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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2009
- Roberts Music Institute is proud to present a musical gift to the world. This is the first known video of Howard Roberts performing live.
Please don't hesitate to leave any comments you may have and long live HR!
Bass - Bob Magnussen
Drums - Joe Porcaro
Keys - Carl Schroeder
For more information on Howard Roberts and online lessons from his son Jay Roberts check out www.robertsmusicinstitute.com/category/online-lessons
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i studied with howard roberts in the 1970's. took a master class that was 8 hours a day for 5 days at a tavern in north portland. buddy fite came by with some of his epiphones. i was never the same. super nice guy. i still have the material. lots of theory but also lots of playing with the man. we played "there will never be another you" and jammed on it while different players took turns. buddy fite and howard also joined in.
....By the way, That's the great Joe Porcaro on drums, Top LA session man not to mention (For all you Toto fans) he's the Father to the 3 Porcaro Brothers of Toto!! Jeff Porcaro, 1 of the worlds best drummers and passed away @ 38, hrt. attack in 1992, Mike Porcaro-bassist who just recently tragically passed away of ALS in 2015 @ just 58 and Steve Porcaro, the only Porcaro brother left, keys/synth man for Toto/Movie soundtracks etc!! Joe, on this older video, is still alive and well Feb of 2016 and my heart sure goes out to him and his family so; watch out for a movie/doc coming out soon called "PORCARO!" Band of Brothers!!! Being a huge Toto fan I thought you all should know that this is Joe and tell ya about the movie! Peace
Jeff Porcaro was a monster player, one of the best ever.
I went to one of the early (pre GIT) Howard Roberts guitar clinics in L.A., a week long eight hours a day, I think there were 30 of us, it was held at the old Knickerbocker hotel, year 1971 or 72 Pretty incredible. The second day in Roberts says I have some friends coming in and we're going to hold a little jam. About 1:00 pm in comes Herb Ellis and Joe Pass. The three of played some tunes and the room of 30 young guitarists became very, very quiet. I don't think anyone picked up their instrument for a few hours. Never once did I see Howard without his shades, he was really one cool dude, dry wit, very funny.
+Clarence Wooten that must have been something man!!!
Guitfiddlejase
Indeed it was, musically speaking, it was life changing. I came back to AZ with a stack of material from H.R. and started work incorporating what I'd learned into my gigging band, a Tower of Power/Sons of Champlin style group w/horns.
My only other story is hanging with Joe Pass for a week in Mesa AZ, another clinic. We each got one private lesson with Joe. Here's the lesson. Joe would play a chord and say sing 3 or 4 notes, after five or six chords he said, "now you play the chords" and he took the notes I'd sang and played them in his jazz style. Sounded great! He also said, "I don't read a note of music, it's all ear" Which most of us know, but it's nice to hear anyway, even if you do read. I asked if I could play his ES-175, "Sure Man, go right ahead". medium gauge flatwounds medium high action, neck badly out of adjustment... I could barely press the strings down. Yet another lesson... :-)
I saw HR at a small concert with Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow, Les Paul, Bucky Pizzarelli, and some top steel guitarist like Buddy Emmons. Slam Stewart on bass, Louis Bellson drums. Met and talked to HR a little...nice guy. 1977 I think.
Clarence Wooten: I was working in records in London in the late '60s and I remember unpacking a box of new imports one friday and discovering 'Loosen Up Naturally' the Sons Of Champlin's first album. It didn't get a release in the UK but EMI Imports decided to ship in a few copies from the States. What a find! I had never heard them before but got aquainted Real quick. I loved Tom Champlin's style of playing. There's a great moment on the track 'Get High' when in the middle of the vibes solo you can just hear an audible 'sniff' and subsequent exhale. I thought 'Follow You Heart' was a reasonable second album but the third, for me by then they had lost something.
