Lenny Breau - The Lenny Breau Show - 1966 (Full Video)

[@TM-jo4wz]

2023. Lenny is still the man. No body plays like him.

[@claytongillaspy8847]

Only 65k views in 7 years? That’s a crime Lenny was beyond good simply a genius who could do anything such depth he had this is brilliant!

[@coreymihailiuk5189]

It's just mind blowing how creative Lenny Breau was on guitar. It flowed from him like a river. A truly God given talent.

[@claytongillaspy8847]

At least there are no dislikes but cmon Lenny is brilliant! Even Danny admitted he was the best guitarist ever and Danny gatton is my favorite along with Scotty anderson

[@dwebster50]

Revisited - Just the Best recording you will ever see , female vocalists and Lenny playing a Baldwin. Just gives me goose bumps. Tears of joy , so so precious. 🇨🇦😊

[@bigbass421]

Lenny was WAY ahead of his contemporaries.... He was actually American by birth, but lived in Canada, and is considered Canadian. Regardless- he was a genius, innovator and of course, tragically overlooked by the mainstream, and a met a sad and early demise.. as with so many of the true greats. The singers are all wonderful, and amazingly, unknown to me- they're as good as any American jazz singers- and the backing orchestra just plays perfectly. Fifty three years ago, and better than just about everything even remotely like it now.

[@pman8478]

Really wish Judi Singh had gotten the recognition she deserved

[@richirvine4519]

I'm glad Chet Atkins admired him and produced two RCA Nashville albums featuring Lenny B. Or I probably would have never got to hear him play. What a genius he was.

[@mbp7060]

It broke my heart to see Chet break down crying to Lenny's daughter.

[@charlesduckettjr.800]

Awesome. I feel very lucky that I got to see Lenny play live a number of times late 70's, in Nashville, and also at Berklee when I was a student there, maybe 1980. He did a concert at the performance center on Boylston St. I got to chat with Lenny a few times, nice fellow, not a stuck up star at all. He died way too young.

[@thebenefactor6744]

The motif and technique changes in Yesterday are mind blowing.

[@CaptainTodger69]

How did we get from *THIS* .. to America's got talent

[@nelsonjcloudy]

wow...yousaid it all

[@austinafrench]

Welp, we never had this. This is Canadian television.

[@tribeshift]

Canada's Got Talent!!!

[@FYMASMD]

Its all about money nowadays. Musical product to generate profits. No surprise. Just don't buy into it. I don't.😎👍

[@micahmadore]

Because this is Canada 😂

[@cosmo9287]

Beautiful women with beautiful voices and Lenny in a mellow mood...very special video.

[@bminorscales]

Yes, all the singers deserve mention. So I will! Yvette Shaw, Karen Marklinger, and Judi Singh. They are remarkable.

[@UglowD]

+bminorscales Isn't Judi Singh the mother of his daughter, Emily Hughes?

[@Fiddlin53]

Yes, she is.

[@sitarnut]

Judi Singh has one of the best voices I've ever heard.. reminds me a bit of wonderful Nancy Wilson.

[@djanno1296]

Real singing, real musicians, cool set, classy show!

[@BrianKlobyGuitar]

Most iconic... those ladies had some pipes... no auto-tune! ☕🎸

[@jasonheatley7798]

Yup

[@Nayradharma]

Lenny was the first I listened to before I played jazz. Listening to him again now, I just realized oh how awesome his technique was.

[@marktrentecosta]

Lenny was an incredible guitarist and musician............fused classical jazz pop country into one

[@cactusjack1943]

And flamenco.

[@jstringer213]

I've watched this a hundred times...my God what a treasure!!!

[@paulramsey51]

There should be a statue somewhere of Lenny Breau in Canada.

[@nebula1919191]

Why? Did he ask for that? Honour him by picking up an instrument dude. Perhaps guitar.

[@anthonysilva5312]

Right beside Ed Bickert and Oscar Peterson

[@Faz99Master]

1966! Waaaayy ahead of his time. Luscious and amazingly advanced harmony that way unequaled on the guitar.

