Joe Bonamassa and George Benson Jazz and Blues Common Threads
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2013
- We caught up with American blues rock guitarist and singer, Joe Bonamassa and ten-time Grammy Award-winning musician and jazz guitarist, George Benson at the Comerica Theatre in Phoenix, AZ for this tremendeously rare and candid conversation about their respective influences and the common thread between jazz and blues.
bonamssa looking more and more like a tarantino character every day
George benson is so intimidating... even SRV or Hendrix would look like a novice next to him...
Joe is trying his hardest to be as cool as benson
Blues is a minimalist art form. What it lacks in complexity it makes up for in depth.
"If you can't sell me the melody, the rest of it has no meaning. I won't remember the song."
If I was sitting next to George Benson...I would not touch the guitar.
George Benson: 'Everything begins with one'
I love how Benson didn't even play a single note
I like Joe a lot, but it would have been good if he didn't play when George was talking. One thing that's very hard to learn, but you eventually learn it (if you're wise) when you get older is to shut up, listen to and watch experienced players. Now George is off the charts the greatest jazz player of the last 50 years; what I wouldn't give to sit there and ask him questions. And the comment about what notes to solo over the chords as they move around in jazz - George knew right away that was not the way to approach it. For guys like him, the notes are dictated by the chords- that's the one thing about great jazz players I've come to learn, and I know little about jazz.
"Well you know, everything begins with 1." Truer words have never been spoken.
Benson has to be one of the best players I've ever heard. He blows my mind.
George Benson, what a gentlemen and humble guy. THE musicians musician.
I don't even know the name of a single Bonnamassa song- but I have seen him play enough to know that he certainly does not suck. That man can without a doubt play guitar at the highest professional level.
Mr. George Benson took me backstage in 1970 to help me decide about playing left or right handed,
When benson mentioned that he actually met T bone walker joe just shit his pants.
GB is a LEGEND! No basis for comparison! I've met GB twice off the stage at a mutual friend and on a plane. Genuinely humble guy and very likable. No ego or hangup. He has nothing to prove and he's seen it all.
I appreciate that Joe has a lot of respect for jazz.
Both of these guys are incredible musicians and vocalist and have inspired many musicians young as well as old, I am a big fan of both.
Geroge Benson is such a smooth character. Ohh and a beast playing jazz guitar.
Realism is priceless, genuine humans are irreplaceable! Thank you for being you...thank George also.