Holy Mackerel..you guys need to see this {for you Jaco Fans especially} Bireli Lagrene is AMAZING!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY_wH15a7C0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY_wH15a7C0&feature=related
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Super Jazz Bass Jammin'!! WOW!
- Thread starter GregBass1979
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Wow, talk about a Jaco clone haha! Seriously, Bireli is freakin' smokin' here. He played those Jaco licks just as Jaco would've played em', In fact I sit here listening to it as I type I could swear I'm listenin' to Jaco. Bireli Lagrene is just a phenomenal musician it seems on which ever instrument he plays, it seems the Jaco tutelage helped him a little on the bass. Whoa.
Nice. Really good player. Is that a defretted neck with inlays? Can't say I've ever seen a fretless with inlays before.
Wait......is he a guitarist or a bassist?? Seems he's both! There's a bunch of vids of him playing guitar.
Wait......is he a guitarist or a bassist?? Seems he's both! There's a bunch of vids of him playing guitar.
mikeboth
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Very nice playing, to be sure ... but for some reason I am uncomfortable with such Jaco-apeing, in the same way as I feel uncomfortable listening to guitarists that sound remarkably like SRV. Obviously this guy is a very talented musician, but I can't help thinking - thousands of hours spent on practice to sound very much like someone else?!?! I mean, Jaco's son plays bass too and sounds a bit like his Dad, but has his own 'voice' going on.
It's hard to put my finger on the exact qualities involved here....
It's hard to put my finger on the exact qualities involved here....
Very nice playing, to be sure ... but for some reason I am uncomfortable with such Jaco-apeing, in the same way as I feel uncomfortable listening to guitarists that sound remarkably like SRV. Obviously this guy is a very talented musician, but I can't help thinking - thousands of hours spent on practice to sound very much like someone else?!?! I mean, Jaco's son plays bass too and sounds a bit like his Dad, but has his own 'voice' going on.
It's hard to put my finger on the exact qualities involved here....
He's actually guitarist who, as a child prodigy, started out playing gypsy-jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt, and then branched out from there: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:difexqt5ldte~T0
Birelli is playing bass.
An interesting tidbit isthat Jaco and him collaborated in the 80s a lot and Jaco gave him bass lessons.
That bass he is playing was a gift. I can't remember if it was Jaco or Jerry Jemmott who gave it to him.
Jaco's first electric was a 68 Jazz with a rosewood neck and block inlays with the pickguard taken off to look like his hero's bass, Jerry Jemmott.
An interesting tidbit isthat Jaco and him collaborated in the 80s a lot and Jaco gave him bass lessons.
That bass he is playing was a gift. I can't remember if it was Jaco or Jerry Jemmott who gave it to him.
Jaco's first electric was a 68 Jazz with a rosewood neck and block inlays with the pickguard taken off to look like his hero's bass, Jerry Jemmott.
that is nothing short of PHENOMINAL!
it's Jaco the way I would have loved to hear Jaco sound...(Jaco with a decent tone
)
and that sax player, he flat out smokes!
it's Jaco the way I would have loved to hear Jaco sound...(Jaco with a decent tone
)and that sax player, he flat out smokes!
