This Guy Doesn't Need a "REAL" Jazz Guitar To Sound Amazing!
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- I can't believe that Ed Bickert is not mentioned more often! This Jazz solo demonstrates how incredible he is in terms of phrasing and his unique chord voicings that sound beautiful! You owe yourself to check him out!
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Content:
00:00 Overlooked But Incredible Guitarist
00:33 The Song And The Blues
02:42 The Melody But Now With Blues
04:01 Did He Get This From Jim Hall?
05:27 The Telephant In The Room
07:07 Beautiful But Unusual Voicings
08:29 Beautiful But Unusual Sounds
10:19 A Personal Way Interpretation Of Harmony
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Who is your favorite "telecaster jazzer"?
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Bickert for sure 🙂
Julian Lage. I saw him last month in Valladolid (He broke his e string and hadn’t a back up guitar, so he run to change the string. Whe he came back said that was his last string). Also, one of his telecasters is a spanish one; a Nachocaster.
Ed Bickert! He’s why I bought a tele.
@@iplayguitar66 same here 🙂
Definitely Ted Greene.
One of my favorites, Tim Lerch
Ed Bickert is not "under-rated", he is "un-known". One of the finest players of the Tele.
Exactly! Those in the know understand how marvelous he was. But in no way was he underrated. However, the neck pickup on the Tele is perhaps underrated. But check out the famous photo of Joe Pass playing a Tele. The extraordinary Gibson rep and product designer Andy Nelson would often stop into our family music store. Andy would invariably grab a Tele off the rack. Great post, Jeff.
@@MrJimcarlton Neck pickup... Gibson Humbucker ?
One of the finest players period! He used to use a standard tele neck pickup and sounded great too. I wonder if he uses heavy flat wound strings?
Curiously, no. Andy was a fan of the stock Tele neck pickup. Of course Bob Bain of the Tonight Show and Peter Gunn fame used a Tele with the neck Humbucker. In fact, they're being marketed today by Fender as "the Son of a Gunn." They have a distressed look but they sound great. It's just that they're somewhere in the neighborhood of 10K last time I checked. @@jeffhildreth9244
@@MrJimcarltonI love old people
I was turned on to Ed Bickert ~40 years ago. Great to see someone giving him some appreciation.
Thanks for this great video! I had the pleasure of speaking for hours and hours with Ed Bickert about his playing. I even transcribed all of his solos on the "Pure Desmond" album, as I wanted to help Ed make a transcription book where he could share his playing style in his own words. Finally that didn't happen but the time spent transcribing his music and then talking with him is one of most profound experiences in my musical life. I always say that are two kinds of persons: those who never heard Ed Bickert and those who know that Ed Bickert is one of the finest guitar players that ever lived. ☺Thanks for this great video and congratulations on your amazing channel, Jens!
And you quite the player on the Tele too, @PedroBellora. I found your channel when looking for Ed Bickert transcriptions / lessons.
@PedroBellora I wish you could write that book!
I’ve seen some of your Ed Bickert tutorials and I love them.
I’d love to read about your conversations with Ed!
I saw Ed play in Toronto many times. Sophisticated voicings/voice-leading in his lines. Truly sublime player. Thanks Jens for creating a video dedicated to Ed. He’s still under-appreciated in the music and guitar world.
Wow! I wish I had seen him live. Glad you like the video 🙂
So glad to see this
Saw him quite a few times with Moe Koffman in Toronto
Ed’s chord melody knowledge is absolutely amazing. Maybe in my next life I can wrap my mind around this talent Ed has.
I was lucky enough to see Ed play in Montreal back in the day, must have been late 80's, I guess. A true master of the telecaster!
Working jazz players in Toronto all knew Ed’s work. He was a national treasure, and left a legacy of great players in Toronto who cut their teeth listening to Ed’s unique beautiful playing. Thanks Jens.
Glad you like the video 🙂
He’s a great player and criminally underrated. So great. I often feel that the jazz journalists etc only pay attention to USA based artists, so maybe that’s part of it. Thanks for doing this video drawing attention to his playing.
Glad you like it Nick! 🙂
A great recognition for one of the very greatest jazz guitarists. I love, love, love Ed Bickert!
Thank you Jens for reminding everyone of Ed Bickert! A true giant. And: The Tele is a great guitar for Jazz...or Country...or Funk...or Rock...!
There are several underrated guitarist from Canada Ed Bickert, Sonny Greenwich ( the two of them worked together on several occasions) and from Montreal Nelson Symonds.