[@lanceb.]

In Toronto around 1960 or so, we were blessed with guitarists Lenny Breau and Ed Bickert playing live at the after hours jazz clubs like the First Floor Club and The House Of Hamburg. I worked my way home near dawn after many late Saturday nights of live jazz, then. Seems so long, long ago, now.

[@davidmaslow2931]

Just musical magic!

[@bminorscales]

The orchestra is also noteworthy. Wow, it's a trifecta.

[@likhound]

Absolutely Fantastic stuff , probably the most creative guitarist to ever breathe air. The vocalist are also great.

[@sitarnut]

Bro... Lenny changed my entire guitar and music life too, but have to say also, that Judy Singh has one of the best voices I've ever heard in 75 years on the planet..... so much reminds me of Nancy Wilson, but her own electricity.

[@dwebster50]

I agree , there will never be a Lenny Breau. He had such a grasp on his jazz arrangements. His Baldwin Guitar is so cool and fits that era. His sound remained, even up to his Kirk Sand 8 string. Wish they would release more of these shows ... Love to have them in my I tunes....Its good listening Alberta Dave

[@richirvine4519]

When I first got to see Lenny perform out on the west coast I got to shake his hand and talk to him a bit. He told me that his Baldwin guitar had been stolen and that he really liked that guitar. This was in the early 80's I think. BTW my hands are smallish for an average heighth fellow but his hands were really small I thought. He sure never let it hold him back.

[@donegee]

Classic music never changes, it never gets old, it remains the same. Only we get old and all the while seek an unconventional wisdom attempting to create something new. Life is like that on all fronts. It kills me when few people pay attention to history ... they can learn a lot.

[@johntechwriter]

History resonates for most people only when they have lived through it.

[@MiguelMendesguitar]

Awesome interaction with bass at 7:17, when Lenny finishes his solo. They maintain a pedal (same chord) for some bars with the singer, and Lenny smiles to the fact the bass also got the pedal idea.

[@kevinkinnu341]

Thanks for the post. So much amazing stuff was on TV that I never got to see

[@denisclement7687]

Absolutely Fantastic !

[@AndSan-n7q]

When winnipeg had so much potential, in so many ways

[@denisclement7687]

Absolutely Fantastic ! Nothing like this on TV these days .

[@ChrisFosterSongs]

Thank you for sharing this

[@Qbm2109]

Incredible document. Many many thanks

[@frednapoli1246]

First featured vocalist " Gotta Move" is Karen Marklinger. First rate vocalist and SUPERIOR jazz voice in my opinion. I may have written liner notes on her CTL album. Amazing that this particular program was recorded 48 years ago.

[@theempyrean1227]

They were more "advanced" back in those days. An absolute "pearl", thanks!

[@curtpeterson7386]

If anyone or any company with strong video editing skills was ever able to convert this to a digital format, and clean up the audio it would be well worth the price. Great entertainment on display here. I found this via the Chet Atkins feature with Lenny. This is an historical document of an unsung guitarist in a jazz/pop venue in his prime. The women in this clip are fantastic and can really sell each song they perform. At least this kinescope survives in its entirety with few film rips or breaks.

[@paulharris8551]

what a find!! I wonder if the Canadians archived the series. Lenny Breau is one of those guys who is not that well known but tremendously admired by those familiar with his work.

[@petergermain]

mind blowing

[@AlanKRiley]

A treasure!

[@bantump3537]

Lenny's the greateast guitar player Canada has produced. For all we know.He sure dug the essence of guitarplaying.A genuis?Oh yeah!

[@Fiddlin53]

Actually, while Lenny's musical career took place mostly in Canada, he was Maine boy, born and raised.

[@charlesduckettjr.800]

Lenny was born in Maine but his family moved to Canada when he was a little boy. He grew up there.