@@ClarenceHW Joe did read music, he just was MUCH better at picking up things by ear. He said so in interviews and John Williams also confirmed that Joe was a good reader. Here's the interview. preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2015/11/joe-pass-interview-1974.html
I first hear HR's a dirty guitar player in the 50's, I was 15 and singing standards at The Molly Waldo in Marblehead, MA. thinking of a pop/ r& r band but never could get the sound out of my head and now at 70 years of age ,still rock n rollin' i reolize HR was not only a dirty guitar player he was a monseres gift to my appriciation of what music is really all about... thank- you HR................ John Marshall Hayden.
Howard Roberts is a national jazz and guitar treasure!! I had the pleasure to hear him many times at Dontes and he was amazing!
As a 25+ year faculty member of the Guitar Department of the World's Most Famous Music School, in Boston, let me simply say, THANK YOU.
Watching this was a privilege.
I'm not a huge jazz fan, but I can appreciate this guy's talent.
I am blown away by his attack. He turns it up effortlessly, and where the hell does he pull all that out of? He must be an encyclopedia of scales, harmonies, modes, arpeggios, and many other things I know nothing about lol.
Great guitar player.
that's jazz my guy
HR was thee hippest person I ever met. He could say things like "dig" or "gas" or even "groovy," and make them sound right. His playing never ceased to be contemporary. His '60s Capitol LPs were as commercial as Benson later became, as funky as Grant Green - yet he did it in 2:30 little gems. They weren't aimed at jazzers (tho they dug 'em too); they were aimed at everybody. I was lucky to grow up in one of those households that had those LPs. Getting to know him years later was indeed a gas!
"HR is a Dirty Guitar Player" has been one of my all-time favorite jazz guitar recordings for years, and not to mention just a classic of jazz, period. The aural quality of that LP is amazing. The old Capitol Records studios and analog recording gear sounded wonderful. That particular record remains a model for what a jazz-organ-bass-drums quartet ought to sound like, now more than fifty years after it was laid down.
I surely miss you, HR.....
Living in the age of CZcams for musicians and aficionados is a fantastic educational experience. We can explore and sample the huge variety of our favorite talent by the touch of fingertips. Howard Roberts playing contains a complexity of tonal variation and structure that commands a listeners' attention.
Hard to get paid though... as someone else pointed out, in other countries musicians get a place to live and a stipend. not here...
It's worst for jazz and classical musicians. We no longer have an orchestra in my city. Jazz musicians have to travel year round if they want to work.
these guys are swinging like F$%^!!!!!!!!! those solos are real too... chordal notes!!! this is real jazz
By far the most underrated guitar player ever.
Just stumbled onto this site. Brought back old memories of recording Howard, Jack Marshall, Doc Sevirenson, Buddy Rich and many other fine musicians. Working in a studio often leaves one blasé’ to the artistic greatness of these truly great musicians and certainly Mr Roberts was the best in a small group of “the best”.
Howard Roberts was and is one of the all time greats. He became a friend and mentor to me in the publishing and teaching business in the 80s and is missed by all who knew him. He always inspired me and does to this. Thanks to the Roberts Institute and his son Jay, who also happens to be a world class guitarist as well.
I did his cartage !! The company still has Howard's guitar trunk. Its big and nicely made of wood by Howie Oliver the percussionist !!
I can't believe there isn't more video on Howard, all those performances. Dontes, GIT, all the seminars. He was the master of guitar pedigogy, as great a player as any great you can name, and a very nice guy. When i was a teenager in the 70's i attended every seminar of his that i could. He was so nice to this skinny kid with a guitar[me] Just an awesome dude, a huge influence, and very missed. God bless this great musician that people don't talk about enough.
Howard Roberts had the chops to become an all-time jazz great on the instrument, but alas he didn't attain the level of recognition or success as a jazz recording artist he was due, since he spent so many years in anonymity as a first-call studio musician.
Usable video equipment was not readily available until the 80s. Unless something was filmed or a network TV production, it didn't happen.