...and add in Reg Schwager, another of Ed's "musical sons". To say nothing of Rob Piltch, Ted Quinlan, David Occhipinti, Sam Dickinson....lots and lots! For them all, Ed Bickert is the lodestone.
Around 1970, a group of teen jazz "up and comers" were invited to a rehearsal at CBC Toronto of Benny Goodman...all the top jazz players of the time were in the band including Ed Bickert- I was there and we all watched as these pros went through the charts- Ed sitting there quietly with a telecaster and tiny amp, at the break we all got to chat with the players and I saw 2 guitarists talking to Ed- turns out they asked him "Why a Tele?" and he just said "Because it's louder" - they were puzzled as one was a E335 guy and the other an L-5 so they dug a bit deeper and at the time the "louder" meant a smaller amp and an easier time on the subway getting to sessions. It was my first witnessing of how the sound is in the fingers.
Great story! 🙂
Ed was a tremendous musician, distinct, wonderful melodies and silky rootless chords. One of the greats in my humble opinion.
As a kid I saw him in Winnipeg around 1981.. the sound of that tele was seductive. He was relaxed and playing beautifully.. Lenny Breau's drummer Reg Kelln was accompanying him... might've been Ron Hallderson on bass.. they sounded huge. At the end of the show Ed left for a few minutes leaving that legendary tele unattended.. my friend had the nerve to pick it up and play it.. I thought for sure Ed would come back and kick his ass !
This guy is pretty special. I play jazz piano in addition to guitar. Hearing Ed play was like hearing Bill Evans for the first time. Incredible harmony & voice leading.
What amazes me about Ed is he plays alot while comping, laying down a grove, but never sounds too busy.
Never owned a Tele, but he tempts me. Great subject, Jens!!
Do you have a "jazz piano" instead of a regular piano?
Sometimes I play a "classical piano".
Thanks Mark!
@@markrollinger5366 Is the construction different from a jazz piano?
@@primoroy really?
I love Ed Bickert. Tasteful, beautiful voicing.
Thanks! Great to be able to reference the video with your Cube 60.
His work with Paul Desmond is totally insane. It is a masterclass on jazz solo/rhythm playing. Truly incredible.
I grew up in Toronto under the impression that Ed was what a guitar player sounded like. As I heard more internationally regarded 'guitar players', it slowly dawned on me that I was in the presence of an incredible genius.
Growing up in Toronto, I was fortunate enough to see Ed many times with The Boss Brass live and on TV. Always seated, playing his Telecaster, he wasn’t flashy, but his solos never disappointed. I'll always remember seeing The Boss Brass one night at Ontario Place at the old Forum amphitheatre. The wind was blowing in off Lake Ontario and it was a chilly night. Ed decided to keep warm by wearing an oversized floppy touque (a big wooly cap) He was quite a sight!
was one of about 40 people who was at a dingy little upstairs space in London Ont watching Ed and Dave Young play duets for a couple hours in the late-ish 90s, probably 98. was fantastic of course; I was about 6 feet from him in the front!
Ed's duet records with Rob McConnell are stellar too!
I have two major influences in jazz guitar: Gábor Szabó and Ed Bickert. Two underrated geniuses. Very different from each other in style and sound, but similar in one way - both of them played very unusual instruments, Gábor even going for a Fender Stratocaster and Ovation Custom Legend every now and then. Oddly enough, when he played Hendrix-esque stuff in the 60s, it was his Martin D28 and an amp that looked like a trash can called the Toby Hat Box.
When it comes to Bickert, the part that I really can't get over is how amazingly beautiful his comping is. Take Warm Valley as an example, where his playing sounds like an electric piano more than a guitar. Just sweet, soft and always hitting the right spot. Also, as someone whose background is in blues, I really love how much bluesy licks he used. Same with Szabó really, though he was one to put a bit of everything into whatever he did.
I actually switch between a dreadnought and a Tele whenever I play jazz. I put the bridge cover onto my Telecaster and rest my hand on it while playing. It's one of the most comfortable things I've ever played. I highly recommend it to everyone with a Tele that has a vintage style bridge!
I first saw Ed Bickert on a Canada Day broadcast, he was playing with an ensemble on a Tele through an orange Roland Cube 60 amp. His tone tone and especially his playing blew my mind, I’d never such an amazing jazz tone come from a Telecaster. It was Ed Bickert that influenced me to eventually get a Tele, I became a big fan of his incredible playing.