[@mbp7060]

He wasn't Canadian. He was a treasure to all who could appreciate his greatness. That transcends boundaries

[@alexnutcasio936]

Charles Duckett Jr. he was like 6 or 8 when they went to Canada. Maine born and bred, but we can put aside nationalism and thank his parents .

[@dougorama77]

This is just astounding!!! I had no idea that he had his own regular show - and that is like the most rare electric guitar I can think of, I think it's an old Baldwin Bison possibly, but there are close to no pix on the internet. And some of these songs sound like Bacharach tunes but I've never heard them before, they're probably written by Canadian composers. There were laws about having a certain percentage of Canadian written content on there TV and radio. Those last two tunes are mazing, especially Lenny's solo in the last one, and the time signatures in the second to the last one are constantly shifting - a fantastic find, thanks!

[@ironpirites]

+Douglas R. Perkins You got me curious about the guitar. I think it might be a Virginian. The Bisons were solid bodies as far as I can tell. Check this URL: gbase.com/gear/baldwin-burns-virginian-1965-natural-polyeste

[@Moodymongul]

fyi - its a Baldwin-Burns Virginian guitar :)

[@lanceb.]

Thanks to the CBC.

[@timbutlerwinnipeg]

Brilliant..Takes us back

[@jasonheatley7798]

Wow!

[@victorwong9622]

Lenny certainly jazzed up Petula Clark’s old chestnut, threw in all those dissonant chords, then went double time, he really knew how to make a number swing!

[@victorwong9622]

He shows his flamenco chops at 8:59 with that sustained tremelo.

[@victorwong9622]

Looks like this show only aired from 8/12 to 9/9/66 (per Wikipedia). Anybody else know?

[@gmtnosa00]

Lenny is my hero

[@cliffbungalow9373]

The best guitar player ever and always playing the weirdest guitars

[@Jazzistan]

Lenny Breau will be back in 1 minute...😚

[@anthonysilva5312]

I wish

[@andresmarino2788]

As far as “ greatest guitar player Canada produced “… I mostly agree but Ed Bickert has to be mentioned . Breau is more dynamic ; more chops ; and a real diverse range of styles he could occupy … but something about Bickert’s unending perfection chord after chord line after line … his unschooled yet highly sophisticated harmonic invention on the fly and the way solos unfolded their beautiful logic - made Bickert unparalleled in those regards and worth mentioning .

[@threetorches100]

thank you for posting this. i'm still waiting for the day that full episodes of hootenanny make their way on these here you tubes.

[@cherylrobert6703]

Main boy but couldn't resist the music scene in Winnipeg ,Toronto at the time. Chet was his mentor but somewhat intimated by lenny's brilliance

[@JackRocko]

Don't think he was canadien, just ended up there. A real drug fiend, but a true jazzer. The solo in Downtown is an example of the kind of harmony he liked, Jazz, man.

[@cactusjack1943]

Winnipeg was his home town and that's a Winnipeg production. Great players in that orchestra too. Must have been a really happening music scene in Winnipeg in the 60s. The Guess Who also emerged there at the time and Neil Young was kicking around.

[@SidLaw500]

Outstanding!

[@billhagen58]

greatest of all times.

[@1610austin]

lenny was a true genious

[@douglasmaliszewski8959]

I was thinking that the true measure of a good song is when you start sing along. Wonderful stuff.

[@1Agspwnz4now1]

I just found out today that this man is my 3rd cousin :o

[@onesyphorus]

wuuuuttt!!!!

[@mbp7060]

Amazing. If you can't FEEL this I feel sorry for you. Just 7 dislikes though.

[@JoeLach]

Thanks for posting this.

[@Modes9]

This is a sad commentary about the world today. Audiences expected great melodies, chord progressions, and arrangements in that era. Young people act like those priorities are relics of a bygone age. When will things change?

[@sitarnut]

Modes9-baby- Man, really dug what you said… my Bro and I grew up in the 60s learning to play from Wes, Joe Pass and all those cats. It is so mind-numbingly boring to try to teach kids guitar nowadays. Beauty of chord intros and endings are lost on them. I have one good student left. I don't think it can change. It drives us crazy what passes for music now. Nothing to do but put the Lenny, Wes, Paul Desmond and Bill Evans LPs on the turntable… you won't get the vibe from 2014… sad, as you said…. the early death of beauty.

