George van Eps, the Segovia of jazz guitar. Brilliant as always.

Mr George speaks a beautiful language whenever he plays the guitar.What might not be speakable in regular old words.

3 minutes plus of intro. All great

Transporting the listener through time and space 🙏🏼

Awesome

George's playing on this tune influenced pedal steel virtuoso Buddy Emmons! Look up his live version with Danny Gatton here on YT.

I think you passed the audition, George!

This is an example of the complete guitarist. Bass, rhythm chords, harmonies, melody, counterpoint, improvisation, a definite arrangement without the strict confines of being structured, yet with all the earmarks of discipline. A performance that has that distinct movement of a Swiss watch we Van Eps fans have come to expect from him at each performance, from start to finish!

"Think nothing of it friends, it's just George Van Eps playing his 7-string lap piano!" Someone asked him once, "How do you approach the guitar to play this way?" He responded, "I don't approach the instrument as a guitar, I approach it as a piano. The guitar is my lap piano."

A lot of great Jazz guitarists played fingerstyle and or chord melody solo style guitar, of whom Joe Pass, Johnny Smith and Ted Greene come to mind - and then there is the GREAT George Van Eps. Wow! Just WOW!!

And he was such a nice man to hang out with. I was studying with him in 1984, just before I got married. I called him “Uncle George”. He had great stories bout hanging out with Fats Waller in Harlem back in the day…

I had the pleasure and honor to study with this great man of the guitar in the spring of 1984. Memories I shall always treasure.

Un solo aggettivo....meraviglioso!!!!

Sweet and Lowdown

This song is … all

I know who GVE is ... still speechless!!!

Heard Tango El Bongo when I was a kid. What a window into the guitar! Thanks George!

Such a nice fellow.

That’s is wonderful playing and sound. When I first saw the guitar amp I thought this isn’t going to be anything special. But then I realized it’s a bass amp with a 15‘ speaker and woofer for the highs. Couldn’t be a better match. I’m in my seventies now and sure wish I knew about him back in the day. He certainly didn’t get the top billing he deserved. ‘

Anybody know where this guitar is today, like who owns it? Is it in a museum?

A real hero and innovator for all that knew of him. And I agree with many on this post ..... he should have gotten a lot more notice and recognition. I know there are a lot of great guitarists who DSID know him and tried to emulate him. What an amazing musician and guitar master. I still have his Soliloquy album (vinyl of course) I will always cherish it and thanks soooo much for all of the KZbin posts of his live performance work. New inspiration form one of the all time greats. He was born in August 7, 1913 and lived to be 85. He passed away on November 29,1998. RIP George.

Now let algoritms and AI generate this lovely human playing, fantastic

❤holy beautifulness

Such an elegant and fascinating player. Deserves to be much better known. A joy to see him playing in such an inventive fashion. Still tons of energy.

Not that it matters-is that a Gretch? I still have one of his books-Bought it in the 1970's got a lot out of it for $5.00.

Exelente!!!

There will never be another George van Eps; the maestro was simply beyond amazing.

One of the greatest jazz guitarists of all time.

Maestro George Van Eps was in a league all his own. An absolute master of the guitar.

There was a bassist around somewhere right? Im trying to learn to play this piece just not sure

3:57

Hi Erik, is there any way I can get the .pdf for this transcription? Thanks a ton!

Strabiliante

What do you mean he already gone i just found out about this guy. Damn, life is short, better play some guitar.

The Master. He and Jimmy Wyble say it to me.

Over 5K.........good going!......Bill Dee

Glad to see that so many people have seen George playing..........Bill Dee here!

possibly Metheny got some of his inspiration from George?

Wow. What mastery. The cleanest left hand work ever.

amazingly high level of sustained intense focus for over 6 minutes, remarkable performance and arrangement

Hi Erik, thanks so much for your contributions and uploads!! Greatly inspiring stuff. I cannot find a way to send you a message on youtube but I'd be so grateful if I could have a look at these transcription files as well. Would you please help me out? Many thanks!

This is the first time aive heard his name or playing, came looking for the origin of the 7 string guitar. Was blown away by this dude! Incredible memory and dexterity. The music is way to complex for mye simple mind to understand whats going on, but it was beautiful.

He had his very own approach for playing guitar that I don't think anyone has ever come close to emulating.

BTW, This is how you play guitar when your hobby is replica scale version trains!

Wow! Played the books he authored, never really heard the man. Thanks so much for this.

George was one of Ted Greene 's faves 🎸

I hunted down his albums on vinyl for years. They were hard to find.

I was lucky to hear George in NYC in the mid-80’s in a duo with guitarist Tony Rizzi. Amazing.

you are great! Thank you very much for your "tremolo test 1" (in Del Camp Forum). thanks to you the tremolo works fine for me now.

Just amazing….