14 people don't recognize genius. One of my favorite albums is "The Real Howard Roberts"
Thanks for reminding me how good he really was.
Thanks for this fantastic post! Howard Roberts changed my life and I will be eternally grateful to him!
After a guitar seminar in San Francisco in 1982 with Howard and Don Mock, I decided to attend GIT in 1983/85. I never did become the player I dreamed of, but all the same the experience enriched my life in ways I could never explain.
The man was a musical genius, and as a teacher/life philosopher, simply beyond compare.
Thanks for everything, Howard!
Man! Bob Magnusson is great on this!
Bought a vinyl of this cat in 1966, I think. What a find! Played Mr. Lucky to death. Miss him.
YES !!!! Grande CHITARRISTA . Gustoso e sanguigno al tempo stesso e bop a go go !!!! Spesso dimenticato ma è uno dei maestri della chitarra jazz. Howard Roberts !!!!!
Great to hear and SEE Howard again! He taught me as much about life as he did about music. He was a really great guy who could talk to anyone on any level they approached him - very cerebral but also VERY down to earth. Miss him much.
Howard Roberts live on stage this is what i was looking for years who ever made this video thank you for your generosity for us to see the master in action.
You certainly stated it aptly for me, RMI folks, it is indeed a musical gift to the world -- the guitar world in particular. Roberts could say as much musically in a single chorus on his Capitol quartet albums as guys who play three times as long. His ideas were so inventive. His cadenza's alone will make you wish you had half the chops he had.
Amen and amen.
He was my idol in the 60s. My guitar teacher introduced me to his playing. I still have all of his original albums stashed away. Thanks for posting his awesome guitar playing. Him and Joe Pass, WOW
Thank you for posting! HR was so important to guitar, any video is a treasure.
Wow .. heard him tonight - first time .. listening to Steely Dan .. listening to Skunk Baxter .. and here is HR.
One of the very best players of his generation, Howard was a great teacher and author. 25 years ago he came to the UK for a series of 3-day seminars. Outstanding!
Note how, like many other great players (eg Dave Cliff and Jim Mullen in the UK) Howard uses mainly three fingers and plays with such fluency.
I think I was in the room when this was shot (late 1980 or early 81) in Hollywood at M.I. (was a student there then) good to see Carl Shroeder and Bob Magnusson. Fond memories of hanging with HR
wow HR video! i used to try my damnedest to absorb his wisdom from the Guitar Player Magazine, of which he was a regular columnist. it was learning a new language even though i did know how to read music.
thank you Howard Roberts and Guitar Player Magazine.
I remember those. A Great column, with great ideas
Roberts is absolutely amazing!
Howard Roberts is really something Special.
Makes one wonder why are the great ones taken from us on such a regular basis
That's Carl Schroder on keyboard, The best keyboard player that a guitar player could ever learn from. He is a giant and one of the funniest people I ever met.
HR is at the top of my list of favorite guitar players and it's a very long list covering different genres of music. I got to see and meet Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow and Johnny Smith but never Howard.
Jay, this is freaking amazing. Thanks so much for sharing a part of your Dad's legacy. Do you have any more??? Much love, Cindy Smith (Cape Cod)
Ah yes Howard Roberts is masterful. ever the ultra hip technician flippin' it backward forward side and everywhich way on that rich sounding namesaked axe.
And that bass player is a mutherf$&*er! Thanks for sharing.Beautiful Star Eyes,....Frank Dawson riP
I have Howard's 3 volume 'Guitar Compendium' series of books. Highly recommended for serious players. Covers so much ground. One of the greatest players ever.
Gary Sellars does he discuss chord melody? If so, what volume? Thanks
Saw Howard Robert when I was young...I believe it was in Pioneer Square, Seattle. Never could get his music to leave my head. I miss his music terribly and now am pleased to hear some again.
Conchya in Seattle
That's Joe Porcaro!! holy shit finding anything with him is a rare treat.Jeff's Dad what a total trip man!!