[@chrisdick2305]

Jim Griffin There was a great guitar player and teacher named Ted Greene who taught a large number of students the joys of harmonic complexity. He was a huge Lenny fan. Check out the web site his students maintain for him (tedgreene. com and you will find some arrangements that will fill your ears with distant echoes of Lenny.

[@sitarnut]

Yes, my friend…. Ted has been knocking us out for years, well, since that first LP hit… he's the only cat I know who took apart some of Lenny's approach… I can't play any of it… good thing I'm eat up with Samba and Joao Gilberto as well… that's at least possible. Lenny and Ted - Impressionist guitar at it's finest.

[@chrisdick2305]

Jim Griffin Crazy thing about Lenny, is that he was a virtuoso on acoustic too. He played flamenco for God's sake. Not Ted, not Joe Pass, not Wes, none of them could shred an acoustic like.Lenny. Guy was definitely from another planet.

[@Imafungi123]

Modes9 There is music for the mind, and music for the body. Though both cross over into one another. There is still lots of good modern music, musically complex and qualitatively produced exceedingly exquisitely. But for many people, music is usually the background to life, and not a piece of art that requires mindful attention, necessarily.

[@richardgullison9980]

Anybody know who the rhythm section is? Lenny is brilliant as always but these guys were with him every step of the way.

[@pauricx14]

it should Reg Kelln on drums and Ron Halldorson on bass

[@tablescraps4347]

I bet that was Alex Trebek at 2:42 , 23:04. He was a CBC presenter. Have to check the dates.

[@overmeiren]

Regarding other episodes, there were 6 aired on Friday nights between Aug 5 and Sep 9 1966. I inquired to the CBC Manitoba admin of digital archives and was informed that only 1 episode exists, and that the others were erased and the tape reused. It's not clear which episode this is; perhaps the sixth and last?

[@michellelandriault6542]

Wow

[@timgant7141]

Anyone know what guitar Lenny is playing ?

[@andrewphillips156]

The archive feels like an epitaph. This kind of female jazz vocal seemed to peter out around then, outflanked perhaps by the triter harmonies of folk, pop and soul, as well as the aggression of 'modern' blues and rock styles. Do feel free to offer alternative explanations

[@ChrisFosterSongs]

How many episodes were there

[@DansHands2010]

anybody know who the vocalists were? Didn't see any credits for them.

[@bminorscales]

Just click on "Show more"

[@JoeLach]

Song 6 @ 13:24 is Let's go where the Grass is greener. Song 9 @ 21:21 I have no idea what it's called. If anyone knows please post because I'm kind of curious.

[@GillJazzTranscriptions]

+Joe Lach Thanks

[@jazzguitarfreaky]

Is it possible to get this Lenyy Breau shows?This guy is unbelievable.When will they reveal all Lenny breau material? Greetings from germany

[@bantump3537]

jazzguitarfreaky

[@daynenobodyIV]

so..is that a Baldwin "Virginian" model ?

[@turbo1234ist]

Canada was home to Maynard Ferguson and Oscar Peterson.

[@Richard_K1630]

Found a bio on Karen: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/singer-made-her-mark-400963805.html

[@charlesduckettjr.800]

Great! Thanks.

[@richirvine4519]

The great jazz singer looks a little like Lenny B's daughter. I wonder?

[@UnderHisHand]

It's common knowledge that she's Emily's mom.

[@donnasingh1891]

That’s Judi Singh…she is the mother of Lenny’s daughter, Emily.Judi passed away recently and was my aunt.

[@tonyfreeman1339]

Auburn's native son

[@solofiddle]

Some odd tunes I have never heard - are some of them maybe mandated tunes by Canadian composers? No matter - still great!

[@646879]

and the singer is? damn shame ....he could have had many more years close to the top...