Great Solo Akio. Beautiful lines. Fantastic tone on Angel Eyes! Second tune I have heard you play. You have a very distinct style. I have have been influenced by modern players like Pat Metheny - especially like playing his compositions. But my early influences are the masters: Wes, K Burrell, Pat Martino, Joe Pass. Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, etc.. Been listening to Ed Cherry recently - he played with Dizzy for years. Your style is similar to his in my ears. Great interplay of lines and chordal playing. Thanks for posting.
@allthegigswewant2 ай бұрын
Very good performance of a great tune! You guys play very well together. Love your playing Akio - Beautiful chordal work, comping and nice lines. Wondered what model Gibson you're playing? Looks like an older L7C? You're playing reminds me of Kenny Burrell/ Barney Kessel And very nice woody/acoustic tone.
@akiology2 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for your kind comment.Yes, the guitar is L7C 1958~9. Had an old ES175 pickup (non PAF) installed as a floating pickup. The trio played for the first time had 45 min rehearsal and this was the first tune of the evening. I had played with the drummer 30+ year ago! but had never played with the bassist. They are both great listeners. The drummer graduated from Berklee in early '90s and lived in NYC for a year and played with Harper Brothers among others.
@allthegigswewant2 ай бұрын
@@akiology Thanks Akio. An L7C. Listened to you play on Angel Eyes - with that pickup and guitar - your playing - beautiful. Your sense of time is great! Understand about one rehearsal and being good listeners. I went to Berklee from 77-79. Many very good musicians there at that time. Mike Stern - he got the gig with Miles in 80. Pat Metheny was still around as well - playing standards in the bars, not his music. The problem I had with Berklee was there was so much theory taught - which was great but not enough playing time on the bandstand to really use it so it became mine. So I learned alot but I had no idea how to get gigs and neither did my friends. We all eventually quit and and had to do other jobs for money. Years alter I went back to practicing and I'd figured out how to get gigs. Never stopped since then.
@allthegigswewant2 ай бұрын
Also - my keyboard player worked with Chick Corea as a tour manager - and so I was able to meet Chick - take some of his workshops. What a great musician and human being! He really encouraged writing your own compositions - even working at it every day. I see you have written alot of tunes. I asked him one time if Bud Powell was who influenced his playing - that's what I had heard. He liked that question - said no - as far as piano players - it was Horace Silver's playing. Of course loved Bird, Coltrane, Miles, etc..
@akiology2 ай бұрын
@@allthegigswewant Thank you foe the comment. I moved to the US in 1977 and settled in Chicago in 78. Actually I translated Modern Method For Jazz Guitar by Willian Levitt in 1977 and went to Berklee with a person from a Japanese music publishing company as an interpreter and met both Lawrence and Lee Berk as well as Mr Levitt. I applied a scholarship for Berklee in 1980 but was not accepted, But a funny thing is I sent one song that was in the demo tape fro Berklee to Joe Henderson and he accepted to record with me which was released from MUSE.
@akiology2 ай бұрын
@@allthegigswewant Thank you for the great info. I always wondered about that.
コメントありがとうございます。日本人は理論・マニュアルに弱い(強い?)ので一度読むととりあえず疑問を持たずに(他にも多くの人が言っているし)吸収してしまう傾向があります。ジャズという、特にアドリブの部分は所謂『口語・会話』なのにその基本を『文法』で教えようとするから弊害が生じるのです。外国語の発音を本から覚えることはできません。例えば日本人にHow Are You? と聞いたら返事は99%Fine thank you and you?で、これは間違いではないけれど中学校で習ったマニュアル通りでバリエーションを知りません。それは教え方が悪いから。アメリカでこの質問は使うけれど、答えは千差万別です。質問も色々な言い方があります。なのでジャズのアドリブもまず会話で言う『単語や短いフレーズ』の発音とニュアンス(スイング感)から始めると自然になります。子供が言葉を覚えるのと同じプロセスです。間違っても意思が通じればいい、くらいの感覚でしょう。
Wonderful rendition. What synth are you using for your solo, and do you find that there's any different challenges when playing with a synth or other effects like pedals etc?
@akiology3 ай бұрын
Hi, Thank you for your positive comment and inquiry. Believe it or not the synth I am using is an ancient Roland GR-30 (appeared on the market on 1996!) It has only a few decent sampling sound that I like and the harmonica sound is one of them. I almost exclusively use the sound. The guitar is a nylon string Taylor (can't remember the number..) that was MIDIed over 20 yrs ago by a great guitar tech in San Francisco, GR-30 tracks quite well as long as your touch is precise. Somehow the 3rd (G) string does not sustain well so I have to use different fingerings but I think that is a guitar side problem. I used to own GR-1 ( I am an old man!) And I have not tried any other synth besides these tow but for now GR-30 is doing a good job. I makes me phrase differently.