If I understand Ed’s history correctly he began on an archtop, moved to a Tele with a traditional single coil neck pickup, ultimately replacing neck pos with a humbucker. In any case, Ed Bickert got an incredible jazz tone! Excellent lesson Jens! Thank you for bringing all of this to light in such a systematic way!
My all time favorite and big inspiration for playing, Scotty Anderson. And an honorable mention for Danny gatton of course.
My favorite traditional Jazz player. I could listen to him play chords all day, just ana amazing player who always knew where to sit in the mix.
I've been playing a tele with humbuckers for years! I'm glad to see that I'm not alone.
Ed was such a treasure. He was so easy to listen to, and so tasty. His last years were unfortunately painful, and he gave up his music after an injury and his wife's death. He will be missed.
I wanted a telecaster but also wanted to one day play jazz, so I googled "can you play jazz on a telecaster", discovered the wonders of Mr Bickert, Bill Frisell and Julian Lage, and immediately discarded any notion that the style of music you play is limited by your guitar. At least... at my level.
Truth is that a Telecaster or even a Strat on the neck pickup... tone knob rolled down a bit, treble on the amp rolled down...can give you the warm, wooly tone you need for jazz stuff. I use my Teles for jazz and swing all the time.
YES!! Ed Bickert!! I bought a Paul Desmond album when I first started learning to play jazz violin. I bought it for the Desmond work, but immediately I was overwhelmed by the beauty of Bickert's guitar work. Bickert's solos were amazingly elegant, but the way he backed Desmond was what really floored me. It was much later that someone finally convinced me he was playing a Telecaster. All the proof one could need that it's 95% the artist, 5% the equipment. Thanks, Jens.
My favorite guitarist - when Ed passed in 2019 it was "the day the music died." When I grow up, I want to be able to play one tenth of what Ed could imagine and lay down.
I lived in Toronto for many years. Ed was huge there. There are many guitar players there that are very influenced by him. Lorne Lofsky is the most famous.
Great video. 43 years on guitar, this was like learning Japanese on a Spanish fishing trawler.
this is great.
In the early 90's i played guitar in highschool jazz band in Kingston and the Boss Brass did a show at Queen's University. Our group were invited to a workshop with Rob McConnell and Ed Bickert and some others from Boss Brass.
Ed Bickert blew my teenage mind. I didn't know much about jazz guitar despite my role, and learned what it should sound and feel like that day.
I was so lucky to have Ed Bickert when he was with Barry Elmes in the late 90's do a clinic and performance when i was studying Jazz in Nanaimo BC. I got to shake the legends hand, get his autograph and chat with him for a minute. Great man, gold standard of player. My Dad always said Ed Bickert and Barney Kessel were the 2 best guitarists in north America.. i would agreed.
Thanks for this vidro Lars!
Ed Bickert used to do a lot of work for CBC ( Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) with their in- house orchestra/ band. I first noticed him because he played a Tele which was the guitar of choice for most players in Toronto. Depending on the singer or musician in the spotlight he would take a solo that could be straight up bebop or a greasy R&B riff. One thing for sure, the musicians in Toronto knew him well. There’s a walk of fame in Toronto’s downtown theatre district. Ed should be there…in fact I’m going to contact my local city councillor and pitch the idea or start a petition.
Ed Bickert is criminally underrated. Thanks for the clips and the accolades.
I discovered Ed Bickert by accident. Was record shopping when records were still records and saw an LP in the jazz cutouts. Immediately was hooked. You could here the Wes Montgomery, the Tal Farlow, the Pat Martino, but only as seasonings - the meat was Ed. Since then whenever I see an EB CD I buy it. If I were to choose 1 word for him, it's understated. A gentleman of jazz.
Thanks for this excellent video on Bickert, Jens. I have CZcams algorithms to thank for introducing me to Ed Bickert a few years ago. I never get tired of hearing his relaxed but fascinating approach to jazz.
Glad you liked it!
Whenever I hear someone backing up a jazz vocalist with understated taste and economy, the first person that comes to mind is always Ed Bickert.
Ed is a monster player. Very hard to find a better one! ❤
Damn few guitarists have had the command of jazz harmony that Ed Bickert had. His chord voicings were lush and always added an extra dimension to whatever he was playing. An absolute jazz master of the first order!
Bickert is one of the true greats. Always reminded me of Jim Hall - which is amazing.
Yes, Jim is also amazing!
Ed sounds incredible on the Tele, he's one of my favorite players.
One of my favorites videos of yours so far. Always looking forward to what’s next!
I have a Bickert LP and in the liner notes there is a Jim Hall quote saying: "He's the only guy who scares me to death when he walks into the room" Ed's rootless voicings are legendary.. many which are so hard to play at speed.
