Double Bass Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis...

[jazzmusicluvr]

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis just released a DVD of their Live show on New York City. I just watched it and it is awesome. They are both so talented and together they are just a miracle... Just wanted to let you know about it cuz it's worth checkin out...
http://www.eaglerockent.com/eaglerock/videos/WillieWyntonCaldonia.mpg

Leslie
Fontana

 

[Hammertime3]

Are you sure you wanted to post on this thread??????

 

[Jake deVilliers]

Which one of those guys is the bluegrass player?

 

[jazzmusicluvr]

yah I guess their not bluegrass, but I love bluegrass so i thought maybe we'd have the same taste in other areas as well haha, are you fans of willie nelson?

 

[Marcus Johnson]

I heard some roughs of that one before it was released, it's pretty cool. It has our buddy Carlos Henriquez (user name; BAJO) on bass.

Willie got out from under some contractual obligations last year, which allowed him to do some of the projects he wanted to do for awhile. He loves jazz, and especially Django Reinhardt. He recorded a CD with our gypsy jazz group earlier this year; supposed to be coming out any minute.

 

[MR PC]

yah I guess their not bluegrass, but I love bluegrass so i thought maybe we'd have the same taste in other areas as well haha, are you fans of willie nelson?

Willie, Willie,Nelson, Nelson, mic check.......heck Miles Davis entitled a tune after him, so I guess he's got creds in more arenas than one!

 

[MingusAmongUs]

Interesting. I don't have much good to say about Wynton so I'll take my mom's advice and I won't say anything. Willie OTOH is great. Seems at least once every few months I find out that a song I've enjoyed for years was penned by Willie. I dig his version of Stardust.

He recorded a CD with our gypsy jazz group earlier this year; supposed to be coming out any minute.

How cool is that? Let us know when we can hear it.

heck Miles Davis entitled a tune after him

See? I learn something every day.

 

[jazzbasser535]

Willie, Willie,Nelson, Nelson, mic check.......heck Miles Davis entitled a tune after him, so I guess he's got creds in more arenas than one!

He actually named that tune after the boxer Willie Nelson, like he did with the boxer Jack Johnson.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

You mean Willie Nelson, the 21 year old welterweight from Ohio?.... Miles wrote a tune about him in 1970, seventeen years before Willie was born?

Wow, even in death, Miles just continues to amaze me. It's enough that he wrote that tribute album to a mellow surfer musician from the North Shore of O'ahu.

 

[riverbum]

not too bad but nothing even close to bluegrass. but they are not exactly in bluegrass territory. even though i can't stand to listen to willie sing or pick he did a pretty god job.

 

[Nohandles]

Hey guys. Careful we are the friendly ones Remember?
Thanks for posting this Lesliy. I think we can all add some other musical influences to our style when we play
Over the last year I've added some Jazz influence to my bluegrass and it is very well received in here in Northern Ohio.

Thump, thump but the bass not a head LOL

 

[M Ramsey]

There was some talk a couple of years back of Willie Nelson considering doing a bluegrass-oriented recording, shortly after MerleFest.

I guess he must have been aware of becoming free of recording contract obligations and was considering his options. As far as I know, Willie hasn't made any bluegrass (or bluegrass-oriented) recordings yet.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

Anybody catch Charlie Haden doin' the bluegrass thang on Letterman last night? I zonked out before it aired.

 

[juuzek]

Anybody catch Charlie Haden doin' the bluegrass thang on Letterman last night? I zonked out before it aired.

No, but I wish I had known. If I am lucky, it will surface on youtube.
I listened to the record though. They do a great version of 'Single Girl, Married Girl'.
Check it out.

 

[MingusAmongUs]

I just checked the 'Tube too. No Letterman yet.

But you reminded me of the whole thing. Went to Amazon and grabbed the MP3s. Not all bluegrass, but good stuff nonetheless. Haden's playing is very tasteful and simple. Wish I could say the same for Metheny.

 

[MR PC]

Willie Nelson is a unique genre of American Music, like it or leave it. Doesn't matter what kind of music he makes, it'll sound like Willie. It's the Texas drawl. If he makes a Bluegrass recording, it's going to sound like Willie with a Bluegrass band. If he decides to sing Opera....well

Not much different than if Carlos Santana decided to make a New Grass record with Sam Bush or Grisman. You'd still hear "Oye Como Va" seeping all over.

 

[MT Spaces]

Willie Nelson is a unique genre of American Music, like it or leave it. Doesn't matter what kind of music he makes, it'll sound like Willie .... If he makes a Bluegrass recording, it's going to sound like Willie with a Bluegrass band ....

Just insert "Merle Haggard" wherever it says "Willie Nelson" and it also holds true . Merle's "Bluegrass Sessions" from last year still sounded like Merle but he sure surrounded himself with some excellent acoustic bluegrass players. Merle (and Willie) are a couple of my heroes. I like the album .... It just has the wrong name .

Please everyone pray, send positive thoughts in the ether, sacrifice an electric bass, do a Merle dance ..... Anything and Everything You Can Think Of. Merle just got out of the hospital and had a good chunk of one lung removed ..... Cancer .

 

[Marcus Johnson]

No kidding, Merle's great. Best wishes to him.

I was recording with Willie when he was getting ready to do the tour with Merle and Ray Price. Now THAT would have been worth seeing!

 

[MR PC]

Please everyone pray, send positive thoughts in the ether, sacrifice an electric bass, do a Merle dance ..... Anything and Everything You Can Think Of. Merle just got out of the hospital and had a good chunk of one lung removed ..... Cancer .

have done, and will do. blessings

Merle used/es a lot of Double bass on his records. The album "California Cotonfields", I wore the one out in the day. Incredible songwriter, not as much of ***neck as some people say. The real deal. Read his Autobiography, and find out why he felt he deserved prison time. He's a Lone Cat. I remember being way up in the Sierras and bumping into him fishing by himself. Holy **** I thought, that's Merle Haggard! He looked at my wife and I and smiled, we didn't say anything. Wow.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

Holy **** I thought, that's Merle Haggard! He looked at my wife and I and smiled, we didn't say anything. Wow.

That's so cool. Something you will never forget.

I make no apologies for my affinity for old school "country" music. It all must have sunk in while I was a kid in the Midwest, and I've discovered there's more than a little crosstalk between the country and jazz worlds. These guys are geniuses and legends for a reason.

George Jones is another one.