played guitar for a living my entire life as I do today “ On 240 gigs a year cruise ships these days “””” Thankyou thankyou thankyou Howard Roberts “ 100% awesome videos guys -- love & respect for life Kenny Holliday

I have several of his records but never heard him play this way. Very cool.

Fantastic! I am the proud owner of the Guitar Compendium CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Greetings from Germany :)

I was about 14yo in the late ‘70s when my guitar teacher, Johnny Frisco (great name, right?), introduced me to Django, HR, and (interestingly) Larry Carlton. HR’s playing just BROKE MY HEAD, it was SO musical and SO CONFIDENT. Really grateful for this RMI channel, and the JOY you two exhibit, “workin out”, together. Thanks, Guys!

Hi Jay. I took lessons from you at Ray’s music exchange in North City, Seattle back in 1983.

Odd I thought tommy tedesco played all those tv shows

I attended his 3 day seminar at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago in the late’70s; his lesson on tonal center freed up my playing

love all the HR vids dudes. u guys are great players too! killin. hey u should check out barry harris’ -6dim scale: its the harmonic and melodic minor scales in one! perfect for “pure” minor harmony like autumn leaves. 👊 by the way it really sucks that all of those Howard Roberts records like “instrumental hits” and the rest from that time including the later but great great Concord one are not available on Apple Music. There’s only the weird ones that nobody wants to listen to no offense like antelope Freeway and the two early verve records, which are great…but all those other ones with the real great, one or two chorus solos where he plays pretty much every standard in the real book and like I said, the Concord record which is to me his masterpiece: can’t stream them!! wtf?!

Wow 62 years old...that's way too young to die & I know that because my mom was only 61 so me & my brothers were not only devastated but surprised as well.

Great video!!! Jay. Your sister Maddie is a new friend of mine. I just moved to Phoenix in September. Hope to meet you someday. I’m a life long guitar teacher. GIT grad 1988 Have a great weekend!

Your Pops was the coolest! Greetings from New Mexico

One of a kind item, HR