Julian Lage.
Two things: I was not, until today, familiar with Ed Bickert. Thank you for enlightening me! So many new rabbit holes to explore.
Second: hearing Polytone mentioned have me a pang of nostalgia/regret. At the recommendation of my guitar teacher, I bought a Polytone Mini-Brute, chewing up a good bit of my meager earnings at the time. A couple of years later, things were tough and I had to offload it, a guitar and some effects to get a little cash. 40-ish years later, I with I’d been able to hang onto it! If you wanted fat, mellow tone - wow.
he used to play at Georgio's Spagetti House in Toronto regularly, ı was driving cab than, used to go and listen to him all the time. ı was there when he played with Lorne Lofsky later on, amazing stuff.
I would live to have heard that!
I enjoy every last second of your lessons with you, thank you!
Happy to hear that!
I saw the thumbnail with a tele and knew it was Bickert! I remember liking his tone and style a lot more than classic jazz conventions when I discovered his music in high school
So glad you did this. I spent all day at work listening to Ed Wonderful, coincidence my favorite player, so modern sounding for his period
Ed is one of my favorite players regardless. My teacher Rick met him at a jazz festival they were both playing. He said he sounded like Bill Evan's with all the beautiful harmonies. He and Barry Galbraith are my favorite especially for comping/harmonic sense. You should totally do a B.G. video sometime if we're on the topic of unknown/underrated players. I can help provide a good bit of info on him if you want it!
I had no clue about Ed Bickert and suddenly, those last weeks, it seems many peoples started to speak of him in the same time. Anyway it's a good thing because I find him a very stylish guitarist, with something "homy" around him, his faded guitar, his school-boy amp... Very attaching musician. Great groove, great blues, no head-ache. Thanks for your analysis, Jens.
Ed Bickert and Sonny Greenwich among two Canadian jazz Guitar greats
My dad was one of buddies back when they where in high school in Vernon BC
Dad said everybody knew back then he was something special
Ed was The Man.
My favourite player - not because I AM Canadian but because Ed used a unique humble style with a road-beaten Telecaster, steady chewing gum, and melodic comping.
E.B. 100%. He opened all that up for me 20 yrs ago. His take on Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me is a lesson I still take.
Thanks for this one jens, and the analysis. I love studying Ed's stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ed was a fixture in George's Spaghetti house in Toronto's Cabbagetown, a slightly up-class greasy spoon near my uni digs. He was humble and approachable and sure did lay down some great playing. He was also a regular on the CBC, whose studio then was a few blocks away on Jarvis street. I think he called it quits when he fell off a ladder and broke both wrists.
George’s was such a great place for jazz.
Ed was in Phil Nimmons band on the CBC, also on Moe Kauffman’s “hit”, Swinging Shepherd Blues
As a guitar player from Toronto I may very well be biased, but I'd say that Ed was indeed a world class jazz player. He never became a household name that's for sure, but his genius was known to guitarists who were aware of the best players in North America. I am sure that Ed could have been much better known if he had moved to New York.
I’ve been looking for this guy for 20 or 25 years.
I briefly watched a clip of his playing on television but never caught his name.
He must be underrated because I was very much impressed by his skill but I was unable to find any clue that would lead me to find his name was Ed Bickert.
Thank you for making this video as well as all your others.
The Eb7 chord is used a lot in a rock music, often mistaken as the Hendrix chord.I love this progression at 9:42
Thanks to this video, I now have a new player to check out in Ed Bickert. I recently bought a Telecaster, and have been quite blown away at the wide array of sounds you can get out of it. The tone knob truly is like a secret pedal that drastically changes the sound. I've gotten some amazing Jazz tone out of just that mini single coil in the neck.
Well done. So glad you made this video. Bickert is one of my all-time favorites.
Glad you enjoyed it, Adam 🙂
I have been playing a gibson sg for jazz.
I have always loved Ed Bickert!! Ted Greene played jazz on a Tele. Now we have many great Tele jazz players like Mike Stern, John Tropea, David Spinnoza, Steve Khan, and others. Joe Pass played a Fender Jaguar with Sarah Vaughn for a time. Rumor has it, he had pawned his Gibson ES175 to buy heroin. When he cleaned up, he was offered the gig but had no money and no guitar. The Jaguar was a stop gap, but how wonderful did he make it sound!!
Great work, once again, Jens. Thank you.
Ted Greene.
Without question Ted. But the other guys are incredible too.
Ted Greene
Lenny Breau.