Wow, Jay, your Dad was simply AMAZING....I've learned so much...congrats to you for filling his shoes as well as you do!!! Cindy, Cape Cod
Beautiful!
This guy is brilliant.
@aa100zz Yeah! I love "Howard Roberts Is A Dirty Guitar Player"!
...I also have an old LP called "Turning To Spring".Fantastic record.
I wouldn't be able to confirm your question,but it is nice to meet someone who is hip to Howard!Best to you!
One of the old masters. Thank God for You Tube so that younger guitarists cans ee and hear these talented greats.
TOTALLY SOLID-SENDING COOL !!
This is wonderful !!! : ) Jay ..your Dad ( HR ) ..Joe ..Bobby ..and Carl look so young.. .. Joe and Bobby are also backing up Joe Pass in that video " All The Things You Are ..
Jay!...So Glad you posted this!...Please put up more, if you have it!...
Thanks!
Rowland
@paulyrulo Fantastic! It is so wonderful to meet other Howard fans on here...you are absolutely right.ANY album from "Mr. Roberts" is worth digging!
I hope your day is wonderful.
The same Howard Roberts that plays on Francis Faye Sings Folk Songs ? That is some beautiful guitar playing, and interesting arrangements. (1957)
Reminds me of seeing Howard during his five-night stands at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago back in the 1970s.
I love how his lines pour through the cracks of the rythm section. Very real playing.That cat on keys is also astounding.
I like that HR Fusion guitar w/ original stop tail model. I have a blonde one. He is so good!
I have played and listened to many great jazz guitarists over 30 or so years. In my opinion Howard along with Hank Garland was one of the most original and creative players. He played his licks, Louis Stewart is another. All true guitar masters.
THanks Phill G Stotfold
One of the truly great jazz guitarists of all time.
ANTELOPE FREEWAY is finally out on CD with EQUINOX EXPRESS ELEVATOR as a BONUS!! Antelope Freeway is a real 'Movie For The Ears'.
I first learned of Howard from stumbling across his LP Something's Cookin'. I just rediscovered it in my collection and I'm so glad I did. I love that record! He's truly an unsung hero.
my guitar hero since i first bought HR is A Dirty Guitar Player in 63
Carl Schroeder... OMG...
He's still at MI, yelling and cursing little bit... Man, I love him.
Howard had a huge impact of my learning of the guitar. It is a shame that more videos are not available.
Thank you Jay!
H.R. was my idol when I was a teen in the early to mid 60's. The first album I bought of his was Whatever's Fair, and this was the distinctive crossover pop/jazz material that he was such a master at. My first good guitar was a Gibson Howard Roberts model, for LOL, that I bought when I started back at guitar in my 50's....
Carl Schroeder was my Theory teacher in MI. last year! Great teacher. Probably one of the finest that still remains in that institution. It's so inspiring to see this video! Howard Roberts true genius :)
Long live HR
Great!
Fantastic!! Thanks!!
Amazing video, when I first saw that guitar in a catalog in earlies 80´s, I got crazy. So, 2 years ago I bought it here in Brazil. It´s a 1980 guitar, mint condition, , just the same I can see in the video.......and I love that! Thanks for posting.......
HR's solos were perfect; songs within songs. I've seen press over the years relegating him because he chose to play lighter fare at times, i.e., his jazz-pop into bossa phase of the 60's. But then, psuedo-intellectual jazz snobs who denigrate everything but bop have always been the bane of the genre; why would I listen to them? Wes rose to dizzying heights, but not as consistently. Howard's phrasing and taste, very simply, make him the GREATEST jazz guitarist to have ever lived...a GENIUS.
I agree... whenever I listen to him I get mind blown.
Agree, he was really underrated. Bloody jazz critics so called experts.
Wes was a big fan of HR's jazz playing, and you can hear snatches of Wes-influenced licks and riffs in his - HR's - work. Wes is numero uno in my book, but Roberts isn't far behind.
