Blues Or Jazz DVD Recommendations

[AndyKray]

I am looking to pick up a DVD or VHS on playing the Blues and or Jazz Instructional. Anyone want to through some names out?

Thanks

Andy

[johnreardon]

I am looking to pick up a DVD or VHS on playing the Blues and or Jazz Instructional. Anyone want to through some names out?

Thanks

Andy
Andy

I have 50 Licks Blues Style, by Mat Gurman, think Don turned me onto it. It's not bad.

[Tom Gross]

For jazz, I recommend:

Emily Remler's two videos. She's got a simple approach, a lot of soul, and is an amazing player (good looking, too).

Joe Pass - The Blue Side of Jazz. I dig this cause it's a good entre into jazz from the blues side.

[scottl]

For jazz, I recommend:

Emily Remler's two videos. She's got a simple approach, a lot of soul, and is an amazing player (good looking, too).

Joe Pass - The Blue Side of Jazz. I dig this cause it's a good entre into jazz from the blues side.
Was a great player. Emily passed away a few years ago.

I suggest the Scott Henderson instructionals. Hip baby!

[Jo]

For jazz, I recommend:

Emily Remler's two videos. She's got a simple approach, a lot of soul, and is an amazing player (good looking, too).

Joe Pass - The Blue Side of Jazz. I dig this cause it's a good entre into jazz from the blues side.I'd love to see the Emily Remler videos, shame they aren't available on DVD. Boy I wish I could play like that. Shame they aren't available anymore. (Tom if you ever decide to sell yours, I've been on a big Emily Remler kick these last couple of weeks).

I've got all of Robben Ford's DVD's which are great just for looking at for entertainment purposes as well as for learning. :dude:

[Tom Gross]

I'd love to see the Emily Remler videos, shame they aren't available on DVD. Boy I wish I could play like that. Shame they aren't available anymore. (Tom if you ever decide to sell yours, I've been on a big Emily Remler kick these last couple of weeks).

I wish they were on DVD too - keep her memory alive & help some folks play better.
She lived in Charlottesville for a while, and I knew her to say hi to, and took one lesson from her.
She played in a little bar a coupla nights a week - she'd get up there with a 335, lean her head back, close her eyes, and play this glorious music - it was like you were watching someone who had gone to a wonderful place and was sharing the music she heard there.

[Jo]

I wish they were on DVD too - keep her memory alive & help some folks play better.
She lived in Charlottesville for a while, and I knew her to say hi to, and took one lesson from her.
She played in a little bar a coupla nights a week - she'd get up there with a 335, lean her head back, close her eyes, and play this glorious music - it was like you were watching someone who had gone to a wonderful place and was sharing the music she heard there.Wow, what an awesome memory,thanks for sharing, was she a shy quiet person in real life? From her music she seemed that way to me.

Derek Trucks sounds a bit like Emily in the way that he plays. He closes his eyes and goes to his peaceful, wonderful place and shares the music he hears there too. I love to watch Derek play.

[Soul Fader]

I just got the Rock house method blues DVD with John McCarthy.

[Tom Gross]

Wow, what an awesome memory,thanks for sharing, was she a shy quiet person in real life? From her music she seemed that way to me.

.Well..um...she had a lifelong struggle with drug addiction. But like many of the other great jazz musicians with a drug problem, she was a nice, cool, and very talented person. She was sort of hiding out in C'ville cleaning up, she was married to Keyboard player Monty Alexander at the time, and she wasn't all messed up or anything. She once described herself in an interview as jewish girl from New Jersey on the outside, but a big black guy with a giant thumb on the inside.
She was a very sweet, cool, and laid back person when I knew her. She was this nice, normal, laid back woman, but also hip and seemed to just want to be playing jazz. Not at all into being a star.

She talks in one of her videos about how wonderful music is, how she has gotten into the music of these greats, and it's like she knows all of these beautiful people intimately, from the inside. So it sounds like you know her well too, Jo.

[Tom Gross]

Derek Trucks sounds a bit like Emily in the way that he plays. He closes his eyes and goes to his peaceful, wonderful place and shares the music he hears there too. I love to watch Derek play.

Yes, it's amazing to watch Derek play. The first time I saw that Allmans DVD it freaked me out - he's in the middle of this classic rockin' band, and he looks like he's somewhere else. He's something special alright.

[Mr. Fancypants]

Has anybody seen the John Mclaughlin Jazz instructional dvd's, "This is the Way I Do It"? The description sounds like I'm not ready for it yet...but when I am I am getting it.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=14486

[rtns]

I was just gonna suggest that dvd. I've heard good things about it, but it is way out of my range right now. Way, way out. I'm definitely going to get it as soon as it enters my range.

[Mr. Fancypants]

yeah, actually upon reading the review again it does sound I might be ready for it. I was concerned because I don't know every scale in the world, but it sounds like that won't be a big deal to get started. It is 175 bones, but they say the three and a half hours will work you for a couple of years.

[rtns]

Wow, I had no idea it was so expensive. But it it could improve my improvisation it might be worth it. I've got a working knowledge of some modes and scales and I've got a birthday coming up. Just maybe...

[austin]

i'd say for blues warren haynes has a few videos out covering slide and standard playing that are great

[hansv]

Jo I might be able to help you out with the Emily videos, email me.. I don't know if you will go for it though... it's not exact legal, but since they aren't for sale anymore... your choice :)

[Jo]

Who am I to refuse something that's out of print!
Email on the way. :)

[TRandy16]

Who am I to refuse something that's out of print!
Email on the way. :)Tom...just read your signature.

I know that joke AND I have a copy of that album. I hadn't thought about Rudy Ray Moore in years!:D

[Tom Gross]

Tom...just read your signature.

I know that joke AND I have a copy of that album. I hadn't though about Rudy Ray Moore in years!:D
Somebody else around here with good taste!

The true father of modern rap.

[Jo]

Tom...just read your signature.

I know that joke AND I have a copy of that album. I hadn't thought about Rudy Ray Moore in years!:DTim, that reminds me. Do you still have those Cream videos that y'all downloaded when I was in the UK?

[TRandy16]

Tim, that reminds me. Do you still have those Cream videos that y'all downloaded when I was in the UK?Yep..I have several of them...big files though. Want me to send them to you?

[tone4days]

if you can find an old copy of don mock's video called "the blues - from rock to jazz" (or something like that), i recommend it highly ... very cool treatment of using pentatonics in a moer expansive way

can i get in on the emily remler love? ... i met her back in the day after her gig at a small club in philly ... she was very sweet and appreciative of our compliments ... she was in an altered state (sadly), but could just wail these long flowing lines that seemed to go everywhere without ever needing to arrive anywhere .. then in one fell swoop she'd come right back to the head on the one as if she had been playing it all along ... breathtaking

hansv, is that an "open-ish" offer to help get those on DVD? i would be grateful for a pointer ...

t4d

[Daddyo]

I remember listening to some of her great music in the 80s and then losing track. I was saddened when I found out she died of a heart attack which was probably exacerbated by heroin addiction. It is so sad when drugs and booze kill the best. I see there is no website for her. Which is her best CD?