(not comparing them i love them both i wanted to continue it)
Lenny :)
Great stuff Jens, I loved Ed Bickert’s work. He was my guy after my Wes phase. I got the Rob McConnell and Boss Brass album “Even Canadians Get the Blues” in high school and loved the guitar playing on that album and found out it was Ed and then I went down the Ed Bickert rabbit hole for years! It’s been a while since I’ve studied Ed your video made we want to get back into his playing. Thanks man
Glad it was motivating 🙂
Anyone who knows spit about jazz guitarists understands that Ed was not underrated. Yes, he was under-appreciated because he was not well known by whomever, but anyone who was up to speed on great jazz guitarists understands that he was an amazing and well-respected player among his peers.
I’ve heard from some of Ed’s colleagues that he learned his voicings by lifting big bands horn sections by ear!
I love Ed Bickert's playing... what's not to love!? When Attending a couple of his performances I noticed he was using a Roland Cube (orange coloured) and his 2nd amp on the opposite side of the stage was another Roland Cube... but it was the silver/grey model which was marketed as a keyboard amp. Those 2 amps really filled the club well, with good dispersion. Of course he was playing a Tele with a humbucker in the neck position. Thanks for this informative video on Ed Bickert's playing. A terribly underrated musician deserving wider recognition.
I love your new way of transcribing songs like this.
Thank you!
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I love this Paul Desmond album, because of Ed Bickert. Thanks for spotlighting him.
Ed's voicings generally and cadences specifically are just perfect. Beyond reproach.
Very inspiring video and analysis - thanks for the input!
Ed Bickert trio with Frank Rosolino on trombone is probably one of my fave jazz albums of all time. He’s an idol of mine!
Bickert's playing on that album is the very reason I always hope there would be a guitarist in the band instead of a pianist - and then when there is, I keep on wishing they could comp a bit more like Ed Bickert :) I'm a trombone player.
Ed Bickert was a huge Bill Evans fan, and definitely copped a lot of voicings from him, but he stated that his primary influence was actually big band arrangements. (He tried to "comp like a big band", in his words.) Thus his chord solos work very similarly to classic sax solis and things like that. He also loved Gil Evans, which I'm sure was a source for many of his more dissonant, clustered voicings.
Thanks for digging into Ed Bickert and sharing it so wonderfully
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the lesson and album recommendation, very cool!
Glad you like it!
Wow thanks Jens. I will definitely check out Ed, what a player!
Glad you liked it 🙂
I grew up listening to him on tv on playing with the greats as a kid! Thanks for the memories, great content!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for highlighting this artist. He was unknown to me but will now seek out his recordings.
Great! You should check him out he is pretty amazing!
I bought a tele years ago as I felt it was one of those guitars that could play almost any style. Another great video Jens ❤
Thank you 🙂
How can a telecaster sound so rich? Plus, playing with the Maestro - Ron Carter ... holy cow! Mr. Bickert is a GOAT
I had that issue of Guitar Player. I was a big Rik Emmett fan. He wrote a song for that issue where he designed a section for each of the fellow artists on the cover. It was included as a flexi disc in the magazine.
I had that issue of GP also. I remember reading the article and realizing I had never heard of Ed Bickert before. In the interview he came off as being quite humble. He said he often wondered if he should be doing something else to make a living. Luckily for us, he stuck with jazz guitar.
thank you for the great lesson. really dig your point about amps, thats also why i like the old polytones.
Glad you liked it 🙂
Julian Lage is my #1 telecaster-playing jazz musician, hands down
Ed was one of my teachers in the late '70s.
Excellent! Ed Bickert is one of my favorites.
Mine too!
Nice. A video about Ed. Thank you. I saw Ed play live many times. Beautiful, no BS guitar playing. Always melodic. Always.
Check out Reg Schwager if you are not aware. He was Ed’s sub when he needed one. Tall order. Reg played w George Shearing for a while.
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Great video Jens. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, thanks for introducing this guy to our attention.👍👍👍
My pleasure 🙂
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One of my favorite solos from that album
GREAT VIDEO! I discovered Ed Bickert in high school jazz band when my band director had us playing arrangements by Rob McConnell and listening to those recordings with the Boss Brass and Ed on guitar. Even amidst the big arrangements there was often plenty room for Ed's playing to shine through.
I bought a tele to play jazz because of Bickert and Ted Greene. And then there's Julian Lage. With all the "jazz" guitars I have though, my favorite is a Kiesel Vader with Holdsworth pickups. You can play anything on anything you like, just have fun making music.