www.billytaylorjazz.net presents Mundell Lowe with Billy Taylor’s Trio performing True Blue, featuring Earl May on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums.
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im havin a veyr very hard time figuring out HOW STRANGER guitar must have been looked at those times in America…i mean…even as instruments as per se was seen as it it was..from another planet! thast shocking looking at it with nowadays eyes.–
I came upon this by accident… I knew about Mundy already from a PBS special in the early ’70′s about Roy Buchanan, and then, in 1979, as a result of a mutual acquaintance, got to meet him, pick his brains, hear him play, and hang with him on a plane trip back to the Northeast, he to NY, and me to Boston, from the Mobile Highschool Jazz Festival. Great Musician, Great Guitarist (not always the same thing), Great Educator, and Great Gentleman, Great Human.
Fabulous music and performance. We’re so fortunate to have had this in our time.
And, that it is still appreciated and available.
Thanks so much for posting
Learning guitar ” is pretty hazardous” GREEEAAAT.
It is so bizarre to think this was 6 years before the Civil Rights act yet here is an almost all black band, busting out some amazing music on national TV. I love this country, but man we are weird sometimes.
if you pause right at the start the dude’s face is hilarious
I loooove jazz guitar so much!!!!
I think that guitar is a D’angelico
worth a lot of dough now guessing 50k to maybe 100k
cool
I will sell my satan in high heels record and all my sexy materials. contact cutecatfaith d com and I have a lotta jazz stuff. This stuff is great and bless you for publishing this! I am in Paris now. xo
This is the first time I’ve heard Mr. Lowe play–what a surprise! What a great player!! I love the way he bends notes–seems he was ahead of his time.
@Helicline never played a new dangelico,played a vintage one, it would be nice to see them made in america by craftsmen who care about their art again
@gwalker134 a few years ago the new dangelicos were made in japan by gretsch,if heritage makes them theyd be nicer than the koreans but pricier than the japanese ones,heritage makes an excellent guitar and fairly priced at that,I played a colden eagle and american eagle and the eagle(the cheapest and all mahagony) the tone of the eagle was very warm and more acoustic amplified believe it or not but the golden eagle was just the best jazz guitar tone ever
lowe sounds slightly out of tune, but this is still awesome to watch and hes one of my favorite players from that time period,he shouldve been playing an L5 mightve been alil more intune,maybe
It’s amazing, seeing this I realized how young the electric guitar is.If you think about it, some of the pioneers of the instrument are still alive…
Great Mundell Lowe, love the smoothness of his playing, and how modern and bluesy it sounds at the same time…thanks for posting!
Helicline, et al.,
I read that new D’A New Yorkers will be made by Heritage
(USA). Unconfirmed.
sweet
You´re absolutely right,sir. Howard Roberts, co-founder of GIT in L.A. shared with us in a private lesson that as a beginner he learned from listening only.There were 6 guitarists, each recognizable by his own personal style( not “licks”).He also complained about so many youngsters who all sound alike because of using books with bebop material instead of finding their own voice -a shortcut to success.Mundell may not be THE expert but certainly a musician – not only a guitarist playing blues.
The new D’Angelico company would be wise to get their house in order and bring these guitars back to the states to be made and put some American craftsmen back to work.
Musicians will ALWAYS pay good money for top quality handmade instruments. Gibsons being case in point.
The new D’Angelicos are for amateurs, not pros. Sad.
Too bad the new D’Angelico’s are made in Korea and are inferior to the ones that were made in Japan until 2004. I’ve played 4 of the new ones and they are terrible sounding acoustics and barely playable plugged in. The Japanese ones still were pretty flat sounding acoustically, but were a pleasure to play through an amp. Unfortunately, dealers have caught on to this and now are charging $3,000 for the older ones which I refuse to pay.
Someday, I”ll buy an original from the 1950′s.
Thanks oxw01svt
Yes, I noticed that Mundell put DeAlmond
rhythm cheif 1000 on his D’Angelico.
I also noticed that his D’A looks smoller than a nomal 17inch archtop guitar.
The current closest model would be the NYL-2 which we currently don’t have stock of but you can possibly find on ebay. We will probably be producing a new run of New Yorkers some time next year. If you look close at his original you can see the volume knob is mounted rite on the outside of the pick guard and the pickup is actually attached to the neck on the bass side so almost nothing is making contact with the top of the guitar. Most of the guitars John made were not originally electric
Dear D’Angelico guitar company
Please make the same guitar Mundell Lowe playing on this video. I am ready to pay $5,000 for it. The guitar is so cooool!
This is fabulous. Thanks. I notice Earl May is playing a right-handed bass left-handed.
Browse for Mundell Lowe’s homepage, in the gallery tou’ll find a picture of his (amazing) collection of guitars.