Thanks so much , Always loved his style , i was raised on the Howard Roberts Dirty Guitar player LP , Great Las vegas soundin Blues
I had the honor to do Howard and Joe's cartage. (and Jeff)
There is some tremendous work from
Howard Roberts on the album 'Gandharva'.
Some of the best solos ive heard.
Wow! Amazing to see...glad to have been at MI back in the 80's to see these guys!
One of my all time favorites, a true guitar genius, Mr Roberts Plays Guitar was my first imported Jazz Guitar Vinyl in the early 80`s(japanese reissue of the 50`s album)
.So Great, I hope there`s more to come.Thanks for posting!!!
Carl Schroeder is awesome
A very strong influence yet not very available. Thanks for posting this. I've been looking for HR for years. Great!
Incredible performance!!!!!!!!!!!... Howard was a great friend and a true legend in the guitar world! If you have more videos... Please share them!
Thanks for posting this!
magic
One of my guitar greats when I was growing up. First album I bought was "Whatever's Fair".
Get a hold of a copy of " HR IS A DIRTY GUITAR PLAYER"..That will give you something to hold dear to your musical heart. .He and the guys on that album are light years ahead of the times recorded back in the early 60s with a cool funk groove you will treasure.
One of my jazz guitar solos.beautiful.
Incredible playing. Interesting watching his eyes telegraph where on the neck he'll be playing while he's playing the present lick. He already knows where he's going.
Classic MI for sure! Howard Roberts, Carl Schroeder, Bob Magnasson and Joe Pocarro.
Thanks for posting this. I had the pleasure of seeing Howard at Jazz Alley in the U District a few times back in the 80's, with Dan Dean on bass and Tom Collier on percussion. Brilliant.
OK, Paulyrulo, I was introed to Howard a couple of years after you, 1964 or 5. I had an old crony guitar teacher That turned me on to him and Herb Ellis.
Wow what an exciting thing having a private concert buy Howard. He was my Idol also. I still have his records stashed away. I put them on tape so I wouldn't wear them out. I love his style. Thanks for sharing that info with me. I am not surprised that Howard would do that for a fan. saw Herb in Palm Beach Fl around 1995. liked HR style
Herb Ellis. Now there is a name you don't hear everyday. He was a monster player as well
Outstanding bass playing on this.
Wonderful !
Roberts ,Raney and René Thomas some brotherhood crossing guitars !
Find a copy of his 'Antelope Freeway' album at ALL costs! Its a masterpiece. A Movie For The Ears!!!!
Incredible to see/hear this after all these years!
BTW, the other players are;
Bass - Bob Magnussen
Drums - Joe Porcaro
Keys - Carl Schroeder
ALL fantastic players and musicians in their own right.
Go to the Roberts Music Institute website (link in the description) and click on RMI Store then check out the Guitar Compendium.
Also, you can take a lesson with his son Jay Roberts at Roberts Music Institute in Bellevue, WA. And if that's a little further than you would like to travel we can even get you hooked up with an online Skype lesson with Jay. Check out the site.
Wish I could go back in time so I could clip the ends of those guitar strings.
@fivenotechord I see, a person who measures the heart and soul of music by numbers and mathematics. The mind boggles-
Great playing all around and really enjoyed bassist on solo spot.
@vampyros1 As far as I'm concerned, Howard's jazz-pop into bossa phase is some of the best recorded jazz I ever heard, "H.R. is a Dirty, etc." is like my favorite! His arrangements of those "pop songs" are pure genius
I simlply love that
A light, fluid touch. Very nice.
What a wonderful gift, Jay! Thanks for posting this on your CZcams channel.
Steve Gurgevich
OH WOW........this is wonderful! I'm so glad you posted it!
@mrJimCharles Oh yea, absolutely killer stuff, and Grusin was brilliant too when he played. We have good taste ... (smile)